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Photo by Jeff Busby
Sydney Theatre Company, in association with the Melbourne Theatre Company, presents, THE CHILDREN, by Lucy Kirkwood, in the Drama Theatre, at the Sydney Opera House. 29th March - 19th May.
THE CHILDREN, by Lucy Kirkwood, was first presented at the Royal Court Theatre in late 2016. The Sydney Theatre (STC) Company presented her CHIMERICA last year.
On a part of a crumbling coastline in the United Kingdom there has been an earthquake followed by a tsunami, that flooded a nuclear power plant, causing a disaster that is at present still, long after, being dealt with. Two retired, married, ex-nuclear scientists, Hazel (Pamela Rabe) and Robin (William Zappa), live just outside the exclusion zone in an old sea-side cottage, coping with, among other things, unreliable electrical supply, purity of water and a vegetarian diet. Hazel has enough to occupy herself - yoga and yoghurt and her distant children's families, via telephone - while Robin cares for the cows and a craving for tobacco. A geiger counter for detecting radiation infiltration - danger - is ever present. They are visited by a fellow scientist, Rose (Sarah Peirse), a surprise re-union, for Rose has been living in the United States and there has not been any communication, connection, for years and years.
There was, once, a close personal (and professional) connection and in a naturalistic, almost banal set of conversations and activities - the preparation of tea, a salad lunch (with lots of props: eggs, lettuce and bread, providing opportunities for what actors call 'secondary activities', to which Ms Rabe, with great alacrity, takes distracting advantage of utilising), sharing some homemade parsnip wine, conversation about breasts, and the cleaning up of a shit overflow from the inside toilet - a personal tension between the trio seeps into the atmosphere of this encounter revealing, gradually - oh, so gradually - their complicated past relationships and the wear and tear of what it is to grow old - the fragility of their physical body/selves - in the volatile world of their own making. It seems that we are in a tangled web of memories of hurts, a Pinteresque landscape of old times, good times, sexual rivalry times, to be celebrated, finally, in a dance to the behest of old musical delights.
Then, we are ushered from this little picture of personal drama to the bigger picture of the need for sacrifice and altruism on a global/planetary scale, with a challenge to take on the responsibility for what has been wrought by the human in pursuit of control of energy/environment. Framed by a 'domestic' re-union, the play expands to a greater philosophical field, when Rose tells of her real reason for her return to this cottage and these friends, in the shadow and waft of the nuclear plant that they helped build.
Suddenly, in recall and reflection of the writing we have been witness too, the what we thought were ordinary conversations and activities, we, imaginatively, can expand into a metaphorical (universal) resonance. The image of the egg and its repetition is not just about the literal egg, the breasts of the women and the cows (the milk of life), the plumbing and its shitty spill across the room (sitting in our own shit, perhaps?), the initial nose bleed has become a precursor, a demonstration of other bloodier, brooding consequences.
Ms Kirkwood's chamber play has thoughtful accumulative power that comes out of ordinariness and, subsequently resounds a sad predictive consequence of a devastating kind. Director, Sarah Goodes, has the delicate measure of the production's stylistic needs and, as in her production of Joanna's Murray'-Smith's SWITZERLAND, a few years ago, 'drip-feeds' the clues of Ms Kirkwood's dramaturgical construct with subtlety of Design: Set and Costume, Elizabeth Gadsby, Lighting, by Paul Jackson, and especially, Sound, by Steve Francis.
Sarah Peirse, as Rose, gives a performance of complicated subtleties with an assuredness of absolute considered control of apt communication whilst being deeply immersed in the possession she has allowed, to bring Rose, as written by Ms Kirkwood, alive for us. This performance is the rock on which this production stands.
William Zappa, as Robin, plays sincerely, honestly, simply, his man, caught within the usual foibles of his gender (a man of his times) and the integrity of a man of science returning, slowly, to the knowledge of his philosophic responsibilities - a part of himself that he hasn't had to exercise for some time. The sense of the decay, the inevitable mortality of our biological carapace is met by Robin with courage and practical application for better things.
The last of this trio, Pamela Rabe, has the intelligence and insight of the 'function' and dramaturgical responsibilities of Hazel, but, as usual (GHOSTS), employs her theatrical gifts to 'demonstrate' character and characteristics that draws attention, rather, to the actor's contrived humorous gestures that are comic flourishes, undoubted 'crowd-pleasers', but not completely true to the behaviour or sophistication of Hazel or the style of the play. Ms Rabe keeps pulling attention, in very subtle ways, to her skills as a comic actor, and in doing so disrupts the hard won subtleties of the writer and the truthfulness of the other performances. Her offers grow to become a theatrical distraction, even disruption (to use a contemporary Trumpian analogy), instead of a seamless contribution to the fabric of the play and its needs.
THE CHILDREN, is a very good play, and nearly a terrific production.
N.B. I took an American guest: $105 dollars a ticket including the usual fee demanded by the Opera House: $210!!!!
Posted by Editor at 7:03 PM
Labels: Elizabeth Gadsby, Lucy Kirkwood, Melbourne Theatre Company, Pamela Rabe, Paul Jackson, Sarah Goodes, Steve Francis, Sydney Theatre Company, William Zappa
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Belichick on hand for Alabama pro day
By Cody Estremera, Associated Press
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick (sporting an Alabama windbreaker) talks with Alabama football coach Nick Saban at the Alabama NFL Pro Day on Tuesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. AP PHOTO
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- There was no shortage of NFL executives on hand to watch several Crimson Tide players workout during Alabama's pro day ahead of next month's NFL draft.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick was on hand wearing an Alabama pullover as six Alabama players participated in some sort of drills on Tuesday, including projected first-round pick running back Josh Jacobs. Defensive tackle Quinnen Williams did not participate. He had a splint on his left pinky, which he broke against Auburn. He will be fine by the NFL draft in April.
"I feel good with what I put at the combine," Williams said. "I feel like it translated from what I did on the field this year, and what I did at the combine."
Offensive tackle Jonah Williams did workout, and said it was "awesome."
"It's an opportunity you dream of as a kid, being able to work with all these NFL coaches," Jonah Williams said. "It's the highest level of football. Always try to learn something from each drill."
The cadre of executives taking it all in included eight general managers, five of whom who have picks in the top 16. There was even a scout for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in attendance.
Belichick, with his Alabama gear, was one of two head coaches in attendance, the other was the Bengals' Zac Taylor.
"I didn't give it to him, but I'm glad he's got it," Alabama coach Nick Saban joked of Belichick's pullover.
Jacobs drew a lot of attention.
He didn't participate in drills at the NFL Combine because of a groin injury, but worked out in almost every drill on Tuesday.
Jacobs ran a 4.6 40-yard dash, benched 225 pounds 18 times and had a 9-foot-4 broad jump.
He also participated in running back drills, primarily blocking drills along with fellow running backs Damien Harris and Ronnie Clark.
Former quarterback David Cornwell was in attendance, as he threw passes to Harris, Jacobs, wide receiver Derek Kief and tight ends Irv Smith Jr. and Hale Hentges.
"We try to create as many opportunities as we can to get them exposure," Saban said. "The best thing for our program now is for these guys to get drafted as high as they can, so we try to help them every way we can."
Jonah Williams participated in offensive line drills alongside Ross Pierschbacher, Josh Casher and Lester Cotton.
Other players showcased their skills, including junior linebacker Mack Wilson. He ran a 4.65 in the 40-yard dash, short of his goal of 4.5.
"At the end of the day, a coach from a national football team is going to want a guy with a great character and great work ethic," Wilson said. "My film is my resume."
Wilson feels he still can -- and will -- improve.
"I didn't have the perfect pro day. I didn't accomplish everything that I wanted to accomplish," Wilson said, "but I told my parents and my trainers 'as long as I'm happy, I want y'all to be happy."'
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All Academics Awards & Honors Student Stories
Summer 2019 Food Service Program
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Free Portrait Sessions for the Class of 2020
Dear Class of 2020 Students & Parents, To ensure that every senior makes it into their final yearbook we have scheduled free senior portrait sessions for you this summer. Inter-State Studio will be offering formal senior yearbook portraits on July 31st from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm, and August 9 from 10:00 am - 3:00pm at James A. Garfield Elementary School in the PD... READ MORE >
Athletic Physicals $20.00 / Times: 9 - 12 and 1 - 3 READ MORE >
What's Trending: Parent Conference on Hot Topics
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Winter Weather & Snow Days
While we have avoided it for most of this season, winter weather is officially upon us. With this weather comes the ‘polarizing’ topic of Snow Days (pun intended)! Each year this is a decision nobody, except for the student body, looks forward to making. A snowy forecast, cold temps and wind chill advisories all mean a sleepless night is certain. The festivities... READ MORE >
JAG Marching Pride Shines in 2018
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School precautions and warm weather
There is no doubt the warm weather we have experienced the past two weeks is making things uncomfortable at school. I wanted to let everyone know that while things may be uncomfortable, we are taking necessary precautions to make certain they do not become unsafe. Each building has some air conditioned spaces that all students experience at least once each day... READ MORE >
Meet Officer Ahrens
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Garfield Teachers Offer College Courses
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Tax Issue FAQ
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Online Free & Reduced Meal Application Available
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Congratulations to Travis Criblez
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Garfield High School Students Tackle Tough Subject
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Maplewood Career Center
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Did you save a life this week?
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Community Safety Meeting Tomorrow
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JAG Sixth Graders Visit Hiram College’s “World’s Fair”
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Fall 2018 Preschool Screening
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Community Safety & Connections Meeting
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Introducing Safe School Helpline
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State Recognizes JAG for Academic Accomplishments
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Students Participate in Walk Out and Walk Up
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National Honors Society
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National Beta Club Inducts 35 New Members
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Emma Twardzik ('14) Excelling at University of Akron
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Morgan Aebischer ('14) Receives Geology Degree
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Garfield Elementary Goes Viral
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Simeon Brown Excelling at Baldwin Wallace
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Emens Earns Honor at Miami University
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Katie Synnestvedt Named Portage County Teen of the Month
The Portage County Teen Board recently announced Garfield Senior Katie Synnestvedt as their Teen of the Month for October and November. Katie has been a member of the varsity softball team all four years of high school, serving as captain in 11th and 12th grades, and while being so active she is still able to maintain a 3.8 grade point average. Katie has been... READ MORE >
Snow day at 55 degrees?
Well, this was one of the weirdest snow day calls I have ever made today. As the call was being made the thermometer ready 54 degrees. This is the middle of January! So, as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram fill with pics of praise (from students) and posts of frustration (from parents) about this particular snow day I felt it important to explain the call... READ MORE >
Winter weather and snow days
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Thank you to an AWESOME School Board!
Boards of education are a mature and tested institution in Ohio. School board members make policy; approve contracts with employees; approve curriculum; adopt budgets; and select a superintendent and treasurer to administer the district. They do all these tasks with the emphasis on what’s best for the kids at Garfield.Being an effective school board member is no... READ MORE >
Creative Concrete Impressions Patio Raffle
Mike Patterson, a Garfield High School Graduate and owner of Creative Concrete Impressions, has graciously donated a 600 square foot stamped concrete patio, fire pit, seating and steps to be installed in the spring of 2018! Tickets are being sold for $25 each or 5 for $100 and are available in the high school office or the Board Office. Contact Ted Lysiak... READ MORE >
JAMES A. GARFIELD DEFINES EXCELLENCE IN CORE BELIEFS
The James A. Garfield School have always viewed themselves as the cornerstone of an excellent community. Two years ago, the entire JAG staff worked to define what excellence looks like with the school community. A survey was sent to all staff members asking each person to identify the values that define our district. The board of education and leadership team... READ MORE >
Kids and Social Media....Start Talking
There is no doubt that kids today are extremely active on social media. The percentage of kids with smartphones has grown significantly. In 2012 the percentage of teens with smartphones crossed the 50% threshold, and by 2015 the number grew to nearly 75%. Below is an article published by the Prevention Action Alliance to help parents speak with their children... READ MORE >
Kindergarten Registration Class of 2031
Attention: Class of 2031...Its time to register for Kindergarten! Registration will be held March 22, 23 and 26. If your child will be five years old by August 1, 2018 they are eligible to enroll. Please call the Elementary at 330-527-2184 to schedule an appointment. READ MORE >
JAG Recognized for Straight A Grades
James A. Garfield Local Schools was recently recognized by the State Board of Education for an excellent academic accomplishment .The Momentum Award is presented by the State Board of Education and recognizes schools for exceeding expectations in student growth for the year. To earn this distinct honor, schools must earn straight A’s on all Value-Added measures on... READ MORE >
JAG Staff Spotlight
Congratulations to 24 year veteran Randy Cutlip on being selected as the JAG Staff Spotlight!Mr. Cutlip teaches physical education and health at the high school. He makes an 86 mile trip to Garrettsville everyday because he enjoys how great the kids are here.Mr. Cutlip enjoys all kinds of athletic activities but really enjoys spending time watching his daughter... READ MORE >
JAG Middle School Student Spotlight
Congratulations to JAG Middle School 8th grader, Austin Roman, on being selected as the Student Spotlight.Austin is a cancer survivor and enjoys all the great teachers, academics and athletics at Garfield.When Austin graduates he hopes to continue his football career in college and then the NFL.Teamwork is the most important Core Value to Austin. Congratulations... READ MORE >
JAG High School Student Spotlight
Congratulations to JAG Sophomore Hannah Bittence on being selected as a Student Spotlight!Hannah enjoys sports, reading, dancing and cooking. When she graduates she wants to get into emergency medicine or trauma surgery. Integrity is the most important JAG Core Value because she feels strongly about doing what you say you are going to do.Congratulations Hannah on... READ MORE >
JAG Elementary School Spotlight
Congratulations to Rylan Lipply on being selected as the JAG Elementary Student Spotlight!Rylan is a kindergartener who enjoys math, is left handed and has two sisters. In her spare time she enjoys going bowling.Rylan wants to be a teacher and mom when she grows up. She loves displaying the JAG Core Value of Kindness and appreciates it when people are... READ MORE >
JAG High School Student Spotlight Robert Haney
Congratulations to JAG HS junior, Robert "Bobby" Haney, on being selected as a Student Spotlight.Bobby enjoys playing basketball, baseball and spending time with his friends.Upon graduation he hopes to become a teacher. Kindness is the most important JAG Core Value for Mr. Haney, and he demonstrates this value each day in his interactions with his teachers and... READ MORE >
JAG Elementary Student Spotlight Alec Beatty
Congratulations to JAG Elementary second grader Alec Beatty on being selected as the Student Spotlight.Alec has a passion for computers and electronics. He enjoys helping others in the computer lab and has aspirations to be a computer engineer.Alec says it is the great teachers that make JAG such a great place.While creativity is the most important Core Value to... READ MORE >
Congratulations to Morgan Harris on being selected as the JAG Middle School Student Spotlight!Morgan is an eighth grader who plays volleyball and really enjoys math. She feels that everyone at Garfield is very respectful, which makes us a great district.When Morgan graduates she wants to be a pediatrician because she loves to be around children.Congratulations... READ MORE >
JAG Elementary Student Spotlight - Delilah Reeder
Congratulations to Delilah Reeder, third grader at JAG Elementary, for being selected as the Student Spotlight!Delilah prides herself in being respectful and nice to others. She believes our district is great because of our caring teachers.When Delilah graduates she wants to become a famous dancer. She started dancing when she was 3!Respect and kindness are the... READ MORE >
JAG High School Student Spotlight - Madeline Scott
Congratulations to JAG Senior Madeline Scott on being selected as the Student Spotlight!Madeline has a sister in the sixth grade, is a former lifeguard and enjoys babysitting the kids on her street.Madeline also keeps stats for many sports, including soccer, basketball and baseball.When she graduates she hopes to attend college to become a teacher.Congratulations... READ MORE >
JAG Staff Spotlight - Chelsi Moore
Congratulations to Chelsi Moore, JAG HS Math teacher, on being selected as the Staff Spotlight!When Ms. Moore is not staying after school to help students with math, she enjoys bowling and baking.She is a collegiate bowler and still bowls in leagues for fun. Ms. Moore is a Garfield Graduate and is 'back at home' at JAG High School where she feels ALL staff care... READ MORE >
Congratulations to Lauren Whan, Garfield Middle School Seventh Grader, on being selected as the Student Spotlight.Lauren enjoys working on good grades and spending time with her family and friends.When Lauren graduates she wants to become join the police force. Creativity is the most important Core Value to Lauren because it makes her think outside the... READ MORE >
JAG HS Student Spotlight
Congratulations to Tyler Klouda on being selected as the JAG HS Student Spotlight. Tyler holds many long-distance running records at Garfield and appreciates the great relationships our teachers have with their students.Respect is the most important Core Value to Tyler and he is undecided on his major but is leaning towards mathematics or physiology. ... READ MORE >
Congratulations to JAG HS Principal Kathleen Kisabeth on being selected as the Staff Spotlight.In her free time, Kathleen enjoys sewing, reading and coaching basketball.She wants to travel to Egypt someday soon.We are happy to have Ms. Kisabeth as our high school principal! READ MORE >
JAG Middle School Student Spotlight - Brooke White
Congratulations to 8th grader Brooke White on being selected as this week's Middle School Student Spotlight!Brooke lived in North Carolina for nearly 8 years but really enjoys the fact that Garfield teachers seem to know the pace of each of their students.When Brooke graduates she would like to become a zoologist. Engagement is the most important Core Value to... READ MORE >
JAG Elementary Student Spotlight - Janna Clelland
Congratulations to Janna Clelland, fourth grader at JAG Elementary on being named this week's Student Spotlight.Janna is very artistic and enjoys being creative. In fact, when Janna grows up she wants to become an artist!Janna believes our most important Core Value is Creativity. Congratulations Janna on being this week's Student Spotlight!#1JAG READ MORE >
Senior Picture Guidelines for the GHS Yearbook
It’s time to plan for your senior photos. You have the option to choose where you have your photographs taken, so talk to your friends and family for recommendations about the photographer who will work best for your family. No matter who you choose, the guidelines for senior photos are as follows. Basic Senior Photo Requirements: The photograph must be of high... READ MORE >
JAG Staff Spotlight - Phyllis Miller
Congratulations to JAG Elementary Secretary, Phyllis Miller, on being selected as the JAG Staff Spotlight!Phyllis brings a welcome smile to all who enter the elementary school and is one of the kindest people you will ever meet! She has blessed the district with a tremendous smile and work ethic for the past 26 years!In her spare time Phyllis enjoys spending time... READ MORE >
Congratulations to JAG High School 10th grader Colton Klatik on being selected as the student spotlight.Colton enjoys the outdoors, especially baseball and hunting.When he graduates Colton would like to become a civil engineer.Respect is the most important Core Value to him.Congratulations Colton on being a spotlight student! READ MORE >
JAG Elementary Spotlight Student
Congratulations to JAG Elementary 5th grade student Tommy DeBord on being selected for this week's Spotlight Student!Tommy enjoys school and wants everyone else to love it as well. He loves learning about rocks in science class and wants to be a policeman when he graduates.Congratulations Tommy!#1JAG READ MORE >
Garfield's new online grade book
Due to advancements in technology the James A. Garfield Schools have moved to a new grade book system called Progress Book. This tool has many enhanced features for parents, teachers and students. Trainings have already been conducted with our teaching and secretarial staff so the new grade book can be utilized immediately. Some of the features of the new tool... READ MORE >
JAG All Sports Booster Patio Raffle
Get your tickets now for the JAG All Sports Booster PATIO RAFFLE! A 600 sq. ft. decorative concrete patio with fire pit, decorative seating and steps is being donated by Creative Concrete Impressions. Install will take place at the winner's home in the spring of 2018 and winner will be drawn at the Spring JAG Night at the Races. Proceeds benefit JAG Athletic... READ MORE >
November 8 - Family First Night 2017
Dear James A. Garfield Families, On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 we will celebrate something very dear to us…our families. Our second “Family First Night” will be held in our community. Throughout the school year our lives become extremely hectic, which often causes us to sacrifice our family time in order to accomplish everything in our busy... READ MORE >
Student Spotlight - Landen Gedeon
Congratulations to Landen Gedeon on being selected as the JAG Elementary Student Spotlight! Landen is a sixth grader and wants everyone to know he is very creative and loves playing with Legos!Landen believes that the teachers and staff at JAG are what make it a great school district. When Landen graduates he wants to be an inventor because he likes coming up... READ MORE >
Shannon Williams - JAG HS Student Spotlight
Congratulations to this week's student spotlight, JAG Senior Shannon Williams. Shannon enjoys reading, and constantly find herself adding books to her unending list. She also wants to make the most of her last year through hard work and some fun.Shannon would like to go to college and major in Human Services. From there she would like to be employed as a social... READ MORE >
Congratulations to Renée Chlysta, our JAG Staff Spotlight for the week! Mrs. Chlysta is a 17 year veteran of JAG and teaches French. Mrs. Chlysta enjoys hiking, sewing, drawing, singing, playing flute, caring for animals, gardening, writing poetry, watching the sunrise, fly fishing, and kayaking.Congratulations Mrs. Chlysta! READ MORE >
School Menu App Now Available
http://www.healtheliving.net/ My School Menus Available in the App Store- iTunes or for Android- Download it today Get informed! Find out what your school is serving for lunch today, this week or this month! The My School Menus app puts your school's menus into the palm of your hand. Quickly and easily see menus and prices. You can even filter menu items out by... READ MORE >
JAG is a tobacco-free campus
In Accordance with Board Policy 7434 - USE OF TOBACCO ON SCHOOL PREMISES The Board of Education is committed to providing students, staff, and visitors with an all district tobacco-free environment. The negative health effects of tobacco use for both users and nonusers, particularly in connection with second hand smoke, are well established. Further, providing an... READ MORE >
Apply for Free/Reduced Meals online
Apply for Free/Reduced meals using the online application process JAGLocal.heartlandapps.com MY CHILD’S APPLICATION WAS APPROVED LAST YEAR. DO I NEED TO FILL OUT A NEW ONE? Yes. Your child’s application is only good for that school year and for the first few days of this school year, through October 11, 2017. You must send in a new application unless the school... READ MORE >
New Technology at JAG
This summer, the James A. Garfield Local Schools will be updating three areas of technology in an effort to make communicating with our parents and community easier and more efficient. DIGITAL FORMS We are very excited to announce that the James A. Garfield Local Schools has partnered with FinalForms, an online forms and data management service. FinalForms allows... READ MORE >
The JAG youth football camp has been cancelled. READ MORE >
JAG Quiz Bowl Qualifies for Nationals
This year has been extremely successful for Garfield in many facets. Athletically our students made monumental playoff runs. The JAG Band earned their second consecutive rating of “1” at the OMEA State competition. Finally, this weekend we will celebrate a historic achievement academically. Each year our Quiz Bowl team, lead by advisor Iva Walker, performs... READ MORE >
JAG Quality Profile
James A. Garfield Local Schools are the cornerstone of an outstanding community. The district has just released a quality profile to define exactly what makes us so successful. We appreciate the continued support and can't wait to begin another year of excellence in 2017! View the profile by visiting http://5il.co/17id. READ MORE >
Donkey Basketball
Donkey Basketball with @catherinebrann #1JAG READ MORE >
District receives Auditor of State Award for Fiscal Year 2014 Audit
Read about it here. READ MORE >
Auditor of State’s Fraud Hotline
Auditor of State’s Fraud Hotline: 1-866-FRAUD OH (1-886-372-8364) http://www.auditor.state.oh.us/fraudcenter/siu/default.htm READ MORE >
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Take A Look Inside Justin Bieber's Luxe AF Queenstown Crib
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 09:17
Sophie Barker
ICYMI, Justin Bieber is currently on holiday in Queenstown, and it looks like he's living like an absolute baller.
The popstar is taking a break from his busy schedule and has been chillin out at The Hills Luxury Lodge in NZ.
According to the NZ Herald, the pad costs around 28K per night and is one of the most expensive places to stay in Q-Town. We can still dream, right?
Stheby's NZ
Lodge At The Hills
During his stay in NZ, the Biebs' went on an adrenaline-filled ride on the Shotover Jet and was spotted chatting to fans in Arrowtown.
March 19: Justin in Queenstown, New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/eXdUWsEuQP
— Justin Bieber News (@kbiebercrew) March 19, 2017
In the next day or two, JB will fly to Santiago, Chile, for the next leg of his Purpose world tour.
You Can Now See Inside Justin Bieber's Bedroom (& The Rest Of His Bachelor Pad)
Aouri Makhlouf via Coldwell Banker
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Fans Think Justin Bieber's New Song Is About Selena Gomez & I Oop
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Pakistan’s central bank warns of economic slowdown , increases intererst rate
By Muhammad Luqman The State Bank of Pakistan has increased its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points to 12.25 percent , suggesting further measures...
Pakistan launches amnesty scheme to help whiten black money
By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan’s government has unveiled an amnesty that will allow tax payers to regularize their undeclared assets, as part of plans to raise...
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By Muhammad Luqman Total debt burden on Pakistan by the year 2023 will be equal to 84 percent of its total economy, much higher than...
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By Muhammad Luqman The Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed its fear that economic conditions of Pakistan may further deteriorate in 2019, resulting in...
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By Muhammad Luqman South Asia holds on to its top spot as the world’s fastest growing region, with growth set to step up to 7.0...
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By Muhammad Luqman The Asian Development Bank has predicted that Pakistan’s economic growth may decelerate to 3.9% in fiscal year 2019 following a pronounced widening...
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By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umar has unveiled a package of measures to boost exports and investment and help the South Asian country...
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ADB to invest $800m to improve Pakistan’s regional connectivity
Pakistan becomes first country to have Sikh Marriage Law
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NEC make the miaList
05 November 2018 Jenna Hadley
The NEC were recognised in both the individual and team categories at the prestigious Meetings Industry Association (MIA) awards, known at the miaList, with the NEC Marketing team being named Team of the Year in the conference category, and NEC Senior Account Manager for Conferences, Kelly Moore, earning a place on the prestigious miaList.
This year, the judges were overwhelmed with a huge number of nominations for the miaList – which recognises the incredible and inspiring talent within the conference industry – and had the difficult task of shortlisting to a top 24. These candidates then underwent a tough two stage interview process, before the final top 10 were announced at the event at The Tower Hotel in London on Friday, 2nd November.
Speaking of her win Kelly said, “I’ve worked my way up in the industry at the NEC over the last 12 years and this has to be a one of my top highlights. It is a complete honour to be on the miaList with some of the amazing talent out there in the industry.”
Kelly Moore - NEC Senior Account Manager (conferences)
The NEC Marketing were shortlisted from all entrants to a final four, winning on the day by beating out competition to be named maiList Team of the Year in the conference category.
NEC Marketing Director, Martin Clarke said, “I’m extremely proud of the team. We were up against some tough competition within the conference sector, so this award reflects the hard work delivered on a daily basis by the team. We know that everyone we want to talk to is extremely busy, and my team manage to cut through that noise with creative campaigns, clever B2B initiatives and newsworthy communications to keep raising the profile of the NEC within the events industry.”
NEC Marketing team
The miaList Awards, which have been running since 2011 were created to celebrate those outstanding and passionate individuals from all areas of the meetings, hospitality and events industry who go above and beyond the call of duty.
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Offit Kurman Is Now Home To Kelley Partners, Ltd.
The members of the Philadelphia law firm of Kelley Partners will join the fast-growing firm of Offit Kurman, on April 1. The lawyers of Kelley Partners will leave their offices at 1628 Pine Street and move into Offit Kurman’s Philadelphia office at 1801 Market Street. In addition, Offit Kurman will take over the Harrisburg offices of Kelley Partners, which will be managed by attorney and Principal John A. Kane.
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Offit Kurman is one of the fastest-growing, full-service law firms in the Mid-Atlantic region. With 120 attorneys offering a comprehensive range of services in virtually every legal category, the firm is well positioned to meet the needs of dynamic businesses and the people who own and operate them. Our eight offices serve individual and corporate clients in the Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Northern Virginia markets, as well as the Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City metropolitan areas. At Offit Kurman, we are our clients’ most trusted legal advisors, professionals who help maximize and protect business value and personal wealth. In every interaction, we consistently maintain our clients’ confidence by remaining focused on furthering their objectives and achieving their goals in an efficient manner. Trust, knowledge, confidence—in a partner, that’s perfect.
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Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy Page 3 of 185
Time and again, lone-handed, he has done better than an army corps, by playing chief against chief in a land where the only law is individual interpretation of the Koran.
But it wasn't until our rescue of Jeremy Ross from near Abu Kem, that I ever heard Grim come out openly and admit that he was working to establish Feisul, third son of the King of Mecca, as king of just as many Arabs as might care to have him over them. That was the cat he had been keeping in a bag for seven years.
Right down to the minute when Grim, Jeremy and I sat down with Ben Saoud the Avenger on a stricken field at Abu Kem, and Grim and Jeremy played their hands so cleverly that the Avenger was made, unwitting guardian of Jeremy's secret gold-mine, and Feisul's open and sworn supporter in the bargain, the heart of Grim's purpose continued to be a mystery even to me; and I have been as intimate with him as any man.
He doles out what he has in mind as grudgingly as any Scot spends the shillings in his purse. But the Scots are generous when they have to be, and so is Grim. There being nothing else for it on that occasion, he spilled the beans, the whole beans, and nothing but the beans.
Having admitted us two to his secret, he dilated on it all the way back to Jerusalem, telling us all he knew of Feisul (which would fill a book), and growing almost lyrical at times as he related incidents in proof of his contention that Feisul, lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, is the "whitest" Arab and most gallant leader of his race since Saladin.
Knowing Grim and how carefully suppressed his enthusiasm usually is, I couldn't help being fired by all he said on that occasion.
It wasn't until our rescue of Jeremy Ross from near Abu Kem, that I ever heard Grim come out openly and admit that he was working to establish Feisul, third son of the King of Mecca, as king of just as many Arabs as might care to have him over them. That was the cat he had been keeping in a bag for seven years. . . .
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Clarence by Bret Harte Page 1 of 168
As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due to his good looks and good fortune.
But as he hurriedly slipped through the still lingering winter's rain into the smart coupe that was awaiting him, and gave the order "Home," the word struck him with a peculiarly ironical significance. His home was a handsome one, and lacked nothing in appointment and comfort, but he had gone to the theatre to evade its hollow loneliness.
Nor was it because his wife was not there, for he had a miserable consciousness that her temporary absence had nothing to do with his homelessness. The distraction of the theatre over, that dull, vague, but aching sense of loneliness which was daily growing upon him returned with greater vigor.
He leaned back in the coupe and gloomily reflected.
He had been married scarcely a year, yet even in the illusions of the honeymoon the woman, older than himself, and the widow of his old patron, had half unconsciously reasserted herself, and slipped back into the domination of her old position.
It was at first pleasant enough,-this half-maternal protectorate which is apt to mingle even with the affections of younger women,-and Clarence, in his easy, half-feminine intuition of the sex, yielded, as the strong are apt to yield, through the very consciousness of their own superiority.
This story provides insights into the Civil War from the perspective of settlers in California who came from both Northern and Southern states, and helps understand divided allegiances even within families
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Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Page 1 of 212
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES
a set of tales
with some colloquial sketches
A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS
The Son's Veto
For Conscience' Sake
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
On the Western Circuit
To Please his Wife
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if somewhat barbaric, example of ingenious art. One could understand such weavings and coilings being wrought to last intact for a year, or even a calendar month; but that they should be all demolished regularly at bedtime, after a single day of permanence, seemed a reckless waste of successful fabrication.
And she had done it all herself, poor thing. She had no maid, and it was almost the only accomplishment she could boast of. Hence the unstinted pains.
The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.
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Pushmataha County
County Seat - Antlers
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Full Blood Conveyance Record No. 2.
Transcribed by Teresa Young
BEN, Narcessa
Gleamed information from the book of FULL BLOOD CONVEYANCE RECORD NO. 2
STATE OF OKLAHOMA.
IN COUNTY COURT.
CASE NUMBER NO. 567
In the Matter of the Estate of NARCESSA BEN nee BOHANON, Deceased.
Now on this 6th day of October 1913, comes MARTIN BOHANON, and files and presents to the court his petition praying for an order of the
Court approving and confirming a certain deed of conveyance executed by him to J. C. ARMSTRONG and J. H. WELCH on the 6th day of October 1913, to the follow described real estate to-wit: His interest in the following land.
The N 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 31 and S 1/2 of SW 1/4 and NW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Section 36 Township 3 South Range 10 East and the W 1/2 of W 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section 12 Township 4 South Range 10 East.
And the court upon consideration of said petition, and being fully advised the premises finds that one NARCESSA BEN nee BOHANON, a full blood Choctaw Indian, who appears upon the roll of Choctaw by blood, opposite Roll No. 5584, and a resident of Pushmataha County, State of Oklahoma, on or about the day of February 1903, died intestate seized of the lands above described, which lands were allotted to her by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and conveyed to her by allotment and homestead patent, and that the said NARCESSA BEN nee BOHANON, was at the time of her death the owner in fee simple, of the above described lands. And the Court further finds that the said petitioner is a nephew of the said NARCESSA BEN nee BOHANON, and he together with EMMA LUDLOW a sister and ALICE ISAACS a sister of the deceased are the sole and only heirs at law of the said NARCESSA BEN nee BOHANON, deceased, and that petitioner MARTIN BOHANON is entitled to inherit a 1/3 interest in the above described lands subject to Life Estate of JAMES BEN, husband.
The Court further finds that on the 6th day of October 1913, the said petitioner executed to J. C. ARMSTRONG and J. H. WELCH, for and in consideration of the sum of ($300.00) Three Hundred Dollars, cash in hand to him paid one certain Warranty Deed to the said above described real estate.
The Court further finds that the deed was duly signed and acknowledged by the petitioner and that the consideration for the said deed is fully paid, and that the same is reasonable, adequate and wholly satisfactory to the said petitioner and find further that the said conveyance of the said real estate to the said J. C. ARMSTRONG and J. H. WELCH, should be in all things approved and confirmed.
IT IS THEREFORE BY THE COURT CONSIDERED, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, That the said conveyance of the said described lands by Warranty Deed dated the 6th day of October 1913, from the said petitioner to the said J. C. ARMSTRONG and J. H. WELCH, heirs and assigns, be and is hereby in all things approved and confirmed, and declared legal and valid.
Dated this 6th day of October 1913 at Antlers County of Pushmataha, Oklahoma.
(Signed) L. P. DAVENPORT, County Judge of Pushmataha County
Filed October 6, 1913
Recorded by BEULAH ALLEN
In the Matter of the Estate of NARCESSA BOHANON, Deceased.
Now on this 5th day of October 1913 comes EMMA LUDLOW, joined by her husband WILLIS LUDLOW, and files and present to the court their petition, praying for an order of the
Court approving and confirming a certain deed of conveyance executed by them to J. H. WELCH and J. C. ARMSTRONG, on the 27th day of September 1913, to the follow described real estate to-wit:
By deed of correction to-wit: The S 1/2 of SW 1/4, and NW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Section 36, and N half of the NE 1/4 Section 31, Township 3 South, Range 10 East, and the W 1/2 of W 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section 12, Township 4 South, Range 10 East.
And the court upon consideration of said petition, and being fully advised the premises, finds that one NARCESSA BOHANON, a full blood Choctaw Indian, who appears upon the roll of Choctaw by blood, opposite Roll No. 5584, and a resident of Pushmataha County, State of Oklahoma, on or about the ____ day of ____, died intestate, seized of the lands above described, which lands were allotted to her by the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, and conveyed to her by allotment homestead patent, and that the said NARCESSA BOHANON was at the time of her death the owner, in fee simple, of the above described lands. And the Court further finds that the said petitioner executed her deed on the 8th day of November 1909, intending to convey the above described lands to J. H. WELCH and J. C. ARMSTRONG, and that on account of a clerical error there was a misdescription of (40) Forty acres of said lands, and this order is made to correct said error in said description of said lands.
The Court further finds that on the 27th day of September 1913, the said petitioner executed to J. H. WELCH and J. C. ARMSTRONG, for and in consideration of the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, cash in hand to her paid certain Warranty Deed to the said above described real estate.
The Court further finds that the deed was duly signed and acknowledged by the petitioner and that the consideration for the said deed is fully paid, and that the same is reasonable, adequate and wholly satisfactory to the said petitioner and find further that the said conveyance of the said real estate to the said ____________, should be in all things approved and confirmed.
IT IS THEREFORE BY THE COURT CONSIDERED, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, That the said conveyance of the said described lands by Warranty Deed dated the 27th day of September 1913, from the said petitioner to the said J. H. WELCH and J. C. ARMSTRONG, heirs and assigns, be and is hereby in all things approved and confirmed, and declared legal and valid.
Dated this 5th day of October 1913 at Antlers County Pushmataha, Oklahoma.
(Signed) L. P. DAVENPORT, Judge of the County Court of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
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(Note: Teresa Young favorite bible passage - John 6:35: Jesus said, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger;
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.")
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Judge: Public Can’t See Idaho Prison Settlement
December 16, 2011 by IDOG
From the Associated Press
A federal judge has refused to unseal a settlement agreement between an Idaho inmate and a private prison company involving allegations of rampant violence at a lockup near Boise known as “Gladiator School.”
The Associated Press had asked the court to unseal the settlement between Marlin Riggs and Corrections Corp. of America.
However, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge said Wednesday the interests of Riggs and the company in keeping the settlement confidential outweighed the interest the public has in learning its terms.
The AP’s West regional editor, Traci Carl, said the news organization’s attorneys were reviewing the ruling and considering the legal options.
“The AP is disappointed with the ruling and believes the public has a right to know the terms of the settlement,” Carl said.
Neither Riggs’ attorney James Huegli nor CCA’s attorney Kirtlan Naylor immediately returned messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Riggs initially asked for $55 million in damages, saying the Idaho Correctional Center was nicknamed “Gladiator School” and that guards knew Riggs was about to be attacked but failed to protect him.
The AP contended the lawsuit raised profound and far-reaching issues of public interest. In his written ruling, Lodge acknowledged that the operation of a prison raises issues of public concern, but he said he feared releasing the document would place Riggs at risk for intimidation or assault in prison. He also said future litigants would be discouraged from participating in judicially supervised settlement conferences if they believed the outcome could be made public.
The judge also noted that a settlement agreement in a “companion lawsuit” between other inmates at the prison and CCA was released to the public. In that case, the inmates were alleging the same types of civil rights violations that Riggs claimed, but they didn’t ask the court for any monetary damages. Instead, the inmates wanted changes to the way the prison is run — and in the settlement agreement, CCA agreed to make those changes, though the company did not acknowledge any guilt or liability. Both CCA and the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho, which was representing the inmates, agreed to make that settlement public.
“The present case now involves only a single prisoner seeking monetary damages for an assault,” Lodge wrote. “The public’s interest in knowing the precise terms of his agreement with CCA is outweighed by the parties’ interest in confidentiality as a means of minimizing the serious risks that the Court has found to exist.”
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Michael N. McGregor
Brian Doyle and the language of the stage
The late Oregon writer's novel "Mink River" is a sinuous stream of words as music. Can its lush language be adapted for the theater?
By: Michael N. McGregor
Published June 26, 2018, in LANGUAGE ARTS, NEWS & NOTES, THEATER
Language, says Portland director Jane Unger to explain why she spent two years pursuing the stage rights to Brian Doyle’s loquacious and widely beloved Mink River, a summary-defying novel stuffed with plotlines, descriptions, lists and riffs on everything from the different types of Northwest wood to the nature and location of time.
Language, says Seattle playwright Myra Platt to explain why she agreed, on spec, to adapt a book that features a talking crow, a bear that rescues an injured boy, a seemingly inexhaustible cast of major and minor characters, and even a miscarried fetus riding a river to the sea.
Language, say reviewers on Amazon and GoodReads to explain why a nonfiction writer’s first novel—an episodic, and at times essayistic, attempt to render in prose the moment-by-moment life of an entire coastal Oregon town—thrilled them more than other books.
“Mink River” author Brian Doyle. Photo courtesy Mary Miller Doyle.
Language, said Doyle himself in numerous interviews to explain what he loved most about writing essays and stories. “I sometimes think there is no writer as addicted to music and swing and rhythm and cadence in prose as me,” he once told Ruminate magazine. “I really do want to push prose as close to music as I can, and play with tone and timbre in my work, play with the sinuous riverine lewd amused pop and song of the American language.”
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Oak Ridge Boys Plan Two New Dave Cobb-Produced Albums, Including a Christmas Record
by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | March 21, 2019
The Oak Ridge Boys—Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban—are getting a jump on the Christmas season by announcing an upcoming holiday record that will be released this fall.
Produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton), the new holiday collection follows the Oaks’ 2016 yuletide offering, Celebrate Christmas.
In addition, the Oaks revealed that they will also release a Cobb-produced album in 2020 that features a collection of classics and standards.
“The first is a new Christmas album, which will be released in time for our fall Christmas tour,” says Duane. “A few months later, we will release a classics and standards album with the attitude of singing together on the front porch.”
The Oaks first teamed with Dave for their 2009 album, The Boys Are Back. Dave also helmed the Oaks most recent project, 2018’s 17th Avenue Revival.
“Dave Cobb has the unique ability to record in a raw, honest, almost retro way that sounds fresh,” says Duane. “Part of our last album with Dave [17th Avenue Revival] was recorded around one microphone with Dave playing acoustic guitar about six feet away. He told us that he wanted us to sing ‘together,’ and listen to, and watch, each other. The result was pure magic, and we wound up recording the entire album with that same attitude.”
written by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | published March 21, 2019 12:46 pm
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Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti KahuLand Claims Report for April 2016
1. Progress with publication of Deed of Partial Settlement
2. Hearing in the Paparahi o te Raki claim – Hokianga
3. Claim to Waitangi Tribunal against government’s Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
4. Upcoming National Iwi Chairs Forum hui 4-5 May
5. Call for the reform of the Treaty Claims Settlement process filed with the United Nations
6. Still awaiting Court of Appeal date for binding recommendations application
7. Still awaiting response from Minister of Treaty Negotiations
8. Repossession of Kaitāia Airport in the District Court
9. Ngāti Kahu Trust Board Litigation Against Ngāti Kahu Mortgage Services
· The publishers of our book Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation, our Deed of Partial Settlement, have advised that no restructuring, deletions or rewriting are required, just copy editing. The photos are still being completed.
· Our lawyers cross examined witnesses in the Waitangi Tribunal’s Paparahi o te Raki hearing for the Hokianga in respect of evidence relating to Te Paatu’s territories and Maungataniwha.
· The deadline for Waitangi Tribunal to report on the TPPA has been reduced by three weeks.
· National Iwi Chairs’ Forum will meet at Te Puia (the New Zealand Māori Arts and Craft Institute) on Fenton St, Rotorua on 4 and 5 May. The first item on the agenda is Moana Jackson speaking about his constitutional transformation report.
· The Monitoring Mechanism of National Iwi Chairs Forum has filed a shadow report with the United Nations Human Rights Council that calls for about the government’s Treaty claims settlement process to be urgently reviewed and reformed.
· We continue to wait for a hearing date from the Court of Appeal in respect of the Waitangi Tribunal not making binding recommendations.
· We continue to wait for a response from the Minister of Treaty Negotiations to our response in November concerning
a) our formal complaint against staff of the Office of Treaty Settlements
b) the Minister’s on-going attempts to impose the settlement that Ngāti Kahu has rejected.
· The hearing date for the six Patukōraha, Ngāi Tohianga and Te Paatu people arrested for trespassing on their own ancestral lands at Rangiāniwaniwa will be discussed in a judicial teleconference on 26 May with a hearing likely in July.
· The Rūnanga appointed two interim trustees for Ngāti Kahu’s farm at Taipā two months ago but have not heard who the Ngāti Kahu Trust Board’s two appointees are.
I reported at our last hui that Huia Publishers had sent the text of our book Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation to an editor to assess what changes are needed to the structure and in particular if any of the very lengthy sections, including the hapū korero, should be cut back. I am very pleased to report that the editor came back very quickly to say the book is great, nothing should be changed or cut, and that the detail is very useful, especially for people who have done or are doing treaty claims. She said that while the book challenged people’s thinking, she enjoyed reading it.
So now it is being copy edited, that is, editors are going through it to make sure that it reads smoothly. There is one editor for the English language parts and two for the Māori language parts. Reremoana Rēnata is copy editing the Māori to make sure our dialect is properly expressed and the translations are accurate. A non-Ngāti Kahu speaker is editing it to note any expressions that are not well known outside Ngāti Kahu that we will need to provide explanations for.
The photos, however, still needed more work. A significant number of the ones we resubmitted needed reshooting. Some were still not good enough quality but it was mainly because the publishers will not include repeats of the same or similar shots of places that are shared by different hapū. So Anahera has spent several days reshooting a number of areas.
The Waitangi Tribunal conducted the Hokianga hearing for Te Paparahi o Te Raki (Northland) enquiry in the week of 18 April. Our lawyer, Te Kani Williams, cross-examined a claimant who mistakenly thought Te Paatu’s claims could be included in with Hokianga’s claims. Te Paatu’s claims come within the Tribunal’s Muriwhenua district and several are registered for hearing there. The claimant also used information purportedly about Te Paatu provided by the loathed land shark turned resident magistrate, William Bertram White. The information is false and White used it in order to steal Te Paatu’s lands.
Another claimant asserted that only hapū of Ngāpuhi are mana whenua and hence own Maungataniwha. He did concede that while his hapū have their kōrero, Te Paatu and Ngāti Kahu have their own kōrero about the northern side.
Our lawyer also cross-examined Crown witnesses who confirmed that information for the boundaries of Ngāti Kahu’s rohe published in the government Gazette in 1946 was provided by Ngāti Kahu kaumātua rangatira of the day and were intended to recognize those areas administered under their rangatiratanga. It includes the huge areas that the Muriwhenua Tribunal hearing our remedies claim cut out of our area of interest including Hukatere, the southern parts of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē and Te Aupōuri forest and the Sweetwater farm. We will be reminding the Tribunal once we get back into hearings that the Crown has now rectified its error in this respect.
Last week the government announced that rather than introducing its legislation to ratify the TPPA at the end of May, it will now be doing it three weeks earlier. Once again the government is treating the Tribunal with disrespect and contempt. Two weeks ago they finally filed the last of the information the Tribunal asked for, leaving the Tribunal little time to write their report. Now that short time has been shortened by three weeks. The Tribunal is barred from having any say on proposed legislation once it is tabled in the House. Under the current constitutional arrangements in this country no-one has any power to stop the government doing whatever it likes, including disregarding the people and the Tribunal.
5. Complaint about the Treaty Claims Settlement process filed with the United Nations
This year the New Zealand government is undergoing its 6th periodic review for its performance under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights before the United Nations Human Rights Committee. On the advice of experts on National Iwi Chairs Forum’s Monitoring Mechanism, a shadow report was filed with the committee calling for urgent review and reform of the Treaty Claims Settlement process. The report draws on previous advice given to the New Zealand government by various United Nations Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples bodies that they need to do this. It also draws on a number of Tribunal reports that are critical of the process and complaints of complainants, including Ngāti Kahu’s complaint about Rangiāniwaniwa.
For items 5) to 9) please see the summary above.
Professor Margaret Mutu
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Jordan's Corner
Juanita Freshman Tavin Montgomery the next top young Washington Dual Threat QB: By Jordan Johnson
Posted By Jordan Johnson on December 2, 2012
Tavin Montgomery, Thomas Toki
(Montgomery has some intangibles that can’t be taught, and looks like one of the top freshman QB’s on the west coast)
Its pretty rare that we report on HS freshman but this is definitely a unique case. Juanita QB Tavin Montgomery (6-0 160 ) took over the starting duties at Quarterback after the fourth game of the season and never looked back. The Rebels went (6-4) losing to 3A powers Bellevue and Mt Si, before a 1 point loss to Kelso in the state playoffs to end the season.
Montgomery earned all league honors at QB after starting the season at defensive back. It was very apparent early that Montgomery was going to be a special talent, as any kid coming in and playing right away at such a young age is typically super legit. We are big advocates of Head Coach Shaun Tarontola and his Rebel program, and he will have a lot to work with in the coming years.
Tavin is surrounded by two of the state’s top young lineman in sophomore Thomas Toki (6-1 295) and Freshman Paul Finau (6-2 300). Juanita also has two very talented line backers in Pierce Belleman (5-11 170) and Vere Waqaituinayau (5-11 205). The Rebels do graduate three NEI favorites in Kendrick Murphy (5-11 160 ATH), Harley French (6-1 205 LB), and Trayon McNairy (6-1 205 LB), but Montgomery feels the future is extremely bright.
“I feel like we have a bunch of good athletes coming up and a line that can be dominant, so we are all excited about our potential moving forward”. He continued, ” my line this year gave me all the time in the world and made it much easier for me to transition to Varsity speed”.
Tavin knows he’s talented, but remains very humble and appreciative of his family, coaches, and teammates.
“We improved a lot this year and I think we can continue to get better… I learned a lot from guys like Kendrick Murphy, and personally I want us to be a playoff team every year and help to put us in a position to win a state title”.
Montgomery threw double digit TD passes and only 3 INT’s on the season, and projects as Potentially the top QB in the state of Washington for the 2016 class. He added, ” ultimately my goals include keeping my GPA high, and becoming a D1 quarterback”. Its hard to gauge most athletes from such a young age, but this is an exception to the rule. Watch Montgomery’s highlights and you will see a pretty freaky freshman that can just flat out ball.
We look forward to having Tavin at our elite events in the winter, with the other top players from around the region. He is considered one of the top QB’s on the west coast, and someone Taylor Barton is definitely excited to work with. Congrats to Tavin and his Juanita Rebels on their success, they will be a team to be reckoned with in Washington in the coming years.
(Thomas Toki Jr. 6-1 290 is one of the most dominant young lineman in the region and a kid we will hear a lot about moving forward)
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Card Index of Radar Sets - Naval Radars
RTN-20X “Orion”
Figure 1: RTN-20X
© 2010 Jörg Waterstraat (www.kriegsschiffe.eu)
RTN-20X
frequency: J-Band
pulse repetition time (PRT):
pulse repetition frequency (PRF):
pulsewidth (τ):
peak power:
average power: 10 km 15 km
instrumented range:
range resolution:
beamwidth:
antenna rotation:
The RTN-20X alias MM/SPG-74 (MM stands for Marina Militare, a nomenclature for the Italian Navy, similar to the US-Army/Navy's nomenclature AN/…) is an operating in J-Band fire-control radar specifically developed for close in weapon systems. It is derived from the RTN-10X.
The radar uses a monopulse, cassegrain antenna with a polarisation twist and employs a fully coherent chain transmitter using a traveling wave tube as the final amplifier. Two different pulse lengths can be selected, both at elevated repetition rates. The transmission frequency can be changed randomly, on a pulse-to-pulse or burst-to-burst basis, over a wide frequency spectrum. The fully digital receiver uses a multicanceller moving target indicator and is equipped with devices to minimise the effects of multipath on low-flying targets.
RTN-25X is an improved version of the RT-20X which uses the same antenna and transmission chain but with greater radiating power. The radar can be used with different fire control systems to direct guns firing at short and medium range. The radar also includes two electro-optical sensors (a high-resolution TV camera and an IR camera) for passive target tracking. As a third sensor, a laser range finder can also be installed.
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We’re keen to help you encourage your students to understand where their science lessons could take them, and how the skills and knowledge they learn in class relate to the work of scientists today, in all kinds of jobs.
This collection of six teaching resources to help put science into a modern context of careers, including two resources for each of the age groups 11-14, 14-16 and post-16.
Each of the six resources brings together a careers case study with a contemporary scientist working in a different field, followed by a practical investigation and an opportunity for your pupils to do some research of their own. The resources include student sheets and full technical and teaching notes.
Investigating the difference between organic and non-organic food (11-14)
Investigating the anti-cancer properties of plants (11-14)
Students watch a video about James Seymour, a scientist with an unusual job, as Product Manager for a company growing herbs for all our supermarkets. They then consider how they can carry out a fair test into the taste of plants produced under different conditions.
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Students are introduced to Dr Jess Chu, a young scientist researching Malaysian rainforest plants to see if they have antioxidant, anticancer or antibacterial properties. Students then carry out their own investigations into the presence of vitamin C, an antioxidant, in the different parts of different plants.
Investigating the biodiversity of different habitats (14-16)
Using tissue culture and 'cloning' for rare plant conservation (14-16)
Students are introduced to Amy Eycott, landscape ecologist for the Forestry Commission, through a short video case study. They find out more about the skills and knowledge that she needs for her job, and carry out a practical activity, comparing the diversity of habitats using Cairns' sequential comparison index.
Students are introduced to conservation biotechnologist Jonathan Kendon, who specialises in conserving endangered plant species. Our well-known cauliflower cloning practical is based on a technique developed by Jonathan's colleagues at Kew. Students will carry out the practical, and consider how this technique can be used for conservation.
Investigating the antibacterial properties of plants (post-16)
Investigating how plants use colour to attract pollinators (post-16)
In this resource, students are introduced to Julian Ma, Professor of Molecular Immunology and joint head of the Infection and Immunity Research Centre at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London. He specialises in ‘pharming’ – the production of medicines by plants. Students read the case study and watch the video about Julian's work, and then carry out a practical using the disc diffusion method, testing plants to see if they make chemicals which have antimicrobial properties.
Students read an interview with Dr Beverley Glover, a plant scientist researching the evolution and development of features of flowers which attract pollinating animals. They then carry out a variety of short practicals and research activities related to biophysics and adaptation.
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Richard Hughes-Jones
Approach & Principles
Welcome to my online library, a curation of all the books that I have read or am reading. I’ve categorised my reading list into six buckets of practical worldly wisdom: numeracy, human nature, history, natural science, business and second-level thinking and ordered my books within them based on their influence upon me. Please enjoy exploring my library, which I hope influences your own reading list.
“The ability to understand and think in numbers and properly quantify. This would include a basic understanding of statistics and its limitations, of probability thinking and its limitations, and basic numerical and quantitative thinking applied to the real world.”
Taleb N. N. (2007) Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Amazon UK, US)
Taleb N. N. (2010) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Amazon UK, US)
West G. (2018) Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies (Amazon UK, US)
Bernstein P. L. (1998) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Amazon UK, US)
“The ability to understand the true nature of the people around you, and of yourself, with heavy consideration given to human psychology.”
Kahneman D. (2012) Thinking Fast & Slow (Amazon UK, US)
Klein G. (2004) The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work (Amazon UK, US)
Cialdini R. (2007) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Amazon UK, US)
Tetlock P. (2016) Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Amazon UK, US)
Storr A. (1997) Solitude (Amazon UK, US)
Carnegie D. (originally published 1936) How to Win Friends & Influence People (Amazon UK, US)
Berger J. G. (2013) Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World (Amazon UK, US)
Berger J. G. (2016) Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders (Amazon UK, US)
Whitmore J. (first published 2009) Coaching for Performance (Amazon UK, US)
Syed M. (2016) Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains & the Secrets of High Performance (Amazon UK, US)
Eurich T. (2018) Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think (Amazon UK, US)
Gallway T. (1974) The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Amazon UK, US)
Schulz K. (2010) Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Amazon UK, US)
Bungay-Stanier M. (2016) The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (Amazon UK, US)
Dweck D. (2017) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Amazon UK, US)
Stulberg S. (2017) Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success (Amazon UK, US)
Waitzkin J. (2008) The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (Amazon UK, US)
Frankl V. (first published 1962) Man’s Search for Meaning (Amazon UK, US)
Johnson S. (2011) Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships (Amazon UK, US – not available)
Heller R. & Levine A. (2012) Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love (Amazon UK, US)
Headlee C. (2017) We Need To Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Amazon UK, US)
Berger W. (2016) A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (Amazon UK, US)
Berne E. (1964) Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships (Amazon UK, US)
“The knowledge of what’s come before you in the world.”
Harari Y. N. (2015) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Amazon UK, US)
Graeber D. (2014) Debt : The First 5000 Years (Amazon UK, US)
Mukherjee S. (2011) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Brief Biography of Cancer (Amazon UK, US)
Greenspan A. & Wooldridge A. (2018) Capitalism in America: A History (Amazon UK, US)
Goldstein A. (2018) Janesville: An American Story (Amazon UK, US)
“An understanding of the physical world around us.”
Waldrop M. M. (1993) Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order & Chaos (Amazon UK, US)
Quammen D. (2007) The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin & the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Amazon UK, US)
“An understanding of commerce and finance, concepts we must all regularly deal with unless we plan to live in a monastery.”
Maister D. (2001) The Trusted Advisor (Amazon UK, US)
Schmidt E., Rosenberg J. & Eagle A. (2019) Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell (Amazon UK, US)
Grove A. (1995) High Output Management (Amazon UK, US)
Christensen C. (originally published 1997) The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Amazon UK, US)
Grove A. (1996) Only The Paranoid Survive (Amazon UK, US)
Rumelt R. (2011) Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference & why it matters (Amazon UK, US)
Ries E. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses (Amazon UK, US)
Thiel T. (2014) Zero to One: Notes on Startup, or How to Build The Future (Amazon UK, US)
Gailbraith J. K. (1994) A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Amazon UK, US)
Dalio R. (2017) Principles: Life & Work (Amazon UK, US)
Knight P. (2018) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Amazon UK, US)
Thorp E. O. (2017) A Man for All Markets (Amazon UK, US)
Ogilvy D. (2007) Ogilvy on Advertising (Amazon UK, US)
Denning S. (2018) The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done (Amazon UK, US)
Horowitz B. (2014) The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Amazon UK, US)
Palmer K. & Blake D. (2018) The Expertise Economy: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete & Succeed (Amazon UK, US)
Martin R. L. (2009) The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (Amazon UK, US)
Second-level thinking
“The ability to think beyond the ‘first step’ and think through consequences. And then what?”
For more on second level thinking, you might like my post Howard Marks on second level thinking & being a contrarian.
Coram R. (2004) Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Amazon UK, US)
Bevelin P. (2007) Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (Amazon UK, US)
Marks H. (2007) The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (Amazon UK, US)
Heath C. & Heath D. (2013) Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Amazon UK, US)
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Bill Singer's Resume
BrokeAndBroker Site
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Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
NOTE: Stipulations of Fact and Consent to Penalty (SFC); Offers of Settlement (OS); and Letters of Acceptance Waiver, and Consent (AWC) are entered into by Respondents without admitting or denying the allegations, but consent is given to the described sanctions & to the entry of findings. Additionally, for AWCs, if FINRA has reason to believe a violation has occurred and the member or associated person does not dispute the violation, FINRA may prepare and request that the member or associated person execute a letter accepting a finding of violation, consenting to the imposition of sanctions, and agreeing to waive such member's or associated person's right to a hearing before a hearing panel, and any right of appeal to the National Adjudicatory Council, the SEC, and the courts, or to otherwise challenge the validity of the letter, if the letter is accepted. The letter shall describe the act or practice engaged in or omitted, the rule, regulation, or statutory provision violated, and the sanction or sanctions to be imposed.
Ayre Investments, Inc. and Timothy Tilton Ayre (Principal)
OS/2009016252601/September 2011
Acting through Ayre, its CCO, Ayre Investments failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system and establish, maintain and enforce WSPs to supervise the activities of each registered person that were reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the applicable rules and regulations related to
CRD pre-registration checks,
exception report maintenance and review,
supervisory branch office inspections,
approval of transactions by a registered securities principal,
annual compliance meeting,
financial and operations principal (FINOP) review of checks received and disbursements blotter,
NASD Rule 3012 annual report to senior management,
review and retention of correspondence, Regulation S-P and outsourcing arrangements.
The Firm's WSPs were purchased from a third-party vendor and were intended to meet the needs of any broker-dealer, regardless of the firm’s size or business. Acting through Ayre, the Firm failed to tailor the template WSPs to address the firm’s particular business activities. With respect to the areas identified above, the firm’s WSPs failed to describe with reasonable specificity the identity of the person who would perform the relevant supervisory reviews and how and when those reviews would be conducted; and with respect to the maintenance of electronic communications, the firm completely failed to establish, maintain and enforce any supervisory system and/or WSPs reasonably designed to ensure that all business-related emails were retained.
Acting through Ayre, the Firm violated the terms of a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) by failing to file a required written certification with FINRA regarding the firm’s WSPs within 90 days of the issuance of the AWC. Despite being given multiple reminders and opportunities by FINRA staff during a routine examination to file the certification, the firm and Ayre have yet to file the certification the AWC required.
The Firm only had one registered options principal (ROP) who was required to review and approve all of the firm’s option trades; for more than half a year, however, the ROP resided in another state and did not work in the firm’s main office. Furthermore, the firm’s WSPs did not address or explain how the ROP, given his remote location, was to accomplish and document the contemporaneous review and approval of all options trades firm customers placed; the firm executed approximately 450 options transactions, none of which the ROP approved.
The firm failed to maintain and preserve all of its business-related electronic communications, and therefore willfully violated Securities Exchange Act Rule 17a-4.
The Firm permitted its registered representatives to use email to conduct business when the firm did not have a system for email surveillance or archiving. Each firm representative maintained electronic communications on his or her personal computer or arranged for the retention of electronic communications in some other fashion, and the firm relied on representatives to forward or copy their businessrelated emails to the firm’s home office for retention. Not all of the representatives’ business-related emails were forwarded to the home office, and the firm did not retain the electronic communications that were not forwarded or copied to the firm’s home office; as a result, the firm failed to maintain and preserve at least 10,000 business-related electronic communications representatives sent to or received.
Ayre Investments, Inc.: Censured; Fined $10,000 (note: FINRA states that it imposed a lower fine against the firm after it considered, among other things, the firm’s revenues and financial resources); Undertakes to review its supervisory systems and WSPs for compliance with FINRA rules and federal securities laws and regulations, including those laws, regulations and rules concerning the preservation of electronic mail communications, and certify in writing to FINRA, within 90 days, that the firm has in place systems and procedures to achieve compliance with those rules, laws and regulations.
Timothy Tilton Ayre: Fined $10,000; Suspended 2 months in Principal capacity only.
Tags: Email Electronic Communications Annual Compliance Meeting FINOP Regulation S-P Options | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Bill Singer's Comment
A well-presented and well-documented FINRA report -- compliments on that! The alleged violations clearly indicate lapses and the issue of the failed follow-up on the AWC is as inexcusable a compliance miscue as there is.
The one quibble I have is with the WSP, and it's an old issue for me. When a firm is admitted to FINRA membership, it must submit its proposed WSP for approval. It absolutely drives me nuts when a specific WSP was approved as part of the firm's initial membership or a continued membership application and then, miraculously, a year or so later that same document is suddenly deemed to be non-compliant. I would argue that it is incumbent upon FINRA to meaningful eyeball a member's WSP and to put the firm on prompt notice of any deficiencies -- in contrast to playing gotcha after no examiner cited any shortcomings during a prior review. Whether these circumstance apply in this case, I do not know -- nonetheless, I will argue until my last breath that regulators need to play fair with this issue.
H. Beck, Inc.
AWC/2009016150001/September 2011
H. Beck Inc. failed to maintain and preserve certain of its business-related electronic and written communications.
Most of the firm’s registered representatives are independent contractors operating from “one-man” branch office locations throughout the country; the firm’s representatives were allowed to maintain written correspondence at their branch offices; and the firm permitted representatives to send emails from their personal computers. The firm did not have an electronic system to capture emails, but instead required representatives to print and make copies of their emails, which along with their written correspondence were reviewed during annual branch inspections; representatives were required to send emails and written correspondence involving the solicitation of products to compliance for pre-approval. The firm did not have prior system or procedures in place to retain all other emails and written correspondence after the representatives terminated from the firm. and, as a result, the firm did not subsequently retain most of the emails and written correspondence for representatives who terminated from the firm.
Also, the firm did not establish and implement policies and procedures that could be reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions. In addition, the firm’s WSPs relating to the reporting of suspicious activity failed to provide reasonable detail, such as the specific reports and documents to be reviewed, the timing and frequency of such reviews, the specific persons to conduct the reviews, and a description of how the reviews would be conducted and evidenced. Moreover, the firm’s supervisory procedures did not provide adequate guidelines regarding the reporting of suspicious activity, including when a suspicious activity report should be filed and what documentation should be maintained. Furthermore, although the firm had 140,000 active accounts, it used only a minimal number of exception reports, relying instead on its clearing firms to assist in the review of suspicious activity. The firm failed to conduct adequate independent tests of its AML compliance program (AMLCP), failed to sufficiently test topics and failed to adequately memorialize what was reviewed. The findings also included that with respect to a sample of corporate bond transactions and municipal securities transactions the firm executed, it failed to accurately disclose the receipt time on the majority of the order tickets.
H. Beck, Inc. : Censured; Fined $150,000; Firm's President required to certify to FINRA in writing within 30 days of the issuance of the AWC that the firm currently has in place systems and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the laws, regulations and rules concerning the preservation of electronic mail communications.
Tags: AML SAR Electronic Communications Email | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Indiana Merchant Banking and Brokerage Co., Inc.
AWC/2009016067901/August 2011
The Firm failed to evidence any review of incoming or outgoing written and electronic correspondence; failed to review the incoming and outgoing electronic correspondence of its CCO’s personal email account that he used to conduct securities related business, and the CCO had business cards with his personal email address included.
The firm failed to maintain its electronic correspondence (email) and electronic internal communications (email) for almost two years, and failed to maintain the incoming and outgoing electronic communications of an individual’s personal email account used to conduct business. The firm failed to notify FINRA prior to employing electronic storage media.
The Firm failed to file an attestation by at least one third party who has access and the ability to download information from its electronic storage media to an acceptable media for such records that are exclusively stored electronically. The firm’s electronic storage media failed to have in place an audit system providing for accountability regarding inputting of records required to be maintained and preserved, and inputting of any changes to every original and duplicate record maintained and preserved.
The firm failed to evidence the disclosure of its privacy notice upon account opening and annually thereafter; although the firm produced a privacy policy and procedures, it failed to provide initial, annual and revised privacy notices.
Indiana Merchant Banking and Brokerage Co., Inc. : Censured; Fined $20,000. FINRA imposed a lower fine after it considered, among other things, the firm’s size, revenues and financial resources.
Tags: Electronic Communications Email Electronic Storage Third Party Vendor | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Trustmont Financial Group, Inc. and Peter Daniel Dochinez (Principal)
The Firm failed to develop and enforce written procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with NASD® Rule 3010(d)(2) regarding the review of electronic correspondence. Although the firm had certain relevant procedures in place, it did not have a satisfactory system for providing designated principals with access to such correspondence for review; instead, the firm relied on registered representatives to forward any emails involving customers to a central email address, which was accessible to the firm’s president and chief compliance officer (CCO), for review.
The firm did not have effective procedures to monitor its representatives’ compliance with the email forwarding requirement; instead the firm relied on branch inspections to monitor compliance, but, because the firm’s branch offices were non-Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction’s (OSJs), they were inspected infrequently—once every three years.
During the infrequent branch office inspections, the firm generally failed to conduct adequate reviews of representatives’ personal computers to determine if they were complying with the email forwarding requirement; other than some very limited reviews during the inspections, the firm failed to provide for surveillance and follow-up to ensure that email correspondence review procedures were implemented and adhered to.
The firm failed to enforce its written procedures requiring a designated principal to conduct a daily review of business-related electronic correspondence and to evidence that review by initialing the correspondence.
Acting through Dochinez, the firm’s president, chief executive officer (CEO) and a firm principal, failed to establish, maintain and enforce an adequate system of supervisory control policies and procedures that tested and verified that its supervisory procedures were reasonably designed with respect to the activities of the firm, its registered representatives and associated persons to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and created additional or amended supervisory procedures where the need was identified by such testing and verification. In addition, The firm’s supervisory control policies and procedures failed to address the requirements of designating a principal responsible for the firm’s supervisory control policies and procedures; testing and verification to ensure reasonably-designed supervisory procedures; updating the firm’s written supervisory procedures (WSPs) to address deficiencies noted during testing; designating a principal responsible for the annual report to senior management on the firm’s system of supervisory controls procedures, summary of test results, significant identified exceptions, and any additional or amended procedures; identifying producing managers and assigning qualified principals to supervise such managers; using the “limited size and resources” exception for producing managers’ supervision, including documenting the factors relied on in determining that the exception is necessary; electronically notifying FINRA of its reliance on the limited size and resources exception; reviewing and monitoring all transmittals of customer funds and securities; reviewing, monitoring and validating customer changes of address and customer changes of investment objectives; and providing heightened supervision over each producing manager’s activities. Moreover,acting through Dochinez, the firm failed to conduct independent tests of its AMLCP.
Trustmont Financial Group, Inc.: Censured; Fined $10,000 joint/several; Fined additional $20,000
Peter Daniel Dochinez: Censured; Fined $10,000 joint/several
Tags: Electronic Communications Email Inspections OSJ | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
A growing area of focus for FINRA is the diligence of a member's policies/procedures for reviewing electronic communications -- and if you're relying upon the honor system, the regulator is just not going to be happy.
Brown Associates, Inc.
AWC/2009016207701/July 2011
The Firm failed to properly archive its business-related electronic communications for individual users in some of its Offices of Supervisory Jurisdiction (OSJs).
The Firm stored these emails on stand-alone servers or individual machines only, which theoretically permitted individual users to delete incoming or outgoing emails, and thereby failed to properly preserve its business-related electronic correspondence.
The firm failed to
review business-related electronic communications for the individuals and an additional user;
evidence its review of individuals’ business-related electronic communications as the firm’s WSPs required; and
provide notification and third–party attestation to FINRA regarding the use of electronic storage media 90 days prior to employing such media.
Brown Associates, Inc. : Censure; Fined $50,000; Required to certify to FINRA in writing within 90 days of issuance of the AWC that the firm currently has in place systems and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the laws, regulations and rules concerning the preservation of electronic correspondence.
Tags: Email Electronic Storage Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Nice tight case and well presented by FINRA. Two separate issues that you should consider.
First, email archiving is not accomplished in accordance with FINRA's rules if you simply store the data on a standalone server or on some PC/laptop in the office. That's not the back-up and retention contemplated by the rules. Such a protocol does little to deter or prevent someone from simply logging on to a given machine and wiping clean any troubling communications.
Second, you need to undertake prior notice when retaining a third-party storage system.
Prestige Financial Center, Inc. and Lawrence Gary Kirshbaum (Principal)
Prestige, acting through Kirshbaum and at least one other firm principal, were involved in a fraudulent trading scheme through which the then-Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and head trader for the firm concealed improper markups and denied customers best execution.
As part of this scheme, the CCO falsified order tickets and created inaccurate trade confirmations, and the hidden profits were captured in a firm account Kirshbaum and another firm principal controlled; some of the profits were then shared with the CCO and another individual.
The trading scheme took advantage of customers placing large orders to buy or sell equities. Rather than effecting the trades in the customers’ accounts, the CCO placed the order in a firm proprietary account where he would increase or decrease the price per share for the securities purchased or sold before allocating the shares or proceeds to the customers’ accounts; this improper price change was not disclosed to, or authorized by, the customers, and this fraudulent trading scheme generated approximately $1.3 million in profits for the firm’s proprietary accounts. Kirshbaum was aware of and permitted the trading. In an account that Kirshbaum and another firm principal controlled. 47 percent of the profits from the scheme were retained. In furtherance of the fraudulent trading scheme, the CCO entered false information on the corresponding order tickets regarding the share price and the time the customer order ticket was received, entered and executed; the corresponding trade confirmations inaccurately reflected the price, markup and/or commission charged and the order capacity.
In addition, acting through Kirshbaum, Prestige entered into an agreement to sell the personal, confidential and non-public information of thousands of customers to an unaffiliated member firm in exchange for transaction-based compensation from any future trading activity in those accounts. In connection with that agreement, Kirshbaum provided the unaffiliated member firm with the name, account number, value and holdings on spreadsheets via electronic mail. Furthermore, Kirshbaum granted certain representatives of that firm live access to the firm’s computer systems, including access to systems provided by the firm’s clearing firm, which provided access to other non-public confidential customer information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth and home addresses. Prestige and Kirshbaum did not provide any of the customers with the required notice or opportunity to opt out of such disclosure before the firm disclosed the information, as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation S-P requires.
Acting through Kirshbaum, Prestige failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system, and establish, maintain and enforce written supervisory procedures to supervise each registered person’s activities that are reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the applicable rules and regulations regarding interpositioning, front-running, supervisory branch office inspections, supervisory controls, annual compliance meeting, maintenance and periodic review of electronic communications, NASD Rule 3012 annual report to senior management, review and retention of electronic and other correspondence, SEC Regulation S-P, anti-money laundering (AML), Uniform Application for Securities Industry Registration or Transfer (Form U4) and Uniform Termination Notice for Securities Industry Registration (Form U5) amendments, and NASD Rule 3070 reporting. FINRA found that the firm failed to enforce its procedures requiring review of its registered representatives’ written and electronic correspondence relating to the firm’s securities business. In addition, the firm failed to establish, maintain and enforce a system of supervisory control policies and procedures that tested and verified that its supervisory procedures were reasonably designed with respect to the activities of the firm and its registered representatives and associated persons to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and created additional or amended supervisory procedures where testing and verification identified such a need. Moreover, the firm failed to enforce the written supervisory control policies and procedures it has with respect to review and supervision of the customer account activity conducted by the firm’s branch office managers, review and monitoring of customer changes of address and the validation of such changes, and review and monitoring of customer changes of investment objectives and the validation of such changes. Furthermore, firm failed to establish written supervisory control policies and procedures reasonably designed to provide heightened supervision over the activities of each producing manager responsible for generating 20 percent or more of the revenue of the business units supervised by that producing manager’s supervisor; as a result, the firm did not determine whether it had any such producing managers and, to the extent that it did, subject those managers to heightened supervision.
Acting through one of its designated principals, Prestige falsely certified that it had the requisite processes in place and that those processes were evidenced in a report review by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), CCO and other officers,and the firm failed to file an annual certification one year. The findings also included that the firm failed to implement a reasonably designed AML compliance program (AMLCP). Although the firm had developed an AMLCP, it failed to implement policies and procedures to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious activity and transactions; implement policies, procedures and internal controls reasonably designed to obtain and verify necessary customer information through its Customer Identification Program (CIP); and provide relevant training for firm employees—the firm failed to conduct independent tests of its AMLCP for several years. Acting through Kirshbaum and another firm principal, the firm failed to implement policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to enforce its procedures requiring the firm to review all Section 314(a) requests it received from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN); as a result, the firm failed to review such requests. In addition, Kirshbaum and another principal were responsible for accessing the system to review the FinCEN messages but failed to do so. Moreover, FINRA found that the firm permitted certain registered representatives to use personal email accounts for business-related communications, but failed to retain those messages.
Furthermore, the firm failed to maintain and preserve all of its business-related electronic communications as required by Rule 17a-4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and failed to maintain copies of all of its registered representatives’ written business communications. The firm failed to file summary and statistical information for customer complaints by the 15th day of the month following the calendar quarter in which the firm received them. The findings also included that the customer complaints were not disclosed, or not timely disclosed, on the subject registered representative’s Form U4 or U5, as applicable.The Firm failed to provide some of the information FINRA requested concerning trading and other matters.
Prestige Financial Center, Inc. : Expelled
Lawrence Gary Kirshbaum (Principal): Barred
Tags: Annual Compliance Meeting AML CCO Confidential Customer Information Electronic Communications WSPs Regulation S-P SAR | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Whoa -- one of the all-time, most comprehensive FINRA disciplinary actions. Frankly, not much that could be done wrong wasn't, according to the terms of the settlement. One of the few times when a FINRA member firm is expelled. Also, one of the few times when a CCO is barred. A powerful case. Well written and presented.
Keep in mind that registered persons from this firm may trip your Taping Rule threshold.
Geoffrey Richards Securities Corp.
AWC/2009015971101/June 2011
The Firm failed to preserve all of its business-related electronic communications. The Firm attempted to preserve such communications by burning them to a non-rewriteable, non-erasable disc on a monthly basis, but the process was deficient because it did not result in all such communications being saved to the disc. The Firm did not identify this deficiency in its audit of its electronic communications preservation system.
In contravention of its written supervisory procedures, permitted registered representatives to use outside or non-firm-sponsored email accounts to send and receive securities business-related emails. The firm’s preservation process did not capture these emails that were sent to or from those accounts; therefore, the firm did not retain and review them.
The firm relied exclusively on electronic storage media to preserve its business-related electronic communications but did not retain a third party who had the access or ability to download information from its electronic storage media.
Geoffrey Richards Securities Corp.: Censured; Fined $25,000
Tags: Electronic Communications Email Electronic Storage | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
While I appreciate FINRA's concern, $25,000 strikes me as a bit steep for a fine that involves a Firm attempting to archive emails but largely doing so in what turned out to be an incomplete manner. It's not as if the Firm failed to undertake good-faith efforts here. The use of outside email accounts is an entirely different consideration and must be supervised in a more aggressive manner.
Portfolio Advisors Alliance, Inc. and Marcelle Long (Principal)
OS/2008011640602/June 2011
Respondents failed to put any heightened supervisory measures in place for a branch manager or to follow up on “red flags.” Notwithstanding the branch manager’s remote location, prior disciplinary history, outside business disclosures or his disclosure that he was potentially under financial stress and unable to meet financial obligations, the Firm and Long failed to put any heightened supervisory measures in place or to follow up on the red flags after he disclosed information on a compliance questionnaire, for which the affirmative answer required that he attach a separate sheet providing complete details about the disclosed activities, which Long did not complete or enforce. Also, the firm’s and Long’s heightened supervision of the branch manager was inadequate in that it consisted only of inspecting his office annually and speaking on the phone on a fairly regular basis. Long inspected the branch manager’s branch office, and although she was aware that the manager was involved in certain outside business activities, based on the disclosures that he made on his Uniform Application for Securities Industry Registration or Transfer (Form U4), she admitted that she did not inspect any files or financial records associated with his disclosed outside business activities and did not detect any undisclosed outside business activities or private securities transactions.During a subsequent inspection, Long again did not review documentation regarding the branch manager’s disclosed outside business activities and did not detect any undisclosed outside business activities or private securities transactions.
Additionally, the branch manager had participated in private securities transactions wherein he had raised more than $1.5 million from investors, many of whom were firm customers.
In addition, the firm and Long failed to review or retain email communications on the branch manager’s outside email account, and Long did not review his outside email account during her inspections of his branch office. Moreover, FINRA found that the firm did not have any supervisory procedures regarding the review and retention of email communications on outside email accounts.
Portfolio Advisors Alliance, Inc.: Censured; Fined $35,000
Marcelle Long: Fined $7,500; Suspended in Principal/Supervisory capacity only for 30 days
Tags: Supervision Private Securities Transaction Outside Business Activities Electronic Communications Email | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
At first blush, the sanctions appear a bit harsh but after it all sinks in -- nah, FINRA seems to have had the punishment about right. Given the history of the subject branch manager and the apparent supervisory lapses, the Principal is lucky that she got off with only a 30-day Principal/Supervisory suspension. The sanctions against her could have been far worse and, frankly, with some justification.
Either I'm getting mellow in my old age or FINRA is starting to get some things right. Whoa -- did I really write that?
Pyramid Financial Corp. and John Hsu a/k/a Juan Hsu (Principal)
2008011600501/May 2011
The Firm and Hsu failed to preserve electronic communications related to the firm’s business when Hsu and another registered representative of the firm sent and received electronic communications related to the firm’s business using personal email accounts that were not linked to the firm’s email preservation system; the firm’s failure to preserve electronic communications was considered willful.
Hsu and the firm failed to comply with AML rules and regulations in that they failed to access the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and review records, failed to develop and implement a written AML program reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the BSA and implementing regulations, and failed to properly conduct annual independent tests of its AML program for several years. Hsu signed and submitted certifications to FINRA that contained inaccurate information regarding preservation of emails in compliance with SEC Rule 17a-4. Hsu willfully failed to amend his Form U4, to disclose material information.
Pyramid Financial Corp.: Fined $55,000 jointly and severally with Hsu
John Hsu a/k/a Juan Hsu (Principal): Fined $55,000 jointly and severally with Pyramid; Fined an additional $10,000; Suspended 45 business days in all capacities; Barred as a Principal only.
Tags: Electronic Communications Email Willfully AML | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Can't remember seeing a FINRA finding that the failure to preserve emails was "willful," so this must have struck the regulator as a particularly egregious case.
Earnest Flowers III
OS/2009016956601/April 2011
In connection with the sale of investments in a film production company, Flowers made fraudulent misrepresentations and omitted to disclose material information. Flowers collected at least $92,000 from investors, falsely representing that he would use their funds to finance a film production business and promising exorbitant, guaranteed returns. Instead of investing the funds, Flowers misused $30,498 to repay other investors and pay for personal expenses without the investors’ knowledge, consent or authorization.
Flowers made recommendations to a customer to invest in private placement offerings that were unsuitable in light of the customer’s financial situation, investment objective and financial needs.
Flowers attempted to settle away customers’ complaints without his member firm’s knowledge or consent.
Flowers signed an attestation form for a firm acknowledging that email communications with the public must be sent through the firm’s email address and copied to the compliance department, but Flowers communicated with customers via unapproved, outside email accounts without his member firms’ knowledge or consent, and as a result of his outside communications, his member firms were unable to review his emails to firm customers. In addition, Flowers engaged in private securities transactions without providing prior written notice to, and receiving prior written approval from, his member firms.
Earnest Flowers III : Barred
Tags: Suitability Private Placement Private Securities Transaction Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
A succinct, well-presented case. Kudos to FINRA on this one.
Workman Securities Corporation
AWC/2009018818401/April 2011
The Firm failed to:
have reasonable grounds to believe that a private placement an entity offered pursuant to Regulation D was suitable for any customer, after it received red flags that the entity had financial issues and was not timely making interest payments, but continued to sell the offering to customers;
enforce a supervisory system reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and NASD and FINRA rules in connection with the sale of private placements;
conduct adequate due diligence of the private placements or confirm that its representatives were doing their own due diligence;
conduct adequate due diligence of private placements other entities offered; and
enforce a supervisory system reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and NASD and FINRA rules in connection with the sale of the private placements the entities offered pursuant to Regulation D.
The Firm reviewed cursory private placement memoranda (PPMs) for the offerings but failed to investigate red flags or analyze third-party sources of information or take affirmative steps to ensure the information in the offering documents was accurate.
The Firm failed to preserve electronic communications in a non-rewritable, non-erasable or “WORM” format that complied with books and records requirements, and the firm used third-party software for storing and retaining electronic communications that did not comply with the requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4(f). Although the Firm was informed that its electronic storage medium was non-compliant but did not take adequate remedial action to retain email properly.
Workman Securities Corporation : Censured; Ordered to pay $700,000 as partial restitution to investors; Ordered to certify in writing to FINRA that it has established and implemented a system and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with recordkeeping requirements related to electronic communications, and provide a written report to FINRA describing the policies, procedures and controls it has established and implemented related to the integrity of the retention and retrieval process for electronic communications, and the supervisory system it has implemented to oversee the preservation of electronic communications.
Tags: Private Placement Suitability Due Diligence Electronic Storage Third Party Vendor Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
In 2011 we see a continuation of FINRA's enforcement focus on private placements, with an emphasis on members' responses to "red flags" and the sincerity of the firm's due diligence efforts. The day's of taking a piece of a private placement and sleepwalking through your obligations to your clients is a vestige of the past. There's no easy money in Reg D. You have to do your homework and put your money where your mouth is.
Canaccord Genuity Inc. fka Canaccord Adams, Inc.
AWC/2008012243901/March 2011
As an active participant in the U.S. Private Investment in Private Equity (PIPE) market, Canaccord failed to have in place reasonable information barrier procedures with respect to its PIPE business. The firm failed to have a reasonable system in place to track employees who were brought “over the wall” on specific PIPE transactions, and while the firm had a procedure in place requiring the maintenance of a “wall-crossing log,” it did not maintain such a log. The firm stored information about over-the-wall employees in a computer file that was not readily accessible to persons with responsibilities to monitor trading and review emails of employees brought over the wall on investment banking matters.
The firm failed to maintain a specific log of employee transactions in securities on the firm’s grey list and/or restricted list, and the firm was unable to provide documentation evidencing that it had investigated employee trading in grey list securities to determine whether employees had misused material, non-public information.
The Firm failed to have a reasonable system in place to monitor the flow of information concerning PIPE transactions to potential investors, and while the firm’s procedures required sales persons to obtain verbal agreements from potential investors to keep information concerning PIPE transactions confidential and refrain from trading on such information, the firm did not reasonably ensure that the procedure was followed or document that such verbal agreements were obtained. The information that was maintained concerning the disclosure of information on PIPE transactions was not used for supervisory or compliance purposes.
In addition, the firm’s system for review of email correspondence was unreasonable; while the firm’s procedures required the review of a sample of email communications, the sample included mail boxes for users no longer employed at the firm and permitted Compliance Department employees, at their discretion, to mark emails as reviewed based solely on a review of the sender’s name, recipient’s name and subject line of an email; stated differently, the firm permitted “bulk review” of emails without any written guidelines informing compliance staff of the parameters for such review.
Moreover, the Firm also utilized an Internet chat room system that allowed members of its business units, including but not limited to, the investment banking and research departments, to communicate and/or review each other’s communications. Furthermore, the firm did not have in place any written procedures relevant to monitoring internal communications between its business units on the internal chat room system and could not document that it actively monitored such communication.
Canaccord Genuity Inc. fka Canaccord Adams, Inc. : Censured; Fined $40,000
Tags: PIPE Electronic Communications Email Internet | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
An interesting case on a few levels. First, my long antagonism to PIPEs is noted -- I tend to absolutely hate these transactions as among the most pernicious evils of Wall Street that are often little more than battering rams used against smaller issuers.
The bulk review aspect of this case warrants attention. The apparent failure to age-out the database and to include within samples inactive mail accounts is a practice that compliance departments should now note is within FINRA's cross-hairs. Similarly, if your firm provides an internal chat facility, make sure that you have documented procedures for monitoring that communication system.
First New York Securities L.L.C.
The Firm failed to preserve for a period of not less than three years, the first two in an accessible place, copies of instant messages sent and received between several of the firm’s traders and an external party on certain days within a total of approximately 10 weeks, and the new account form and clearing agreement for one of the firm’s accounts at another broker-dealer. The firm’s supervisory system did not provide for supervision reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws, regulations and FINRA rules concerning retention and review of electronic communications.
In response to an NASD Rule 8210 request, a firm principal orally asked the associated person originally responsible for the firm’s reviews of such electronic communications to gather and deliver the evidence of such reviews but the associated person realized he had misplaced the file and was directed by his supervisor to duplicate past reviews. Instead of duplicating such reviews using the same parameters as were in effect during the review period, the associated person re-conducted such reviews using changed and expanded parameters, signed and hand-wrote in dates of when he estimated the reviews took place, and delivered them to the secretary of the firm principal who was responding to the inquiry on the firm’s behalf. Without conducting any review of the newly created reports, the firm’s principal submitted them to FINRA as evidence of the past reviews and the firm failed to take reasonable steps to confirm that the subject reports represented authentic and contemporaneous evidence of supervisory reviews that were actually conducted during the review period.
First New York Securities L.L.C. : Censured; Fined $65,000; Required to revise its written supervisory procedures concerning retention and review of electronic communications.
Tags: Instant Messaging Clearing Agreement Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
FINRA advises that its sanctions in this case "reflect some mitigating factors." U:nfortunately, those factors aren't actually spelled out in the monthly report. As best I can infer, the mitigation is that the associated person likely thought that he/she was merely reconstructing missing documents rather than fabricating them.
LPL Financial Corporation nka LPL Financial LLC
LPL failed to enforce its supervisory system and written supervisory procedures relating to the review of electronic communications in certain branch locations. Approximately 3 million emails firm financial advisors transmitted and received from numerous bank branch locations related to one bank program were not processed through the Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction Review Tool (ORT) due to a technology problem concerning the interface between one bank program’s email system and the firm’s ORT; therefore, those emails were not subject to supervisory review by firm managers and principals. The firm’s ORT flagged for supervisory review emails financial advisors in a branch office transmitted and received, but a branch manager or principal never reviewed them.
LPL Financial Corporation nka LPL Financial LLC : Censured; Fined $100,000
Tags: Electronic Communications Email | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Wow! Three million unprocessed emails. That's a load. On top of it, flagged emails were sent and received by the Firm's review program but inexplicably never reviewed by a manager/principal -- which sort of rendered the whole flagging thing sort of useless.
Puritan Securities Inc. aka First Union Securities, Inc.
The Firm entered into an agreement with an entity to sell a private placement for which the firm’s brokers sold $1,415,940 of the private placement interests to customers, and the firm failed to create and maintain a reasonable supervisory system to detect and prevent sales practice violations in these transactions. The firm did not collect financial and other relevant information for the customers who purchased the private placement, and did not review these transactions to determine if the recommendations for the purchases were suitable for these customers.
Also, the firm failed to implement a supervisory system reasonably designed to review and retain electronic correspondence. The firm did not establish an email retention system that captured all of its brokers’ emails. The firm’s brokers were allowed to use email addresses using external domains, and the firm did not have the capability to review, capture and retain these emails.
Puritan Securities Inc. aka First Union Securities, Inc.: Censured; Fined $10,000 (in light of the firm's revenues and financial resources, a "lower fine" was imposed)
Tags: Private Placement Suitability Due Diligence Electronic Communications Email | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
As I've noted over the years, permitting registered persons to use email addresses that are off the firm's platform poses significant supervisory issues. Here, brokers were permitted to use external domains but the firm did not have the ability to review, capture, and retain the subject communications. That's going to be a problem for FINRA.
Jason Leekarl Beckett
AWC/2009016600001/February 2011
Beckett submitted an advertisement to a local newspaper, which listed an entity he owned as offering certain investments, including certificates of deposit (CDs) and fixed annuities, and that he did not submit the advertisement to his member firm for review and approval; moreover, the advertisement content included misleading statements regarding the offered investments.
Beckett maintained a website for an entity he owned, which was accessible to the investing public, and he failed to submit the website material to his firm for review until a later date. Beckett failed to obtain his firm’s written approval of the website content prior to its use.
Beckett completed an annual certification, which he provided to his firm and he answered “no” to the question asking whether he anticipated using any type of electronic communication systems such as the Internet for soliciting business.
Jason Leekarl Beckett : Fiend $10,000; Suspended 2 months
Tags: Annuities CDs Website Annual Compliance Certification Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Pinnacle Financial Group, LLC
The Firm used an external server to preserve its business-related electronic communications but the server only preserved the firm’s business-related electronic communications for a period of 30 days.
The Firm conducted a securities business while it failed to maintain its required minimum net capital. The net capital deficiencies stemmed from its failure to take security haircuts and undue concentration deductions, its improper classification of a note receivable as an allowable asset, its improper classification of fixed annuity commissions and private placement receivables as allowable assets and double-counting a commission receivable. The firm maintained inaccurate books and records, and also filed inaccurate FOCUS reports.
Pinnacle Financial Group, LLC: Censured; In light of firm's financial status it was Fined $15,000
Tags: Electronic Communications FOCUS Net Capital | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Jenny Quyen Ta (Principal)
AWC/2010021538701/January 2011
Ta engaged in outside business activities and failed to give prompt written notice to her member firm. Ta failed to disclose that she had financial interests and/or discretionary authority in multiple brokerage accounts at other broker-dealers and failed to give her firm prompt written notice of these accounts; on account applications, she falsely indicated that she was not affiliated with a securities firm. On a firm securities annual attestation form, Ta falsely stated that she did not have a personal securities account.
Ta created websites which included representations about her career accomplishments but never obtained a registered firm principal’s approval for those sites. One of the websites stated that Ta founded a full-service broker-dealer that was a FINRA member when, in fact, it was not; although that entity had a new member application pending with FINRA, it was not an actual broker-dealer and never became a FINRA member.
Ta failed to inform a registered firm principal that she had a Twitter account which, on occasion, she used to tout a particular stock. In addition, Ta’s “tweets” were unbalanced, overwhelmingly positive and frequently predicted an imminent price rise, and Ta did not disclose that she and her family members held a substantial position in the stock.
Jenny Quyen Ta (Principal): Fined $10,000; Suspended 1 year.
Tags: Away Accounts Website Internet Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Jupiter Distribution Partners, Inc.
AWC/2009015972701)/January 2011
The Firm failed to preserve and maintain electronic communication in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format, and failed to preserve and maintain electronic communication received by and sent to a hand-held electronic device one of its registered representatives operated. The firm failed to have adequate procedures that addressed the retention of electronic communication arising from the use of a hand-held electronic device. The firm failed to prepare accurate net capital computations by erroneously treating revenue received from a customer as being immediately earned, and as a consequence, the firm failed to file an accurate Financial Operational & Combined Uniform Single (FOCUS) Report.
Jupiter Distribution Partners, Inc.: Censured; Fined $20,000
Tags: Electronic Communications | In: Cases of Note : FINRA
Has it finally gotten so complicated that we can't state what type of device it is beyond "hand held"? Is it an iPad, a smartphone, a net book -- I mean, seriously, what the hell was it?
Cases of Note : FINRA
Cases of Note : NYSE Rules
Outside Business Activities
Private Securities Transactions
U4, U5, RE-3, Rule 3070
Research and Advertising
Undisclosed Settlements
Affirmative Determination
Annual Compliance Certification
Annual Compliance Meeting
Away Accounts
Best Efforts Offering
Check Kiting
Churning
Clearing Agreement
Confidential Customer Information
Contingency Offering
Customer Protection Rule
Electronic Storage
Finder Fees
FINOP
Form ADV
Freely-Tradable
Guaranteeing Against Losses
Heightened Supervision
Installment Plan Contracts
Joint Account
Loaning
Mark-Up Mark-Down
Material Change Of Business
Minimum Contingency
Net Capital
OSJ
Outside Accounts
Private Securities Transaction
Producing Manager
Production Quota
Proprietary Traders
Reg U
Regulation 60
Regulation S-P
Sharing Profits
Statutory Disqualification
Stock To Cash
Supervisory System
Suspense Account
Third Party Vendor
Time And Price Discretion
Trading Limits
Unauthorized Transaction
Universal Lease Programs
Unregistered Person
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Fieldwork Brewing’s Alex Tweet Is a Quality Control-Freak
After opening the company's fifth Northern California taproom, brewer Alex Tweet isn't afraid to kill his darlings.
Peter Lawrence Kane
Wed Aug 9th, 2017 5:36pm
(Courtesy of Fieldwork Brewing Company)
“I compare our beer line with a soap opera,” says Alex Tweet, brewer and co-owner of Berkeley’s Fieldwork Brewing. “I think you have to kill off some main characters here and there to keep it exciting. Game of Thrones would suck if no one died.”
Tweet is referring specifically to Petit Verdot, a Fieldwork beer that went through some major evolution to become the 6.7 percent ABV Grand Gose it is today. Tweet liked the “leathery, inky, tobacco-y greatness” that Petit Verdot grapes imparted, but added Cabernet Franc to bridge the acidity. It’s a personal victory, which means he must destroy it.
“I really enjoy killing off a beer when it’s at its peak of fandom — if for no other reason than I can,” Tweet says. “With that said, it pretty much is like a soap opera, and it will come back.
“I like that level of uncertainty for beers,” he adds. “It makes it more engaging, more fun, more exciting.”
Half-serious megalomaniacal tendencies notwithstanding, Tweet has an admirable approach to brewing beer that prizes constant improvement over consistency. Small batches — many canning runs number only 3,000 or so — add to this ethos. And, like a doomed ex-lover on Days of Our Lives who may reappear in a flashback or the fever-dream of a medically induced coma, nothing’s necessarily gone forever.
Since its founding in West Berkeley in 2014, Tweet and co-owner Barry Braden quickly expanded Fieldwork to four satellite taprooms: in Sacramento, Napa, Monterey, and San Mateo. Built from shipping containers, the newly opened San Mateo location is a 10,000-square-foot facility on the site of a former racetrack that Braden says “dwarfs anything else we’ve done.” It’s got a bocce court, 30 tap lines, and a food menu, plus it’s conveniently located 200 yards from a planned Caltrain station, and even closer to the headquarters of SurveyMonkey, whose workers tend to fill it up quickly on a Friday afternoon such as this. A Whole Foods is nearby, and a Roam Burger and Blue Bottle Coffee will open in the months to come. The artisanal-food desert several miles south of Downtown San Mateo is trending oasis-ward.
In the meantime, the open-air taproom is a great place to drink a Green Rest, a double IPA brewed with Simcoe hops for a pine-and-grapefruit finish that embodies Tweet’s “balancing act” with between reproducibility and incremental improvement. If served the day it’s kegged, it’s good, he says. But after three to five days, it “pops much brighter.” Waiting almost a week isn’t always the easiest when stocks run low, however.
“We’re looking at the tap list like it’s a video game,” Tweet says, referring to a character’s energy level or health bar. “We’re getting beat up and sitting there going, ‘We got this energy thing, and we need it!’ It’s hard not to say, ‘Put it on.’ We have to remind ourselves that it pays dividends to hold the beers back. The difference between the day we kegged it and day five is night and day.”
Fieldwork doesn’t filter or centrifuge its beers — “it’s not wrong, but it’s not what we do,” Tweet says — so the beer is very much alive, and varies from batch to batch. Counterintuitive though it may seem, Tweet professes admiration for Budweiser, whose producers can get it to taste the same no matter where in the world it was made.
Fair enough — but isn’t Bud, well, shit?
“I love it, and I know it’s not the right thing to say,” Tweet says. “It is shit, but I happen to love that shit. I’m a firm believer in ‘different strokes for different folks.’ I always teach our staff the phrase ‘Just not for me.’ I love Bud Light. For me, why compete in that realm? I’d rather compete where our strength is, which is process improvement and exploration.”
There is a downside to this sense of playfulness, and that is the vicissitudes of the human palate. Even a standardized product with a simple flavor profile will taste different to people based on what they ate or drank, how much of it, and where — to say nothing of crop years for the barley and the malt that went into a beer. But by forgoing a certain aesthetic reliability, Tweet is introducing more variables into the experience — and this risks losing customers who aren’t getting what they want when they want it.
“We’re in the entertainment business,” Tweet says, contextualizing the enjoyment of a given beer with the network of taprooms Fieldwork has built. “Not the alcohol business. At the end of the day, that’s what people want.”
That extends to doing what he himself may dislike, in order to make people happy. While refusing to name it, Tweet and Braden admit that they hate one of their “most-requested” beers. And Tweet further offers that the best piece of criticism he ever got was when someone in the industry whom he respected told him that this beer was, in fact, terrible. The fact that the guy felt he could be so honest indicated that Tweet had earned his respect.
“I liked having someone I admire tell me that something I did sucked,” he says. “It was kind of cool.”
Tweet snuffs out his beers with the cold zeal of a cyborg sent from the future, yet that one beer won’t disappear forever — possibly because he’s more of a softie than he lets on, reluctant to be a true buzzkill. In the meantime, Fieldwork is moving forward with hoppy pilsners like Outdoor and dry-hopped lagers like Casa de Citra, whose distinctive graphic can labels Tweet and Braden say are part of the company’s “Grandma’s wallpaper” line.
“The one thing a lot of people don’t realize about brewers is, the first choice will always be a pilsener,” Tweet says. “It’s the best: so nuanced, such subtlety. They’re gonna get a lot of love.
“Every week, there’s at least one new beer,” he adds. “I killed off probably a third of our rotating beers this week, just because I felt it was time for a shakeup — like a Game of Thrones episode where all these people die and you’re pissed at the producers, but guess what? Viewership’s going to be at an all-time-high next week.”
Fieldwork Brewing, 3030 South Delaware St., San Mateo, fieldworkbrewing.com
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WO/2019/134053A1 ENDLESS DRIVE ARRANGEMENT AND CLUTCHED MULTI-PULLEY PULLEY SYSTEM FOR MGU FROM ENDLESS DRIVE ARRANGEMENT
In an aspect, there is provided an endless drive arrangement for an IC engine, comprising a crankshaft pulley on an engine crankshaft, a first MGU pulley supported by an MGU shaft, which is operatively connected to the crankshaft pulley ...
WO/2019/122110A1 DISC HOLDER FOR A WET CLUTCH, WET CLUTCH MECHANISM COMPRISING SUCH A DISC HOLDER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A DISC HOLDER
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WO/2019/121588A1 TWO-PART PISTON, THE PISTON BEING INTENDED FOR INTEGRATION IN A CLUTCH MECHANISM
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WO/2019/114878A1 JAW-TYPE GEARSHIFT
The invention relates to a jaw-type gearshift (1) for an at least two-stage gearbox, which is in particular electromotively driven, wherein there is a ring-shaped shifting gate (4) having a sliding block guide (6), which has axially prot...
WO/2019/110277A1 CLUTCH DEVICE
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WO/2019/086073A1 MULTI-CLUTCH DEVICE AND HYBRID MODULE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
The invention relates to a multi-clutch device for a hybrid module for coupling an internal combustion engine, comprising a disconnect clutch (10), by which torque can be transmitted from the internal combustion engine onto the multi-clu...
WO/2018/065009A9 DUAL CLUTCH DEVICE
The invention relates to a dual clutch device, comprising a first clutch device (2) having a first outer clutch disc carrier (3) with associated first outer clutch discs (4) and having a first inner clutch disc carrier (5) with associate...
WO/2019/066757A1 DUAL-CLUTCH COUPLING SYSTEM
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WO/2019/063226A1 HYBRID TRANSMISSION AND HYBRID DRIVE SYSTEM THEREWITH
The invention relates to a hybrid transmission (10) having: a dual clutch (12), which comprises a first clutch (K1) and a second clutch (K2); a drive shaft (14), which is coupled to the dual clutch (12) and which can be coupled to an int...
WO/2019/008292A3 OUTPUT DISC CARRIER FOR A DUAL CLUTCH AND MECHANISM COMPRISING SUCH A DISC CARRIER
The invention relates to an output disc carrier (110, 210) forming a dual wet clutch mechanism (10) and arranged in a radial configuration. The output disc carrier (110, 210) has an axial elongation portion (107, 207). The axial elongati...
WO/2019/015713A1 HYBRID MODULE WITH SEPARATING CLUTCH OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSING
The invention relates to a hybrid module (1) for a powertrain of a motor vehicle, comprising a separating clutch (2) for selectively coupling and uncoupling an internal combustion engine from an intermediate shaft (3) which can be driven...
WO/2019/001638A1 CLUTCH ASSEMBLY
The invention relates to a clutch assembly which comprises at least one clutch device (2, 3) and an engagement device (18), mounted downstream of the clutch device, for actuating the clutch device (2, 3). The clutch device (2, 3) is radi...
WO/2018/233754A1 TORQUE-TRANSMISSION DEVICE
The invention relates to a torque transmission device (10) for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle for coupling an input shaft to a first gearbox input shaft (12), comprising a first part clutch (16) for coupling the input shaft to the first...
WO/2018/219791A1 CLUTCH MECHANISM COMPRISING TWO ASSEMBLIES SEPARATED BY A DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING AN AXIAL DISTANCE
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WO/2018/211099A1 DUAL CLUTCH MECHANISM
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WO/2018/211043A1 HYDRAULIC CONNECTION COUPLING FOR VEHICLE CLUTCH MECHANISM
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WO/2018/211189A1 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWER TRAIN FOR THERMAL REGULATION OF A HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT
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WO/2018/202248A1 DEVICE FOR SHIFTING AND/OR SYNCHRONIZATION
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WO/2018/188853A1 CLUTCH ARRANGEMENT, DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION ARRANGEMENT AND MOTOR VEHICLE
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WO/2018/188855A1 MULTI-CLUTCH ARRANGEMENT, DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION ARRANGEMENT AND MOTOR VEHICLE
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WO/2018/188852A1 MULTIPLE-CLUTCH ASSEMBLY, DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY AND MOTOR VEHICLE
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WO/2018/184826A1 DRIVE APPARATUS HAVING A CLUTCH DEVICE, DRIVE SYSTEM HAVING SAID DRIVE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE DRIVE SYSTEM
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WO/2018/171830A1 DRIVETRAIN UNIT WITH TRANSMISSION-SIDE MOUNTING OF A TRIPLE CLUTCH OF A HYBRID MODULE
The invention relates to a drivetrain unit (1) for a motor vehicle, having a hybrid module (2), which is equipped with an electric machine (5) which has a stator (3) and a rotor (4), with at least two clutches (8, 9, 10) which have clutc...
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WO/2018/153402A1 INSERTION MODULE, HYBRID MODULE, DRIVE TRAIN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A DRIVE TRAIN
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WO/2018/153398A1 CLUTCH DEVICE, HYBRID MODULE, AND DRIVE TRAIN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
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WO/2018/153401A1 HYBRID MODULE AND DRIVE TRAIN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A DRIVE TRAIN
The hybrid module (10) comprises: an insertion module (40), having a substantially rotationally symmetrical disk carrier (90) and at least two clutch devices (50, 70, 80), the clutch devices (50, 70, 80) each having at least one disk set...
The invention relates to an insertion module for arranging in a hybrid module, to a hybrid module, and to a drive train for a motor vehicle. The invention further relates to a method for assembling a drive train. The insertion module (40...
The invention relates to an insertion module, to a hybrid module, and to a drive train for a motor vehicle having a hybrid module according to the invention. The invention further relates to a method for assembling a drive train accordin...
WO/2018/145690A1 ACTUATION DEVICE FOR A CLUTCH, AND PRODUCTION METHOD
The invention relates to an actuation device for a clutch, comprising a cylinder receiving area, a piston unit which is arranged in the cylinder receiving area in a linearly movable manner in a direction parallel to a rotational axis, an...
WO/2018/146019A1 DETACHABLE DOUBLE-CLUTCH MECHANISM
The invention relates to a double-clutch mechanism (10) comprising an attachment member (600) attached in a detachable manner to a clutch support (500) and accessible from the front of said double-clutch mechanism (10), by the intermedia...
WO/2018/146087A1 CLUTCH SUPPORT
The invention relates to a clutch support (500) arranged to support at least a first clutch, said support defining a conduit (700) having at least one outlet hole (725) through which a hydraulic fluid can flow from an actuation system (3...
WO/2018/130236A1 HYBRID MODULE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND DRIVE TRAIN HAVING A HYBRID MODULE
The invention relates to a hybrid module (1) for a drive train of a motor vehicle, having an electric machine (4) which has a stator (2) and a rotor (3), a torsional vibration damper (7) which has at least one rotational part (6), and an...
WO/2018/114972A1 TORQUE TRANSMISSION MODULE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVELINE
A torque transmission module (1) for a motor vehicle driveline, comprising a double clutch mechanism (10) arranged to rotate about an axis (O), a flange (12) and a cover (11) defining together a chamber (3) housing the mechanism (10), th...
WO/2018/118130A1 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A HIGH EFFICIENCY, HIGH OUTPUT TRANSMISSION
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WO/2018/113839A1 CLUTCH DEVICE, HYBRID MODULE AND DRIVE ARRANGEMENT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
The invention relates to a clutch device and a hybrid module, and to a drive arrangement for a motor vehicle. The clutch device is in particular a disconnect clutch (10), and comprises clutch discs (120, 220, 230) and pressure elements (...
WO/2018/104396A2 ASSEMBLED DISC HOLDER AND DUAL WET CLUTCH MECHANISM COMPRISING SAID ASSEMBLED DISC HOLDER
The invention relates to an assembled disc holder (10) for a dual wet clutch mechanism (1), in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising: - a cylindrical hub (7) of axis of rotation O; a balancing cover (30) of the first clutch E1 of th...
WO/2018/103249A1 TORQUE TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE
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WO/2018/099509A1 CENTRIFUGAL CLUTCH HAVING TWO SERIES-CONNECTED CLUTCH ELEMENTS
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WO/2018/102012A1 A DRIVE UNIT ASSEMBLY WITH POWER BOOST AND TORQUE VECTORING
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WO/2018/100007A1 COOLING SYSTEM FOR CLUTCH MECHANISM
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WO/2018/096114A1 RADIAL ASSEMBLY OF A CLUTCH MECHANISM ON A TRANSMISSION
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All3media International Sells ‘The Minaturist’ To Europe, Australia
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All3media International secured a raft of sales for the period thriller The Minaturist. Co-produced with Masterpiece, USA in association with All3media International and Lemaise Pictures for BBC, the drama tells the story of Nella Oortman who discovers the secrets of a doll’s house that has larger effects on where she lives. In Europe, the drama has been picked up by Sweden’s SVT, Spain’s Comunidad Filmin ITI, Poland’s Neovision, and Belgium’s VRT. In addition, BBC First signed for initial window rights in Australia. Masterpiece/PBS have the drama series within the U.S. The Miniaturist premieres in December on BBC One.
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Microsoft plans to launch Windows 10 S with Advanced Features
May 2, 2019 AppsChrome OS, Microsoft Windows, Windows 10 Sadmin
Microsoft designs Windows 10 S to serve as a lightweight. It is a more secure version of Windows 10 for lower-end devices. Meanwhile, the S Mode in Windows 10 will only support apps that are downloaded from the Windows Store. It clearly indicates the supposed version of Windows can only download Microsoft-approved familiar apps. Microsoft claims it has mastered this approach since the furious days of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 with Bing tried to position Microsoft as the sole provider of apps. The new version allows for a startup time of fewer than 5 seconds as opposed to the 30 – 40 second startup time of Windows 10 Pro.
Its configuration settings like Wi-Fi, webcam, and others across an entire classroom of students, is simpler with inserting a USB stick in each of their laptop devices. Microsoft has also positioned Windows 10 S as being in competition with Google’s Chrome OS to a PC operating system. Moreover, its resilience to viruses is mostly a side-effect of the inability to install apps not approved by Microsoft. It is noteworthy that Windows viruses have tended to erupt from untrustworthy internet downloads.
You should find a must-have app that isn’t available in the Microsoft Store in Windows 10 S. People can switch from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Home or Pro by just going to the Windows Store and searching for Switch out of S Mode”. Microsoft used to charge a fee for this service, but now it’s free for everyone. Microsoft will also allow users that upgrade to Windows 10 Pro to move back down to Windows 10 S with charging a fee for this service, fortunately, now it’s free for everyone. You will find the shiny new Surface Laptop 2 now ships with Windows 10 Home, not in S Mode like previous versions. The company initially announced as a standalone OS in May 2017, Windows 10 S is experiencing some controversy at release.
Microsoft has released an important security update to prevent WannaCry
Microsoft Windows 7 Support will End on January 14
The Ubuntu Linux Distro added to the Windows Store…
Microsoft got FIDO2 Certification for Windows Hello
Microsoft confirmed Facebook will pull its Apps from…
Microsoft’s refreshed Edge preview is now available…
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This week's action at the Atlanta Tennis Championships features more than your usual parade of stars from Andy Roddick to Lleyton Hewitt. This weekend will also be highlighted by the first ever U.S. Open National Playoff championships, where at the end of the day one player will be awarded an entry to the qualifying draw at the last Grand Slam of the year.
Sixteen men will take the courts of the Atlanta Athletic Club beginning tomorrow in a single-elimination draw. The athletes emerged from the regional tournaments that were held across the country this spring -- fourteen were winners, two runners-up -- and range from former pros like Cecil Mamiit, once ranked seventy-second in the world, to law student Ikaika Jobe of Hawaii, who played both at St. Louis University and Boise State.
Blake Strode is the top seed in the bracket, a twenty-three year old former All-American at the University of Arkansas who won his first Futures title last year in Missouri. He's gotten some invaluable experience on the Tour since, marking time on the court against the likes of Vincent Spadea, Kevin Kim and Devin Britton. Strode came out of the southwestern sectional tournament where he only lost two games on the way to the final. He was slightly less perfect against strong Junior Billy Pecor, but still got the win in straight sets.
The second seed in the championships is Mamiit, who you might -- or not -- remember as a finalist in San Jose eleven years ago. He'd beaten Mark Woodforde and Michael Chang on the way to that championship match and has notched wins over top players Todd Martin and Max Mirnyi in his previous Major appaearances. This would be the first Slam he's played since 2004's Australian Open.
The seeds are rounded out by Olivier Sajous, the winner in Florida where sixty hopefuls battled at the Bollettieri Academies in Bradenton, and twenty-eight year old Chris Wettengel, who beat his doubles partner in the Northern California regional finals. Twelve others will join them to compete for that one spot.
Make no mistake, this process is a long haul for these players. They've already won five or more matches to reach this point, and the eventual entrant still has to win four more just to make qualies which begin August 24th. It makes sense of course, as other potential qualifiers and certainly main draw contenders will have to put in as much if not more work on the main Tour, but it might be nice to award the playoff winner with a wildcard to the final 128. It will definitely be interesting to see how the structure evolves in the coming years
Incidentally, the women's championships will be held next week during the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California. Among contenders there will be the youngest player in both brackets, Evangeline Repic of Canada, who just turned fifteen, and the highest ranked player in the playoffs, Alina Jidkova, currently #339 in the world.
For more on the playoffs check out my April blogcast, filmed at the New York regional finals.
Posted by Kavitha at 9:00 AM
Labels: Atlanta, Blake Strode, Cecil Mamiit, Chris Wettengel, Olivier Sajous, U.S. Open, U.S. Open National Playoffs
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Motocross tracks in Silsden and the surrounding areas
Looking for a motocross track located in Silsden or the surrounding areas? Well look no further. We have over 290 mx track locations across the whole of the UK. Below is a list of 36 motocross tracks within a 75 mile radius of Silsden. You will see a summary of information for each track below, further information such as the location, directions and contact information can be found on the subsequent pages.
Don�t forget that the motocross tracks listed below are just a small number of the mx tracks near Silsden. You can use our motocross track search to perform a more detailed search of places to practice in your area.
Delph Quarry Motocross Track
Located 6 miles from Silsden. This track has restrictions in place. They are only able to open 3 times a year. Whiterose MXC raced here last year and charged £35 for a day licence....
Located 19 miles from Silsden. Cowm Leisure is a disused quarry for all Off-Road Bike and 4x4 Enthusiasts. They are a fully legal practice site. Facilities include designated areas for Enduro, Trials Bikes, Pit Bikes and Children's Bikes Fully Marshalled. The Pit Bike Track caters for all bikes up to 85cc. The well set out track ensures all levels of rider can enjoy the experience. The Children's Track for small c...
Located 23 miles from Silsden. AMCA clubs run at this track including Whiterose MXC. The track has numerous jumps and banked corners so is your typical dirt track. There is camping allowed on event weekends. ...
Catteralls Farm Ribchester
Located 25 miles from Silsden. Flat paddock area and easy access. It is a traditional track using the grass terrain. It has many step ups and step downs, has some off cambers with some man-made jumps. Please Note, this is not a practice track. The track is used for organised events only!!...
Topcliffe Motocross Track
Located 30 miles from Silsden. Suitable for all from children on autos to Adults. KKMX run events here and usually grade the track before. With just under 1 mile of hard pack circuit. The track has several large table tops & ski jumps, incorporating fast to slow cornering on a wide circuit which is regular graded & watered. They have on site catering & toilet facilities with a large ...
Located 35 miles from Silsden. Main Track is £25 of 85cc upto Adult Junior Track is £15 upto 85cc Toilets, First Aid, Refreshments and Marshals. Track is also available for private hire, please ring for available dates and more details on 07958 660887...
Preston docks mx track
Located 36 miles from Silsden. Preston Docks MX provides all the instruction and necessary safety wear to ensure a safe and fun day out for everyone. Each weekend and selected mid week days the motocross tracks are available for members who have their own equipment. Motocross is an exciting sport for riders and spectators alike. Preston Docks MX is an ideal location for corporate entertainment and team building exercises. The c...
Located 36 miles from Silsden. Astley Raceway is a hardpack track consisting of single jumps, table tops and plenty of high rised berms to rail. The track may not be the biggest track on the circuit but it never fails to bring high adrenaline racing. The track is used by Leigh MCC for race meets but is used for practice sessions aswell by the club, but these are not held on a regular basis. ...
Located 38 miles from Silsden. Abram Motocross Track is loacted in the North of the U.K, in greater Manchester just outside Wigan. Abram Motopark is a cross country enduro practice track. A unique track around a 4 mile loop incorparating a motocross track, woodland areas and open flowing fields. From total beginner to expert Abram really does have a little bit of every thing for everyone. The course receives regular maint...
Yorkshire Hills MX Track
Located 41 miles from Silsden. The track is on a hill side so incorporates the slope and gradient. It has drop offs, table tops and lots more....
Located 41 miles from Silsden. Newton le Willows MCC race at this track as well as Bolton MXC. The track is made up of a peaty soil, which is receptable to heavy downpours and drys out quickly. It contains 2 big tables tops, several ski jumps, long fast straights and big banked corners. It is about 1600 meters long. There are 2 pit areas. Bleak Hall motocross track runs official meetings from Spring to Autumn, they do not ...
Located 43 miles from Silsden. Peak Dale Motorcycle Club was set up in 1982 to allow children who could not afford a bike or with nowhere to ride their own bikes legally to ride in a safe and supervised environment. Peak Dale is run totally by volunteers and is a non profit making voluntary organisation.Age limits are 4 years old to O.A.P. (over 65’s need to be passed by our insurers).Due to the fact that our organisation...
Leisure Lakes Motocross Track
Located 43 miles from Silsden. The tracks are both Motocross bike and Quad bike friendly.Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday depending on weather conditions, 10.30am - 4pm Leisure Lakes MX is a sand based track set inside woodland on the banks of the lake at the bottom of the complex.It consists of jumps, tabletops, whoops and high banked berms and is most certainly one of the most challenging tracks in the country, givin...
Wilberfoss Motocross Track
Located 43 miles from Silsden. Louis MX Club run events and practice sessions from this track. It has a variety of sharp and long turns, with single and double jumps mixed in....
Located 46 miles from Silsden. This is a large facility with 3 tracks for all levels. They have an onsite medic, marshalls, toilets and a cafe. The track also has a large pit area and visitor parking. Opening times: Wednesday 10-4pm, Saturdays & Sundays 10-4pm, plus bank holidays. Prices: Main practice track - £30Kids track - £20 ...
Bielby Motocross Track
Located 47 miles from Silsden. This is an AMCA track and is used for race meetings. Whiterose MXC run some of there events at this track. The track is made up of excellent loamy soil with numerous jumps throughout the track.(See Photos Below) There is possible camping and a burger van. There are also good spectating spots around the track....
hush motocross practice track
Located 49 miles from Silsden. Track information is currently unavailable If you can help with any additional information, please email us, or post a thread below....
Located 49 miles from Silsden. Doncaster Moto Parc is a Motocross Practicing, Coaching and Racing Facility. Doncaster Moto Parc's main track is a sandy, all weather circuit that is suitable for novice riders and challenging and technical for the best racers in the country, all at the same time.Our minibike circuit has hosted a number of British championship races and is the home of the Battle Royal. It is a great practice area...
Located 50 miles from Silsden. This is a relatively small piece of land, with lots of good features for practicing enduro. Most of the land is in a pine forest (about 2.5 sq acres) which has big hill climbs, steep descents, a stream, tight technical sections, some berms, and some small jumps. There are 2 paddocks, which are ideal for kids or learners to learn how to ride. In one of the fields they are to build some motocross...
Located 54 miles from Silsden. Norley is a track used by local clubs such as Cheshire MCC. The track is made up of sand, which can be deep in places, and normal soil throughout the rest. It is a wide track and accommodates all levels....
Hardwick Motocross Sedgefield
Located 55 miles from Silsden. The track caters for all types of riders from new riders to pro riders and all age ranges. Open from 9-30am until 4pm every sunday. The council have placed a restriction on the number of times the track is allowed to open (28 times a year). They are open every Sunday from about Feb/March to Sept/October each year. Ofcourse this is always weather permitting....
Located 55 miles from Silsden. THIS TRACK IS NO LONGER OPERATIONAL! Track is the old school field type track which is marked out on the grass. It incorporates the hilly sections of the field and the woody sections....
South Tees Motocross Track
Located 55 miles from Silsden. The track is located near middlesbrough see images of the track. The track is open; Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays, 10am - 4pm (4 till 8 £15) The track is open on Wednesdays in the summer 10am til 8pm. Adult track plus 2 little tracks available for the kids. It costs Adults £25, Kids £15 and Autos £10. They have Toilets, Medic, Spares, Caterin...
Located 56 miles from Silsden. This motocross track is a race track only, its not used for practice. Its used by the amca and acu motocross clubs. This is a clay track with big tabletops and hills....
Monckton Shooting Ground Motocross Track
Located 56 miles from Silsden. The track is used for AMCA races but is also open for general practice. It's length is approximately 1.5 miles. It incorporates various sizes of jumps, with some good table tops and high banking on the corners for added traction out of the bends. All protective clothing including helmets MUST be worn whilst the bikes are in use. They have two tracks one for begginers(small oval) ...
Located 58 miles from Silsden. New MX Practice Track in Scunthorpe, North Moor Lane, open weekends and the first wednesday of every month, gates open at 9.00 riding from 10.30 to 4.00. We have 4 tracks - one MX intermediate and another MX track for the more experienced riders. We also have a minibike track and a kids auto track....
Located 60 miles from Silsden. Peacocks Hey MX is a practice track based in the midlands.. located in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, easy access from the M6 and A500. Holding a ACU Track Certificate. The track is clay wood chip mix, 1.6km long and between 5m and 10m width. Fast flowing with tabletops and drop offs. Used as a practice and race track, on site we have toilets, catering and trained first aid staff. Auto's Quads and Si...
Whitby Motocross Skelder Bank Aislaby
Located 62 miles from Silsden. Whitby motocross club was formed in 2000/2001 following the demise of langbaurgh motocross club at glaisdale - egton banks track. The club stalwarts refused to call it a day and searched the area for a suitable venue gathering up support and a couple of ex members of the defunct teeside twinshock club.Apart from the site we needed a sympathetic landowner and we found both with skelder banks and mr...
Blue Barns Motocross Track
Located 62 miles from Silsden. The track was running practice meetings last year, but is currently closed as they are waiting for permits and insurance etc. They hope to open again in March 2014. You can follow updates on there Facebook Page It is a popular track and has been used by various clubs. It has been used by Whiterose MXC and NEMXC. Nett quad championship have also held events here. Has many jumps and b...
Great Salkeld Penrith Cumbria
Located 64 miles from Silsden. This Track is used and run by Northern Youth MCC. The track is fairly wide and consists of a few large table tops, high banked corners, with twists and turns throughout.(see pictures) They have paddock area, which is sometimes used for camping aswell....
Knitsley Practice Training Track
Located 64 miles from Silsden. Motorcross practice track in Consett, Co. Durham. Track has many small to medium sized jumps. It is a hard pack track, can get dusty when very dry. Great track for all levels. Main track- adults £20, under 16 £15 Childrens track - £10 All moto-x, enduro bikes and quads allowed. A video of the track can be found on You Tube, click here to view this video....
Blencow - Blencowe Motocross track
Located 65 miles from Silsden. The track is about a mile in length and is full of steep hills, tabletops, plenty of berms. The track is suitable for all levels including begginners. The track also gets graded regularly. The track is usually open on Saturdays and Sundays but call to make sure it is open. There is also a junior trackfor all the 50cc riders, it has small jumps and also a whoop section.The price is £...
SHMX
Located 67 miles from Silsden. ** Currently under redevelopment opening again March 2014 as an extended, improved sand track ** ...
Located 70 miles from Silsden. This is an AMCA track and is used for race meetings. It has been used by Wakefield MXC and Doncaster MXC. This is a sand track with alot of man made jumps and bumps. It is not the bigest of tracks but has good technical sections and jumps....
Greenside Motocross Track
Located 71 miles from Silsden. Greenside is based on a hill and graded every few goes, but its only open every 3rd weekend....
Chequered Flag Motocross Track
Located 74 miles from Silsden. Chequered Flag Motocross is now into its 3rd successful season, there are 3 practice tracks catering for all levels of motocross experience, spread out over 20 acres.Private Bookings Marshals and the Burger Van can be arranged during the week for parties of 10 riders or more by prior arrangement only. Hard Core Pit AreaThe pit area is finished in crushed hardcore - so you will never get stuck in ...
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Day: March 25th, 2007
I am not a trekkie
Sunday, March 25th, 2007 | All Things, Arts
At the 92nd Street Y (not just for New Yorkers) for a talk on art collecting by Leonard and Susan Bay-Nimoy (not just for trekkies/trekkers). The conversation was moderated by writer and Parsons School of Design professor Anastasia Aukeman.
Busy night at the Y: on my way in, I passed by Gene Wilder who would be appearing across the hall to talk about his debut novel.
Nimoy and his wife spoke about how they came to become avid art collectors — their interaction was sweetly and sincerely affectionate, underscoring their shared passion and hands-on approach to their acquisitions. The two spend hours personally touring artists’ galleries, selecting and compiling pieces for their private collection (presented in slideshow photos of their home) guided primarily by how the work resonates with them, rather than by adhering to any specific trends, style or genre.
The couple are longtime supporters of the arts: Bay-Nimoy is on the MASS MoCA Director’s Advisory Council. Nimoy is an emerging art photographer himself, and the experience inspired him and his wife to think about the difficulties new artists usually have in getting their work recognized by the public and in museums. In 2002, the couple set up a $1 million endowment fund for young artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. In 2003, Nimoy and his wife established the Nimoy Foundation as president and vice president, respectively, to fund and encourage the work of artists who thrive in residency programs throughout the United States. Since
its inception in 2003 the Nimoy Foundation has distributed over $1.7 million. The Nimoys are also major financial supporters of the recent renovation and expansion of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, and of Symphony Space in New York, where the Leonard Nimoy Thalia reopened in 2002 after years of neglect.
But of course, Nimoy is best known as the man/humanoid behind the Vulcan Salute, so inevitably there were a few men in the audience who seemed suspiciously uninterested in either art or collecting. Nimoy seemed to notice, but took it all in good stride; no doubt he’s used to such a following by now.
For the fan boys — and I think there are at least a couple of you reading this — a blurry photo of Spock:
The post-discussion dessert reception was a rather elaborate spread, featuring two of my favorite treats: Linzer Tortes and Crème Brûlée. And dark chocolate-dipped strawberries… so make that three of my favorites. Those chocolate brownies looked tempting, too.
I probably should have eaten dinner first.
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WORLD HEADLINES 5/18/15, Latin America/Caribbean Edition: 100 Latest Breaking News and Top Stories
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8888 King's Highway Kempton, PA
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Wanamakers General Store History
Wanamakers General Store history begins between 1876-1886 when the brick portion of our store was built using bricks made with local clay.
Elias Hoppes purchased the building in 1886. He and his wife Mariah ran a store and women’s hat shop there until 1905.
In 1905, the Hoppes’ son-in-law, Irwin P. Reinhart, opened Reinhart’s Store in the building.
The store was a success and Irwin and his wife Minnie added a frame addition to the building between 1915-1917.
Reinhart’s Store passed to Irwin and Minnie’s son, Claude, in 1929. Claude ran the store until his death in 1978.
Wanamakers General Store
In April 1979 Claude Reinhart’s heirs sold the building to David and Deborah Bond, who re-opened as Wanamakers General Store.
In 1996, David and Debbie hired a young woman named Arian Glenn to work evenings while she attended college. During Arian’s two years at the store she met and married Tim Hungaski.
After twenty-five years of hard work, David and Debbie closed the store in November 2003 and moved away from busy Rt.143.
The building sat largely unoccupied until 2007 when Tim and Arian Hungaski, recognizing the community’s need for a good general store, purchased and renovated Wanamakers opening its doors once more in 2008.
In 2011 Kyra Hendricks came on board as manager, and in 2013 she took on a part ownership role.
In January 2018, Kyra Hendricks became the sole owner of Wanamakers. She is passionate about creating a fun local place for people to gather together, slow down and make connections. She also remains dedicated to supporting other local businesses so you will see lots of local products on the shelves of the market.
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Wanless Web > Research Data > Australia > Newspapers & Other Sightings
Index to Gaol Photographs, New South Wales, Australia
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/
Surname FirstName Born Birthplace Gaol Dateofphoto PhotoNo Page Series Item Reel Remarks
WANLESS Elizabeth 1840 England Darlinghurst [c.1880] 2335 299 NRS2138 [3/6043] 5100 –
WANLESS James 1840 England Darlinghurst [c.1880] 2340 304 NRS2138 [3/6043] 5100 –
— these are probably the James & Elizabeth, husband & wife, who arrived in 1875 on the Samuel Plimsoll as assisted immigrants – I wonder what they did to be in gaol?
The Argus, Melbourne – 21 Nov 1860
The insolvent estate of Wanless Johnson of Morse’s Creek, Victoria, a miner, was placed into sequestration on 14 Nov 1860, and John Goodman Esq of Melbourne was appointed assignee of the estate, and a public meeting of creditors was announced
The Sydney Morning Herald – Thursday 26 April 1860
Water Police Court – Wednesday
Mary Dwyer of Miller’s Point was charged with assaulting William Roden, a neighbour. It appeared that Sunday last, a wild cow was running about Roden’s lane and at the same time and place, defendant, her brother, and another man were fighting with a man named Wanless. Roden proceeding to the assistance of the latter got hold of the defendant to try to take her away, when she took up a small stone and threw it at him…<details omitted; nothing else about Wanless; she was fined>
The Sydney Morning Herald – Monday 20 October 1862
Distress in the Manufacturing District – Seventeenth Subscription List
Collected by William Woods from Mechanics & Labourers in the employ of the Intercolonial Royal Mail Company
R. Wanless gave 6s
The Sydney Morning Herald -23 September 1879
Inquest on the body of Charles Walkley who was in a boat that was run over by the ferry steamer Sapphire. John Wanless, a waterman, deposed: I reside at Bell Brothers boiler yard, Balmain; I left Sydney on Wed evening last by the steamer Sapphire about half past 6 o’clock for Darling street…he continued to give evidence about the boat that was run over.
Sydney Morning Herald – Wednesday 14 March 1888
West Maitland, Tuesday
Quarter session at the Court House, East Maitland, yesterday, cases tried: Emerson Wandless, attempted suicide, bound over to appear when called on.
The Argus – 13 June 1890
Notice of probate of the estate & effects of William Wandless Herbert, late of Greenhill, Diamond Creek, Victoria, farmer, deceased, intestate, which were left unadministered at the death of Elizabeth Herbert, administratrix of his estate. Probate to be committed to John Herbert of Greenhill, farmer, eldest son of the said William Wandless Herbert dec’d.
Notice of probate of the will of Elizabeth Herbert, late of Greenhill, Diamond Creek, widow, deceased, to be granted to John Herbert and William Wandless Herbert, both of Greenhill, farmers, and Charles Joseph Verso of Northcote, builder, the executors named in said will.
The Argus – Monday 6 October 1890
Sunday evening – Shortly before 1 o’clock this morning a man named Cameron found a girl named Sarah Wanless lying apparently ill on the tailings heap at the Great Extended Hustler’s mine. She was taken to the hospital and the police were communicated with. The girl is employed as a general servant by Mr. Thomas Weekley, the manager of the mine already mentioned, and she states that she was proceeding home last night at half past 9 and that in View street she was accosted by a young man, who said his name was George Wilson, that he was a railway employee, and lived at Mrs. Grant’s boardinghouse in Boundary street. The girl states that he insisted on her accompanying him home, and that he committed a criminal assault upon her at about midnight. The hospital doctors say that the girl shows no marks of violence. She is still in the hospital, but is not considered to be in danger. She cannot give a description of her assailant. Detetctive Sexton has been inquiring into the matter, and has ascertained that no such person as George Wilson lived at Mrs. Grant’s boardinghouse.
The Brisbane Courier – Thursday 3 October 1895
Court – Davis Wanless was fined 10s for standing a fruit-cart near the intersection of streets.
Sydney Morning Herald – 14 February 1903
The family of the late Mrs. Wanless Johnson of No. 40 Garner’s Aveneue, Marrickville, thank their friends for sympathy during their late bereavement.
Sydney Morning Herald – 17 December 1909
Divorce Court – James Edward Williams sued for divorce from Christiana Williams formerly Bateman on the grounds of misconduct with Stephen Wanless. The Williams’ were married at the Thames, N.Z. in March 1881. Neither Williams appeared (their lawyers did). Decree nisi was granted, returnable in 6 months.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 12 May 1913
SNAKE-CHARMER BITTEN
Thomas Wandless, 20, of 26 Lawson street, Balmain, a confectioner by profession, was giving an exhibition of his mastery over snakes on Friday, when a big black snake, said to be 7 ft long, bit him on the chin. With all speed the whole seven snakes of the troupe were put into their basket and Wandless was hurried to Sydney Hospital, where after treatment by Dr. Guild, he was admitted in a serious condition.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15419517
I will not be responsible for any debts contracted in my name without my written authority on or after this date. W. Wanless, Denison Street, North Sydney.
The Sydney Morning Herald – Tuesday 6 July 1920
Friends and relatives of Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wanless are invited to attend her funeral, to move from her late residence, Little Denison street, Carrington, Newcastle, this afternoon at 2 o’clock, for Church of England Cemetery, Sandgate.
The Sydney Morning Herald – Thursday 3 August 1922 – In Memoriam
Wanless – In sad and loving memory of our darling baby and sister, Joyce Mavis, who departed this life August 3, 1920.
A little bud as white as snow
Was by an angel given
Fearing the earth might soil her bloom
God planted her in heaven.
Inserted by her loving parents and brothers Robbie and Albert.
— matches this NSW death: 15312/1920 WANIESS JOYCE M EDWARD S SARAH AUBURN
The Argus (Melbourne) 7 September 1923
[In a story of a boy struck & killed by a motorcar in Northcote] Thomas Wanless, South Crescent, Northcote, who was a passenger on the tram, also related particulars of the accident. He added that there was no traffic on the proper driving side.
Sydney Morning Herald – Wednesday 20 April 1927
DOUBLE MOTORING FATALITY
Mr. Hibble, the district coroner, returned a verdict of accidental death after to-day’s Inquest on Neil William Gordon Wanless, 19 and Edward Butler, 3, who died on March 25, when a car driven by Wanless ran over the Carrington Bridge into Throsby Creek. Several people were in the car, one of whom, Edward Butler, Jun., fnther of the dead child, told the coroner that Wanless said, “Ted, we are all gone,” as the car swerved towards the side of the bridge. Wanless suffered Injuries causing death, and the baby was pinned under the car and was drowned in the creek.
Sydney Morning Herald – 16 July 1927 – In Memoriam
Wanless – In loving memory of our dear brother Tom who passed away July 17, 1926. Inserted by Mr & Mrs W. Garrett.
— matches this death: 11093/1926 WANLESS THOMAS s/o JOHN SARAH SYDNEY and there is a Garrett marriage at Wanless Web Aus pages
The Argus – 7 May 1932 – births
WANLESS-On the 24th April, at Wecroona private hospital, Canterbury, to Mr & Mrs W. Wanless, a son
The Argus – 9 August 1941 – engagements
Nora, elder daughter of Mr. & Mrs. King, South Melbourne, to George, elder son of Mr & Mrs Wanliss, Garden City.
Sydney Morning Herald – 19 June 1941
Wanless – In loving memory of my dear son, Joel Walter Robert, passed away June 19, 1933. A tender chord of memory. Inserted by his loving mother, brother, and sister.
Sydney Morning Herald – Monday 29 November 1943
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Jane Wanless will leave our chapel corner of Brown St and Orchard Rd, Chatswood, this Monday at 3:15, for Northern Suburbs Cemetery, Wood, Coffill Ltd.
The Argus – 24 July 1944 – deaths
Apted – On July 21, at her home, Surrey House, Preston, Isabella Wanliss, loving mother of Herb and mother-in-law of Emily and dear grandma of Irene, Gwenda, and James (Lismore).
— tree 2
Sydney Morning Herald – 16 March 1953 – Funerals
Burwood Lodge No 153 U.O.L. of N.S.W. Officers and Brethren are invited to attend the funeral of their late esteemed Brother, Aubrey Archibald Wanless. For further particulars see family notice.
Wanless – the relatives and friend of the late Aubrey Archibald Wanless of Croydon are invited to attend his funeral, to leave T.J. Andrews’ Funeral Chapel, 214 Liverpool Road, Ashfield, today after the 9:45 service, for Rookwood Crematorium.
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3 Ways in which the Genetic Recombination in Bacteria Takes Place
Some of the Important Ways in which the Genetic Recombination in Bacteria Takes Place are as follows:
Genetic Recombination in Bacteria
This is a process where genetic materials, contained in two separate genomes, are brought together within one unit. In bacteria the recombination takes place by (1) transformation, (2) transduction and (3) conjugation.
1. Transformation:
The genetic transfer in bacteria also occurs by transformation in which the DNA molecule of the donor cell, when liberated by its disintegration, is taken up by another recipient cell and its offspring inherit some characters of the donor cell. When different strains of bacteria are found in a mixed stage either in culture or in nature, some of the resultant offspring possess a combination of characters of the parent strains. This phenomenon is known as recombination.
The phenomenon of transformation was first recorded by Griffith (1928). Avery, Macleod and McCarty (1944) demonstrated that the transforming principle being DNA in the sequence of events in bacterial transformation.
2. Transduction:
The genetic transfer in bacteria is achieved by a process known as transduction. Laderberg and Zinder’s (1952) experiment in U-tube Salmonella typhimurium indicated that bacterial viruses or phages are responsible for the transfer of genetic material from one to the other lysogenic and lytic phages. Thus the host acquires a new genotype. Transduction has been demonstrated in many bacteria.
In this process, the DNA molecule that carries the hereditary characters of the donor bacterium is being transferred to the recipient cell through the agency of the phage particle.
When a bacterial cell is being infected with a temperate virus either lytic-cycle or lysogeny starts. Thereafter, host DNA breaks down into small fragments along with the multiplication of virus. Some of these DNA fragments are incorporated with the virus particles becoming transducing one.
When bacteria lyse these particles along with normal virus particles are released when this mixture of transducing and normal virus particles is allowed to infect the population of recipient cells, most of the bacteria are infected with normal virus particles and with the result lysogeny or lytic-cycle occurs again. A few bacteria are infected with transducing particles, transduction takes place and the DNA of virus particles undergo genetic Recombinations with the bacterial DNA.
3. Bacterial conjugation:
Wollman and Jacob (1956) have described conjugation in which two bacteria lie side by side for as much as half an hour. During this period of time a portion of genetic material is slowly passed from one bacterium which is designated as a male to a recipient designated as a female. This was established that the male material entered the female in a liner series.
The genetic recombination between donor and recipient cells takes place as follows: The Hfr DNA after leaving apart in fragment to recipient cell again reforms in circular manner. In F-strain genetic recombination takes place between donor fragment and recipient DNA. Gene transfer is a sequential process and a given Hfr strain always donates genes in a specific order. A single stranded donor DNA (F factor) is integrated into the host chromosome with the help of nuclease enzyme.
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Tales from the Battlefield
Be transported back to one of the most dramatic periods in Scottish History as you listen to costumed actors performing Tales from the Battlefield.
About Tales from the Battlefield
plus 5 more date(s), see below for more info
11:15am; 12:00pm; 12:45pm; 1:30pm; 2:30pm; 3:15pm; 4:00pm (All Dates)
The National Wallace Monument
Abbey Craig Hillfoots Road, Causewayhead FK9 5LF
Performances are held outside the Monument and are Free. Admission charges payable only for entering the Monument.
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As you listen to costumed actors performing Tales from the Battlefield at The National Wallace Monument you will be transported back to one of the most dramatic periods in Scottish history, when Stirling was at the centre of all the action!
The Battle of Stirling Bridge is over and a soldier, lost and disoriented, makes his way into the woods. He meets another fighter – but soon discovers he is on the enemy’s side! What will happen, will they fight – or agree to a truce?
During the Winter period the opening of the Monument can be affected by adverse weather, and the building may also be closed to visitors on occasions to enable essential maintenance work to be undertaken. Please check for the latest information and updates on www.nationalwallacemonument.com
Additional Dates: 21 July 2019, 27 July 2019, 28 July 2019, 12 October 2019, 13 October 2019, 19 October 2019, 20 October 2019
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Meet a variety of birds at this static falconry display at The National Wallace Monument every Monday during July and August.
Archery at The National Wallace Monument
Have you always wanted to try archery? Well now you can! Visitors are invited to try archery when they visit The National Wallace Monument on any Tuesday in July or August.
A Battle Won
Travel back in time as costumed actors bring to life the main events of William Wallace and Andrew de Moray’s victory in 1297 at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
August Anniversary Dates at The National Wallace Monument
Come along to some special presentations at The Wallace Monument to mark important anniversaries in Wallace's life.
Andrew Carnegie: A Century On
Don't miss a special actor performance on Sunday 11th August, at The National Wallace Monument, to mark a centenary since Andrew Carnegie’s death!
Wallace 150
Join the 150th Birthday celebrations for The National Wallace Monument on 11th September and enjoy an evening light show!
Wallace Wha Hae!
The National Wallace Monument’s 150th anniversary celebrations continue with a family-friendly festival in the grounds of Wallace High School on 14th September.
Evening Lecture: 10000 Years of History on the Abbey Craig
Dr Murray Cook, archaeologist and local history expert, will delve into the history of the Abbey Craig, revealing some of the secrets of the landscape hosting one of Scotland’s most iconic buildings
Evening Lecture: Remembering Wallace and Bruce Over the Centuries
Join Dr Michael Penman as he looks at the construction of iconic reputations and some of the enduring myths that have persisted for centuries regarding Wallace and Bruce.
Scotland’s Heroines
Dr Alison McCall shares some of the fascinating stories she has uncovered about Scottish women and what life would have been like for Victorian career women at a time when the Monument first opened.
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The National Wallace Monument, Stirling
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Theatre Skills: Puppets and Props
Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling
Explore how recycled and re-purposed materials together with loads of imagination can be transformed to create fantastical puppets and props in this workshop on 17th July for ages 11-18 years!
Animation and Soundscape
17th Jul 2019 - 18th Jul 2019
Tolbooth, Stirling
Learn all about the twinned worlds of Animation and Sound Design with this fun, hands-on two day workshop on 17th & 18th July at the Tolbooth!
Wildlife Weans on Wednesdays
Mugdock Country Park, Mugdock
Calling all 5yrs and under and their grown-ups! Explore the natural world through a series of fun Mugdock Ranger led activities every Wednesday in July!
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The Big Picnic
Falkirk's favourite festival is back for 2019! Come down to the Helix on Sunday 11th August for a fun filled family day out - and don't forget your picnic!
Doune The Rabbit Hole 2019
Doune The Rabbit Hole, the intimate and independent music and arts festival, is back from 19th – 21st July 2019 and celebrating it's 10th Anniversary!
Paranormal Investigation: Stirling Old Town Jail
Come along with Lanarkshire Paranormal as they investigate the reported paranormal activity in Stirling Old Town Jail on Saturday 10th August!
Loch Boltachan, St Fillans
The next walk with the Stirling, Falkirk and District Ramblers is on Sunday 21st July and will be from St Fillans to Loch Boltachan.
Summer Holiday Club at The Peak
Join us this summer at The Peak Holiday Club, it's jam packed with plenty of fun sports and activities to suit all ages!
About What's On Stirling
We pride ourselves on keeping you up to date on events in Stirling taking place throughout the year. From the latest theatre events and live music performances to local activities and fantastic attractions, we keep you up to date daily!
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Quick Black Rhino Information
Family: Rhinocerotidae (Rhinoceroses)
Scientific name: Diceros bicornis
Average shoulder height: 1.6 m
Weight: 800 - 1100 kg
Gestation period: 15 months
Life expectancy: 35-40 yrs
Photos: © Sharon Bishop
Black rhino showing distinctive hooked lip
Note: The Rhino Information provided here applies specifically to the critically-endangered black rhinoceros, which is much less common and hence less frequently seen on safari than its counterpart, the larger and more placid white rhinoceros.
The black rhino, also known as the hooked-lipped rhino, has a barrel-shaped body and is smaller than the white rhino. Females (cows) are larger than the males (bulls) and can weigh up to a ton.
As is the case with the white rhino, the name "black rhino" is not related to the color of the animal's hide. The hide is in fact a dark gray color with lighter underparts and, like the white rhino, what you see is dependant on the color of the dust or mud in which it wallows.
The skin is as thick as 1.5 cm in places to protect the rhino against sharp grasses, plants and thorns.
The black rhino has two horns on the front of its face, with the front horn being longer. The tail is relatively short with a tuft of coarse hair at the tip.
Unlike the white rhino, the black rhino has no hump on its back and keeps its head in an upright position. Another major difference is the characteristic pointed or hooked upper lip which is prehensile - like a finger - and is suited to browsing the leaves and twigs off of trees (compared to the square lip of the white rhino which is suited to grazing grasses).
Behavior: The black rhino is a solitary animal except during mating season, or when calves need to be raised. The bulls are aggressive and often charge the moment they suspect trouble. This is because of their poor vision.
They are notoriously bad tempered, and are surprisingly fast and agile. They can reach speeds of up to 45km an hour.
Black rhinos do not fight over territories like their white counterparts, but instead they fight for a receptive cow.
In the heat of the day, black rhinos take refuge in dense thickets. They feed in the early mornings and late afternoons.
The dung, in comparison to the white rhino, is made-up of twigs and other coarse material which they ingest while browsing. Rhinos in general have very poor eyesight, and depend heavily on their acute sense of smell and hearing to recognise potential danger.
Reproduction: The black rhino has no fixed breeding season, and has only a single calf, which weighs up to 40 kg after a gestation period of 450 days (15 months). The calf either walks next to the mother or behind, which is opposite to the white rhino where the calf walks in front of the mother.
The calf can walk and feed three hours after birth, and stays with its mother for two to four years until it is chased away to fend for itself.
The black rhino uses its pointed upper lip to grasp twigs and shoots, which are either snapped off or cut through. It tends to reject dry plant material, and during the rains will occasionally eat grass.
Sounds:
The black rhino uses more sounds then the white rhino. These include a roar, which sounds almost like a lion, and a high pitched trumpeting when it fights. A drawn-out snort indicates anger, and a short snort indicates surprise. When the black rhino is scared it makes a high-pitched, crying noise.
The black rhinecoros is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List 2012 and listed on Appendix I of CITES. See also Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa
For additional facts about the black or hook-lipped rhino, see WWF Black Rhinoceros Info.
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Omnistar Live "category_id" Cross-Site Scripting
Doz has reported a vulnerability in Omnistar Live, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "category_id" parameter in kb.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
GS07-02 RSA Keon Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Date & Version : 07/31/2007 - 1.1 Description : RSA KEON Registration Authority Web Interface has multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. Request-spk.xuda and Add-msie-request.xuda components of RSA KEON are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting attacks. An attacker could use these vulnerabilities for manipulating the registration information, phishing and other client side attacks...
WebMod "auth.w" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Nemessis has reported a vulnerability in WebMod, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "redir" parameter in auth.w is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Joomla! "searchword" XSS Vulnerability
MustLive has discovered a vulnerability in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
phpMyAdmin "setup.php" XSS Vulnerability
Omer Singer has reported a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Interspire ActiveKB NX "page" Cross-Site Scripting
durito has reported a vulnerability in ActiveKB NX, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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Nebraska measure could tip the number of states with casinos
BY GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press | July 2, 2019
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters may decide next year whether to legalize casino gambling in a ballot measure that could tip the number of states that allow commercial gambling into the majority.
Supporters of legalized casinos have launched a petition drive to place the issue on the 2020 ballot with financial backing from the economic development corporation owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Twenty-five states — including neighboring Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota — allow commercial casino gambling with games such as slot machines, craps and roulette wheels, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Iowa casinos near Omaha, in particular, cater to Nebraska residents looking to gamble.
“Hundreds of millions of dollars go across the border every year,” said Lance Morgan, the CEO of Ho-Chunk Inc., the corporation pushing the measure on the tribe’s behalf. “For a Nebraskan to do gaming, you have to go half a mile. It’s the height of paternalism to try to try to restrict it.”
Morgan said he’s confident, based on the group’s internal polling, that voters will approve the measure if it appears on the ballot.
Only two states, Hawaii and Utah, have a complete ban on gambling. Nebraska is among states that allow Native American tribal casinos that are limited to bingo and card games where the house has no stake in the outcome, such as poker. Nebraska also offers keno, horse racing and a lottery. Commercial casinos, by contrast, have slot machines, craps, roulette wheels and card games such as blackjack.
The measure is certain to face opposition from leading conservatives, including Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts and former University of Nebraska football coach and athletic director Tom Osborne.
“Casinos are bad for families and bad for business,” said Nate Grasz, policy director for the Nebraska Family Alliance, a conservative policy group that plans to fight the measure. “All men and women deserve an opportunity to build the best lives for themselves, and state-sanctioned gambling robs them of that opportunity.”
Gambling opponents successfully defeated ballot measures in 2004 and 2006, despite being outspent by wealthy casino interests. In 2014, they challenged a gambling measure in court and persuaded the Nebraska Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional, striking it from the ballot.
But some gambling opponents acknowledge public support has grown in recent years.
“It’s going to be hard,” said Pat Loontjer, executive director of Gambling with the Good Life. “We’ve been doing this for 24 years, and, well, the atmosphere in the state has changed.”
Supporters said they’ve changed the ballot measure to withstand a court challenge. The latest campaign will require three petitions — a constitutional amendment to allow casino gambling at state-licensed horse racing tracks and two state law changes to regulate and tax the industry. The state Supreme Court rejected a previous measure because it merged those issues onto one ballot, forcing voters to give one yes-or-no answer to multiple questions.
“We’ve learned from our mistakes in the past,” said Bob Moser, president of the Nebraska Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association. “We have a really good plan and great partners, and we’re very optimistic about our chances this time.”
Moser said allowing casinos at state-licensed horse racing tracks would increase purse sizes and make horse races larger and more competitive, and thus revive the struggling industry.
A similar effort failed to gain enough signatures in 2016, but independent observers blame poor management, not a lack of support. The company that managed that petition drive claimed to have collected more than enough signatures, but nearly 42,000 were later declared invalid. The company now faces a lawsuit over the petition drive.
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Local police help search for impaired drivers
By Mike Donoghue on August 31, 2017 No Comment
Photo by Mike Donoghue
Officer Bill Wager of the Hinesburg Community Police checks a driver on Vermont 2A in Williston on Saturday night.
Police covering Shelburne, Charlotte and Hinesburg say they plan to have officers looking for impaired, distracted and speeding drivers as Vermonters head into the long Labor Day weekend.
Shelburne Deputy Police Chief Aaron Noble said drivers impaired from alcohol and drug use are a primary concern. “We are going to be out there. We will be stepping up enforcement,” Noble said. “Drivers also need to stay within the speed limit. We are looking for people to slow down.”
With the sharp increase in highway fatalities recently in Vermont, Hinesburg Community Police Chief Frank Koss said extra effort will be made to double check that drivers and passengers are using seatbelts. “Since we had a rise in fatalities from not wearing seatbelts, we will be checking for them,” Koss said. He noted that 57 percent of all fatalities involving vehicles with seatbelts available were unbelted.
State police also said they plan to continue their saturation patrols in high traffic areas where they are concentrating their presence as a visible reminder to motorists to drive safely.
Last weekend, Shelburne, Hinesburg police joined state police as part of a special enforcement effort seeking impaired drivers and distracted drivers along with other motor vehicle offenses.
Shelburne Police Sgt. Allen Fortin said the extra assignment included a checkpoint on Vermont 2A in Williston. The southbound traffic was steady, in part, because of the start of the Champlain Valley Fair. Officers checked 500 vehicles and screened six drivers for possible impairment during the two and a half hour checkpoint, Fortin said.
One driver was arrested for driving while under the influence of drugs and the vehicle was impounded for a possible search warrant, Fortin said. No details were available on the driver or the vehicle search. Another driver was ticketed for having an open alcohol container in the car, Fortin said, and six people were warned about not wearing a seatbelt.
Fortin said the enforcement effort brings together multiple law enforcement agencies to work on keeping the roads safe, particularly in light of an increase in fatal crashes in recent weeks.
Other agencies participating in the checkpoint were Williston, Colchester, Burlington and Vermont State Police and the Grand Isle County Sheriff’s Department.
Local police help search for impaired drivers added by Mike Donoghue on August 31, 2017
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The Poetry Society of New York
Emily Lester as Holly Bordeaux
Holly Bordeaux is and interdisciplinary cabaret artist. She is the kind of woman you wish existed but rarely find. Sensual, sensitive and provocative, Holly is a true artist at her core. Demure at first glance and striking at the second, she will draw you in with her mastery of stage performance and unadulterated classical beauty.
Holly has studied many forms of stage performances mediums and dance. Her performances infuse classic burlesque, aerial arts, and theater. She founded the Bordeaux Project and Pole Fitness Seattle in 2012 with aspirations to give pole dance a non-competitive artist platform and place for everyone within it. Pole Fitness Seattle is now one of the most successful pole studios in on the west coast.
Holly has won numerous awards in aerial hoop both in Seattle and Los Angeles. She travels through the US and Europe performing regularly and exploring wine regions. She is the writer and creator of Wine Flight, a cabaret tour of the worlds varietals, where she combines her background in Cabaret and her passion for wine and its history.
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We design innovative poetry experiences.
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Home of the Podcast that asks atheists "What are you without God?"
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Episode 5: Mr Watchtower
November 2, 2014 Podcastsactivism, Andrew Lee, Atheism, atheist, Chris Krzeminski, Jehovah's Witness, Podcast, Watchtower, You Without GodAndi Lee
This month features an interview with an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, Mr. Watchtower, who having grown up with a devout JW mother, and a father who was a later convert, discovered that their path was not for him.
Mr Watchtower is an erudite and insightful guest who shares a lot of important information about the Jehovah’s Witness faith, in particular the way in which it keeps its members under control, its belief system, and the abusive nature of the threats towards and treatment of apostates and their families.
Listen as he discusses his early life and the experience of growing up within the JW church, and why he now so passionately works to help others find their way out of this religion.
Mr Watchtower can be found on Twitter (@ApostateAwake)
http://youwithoutgod.com/audio/YouWithoutGod-Episode5-MrWatchtower.mp3
Episode 4: Jen August
May 1, 2014 Podcastsactivism, Andrew Lee, Atheism, atheist, Catholic, Chris Krzeminski, Jen August, Jewish, Podcast, You Without GodAndi Lee
This month features an interview with another extraordinary woman, ex-Catholic Jen August, who having grown up with a devout Irish-Catholic mother and Jewish father, found her way through extreme hardship and an abusive marriage to find freedom as an atheist.
Listen as Jen discusses her early life and search for truth and meaning in both Catholicism and Judaism, and the struggles she went through to define her own identity and rebuild her life as a non-believer after losing her faith. Jen’s story is powerful and inspiring, with her no-nonsense approach and a strong focus on building an identity as an individual, you’ll be left in no doubt of the fact that who Jen has become as she departed faith is a better, freer and more complete person.
Jen and Chris also briefly discuss their upcoming book collaboration that deals with Jen’s escape from a violent and abusive marriage and how she found the strength to set herself free. She also talks about how she feels it is important for people to truly find themselves as an individual and define an identity that will contribute to rather than depend upon other communities.
Trigger Warning: This episode contains some discussion of an abusive relationship which some listeners may find upsetting.
Jen August can be found on Twitter @jen_august
You can listen to the episode below:
http://youwithoutgod.com/audio/YouWithoutGod-Episode4-JenAugust.mp3
Episode 3: Ex-Mormon
April 3, 2014 Podcastsactivism, Andrew Lee, Atheism, atheist, Chris Krzeminski, Mormon, Podcast, You Without GodAndi Lee
Apologies for the break last month, unexpected events took precedence.
We’re back with a wonderful guest, an ex-mormon whose devout life was disrupted by a longing to study biology and a difficult, and often abusive, relationship. Join us as she talks about discovering the reality behind her religious upbringing and the Mormon church, and finding a new world of reason and truth through interactions with atheist communities on Twitter.
Our guest describes growing up in a close knit Mormon community and the challenges that she faced as she found herself beginning to doubt, and the struggle to be able to forge her own identity as an educated woman. Her story will move you, make you laugh, and most of all inspire you to realize that even through tremendous difficulty and physical danger, it is possible to find a life of peace through reason.
http://youwithoutgod.com/audio/YouWithoutGod-Episode3-LydiaBrooks.mp3
Episode 2: Iman Willoughby
February 4, 2014 Podcastsactivism, Andrew Lee, Atheism, atheist, Chris Krzeminski, Friendly, Iman Willoughby, Islam, Podcast, You Without GodAndi Lee
Our second interview is with the extraordinary Iman Willoughby, (@1GodlessWoman on Twitter). Andi and Chris speak with Iman about her life growing up in Saudi Arabia, her experiences as a woman in the muslim world, her struggles to adapt to her new life in Canada, and how she has found her own identity without God.
Featuring a guest who is knowledgable, erudite, powerful, funny and utterly honest about her experiences and struggles, this interview is one you will not want to miss.
Some listeners will already be familiar with Iman via Twitter, and because of the recent campaign by the wonderful Adam Reakes (@AdamReakes). But, there’s so much more to Iman than you may realize. To endure all that she has, against all odds, and to remain the courageous voice that she does is testament to her character and strength. We could not be more privileged to bring you this episode of the You Without God Podcast.
http://youwithoutgod.com/audio/YouWithoutGod-Episode2-ImanWilloughby.mp3
Episode 1: Hemant Mehta
January 5, 2014 Podcastsactivism, Andrew Lee, Atheism, atheist, Chris Krzeminski, Friendly, Hemant Mehta, Jainism, PodcastAndi Lee
We couldn’t be prouder to bring you our first full interview featuring Hemant Mehta, and what a great guest to start with!
Hemant Mehta discusses growing up in the Jain community and how he started to realise at an early age that his faith just didn’t make sense to him.He chats with us about his activism through high-school and later, and his work with secular student groups and the Foundation Beyond Belief, as well as his writing work!
In an informal interview with podcast hosts Chris Krzeminski and Andrew Lee, Hemant offers insights into his writing and blogging activities, touching on some recent controversies such as the fisasco over the Morton Grove Park District and the South Carolina’s soup kitchen banning atheists from helping out.
This is a fun interview with one of the atheist community’s best known activists and authors. His friendly approach to skepticism, reflected in his Friendly Atheist blog typifies the approach that we’re trying to take on this podcast.
(Apologies for some of the sound problems, we’re still working through some bugs with equipment and Andrew’s track in particular needed some work on it. Fortunately, he doesn’t talk too much, and the others sound great! Thanks to @iZotopeInc for their amazing audio-repair plugins!)
You can listen to the podcast here:
http://youwithoutgod.com/audio/YouWithoutGod-Episode1-HemantMehta.mp3
The Herd Mentality
No God Cast
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We’ll Be Stronger Together
#ANV2014
The Scottish National Party (SNP) is one of the most attractively crafted nationalist movements in history. It has cloaked itself in progressive liberal language; it claims to be in favor of higher immigration; it professes great friendship for neighboring nations; it is antimilitarist; and instead of focusing on the past, it champions “the future.” But in the end, like all nationalisms, it has a reactionary core. It assumes that one people—the Scots—are somehow, although they would never state it, intrinsically separate and superior; and that the answer to their problems is to cut off a group of fellow citizens, and treat them—the English, Welsh and Northern Irish—as foreigners. All the bewildering, appealing and contradictory claims of the Scottish nationalists ultimately rest on this foundation.
Take their manifesto. The SNP, the main party behind the Yes Scotland campaign, has avoided much discussion of identity and has tried to make the referendum…
To start the day …. Throwback to “We Are the World”!!
#ANV2014 – Nice post Horty 🙂
Why are there so many differences between human beings? There are characteristics that define us in different groups, I accept that but deep down, we are the same.
We are conceived the same way, we come into this way the same way. Anatomically speaking, we are the same. The biological processes that keep our metabolism going and the cellular functions going are the same. Our DNA is the same.
It’s only outside, physical attributes that make us different.
“We may have different religions, different languages, different color skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Photo credit: Anonymous Awakening
Why can’t we all realize this and accept that we are the same and that we are ONE?
What touches one, touches all.
We ALL bleed RED!!
The Potential is there, so is the Spirit. All that is needed is the Spark.
~~As it appears in ……
Andrew Norfolk
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In this BBC News interview, Andrew Norfolk, the Times journalist whose investigations helped expose the abuse and rape of children in Rotherham, describes his work and the serious failing of all the authorities involved.
Andrew Norfolk was winner of the Paul Foot award (2012) and the Orwell Prize (2013) for political writing for his two year investigation into the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by gangs of men.
His investigation first started when he covered concerns raised by Keighley MP Ann Cryer in 2003, who was the first mainstream figure to speak out about gangs of Asian men meeting young girls outside secondary schools, but he didn’t follow it up. In 2010 he realised that no one seemed to have made the connection and became “increasingly uneasy” that he had not followed up on Cryer’s claims.
His then editor at the Times, James Harding, asked him to work full time…
Going to your prom by helicopter is a thing now, as ITV documentary reveals the lavish side of the event
The 13 most photogenic places in America
Photography-wise, you really can’t go wrong in a national park or a big city.
They “tend to be the best places to photograph,” says Gary Arndt, a blogger and photographer who sold his house in 2007 and has been roaming the globe ever since. The Society of American Travel Writers named him 2014 Photographer of the Year, and he has already visited 25 countries this year.
This week, Arndt will surpass mile 11,000 of this summer’s North American odyssey.
Arndt has picked more than 20 of the most photogenic spots he’s visited to highlight on Pinterest. A selection is featured in the gallery above. Visually rich and undeniably gorgeous, these American destinations are ripe for photographers of all skill levels.
“If you go to the Grand Canyon, it’s pretty hard to screw up,” Arndt said.
Here are three tips from Arndt to get you started:
— You don’t have to…
Why Louis van Gaal was wrong to sign autographs after Manchester United were tonked
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Malpractice cases drop, but views on why differ
Posted on January 31, 2010 by coptermedic
From the Des Moines Register:
Iowa patients are suing their doctors for malpractice half as often as they used to, which has helped drive down malpractice-insurance premiums for many physicians.
Doctors speculate that malpractice lawsuits are becoming rarer because they have cut down on medical mistakes. But plaintiffs’ lawyers say they’re filing fewer cases because it’s become more expensive to press lawsuits.
Despite the decline in cases, the two sides continue to debate whether malpractice lawsuits help drive up health care costs.
Australian Paramedics Want Pool Cues Banned from Pubs
From JEMS:
Queensland’s ambulance officers want licensed venues to stop using pool cues and glass ashtrays to reduce the risk of being assaulted.
Last year the State Government banned glasses from some pubs and clubs to stop so-called “glassing” attacks.
Now the union representing Queensland’s ambulance officers says pool cues and glass ashtrays have become a “weapon of choice” for drunken patrons who turn on paramedics.
Maryland Woman Bitten by Cobra; Assistant Curator Responds with Anti-Venom
It was a strange story from start to finish, but the Philadelphia Zoo helped steer things toward a happy ending. A woman told fire department emergency responders in Baltimore that she was getting into her car at a shopping-center parking lot Sunday night when she was bitten on the hand by a cobra, which she had picked up thinking it was a stick.
The woman, who officials didn’t identify, apparently got the snake into a bag and brought it with her to a walk-in medical center, where it was isolated in a trash can, said Baltimore Fire Department spokeswoman Elise Amacost. Fire department personnel rushed the woman from the clinic to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Hospital thanks backers of new Emergency Department
From the Carroll, IA Daily Times Herald:
Ed. ACUTE CARE, INC. is proud to be affiliated with St. Anthony’s.
The place hadn’t officially opened, yet the boss was already trying to drum up business.
As St. Anthony Regional Hospital dedicated its expanded Emergency Department, CEO Gary Riedmann jokingly took credit for the slick subzero conditions outside.
“Considering where we’re at tonight, I wanted to make it as icy, as slick, as possible for you to appreciate our product,” he kidded Tuesday night during a reception to thank contributors to the $4 million project.
St. Anthony renovated and enlarged its ER to address an increase in patients and privacy concerns for staff, those being treated and their families.
ER visits jumped from 5,767 in 2005 to an expected 7,140 this year.
ED staff erroneously assumed to obey administrators
Ed. Sadly, not an Onion post.
A New York City woman pretended to be a hospital administrator, called an emergency room and tried to get hospital staff to take the baby of her husband’s mistress off life support, prosecutors said Thursday.
Need to find an AED? There’s an app for that.
From Medgadget:
First Aid Corps, an organization working on helping the public respond to sudden cardiac arrests, has unveiled an iPhone app that can pinpoint the location of the closest automatic external defibrillator (AED) within seconds.
Currently the database is just beginning to fill up but First Aid Corps has partnered with The Extraordinaries, a volunteer organization, to have people locate and photograph AED’s in their community.
The app is free and you can download it and get started mapping AED’s and maybe help save someone’s life.
Medical Simulation Training
Medical simulation training, which is similar to that used in aviation and in the military, uses mannequins, computers, virtual reality or actors posing as patients to teach doctors, nurses and other clinicians. While simulation training has been used in medicine for nearly 40 years, it has until recently been limited primarily to teaching standard techniques like chest compressions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation or pelvic exams.
But over the last few years, as the technology and training techniques have advanced, experts in the field have begun to broaden the scope of training. No longer confined to isolated procedures, simulation can now recreate entire clinical situations, giving clinicians the opportunity to develop skills in what is often identified as one of the major causes of errors and quality issues in health care: poor teamwork and communication.
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Control season III Episode 2: The Shamanic Resistance by Liv Schulman
“Control” is a television series on art and writing in which a recurrent character, a sort of detective wanders between episodes attempting to establish new relations of meaning. The sole protagonist, played by different actors and actresses, is a detective taken straight from a detective novel. The commonplace of this cynical figure of the detective acts as a discourse-producing tool; considerably astray in a maze of stories whose meaning has been forever lost, he/she incarnates a person who has access to hidden facts, invisible systems, and the occult parts of the world, and imparts his/her paranoid conclusions in a disillusioned way.
In “Control”, the figure of the detective offers long-winded speeches, interchangeable ventriloquist-like ectoplasms of those dislocated monologues which borrow from the vocabularies of art, liberal economics, critical theory, and psychotherapy. Merging with one another, these distinct forms of discourse become absurd and crazy tools of a paranoid interpretation of the social world, based on the alienation of bodies, the devaluation of identities, and the complexities of desire for meaning. At this moment “Control” counts three complete seasons.
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Authors: George Selden
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A Bad Beginning
Worse Yet
The Great Day
The Fearful Lunch
Sam's Pet Shop
Back to the Occult Sciences
The Beginnings of a Birthday Party
And the Birthday Party's End
By George Selden
For Edward J. Czerwinski, who is something of a genie, in his accomplishments, himself
“Even great deeds that are done by magic can be forgotten utterly.”
At least that's what Dooley says. He says that he's even beginning to forget the times when he worked for the Master of Magic himself. Humanity taking over, I guess. And of course Sam is only too glad to forget his past. That's humanity again, and very natural in the case of Sam. Aunt Lucy and Rose don't have anything to remember. They never even suspected what was going on right under their noses. I hate to admit it, after all the excitement of everything, but I'm getting a little fuzzy on the details myself. We human beings are mostly just forgetful, that's all. And unobservant and pretty unbelieving, too, a lot of the time ⦠But Dooley says, with that secret smile of his, we have “many subtle compensations.”
It was Dooley who suggested I write it all down. It does seem a long time ago now! That must be the magic. It makes everything feel unreal. But the whole thing happened just this summer, right here in New York.
I guess the beginning was one morning in June. A very gloomy beginning, too, despite how bright and sunshiny the day was outside. I was still feeling depressed and angry and lonely about Lorenzo's death. He was my father. (I
believe he was dead, though; it took me weeks just to get that far.) And when Madame Sosostris happened to mention, with a phony light tone in her voice, that Aunt Lucy and her lawyer were dropping down that morning to see me, my suspicions got nervous.
“What are they dropping down about?” I wanted to know.
“Ohâjust something to do with Lorenzo's will,” said Madame Sosostris, with a casual wave of her hand that made me feel as if I'd been whacked on the head.
“And that's all? Just the will?” I said.
“Well, I think your aunt said something about your future, too.”
That did it. Doomsville! When a kid hears that grownups are going to discuss “his future,” he'd better watch out. Especially if he's had as much fun in his past as I did down in Greenwich Village with Lorenzo and Madame Sosostris.
For an hour or so I moped around the shop, pretending to examine the new consignment that had come in the day before, but really just waiting for my “future” to be discussed. You see, the front room of Madame Sosostris's apartment is her antique shop. She calls it her junk shop, but that's really not right. She has a great eye for furniture and objects and things, and although her shop is one of the smallest in the Village, it's also one of the best. The antiques are how she supports herselfâand me and Lorenzo, too, when we lived down there. But her real passion is in the back room, with the big round table and all the supernatural gadgets. That's where she holds her séances and gets in touch with the Spirit World. Or at least
to get in touch. Boy, does she ever try!
So I was walking around, looking at all the new things, and Sam was padding after me. Sam was my dog. You're going to hear a lot about him. He was a mongrel. It turned out that he was half basset hound and half springer spaniel. But that comes later. We didn't know that then. It gives you some idea of his size, though. Pretty big. He was always bumping up against chair legs in that cluttered antique shop, and a couple of times he broke some things, too. But in all the five years that he was my pet, Madame Sosostris never scolded him once. Not even the time when he knocked over the crystal candlestick. She knew how much I loved him, and that's just the kind of woman she is.
Sam knew something was wrong that day. When a dog has a boy as long as Sam had me, they get to know each other pretty well. Even when I stopped to look at the antique American bull's-eye mirror, he knew I was faking enthusiasm. It was the kind of mirror that has the curved glass in which you can see a whole room, and the gold frame, and the eagle on top, and I've always had a thing about them. But I couldn't fool Sam. He waddled up and put his head against my leg, and his hangdog expression hung down even further. You know what basset hounds look like.
“That's a beauty, isn't it, Tim?” said Madame Sosostris.
I nodded. “Sure is.”
“I think maybe it's time you had one of those mirrors for your own.”
“Let's just wait and see what happens,” I said, hoping that what was going to happen wouldn't start right away.
But it did. Just then Aunt Lucy, Henry Watkins, her lawyer, and Maurice, the chauffeur, drove up in that big car that Aunt Lucy didn't like at all. She admitted it to me later when Dooley and I persuaded her to get a new little one. She didn't much like Maurice either, although she'd never admit that. But she inherited him, along with the big car, from Grampa Lorenzo, Lorenzo's father. I'd seen Maurice a few times before, up in Aunt Lucy's apartment in Sutton Place. The thing I remember most about him is his mouth. It was always tightened up, as if there was a string in his lips that pulled them together like a lady's purse. Oh, and I remember he called Aunt Lucy “modom.” I think it's pretty silly to call a woman “madame” anyway, unless you live in France perhaps. But Maurice didn't even call her that. He called her “modom,” and his mouth would end up all puckered together.
Now, about Aunt Lucy. The best way to describe Aunt Lucy is to show you Madame Sosostris firstâbecause they were opposites. To begin with, Madame Sosostris wasn't Madame Sosostris. Her real name was Muriel Glicker. But one day she and Lorenzo and I were sitting around reading poetry out loud. We read a lot of poetry together on rainy days. And on this particular day we were reading a poem called
The Waste Land.
It's a very good poem, too. And in it the author talks about someone named Madame Sosostris. Well, when Madame Sosostris heard that name, she jumped up from her chair, smacked her forehead, and said, “That's me!” From then on she was known to
as Madame Sosostris. Because that's who she
was!
That same afternoon she tie-dyed a dishtowel and whipped it up into the best-looking turban this side of Baghdad. (Dooley agrees. He knows, too, about turbans and pantaloons and things like that.) And she changed the name of her shop from Muriel's Antiques to Madame Sosostris: Medium and Antique Dealer. Lorenzo and I helped her make the new sign. She said that she'd always felt that her most important work was in the Occult Sciences, not the high-class junk out front. And as for the turban, that just meant that she didn't have to keep dyeing her hair that awful red color. She said, “Let it go gray, and the hell with it!”
But Aunt Lucy ⦠There are some people who don't look at home in their names. Not their real names, nor the names they invent for themselves. And Aunt Lucy was one. Her real name was Lucy Farr. Which I think is pretty nice. You knowâFarr, distance, horizons, all that. But Aunt Lucy had no sense of horizons. To begin with, at least. She's short, and I think it bothered her. I mean, there's nothing wrong with being short. I'm short, too. Of course I'm thirteen, just barely, so I'm supposed to still be short. Lorenzo was short, and he said that my mother, who died when I was too little to remember, was also a very small person. Except I may remember her. There was a night, which I think was real, with the moon and street lights and a few bright starsâand somebody was holding me. So there's nothing wrong with being short.
But Aunt Lucy made you feel as if there was. Everything she wore was long. Her necklaces, her earrings, the works. It all was supposed to make you think she was long and tall herself. And her clothes were another thing that was wrong. Madame Sosostris could look great in a tie-dyed dishtowel and a pair of old Levi's, but Aunt Lucy's clothes never worked together. If her blouse was one color, her skirt would be exactly the color that fought with the blouse. And you knew just to look at her that everything she wore cost a fortune. It's a funny thing about money, though. It doesn't do you a bit of good unless you know where to spend it.
There are some people who just need help in living, and Aunt Lucy was one. (She was going to
help, tooâbut from someone nobody'd ever suspect.)
As for Mr. Watkinsâwell, I don't have anything against lawyers, but when he marched into the antique shop, with that dark gray suit and pinstripe shirt and black briefcase, I sort of wished he'd been one of the bearded hippies that drop in to browse around instead.
Madame Sosostris said hello to everybody, and then, after a few minutes of nobody knowing what more to say, Mr. Watkins spoke up. “I guess we'd better get down to business.” He glanced around, and his nose kind of crinkled. “Pretty crowded in here. Have you a place where we could all sit down, Madame Sosostris?”
“Sure. The séance table in the back room,” said Madame S.
We left Maurice outside, leaning against the fender of Aunt Lucy's car. A crowd of neighborhood kids was beginning to collect to gawk at them, because you don't see a car like that
a chauffeur in a uniform very often in that part of Greenwich Village.
Madame Sosostris led the way to the back. Sam and I came last. Usually Sam gets just as excited as I do when we go to the séance table. His tail wags like mad. That's how he broke the candlestick. But it wasn't wagging now.
The good times we've had at that big round séance table!âwith the dark maroon cover over it and the Tiffany lamp hanging down from two of Lorenzo's neckties, because we kept forgetting to get a new chain. All those magical colors in the glass! Like the fun when the Willy sisters came each month ⦠I only wished we were going to have a séance now.
“I think we might proceed,” began Mr. Watkins in a voice that sounded just the way his gray suit looked, “with the reading of the will of the lateâ”
Just then Sam, who was blobbing around under the table looking for a place to lie down amid all our feet, happened to step on the Lulu button and interrupted the reading of the will of the late my father. A white shape shot out of a compartment in the wall above Madame Sosostris's head and hung there, shivering.
“Good Lordâwhat's that?” exclaimed Aunt Lucy.
“Excuse it, please.” Madame Sosostris stood up. “It's just Lulu, my ghost.” She put Lulu, who was a piece of sheet attached to the end of a spring, back into the wall.
Mr. Watkins interrupted the reading again to ask, “Have you ever gotten a
ghost, Madame Sosostris?” His nose crinkled once more, skeptically.
“Not yet, Mr. Watkins,” said Madame Sosostris. She wasn't angry either, the way she could have been. She just went on to explain reasonably, “But I will. I know Lulu here is a fake, but how I feel is, if the real Spirits know that I'm on their sideâand Lulu shows I amâthen sooner or later they'll show themselves to me in person.”
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Chaos Gods
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This article or section is EXTRA heretical. Prepare to be purged.
The Chaos Gods are the gods which rule over the Realm of Chaos in Warhammer Fantasy Battles and the Warp in Warhammer 40,000. They love nothing so much as dicking with each other, except perhaps with their mortal followers, and literally each other (especially Slaanesh). Before they were gods, they were generally benevolent beings, when the Warp was a calm sea. Each one is formed by the emotions of living souls clumped together in the Warp/Realm of Chaos. Contrary to standard thought, they personify good attributes as well, and are powered as much by good as by bad. Even if said god started out entirely bad, in their eventual evolution as part of their natures, they will kill gods who represented entirely good things, and will gain not only their values, but their power by said value.
Be aware many of the gods' values will and do intersect. This is as much due to the chaotic nature of the gods as it is to the multitude of emotions that make up the living. For example: let's say you're literally obsessed with brutally murdering people and you get a real nice kick out of it. The act of spilling blood is gonna feed Khorne, while the ecstasy and obsessive sensation you get out of it will feed Slaanesh. So yeah, there's some overlap, in that an individual doing a certain thing, under specific circumstances, can simultaneously feed multiple Chaos Gods, but the God who was invoked (whether intentionally or no) upon when commuting the action will get the most power out of it (I.E: You killed someone for Khorne. While your ecstasy from the murder will feed Slaanesh a bit, your simple act of ending a life will feed Nurgle, your continued ambition to please the Blood God to earn his favor will also feed Tzeentch a bit, but Khorne gets the most since you offered that kill to him foremost).
2 Khorne
3 Nurgle
4 Slaanesh
5 Tzeentch
6 Malal
7 Great Horned Rat
8 The Other Ones
8.1 Be'lakor
8.2 Hashut
8.3 Mo'rcck, Phraz-Etar, and Ans'l
8.4 Necoho
8.5 Urlfdaemonkin
8.6 Zuvassin
8.7 Nuffle
8.8 The Great Gatherer
8.9 When Tzeentch was the best
According to the wikifags over at the Official Warhammer 40k Wiki, the Chaos gods were created and are sustained by the collective emotions of 'every sentient being of the material universe'; so not just the Milky Way, but every alien, both heretical and loyal, in the whole universe. This however probably isn't true, or rather it's just very bad wording, because if the Milky Way alone has all of these sentient races in it, then there's a safe bet that most other galaxies in the rest of the universe also have a multitude of sentient races too. And there are like, at least billions upon billions of galaxies in the observable universe, let alone the true universe which is likely many magnitudes larger. Based on what we've seen in the fluff, That many galaxies, filled with that many sentient lifeforms, all feeding only four Chaos Gods, would give said Chaos Gods so much power that they would probably have the capability to turn the entire galaxy (and many others) into massive Eyes of Terror at a simple scheming click of their heretical fingers. But of course, that hasn't happened (thank the fucking Emperor). Which probably means those wikifags are talking complete unadulterated bullshit, and in actuality, the full range of influence the Ruinous Powers have only extends to the area of the Milky Way and not much further. After all, a specific location in the Warp corresponds with a specific location in the Materium; your thoughts and emotions will have an effect (albeit very minor) on the Warp in your specific corresponding location, and the collective thoughts and emotions of a galaxy's population will only have an effect on that specific galactic area of the overall Warp. This essentially means the four Chaos Gods are completely confined to the Milky Way galaxy, because that's where the emotions that created and feed them are currently being felt.
So what does that really mean? Well, it means the Warp in the vast, cold, empty space between galaxies is calm as fuck, absolutely nothing like the infested shitty plughole it is right now in our home galaxy, because there's no sentient life and hence no chaotic emotions there to stir it up. However, this also means that if other galaxies out there have their own interstellar sentient species with a presence in the Warp, then those galaxies will have their own Chaos Gods [likely just analogous versions of the four (point five) we have, although it's also possible that the different emotions might be allocated differently for each galactic pantheon; ANdromeda might have gods based on the seven deadly sins, for example] that reside there and are also confined to the area of their own galaxy. But who knows? Maybe each warp god is a reflection of the galaxy that birthed it , and the aliens that live in other galaxies there have actually got their shit together and all get along like best buddies in a setting that just oozes noblebright from every pore, and the Chaos Gods there aren't even called that because they're all so friendly and cushy to everyone and like to play vidyagames with each other and cracking open cold ones on a warm Friday night while watching The Batchelor. Maybe the Warp gods in most galaxies actually maintian contact with those in neighboring ones, and everyone just stays the fuck out of the MIly Way for the same reason most 21st century tourists stay out of Somalia. How sweet... I wonder what would happen if two galaxies, both with their own analogous Chaos Gods, collided. Would they just absorb each other into a new pantheon of four even-more-powerful Gods? Would they fight each other until one reigned supreme? Or would they get along like good ol' chums since they understand each other perfectly? Anyway, tangents.
Now that I say all of this, why the actual FUCK has no one decided to just up and leave the galaxy already?! It's a complete shithole! It's filled to the absolute brim with nothing but copious amounts of Grimdark and a whole host of things that want to murder, rape and eat you, not necessarily in that order. And it's still being filled up with that shit, both crawling out from under the ground and flying in from outer space to OMNOMNOMNOM the faces of everyone you both despise and adore. Even if you're lucky enough to escape the immediate crossfire, you're still likely to be part of a civilisation that completely smashes any feeling of worth or individuality out of you and treats you like just another cog in the machine of trillions of cogs. Just leave already, god dammit. What about Andromeda? I hear it's rather pleasant this time of year. At least compared to this literal hellhole. But it's probably not possible for the same reason why Big Bobby G and Lion-O couldn't simply fly over the Ruinstorm to get to Terra; if the space between galaxies is calm because there are no souls, that probably means there's no warp either, making intergalactic travel impossible. But this is just speculation. Plus, you need to be Necron-tier to get pass the nids off galaxy.
But then again, It is officially stated that Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy are both threatened by the same Warp with the same Chaos Gods, sooo....
Now, where were we? Oh yes, Chaos Gods. Ahem.
Khorne[edit]
Main article: Khorne
Lord of RAEG, War, Butthurt, Steroids and Testosterone.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES! BUTTER FOR THE POP KHORNE! Oh, sorry. In case it wasn't obvious, Khorne is the god of battle, martial honor, and oh yeah, BLOOD! Although primarily formed from hate and rage, bravery and honor are also thrown in the mix. Also in the mix are mercy (in particular, mercy for those too weak to put up a fight and be a challenge to kill. This is almost never shown in the fluff though, annoyingly), courage, regret, fear, athleticism, determination, daring, impulsiveness, and struggling onward in the face of any odds.
Gender - DEFINITELY A MAN, AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!! I thought he was female? *BLAM!* *BLAM!* THAT'S DOUBLE HERESY!!
Main Enemy - Slaanesh, as he considers him/her/it/them to be too frilly and really doesn't care about sensations, especially when they prolong the spilling of blood, to the point fluff wise it is distinctly pointed out he hates the priss even more than tzeench, going so far as to have slaaneshi and khornates have the hatred special rule against eachother.
Bro god - Nurgle, although he doesn't seem to mind Khaela Mensha Khaine (they're probably the same thing, though), and he is rumored to be in a polyamorous relationship with Mork and Gork.
Love Interest - Gork and Mork (see above). Valkia the Bloody (Canonically - yes, your brain is now broken).
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Legion - The World Eaters, other various chapters and bands of warriors dedicated themselves to him since. Also has IG-equivalent armies like the Blood Pact.
Warriors of Chaos "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: Arbaal the Undefeated (ANGRY VIKINGS!! FUCK YEAH!!), Valkia the Bloody, Scylla Afingrimm (former warlord turned Chaos Spawn and still kicks ass), Hrafn Untam, Haargroth the Blooded, Skarr Bloodwrath. Khorne also has an entire Norse confederation especially devoted to him known as the Aeslingr.
Sacred Number - 8 ("The eightfold path")
A Khornate Berzerker Heretic Astartes of the World Eaters Traitor Legion.
Nurgle[edit]
Main article: Nurgle
Despite his and his minion's appearances, they're actually pretty nice.
Nurgle is the god of filth, pestilence, decay, and generally being a cool dude (which are obviously related). Formed from despair and fear of death, his portfolio also includes acceptance and stoicism. Other values include inevitability, empathy, kinship, struggle, (familial) love, tradition, mercy, and memory. Nurgle is also notable for being the only Chaos god that cares for his followers whatsoever, bordering on love (in fact in 40k, he loves the Eldar goddess Isha so much that he chained her up and force feeds her his new diseases, because that's the only way he knows how to express love... yeah, love sucks sometimes all the time most of the time). Also note that one aspect of him that is played up in the End Times is that he is in fact the god of life, only for him it means unrestrained, infinite life such as with pathogens and tumors.
Gender - A (slob of a) man. A VERY fat, old one.
Main Enemy - Tzeentch, the paragon of hope and change, in opposition to Nurgle's representation of decay and inevitability.
Bro god - Khorne, mostly because Nurgle is the only Chaos god Khorne doesn't entirely hate.
Love Interest - His joy and wife, Isha. Now pins for Alarielle, since he lost Isha to her.
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Legion - The Death Guard. Has tons of other followers like the The Purge (omnicidal wackos who have no problem using chemical and virus weapons on helpless populations), Apostles of Contagion (Zombie Plague aficionados), the Lords of Decay (utterly loyal Marines sent to die in the Eye, holy fuck these guys made a direct assault on the Solar System and won Pluto), and human IG armies like the rebellion on Vraks.
Warriors of Chaos "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: Valnir the Reaper, old school champion of Nurgle; Festus the Leechlord (this guy used to be a doctor in the Empire; he's not even a Northman). The Crow Brothers of the Björnlings are especially devoted to him also (Festus leads these guys), the Glottkin, Gutrot Spume (a Nurglite pirate barbarian), the Maggoth Riders of Icehorn Peak. It could also be possibly argued (especially considering Age of Skubmar) that the Skaven Clan Pestilens is some sort of splinter cult built on worshipping Nurgle while thinking that they're worshiping an aspect of the Horned Rat.
Sacred Number - 7 (though 3 is also a popular number)
Please note that the above lore mixes both Warhammer fantasy lore and Warhammer 40k lore which, although the character is virtually indistinguishable, are not the same thing.
A Plague Marine of the Death Guard Traitor Legion.
Slaanesh[edit]
Main article: Slaanesh
The embodiment of all things PR0N.
Slaanesh is the god/dess of pain, pleasure, and perfection... or, in other words, a god of emotions formed from emotions, not all of which are bad. In 40k (WHFB didn't elaborate how Slaanesh was born, so we can only assume s/he manifested normally like the other Gods), the an inherently psychic race called the Eldar created him/her/it/them by having so many damn orgies they tore space-time a new asshole (The Eye of Terror). Formed mainly from hedonism and excess, love and creativity are also attributes of Slaanesh. Other facets include perfectionism, obsessiveness, attention-whoring, jealousy, sensuality, DRUGS, empathy, self-expression, individuality, art, music, joy, and admiration (so quite literally the god of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll!).
Gender - Whatever you want it to be, sugar! In WH Fantasy you'll see illustrations of a lecherous old hag / old man / old bits-of-both; in WH40k depictions are of a young flamboyant hermaphrodite or trap.
Main enemy - The brutish Khorne, obviously. H-he never calls...
Bro god - Tzeentch, although that's mostly because he's the least icky of the Chaos gods. Her friendship with Nurgle is a bit questionable since he stole Isha during Slaanesh's proverbial and... literal raping of the former Eldar Empire, though it isn't shown anywhere that Slaanesh still openly detests Nurgle for that (Hell, their daemons temporarily joined forces once or twice). Generally the most open to working with the others.
Love Interest - All of them. Still pines for Isha, and is depressed no one ever seems to love him/her back. Tries to tempt Khorne into raping him/her/them. Gave up on Nurgle after he got married. For a long time has been pining for Tzeentch of all people, but she can never seem to make him think she likes him as more than just a friend. Basically, she's the hot chick who got friendzoned by the nerd. But she won't give up!
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Legion - Emperor's Children. Also has others to call on like The Flawless Host (their drugs make Emperor's Children's look like baking powder), Violaters (these guys body sculpt themselves enough to make a Tzimisce well up with pride), as well as, again, various IG-equivalent armies.
Warriors of Chaos "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: Sigvald the Magnificent (he really is quite magnificent...), Dechala the Denied one, former high elf maiden turned into near greater daemon level, Azazel, former bro of Sigmar, Styrkaar of Sortsvinear. The Varg tribes serve him. NO WE DON'T. Likely that the Hung worship him, purely judging from their nomenclature. Also, Dark Elves, pre-retcon.
Sacred Number - sex 6
A Slaaneshi-Heretic Astartes of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion.
Tzeentch[edit]
Main article: Tzeentch
Change we can all believe in...
Tzeentch is the god of Just as planned and magic. Tzeentch is formed from paranoia and plotting, but also, amazingly enough, hope and ambition. Other values include trust, curiosity, dissatisfaction, aspiration, progress, knowledge, learning, protection, will, anarchy, and change.
Gender - Always changing, but usually male or genderless.
Main Enemy - Nurgle, because he symbolizes stagnation, a.k.a. refusal towards change.
Bro god(dess) - Slaanesh, who isn't as brutal as Khorne and not as much of a lazy bastard as Nurgle. Plus, she's nice to little Tzeentch!
Love Interest - Kind of wishes that the Deceiver, Cegorach, and the Emperor were.
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Legion - Thousand Sons, and basically no other Space Marine groups; only The Scourged are canonical non-TS-descendants who are dedicated to Tzeentch. Tzeentch also apparently doesn't have any IG-equivalent armies dedicated to him in particular (besides the Prospero Spireguard). In-universe this is most likely because if a Guardsman is going to turn to a specific Chaos god, the prospect of power and unending glorious conquest, freedom from all pain and suffering, or all the booze, drugs and whores you can handle and then some are more attractive options than being a scheming nerd. Or else Tzeentch's non-marine cultists are rarely warriors or soldiers, more often power-hungry bureaucrats, nobles, Imperial Governors, and even Inquisitors. Out of universe it's hard to make Tzeentch-focused units other than TS when their signature units are sorcerers, who only come in small quantities on the tabletop, and the Sons-specific Rubric Marines. He also offers limited knowledge of the future, represented in game with a boosted Ward save from the Mark of Tzeentch.
Warriors of Chaos "Hero": Vilitch the Curseling Egrimm van Horstmann. No Chaos Tribe seems to revere him to any exceptional extent (well there was this Sarl tribe and it was ruled by a Tzeentch chieftian, but Wulfrik killed him as well as his son) but he pulled out some nasty tricks such as becoming the grand magister of the Order of Light and fucking said order up before flying away on top of a dragon. Also, got Cathay in a bag.
Sacred Number - 9
A Tzeentchian Chaos Sorcerer of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion.
Malal[edit]
Main article: Malal
Then we have this motherfucking out of place/odd one out weirdo here....
Though not as relevant as the other big four, Malal is still more notable than the other minor Gods mentioned below. He's sort of the borderline between major and minor chaos gods.
Malal is a renegade Chaos god that only appeared in one comic for Fantasy before his creators divorced and took their character with them, resulting in GW shitcanning most of the original sculptors and artists. Then he was replaced with two entirely different characters with the same basic domain before being quietly swept under the rug and forgotten, barring the odd reference that slips out here and there. He is fittingly the god of fractiousness and dissent, which means his power is parasitic: any time the four other major Milky Way Warp gods do their thing, which is to say strive to gain power at the expense of the materium and eachother, Malal grows in power as well. Because of his nature as a common enemy to the big four and thus a Warp Entity that fights the Warp, he is also sometimes a god of atheism, contradictions, and paradoxes, when he exists at all. That being said, he did have awesome champions who lived solely to hunt down the greatest champions of the other gods, which is pretty Awesome. Sadly (or not, depending on your opinion), Games Workshop idiotically lost the rights to his name, so he's been more or less retconned. Except now he might be back in 40k, with a Chaos Space Marine warband called the Sons of Malice who worship a god called Malice...who just happen to wear a color scheme of black and white, and just happen to have a symbol of a bisected skull, and whose premier Chaos weapon specializes in killing Daemons. There's also Beastmen of Malal in one of the card games. But nope, don't you dare say they worship Malal. Like Khorne, Malal has an aspect of hate, however it's more along the lines of loathing (including towards self), malice and cold contempt compared to Khorne's ragey hot-blooded variety. While a worshipper of either might shoot up a school, a malal worshipper would probably think of it like exterminating pests rather than a pleasant rampage. Beyond all that, his portfolio includes paradoxes, justice, revenge, nihilism, and the inevitability of Chaos turning upon itself. Every time the others fight or power shifts between them, he grows stronger. Just like Chaos will eventually win and consume all worlds, Malal will eventually win and consume all Chaos resulting in oblivion for all things...then if GW took the full bite off Moorcock's work and not just the parts they wanted, the whole thing starts all over again from the beginning.
Gender - A god with a gender? Really?
Main Enemy - EVERYONE. Because Malal's an edgy loner who doesn't play by the rules (also because he represents one of the few things GW didn't steal from Moorcock, that Chaos eventually destroys itself), although the forces of Chaos Undivided might logically be prioritized over other folk.
Bro God(ess) - Probably any character that has been retconned away, that is angry about not being a part of the canon anymore. A story where he temporarily joins forces with someone like Emps or the C'tan might also work.
Love Interest(s) - As per his nature as an edgelord, he has a tsundere love-hate relationship with chaos itself.
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Chapters - Sons of Malice. And that just about sums it up. No Imperial Guard equivalent, no daemon spawn, nothing (that we know of). So yeah, that pretty much makes him a god of hipsters too. /tg/ has made a fan-codex for Malal Daemonkin, though, so go help yourself :)
Warriors of Chaos "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: A fellow named Kaleb Daark was Malal's first revealed servant, who swung around a pterodactyl head on a stick. The Ogre Skrag the Slaughterer fucked up dwarves in his name before pussying out to follow some shitty Ogre god thanks to retcons. There's a small tribe of Beastmen named the Claws of Malal as well.
Sacred Number - 11
A Malalic Space Marine
Great Horned Rat[edit]
Main article: Horned Rat
Thinks he's better than sliced Jesus.
This otherwise-unnamed deity is patron of the Skaven, and god of... well, rats. He also infringes copyright on both Nurgle's and Tzeentch's portfolios, but it's mostly rats. The Horned Rat once appeared in material form; he's the only Chaos god to do so. Of course, in Skaven fashion, he just ate a ton of the Skaven present, gave some orders and left; the Skaven only serve him out of fear, even though their belief in him only makes him stronger. He left them with a warpstone monolith containing the Skaven equivalent of the Ten Commandments.
In Age of Sigmar he was promoted to Chaos God following the demotion of Slaanesh out of the Great Game.
Gender - Referred to as male.
Main Enemy - Everyone, backstabbing is his primary creed and portfolio. Being cowardly, he will also work with any Chaos God, mostly Nurgle. Archaon shows him the least respect, however.
Bro God(ess) - Nurgle, as far as his followers are concerned. They have very similar hobbies.
Love Interest(s) - As Skaven themselves are incapable of feeling love, it is unlikely GHR can either.
Dedicated Chaos Space Marine Chapters - None. Great Horned Rat does not exist in 40k. Although there are Death Guard miniatures with Skaven heads.
Warriors of Chaos "Hero" - Clanrats. All of them. ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also apparently Thanquol, because the Great Horned Rat thinks his fuckups are hilarious.
The Other Ones[edit]
Older editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40k mention several lesser Chaos gods. Nowadays, they only appear(ed) in WFB (and even then, only sparingly), with some (the Horned Rat and Hashut in particular) generally considered to be separate from the "main" Chaos pantheon. Until the Horned Rat replaced Slaanesh as the Fourth Chaos god in End Times. This change did not affect 40k.
Be'lakor[edit]
In Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Be'lakor was one of the earliest Chaos warlords, leading vast hordes of Daemons to ravage the world long before the Elves rose up against them. He impressed the Chaos Gods so much they turned him into a Daemon Prince, the first time they ever did that to a mortal follower of Chaos Gods. He is still among the most powerful of all Daemon Princes and is able to grant his followers unique magic powers. But then he grew proud and considerd himself better than the Chaos Gods themselves, so Tzeentch cursed him for his arrogance. Tzeentch made him be the one to crown Everchosens of Chaos while never getting to become the Everchosen himself, which pisses him off to no end. With the latest Everchosen, Archaon, Be'lakor was once again forced to crown the Everchosen of Chaos with the final artifact. Be'lakor played a big part in the Storm of Chaos campaign, but that has since been retconned. Although he still shows up from time to time, he no longer appears to be quite as powerful as he once was, although he is still a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided, which is a massive accomplishment in and of itself.
During the End Times, Be'lakor was all set to return to his former glory and then some, plotting to become the fifth Chaos God by breaking into Kazad Drengazi, the Fortress of the First Slayer (Grimnir, natch), a temple containing the Chaos Gate that Grimnir used to get to the Realm of Chaos in the first place. Be'lakor used the power of the Chaos Gate to break Tzeentch's curse, regain his physical form, and summon four greater daemons, one of each of the Chaos Gods; two of them had had their shit ruined by Gotrek and Felix once before. Be'lakor and his posse planned to backstab Grimnir from behind, at which point Be'lakor would take all of Grimnir's power and ascend to become the fifth Chaos God, but Gotrek and Felix showed up and wrecked Be'lakor and the Bloodthirster, while Grimnir kicked the asses of the Keeper of Secrets, Lord of Change, and Great Unclean One. It looked like Be'lakor and Gotrek's duel could go either way at first, then Gotrek hit Be'lakor with the Bloodthirster and kicked all their asses back to the Realm of Chaos, ruining Be'lakor's plans and forcing him to go get trapped in a magic ruby by Alarielle for the rest of eternity. One true Everchosen my ass! Somehow he managed to escape into the new world, only to get his ass royally handed to him by the Lizardmen dive bombing him with Pterodactyl riders.
In Warhammer 40,000, Be'lakor was the first Daemon Prince, as well as the first (and allegedly "last", but there have been two more since) Daemon Prince created through the action of all four Chaos Gods (apparently Lorgar and Perturabo were special exceptions or something (though knowing Pert, I wouldn't be surprised if he was 75% Khornate or something)), and quickly proved to be difficult to control even at the best of times. Apparently his creation gave him the Daemonic equivalent of daddy issues and now he spends most of his time trying to kill all other Champions of Chaos, including other Daemon Princes. The Chaos Gods tolerate him mostly because his wild-card status makes him an excellent pawn in their power struggles, something Be'lakor himself is completely unaware of (as he thinks he still has free will and just wants to cement his position as Chaos' sole champion). Recently, he's shown up to "help" with Abaddon's Black Crusades by giving him seemingly helpful advice that often leads to unexpectedly heavy losses, all in an attempt to undermine his credibility (well, more so than he does on his own). In a stunning display of insight, Abaddon saw through his ruse, but allowed him to remain within the Black Legion in order to keep tabs on him and better prepare for his sudden but inevitable betrayal. The Imperium isn't even aware that he exists, as Be'lakor has been very careful about concealing his presence from history (with the unwitting help of a Magos who learned just enough about him to know that he exists, but not enough to realize that he's a Daemon Prince). Playing in a band really doesn't help his concealment much though.
He's also been shown to be in contact with Ahriman. No word on whether Ahriman has accepted his offer of being made his greatest champion in exchange for his service, however, but seeing as Ahzek rejects even Tzeentch's own offerings to be HIS chosen champion, still thinks he's independent of any god (despite having Tzeentch's mark on the tabletop), and actively tries to become the fifth Chaos god himself, it's a good bet he told Be'lakor to go fuck himself with someone else's force sword.
German Age of Sigmar players love to field him in chaos lists as there is a translation error in his German rules, allowing him to control an enemy miniature in the whole battle. Fun fact he's also a kick ass band.
Hashut[edit]
Hashut apparently means "Father of Darkness" in Dwarfen, which naturally means he's the god of the Chaos Dwarfs. And if his followers are any indication, he's also god of penis-compensating hats.
Mo'rcck, Phraz-Etar, and Ans'l[edit]
Puns on the last names of sci-fi and fantasy author Michael Moorcock (from whom the idea of Chaos as a fundamental force in the world was blatantly stolen/took inspiration from, and don't anyone ever say "borrow for a while" since even the author and Games Workshop have admitted it), artist Frank Frazetta (who drew a lot of movie and comic book posters, especially in sci-fi and fantasy), and Citadel Miniatures founder Bryan Ansell (who wrote several of the First Edition rulebooks). These guys helped set the tone of the early Warhammer 40,000 universe (purposefully or not), including the propensity of putting spikes on Chaos things. Games Workshop decided to pay homage in the (initial) Third Edition Codex: Chaos Space Marines, which mentioned that Chaos Space Marines often put "spiky bits" on their armour in praise of these three gods. They were never mentioned anywhere else, and probably shouldn't be considered "canonical"... not that canonicity counts for much in 40k anyway.
Necoho[edit]
/tg/ has recently deduced Necoho's true identity.
Necoho is the god of atheism and one of the other minor gods invented as a replacement for Malal. Stupid as it sounds, it actually works, as Chaos is a reflection of all human beliefs and emotions, including, paradoxically, disbelief. He generally works to make religious movements disappear and wears a permanent expression of comic amusement, as he fucking knows he's a walking, talking paradox.
Note that Necoho was introduced in an adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, so his current canonicity is doubtful, to say the least. That being said, he has been mentioned sporadically since then, such as the Gotrek & Felix novel Road of Skulls, which is more than can be said for Zuvassin. Has been mentioned by name in the Age of Sigmar novel Auction of Blood, along with a mention to his cult.
In the popular series If the Emperor had a text to speech device, an interesting point was made that the Emperor was, perhaps unknowingly, feeding a Chaos god of unbelief by promoting his Imperial Truth.
Urlfdaemonkin[edit]
Urlf isn't a name. It's the last fucking death cry a guy makes when you gut him. That should tell you all you need to know. Anyway, this guy used to be a Norscan (like most of the daemon princes on this list) and was elevated to princehood by Khorne for exceptional badassery. Before his ascension, he was a massive, tall, bearded, Clint Eastwood-type Chaos Champion and was a chieftain of the Snaegr clan of Aeslingr. He's so fucking powerful that he was able to create his own lesser daemons and can bless warriors with the Mark and mutations of Khorne. Urlf has his own summoning days like most powerful daemon princes, and is usually worshiped as a lesser deity of Chaos by those who serve his master, Khorne. He has a short story in the 6th edition Chaos army book, where he muses on the fuck-you nature of time in the Warp and remarks on how the new Chieftain of the Snaegr resembles one of the sons he fathered in his mortal life. He also blesses the new chief with Khorne's mark and turns him into a monstrous cross between a Bloodletter and a Chaos Champion.
Zuvassin[edit]
Zuvassin is one of the two minor gods invented as a replacement for Malal. He just likes to see shit fall apart, specifically nonphysical stuff like schemes and lives - in other words, he's the god of not as planned. He's the guy who makes all the bad shit happen in infomercials. Generally, he makes sure that Murphy's Law is always enforced in the most spectacular possible ways. He doesn't have many worshippers, as he makes sure to fuck up whatever they're planning too.
Note that Zuvassin was only introduced in an adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, so his current canonicity is doubtful, to say the least.
Actually, he is still canon, at least in Warhammer Fantasy. The 2nd Edition "Tome of Salvation" actually lists both him and Necoho as Chaos Gods.
Nuffle[edit]
Main article: Nuffle
A joke Chaos God for Bloodbowl, Nuffle is a mispronunciation of NFL (as in "National Football League", the American gridiron football pro league in real life), which would be pronounced "Noofle" as in "book" if you tried pronouncing it. Nuffle explains why the Blood Bowl universe is so wacky and gridiron football obsessed. Technically the superior to the rest of Chaos, although apparently only in the Blood Bowl universe.
The Great Gatherer[edit]
A (presumably) giant crow worshipped by tribesmen from Ulgu in the Age of Sigmar. Not much is known about him, since the only game his followers appear in isn't out yet, but we do know that the Corvus Cabal (the aforementioned tribesmen) consider Archaon to be his avatar in the Mortal Realms. Theories range from it being an aspect of Tzeentch (notable avian features, Tzeentch is known to be interested in the Realm of Shadow, maybe gathering secrets?) or Nurgle (the Crow was Nurgle's totem animal among the Norscans, maybe gathering bodies?) to being a minor, but ascending, Chaos God not so far removed from the Great Horned Rat's path to the pantheon. He even has the weird connection to both Nurgle and Tzeentch the GHR does. It has been confirmed that the Warbands from Warcry will be usable in the main game, possibly as normal units, and will have the keyword SLAVES TO DARKNESS, which means he'll have some representation in a mainline game. Not too bad for the newest kid on the block.
When Tzeentch was the best[edit]
According to recent Tzeentch Codex/Battletome Tzeentch was at one point the sole major chaos god. A rebellion against him fractured him into many pieces, which because of warp time fuckery, technically counts as a different god. When chaos was first forming (just after War in Heaven for 40k) there were many chaos gods and entities competing (rather than the total domination that exists now). Tzeentch somehow became number one, and was a super god of sorts, although he was possibly less powerful than the current Tzeentch due to the lesser size and influence of chaos. A rebellion by all the other chaos gods fractured him, creating the Tzeentch we know today. In the same way that Slaanesh has always existed in 40k, the new Tzeentch has always existed the way he is. While the old Tzeentch is permanently destroyed (across all time), while still doing the things he did. They are implied to be two seperate entites.
This is a variant of the backstory of The Blue Scribes.
The Chaos Gods of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy
Four Main Chaos Gods: Khorne - Nurgle - Slaanesh - Tzeentch
Other Gods of Chaos: Archaon - Hashut - Horned Rat - Nuffle
Malal - Necoho - Zuvassin
Chaos Gods of Law: Alluminas - Arianka - Solkan the Avenger
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What’s most stunning in Bali — dazzling beaches like Nusa Dua, Seminyak and Jimbaran Bay? Ubud’s terraced rice fields, sacred forest and ancient monuments? Or the island’s 10,000 intricate temples, including Pura Empul (the one you bathe in) and Uluwatu sea temple? Experience all of the above and decide for yourself. The Land of the Gods also boasts a loveliness that is more than skin-deep, thanks to its warm people and ubiquitous, inclusive spirituality.
This hotel is one of the best reasonably priced hotels in downtown Las Vegas. A great location a stone’s throw from Fremont St. It caters for most of your needs, decor was modern and super clean. I arrived a few hours before the advertised check in time and was seen to straight away and allowed to check in to my room early with no problem. I really liked the feel of the hotel and was pleased with being granted my request of a late check out at noon.
Where to stay in Crete: Adults-only Casa Cook is a chic little number that breaks all the rules about package holidays (you’d never know it was created by Thomas Cook). The Marco Polo is a 15th-century mansion decorated like a pasha's harem, with an enchanting garden restaurant. Ottoman-style suites at Melenos Lindos have hand-painted ceilings and carved platform beds.
Increasingly since 1978, US airlines have been reincorporated and spun off by newly created and internally led management companies, and thus becoming nothing more than operating units and subsidiaries with limited financially decisive control. Among some of these holding companies and parent companies which are relatively well known, are the UAL Corporation, along with the AMR Corporation, among a long list of airline holding companies sometime recognized worldwide. Less recognized are the private equity firms which often seize managerial, financial, and board of directors control of distressed airline companies by temporarily investing large sums of capital in air carriers, to rescheme an airlines assets into a profitable organization or liquidating an air carrier of their profitable and worthwhile routes and business operations.
Tony Jannus conducted the United States' first scheduled commercial airline flight on 1 January 1914 for the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line.[23] The 23-minute flight traveled between St. Petersburg, Florida and Tampa, Florida, passing some 50 feet (15 m) above Tampa Bay in Jannus' Benoist XIV wood and muslin biplane flying boat. His passenger was a former mayor of St. Petersburg, who paid $400 for the privilege of sitting on a wooden bench in the open cockpit. The Airboat line operated for about four months, carrying more than 1,200 passengers who paid $5 each.[24] Chalk's International Airlines began service between Miami and Bimini in the Bahamas in February 1919. Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Chalk's claimed to be the oldest continuously operating airline in the United States until its closure in 2008.[25]
The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization. Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers, Ryanair by number of international passengers carried and Turkish Airlines by number of countries served.
A more recent development is the airline alliance, which became prevalent in the late 1990s. These alliances can act as virtual mergers to get around government restrictions. Alliances of airlines such as Star Alliance, Oneworld, and SkyTeam coordinate their passenger service programs (such as lounges and frequent-flyer programs), offer special interline tickets, and often engage in extensive codesharing (sometimes systemwide). These are increasingly integrated business combinations—sometimes including cross-equity arrangements—in which products, service standards, schedules, and airport facilities are standardized and combined for higher efficiency. One of the first airlines to start an alliance with another airline was KLM, who partnered with Northwest Airlines. Both airlines later entered the SkyTeam alliance after the fusion of KLM and Air France in 2004.
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Hidden Gem: Match Three Blocks To Make One With DELETR
by Lory Gil
DELETR (Free) by Tiny Touch Tales is a match-three game with a minimalist design and a casual gamer appeal. This is not your ordinary matching game, so be prepared to use you brain for these challenging puzzles.
Players must link three blocks of the same color diagonally, horizontally, or vertically. If you match them diagonally or horizontally, they will disappear and you will earn points. If you match them vertically, they will combine into one block and receive a second-level designation. If you match three level-two blocks, those three will turn into a level-three block. No points are earned for combining blocks, but they do help you get out of a sticky situation.
For example, if you have two blue blocks in a column and a third blue block is added, those three blocks will combine into one and become a level-two block. If three more blue blocks are added on top of the level-two block, then there will be two level-two blocks in one column. If you match three more blue blocks on top of the two that are already there, you will create a third level-two block. When that happens, all three level-two blocks combine into a single level-three block.
Once a block makes it to the third level, it becomes a “wild card” and can be matched with any color. So, if you have a level-three block next to two yellow blocks, diagonally or horizontally, they will disappear and you will earn points.
It may seem simple, but this matching game is fairly complex. If you don’t have your colors lined up properly, you’ll have a difficult time getting rid of the blocks. You may think it is easy to link three of them vertically, but you’ll be stuck with columns of unplayable blocks before you know it.
The game is free, but you are limited on how often you can play. You’ll get three tries before you get locked out for 10 minutes. You can unlock unlimited play by purchasing the full game for only $0.99, or, wait the allotted time and give it another try.
This is a great game for fans of match-three and block drop games. It is fun to play and complex enough to keep you interested. You can play for free every 10 minutes, or fork over the dollar for unlimited gaming. Download it in the App Store today.
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Review: Superfan – Sarina Bowen
Superfan by Sarina Bowen
Published by Tuxbury Publishing LLC
Sometimes lady luck shakes your hand, and sometimes she smacks your face. Sometimes she does both on the same day.
Three years ago I met the most amazing girl in the world. We were both down on our luck. Then I got that call—the one that tells you to get your buns on a plane to go meet your destiny.
But the girl was left behind. I didn’t have her phone number, and she didn’t know my real name.
While I became a professional hockey player, she became a superstar, with platinum records and legions of fans. And a slick, music producer boyfriend who treated her badly.
But fate wasn’t done with us yet. When Delilah turns up at a hockey game, I can’t resist making contact. The internet swoons when I ask her out on a date.
She might not remember me. But her jerkface ex does. He’ll do anything to keep us apart.
Good thing athletes never give up. This time I’m playing for keeps.
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I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
It is no secret I’m a huge fan of Sarina Bowen. As soon as her books are up for preorder I have it purchased. Especially if it is one of the guys from the Brooklyn Bruiser hockey team. So when I heard about Silas’s book it was a natural auto-buy. And man was I not disappointed. Silas and Delilah’s story was what I was hoping for. It was filled with oodles of chemistry and heart and I was one happy reader.
Superfan is the story of Silas, the back-up goalie for the Brooklyn Bruisers. Silas is having the time of his career playing for the Bruisers after his first time playing pro was a bust, but something is missing for him, and it is Delilah, the girl that got away 3 years ago. When Silas ends up tweeting her while she is at a hockey game for the Bruiser’s rival team, the internet takes notice and soon a date is set up. But nothing is ever easy for Silas, especially when Delilah doesn’t immediately remember him, but her ex certainly does and will stop at nothing to make sure this reunion doesn’t happen.
What I loved about Superfan most was the chemistry between Delilah and Silas. Right from the start I noticed it and was sucked in. They both came from different worlds but they had the same drive and the same heart and I loved that. Silas was such a nice guy and he had felt terrible for 3 years for how things went down and made things right when the timing was right for both of them. I loved how they worked together to figure out a way to make things work for them when they each had two different careers on two different coasts. It wasn’t always easy, but it was what worked for them.
If I’m honest though, my favorite part was getting to see my guy Nate again. I missed him in Overnight Sensation so it was nice to be able to ‘catch-up’ and see how things were for him. Spoiler alert: Things were really good for Nate. 🙂
All in all, I had a fun time reading Superfan. There was some drama, but it didn’t outweigh the good stuff that made you smile and feel mushy in the middle. It was a welcome addition to this series filled with companion books and one I would recommend you read.
Review: Call It What You Want – Brigid Kemmerer
Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer
Published by Bloomsbury YA
When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father’s failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care.
Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle.
When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a calculus project, they’re both reluctant to let anyone through the walls they’ve built. But when Maegan learns of Rob’s plan to fix the damage caused by his father, it could ruin more than their fragile new friendship...
This captivating, heartfelt novel asks the question: Is it okay to do something wrong for the right reasons?
I’ve been a fan of Brigid Kemmerer since I opened Letters to the Lost and read it in one day. There is something about the way that Brigid writes, not only romance but the friendship aspect as well. She also writes the best boy characters! Anyway, when I heard about Call It What You Want I was beyond thrilled to get a new contemporary from her. And I can happily say it hit the spot for the most part and I was happy to be on the journey with these characters.
Call It What You Want is the story of Rob and Maegan, two high school students that are in for a tougher year than they ever expected. Maegan has always been known to be the good girl that does the right thing until she has a serious lapse in judgment and makes a terrible mistake, and now is avoided at school like the plague. Rob, on the other hand, didn’t do anything personally, but his father did. His father got caught embezzling from half the town and Rob is left dealing with the repercussions, on top of taking care of his dad after his failed suicide attempt. When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a project these two outcasts start to learn something about themselves and start on a new kind of journey together. But not everything is as it seems.
Once again I loved the boy Brigid created. Rob was hands-down my favorite thing in Call It What You Want. He was so broken and in such a bad place. He had his whole life upended and was navigating a path he never saw coming. He broke my heart with how alone he felt. And he was so angry. Angry enough to make some really bad decisions that he would justify even knowing he was doing the wrong thing. But underneath all of that, he was just a scared kid. Maegan, on the other hand, had a terrible lapse in judgment and made a mistake that cost a lot of people. She was under pressure and did something she shouldn’t and was paying the price. I hated how she just accepted that people should treat her the way they did because of what she did. It made me sad to see her just accept it. In the end, I liked how these two interacted together. I like how they learned and grew by being around one another when no one else really wanted to be there for them.
I enjoyed Call It What You Want a lot. It had some really good, strong parts. There were also some parts that I just wanted more of and I didn’t get it. I think because of that I didn’t have as strong of an emotional connection as I did to Letters to the Lost and More Than We Can Tell. But with that said, it still packed a punch and made me grateful Brigid shares her talent as an author with us. Pick this one up for sure!
Top 10 Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday – Most Anticipated Releases During the Second Half of 2019
This is one of my favorite TTT posts ever. I love sharing the books I’m excited to read for the rest of the current year. The good thing is I have a handful of these already available to me and the others will come with time.
Looks like the end of 2019 will have some good reading in store for me!
If you want to see the other books I’m excited for in 2019, check out my shelf on Goodreads.
*TTT hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
Books, New to Me
New to Me – July Voting
In 2018 I had the idea to have readers and friends read my favorite books from years past. I had 20+ amazing people sign up and read some of my all-time favorite books. They took the time out of their busy lives and reading schedules and read books I love and shared what they thought on my blog. It was a lot of fun and I got to see some new takes on old favorites. It actually was a fun experience. If you are interested in the reviews HERE.
This year I decided to give back in a way and asked everyone that signed up to tell me their favorite book (that I have not read) because in 2019 it is time to do NEW TO ME.
Last month was the worst voting month yet, but the people still spoke and told me what I needed to read in June (which I will be doing soon, I hope). About 17 of you took to the polls and 6 books got votes. But this was not a close race. With an overwhelming amount of support and 47.06% of the votes, I will be reading:
Now it is your time to vote again and pick the book I will read in July. You have until 6/23/19 to get your vote in and tell me what book I should read next!
Review: The Friend Zone – Abby Jimenez
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Published by Forever
Fall in love with this hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy that USA Today bestselling author LJ Shen calls "an absolute treat."
SheReads' "Most Anticipated Romance Books of 2019"
Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children.
Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen -- especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he'd be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it's harder and harder to keep him at arm's length.
The Friend Zone will have you laughing one moment and grabbing for tissues the next as it tackles the realities of infertility and loss with wit, heart, and a lot of sass.
"Harnessing sass, heartfelt struggle, and unapologetic sexuality, Jimenez's debut is as hysterical as it is tear-jerking....Jimenez manages to fulfill all expectations for a romantic comedy while refusing to sacrifice nuance. Biting wit and laugh-out-loud moments take priority, but the novel remains subtle in its sentimentality and sneaks up on the reader with unanticipated depth." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
I first heard about The Friend Zone over a year ago when a friend of mine got to read the manuscript. She couldn’t tell me anything about the book (it didn’t even have a title and was still in submission) but she told me she loved it so, so much and she hoped that everyone got to read it. Fast forward to now and I can say she was 100% right. The Friend Zone was awesome. It was the perfect balance of humor and emotional heartbreak and I’m so happy I got to read it.
The Friend Zone is the story of Kristen, a strong, funny, feisty woman that is facing the fact she is about to have a procedure done that will stop her from being able to have children. Being the good friend that she is, she puts aside all of that to help her best friend plan her wedding. Which means she will be working side by side with Josh, the best man. As Josh and Kristen get closer it becomes harder and harder for them to stay in the friend zone. The problem is, Josh wants kids and Kristen won’t be able to have them.
What I loved about this story, besides Josh and Kristen, was the fact that the author stared what it is like to be a woman right in the face. She didn’t shy away from the problems women can have when it comes to reproductive issues and how that can make a woman feel. Jimenez was raw, and truthful in her storytelling but also added so much humor into the mix it was a nice balance. There was one part, okay, more than one part, that shredded my emotions and I 100% didn’t see it coming, but again it felt like real life because the unexpected can and will happen.
In the end, The Friend Zone was everything I was hoping for in a book. It hit all the notes I wanted it to and more. I definitely recommend picking this one up.
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May21 by Ann E. Michael
Mimesis: “Imitation, in particular. 1.1 Representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature”… “a figure of speech, whereby the words or actions of another are imitated” … “the deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people by another as a factor in social change” (OED).
“Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man’s. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role.” —Walter Benjamin (“On the Mimetic Faculty,” 1933)
From time to time, I mull over mimesis and its role in human learning. Research on animal behavior since Benjamin was writing has somewhat undermined his assertion that the “highest capacity for producing similarities” belongs to human beings, but the concept remains generally accurate. What I notice among my students, however, is the human ability to perceive differences. My students much prefer to focus on what makes things different than on what makes them similar, but perhaps the reason is that similarities seem so obvious (due to our capacity for “producing similarities”) that we take them for granted. I introduce poetry to my students as an ancient art derived from exactly what, no one is certain, but likely from invocation or ritual or song or the human desire for narrative–and I tell them that it has been carried along through history by, among other compelling things, mimesis–that mimetic faculty we possess that makes us want to repeat or copy, in order to learn, to love, to pass along, to entertain, to communicate, to enjoy. We can look in the mirror and see another human’s face, or our own faces slightly changed through the process of copying another.
The mimetic urge has a long history among those people who intellectualize. Theories of Media (Univ. of Chicago: W. J. T. Mitchell) glossary offers a concise but comprehensive “mimesis” entry authored by Michele Puetz–the article in which I found the Benjamin quote above. (By the way, the Theories of Media glossary project is a great resource!) As I looked through my go-to philosophy resources, though, I was left with the distinct impression that the concept of mimesis has moved from the realm of the philosophical–Plato and Aristotle are our main thinkers on mimesis in the philosophical arena, so that’s pretty far back–and into the realms of sciences, both social and biological. Mimetic response has been researched, and speculated upon, by psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and neurologists (see the initial excitement about “mirror neurons” in this 2006 New York Times article). The term has found considerable employment in the writings of Rene Girard, whose writings span cultural anthropology, literary criticism, psychology, theology, and philosophy.
Writes Gabriel Andrade, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
“Girard believes that the great modern novelists (such as Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust and Dostoevsky) have understood human psychology better than the modern field of Psychology does. And, as a complement of his literary criticism, he has developed a psychology in which the concept of ‘mimetic desire’ is central. Inasmuch as human beings constantly seek to imitate others, and most desires are in fact borrowed from other people, Girard believes that it is crucial to study how personality relates to others.”
Clearly, human psychology and biology cannot be simplified to mere reflection and copying, but it is equally clear that the metaphor of mirroring can be fruitful as we explore the complexities of mind and consciousness, culture and art. Sometimes I take on the role of educator; and when I do so, I recognize the need for student learners to imitate, to hear information repeated, and to attempt to create their own “similarities.” Sometimes I take on the role of poet; and when I do that, I am clothed in centuries of form, rhythms, sounds, similes, stylings and borrowings and references: copies and reflections, altered through time.
Mirrored Room by Lucas Samaras Photo: © Albright-Knox Art Gallery/CORBIS
A brief aside: When I was eight or nine years old, I went with my parents to an art museum–it may have been the Chicago Art Institute–and there was an installation of Lucas Samaras’ piece “Mirrored Room.” [See the photo at left.] I was deeply impressed by the mirrored room, partly because it was inside this artwork that I finally understood, metaphorically, the concept of infinity. I was awed by the many diminishing selves I could see, the way a single “I” could change (in size), and by the tricks of light and how easily one could get lost in such a small space.
The mirrors copied me.
Mimesis implies something active, a borrowing, a taking–a kind of theft, on the one hand, and a kind of tribute or ritual motion on the other. It is also inherently continuous. The behavior does not stop at the first copy; it is carried on, perhaps through generations, like DNA.
Here is the brilliant Anne Carson:
“[It’s] what the ancients mean by imitation. When they talk about poetry, they talk about mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader. Some people think that means the poet takes a snapshot of an event and on the page you have a perfect record. But I don’t think that’s right; I think a poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the reader, when he engages it, has to enter into that action. And so his mind repeats that action and travels again through the action, but it is a movement of yourself through a thought, through an activity of thinking, so by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the beginning and you feel that difference.”
Carson describes how I feel when I’ve read a poem or novel that moves me deeply. For that matter, it is how I feel when I find a work of visual art, or a play or dance, that seems to speak with immediacy to my own sense of experience, which arouses my passion, compassion, or emotion and alters my entire psyche for awhile– “by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the beginning and you feel that difference.”
Sometimes I even manage to compose a poem that gives me that sense of feeling different than I was at the beginning. On those rare times, I may look at myself in the mirror and see a changed face.
This entry was posted in Art, Philosophy, Poetry, Teaching & Pedagogy, Words and tagged Anne Carson, anthropology, art, Lucas Samaras, mimesis, mirror neurons, neuroscience, philosophy, Poetry, Rene Girard, science, Walter Benjamin.
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10 comments on “Mimesis”
Sigrun says:
A thought on language, personal:
When Plato talks about mimesis, his language gets too tight, like a knot, a riddle. Whens science discuss mimesis, everything is put into grid, it becomes external. When Carson writes about mimesis it is as if she is here in the room with me, leading me along.
One reason she is so wonderful as a writer and as an educator (and one reason to agree with Girard that perhaps our literary artists know more about psychology than our psychologists do). 😉
In Alan Lightman’s essay on the symmetrical universe in “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew,” he argues that one reason we may find symmetry in nature so appealing is that “we are all the same stuff” (atoms, molecules, etc.). Your aside regarding the Mirrored Room reminded me of Lightman. Really enjoyed the post.
Amazingly, I just finished reading The World You Thought You Knew. Synchronicity?
So it seems. Have read Lightman’s novel, Einstein’s Dreams?
Indeed I have! If you like Lightman, you might want to check out Rebecca Goldstein’s novels.
Flora Mangini says:
Hey, Ann,
Really liked your blog. I was wondering, though, from which of Anne Carson’s texts is that mimesis-quote. I got curious to reading it full version!
It’s from a Paris Review interview. The link is here: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5420/the-art-of-poetry-no-88-anne-carson
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I love that Anne Carson quote!
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Photography by Brian Aitken
Top 5 Reasons to Bring the Family to Waterville Valley Resort
Alister & Paine March 12, 2015
A decade ago, the Waterville Valley Resort just wasn’t what it used to be. The charm and touch of a family run business had started to disappear as a bigger brand ran operations, and while the mountain was still one of the best on the East Coast, no one knew about it anymore. This is a place where Olympians trained, where the greats worked on their technique until it was gold medal worthy. Chris Sununu wasn’t about to let that legacy disappear into thin air.
The Sununu’s spent their winters at Waterville 30 years ago, learned to race there together, and knew what the mountain was capable of. Chris Sununu took over in October of 2010 and has breathed new life into this hidden New Hampshire gem. It was the first time in 15 years the entire resort, including the ski area, Nordic center and town square all came under local control.
Our youngest Alister & Paine team member having a blast at Kids Kamp
The Sununu family has been involved in the Waterville community for years—the Annual Christa McAuliffe Ski Invitational was originated and supported by Governor and Mrs. John H. Sununu from 1988 to 1994. Both the former Governor and his son, former Senator John E. Sununu have homes in Waterville Valley, enjoying the many year-round recreational activities the resort has to offer with their families.
Waterville Valley has been one of New Hampshire’s most popular family ski areas since 1966 and is famous for its ski racing heritage, WVBBTS ski club (Gold Freestyle Ski Medalist Hannah Kearney is an alumnus) and the self-contained village designed as a four season resort by Olympian Skier Tom Corcoran. The ski area has one of the state’s highest elevations at 4,000 feet with 52 trails on 255 acres, 12 lifts and 100% snowmaking.
Our littlest reviewer made it onto intermediate terrain after three days of lessons
We had a chance to get in some incredible spring skiing and see what the Sununu’s have been up to. This mountain is something else—incredibly diverse terrain, with the second chair lift to the top servicing all blues before diving off into blue or black terrain. With the amount of snow we were blessed with this year and the sun finally showing its face, right now is the time to play hooky and get up there. Right now. Seriously.
This is the kind of Spring Skiing you only see on the West Coast, only find in the instagrammed photos of those super cool Lake Tahoe boarders and skiers. We spent the weekend cruising around with buttery soft powder beneath our skis and a view of Mount Washington beckoning in the distance. There’s a great promo going on right now—free Spring Skiing with the purchase of a Waterville Valley Ski & Ride 2015/16 pass.
The mountain is also very family friendly—we brought along our four year old reviewer to check out the Kids Kamp and see if he could make it on the big mountain. Three full days of ski school, one sighting of Bruce the Moose (not a real moose, but the same excitement ensues), and he was on the chairlift. By the last day he was on the high-speed quad and absolutely rocking it down the blues. The teachers were all incredibly helpful, disciplined and knew exactly what to do to get this kid to actually love ski school (a sentiment he did not have on the first day of ‘school’). End the day with tubing or a cozy sleigh ride if you have the energy for it!
A Cadillac Escalade is the perfect on-mountain ride
Waterville Valley is the kind of place you can bring everyone to. Huge three bedroom condos at the town square, lots of family friendly activity, a great Kids Kamp so your little ones can work on their skill while you get in some black diamond time. Since the actual resort is all National Forest Land the lodging isn’t technically slopeside, but it’s worth it for the views and natural beauty you find at the top of those chair lifts.
While you’re there, make sure you head over to Coyote Grill just a mile down the road from the resort. New Hampshire is known for its more casual cuisine, but Coyote Grill is just an unexpected treasure in the midst of some great pub grub. Start at the bar for some inventive cocktails and then move to the dining room for a fantastic meal—and kid friendly! They have No Sitter Sundays where kids eat for free.
Chef Sean Stout focuses on locally grown ingredients with a New England flavor. The ambiance is soft and inviting and not at all pretentious, the staff knowledgeable and accommodating, and the food top notch. Perfect after a hard day on the slopes. The small but significant premium wine selection includes all of our favorites from Stag’s Leap like the Artemis, Fay, and S.L.V.
Waterville Valley Resort Fireworks at the Town Square
The local 603 brews is another nice nod to the charm and appeal of Waterville Valley—they started in a small Campton garage and had to move to Londonberry when the locals started drinking it up quicker than they could produce it! Found exclusively in the valley, the 603 Waterville Wheat is one of our favorites –a super refreshing unfiltered wheat beer with bursts of orange and coriander that goes down smoothly and feels hard earned after spending the morning on Scrambled and Gema (our favorite blue and black runs).
The bite in the air is gone but the snow’s still here. Take advantage and get on mountain before it disappears.
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by At The Rails | July 7, 2010 · 7:23 pm
Puyol powers Spain into final
Not only will a European nation win the World Cup outside Europe for the first time, but the tournament is now guaranteed a first-time winner as well, after Carles Puyol’s second half header gave Spain a 1-0 victory over Germany, sending the European champions into Sunday’s final against the Netherlands. It’s the first final for Spain and the third for the Dutch, who lost in 1974 and 1978.
Paul the Octopus was right again and is a perfect 6-0 on German results. Before the Spanish turn him into a soupy pulpo, I’d love to know who he thinks will win Sunday in what looks like a fascinating clash of first-class football teams, both stacked with talent all over the field.
Germany will no doubt wonder whether things might have gone differently for them had young midfielder Thomas Mueller been available for selection. Gotta say I’m not a fan of keeping the yellow card count going all the way through to the quarterfinals…I’d prefer they were reset after the group stages and recounted from there, and I’m sure many Germans agree, although the idea was apparently to keep players alive for the final. German fans might also have preferred to see their team take the game to the Spanish a bit more, rather than sitting back and trying to hit off the counter. About the only time Spain wasn’t passing the ball crisply was when a vuvuzela-toting Italian invaded the pitch to belatedly make a case for Antonio Cassano.
Spain, who left the struggling Fernando Torres on the bench to start this one, moved the ball around with characteristic flair, but couldn’t break the deadlock until the peerless Puyol, his curly mane trailing behind him, rose to hammer Xavi’s corner into the back of the net in the 73rd minute, all they would need to secure their third straight 1-0 victory and book passage to Soccer City.
I’m no octopus, and while Spain does make me right on one pre-tournament final pick, this is a tough one to call. Joachim Loew says Spain are the best team in the world, which might just be true. I expect the Netherlands will demand a bit more possession and open the game up enough that there’s more than one goal in it, but Roja will win out over Oranje in the end. Can’t wait for Sunday!!
Tagged as carles puyol, final, germany, joachim loew, netherlands, paul the octopus, semifinal, south africa, spain, thomas mueller, world cup, xabi
by At The Rails | July 4, 2010 · 1:24 am
Maradona’s men meet their match
There were long faces and dark mutterings around the family home of my Futbol Guapa after her Albicelestes met another early exit from the World Cup Saturday, thrashed 4-0 by Germany’s young stars in the day’s first quarterfinal match, a victory that moves Die Mannschaft one step Klose (get it?) to the finals. Even the choripan didn’t taste quite as good afterward, tinged with the disappointment of a title drought that will now last another four years.
Much of the blame will be laid at the feet of the last man to lift a World Cup trophy in Argentinian colours. Diego Maradona, a firebrand striker in 1986 and now a portly coach, at least saved us all the decidedly unwelcome prospect of watching him run (waddle?) naked through the streets of Buenos Aires, which he’d promised to do if his team had won in South Africa. He may have inspired a similar pledge from Larissa Riquelme, which I salute, but Diego’s team selection and tactics were highly suspect. How handy would it have been for Argentina to have Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso to call into Maradona’s attack-minded lineup against Germany, helping to prop up a lonely Javier Mascherano in front of the back four, or replacing the highly suspect Nicolas Otamendi, whose foul led to Thomas Muller’s opening goal after just three minutes. So much for God’s will.
Having said that, these Germans are clearly a force to be reckoned with. The highest-scoring team at the tournament so far, they’ve recorded a trio of four-goal games. Muller, who’ll miss the semifinal through suspension, and fellow midfielders Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira have turned the loss of Michael Ballack into more blessing than curse, while Miroslav Klose’s two goals against Argentina give him 14 in his World Cup career, one more than Pele, tied with German legend Gerd Muller and just one behind Ronaldo for the most ever. Clearly, coach Joachim Loew knows Germany is the pick of the crop.
Of course, to reach the final, the Germans still have to get past Spain, who withstood a strong and resolute Paraguay, with David Villa’s late goal proving decisive in a 1-0 final that denied us all to see a little bit more of the aforementioned Ms. Riquelme.
It wasn’t easy for Spain, up against a team who, as our Dr. Z has pointed out, knocked off Argentina, Brazil and Chile during CONMEBOL qualifying and were clearly not overawed by the prospect of facing the reigning European champions. Paraguay will probably feel a bit hard done by that they were denied the opening goal after Nelson Valdez scored shortly before half, only to have the strike disallowed because teammate Oscar Cardozo had been offside, and leapt for the ball as it came into the area.
The second half saw a bizarre sequence of penalties, with Gerard Pique using both hands to haul Cardozo to the ground, but Casillas saving and holding the shot. Seconds later, Villa was bundled over at the other end, but Xabi Alonso’s strike was ruled out because Spanish players had encroached into the penalty area. Replays later showed the same was true of Cardozo’s missed penalty, something that apparently eluded referee Carlos Batres of Guatemala. Alsono tried again, but Justo Villar made the stop, then escaped further discipline for crashing into Cesc Fabregas as he went after the rebound.
All that wackiness set the stage for an 83rd minute goal as wild as any at this tournament. Andres Iniesta left two Paraguayans in his wake with a driving run up the middle, laying the ball off for Pedro, whose shot rebounded off the post to Villa. The Golden Boot candidate also hit the post but got a more fortunate bounce, and the South Americans were sunk. Sure, Casillas was called on again to deny Roque Santa Cruz in the final minute, but Spain were otherwise comfortable in possession with the lead.
So, at a World Cup where we were once marveling at South American success and scratching our heads over European ineptitude, Uruguay is the last South American team standing as we head to the semis, with three European sides, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, still going strong. You’d have to favour the Dutch against Uruguay in Tuesday’s first semifinal, while the Spain-Germany clash on Wednesday looks like a can’t-miss classic.
Tagged as argentina, David Villa, diego maradona, esteban cambiasso, gerd muller, germany, iker casillas, javier mascherano, javier zanetti, joachim loew, larissa riquelme, mesut ozil, michael ballack, miroslav klose, nicolas otamendi, paraguay, pele, ronaldo, sami khedira, south africa, spain, thomas muller, world cup, xabi alonso
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Mario and Lucien are twins who share a psychic bond:one feels the pain and experiences the thoughts of the other. The siblings are separated at birth because of a long-standing feud between various factions of their family. One twin is raised to be evil, the other to be good. In adulthood, the brothers become bitter enemies, not only because of family and political pressures but also because they both fall in love with the beautiful Isabelle.
Eventually, however, one twin gives up his life for the sake of the other during a climactic battle with tyrannical Corsican ruler Colonna.
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San Francisco Public Library•1 month ago
The description above is inaccurate in various ways. There are two completely different families involved, not factions of the same family. One twin is not raised to be evil and one to be good. The only difference is that one is taken to Paris and raised in a loving family while the other ...Read more
The description above is inaccurate in various ways. There are two completely different families involved, not factions of the same family. One twin is not raised to be evil and one to be good. The only difference is that one is taken to Paris and raised in a loving family while the other twin stays in Corsica and grows up with a group of bandits. They only become enemies at the last minute when one twin realizes they both love the same woman and he refuses to help his brother. One does not give up his life for the sake of the other. He thinks his brother is already dead and he just dies trying to kill the villain who carried off the woman they both love.
I thought Fairbanks was excellent in the role of both twins and all the supporting cast members were excellent too. Excellent all around ensemble acting job.
If you liked this one, you will probably also like another Fairbanks swashbuckler classic called The Black Pirate..... I think that one is Fairbanks Senior, while this one is Fairbanks Junior. They both have a similar look and style....
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Kirkwood Community College•9 months ago
Pretty good yarn, quainter than the other Ratoff film available here but without the intensity of Welles. Fairbanks doesn't impress me at all, but the female lead and especially the villain are both well-acted.
Rancho Mirage Public Library•11 months ago
akim tamarov; who made such a cute teddy bear ,such a nasty villain?
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Taron Egerton doesn’t just play Elton John in the new biopic Rocketman; he also sings his songs himself. In the featurette above, you get visual confirmation that, yes, it’s Egerton crooning John’s signature ballads and pop hits in the film, which is directed by Dexter Fletcher. He also recently oversaw the production of Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired from the film. He followed that up with a rock biopic of his own. Hollywood is a fascinating place.
Here’s the official Rocketman synopsis:
#Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard.
This is the eternal dilemma with these rock movies. Do you just have the lead actor lip sync the original tunes, or do you bring in somebody who can sing the music himself? On the one hand, audiences want to hear the classics they love. On the other hand, is it really worth paying $15 to watch someone pretend to sing a song you could listen to on Spotify or watch on YouTube? Egerton doesn’t sound exactly like Elton John to my ear — in a blind taste test, so to speak, there’d be no question who was singing — but he does have a good voice. And Elton John songs are not easy to sing, either.
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Blake Lee Spahr, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, died September 29. He was 82.
Spahr joined the UC Berkeley German faculty in 1955 to teach 17th- century literature. His friends and family said he always had a love of German literature, even after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.
Spahr served from 1942-1945 and an additional year as a German translator in Paris.
According to his wife Herlinde, Spahr volunteered to serve in the war on the condition that he was allowed to finish off the year at Dickinson College, where he was an undergraduate in a program for gifted students.
However, that condition was not granted and he was sent to war within a few months.
Though he fought in Germany and received the Air Medal from the U.S. government for his service, his passion for German literature never ceased, she said.
His colleagues said Spahr’s love for German literature was admirable, especially after he fought alongside the allies in the war.
“I was always deeply touched that he who risked his life fighting the Nazis became an expert in German literature,” said Fritz Tubach, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of medieval and modern German literature. “He loved teaching very much.”
Spahr encouraged friend Johan Snapper, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of German who was initially hired as an 18th-century German literature specialist, to teach a Dutch course.
With Spahr’s encouragement and guidance, that one course turned into a degree program in Dutch language and literature.
“He was known all over the world for his flamboyant manner and for his scholarship,” Snapper said. “He was the kind of friend with great integrity that you don't often meet in academia.”
A winner of multiple accolades, Spahr continued his interest in the arts after retiring in 1993. He spent 40 years as a flute and French horn player in the Oakland Community Orchestra.
“Once he said that some of the stars we look at are already dead, but their light still shines and travels to the world,” Herlinde said. “I know he's dead but his warmth, wit, and love will always be there.”
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Mon., November 8, 2010 12:00 a.m. | Monday, November 8, 2010 12:00 a.m.
With fall turkey season here, Pennsylvania’s chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is reminding hunters about the need to be safe in the woods.
It’s true that hunting accidents are less numerous than they were a decade ago, and those involving turkey hunters are less common in fall than spring.
The group attributed that to two factors, with one being ongoing education efforts. Declining participation in fall turkey hunting “is another part of the equation,” the group said. The number of fall turkey hunters has declined from more than 250,000 in 1991 to fewer than 150,000 today.
“Careful analysis of turkey hunting-related shooting incidents reveals that hunter density (the number of hunters per square mile of turkey habitat) affects incident rates. When hunter numbers decline as they have for fall turkey hunting, incident rates also trend downward,” the group said.
All of that said, hunters need to focus on safety, the group said. There are consequences –‚ death or injury, insurance claims, litigation, fines and imprisonment, and more — for those who don’t
“Every hunter must understand that being involved in a hunting-related shooting incident is serious business. The lives of the shooter and the victim are changed forever,” reads a statement from the chapter.
“Don’t think for a minute that you could not make a mistake. Be careful, hunt defensively, handle every firearm as if it were loaded, make certain of your target and what is beyond. Follow all the common sense rules of firearm safety.”
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Removal of the 100-foot Savan Dam in Grant Township, Indiana County, will “restore the natural flow of Little Mahoning Creek and create a healthier environment for fish and other aquatic life,” according to the conservancy.
The conservancy will work with Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission staff to create wildlife habitat in the newly restored section of the stream after the channel has taken its natural course.
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It’s been reported that former Steelers linebacker James Harrison is considering a post-football film career — a la “The Rock.”
James Harrison was on the TV show “S.W.A.T.” recently.
Now, the former Steelers linebacker is considering a post-football film career. According to ESPN.com, Harrison may be angling to be the next Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. “The Rock” made a successful transition from football, to pro wrestling, to acting.
According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Harrison is serious about this endeavor.
I spoke with James Harrison about how he plans to sack Hollywood as an action star. He's hired an acting coach and spends his free time in L.A. grinding on the audition circuit. 'What I bring is raw,' he said. https://t.co/e0s5i9EiiU
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) February 12, 2019
Will he fall asleep on his acting coach like he did with Joey Porter, though?
As Fowler’s article points out, Harrison could be a natural for action movies. If so, I’ve got some script ideas he may want to check out.
‘The Fast and the Furious 19 — McKnight Madness’
The Ross Township Police Department hires Harrison to go undercover … to bust a few of his own!
Harrison infiltrates the Steelers’ well-known pot-smoking, drag-racing underworld that terrorizes McKnight Road.
He arrests multiple members of his former team and punishes them by making them run until they puke in between pickup basketball games at L.A. Fitness.
‘A Nightmare on Hot Metal Street’
Incorporating horror and action may be a big ask for Harrison early in his acting career. But I think he has the chops to pull it off.
Harrison returns to the scene of past sins. He forces himself to once again pass out in his lounge chair in the linebackers meeting room.
While asleep, Debo confronts his greatest nightmare—watching Anthony Chickillo, Bud Dupree, and Arthur Moats play significant minutes in front of him.
The difference is, this time he gets himself onto the field by baiting his teammates away from the sideline and into the furnace room with leftover shoes from Le’Veon Bell’s locker.
‘Inferno II’
During a trip to New York City, Harrison looks across Park Avenue and sees NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s office ablaze!
It turns out, Goodell accidentally set the fire in an attempt to burn leftover Spygate tapes he discovered at the bottom of his desk drawer.
Retirement has softened Harrison’s demeanor, but not his body.
Despite his previous promise to the contrary , Harrison does — in fact — cross the street to urinate on Goodell while he is on fire.
‘Moby Dick 2019’
A modern day reboot of a classic.
Debo takes to the Ohio River to track a lifelong tormentor. No harpoon. Just a man with a snarl, a bad attitude, a custom-made AK-47 , and Le’Veon Bell’s Jet Ski.
Harrison goes on the hunt for his white whale.
Its name? Call him … Tom Brady.
‘Air Bud 48 — Ruffing the Passer’
Forget action. There is a softer side to Harrison. He’s versatile.
In the latest Disney “Buddies” franchise film, Harrison befriends a dog named Bud.
Remembering how he neglected a similar young pup years before, Harrison befriends and mentors the dog to fulfill its dream of becoming a great pass rusher.
Unfortunately, poor Bud keeps getting lost. He keeps chasing his tail in wide circles around the quarterback, but never quite gets there.
Frustrated, Harrison gives up on Bud and lets his good friend and former teammate Mike Vick adopt him.
It’s the first Disney movie on record to have an unhappy ending.
Tim Benz is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Tim at [email protected] or via Twitter @TimBenzPGH. All tweets could be reposted. All emails are subject to publication unless specified otherwise.
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Feely: Patrick Mahomes thinks Kliff Kingsbury will succeed in the NFL
By Tom Kuebel | January 21, 2019 at 12:54 pm
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes warms up before the AFC Championship NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
After covering the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots, former Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely revealed some interesting comments from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes during the production meetings for the broadcast on CBS.
“We had a great talk with him,” Feely said on the Doug & Wolf Show on 98.7 FM Arizona’s Sports Station. “Patrick Mahomes was almost a little defiant about Kliff Kingsbury.
“He was glowing in his reports about Kliff Kingsbury and who he’ll be as a head coach.”
Mahomes told Feely that a lot of the criticism that Kingsbury has received since his hiring has been the same he received going into the draft.
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Kingsbury coached Mahomes for three seasons in college and guided him to 11,252 yards and 93 touchdowns in his career at Texas Tech.
There, the duo implemented the air-raid offense that many skeptics do not believe can be successful in the NFL.
“In those meetings you cover a lot of different topics with a lot of different people,” Feely said. “It was something that Patrick Mahomes brought up on his own.
“The fact that he believes he’ll succeed. The fact that he believes his schemes translate to the NFL.”
Kingsbury takes over for Steve Wilks who was fired after just one season in Arizona. He will be the third different head coach to start the year for the Cardinals in the last three seasons.
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D-backs’ Porter addresses losing Buchholz, optimism for Carson Kelly
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By Chris Howley | March 6, 2019 at 3:03 pm
UPDATED: March 7, 2019 at 9:23 am
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Clay Buchholz works in the first inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
The Arizona Diamondbacks came into spring training with a lot more questions than answers.
After losing three All-Stars this offseason in first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, center fielder A.J. Pollock and starting pitcher Patrick Corbin, the D-backs have been forced to answer to some questions heading into the regular season.
D-backs senior vice president and assistant general manager Jared Porter has been someone who has been trying to answer those questions all winter long.
He touched on some more recent events Wednesday morning.
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Former D-backs starter Clay Buchholz officially became a member of the Toronto Blue Jays on Mar. 5 after spending last year in the desert.
With the D-backs looking for starting pitching depth early in the winter, Buchholz seemed like an option to possibly provide depth without spending too big.
“We feel pretty good about the depth of our starting pitching,” Porter told Doug & Wolf on 98.7 FM Arizona’s Sports Station. “We did talk to [Buchholz] early, but we had kind of made or moves and at that point we were pretty much set in our rotation.”
Porter also added that the acquisitions of pitchers Luke Weaver and Merrill Kelly played a factor in building their depth without re-signing Buchholz.
Buchholz pitched to a 2.01 ERA last season with D-backs in 16 starts.
The optimism around Carson Kelly
One of the most coveted pieces of the Goldschmidt trade to the St. Louis Cardinals is the young catcher, Carson Kelly.
Catching is a position the D-backs failed to get production out of a year ago after losing Chris Iannetta last offseason. In 2018, the D-backs ranked 25th in the league in total catcher WAR (wins above replacement) by posting a disappointing -2.1.
The acquisition of Kelly has brought the optimism to the D-backs front office that Kelly can become their future full-time catcher.
“He’s been impressive,” Porter said. “The things that we are most excited about right now are the leadership that he’s shown at his age which we think can really help us moving forward.”
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2007-08 Summer Relief Expedition South African National Antarctic Programme. Ludwig Combrinck and Attie Combrink departed from Cape Town on 4 December 2007, onboard the S.A. Agulhas Voyage 140.Our first stop-over was at Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, also referred to asthe most remote place on Earth, to drop off fellow scientists who would spend the summer on the island, working with the seal and penguin colonies.The pack-ice this summer extended approximately 1,000 km from the continent. We encountered icebergs around Bouvet and travelled in the pack-ice from approximately 60degrees South. In the end it took us 26 days to reach Antarctica, and on some days the ship was completely stuck and we could make no progress.Upon entering the Antarctic circle at 66degrees 33 South, we newcomers to King Neptune’s kingdom first had to meet his wrath. We were dunked in sea water at –2degrees Celsius -this is possible because of the water’s salinity-, introduced to the king and queen who blessed us with their foodstuff, and then got the sweet juice to swallow. Now we also belong to the Order of Antarctic Fellows -O.A.F.-.Fortunately, we had many companions on our journey… birds, seals and a few whales.Upon reaching the ice shelf, the first task was to bulldoze a ramp for offloading cargo, after which passengers were flown to the base.The South African permanent research base in Antarctica, SANAE IV -the 4th South African National Antarctic Expedition base-, is located on the Southern Buttress of Vesleskarvet -the right-hand side of the picture below-, a mountain in Western Dronning Maud Land in the Norwegian Antarctic Territory, 71degrees 40 South 2degrees 51 West.Being located in a desert, i.e. having very little annual precipitation, requiressmelly duty where each person gets a turn to shovel a few tonnes of snow over the course of a day into a snow melter in order to make water for the base occupants.The base has an amazing view over the mountains to the south… this was the view we had from our office - laboratory.Doing much work in the field, allowed us the opportunity to travel quite a bit from SANAE IV: we visited Knotten -20 km northeast-, Lorenzenpiggen -7 km south- and Grunehogna -40 km south-.Dr. Ludwig Combrinck and Dr. Attie Combrink from HartRAO Space Geodesy Programme, at 72degrees South.Out in the field we installed radar reflectors -for the South African Hydrographer to calibrate Antarctic coastline maps produced by radar images taken from satellite- and GPS self-centring plates -to determine whether the Earth’s crust deforms locally-. Thereafter we surveyed the positions of these new installations with state-of-the-art GPS equipment.Travelling to these places required transport in the form of skidoos or helicopter. We also had the chance to experiment with more outdated modes of transport.We also had the opportunity to visit our Norwegian colleagues at the Troll Base. They use a Toyota Hilux for transporting VIPs from the airfield, such as the Prime Minister who visited the previous week to officially inaugurate the new base.Other work included the measuring of horizon profiles using a theodolite……or measuring atmospheric turbulence by observing and photographing astronomical sources such as the Moon or Venus.Ludwig set up a commemorative radio station for Admiral Byrd -early Antarctic explorer- and made the first AM contacts from Antarctica in probably 40 years, using his Collins equipment.Fortunately there is also time for entertainment, like having a braai……or a formal dinner…As in the past, the Scientist Team won the toughest battle of all, the tug-of-war. Meet the champions:“Windscooping is an activity well-suited for summer afternoons or evenings, when the Sun is only a few degrees above the horizon in the southwest. The activities at the windscoop include snowboarding, skiing, sliding downhill on a mattress -the current speed record is 90 km-h- or climbing ice walls with an ice-pick.So if you can stay as warm as Ludwig with his Ukrainian rabbit-skin headwear, Antarctica could be the biggest party island of them all.
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Patients’ Stem Cells a Potential New Cell Model for Alport Research, Study Suggests
by Patricia Inacio, PhD
Using induced pluripotent stem cells may help researchers identify the underlying mechanisms of Alport syndrome, according to a new study from Monash University in Austrialia.
Researchers developed podocyte-like cells — cells important for the filtering capacity of the kidneys — from two Alport syndrome patients and found that the cells have impairments in potassium channels, which may contribute to the disease.
The study, “Induced pluripotent stem cell derived podocyte like cells as models for assessing mechanisms underlying heritable disease phenotype: initial studies using two Alport syndrome patient lines indicate impaired potassium channel activity,” was published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
In Alport syndrome, the glomerular basement membrane, which is part of the kidney’s filtering system, becomes thicker and splits, leading to the death of the cells lining the basement membrane, called podocytes.
Two types of receptors, called calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) and angiotensin II receptors, have profound effects on podocyte function and survival. In rodent models of renal failure, activation of the CaSR protected podocytes from stress-induced death.
“The paucity of treatments for chronic kidney diseases such as [Alport syndrome] is, we believe, partly due to a lack of robust, in vitro model systems to study podocyte function in health and disease,” researchers wrote.
Current culture models of human podocytes do not allow the cells to be maintained for long periods of time. Researchers previously succeeded in generating podocyte-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) — they used a group of cells found in the human kidney and reprogrammed them back into an embryonic-like, pluripotent state, to generate the podocyte-like cells.
In this study, they generated two podocyte-like cells from induced-pluripotent stem cells derived from two patients with Alport syndrome to assess the function of CaSR and compared it to that of a healthy individual and a commonly utilized, immortalized podocyte cell line.
First, researchers confirmed that the induced pluripotent stem cells used for this study showed markers commonly used to identify podocytes, called WT-1 and podocin.
They then used activators of the CaSR and angiotensin II receptor to compare the functional activities of Alport syndrome patients and healthy podocyte-like cells against the immortalized cell line.
Adding extracellular calcium to activate the CaSR elicited concentration-dependent elevations of intracellular calcium in all podocyte-like cells. The healthy and immortalized cell lines, however, underwent an acute reduction in the concentrations of calcium prior to its increase.
Researchers also found that in Alport syndrome podocyte-like cell potassium channels called KCNMA1 are not functional, which may affect podocytes survival. KCNMA1 channels are significant regulators of these cells’ activity.
The absence of the potassium channel function may explain the elevated calcium in the Alport syndrome podocyte-like cells derived from stem cells.
The angiotensin II type 1 receptor was also identified as a key regulator of calcium concentrations inside the cells.
Overall, these results suggest “that induced pluripotent stem cell-derived podocyte-like cells may represent a useful system for basic mechanistic and pharmacological studies of heritable kidney disease,” the study concluded.
Tagged angiotensin II receptors, calcium sensing receptor, induced pluripotent stem cells, podocyte, potassium channels.
Patricia Inacio, PhD
Patricia holds her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from University Nova de Lisboa, and has served as an author on several research projects and fellowships, as well as major grant applications for European Agencies. She also served as a PhD student research assistant in the Laboratory of Doctor David A. Fidock, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University, New York.
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by Leo Tolstoy
Part One: Chapter 23
Vronsky and Kitty waltzed several times round the room. After the first waltz Kitty went to her mother, and she had hardly time to say a few words to Countess Nordston when Vronsky came up again for the first quadrille. During the quadrille nothing of any significance was said: there was disjointed talk between them of the Korsunskys, husband and wife, whom he described very amusingly, as delightful children at forty, and of the future town theater; and only once the conversation touched her to the quick, when he asker her about Levin, whether he was here, and added that he liked him so much. But Kitty did not expect much from the quadrille. She looked forward with a thrill at her heart to the mazurka. She fancied that in the mazurka everything must be decided. The fact that he did not during the quadrille ask her for the mazurka did not trouble her. She felt sure she would dance the mazurka with him as she had done at former balls, and refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the mazurka. The whole ball up to the last quadrille was for Kitty an enchanted vision of delightful colors, sounds, and motions. she only sat down when she felt too tired and begged for a rest. But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna. She had not been near Anna again since the beginning of the evening, and now again she saw her suddenly quite new and surprising. She saw in her the signs of that excitement of success she knew so well in herself; she saw that she was intoxicated with the delighted admiration she was exciting. She knew that feeling and knew its signs, and saw them in Anna; saw the quivering, flashing light in her eyes, and the smile of happiness and excitement unconsciously playing on her lips, and the deliberate grace, precision, and lightness of her movements.
"Who?" she asked herself. "All or one?" And not assisting the harassed young man she was dancing with in the conversation, the thread of which he had lost and could not pick up again, she obeyed with external liveliness the peremptory shouts of Korsunsky starting them all into the grand round, and then into the chaine, and at the same time she kept watch with a growing pang at her heart. "No, it's not the admiration of the crowd has intoxicated her, but the adoration of one. And that one? can it be he?" Every time he spoke to Anna the joyous light flashed into her eyes, and the smile of happiness curved her red lips. she seemed to make an effort to control herself, to try not to show these signs of delight, but they came out on her face of themselves. "But what of him?" Kitty looked at him and was filled with terror. What was pictured so clearly to Kitty in the mirror of Anna's face she saw in him. What had become of his always self-possessed resolute manner, and the carelessly serene expression of his face? Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. "I would not offend you," his eyes seemed every time to be saying, "but I want to save myself, and I don't know how." On his face was a look such as Kitty have never seen before.
They were speaking of common acquaintances, keeping up the most trivial conversation, but to Kitty it seemed that every word they said was determining their fate and hers. And strange it was that they were actually talking of how absurd Ivan Ivanovitch was with his French, and how the Eletsky girl might have made a better match, yet these words had all the while consequence for them, and they were feeling just as Kitty did. The whole ball, the whole world, everything seemed lost in fog in Kitty's soul. Nothing but the stern discipline of her bringing-up supported her and forced her to do what was expected of her, that is, to dance, to answer questions, to talk, even to smile. But before the mazurka, when they were beginning to rearrange the chairs and a few couples moved out of the smaller rooms into the big room, a moment of despair and horror came for Kitty. She had refused five partners, and now she was not dancing the mazurka. She had not even a hope of being asked for it, because she was so successful in society that the idea would never occur to anyone that she had remained disengaged till now. She would have to tell her mother she felt ill and go home, but she had not the strength to do this. She felt crushed. She went to the furthest end of the little drawing room and sank into a low chair. Her light, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender waist; one bare, thin, soft, girlish arm, hanging listlessly, was lost in the folds of her pink tunic; in the other she held her fan, and with rapid, short strokes fanned her burning face. But while she looked like a butterfly, clinging to a blade of grass, and just about to open its rainbow wings for fresh flight, her heart ached with a horrible despair.
"But perhaps I am wrong, perhaps it was not so?" And again she recalled all she had seen.
"Kitty, what is it?" said Countess Nordston, stepping noiselessly over the carpet towards her. "I don't understand it."
Kitty's lower lip began to quiver; she got up quickly.
"Kitty, you're not dancing the mazurka?"
"No, no," said Kitty in a voice shaking with tears.
"He asked her for the mazurka before me," said Countess Nordston, knowing Kitty would understand who were "he" and "her." "She said: 'Why, aren't you going to dance it with Princess Shtcherbatskaya?""
"Oh, I don't care!" answered Kitty.
No one but she herself understood her position; no one knew that she had just refused the man whom perhaps she loved, and refused him because she had put her faith in another.
Countess Nordston found Korsunsky, with whom she was to dance the mazurka, and told him to ask Kitty.
Kitty danced in the first couple, and luckily for her she had not to talk, because Korsunsky was all the time running about directing the figure. Vronsky and Anna sat almost opposite her. She saw them with her long-sighted eyes, and saw them, too, close by, when they met in the figures, and the more she saw of them the more convinced was she that her unhappiness was complete. She saw that they felt themselves alone in that crowded room. And on Vronsky's face, always so firm and independent, she saw that look that had struck her, of bewilderment and humble submissiveness, like the expression of an intelligent dog when it has done wrong.
Anna smiled, and her smile was reflected by him. She grew thoughtful, and he became serious. Some supernatural force drew Kitty's eyes to Anna's face. She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
Kitty admired her more than ever, and more and more acute was her suffering. Kitty felt overwhelmed, and her face showed it. When Vronsky saw her, coming across her in the mazurka, he did not at once recognize her, she was so changed.
"Delightful ball!" he said to her, for the sake of saying something.
"Yes," she answered.
In the middle of the mazurka, repeating a complicated figure, newly invented by Korsunsky, Anna came forward into the center of the circle, chose two gentlemen, and summoned a lady and Kitty. Kitty gazed at her in dismay as she went up. Anna looked at her with drooping eyelids, and smiled, pressing her had. But, noticing that Kitty only responded to her smile by a look of despair and amazement, she turned away from her, and began gaily talking to the other lady.
"Yes, there is something uncanny, devilish and fascinating in her," Kitty said to herself.
Anna did not mean to stay to supper, but the master of the house began to press her to do so.
"Nonsense, Anna Arkadyevna," said Korsunsky, drawing her bare arm under the sleeve of his dress coat, "I've such an idea for a cotillion! Un bijou!"
And he moved gradually on, trying to draw her along with him. Their hose smiled approvingly.
"No, I am not going to stay," answered Anna, smiling, but in spite of her smile, both Korsunsky and the master of the house saw from her resolute tone that she would not stay.
"No; why, as it is, I have danced mor at your ball in Moscow that I have all the winter in Petersburg," said Anna, looking round at Vronsky, who stood near her. "I must rest a little before my journey."
"Are you certainly going tomorrow then?" asked Vronsky.
"Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as it were wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.
Anna Arkadyevna did not stay to supper, but went home.
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BREAKING: HERE WE GO AGAIN! THE NEXT ‘TRAYVON’ CASE ABOUT TO EXPLODE!
Jonathan Ferrell and Charlotte Police Off. Randall Kerrick
WHITE COP OVERCHARGED IN BLACK THUG’S DEATH-NAACP THREATENS PROTESTS OF COURSE! COME ON AL AND JESSE! LET’S HEAR YOUR RACIST GARBAGE! USELESS IDIOTS! SHARE!!!
A racially charged shooting incident in North Carolina with eerie parallels to the Trayvon Martin drama has ended in the same way – with a jury refusing to hand state authorities the politically pressured charges they sought against the shooter.
In a decision angering the NAACP and other civil-rights activists clamoring for “justice,” a Charlotte grand jury has declined to indict Charlotte Police Officer Randall Kerrick for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 24-year-old black man who refused to obey orders to stop after police responded to a robbery call.
Jurors thought the evidence presented against the white officer did not support the manslaughter charge. As WND first reported in October, evidence showed authorities overcharged the shooter, who claimed self defense. Kerrick faced a prison sentence of up to 11 years.
Still, state authorities plan to resubmit the charge to a new panel of grand jurors scheduled to meet on Monday. The NAACP plans to protest outside the Charlotte courthouse during their deliberations.
During a local black church rally Thursday night, about 150 civil-rights activists organized by THUG – True Healing Under God – threatened to boycott the city if jurors fail to indict Kerrick for a second time.
Charlotte NAACP President Kojo Nantambu called the jury decision “despicable,” asserting, “Something is wrong with the system that we live in … something is wrong in this country.”
Rally organizer John Barnett, founder of THUG, said Ferrell would be alive if he were white like Kerrick.
“I’m trying to figure out: What does 14 jurors and one attorney general don’t see that people in Africa see?” Barnett asked. “That all of us see. What do they not see?”
Kerrick’s attorneys, meanwhile, are trying to block the new grand jury hearing as “a wholly improper and blatant attempt to influence” a politically correct outcome in the tragic case, which has attracted national attention.
Defense attorney George Laughrun said “the weight of the world” has been lifted from his client’s shoulders.
“He’s extremely relieved that the grand jury members saw fit to keep an open mind and not listen to all the propaganda on all the things he did wrong,” Laughrun said. “What they decided … was that Officer Randall Kerrick did his job. Regretfully it cost the life of Jonathan Ferrell. But he did his job.”
Kerrick was charged in connection with the Sept. 14 shooting death of Ferrell, a former Florida A&M football player who dashcam video shows violently charged Kerrick and other police officers.
Kerrick repeatedly fired at Ferrell with his gun after a Taser failed to stop him and after Ferrell failed to show his hands. Though Ferrell was found later to be unarmed, Kerrick and others who viewed the video insist the use of deadly force was justified.
As WND reported, the video shows Kerrick first opened fire after Ferrell – who was much larger than Kerrick – charged him while ignoring commands and concealing his hands. Kerrick fired more rounds after Ferrell continued to move forward to the point where he made physical contact with the officer.
“His hands were not in the air,” Laughrun said. At one point before the shooting, he added, “You see one of his hands partially behind his back, concealed, as he continued to advance.”
Ferrell may have been under the influence of controlled substances.
Witnesses reported to investigators that they saw Ferrell, who had dropped out of college, drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in the hours before he crashed his car at an entrance to a suburban Charlotte neighborhood that Saturday at 2:30 a.m.
The police chief, who is African-American, still has not released the results of the toxicology report.
At least one resident of the neighborhood reported Ferrell acting violently several minutes before the confrontation with police.
A 9-1-1 tape reveals a frantic call from homeowner Sarah McCartney, who was home alone with her 1-year-old son while her husband was traveling. Through tears, she reported Ferrell trying to kick in her front door in what she thought was an attempted robbery. Banging and yelling can be heard in the background.
“I need help!” McCartney can be heard pleading with the operator. “There’s a guy breaking into my front door, he’s trying to kick it down!”
The 9-1-1 tape refutes the initial narrative told by the NAACP and the media, who claimed an injured and stranded Ferrell rang McCartney’s doorbell seeking help only to have McCartney slam the door shut after seeing a black man.
“Why did the woman assume it was a robber?” Chris Chestnut, Ferrell family attorney, said.
“How could this white woman be so terrified by the mere sight of a black man – an injured one at that – that she couldn’t contain her fright long enough to even hear out his plea for help? Come on,” wrote Neil Drumming a black columnist for Salon.com.
Drumming said nothing excuses “her utter lack of empathy,” while failing to report that Ferrell tried to kick in her front door. The 9-1-1 tape indicates Ferrell wasn’t acting like a helpless man but a ferocious threat.
Charlotte Police Chief Rodney Monroe confirmed that Ferrell started “banging on the door viciously.”
Nonetheless, black radio called McCartney a “racist b——” guilty of a “hate crime.”
A number of black activists posted McCartney’s home address along with photos of her home on social media. As a result, a number of vehicles have driven by her house harassing her family. They have had to hire security for protection.
As in the Martin case, which triggered national outrage over perceived racial profiling, the narrative told by civil-rights activists and national media about the shooting death of Ferrell has crumbled under the weight of facts and evidence.
Florida state authorities took over the Martin case after Sanford, Fla., police cleared George Zimmerman in the shooting, deciding he acted in self defense. After a jury later acquitted Zimmerman of manslaughter charges, authorities were criticized for overcharging Zimmerman.
Likewise, North Carolina state authorities took over the Ferrell case, which followed virtually on the heels of the Zimmerman trial.
Experts say they’ve never seen a police officer charged so swiftly in a shooting. Normally investigations into police shootings take weeks, if not months.
Yet Kerrick was thrown in jail within hours, bypassing the usual lengthy interviews by internal affairs. Authorities said they wanted to avoid any “ambiguity” as outrage in the black community grew and the NAACP and other groups threatened protests.
Kerrick’s legal team have planned to defend the officer under North Carolina’s “stand your ground” law, which allows police officers as well as citizens to use deadly force if they fear for their lives or someone else’s.
Legal experts say Kerrick had a strong case, and that authorities may have been too quick to charge the 27-year-old officer.
Police unions say police departments and state officials feel pressure from Attorney General Eric Holder and groups like the NAACP to charge first and investigate later in such cases. That political pressure is having a “chilling effect” on law enforcement officers.
“What it does is it shakes their confidence, because most cops like to think their department has their back,” North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police President Randy Hagler said.
The NAACP wants the charges against Kerrick elevated to murder. Anger in the community may grow if charges are dropped completely.
Ferrell’s family has filed a lawsuit against Kerrick. Chestnut insisted he opened fire on Ferrell before any commands or warnings were issued.
“There were no commands to ‘Stop, freeze, stop or I’ll shoot,’” he claimed.
“If Mr. Ferrell was not black or brown, wouldn’t they have asked him a few questions before showering him with bullets?” Chestnut added, suggesting bigotry played a role in the shooting.
“The officer is white, Mr. Ferrell is black,” he continued. “I think this is more of a reflection of where we are as a country.”
In fact, footage from a dashboard-mounted police camera shows officers commanded Ferrell at least three times to stop before Kerrick fired, but Ferrell continued to advance in a threatening manner toward them. Another Charlotte police officer, Thornell Little, fired a Taser at Ferrell before Kerrick resorted to using his firearm.
“Orders were given by one of the officers as it relates to him stopping,” acknowledged Chief Monroe, who is black. “There were statements given of that nature.”
The NAACP, however, insists it was an “execution” of a black man in “cold blood.”
“There is no evidence that shows Jonathan Ferrell should have been shot at all, but for officer Kerrick to shoot 12 times and striking Mr. Ferrell 10 times indicates more than a reflex, it smells more of hatred and rage, which shows that Mr. Kerrick was predisposed in killing a black man and did so with extreme prejudice,” the NAACP’s Nantambu insisted.
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Medium Raw
"I've heard it said that for a proper steak, one should heat a cast iron skillet red hot, hold it at an angle, drop the steak into it, and catch it with a plate as it exits the skillet."
Ok, I'm going to have to go off on a little rant here.
Rare steak, is undercooked steak.
If you like rare stake, that's fine. Taste is personal and subjective after all. But you have to know, when you eat a rare steak, you are eating a tougher, less flavorful, piece of meat than one which has been cooked properly.
The entire idea that extra rare or rare meat is superior to properly cooked meat in any way is provably false.
Rare meat, is unquestionably tougher, and less flavorful; with a chewier, more rubbery, more fibrous texture and mouth feel; than properly cooked meat.
note: This leaves aside preparations that mechanically or chemically alter the meat, without cooking it; like pounding meat paper thin for carpaccio, bathing it in acid for ceviche or curing it with salt or smoke as in charcuterie.
Four things:
1. Fat
2. Connective tissue and cell wall integrity
3. Fluid migration and concentration
4. Thermal conversion of proteins and sugars
The proper temperature to cook any meat (presuming it is cut and served as a steak, filet, cutlet, or dry roast); for maximum flavor and tenderness, is ALWAYS medium rare.
Let me repeat, and rephrase slightly...
Any meat, if properly cut to be cooked and served on it's own as a piece of meat on the plate (a steak, filet, cutlet, or slice of a roast; as opposed to ground, cubed, stir fried, pulled, chopped etc...), and cooked using a high temperature dry cooking method (dry roasted, broiled, seared, sauteed, grilled, or fried); will be both most flavorful, and most tender, when cooked to medium rare.
I rephrased it, because sometimes you don't want the most tender or most flavorful piece of meat they can get. In particular, you might want meat to be firmer, or crispier; or you may want it to take on the flavor of a sauce etc...
"Meat" is what we call the fluid filled fibrous muscle tissue of animals. The fibers of meat are constructed from relatively strong, relatively thick walled cells (which themselves are mostly proteins), bound together in bundles with weaker proteins, fats, and a mixture of relatively weaker, and relatively very strong connective tissues (also mostly proteins).
Proteins are entangled together in tightly twisted and curled shapes, in what scientists call "folding". To my mind folded proteins bound up together look like a tangled mat of hair, but that's a messy analogy.
When we cook food, we're doing is "de-naturing" the proteins with heat (denaturing can also be done with acids, strong bases, and organic solvents like alcohol). De-naturing partially breaks proteins down, causing them to "unfold", losing their secondary and tertiary structure; but leaving their peptide bonds intact (vs. enzymatic breakdown, which dissolves peptide bonds).
This almost always makes something made from proteins mechanically weaker, but also more solid, firmer, and less flexible. That's why eggs get hard when they're boiled, and meat gets firm when it is cooked; and when cooked too much, either become crumbly.
Basically, the less flexible something is in general, the easier it is to break into pieces with mechanical force. Flexible stuff bends and stretches, inflexible stuff doesn't.
With meat in particular, you get a fairly complex reaction to heat. When you denature the proteins in muscle fibers, they lose flexibility, and become firmer and tougher (until they lose structural integrity entirely that is, far beyond well done stage in dry cooking). However, muscle fibers are bound up together into bundles with binding proteins and connective tissues; and when those proteins denature, the bundles loosen up, allowing the fibers, and fiber bundles, to move relative to each other.
Medium rare is defined rather simply as the temperature at which muscle fibers, connective tissues, and fats; break down and weaken enough (through rendering, fluid migration, and protein denaturation) to allow them to move relative to each other; causing interstitial spaces in the fibrous muscle tissue to widen and fill with fluid, which in turn allows the fibers of the meat to move relative to each other easier.
Medium rare is a different temperature, for every different type of meat; because meats all have slightly different composition and structure. In addition to different protein composition; different meats have different water content, different fat content and composition, and different connective tissue content and composition; all of which respond to heat at different rates and temperatures.
Medium rare for beef isn't quite the same as for venison. Duck isn't quite the same as goose, which isn't quite the same as chicken; and none of them are the same as beef.
Ok, so why is medium rare meat both more tender, and more flavorful, than rare? After all, if overcooking makes meat tough and flavorless, shouldn't cooking the meat less, make the meat more tender?
Up to a point, yes; but in rare meat, the processes of protein denaturing, fat rendering, and fluid migration, haven't yet worked enough, to allow the meat to become tender and more flavorful.
At medium rare temperatures, the relatively weak connective tissues and binding proteins between muscle fibers soften enough to allow the fibers to move relative to each other; making the meat more tender.
At medium rare temperatures, the relatively strong connective tissues between hard fats and muscle fibers, and between different muscles in the same cut; also break down a very small amount (it takes a very long time for them to break down completely; thus, stewing and barbecuing), allowing those hard fats and connective tissues to be more easily separated from the muscle.
At medium rare temperatures, soft fats liquify; becoming part of the flavorful fluids in the interstitial spaces, and lubricating the fibers of the muscle making them slide past each other. At temperatures below medium rare, they do not.
At medium rare temperatures, hard fats (which are actually fats bound up with connective tissue) start to soften enough to loosen their bonds with muscle fibers and other connective tissues, making it easier to separate.
At medium rare temperatures, after the soft fats have liquified and connective tissues have weakened; the cell walls in the muscle fibers also weaken enough, that the fluid pressure inside them becomes high enough to force some of the fluid out of the cells, and into the interstitial spaces, between the fibers. This forces the fibers apart further, widening the interstitial spaces making more room for more fluid, and loosens the structure of the meat even more.
That is what makes for tender, juicy meat.
At temperatures below medium rare, none of these happen; or at least not enough. At temperatures above medium rare, it all happens too much.
In case you missed it, that means meat is both more flavorful, and more tender, at medium rare; than it is at rare, or at any temperature above medium rare.
Conveniently, with most common meat cooking methods (hard searing, sauteeing, high temperature roasting, broiling, or grilling), on most cuts of meat; medium rare is also about the lowest temperature you can get a well cut piece of meat that has been properly prepared, to get protein and sugar conversion on the outside surface and outer 1/16"; creating flavorful compounds, and a pleasing mouth feel.
Oh and by well cut, I mean properly cut for the muscle, properly trimmed of fat and connective tissue (which varies for the dish, and for the cooking method); and the right thickness (which again, varies for the meat, the muscle, and the cooking method).
Generally speaking, for the type of cooking and the type of dishes we're talking about, this means 1/2"-3/4" thick for chicken breast, 3/4" to 1-1/4" for pork chops and tenderloin, and 1-1/4" to 1-3/4" thick for beef steaks.
Much thicker and you can't get relatively even doneness across the whole piece of meat, without using two cooking methods (sous vide and searing, or searing and low/medium temperature roasting for example). Any thinner, and it's hard to get the outside of the meat browned, without overcooking the interior.
Also, again with most cooking methods on most cuts of meat; reaching medium rare temperatures drives off enough moisture from the meat that flavors are concentrated and intensified, but the tissues still have enough integrity to hold the majority of the flavorful fluids and liquified fats in. Any lower, and this intensification doesn't happen; any higher and the tissues lose too much integrity, and give up too much fluid, making the meat drier and tougher.
To simplify:
Any temperature lower than medium rare, fats remain solid, connective tissues and muscle fibers remain tightly bound together, and muscle tissues do not break down to allow fluid into the interstitial spaces. Any higher and you are driving off more moisture than you need to; therefore making the meat tougher, and drier.
Now that doesn't mean you can't cook a piece of meat to a higher or lower degree of doneness; it just means it won't be as flavorful or as tender.
For example, in the case of chicken, even without regard to the food safety issue; most Americans don't like the texture of it when served medium rare. Because chicken is already a very tender meat to begin with (because it has a larger relative volume of liquid, and both weaker connective tissue (the fibers of the muscles are looser), and weaker muscle fibers compared to beef; it's perceived by most Americans as TOO soft, or mushy, when served medium rare. For the most part, we would rather have a firmer, slightly less flavorful piece of meat, than a "mushy" one.
Most Americans would prefer their chicken served medium well (completely white, completely clear juices, very firm texture, slightly dry); than have even the slightest bit of pinkness to their chicken, never mind medium rare. I personally prefer my chicken medium (slightly pink meat, with slightly pink juices, firm but tender texture, and very juicy).
On the matter of pork... well that's a real tragedy.
The majority of Americans for the last 100 years have grown up falsely believing that pork had to be cooked to medium well, or well done; to avoid foodborne illness.
In fact, up until recently, USDA guidelines for cooking pork recommended it be cooked to an internal temperature of between 160 and 165.
This produced several generations of people who believed they didn't like pork; simply because they were being served dry, stringy, tough, overcooked garbage.
Thankfully, even the USDA has finally recognized they were wrong, and now recommend that pork be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees (still higher than it needs to be, but a lot better).
That said, most people are still not willing to accept medium rare pork (130 to 135 degrees); again, because it's texture is "too soft" or mushy (and for the same reasons as with chicken).
If you asked most Americans what they would prefer their pork to be done too, they'd probably say "no pink", which is medium well or well done. However, if you did a blind taste test, most would actually prefer medium (135-140); because it is both tender and juicy, while being firm enough to not be "mushy".
Now, if you like your steak done to higher than medium rare... Frankly, it's either because you don't like beef very much; or it's because no-one has ever served you a steak that had been properly cut, and properly cooked.
If you like steak well done, you were probably served a lot of bad beef or badly cooked beef as a child, and learned that it didn't taste as bad or it wasn't as chewy or rubbery, if it was cooked more (and probably served with a sauce). Now, as an adult, the "fact" that beef that isn't overcooked tastes bad is imprinted on your brain.
Bad quality beef, badly cut, and improperly cooked for the cut, WILL taste better if done to medium well or well... Frankly it can be completely inedible otherwise; whereas if you cook it to well done, you've driven off all the liquid fat and all the moisture, and all that's left is bland fiber to act as a delivery mechanism for salt and steak sauce (and in some cuts, particularly if left untrimmed; the fat that's left is super crispy, and very tasty, like a beefy potatochip... what you like there is the crispy fat, not the overcooked meat).
Unfortunately, poorly cut, poorly trimmed, and improperly cooked steaks are pretty much all you'll get at most places that don't specialize in steak (and in most home kitchens, and at most home barbecues).
As to poorly cut and poorly trimmed, there's two reasons for that. First, because they just don't know any better; and second, particular to restaurants, it's because not properly cutting and trimming their steaks lets them claim what would be a 10oz steak if properly cut and trimmed, is a 12oz steak.
As to improperly cooked... well, most people just have no idea how to cook a steak; or what rare, medium rare, medium, and medium well actually ARE (everyone knows well done).
I confess, often at restaurants I don't know (or ones I know can't properly cut, trim, or cook a steak), I will order my steaks medium rather than medium rare.
I do this because if a steak is poorly cut, or if it's not trimmed properly before cooking; cooking it to medium will mask some of the problem.
Also, because most cooks have no idea how to properly cook a steak, and pay at best minimal attention to each individual steak being cooked (they've got a line of orders as long as your arm waiting); you have a slightly better chance of them not screwing up your steak too badly, if you order medium.
Because it's in the middle. If they screw up to one side or the other, the steak isn't likely to be inedible; and if they overcook it too badly, they'll make you another one.
Usually, it's easier to tell when something is overcooked rather than undercooked; and because they are always under time pressure and cost pressure, most GOOD cooks are going to err on the side of underdone rather than overdone. An underdone steak takes less time, and you can always re-fire it if you need to. If you over cook a steak, you have to throw it out and make a whole new one, taking both more time, and more product.
Of course, there's another risk to ordering medium, which I'm going to talk about in a minute...
Now, if you like a rare steak, or extra-rare steak, why is that?
For one thing, it's probably not true; because you've probably never had an actual rare steak.
First, in many states it's actually a health code violation to serve a rare steak. If you order rare, and they cook it to the minimum health code standard, what you'll actually get is something on the low side of medium rare.
Second, even where it's not illegal, most places don't serve a truly rare steak, because they literally can't cook one.
Most places that aren't steak specialists cut their steaks too thin to be served at much less than medium rare (because thinner steaks cook faster, and because they look like "more" meat on the plate for a given weight of steak). Unless you cut your steaks to well over an inch thick, it's very difficult to get a steak to "look done" on the outside, before its cooked to above true rare temperatures.
To get a steak thinner than 1" to rare at all (never mind it being a matter of skill), while still looking nicely browned on the outside (or with good grill marks), you need to have a special high output searing burner, and get heavy pan (a standard thin steel or aluminum sautee pan or skillet won't do it. You need heavy thick steel or cast iron skillet) literally smoking hot (about 500 degrees); or use a special high temperature grill (over 700 degrees). Most restaurants that aren't steak specialists, don't have either; and steak specialists don't cut their steaks thinner than 1".
Without that special equipment, a thin cut steak will still be a sickly grey color when it reaches rare temps internally.
Third, again, because most people have no idea how to properly cook a steak, and because most places that aren't steak specialists cut their steaks too thin, and because most places don't have the right equipment; most of the time if you ask for medium rare, you actually get medium.
A medium rare steak, is unquestionably better than a medium steak (most of the time).
Oh and all of those things I mentioned above apply to home cooks as well, only more so.
So most people who think they like rare steak, actually like medium rare steak.
There are a few out there who like their steaks "Pittsburgh rare", "Chicago style", or "black and blue"; who really do prefer rare steak... but not many.
The other risk I mentioned in ordering medium, is actually because of that issue specifically.
If a cook knows what they are doing cooking a steak, but they aren't in an actual steak specialty place, they will often deliberately cook a steak a half a degree of doneness above what you order.
They do this because they know, if they give most people what they ASKED for (and think they want), it will often as not be sent back for a re-fire as underdone.
Because people are so used to steaks cut too thin, and cooked improperly; they internalize what is actually medium as "medium rare", what is actually medium-well as "medium" and so forth.
Most people who order a rare steak, if they actually got one, wouldn't eat it.
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BHL: Next –Host Rhelin T breaks down all the Grammy tea you’ve been missing The 61st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be held on February 10, 2019, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has been announced as the host. The ceremony will recognize the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which ran from October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018. Nominations were announced on December 7, 2018. Dolly Parton was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two days prior to the Grammy Awards on February 8, 2019. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Maurice Moore Join us In Studio | BHL's Next
BHL: Next –Rhelin T sits down with singer Maurice Moore as he talks about his latest EP Destination Unknown! @Mauricemoore An artist whose material alternates between romantic and carefree modes with easygoing flair, Maurice Moore is among a crop of Canadians with a like-minded approach to contemporary R&B. The singer and songwriter, originally from Springfield, Illinois and raised in Ottawa, spent his early years developing his athletic and musical talents. While attending prep school in Connecticut, his interest in football waned as he made late-hour strides with music. Once he opted to devote all his energy to writing and singing, he connected with a Toronto-based management company and in 2015 started releasing tracks such as "Ready" and "Sex U Back 2 Sleep." Moore's singles multiplied during 2016 and 2017, a period highlighted by "The Loudest Silence." By the end of the latter year, Moore released The Amber Room, a full-length he classified as a mixtape. Also a frequent collaborator, Moore has supported recordings by the likes of Mickey Shiloh, Paces, and JYDN. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Interview with Christina Cooper | BHL's Next
BHL: Next – Host Rhelin T sits down with singer Christina Cooper. Christina Cooper (actress, director, producer, and author) is now the executive producer of Christina Cooper Productions (otherwise known as Christina Cooper Films). You might recognize Christina Cooper from her self produced film "Loyalty" which will be turned into a full feature film entitled "South Central Love". She also plays Miko on the hit Emmy nominated Netflix series "Dear White People", she plays Crystal in the new movie "Never Heard" alongside Romeo Miller and Karrueche Tran, she plays Cindy in the new action thriller "Unintended", Nina on "The Lovers Lyfe" and last but not least, Chloe on Lipstick (the series). Christina is currently working on films and television shows in front and behind the camera. Christina Cooper Productions was created in 2018 and has produced the film "Loyalty" on Amazon Prime and is currently producing the televised talk show "The Christina Cooper show", making Christina Cooper the youngest to produce her own televised show. Christina Cooper Productions is in production on a project but we are always looking for new shows & concepts to assist in producing. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Interview with Dannie | BHL's Next
BHL: Next – Host Rhelin T sits down with singer Dannie as she talks about her latest singles and hot topics in Music. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Interview with Marz
BHL: Next – Host Rhelin T sits down with actor/musician Marz as he talks about his latest singles and hot topics in Music. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Interview with Randy Gonzalez
BHL: Next – Host Rhelin T sits down with actor Randy Gonzalez as he talks about all his upcoming projects with Shia Lebouf and Oprah Winfrey's OWN network Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
Interview with Relm Diggie
BHL: Next – In this episode host Rhelin T. talks with Relm Diggie about his music career, as well as hot topics including: Lebron James, Drake, & The Wutang Clan. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation, Dallas Buyers Club, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The Best Man Holiday, The View, Shameless, Basketball Wives, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, Single Ladies and many more.
The BET Awards
BHL: Next – In this episode host Rhelin goes over the 2018 BET Awards as well as her Next in Movies segment focusing on Janelle Monae and lastley her Viral Moment of the Week.
Interview with Jayme Shaye
BHL: Next – In this episode host Rhelin interviews the talented Jayme Shaye Follow Jayme Shaye on Social Media: @JaymeShaye Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Jayme Shaye found her love for music at a young age. Ever since she began to utter words, her talent began to shine through. As she grew older, her love for singing was complemented and enriched through writing poetry and eventually transformed into songs. In 2012, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and began to slay the music scene and earned her spot as being named among the best. R&B songstress Jayme Shaye has always exemplified the promising characteristics of a true artist. “Life is my motivation. I write and sing about my experiences. It’s therapy for me.” Whatever audience Jayme Shaye serenades, it's also therapy for them.
Interview with Tia P.
BHL: Next – In this episode host Rhelin interviews the talented Tia P. Follow Tia P on Social Media: @IamTiaP. Rapper/Songwriter/Drummer/Producer Tia P. is an extraordinary artist. Never one to settle for less or take the easy road, Tia P. has taken on the challenge to be the Voice of the New Generation. With a petite frame and just 5 feet tall, she possesses a huge presence and commands immediate attention when performing. Her soulful gritty voice delivers funky rhythms and well-thought out lyrics while conveying a compelling story. Tia P. demonstrates a musical maturity well beyond her twenty-one years of age.
Celebrating 21st Birthdays and Album Releases | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode host rhelin t. talks abiut nicki minaj'snewest album and kylie jenners bangin 21st birthday! Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreati
Interview with Tremayne Norris | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode actor Tremayne Norris guest hosts with Rhelin T. as they discuss his acting career, the upcoming Quincy Jones documentary, and Drake's "in my feelings" music video. Follow @TREMAYNENORRIS everywhere on social Media for TremayneNorris. Tremayne Norris: is an actor and assistant director, known for Anacostia (2009), Chocolate City (2014) and The Heart (2014). Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion
Interview with Jordane Christie | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Jordane Christie. Follow @jordanechristie everywhere on social Media for Jordane Christie. Jordane Christie: Is an actor born in Syracuse, NY, the 4th of 5 children to two high-standard Jamaican parents. Raised in Atlanta, GA he spent his early years involved in sports, participating throughout high school. He eventually got into modeling after scout recommendation. This segued into the courage to try acting. From there, he set his limits to the sky. Jordane moved to New York City, to attend the BFA Acting program at Brooklyn College. He pursued further classical studies at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). He went on to land leading roles in Off Broadway and NYC Fringe theater productions. Not long after, Jordane began to land guest star roles on hit television shows. This soon led to a move to Los Angeles, CA where he currently resides. He is
Interview with Danielle Truitt | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with BET's Rebel star Danielle Truitt. Follow Danielle on social Media: IG: daniellemonetruitt Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, Amer
Interview with Xeryus | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Xeryus. Follow Xeryusg everywhere on social Media: IG: Xeryusg Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago
Interview with Rotimi Paul | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Rotimi Paul. Follow Rotimi Paul everywhere on social Media: IG: rotimipaul TWITTER: rotimiapaul China-Marie is a free spirit hippie at heart from Portland, Oregon, who's passion for music started at the young age of eight, singing along to Neo-Soul records her mom played around the house. At the age of thirteen, China-Marie began to focus more on singing and songwriting as it was a way for her to release the grief she was feeling after her grandmother passed. A few years ago China-Marie decided to take the next step in her career and make one of the biggest moves in her life. She took a leap of faith and moved from Portland, Oregon to LA where she knew no one and didn’t even have a plan in place, and knew she would have to sleep in her car for a few weeks, but with her work ethic and drive she was determined to make it. Make su
Interview with China-Marie | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with China-Marie. Follow @ChinaMarieMusic Everywhere on social Media for China-Marie. China-Marie is a free spirit hippie at heart from Portland, Oregon, who's passion for music started at the young age of eight, singing along to Neo-Soul records her mom played around the house. At the age of thirteen, China-Marie began to focus more on singing and songwriting as it was a way for her to release the grief she was feeling after her grandmother passed. A few years ago China-Marie decided to take the next step in her career and make one of the biggest moves in her life. She took a leap of faith and moved from Portland, Oregon to LA where she knew no one and didn’t even have a plan in place, and knew she would have to sleep in her car for a few weeks, but with her work ethic and drive she was determined to make it. Make sure to subscribe to BH
Interview with Coley Mustafa Speaks | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Coley Mustafa Speaks. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Suits, Parks and Recreation,
Keeping Up with Kanye | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Madie Makely! Follow Madie Makely on instagram: @madie_makely Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago
Jejuan Smith His Career and More! | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with rap artist JAG. Follow @JejuanSmith for Jejuan Smith on Social Media! Jejuan Smith: Actor, Model, Athlete, Stunt Performer, From Winston-Salem North Carolina. Jejuan was a full time football & basketball player through grade school earning him a football scholarship. Starting with modeling at 16 , on going appearing in numerous music videos, Jejuan has made no stoppage, Sleepless Nights, Atlanta TV series & other projects. Jejuan Is Also Involved In Writing, & Music, With a short film based off His Book Walk A Mile. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood L
Jag Discusses His Career and More! | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with rap artist JAG. Follow @SouthcentralJAG for Jag on Social Media! Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chic
Brett Gray Discusses His Career and More! | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Brett Gray. Follow @IamBrettGray for Brett Gray on Social Media! Brett Gray is an actor, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Ardmore Junction (2016) and On My Block (2018). Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro.
Eddie Leavy Discusses His Career and More! | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Eddie Leavy. Follow @eddie_leavy for Eddie Leavy on Social Media! Eddie Leavy is an actor and director, known for A.P. Bio (2017) and Those Who Can't (2016). Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guest
Reason Discusses His Career and More! | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything with Reason! Follow @iam_Reason for Reason on Social Media! Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hanniba
Rhelin Taylor Talks All Things Grammy’s & Superbowl 52 | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor talks everything Grammy's, ROC Nation Brunch, Clive Davis' Party, and Superbowl 52. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows/films like 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, America's Got Talent, The Game, Chicago Fire, Believe, Hannibal, Sui
Ian Michael Talks His Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Ian Michael to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next! Ian Michael is a 22-year-old recording artist, producer and songwriter. He is an energetic and highly passionate artist that is looking to leave a huge mark on the music industry. His sound is often described as “when new school meets old school” coveting an eclectic catalog that infuses 80’s pop, 90’s R&B, early 2000’s hip-hop with the swag and technique of the music today. His catchy hooks and honest lyrics grab you from the start and tell you a story about a piece of Ian’s life. He says he “draws inspiration from every style of music” but cites his highest inspiration to come from the likes of Michael Jackson, Drake, Barry White and James Brown. In 2012, producer PK (Chris Brown’s “Fine China” and “Final Countdown”) encouraged Ian to consider taking his music seriously and pursuing it professio
Jay Hunter Talks His Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Jay Hunter to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next! Jay Hunter is an actor and producer, known for Max Payne (2008), If Loving You Is Wrong(2014) and Acrimony (2018). Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro. Black Hollywood Live had guests from shows
Cleo Anthony Talks His Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Cleo Anthony to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next! Anthony has been cast as one of the two male leads in Spike Lee's 10-episode upcoming 2017 Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, a contemporary updating of his 1986 film. Make sure to subscribe to BHL! - http://youtube.com/blackhollywoodlive HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://blackhollywoodlive.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhlonline Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/BlackHollywoodLive/ ABOUT BLACK HOLLYWOOD LIVE: Black Hollywood Live is the world's first online broadcast news network with programming and content dedicated to African American entertainment news. The network features long form, in-depth celebrity interviews, smart commentary and discussion as well as news and inside information. The network was created by producer Keven Undergaro
Jasmin Savoy Brown Talks Her Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Jasmin Javoy Brown to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next!
Iddris Sandu Talks His Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Iddris Sandu to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next!
Garren Talks His Career and More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Garren to discuss his career and more on BHL's Next!
Chris Jay Talks His Career and More Casting News | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Chris Jay to discuss news and more on BHL's Next! Chris Jay is a musician, songwriter, screenwriter, producer, actor, journalist and podcaster best known as the frontman and founder of the rock band Army of Freshmen and for co-writing and acting in the comedy film, The Bet.
Christian Robinson Talks His Career and More Casting News | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Christian Robinson to discuss casting news and more on BHL's Next!
Kelz Talks His Career and More Casting News | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Kelz to discuss casting news and more on BHL's Next!
Camille Hyde Talks Her Career and More Casting News | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Camille Hyde to discuss casting news and more on BHL's Next! Camille Hyde, born and raised in Washington DC, began her acting career at age 4 in a school musical. She continued to pursue her passion for acting and singing throughout her childhood until she moved to California and was cast in Nickelodeon's Power Rangers Dino Charge as Shelby, the Pink Ranger. Her interests include horseback riding, world travel, cooking and music. She also plays piano and dances contemporary, pop, jazz and hip hop.
Rhys Durrel and More Casting News | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Rhys Durrel to discusse casting news and more on BHL's Next!
Christina Cooper | BHL’s Next for July 20th, 2017
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor discusses casting news and more on BHL's Next! A2: Guest Interview: Christina Cooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYKgHvPVACE A2: Next in Casting News: ‘Girls Trip’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra1pPTR8u50 A3: Next or Nah: Glitter Lips A4: BHL Game: Let’s Plan A Girls Trip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8t078YDojM
San Diego Comic Con 2017 Preview – BHL’s Geek. Nerd. Tech.
Michael/NERDSoul michaelyoung.fts@gmail.com @OneYoungsta Alexis Torres atorres890@gmail.com @ATorres890 Derek Samms derek.samms@gmail.com @conguyderek Marqueeda LaStar marqueedalastar@gmail.com @LaStarGotNext MD Marie Davis478@msn.com @LiteraryMD Joelle Monique joellemoniquefilms@gmail.com @JoelleMonique Here's my rundown: 1. PROGRAMMING: The schedule is out. What panels they’re most excited about and why? https://www.comic-con.org/cci/programming-schedule 2. OFFSITES: Various offsites/events happening outside the Convention Center. http://sdccblog.com/events/2017-07/ 3. EXCLUSIVES: Standout Exclusives for the con that pique your interests https://www.comic-con.org/cci/2017/exclusives 4. “Housekeeping” suggestions: Where to park. Any hotels left? Riding in on Amtrak. Where to e
Kris D. Loftin sits in with the Team | BHL’s Next for July 6th, 2017
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor discusses casting news and more on BHL's Next! A2: Guest Interview: Kris D. Loftin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yZ7Mt9pom8 (Next_Pic_002_Hardball) A2: Rheina - Next in Casting News: ‘Ball Family Reality Show’ https://youtu.be/Xd_cJQ248D0?t=19s A3: Next or Nah: Money to the Ear A4: BHL Game: Which Baller Would You Choose?
Rotimi Talks Upcoming Projects, Casting News and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Rotimi to discuss his career, casting news and more on BHL's Next! Rotimi is an American singer-songwriter, actor and model. He's best known for his role as Darius Morrison on the Starz Network's Boss, and currently stars as Dre on Power.
Malcolm David Kelley Talks Upcoming Projects, Casting News and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rhelin Taylor welcomes Malcolm David Kelley to discuss his career, casting news and more on BHL's Next! Malcolm David Kelley (born May 12, 1992), sometimes credited as just Malcolm Kelley, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known for portraying the character Walt Lloyd on the ABC series Lost and as one half of the pop duo MKTO.
Kevontay Jackson Talks Upcoming Projects, Casting News and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rheina Ale welcomes Kevontay Jackson to discuss his career, casting news and more on BHL's Next! Jerome is a singer , rapper , actor and composer American , was best known for appearances in the series That's So Raven and how Jerome in Everybody Hates Chris. Kevontay Jackson began in the 3rd Storee group in 1999 and finished in 2000 along with DSMoove , Jay R and LiL Man . In this, he began honing his talent in music as composer and performer of tours . From there began to make special and recurring appearances in television series, but continued singing.
Sydney Park Talks Wish Upon, Casting News and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rheina Ale welcomes Sydney Park to discuss her career, casting news and more on BHL's Next!
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rheina Ale welcomes Amin Joseph to discuss his career, casting news and more on BHL's Next!
Tyrel Jackson Williams Talks Brockmire and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rheina Ale welcomes Tyrel Jackson Williams to discuss his career, casting news and more on BHL's Next!
Summer Movies To Keep An Eye Out For and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Rheina Ale discusses the biggest movies of the summer and more on BHL's Next!
Mitchell Edwards in Studio and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor welcome Mitchell Edwards to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 20th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Khadi Don In Studio and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor welcome Khadi Don to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 6th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Funny Married Stuff Cast In Studio and More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor welcome the cast of Funny Married Stuff to discuss the show and the biggest casting news for the week of March 23th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Actor Lucien Laviscount, Fresh Beatz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor welcome Lucien Laviscount to discuss his career and the biggest casting news for the week of March 16th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Producer Nikeisha Andersson, Fresh Beatz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor welcome Nikeisha Andersson to discuss her career and the biggest casting news for the week of March 9th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Oprah for President?, New DWTS Cast & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale, Khaliel Abooboo and Rhelin Taylor discuss his career and the biggest casting news for the week of March 2nd, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Melvin Jackson Jr. In Studio & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Rhelin Taylor welcome Melvin Jackson Jr. to discuss his career and the biggest casting news for the week of February 23rd, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Frank Castillo In Studio & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Rhelin Taylor welcome Frank Castillo to discuss his career and the biggest casting news for the week of February 16th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Deborah Riley Draper In Studio & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Rhelin Taylor welcome Deborah Riley Draper to discuss her career and the biggest casting news for the week of February 9th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Rachel Currence In Studio & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison welcome Rachel Currence to discuss her career and the biggest casting news for the week of January 26th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Moriah Johnson In Studio & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison welcome Moriah Johnson to discuss his career and the biggest casting news for the week of January 19th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Astrid Bavaresco Talks WAGS & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison welcome Astrid Bavaresco to discuss her career and the biggest casting news for the week of January 12th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
92.3’s Charles “Chuck Dizzle” Dorsey & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison welcome 92.3's Charles "Chuck Dizzle" Dorsey to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 5th, 2017! We're talking about a the biggest casting news of the week, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Lala Kent talks Vanderpump Rules & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison welcome Lala Kent to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 2nd, 2016! We're talking about a Britney Spears Biopic, Evelyn Lozada returning to Basketball Wives, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Eltony Williams talks If Loving You Is Wrong & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 11th, 2016! We're talking about the new Almost Christmas trailer, Fresh Beatz from Childish Gambino, an interview with Eltony Williams from If Loving You Is Wrong and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Josiah Johnson Talks Legends of Chamberlain Heights & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 4th, 2016! We're talking about La La Land Musical premiering in December, the new Wonder Woman trailer, Fresh Beatz from Big Sean and K. Camp, an interview with Josiah Johnson from Legends of Chamberlain Heights and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
“That’s So Raven” Spinoff, Obama Biopic & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Rheina Ale and Michelle Madison discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 28th, 2016! We're talking about Raven Symone producing a spinoff of "That's So Raven", Netflix releasing a trailer for "Barry", Next or Nah with Michelle, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Birth of a Nation Cast Supports Film, Fresh Beatz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Michelle Madison discuss the biggest casting news for the week of September 16th, 2016! We're talking about Birth of a Nation, the first Black Spokesmodel for Victoria Secret's PINK line, Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Vogue and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kevalena Everett & Todd Anthony Discuss ‘Black & Blue’ & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Michelle Madison welcomes Kevalena Everett & Todd Anthony to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 26th, 2016! We're talking in depth about their new film Black & Blue! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Ashley Love-Mills talks “Too Close To Home” & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Michelle Madison welcomes Ashley Love-Mills to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 19th, 2016! We're talking about Bow Wow hosting Spike's Musical Game Show "Tracks", Smollett Family sharing fun, food and famous recipes in "Smollett Eats", Next or Nah, Fresh Beatz and more! All this, an interview with Ashley Love-Mills about her career and more on BHL's Next!
Snoop and Martha Stewart’s Cooking Show, Janelle Monae in Moonlight & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Michelle Madison discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 12th, 2016! We're talking about Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart will co-host a new show, Janelle Monae making her big screen debut in Moonlight, Next or Nah, Fresh Beatz and more! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kevalena Everett Interview, Casting News & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 5th, 2016 with special guest Kevalena Everett! We're talking about Casting News, Fresh Beatz and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Kevalena Everett about her career. Drive, passion and beauty is personified within Kevalena Everett. This Philadelphia native has taken the Los Angeles acting scene by storm since her emergence a few years ago. As a young girl, Everett knew she would always be successful. After graduating Penn State University with a degree in Communications & Theatre, she embarked on her journey to Los Angeles to pursue her deep-rooted dream of acting. Her extensive training with casting directors and coaches such as Phaedra Harris, Richard Lawson and Aaron Speiser acting studios has helped her land several feature films, stage plays and commercials. She exemplifies hard work, which is why she has r
Gentry White talks UnREAL, Nas Producing “The Land” & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 29th, 2016 with special guest Gentry White! We're talking about Nas' new project "The Land", Fresh Beatz and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Gentry White about his career. Gentry White is an actor, known for Furious 7 (2015), UnREAL (2015) and TURN: Washington's Spies (2014). All this and more on BHL's Next!
Genneya Walton Interview, Netflix’s “Project Mc Squared” & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 1st, 2016 with special Genneya Walton! We're talking about Netflix's "MC Squared" project and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Genneya Walton about her career. Genneya Walton is an actress, known for Project MC² (2015), Extant (2014) andIsabelle Dances Into the Spotlight All this and more on BHL's Next!
Sayeed Shahidi Interview, Thurgood Marshall Biopic & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of June 17th, 2016 with special Sayeed Shahidi! We're talking about Chadwick Boseman playing Thurgood Marshall, Fresh Beatz with Kanye West feat. Desiigner, Gucci Mane, Travis Scott, Quavo, Big Sean, 2 Chainz & Yo Gotti "Champion" and more The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Sayeed Shahidi about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next! Rising star Sayeed Shahidi hits airwaves this summer in the highly anticipated comedy series “Uncle Buck,” starring alongside industry veterans Mike Epps, Nia Long and James Lesure. Sayeed plays Miles Russell, one of three children in the Russell household who is constantly looking for things to get into and a witty comeback comebacks against his unconventional uncle “Uncle Buck” played by Mike Epps. Proving his talent at a young age, Sayeed got his start in acting a
Desiree Ross Interview, Remembering Muhammad Ali & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and James Ward III discuss the biggest casting news for the week of June 10th, 2016 with special guest Desiree Ross! We're talking about Muhammad Ali's memorial service, Fresh Beatz with Bryson Tiller's "Exchange" and more The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Desiree Ross about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kamil McFadden Interview, Working On Disney’s K.C. Undercover & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of May 13th, 2016 with special guest Kamil McFadden! We're talking about the biggest casting news and trends in the world and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Kamil McFadden about his career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Zulay Henao Interview, Working With Tyler Perry & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of May 20th, 2016 with special guest Zulay Henao! We're talking about BET's New Edition star studded biopic, Fresh Beatz with Corinne Bailey Rae's "Green Aphrodisiac" and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Zulay Henao about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Alano Miller Interview, Working On WGN’s Underground & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of April 8th, 2016 with special guest Alano Miller! We're talking about HBO Submitting Beyonce's Lemonade for Emmy Consideration, Fresh Beatz with Drake's "Views From The 6" and more! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Alano Miller about his career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Bresha Webb Interview, Starring On “Truth Be Told” & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of April 8th, 2016 with special guest Bresha Webb! We're talking about Tracy Morgan in talks for "The Clapper", Ice Cube and Common's new video for "Real People and Louboutin unveils nude shoes for "every woman"! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Bresha Webb about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Cory Hardrict Guests, Jesse Williams to play Harry Belefonte & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 1st, 2016 with special guest Cory Hardrict! We're talking about Jesse Williams being cast to play Harry Belefonte, Anthony Hamilton releases a new song "Grateful", and Beyonce has announced a new Ivy Park clothing line! The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Cory Hardrict about his career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Joseph David-Jones Talks How To Allegiant, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of March 25th, 2016 with special guest Joseph David-Jones from The Divergent Series and the CW's "DC's Legends of Tomorrow". The hosts start with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Joseph David-Jones about his career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kelsey Scott Talks How To Get Away With Murder & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 26th, 2016 with special guest Kelsey Scott from ABC's "How To Get Away With Murder". The hosts start with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Kelsey Scott about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Angela Robinson Talks The Haves and the Have Nots & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and James Ward the 3rd discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 26th, 2016 with special guest Angela Robinson from OWN's "The Haves and the Have Nots" . The hosts start with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an in depth interview with Angela Robinson about her career. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Idris Elba Casting, Black History Quiz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and James Ward the 3rd discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 19th, 2016. The hosts start with and Icebreaker celebrating Black History Month. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Danielle Nicolet talks Central Intelligence & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and James Ward the 3rd welcome guest Danielle Nicolet to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 12th, 2016. Hosts start with talking to Danielle about her role in Central Intelligence. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Danielle Nicolet! Danielle Nicolet discovered her love of performing as a gymnast in a small Ohio town. When gymnastics moved her to California, her teenage dream to become an actress came with her. She has also busied herself with films including starring with academy award winner, Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the sci-fi thriller, “Ticking Clock”, and in the relationship comedy, “Marry Me”, along side Lucy Liu. Entertainment Weekly has twice named her “Star we love to watch”, and “Breakout Star of the Network”.Currently Danielle Nicolet can
Gavin Houston talks The Haves and the Have Nots & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode, our Black Hollywood Live hosts welcome guest Gavin Houston to discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 5th, 2016. Hosts Megan Thomas and James Ward starts with talking to Gavin about his role in The Haves and The Have Nots. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Gavin Houston! Gavin Houston stars as Jeffrey Harrington on Tyler Perry's hit television drama on OWN, "The Haves and the Have Nots," He began his acting career in New York as a child, appearing on The Cosby Show and in numerous commercials and print advertisements. After graduating from the University of Florida, where he studied theatre, he returned to New York, performing in plays on and off Broadway before landing a role on the former CBS daytime soap Guiding Light. After working for three years on the soap, he moved to California and continued working in telev
Tye White talks American Crime Story & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and guest Tye White discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 29th. Megan starts with talking to Tye about her role in American Crime Story and the cultural significance of her role as Jason Simpson. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Tye White! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Angel Parker talks American Crime Story & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and James Ward III and guest Angel Parker discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 22nd. Megan starts with talking to Angel about her role in American Crime Story and the cultural significance of her role as Shawn Chapman. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Angel Parker! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Michelle Mitchenor talks Chi-Raq, Tupac Biopic Casting & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, James Ward and Courtney Tezeno and guest Michelle Mitchenor discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 18th. Megan starts with talking to Michelle about her role in Chi-Raq and the cultural significance of the film. Today's Icebreaker segment has the crew play a game of "Dance or No Chance"! The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Michelle Mitchenor! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Guest Wade F Wilson, Fresh Beatz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, James Ward and Courtney Tezeno and guest Wade F. Wilson discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 7th. Megan starts with Breaking the Ice with Wade and playing a game of Word Association. The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Wade F. Wilson! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Guest Chandler Kinney, Guess That Dance & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, James Ward and Courtney Tezeno and guest Chandler Kinney discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 18th. Megan starts with Catherine on Amazon Prime's "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street". Today's Icebreaker segment has the crew play a game of "Guess That Dance"! The gang continues with New Casting, The Next Big Thing and Fresh Beatz. The show wraps up with an interview with our special guest Chandler Kinney! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Coogler For Black Panther, Saint West & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 11th. Megan and Courtney start with a "New Casting" where they discuss Jennifer Hudson & Danielle Brooks debuting on Broadway in The Color Purple as well as Creed director Ryan Coogler being tapped for Marvel's Black Panther. James then presents the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Lady Leshurr's "Queen's Speech Episode 4 and Rhyon Brown & Major's cover of Adele's Hello. All this and more on BHL's Next!
J. Patrick Wise, Kenny Cooper and Roger Payano talk Me+You&Him | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 19th. J. Patrick Wise, Kenny Cooper and Roger Payano are in studio to talk Me+You&Him: In Search of Wifey in a WiFi World. In a world of status updates, tweets, likes, & posts can anyone get this relationship thing right? Best friends; Kevin, Ralphie, and Pierce thought they were winning at dating… KEVIN is “in a relationship” with Jane according to Facebook. Jane however, wants to change her status to “married”. The problem: Kevin doesn’t LIKE the idea of marriage. RALPHIE, thanks to TINDER, Mr. I’m not a player, I just crush-a-lot” has a rotation of women at his disposal but he’d dump them all to get back with his ex, Rosanna. The problem: he SWIPED her to the left. PIERCE is celibate for Jesus. The poster boy for ChristianMingle.com, he is every church girl’s dream man. Haunted by a recurring No-So Wet Dream, and
Special Guest Tiffany Haddish, Clip On Man Buns & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 13th. Megan and Courtney start with a "New Casting" where they discusses Vivica A. Fox on Empire and Wendy Williams contract renewal. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with the "Pop Danthology" mash-up from the top hits of 2015. All this and more on BHL's Next! They wrapping things up with an interview with, Adetokumboh M’Cormack.
Special Guest Adetokumboh M’Cormack, Wendy Williams Contract Renewed & More Trends | BHL’s Next
#ZolaStory Coming to Theaters & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 6th. Megan and Courtney start with an Icebreaker segment. They then continue with "New Casting" where she discusses #ZolaStory and how it might be coming to a theater near you. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Kendrick Lamar's “These Walls” ft Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat. Then they get to the Next Big thing – UK Spy bill risks exposing people's porn habits and more. All this and more on BHL's Next! They wrapping things up with an interview with,Tiffany Haddish.
Special Guest Eltony Williams , Janelle Monae’s film “Moonlight” & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Justin and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 30th. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Eltony Williams. Courtney and Justin start with the Icebreaker segment asking: Do You Know Right from Wrong? Courtney continues with "New Casting" where she discusses singer Janelle Monae and her new project which she will be staring in called Moonlight. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Missy Elliott's WTF (Where They From) and (Backup) JoJo “Say Love”. Wrapping things up we get to the interview with Eltony Williams , All this and more on BHL's Next!
Chris Rock Hosts Oscars, Star Wars Diversity & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 23rd. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Nichole Galicia. Megan starts with the icebreaker segment : Name That Artist and continues with "New Casting" where she discusses how people are boycotting the new Stars Wars movie for being too diverse. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Nick Jonas - “Area Code'. She moves on to Next Relationship, talking about Khole Kardashian & Lamar Odom calling off their divorce. They wrap things up with an interview with Nichole Galicia. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Special Guest Toks Olagundoye, Raven-Symone’s Apology & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Justin Hart discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 16th. Also joining the conversation is the Toks Olagundoye. Megan starts another Icebreaker segment with Courtney and Justin, featuring 'My Favorite Things.' She continues with "New Casting" where she discusses Raven-Symone's comment on not hiring people with ghetto names and her apology. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Demi Lovato – 'Confident'. Justin continues with the Next Big thing – Memory Saviors. They wrap things up with an interview with Toks Olagundoye. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Special Guest Reggie Hayes & Aundre Dean, Tony Braxton’s Biopic | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 9th. Also joining the conversation are the special guests Reggie Hayes and Aundre Dean. Megan starts with the “Icebreaker" segment with Carter High Trivia. She then continues with "New Casting" where she discusses actress Debbi Morgan. She is to play Toni Braxton's mom in Un-Break Mu Heart Biopic. They wrapping things up with an interview, with Reggie Hayes and Orlando Valentino. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Special Guest Donovan Carter, Tyrese Joins Empire & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas discusses the biggest casting news for the week of October 2nd. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Donovan Carter . Megan starts with “Icebreakers” where she starts with World War II Trivia questions. She then continues onto "New Casting" where she discusses Soul Food and how a sequel is in the works. She also opens the discussion about Tyrese and Taraji P. Henson to play a couple on the hit show Empire. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Tisha Campbell Martin's - “Steel Here.” Wrapping things up we get to the Donovan Carter's interview. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Idris Elba Response, LaMonica Garrett Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of September 11th . Also joining the conversation is the special guest LaMonica Garrett . Megan and Courtney starts with the Icebreaker segment, talking about superhero trivia. Next Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses Idris Elba's response to “Too Street” comment and Straight Outta Compton Sequel cast is set. She also opens the discussion to talking about CASTING TOPIC 2. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz". Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big thing. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Shalita Grant Interview | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno sit down with special guest Shalita Grant. After graduating from Juilliard in 2010, Shalita Grant made her New York stage debut in the Shakespeare in the Park Revival of The Merchant of Venice. She made her Broadway debut in spring 2013 in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and received a Tony nomination for her performance as psychic maid Cassandra.
Ro Brooks Guests, Queen Latifah in a Master P Biopic, & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno sit down with special guest Ro Brooks. They also discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 28th, 2015. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses how Straight Outta Compton star Jason Mitchell is set to star in multiple films comingup, as well as Queen Latifah and Wendell Pierce to play in Master P Biopic. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Tell Your Friends by The Weeknd and Trap Queen - Fetty Wap Piano Cover by Josh Levi and KHS. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kiki Haynes Interview, Mike Epps Busted by his Wife & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 21st, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Kiki Haynes. Megan starts with "Ice Breaker" where we play the “For Better Or Worse, OR Let me Go Get My Purse” Game. She also opens the discussion to talking about how Mike Epps was busted by his wife, trying to sneak into another woman's DM's. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Chris Brown ft. Rita Ora's “Body On Me”. We then move onto New Casting with Marlon Wayans to write and star in “Fifty Shades of Black”. Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big Tip – Bloomingdales Makes Mistake of accidentally giving customers $25,000 Rewards. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Kim K. Post Nude Selfie, Jeans That Charge Your Phone? & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 14. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses the anticipated movie Straight Outta Compton coming to theaters today and continues with some N.W.A Trivia. She also opens the discussion to talking about actor and director Lee Daniels announces Empire spinoff “Star”. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Calvin Harris -How Deep is Your Love. She continues on to the Next Big thing which is Denim jeans that charge your phone on the go. Megan follows up with Next Family Alert discussing Kim Kardashian posting nude selfie to prove that her baby bump is real. Courtney wraps things up with Next Tip where she discusses how a stolen car was returned to owner 22 years later and a women spends thousands for her chicken’s prosthetic leg. All this and more on BHL's Next!
NBC Casts Dorothy, Tyrel Jackson Williams Stops By & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of August 7th. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Tyrel Jackson Williams. Megan starts with “Icebreaker” where she and the panel do Super Hero Trivia. . Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Robin Thicke’s new song “Back Together” featuring Nicki Minaj. Megan continues with "New Casting" where she discusses newcomer actress, Shanice Williams. She has been cast as Dorothy in NBC’s The Wiz Live. Courtney then brings up the "The Next Big Tip” for this week with THE NEXT BIG TIP (TBD). They wrap things up with an interview with special guest Tyrel Jackson Williams. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Jocko Sims Interview, Empire Co-Stars Engaged, New Casting for The Wiz & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 31st. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Jocko Sims. Courtney starts the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Disclosure- Omen ft Sam Smith. Then Megan continues with "New Casting" where she discusses the co-stars of Empire, Grace Gealey & Trau Byers are now engaged. She also opens the discussion to talking about Queen Latifah & Mary J. Blige join the cast of The Wiz live action special. Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big thing – There is a hotel in Japan fully run by robots. The host then finishes with an interview with Jocko Sims. All this and more on BHL's Next! [print_gllr id=10499]
Spike Lee’s New Film, Special Guest Moniece Slaughter Stops By & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 24th. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Moniece Slaughter. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses Spike Lee’s new feature Chi-Raq becoming Amazon’s first original film. . Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Pharrell’s new single “Freedom”. Courtney then continues with the Next Big thing – Tender; a new app that helps you find the perfect recipe. They both wrap things up with an interview with Moniece Slaughter(@moniece_slaughter). All this and more on BHL's Next! [print_gllr id=10439]
Cosby Show’s Reruns Pulled from TV, What is 0 divided by 0, Siri? & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 10th. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Marlon Yates. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses how the The Cosby Show reruns have been yanked from TV. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Tyrese's 'Shame”. Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big thing –What is 0 divided by 0? Let's ask Siri! Courtney wraps up with an interview with Marlon Yates. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Nene Leaks leaving Real Housewives, Chris Brown Paternity Suit & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of July 3rd. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses Nene Leakes leaving Real Housewives of Atlanta. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Rihanna's “BBHMM” and Big Sean ft. Chris Brown and Ty Dolla Sign's “Play No Games”. Megan then continues with “Next Family Alert” for this week Chris Brown takes his baby's mother to court with paternity suit and Sherri Shepherd settles divorce with Lamar Sally & pays child support. Courtney follows with “Fashion Up Next” for this week denim mini skirts make a comeback and 90s styles have begun to resurface. Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big thing – “Bubble Soccer” burst onto the scene and Docastaway allows people tp take deserted island vacations. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Rizzoli & Isles’s Idara Victor, Queen Latifah’s New Drama & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of June 26th. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Idara Victor. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses Queen Latifah, to star in New Drama 'Miracles From Heaven'. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Selena Gomez' “Good For You” feat A$AP Rocky. Moving on we get to the Next Big thing – Doctor warnings against skinny jeans. Wrapping things up, we talk to special guest Idara Victor about her current projects, career, and aspirations. All this and more on BHL's Next!
Rachel Dolezal Reality Show, Allen Maldonado Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of June 19th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Allen Maldonado. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses how Rachel Dolezal (See BHL's This week) is in talks for a reality show. Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Miguel's Coffee. Wrapping things up we get to the Next Big thing – twitter to remove 140 character limit on direct messages. Finishing things up we conclude the show with an interview with Allen Maldonado. All this and more on BHL's Next!
What’s a Phunkeeduck?! Miles Brown Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of June 19, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Miles Brown. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses the Starz' “Survivor's Remorse” season 2 sneak peak!. She also opens the discussion to The Next Big Thing talking about the new hollywood toy: Phunkeeduck, and new drones that crack down on high school cheating.. Wrapping things up we get into our interview with Miles Brown! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Cuba Gooding Jr. Stars as Escaped Slave & Keith Powers Interview | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno Interview special guest Keith Powers and discuss upcoming trends and his current projects! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Thomas Hobson Interview | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno Interview special guest Thomas Hobson and discuss upcoming trends and his current projects! All this and more on BHL's Next!
Jordin Sparks’ New Boo? New Beyonce & Nikki! Capes Are IN!! & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of May 15th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Todd Williams. Megan starts with "New Casting" where she discusses how producer Will Packer is getting two new shows on television, "People Are Talking" and "Uncle Buck". She also opens the discussion to talking about Kenya Moore's Millionaire Matchmaker boyfriend scandal! Courtney then brings up the "Fresh Beatz" for this week with Beyonce and Nikki Minaj's Feeling Myself followed by Taylor Swift's new fierce video "Bad Blood" ft. Kendrick Lamar. They mix things up by discussing the newest couple hitting the scene, Jordin Sparks with Sage The Gemini! Wraping things up we get to the Next Big thing - A New cell phone invention? Also! FASHION ALERT! Capes are in! Discover the next big fashion trend hitting the streets! All this and more on BHL's Next. [print_gllr id=9627]
The Rock Joins Alpha Squad Seven Cast, Todd Williams Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of May 15th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Todd Williams . Megan starts with "New Casting" Jennifer Hudson Joins Chiraq, The Rock Joins Alpha Squad Seven .Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" Britney Spears and Iggy Release New "Pretty Girls" Video . They wrap things up by Interviewing special guest Todd Williams. [print_gllr id=9555]
Tyler Perry In TMNT2? Interview w/ Edwina Findley & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of May 1st, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Edwina Findley . Megan starts with "New Casting" where Tyler Perry joins Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" Mariah Carey Throwing Shade at Ex-Hubby Nick Cannon In New Single " Infinity"? They wrap things up by Interviewing special guest Edwina Findley. [print_gllr id=9373]
Rihanna & Chris Brown Back Together, Malcolm Goodwin Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 24th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Malcolm Goodwin . Megan starts with "New Casting" emails prove Mo'Nique was offered the role of Cookie in Empire .Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" Rihanna and Chris Brown back together with new raunchy single "Put It Up". They wrap things up by Interviewing special guest Malcolm Goodwin. [print_gllr id=9278]
Interviewing Harold House Moore, IceT and Coco’s New Talk Show & More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 17th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the special guest Harold House Moore. Megan starts with "New Casting" featuring Ice-T and wife Coco getting a new Daytime Talk Show, as well as rapper The Game looking for love on a new reality show. Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" with Jojo - "Far From Heaven". They wrap things up by Interviewing special guest Harold House Moore. Actor born and raised in Detroit, MI. He actually Worked as a behavioral therapist before becoming an actor. He has appeared in several music videos. He then Competed on the 2004 reality series Next Action Star and is an advocate for youth development and education. Ice-T and Coco land a day time Talk Show, Rapper The Game looks for love on New Reality Show, New Music from Jojo called “Far From Heaven.”
The Wiz Coming to TV, Malcolm Goodwin Interview & More Trends | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas and Courtney Tezeno discuss the biggest casting news for the week of April 3rd, 2015. Also joining the conversation is the cast of The Lost Kingdom. Megan starts with "New Casting" featuring Live Musical Production of The Wiz Coming to TV. Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" with Machine Gun Kelly - A Little More ft. Victoria Monet. Then they discuss "The Next Big Thing" by discussing New Music-Streaming Service Tidal May Change Music Industry. They wrap things up by interviewing the cast of The Lost Kingdom.
Nina Simone Doc to Play in Theatres, Santana Dempsey Interview & More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and special guest Nina Simone discuss the biggest casting news for the week of March 20th, 2015. Megan starts with "New Casting" featuring Netflix’s Nina Simone Doc to Also Play in Theaters. Courtney then discusses "Fresh Beatz" with Ciara Throwing Shade at Her Ex Future With New 'I Bet' Video. Then they discuss "The Next Big Thing" by discussing Apple's new ‘Apple Watch. They wrap things up interviewing Santana Dempsey. [print_gllr id=8829]
Barbershop 3 In Works, Interview w/ Miss Diddy, & More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and special guest Miss Diddy discuss the biggest casting news for the week of March 13th, 2015. Megan starts with "New Casting" featuring Cedric The Entertainer Says ‘Barbershop 3’ Is In The Works. Then they discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring John Legend Joins Sam Smith in Special Version Of 'Lay Me Down'. Then they discuss "The Next Big Thing" by discussing ‘Drizzy Keyboard’ App. They wrap things up interviewing Miss Diddy. [print_gllr id=8772]
WTF Color is This Dress?, Erica Tazel Interview re: Mr. Right & More | BHL’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Megan Thomas, Courtney Tezeno and special guest Erica Tazel discuss the biggest casting news for the week of March 6th, 2015. Megan starts with "New Casting" featuring T.I. Confirms ATL Sequel With Instagram Post. Then they discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Iggy Azalea Gets Jennifer Hudson In 'Trouble' With New Music Video. Then they discuss "The Next Big Thing" by discussing #DressGate: White & Gold or Blue & Black? They wrap things up interviewing Erica Tazel. [print_gllr id=8526]
Next w/ Carla Renata | February 27th 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Kiki Ayers and special guest Miss Diddy discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 27th, 2015. Megan starts with a black history month segment about Maggie Lena Walker. Next they discuss "New Casting" featuring Zendaya Accepts Giuliana Rancic's Apology for Racist Comments. Then they discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Kanye Drops New Banger ‘All Day’ at Brit Awards. They wrap things up interviewing Carla Renata. [print_gllr id=8526]
Next w/ Gregg Daniel | February 13th 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 13th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Trinidad James. Megan opens up with "Up Next" featuring Diddy Blasts Hollywood For ‘Putting Only One Or Two Black People’ In Movies. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Kendrick Lamar Drops ‘Blacker The Berry'. Cortez then talks about "The Next Big Thing:" Kanye West Yeezy 750 Boost Shoes. The wrap things up interviewing Gregg Daniel. [print_gllr id=8398]
Next w/ Timothy Bloom | February 6th 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of February 6th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Timothy Bloom. Megan opens up with "Up Next" featuring Diddy Bans Son From Guest-Starring on Empire. Cortez then talks about "The Next Big Thing:" The Artist/Songwriter Album: Timothy Bloom. The wrap things up interviewing Timothy Bloom. [print_gllr id=8278]
Next w/ Carl Jones | January 30th 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Kiki Ayers discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 30th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Carl Jones. Megan opens up with "Up Next" featuring New Roles for Leslie Jones & Octavia Spencer. Megan then switches to talk "Fresh Beatz" Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney To Reportedly Perform "FourFive Seconds" At Grammys. Cortez then talks about "The Next Big Thing:" Black Dynamite Season 2. The wrap things up interviewing Carl Jones. [print_gllr id=8216]
Next w/ V. Bozeman | January 30th 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Kiki Ayers discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 30th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest V. Bozeman. Megan opens up with "Up Next" featuring Fox's Empire and Dope Director Calls A$AP Rocky a 'Natural' in Acting Debut. Cortez then switches to talk "The Next Big Thing": Game: Duet or Do Never! Megan then talks about "Fresh Beatz": T.I. Premieres New Video “G-sht” feat. Young Jeezy. The wrap things up interviewing V. Bozeman. [print_gllr id=8222]
Next w/ Page Kennedy | January 23rd, 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Kiki Ayers discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 23rd, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Page Kennedy. Megan opens up with "Up Next" featuring Kevin Hart Explains Why He Would Never Play a Gay Role. Kiki switches to talk "Fresh Beatz" How Does Lil Wayne’s ‘Drunk In Love’ Compare To Beyonce’s Original? Cortez then talks about "The Next Big Thing:" The Belfie Stick. The wrap things up interviewing Page Kennedy. [print_gllr id=8147]
Next w/ Johnny Gill | January 16th, 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 16th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Johnny Gill. Cortex opens up with an icebreaker game. Megan follows up with "Up Next" featuring New Roles for Phylicia Rashad & Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Kiki switches to talk "Fresh Beatz" Eminem And 50 Cent Have A New Record On The Way. Cortez then talks about "The Next Big Thing". The wrap things up interviewing Johnny Gill. [print_gllr id=8084]
Next w/ Christian Keyes | January 9th, 2015 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of January 9th, 2015. Also joining the conversation is special guest Christian Keyes. Megan opens with by discussingRacist Casting & Inaccuracies: Ridley Scott's Exodus Banned in Egypt. Kiki switches to talk about Google wants to do for music streaming what it did for movie streaming. Cortez then play a game with everyone called 'LADIES NIGHT' or 'WE BOUT TO FIGHT' kinda night. The wrap things up interviewing Christian Keyes. [print_gllr id=7990]
Next w/ Hayley Marie Norman | December 19th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 19th, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Hayley Marie Norman. Megan opens with by discussing Actress Tasha Smith to Pay $50K in Spousal Support. Cortez then discusses New Spinning Rollercoaster: Batman the Ride Rollercoaster and Gas prices expecting to go even lower in 2015. The wrap things up interviewing Hayley Marie Norman. [print_gllr id=7911]
Next for the week of December 12th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 12th, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Kendra C. Johnson. The hosts open with by discussing Celebs Reactions to No Indictment in Eric Garner Case. Next they discuss "Fresh Beatz" featuring Nicki Minaj Gives Major Stamp of Approval to New Artist. Cortez then discusses "The Next Big Thing" Instagram: Early Spring Cleaning! [print_gllr id=7841]
Next w/ Luke Youngblood | December 5th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of December 5th, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Luke Youngblood. The hosts open with "Fresh Beatz" featuring Antonique Smith Drops "Hold Up, Wait A Minute" Music Video. Cortez then discusses "The Next Big Thing" Christmas shopping online has grown wings - Drones for your deliveries! They wrap things up with by interviewing the Luke Youngblood. [print_gllr id=7768]
Next | No New Episode This Week Due to Thanksgiving
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, no new episodes this week.
Next w/ the Jazmin Sisters | November 21st, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 21st, 2014. Also joining the conversation are special guests the Jazmin Sisters. The hosts open with "Fresh Beatz" featuring the newest Jazmin Sisters' Music video. Cortez then discusses "The Next Big Thing" by playing the game 'Were They Hot or Nah?'. They wrap things up with by interviewing the Jazmin Sisters. [print_gllr id=7676]
Next w/ April Parker | November 21st, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 21st, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest April Parker. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including Critics Blast Wendy Williams' Aaliyah Biopic. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Kendrick Lamar Confirms Lil Wayne Collaboration. Cortez then discusses "The Next Big Thing": Jazmin Sisters - YOU. They wrap things up with by interviewing April Parker. [print_gllr id=7670]
Next w/ Keiana Richard and Desean Terry | November 21st, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West interview Keiana Richard and Desean Terry. Keiana Richàrd was born and raised in Nashville, TN. Her last name comes from her Louisiana roots (both parents being born and raised in Southern Louisiana). She attended The University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts and her Minor in Business. While at UTK, she and a group of other black actresses played an integral part in creating more opportunities for minorities in the theatre department. She and four other ladies produced The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe directed by Ka’ramuu Kush. This production set a precedent of inclusion for minorities in the Clarence Brown theatre department. She received her MFA from the prestigious University of California, San Diego. There she was able to hone her skills as an actress and work with some of the best artists in the country, including directors
Next w/ Bille Woodruff | November 14th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Kiki Ayers and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 14th, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Bille Woodruff. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including Paula Patton Joins the Cast of Warcraft. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring CALI NATIVE KYLE - “Don't Wanna Fall In Love”. Cortez then leads the panel in a game of 'Who's that Fem on Film?'. They wrap things up with by interviewing Bille Woodruff.
Next w/ Denise Boutte | November 7th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of November 7th, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Denise Boutte. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including HBO Developing ‘Bros’ Black Brothers Comedy and Porsha Williams Gets A Spin-off. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Beyoncé Is Releasing New Music and Up NEXT in Music: CALI NATIVE KYLE - “Don't Wanna Fall In Love”. Cortez then breaks down "The Next Big Thing" featuring The NoPhone Is a Technology-free Alternative to a Cell Phone. They wrap things up with by interviewing Denise Boutte.
Next w/ Stevie Mackey | October 31st, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 31st, 2014. Also joining the conversation is special guest Stevie Mackey. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including Chadwick Bosemen is Marvel's First Black Superhero, and 2004 Kevin Hart Sitcom Coming to DVD. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring Benzino & Althea Fired From Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, and Suge Knight And Katt Williams Arrested On Robbery Charges. Cortez then breaks down "The Next Big Thing" featuring New Product: Vocal lessons in a bottle - Sound Check. They wrap things up with by interviewing Stevie Mackay. [print_gllr id=7441]
Next w/ The Cast of Drumline 2 | October 24th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 24th, 2014. Also joining the conversation are special guests Duain Richmond, Tye White, Jeff Pierre, and Rome Flynn from Drumline 2. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including Eddie Murphy, Morris Chestnut Land Big Roles, and Tyra Banks Panel Talk Show to Launch in 2015. Kiki then discusses "Fresh Beatz" featuring ILOVEMAKONNEN Gets Attacked On Stage, and Iggy Azalea And Boyfriend Nick Young Are The Faces Of Forever 21′s Holiday Ad. Cortez then breaks down "The Next Big Thing" featuring Beyoncé’s new bangs/edges - HOT or NAH?, Bruno Mars starfish model?, Raven-Symone: "I never said I was black", F.A.M.U. half time show, and Nick Cannon and Mariah divorce rumors. They wrap things up with by interviewing the cast of Drumline 2. [print_gllr id=7396]
Next for the Week of October 17th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West discuss the biggest casting news for the week of October 17th, 2014. Megan opens up with "New Casting" topics including 'Dear White People' out in theaters and Chris Rock & Prince heading to Saturday Night Live. They then move on to new music in the "Fresh Beatz" segment by discussing Carmen - 'Cold', Pharrell Williams feeling the Halloween spirit, and Snoop Dogg apologizes to Iggy Azalea. Cortez then breaks down "The Next Big Thing" featuring the best Halloween costumes for 2014 and social media comedians dress up as girls for followers. Megan wraps things up with a fun game of "Guess the Celeb". [print_gllr id=7326]
Next w/Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell | October 10th, 2014 | Black Hollywood Live
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Kiki Ayers interviews Angell Conwell and Omar Gooding. Kiki opens up by discussing the new Ghostbusters 3 movie being confirmed, Kanye West Designing A Wedding Ring For North West, and Jay Z Throws Shade At French Tourist. Next she interviews Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell, the stars of the hit Bounce TV original comedy "Family Time". "Family Time" centers around the life and times of The Stallworths, a working class African American family who scratches off a lottery ticket and jumps to middle class overnight. They're an authentic picture of an African American family working to live the dream. This family-next-door consists of two loving parents: Anthony (Omar Gooding) and Lisa (Angell Conwell) Stallworth and their children Ebony (Jayla Calhoun) and Devin (Bentley Kyle Evans, Jr.) The Stallworths move to a middle class community in sunny southern California and both Anthony and Lisa bring baggage and ot
Kofi Siriboe Interview | Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Cortez West and Kiki Ayers interview Kofi Siriboe. Kofi Siriboe has already amassed quite an impressive resume, he is best known for his breakout role in Ice Cube's The Longshots. Kofi landed the role of "Tyler" on "Awkward". His character is a Rwandan student educated in a posh English school, coming to America to study at Palos Verdes, for senior year. Currently Kofi is also the star of Ice Cube's "Straight Outta Compton" and Sony's "Whiplash" that won Sundance Grand Jury prize 2014. Previously he has been seen in Disney's Prom, The Longshots with Ice Cube and the critically acclaimed Toronto Film Festival selection, 40. Siriboe has also starred in countless hit television shows like: CSI, Lincoln Heights, Entourage and many more. Last year successfully launched his own innovative blog/website, which currently has over 3 million followers on YouTube which is a testament to
Erica Ash Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Michelle Renee interviews Erica Ash. Erica Ash is an NAACP Award winning Broadway, Film and Television Actress. Her credits include: Theater- The Lion King (Nala); Spamalot (Lady of the Lake); Love Loss and What I Wore; Baby It’s You (Broadway) (Dionne Warwick/Micki); Soul Doctor (Off-Broadway) (Nina Simone); TV- American Judy (ABC-Pilot); Jamie Foxx’s Afterparty (FOX-Pilot); MADtv (FOX-Season 14: cast member and writer); Cold Case (CBS-Guest Star); The Big Gay Sketch Show (LOGO-Seasons 1 & 2: cast member); Film- Scary Movie 5 (Kendra); I Can Smoke? (Carmen); Minano Ie (Naomi). She is the creator/writer of comedic advice blog “The Deviled Angel” and writes/produces sketch comedy for The Deviled Angel Network. She has done feature segments for The Daily News online and has enjoyed giving back through the Make a Wish foundation, Broadway Sings for Pride and benefits for various theaters including the Rubicon
Yara Shahidi Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Stacy Ike interviews Yara Shahidi. Yara was destined to be an actress since she was a baby. Her talent can be seen in her portrayal as Murphy’s daughter, as the full-spirited character ‘Olivia’. Olivia takes her father, who is an overworked businessman, on a journey through her imaginary world and shows him valuable lessons along the way. In her free time, Yara loves learning to cook with her Baba (father), baking with her mommy, learning to speak Farsi, traveling with her family, and conducting science experiments (she wants to build a laboratory in her garage one day). Her favorite subject in school is history–she likes to start everyday learning something new. She currently resides in Los Angeles with mother, father, her two younger brothers and her fish, Cleophus. She began her career at six weeks old, working along side her mother in commercials and print ads. Yara can be seen in such camp
Asia Monet Ray Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Cortez West, and Kiki Ayers interview Asia Monet Ray. At only eight years old, Asia Monet Ray has taken the dance world by storm. Born in Yorba Linda, California, she first took interest in gymnastics when she was just a toddler. Quickly realizing she had a natural athleticism and a love for movement, Asia’s parents enrolled her in figure skating lessons, with dance lessons soon following. As expected, she picked up both sports with ease and went on to win numerous awards in a short amount of time. Eventually, she stopped ice-skating to focus on dance, which she found to be her true passion. Often sweeping her competition away, she was a real threat to challengers of all ages and became known as a dance prodigy. Asia’s hard work paid off, and at the tender age of five, she made history by becoming the youngest StarPower National Championship winner to ever take the title. Her knack for picking up choreogr
Ro Shon Fegan Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Stacy Ike interview Ro Shon Fegan. 2014 - Gained worldwide attention in over a 137 countries as a young television star for seven years, 22-year old Los Angeles native music producer/artist, Ro Shon Fegan is transitioning from his young image with a more mature look & sound which was recently seen at the 56th Grammys and 2014 Billboard Awards Red Carpet. In addition to making his own music, Ro Shon electrified viewers on Season 14 of Dancing with the Stars with his signature dance moves. He's also honed his production skills and has become a budding collaborator, producing tracks for Britney Spears and Wiz Khalifa. Ro Shon stated in his interview with KTLA: “Music is something I’ve done all my life. But I haven’t really taken that step to [say], ‘Here I am!’ So now I’m taking those steps and people are hearing the songs I wrote and produced myself.” While Ro takes pride in
Andra Fuller Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas, Cortez West interviews Andra Fuller. Andra Fuller is a talent on the rise. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Andra's active imagination, talkative nature, and need for laughs typically led him to both entertain and terrorize his two older siblings. This natural talent also transferred to his academic life, where he was often reprimanded by his teachers and administrators. Despite these unintentional classroom disruptions, teachers could not deny his aptitude and ability to quickly grasp new ideas and information. Soon, he was acknowledged as a gifted and talented student, and placed in advanced classes. When he was not at school or playing football with the neighborhood kids, he was at home, dancing, rapping, impersonating celebrities, or telling jokes for anyone who would listen. It was during those pivotal early years that Andra discovered his love for entertainment. While in high school,
Tori Kay Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Cortez West interviews Tori Kay. Tori Kay is an in demand young singer/songwriter/actress who is currently filming as the face of Disney's International Language DVD, a music ambassador for The United Nations Foundation, just signed with the top kids group KidzBop who is currently #3 on the Billboard 200, and is in call backs for the lead role on Broadway's Matilda The Musical. Her music is an exciting blend of urban/pop with a message of empowerment. The definition of a triple threat and true entertainer. The industry says she is the new and improved Britney Spears with a real voice! Check out her lyric video to her original song "Kings" This interview was recorded August 8th, 2014.
Verse Simmonds Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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Antonique Smith Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Cortez West and Kiki Ayers interview Antonique Smith. Antonique is an actor, singer, writer. She is most famous for her starring role of Faith Evans in "Notorious" where she received rave reviews. Antonique first garnered attention in her buzz-worthy leading role in "Rent" on Broadway as Mimi Marquez. Antonique became the international poster girl for the show. Antonique played CIA agent Sandra Burns in Abduction opposite Taylor Lautner and Alfred Molina and will be in theaters in late 2012 in Yelling To The Sky", playing the starring role of Ola O'Hara, opposite Zoe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe. Antonique had a featured role in the Golden Globe nominated "Across The Universe" and has also guest starred on numerous hit TV shows including Law & Order and HBO's Bored To Death and the Sidney Lumet directed "100 Centre Street". Sidney Lumet gave Antonique he
Lucena Herrera Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Megan Thomas and Cortez West interview Azur-De. Born and raised in the heart of Los Angeles, Azur-De is no stranger to the spotlight. At the young age of 9, she began performing with the dance troupe “Positive Steps” where she traveled statewide and performed in sold out arenas during half time shows for the Lakers, Raiders, and Magic Johnson All Star Weekends. Her passion for performance grew when she studied at “Faith Acting Studios” at the age of 12. What began as a hobby soon became a major influence in her growth as an artist. Growing up in South Central LA gave her limited resources but she used it as motivation instead of an obstacle. In high school she was honored for excelling academically, leading the cheerleading team as Captain and Senior Class as President. She was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley with an academic scholarship. It was then where
Naturi Naughton Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next – In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview Naturi Naughton. Naturi Naughton is an American Singer and Actress best known for her performance as "Lil Kim" in Fox Searchlight's hit film "Notorious", and her role in MGM's remake of the classic film "Fame". Naughton has starred in various other projects such as: Lottery Ticket, The Playboy Club, Mad Men and The Client List. She also appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award winning musical, "Hairspray" for 3 years. Before her transition into film and television, Naughton was a member of the Platinum selling Pop trio 3LW. She was greatly inspired by Whitney Houston as a child and knew by the age of 5 that she wanted to be a singer and an actress. She is a rising star in the Film/TV community who values hard work and perseverance. This interview was recorded June 6th, 2014.
Walter Fauntleroy Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
BHL: Next -- In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview Walter Fauntleroy.
LaRoyce Hawkins Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King and Nick Perdue interview special guest LaRoyce Hawkins. LaRoyce Hawkins stars as Officer Kevin Atwater on NBC's new police drama "Chicago P.D." Hawkins, who first originated the role in "Chicago Fire," is an accomplished standup comic, spoken-word artist and musician. He had a role in the feature film "The Express," which chronicled the life of Ernie Davis - the first African American to win college football's coveted Heisman Award. On the television side, Hawkins has appeared on MTV's "Underemployed," ABC's drama, "Detroit 187," and the TBS comedy, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne." He has appeared on stage in "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, "Hoodoo Love" at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and other legit productions. Hawkins holds a BFA in acting from Illinois State University. This interview
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Cocoa Brown Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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Katlynn Simone Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Katlynn Simone. Mutli-faceted actress and singer/songwriter Katlynn Simone Smith is quickly becoming "one to watch" in the entertainment industry, in 2014. This spring she will return to television on the 7th season of BET's hit series "The Game." Katlynn Simone co-stars as Brittany Pitts, Jason Pitts' (Coby Bell) rebellious, troublemaking and smart-mouthed daughter on the long running comedy about the lives of professional athletes and the relationships surrounding their careers. On the music front, in February 2014 Katlynn Simone will release the music video for her single "Beautiful Lie," which will showcase her powerful vocals and musical range. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Katlynn Simone always had a love for the arts. Music was one of her passions, and she would beg for vocal lessons every birthday and Christmas. Her parents had her start working with a small v
Shanola Hampton Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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Jaclyn Betham Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Jaclyn Betham. Jaclyn Betham, originally from Long Beach, CA, has had a love for performing since before she could remember, starting off in gymnastics as just a young girl. After a huge growth spurt Jaclyn turned to ballet where she quickly excelled and began training with the San Jose Ballet Company. At the age of 15 she was accepted into the Houston Ballet where she performed for three years before moving back to San Jose as part of the San Jose Opera.At 19 Jaclyn had the opportunity to dance and coach with Ballet Pacifica and she quickly fell in love with teaching. She became an instructor for the San Jose Ballet and started her own non-profit, the Betham Ballet Theatre, which gives underprivileged children the chance to learn the art of ballet. Jaclyn first started her acting experience with roles in short films, which led her to want more despite her promising ballet career. Deter
Imani Hakim Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Imani Hakim. Imani Hakim (born August 12, 1993) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tonya Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris as well as portraying Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas in The Gabby Douglas Story.When she was seven, Imani studied acting at Karamu House Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. She also studied at Alexander's Workshop School in Lakewood, California and at The Young Actor's Space in Burbank, California.It's been nearly a decade since the nation was introduced to Imani Hakim as Tonya Rock on "Everybody Hates Chris." She was just 11 year old when she landed the role.Hakim has since blossomed into a grown woman, and the 20-year-old thespian is taking her career to new heights as one of two actresses portraying Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas in the Lifetime film "The Gabby Douglas Story," which airs Feb. 1 at 8 p.m.The Post
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Donna Glytch Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Mechelle Epps. A talented actress, positive role model and overall effeminate powerhouse, Mechelle Epps is living proof that women are capable of managing an active household while maintaining a successful, multi-faceted career.Mechelle first entered the fashion and entertainment industries at the age of 14, working in local productions, modeling, and appearing in beauty pageants in Houston, Texas. After realizing the desire to take her career to the next level, Mechelle left Houston for Los Angeles, the infamous entertainment capital of the world, to pursue acting and modeling. Shortly after her arrival in the City of Angels Mechelle met and married well-known film star and hilarious stand-up comedian Michael Epps, and became the parents of two beautiful daughters.In addition to providing a comfortable home for her family, Mechelle has also managed to preserve a successful career, appearin
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Hari Williams Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King and Nick Perdue interview special guest Hari Williams. Hari Williams is the second of three kids of very creative parents. He was always encouraged to pursue artistic endeavors, including drawing, writing, and most importantly, theater; appearing on stage since he was 6 years old. At age 13, however, he decided that he wanted to only do acting and began to audition for commercial and TV work. Seeking to expand his knowledge of the acting craft, Hari left the comforts of his family home in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, CA. He ventured 3,000 miles away from Hollywood, and enrolled in the prestigious theater arts program at Howard University ("HU") where he earned a BFA and appeared in many university and local-area theater productions. He recalls Howard as "an experience of a lifetime where I met incredible people who continue to inspire me, and the place that truly laid the foundation for the artist that I am continuing t
Brittany Richards Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Brittany Richards. Brittany Richards grew up in Kentucky but always dreamed of being a working actress in Los Angeles. She first discovered her love for the craft of acting while watching "Forrest Gump" in a packed theater. She found the actors' ability to garner an audience's full attention fascinating.Brittany's theatrical training led her to Los Angeles, CA where she landed a number of hosting and theatrical gigs. She can be seen in the Web series "Almost 30" and "Gone Viral."This interview was recorded on November 8th, 2013.
Laila Odom – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Laila Odom. Laila Odom, received her (BFA) degree in Theater Arts at Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts. During college, Laila embarked on a successful modeling career in New York that led to international opportunities in German and South Africa. Laila moved to Los Angeles to further pursue an acting career and studied with Margie Haber, Lesly Khan and Ivana Chubbuck. Laila began to study improv at Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade, which later lead to a lead in the new hit web series “The Real Preachers Wives”, on The Comedy Shaq channel directed by Leslie Smalls. This opportunity allowed Laila to hone her comedy and sketch skills, which led to roles in such films as "Dysfunctional Friends", "He's Mine Not Yours" and "Video Girl". This interview was recorded on November 1st, 2013.
Gregg Wayans Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Gregg Wayans. Actor, comedian, writer and a member of the talented and famous Wayans Family, Gregg Wayans is the nephew of Keenan, Damon, Kim, Shawn, and Marlon Wayans. Gregg has appeared in the feature films "Dance Flick" and "We the Party." He also co-starred in the HBO-Cinemax late-night television series "Zane's The Jump Off."Gregg will be seen in the upcoming short film entitled "Bloodthirsty" and the sequel to the highly successful Marlon Wayans movie, "A Haunted House."This interview was recorded on October 25th, 2013.
Aml Ameen Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King and Nick Perdue interview special guest Aml Ameen. British actor Aml Ameen initially became know to a Stateside audience via his starring role opposite Oscar-winner Kathy Bates in David E. Kelley's HARRY'S LAW, followed by the war drama RED TAILS alongside the likes of Bryan Cranston and Terrence Howard. He next shares billing with Howard in Lee Daniels' follow-up to PRECIOUS, as a young Forest Whitaker in Weinstein Co's anticipated THE BUTLER (August '13) which also features Oprah Winfrey and Jane Fonda among others. Thereafter, Ameen can be seen in the thriller EVIDENCE, and joins the cast of yet another studio film, THE MAZE RUNNER (February '14).In his native England, Ameen first gained recognition for his depiction of "Trife" in the cult classic independent feature KIDULTHOOD. His acclaimed performance garnered him a nomination for "Best Newcomer" at the 2006 Screen nation Awards, as well as a spot in The London Times' list
Drew Sidora Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Drew Sidora. Drew Sidora hails from Chicago, Illinois. Drew will next be seen playing Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins in the VH1's Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story premiering October 20th on VH1. Drew is best known for breakout roles in The Game, That's So Raven, and the original Step Up. Drew recently produced her first feature film Blessed and Cursed with Deitrick Hadden, starring Sheryl Lee Ralph Drew also launched her own record label, Record Breakers Music Group. The label serves as a platform to showcase young artists and music producers. As a child, T-Boz was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia, and this encouraged Drew to become a spokesperson for Sickle Disease Association of Illinois. September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month and you can see this link for more information: http://sicklecelldisease-illinois.org/. Drew Sidora was the Host of the 2013 Real Men Cook in Chicago, promoti
Mack Wilds Interview – Black Hollywood Live’s Next
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Casino Girl — BLITZ
Birdie O September 11, 2018 0 Comments
Casino Girl
Leslie Wolfe
(Baxter and Holt #2)
Publication date: August 31st 2018
Genres: Adult, Mystery, Thriller
In Las Vegas, secrets are deadly.
Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer.
When a beautiful, young girl is killed in the high-roller Pleasure Pit of the exclusive Scala Casino, the news reverberates for hours among the ritzy clientele. Before taking the stage where she found her death, Crystal was last seen boarding an unmarked helicopter for a late-night flight to an unknown destination.
The stakes are high at the roulette table, and the players are hot-blooded. Among them, a stone-cold killer watches, waits, and kills without leaving a single trace of evidence. Rien ne va plus but death.
The name of the game is murder, and it doesn’t stop with Crystal’s demise. Anyone who threatens to expose the killer’s identity will soon find they’re being targeted.
In Las Vegas, secrets can kill.
Two mavericks make an intriguing team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, only not with their darkest secrets.
They’re called quasi-strippers.
They don’t really bare it all, like real strippers do behind the darkened glass doors of specialty adult clubs, but they aren’t exactly fully dressed either while they perform.
Crystal preferred the term exotic dancer. Five nights a week she took the small stage at the center of the high-limit blackjack tables, in the glamorous Scala Casino. Five nights a week she danced and smiled and undulated her perfect body to the rhythm of sultry songs, carefully chosen to lure the gamblers’ attention away from the cards and the ever-diminishing stacks of their chips. In the background, nothing is more Vegas than the Scala Casino floor, filled with a million noises, dazzling lights, and excess adrenaline. Nothing is more alive.
That’s where she belonged, among the glitter and the gold, the glitzy and the rich.
She wore strappy lingerie with black and gold lace accents on beige silk, designed to trick the mind’s eye into believing she was naked. Black, knee-high stiletto boots completed her attire, her black, garter-belt straps attached to them, sexy and kinky and fun. The appreciative looks she basked in that night told her she’d chosen her ensemble well. It was going to be a profitable evening.
The familiar music seemed a bit too loud, making her wince, a little dizzy. She grabbed the pole tighter, aware she was dancing out of rhythm, but knowing the customers were too far gone to notice. It was almost four in the morning, and by that time, most of them were pleasantly inebriated, high on their own excitement and maybe more, living the Vegas dream.
The only danger was that asshole, Farley, a fat, lewd pig who liked to scream at the girls, giving them a hard time for everything they did, right or wrong regardless. Two minutes of being late or changing clothes mid-shift and she’d get pulled inside the pit manager’s office for another scolding session.
But she held her head up during those moments, aware they were going to pass and even more aware they were meant to intimidate her into offering sexual favors in return for a privileged work atmosphere.
Oh, hell, no.
Not ever. Not even if the prick turned blue in the face from too much screaming, or his waiting-to-happen stroke knocked him dead right before her eyes.
But even Stan Farley was looking away that moment, focused on a newly arrived high roller who’d taken a seat at one of the blackjack tables with a view of the stage. She didn’t know that one, but judging by the way Farley fawned over him, he must’ve been someone important.
Someone rich.
Someone who didn’t care that the odds at his blackjack table were stacked higher against him, just because the table came with a view of full inviting cleavage and tight little buns.
Hers.
She felt beads of sweat bursting at the roots of her hair and forced some stale air into her lungs. Maybe the air conditioning was off, or something. The cigar smoke made it almost unbreathable, but it was an acceptable tradeoff for being allowed to work the high roller pit, not some fifty-cents-minimum roulette floor, where the tips were always Washingtons, never a Franklin and rarely a Lincoln, and not a whole lot of them to count at the end of a shift anyway.
No, she’d been lucky, and her luck had started to play in her favor about a month after she’d been hired. For that she probably had Devine to thank.
Her sweaty palms made it difficult for her to get a good grip on the shiny, chrome pole, but she managed a back hook spin and landed facing Devine. Her best friend danced some 30 feet away, on a small, elevated stage set among four, high-limit, roulette tables.
She waited until she could make eye contact with Devine and waved discreetly at her best friend. Just seeing her smile back made her feel less lonely, less vulnerable. Maybe she was going to be okay. Maybe things would work out after all.
Without realizing, she put her palm on her belly in a soft, caressing gesture, aimed to comfort the tiny sparkle of life growing inside her. She wasn’t showing a baby bump yet, but soon that would change, and with it, her entire life as she knew it.
She skipped out of rhythm again, but soon snapped out of her trance, motivated by Farley’s mean glare. She focused on her customers for a while and, within a few minutes of smiling provocatively and wiggling her rear, a crisp fifty-dollar bill landed under the thin strap of her thong, delivered by long, hairy fingers that reached lower and lingered longer than was necessary.
Sometimes she was happy the payout was 6:5 instead of 3:2 on a blackjack at the tables facing her; those jerks deserved to pay.
But she smiled at the man who’d delivered the tip and mocked a reverence without letting go of the pole. Then she let herself fall into a back bend and frowned when she saw Farley was approaching.
“What the hell is wrong with you, huh?” he snapped, after grabbing her arm and pulling her close. The music was loud, and no one could hear his words; not that anyone would care if they did. “Could you be bothered to do your job tonight? A deaf penguin has more rhythm than you.”
“I’m working it, Stan, what the hell? I haven’t taken a break in two hours.”
“The hell you are, bitch. You see those bozos? If they’re looking at their cards instead of your ass, you ain’t earning your keep.”
He let go of her arm and disappeared before she could say anything. He was a two-faced creep; with her and the other girls he showed his real charm. For all the patrons and the rest of the Scala staff, he was a perfect gentleman, always dressed in an impeccable suit and starched, white shirts, pleasantly smiling and accommodating.
She knew better than to let him get under her skin.
But her head was spinning, and she held on tight to the pole, not as part of her routine, but for much-needed balance. The music changed, and she welcomed the new beat, one of her favorites. She knew the playlist by heart; the casino had a limited supply of premixed tracks, but the customers didn’t seem to care.
Cheers erupted at the table in front of her, and one of the players lifted his arms in the air, beaming. The croupier pushed an impressive pile of chips in front of the man, and she quickly flashed her megawatt smile and made lingering eye contact. He didn’t disappoint; he picked one of the chips and sent it flying her way. She caught it gracefully, then placed it on the floor, next to the pole. Her barely-there panties weren’t made to hold casino chips.
When she looked up, she startled.
It was him. It was Paul, and he was furious, by the angle of his eyebrows, by the deep ridges flanking his mouth.
He stood right there, next to her stage, glaring at her with a loaded gaze filled with such hatred that her breath caught. He beckoned her to come closer without making a single gesture. She approached him hesitantly and crouched to bring their eyes on the same level, aware not even Farley would dare say a word. She shot a quick glance toward Devine’s stage, but she was gone, nowhere in sight.
His eyes drilled into hers, close enough she could see his dilated pupils. Without a word, he shoved a purple and white chip deep inside her bra, then grabbed the thin strap, pulling her closer to him. He said something, keeping his voice low and menacing. She couldn’t make out his words but didn’t dare to ask. She wanted to explain herself, wanted him to understand her motives, but she couldn’t find her words.
She didn’t want his money, and she didn’t deserve his anger.
When he finally let go of her strap and pushed her away, she almost fell. Her knees were shaking, and she felt the urge to sit for a moment, to catch her breath. She grabbed the pole tightly and did a clumsy back slide against the shiny surface, landing hard on her butt, then folded her legs to the side. She let her head hang low, and her long, wavy hair covered her face, hiding the fear in her eyes until it subsided a little.
Then she wrapped her hands around the pole again, planning to stand and do a pirouette, but her arms and legs felt numb, listless. She tried to breathe, but air refused to enter her lungs. Frantic, she looked around, searching for someone, anyone, who could help. Only one man was looking at her, but her desperate and silent plea was misunderstood.
The man licked his lips, arranged his crotch with a quick gesture, then looked away at another dancer.
She gasped for air a couple of times, then the bright lights of the casino seemed to dim, inviting darkness to engulf her view of the lively floor. Silence came, heavy, palpable. Against it, not even her own heart beats could be heard.
Defeated, she let go. Her body landed on the stage floor with a loud thump that no one heard. Unnoticed, a white and purple casino chip fell out of her top and rolled onto the floor, stopping under a table.
For a long moment, Farley thought the immobile pose was part of Crystal’s routine, some new dance move that she was trying. Customers really enjoyed seeing girls crawling on the stage; it made the viewers feel powerful, superior, in control. By the time Farley realized he’d been wrong, she was already gone. His chubby fingers felt for a pulse and found nothing.
Now he’d have to call the cops and close the pit. His worst nightmare.
Playlist (Play all HERE)
Maroon 5 – Girls Like You
Taylor Swift – Delicate
Ariana Grande – No Tears Left to Cry
Drake – In My Feelings
Shawn Mendes – In My Blood
Bebe Rexha – I’m a Mess
Charlie Puth – The Way I Am
Post Malone – Psycho
Bazzi – Mine
Selena Gomez – Back to You
Leslie Wolfe is a bestselling author whose novels break the mold of traditional thrillers. She creates unforgettable, brilliant, strong women heroes who deliver fast-paced, satisfying suspense, backed up by extensive background research in technology and psychology.
Leslie released the first novel, Executive, in October 2011. It was very well received, including inquiries from Hollywood. Since then, Leslie published numerous novels and enjoyed growing success and recognition in the marketplace. Among Leslie’s most notable works, The Watson Girl (2017) was recognized for offering a unique insight into the mind of a serial killer and a rarely seen first person account of his actions, in a dramatic and intense procedural thriller.
A complete list of Leslie’s titles is available at http://wolfenovels.com/order.
Leslie enjoys engaging with readers every day and would love to hear from you.
• Become an insider: gain early access to previews of Leslie’s new novels.
• Email: LW@WolfeNovels.com
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Meet the fab black 4: the first African animation series on Netflix
By Ntandoyenkosi Mncube via https://city-press.news24.com
Cartoons were an exciting part of Malenga Mulendema’s childhood in Lusaka in Zambia, but she did not see herself – a black girl – on the screen.
She tried to fill this gap by writing and acting out stories with her friends and family.
Today the writer is the creator of the first African animation series on Netflix and she’s not just putting one black African girl superhero out there, but a pack of four. They are the stars of the pending series Mama K’s Team 4.
Her animation journey began when she was offered the opportunity to pitch an animated TV series to Triggerfish Animation Studios’ Story …
Read More: Meet the fab black 4: the first African animation series on Netflix
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Nicola Benedetti: Szymanowski
Wednesday 27th January, 7.30pm
Lahav Shani – Conductor
Nicola Benedetti – Violin
Haydn Symphony No. 92 (Oxford), 28′
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2, 20′
Nicola Benedetti’s encore – Bach – Sarabande from Partita 2 in D Minor
Brahms said that he wanted his Fifth Symphony to sound like Haydn. He never got that far – because his magnificent Fourth Symphony said all he wanted to say! Lahav Shani brings out all its tragedy and triumph, but only after he’s shown you exactly what Brahms was talking about, in Haydn’s joyous “Oxford” Symphony. Nicola Benedetti, meanwhile, begins our mini-cycle of Szymanowski violin concertos with the ravishing, fantastical Second.Support the CBSO
… “Benedetti was here for the first episode in the orchestra’s survey of both Szymanowski Violin Concertos (perversely, here we were hearing the Second; the First comes on February 4, Baiba Skride playing).
Her bright-toned Strad weaved a sweetly melancholic thread, allied to biting bow-work which reinforced the music’s strong similarities to the two violin concertos of Prokofiev. She even managed a squinge of discreet re-tuning during the impressive central cadenza before moving towards the wonderfully exhilarating ending. After this her encore (the Sarabande from Bach’s D minor Partita) grounded us perfectly.
Shani drew sumptuous sounds from the CBSO, an orchestra well versed in Szymanowski, thanks to the long-term advocacy of Sir Simon Rattle.
We had begun with the music of another Rattle protege, Haydn, no less, and his Symphony no.92. Its nickname “the Oxford” alerts the listener to its many learned winks and nudges, but all the time it fizzes with energy, and charms with smiling melodies.” …
… “The concerto is scored for a remarkably large orchestra, including five percussionists, a tuba, contrabassoon and orchestral piano. Szymanowski’s use of the latter in his violin concertos is particularly notable as few composers, even in the twentieth century, employed the orchestral piano in their concertos. Whilst the composer’s first concerto tends towards the impressionistic, the second is more assertive. It opens with a grumbling in that orchestral piano in an almost bluesy style. Benedetti adopted a suitably sultry tone in this first movement, managing to be heard even against the fullest orchestral accompaniment.
The movements in the concerto are contiguous but clearly distinct. The first two and last two movements are punctuated by a jaw-dropping cadenza almost entirely consisting of double-stopping. Benedetti traversed this with astonishing assuredness, even calmly tweaking her tuning along the way. The cadenza concludes, startlingly, with a huge crash from the orchestra, which conductor Lahav Shani timed to perfection. The third movement is rather militaristic and Benedetti was visibly enjoying the orchestral mayhem going on around her. She also noticeably engaged with her orchestral colleagues, particularly the leader. Benedetti was in total command of this concerto, as were Shani and the orchestra. ” …
Tagged Bach, Brahms, CBSO, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Encore, Haydn, Lahav Shani, Nicola Benedetti, Szymanowski
Thursday, 21st January, 2016 by azuriteenigma
Serenade to Music
Thursday 21st January, 7.30pm
Michael Seal – Conductor
Simon Halsey † – Conductor
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Children’s Chorus
16 Soloists from UK Conservatoires
Grainger In a Nutshell, 20′
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music †, 14′
Varese Ionisation, 8′
Judith Weir Storm †, 18′
Grainger The Warriors , 20′
Imagine warriors of all times and all lands, gathering in one place to drink and dance; imagine jazz breaks, three pianos, and a super-sized orchestra… and you’re starting to get some idea of Percy Grainger’s jaw-dropping The Warriors. Add Vaughan Williams’ ravishing, Shakespeare-inspired Serenade, 16 brilliant young soloists, a spirited showcase for the CBSO’s world-beating young choruses and a “Gum-Suckers’ March”, and…well, what can we say? You’ve simply got to hear it!
Available on BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert here for a month
… “And because of these forces we had a remarkable bonus, Edgard Varese’s Ionisation for 13 percussionists and piano, crisply, precisely directed by Seal, and beautifully phrased and coloured by the players.
By contrast, a tiny instrumental ensemble (including many of the flute family) accompanied the expert CBSO Youth and Children’s Choruses in a revival of Judith Weir’s Storm, keenly imagined and with a lovely serene ending. Under Simon Halsey the youngsters sang with confident projection and brilliant diction, and all from memory, to the delight of the composer, interviewed engagingly onstage, like the two conductors, by presenter Tom Redmond.
The texts came from The Tempest, this performance a contribution to the CBSO’s Shakespeare quatercentenary thread. And particularly heartwarming was the presentation of one of the most beautiful Shakespearean works ever penned, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music.
This setting of the Belmont Scene from Act V of The Merchant of Venice requires 16 solo singers, and for its premiere celebrating Sir Henry Wood’s Golden Jubilee as a conductor in 1938, the composer specified 16 named soloists at the top of the professional tree.
Here Simon Halsey presented 16 students from Conservatoires UK-wide, and what a wonderful sound they created, both in their individual contributions and in their melding together as a choral group.” …
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tagged 16 soloists from UK Conservatoires, CBSO, CBSO Children's Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Grainger, Judith Weir, Michael Seal, Simon Halsey, Varèse, Vaughan Williams
Thursday, 14th January, 2016 by azuriteenigma
Thursday 14th January, 2.15pm
Andrew Gourlay – Conductor
Alexander Romanovsky – Piano
Ravel Mother Goose Suite, 16′
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4, 24′
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, 45′
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess, a cruel king… and a Russian composer. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade is like opening a wonderful book of musical stories: there’s adventure, magic and – of course – love, all told in music of glittering splendour and gorgeous colour. Guest conductor Andrew Gourlay retells the tale today, along with Ravel’s own little book of musical fairytales, and Rachmaninov’s jazziest concerto. So, if you’re sitting comfortably…
(for Saturday 16th performance of same programme)
… “He and the orchestra were joined by Ukrainian Alexander Romanovsky for Rachmaninov’s elusive Fourth Piano Concerto, a work where everything is stripped to the bone. It’s a piece whose atmospheric gestures would soon be taken up by film-music composers (gorgeously dark lyricism from the CBSO strings), but here Romanovsky concentrated on the music’s remarkable cogency, bringing a strong rhythmic impulse and a mercurial pianism redolent of Rachmaninov himself. His Chopin Nocturne encore was a perfect choice, rich-toned and warmly pedalled.
We ended with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a composition short in musical content but brilliant in terms of colour and opportunities for display, showing off the skills of so many CBSO soloists under Gourlay’s flexible, empowering direction.
And of course the princess of all of these was concertmaster Zoe Beyers, her narrations eloquent and subtly phrased, poignant in their underlying desperation (Scheherazade is spinning tales to prolong her own life, after all), and all the time neatly dovetailed into her orchestral duties.” …
Review by Hedy Mühleck, BachTrack:
… “It was also a kiss (on the hand!) that stood at the end the performance of the second piece this afternoon – a superbly played Fourth Piano Concerto by Rachmaninov at the hands of Alexander Romanovsky. The CBSO’s sound immediately had more punch, was more immediate, and set the mood for the piano’s opening chords. Romanovsky spelled those out a bit too obviously, but soon played flowingly, coherently, effortlessly in the highly virtuoso passages, yet retaining a pithy sound. Romanovsky revelled in the jazzy opening of the middle movement as the orchestra revelled in its dreamy three-note-motif as if there was nothing musically more important to say. It was a thing of beauty, as was the third movement, played at breakneck speed, yet utterly focussed and with great accuracy.
What more could there possibly be said about Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade? This is music that paints an image with broad strokes in primary orchestral colours. It is a fascinating piece that makes the listener a first-hand witness to the Sultan’s experience listening to his Sultana’s intricate tales, gracefully spun by the violin. Zoe Beyer’s tone was engaging, tender, with small, quick vibrato, and captured the storyteller to a tee, creating an unobtrusive, calm and quiet presence. It entered into trusted dialogue with the flute while the orchestral waves around Sinbad’s ship rose and rolled covered by spray, and like the programmatic tales, it kept the listener captivated throughout.” …
Tagged Alexander Romanovsky, Andrew Gourlay, CBSO, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov
Sunday, 10th January, 2016 by azuriteenigma
Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Sunday 10th January, 2016, 3.00pm
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Conductor
Beatrice Rana – Piano
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, 10′
Schumann Piano Concerto, 31′
Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite, 50′
Beatrice Rana’s encore – Schumann trans. Liszt – Widmung
We may be in the depths of winter, but these three romantic narratives by composers barely into their thirties should warm the hardest of hearts. Debussy’s faun and Sibelius’s hero are the stuff of legend, their unrequited love expressed in music that is by turns languid, passionate and thrilling. Schumann’s feelings for Clara were only too real, and had been strongly opposed by her father: but once they were finally married, he poured his feelings into this gorgeous concerto. To perform these three youthful masterpieces we are joined by two outstanding young artists: a superb pianist and a conductor who caused quite a stir on her UK debut with the CBSO last summer.
Has CBSO finally found its next Music Director,
article/ review by Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post :
… “So on the second Sunday in January Mirga reappeared, conducting a programme which put so many skills to the test: phrasing with a flexibility which allowed orchestral soloists to make telling contributions, collaborating with a young pianist in one of the world’s best-known concertos (and one not without its pitfalls), and making sense of the jagged structures and kaleidoscopic colours of a gritty large-scale work.She triumphed spectacularly, to huge audience acclaim (and it was a nice bonus to hear the measured clarity of her speaking voice as she informed us of a change in movement-order), and the players seemed highly enthused, too.It helps that she so obviously enjoys conducting, relishing the partnership she shares with her colleagues. It was charming to see her beaming and silently applauding the delivery of important solos, and to see her beaming with pleasure as every effect came off successfully.” …
Review by Richard Bratby, ArtsDesk:
… “What Gražinytė-Tyla achieved, then, was all the more remarkable. Her ultra-precise beat and balletic podium manner have attracted unfavourable comment from people who fundamentally misunderstand how an orchestra responds to a conductor – or who simply can’t listen. That Gražinytė-Tyla has a distinctive vision – and the power to realise it – was obvious from the rapturous opening bars of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in which she coaxed the strings to match both the colour and texture of Marie-Christine Zupancic’s daringly-soft opening flute solo, and went on to generate an unfolding sense of wonder in which even the rests felt like part of the phrasing: hanging, pregnant with expression, in a breathlessly quiet Symphony Hall.
Sibelius’s four Lemminkäinen Legends made good on the Debussy’s promise. Gražinytė-Tyla has a powerful sense of the single culminating point of a large-scale musical structure, and the idea that these four tone-poems add up to a thinly-disguised symphony has rarely felt so convincing, with Gražinytė-Tyla reversing the conventional order of the two central pieces so that Lemminkäinen in Tuonela became a slow, macabre scherzo, and the dying notes of The Swan of Tuonela served as a sort of prelude to the first drumbeats of Lemminkäinen’s Homecoming. Throughout, Gražinytė-Tyla drew out and relished each fantastical detail of Sibelius’s scoring: snare-drum rattling against a pianissimo rustle of violins, the gurgling woodwind laughter of the maidens of Saari, and the impressionistic blur of sound that introduced Rachael Pankhurst’s tender, improvisatory cor anglais solo in The Swan of Tuonela.
And yet the pacing remained taut, the cumulative build-up and release of energy overwhelming – and the players, leaning into their stands and exchanging discreet smiles, seemed energised.” …
.Review by Hedy Mühleck, BachTrack:
… “She allowed complete freedom in the wide, soft opening flute lines of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune , and moulded the CBSO with elegant movements not unlike those of a dancer. She established an atmosphere of great calm without losing the sense of underlying excited tension and shimmering of heat.
23-year-old pianist Beatrice Rana completed the line-up and seemed ideal casting for Schumann’s only completed piano concerto that had been written for – and championed by – Schumann’s wife Clara. While the opening call to attention and the following lines were slightly blurred by a lot of pedal, her playing was remarkably unobtrusive, her movements minimal and modest, her phrasing clear. Supported by a softer orchestral tone with strong emotional focus, she floated through the first movement with only the briefest instance of rush when an immense distance on the keyboard just could not be travelled safely without use of a small rubato.
She brought out the sweeping upwards lines in the Allegro vivace with a round, full-bodied sound despite distinctly unpretentious playing. It drew all strength of stroke from her fingers and wrists, supported by the forearms; hardly ever did she use the full arm, let alone body for emphasis, gestures remained small, the wrists only lifting slightly to breathe. Minor ensemble issues where the melodic line appears in the orchestra and, in ornamented form, in the piano, were quickly caught and made for a stirring close, complemented by an equally wonderful encore, Liszt’s transcription of Schumann’s Widmung.” …
… “Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is a 29-year-old Lithuanian, who is currently assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She conducted the CBSO for the first time last July, and made such an impression with the orchestra and the audience that she was invited back for this specially arranged concert.
It was easy to understand why she has gone down so well in Birmingham. Her platform style is certainly distinctive: Gražinytė-Tyla began with Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune, applying the dabs of orchestral colour with sharp stabs of her baton, and sculpting the larger shapes of the music with sweeping gestures. But for once such balletic poses really did communicate something wonderfully alive and detailed to the players, a performance with fresh, clear textures and an unswerving sense of shape.
In Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite, too, there was that same attention to every morsel of detail, and the same knack of moulding each of the four movements into a convincing dramatic shape, even in the opening Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari, which can seem rather unruly. The last movement was built to a terrific climax, too, after she had favoured the alternative ordering for the middle two movements, with the Swan of Tuonela third in the sequence, though that hardly helps the narrative that underpins Sibelius’s scheme.” …
… “Ms Gražinytė-Tyla reversed the order of the middle two movements, as printed in the programme, so that we heard The Swan of Tuonela third. She may be quite slight of stature but there was no doubting her command in this performance of the Legends. In fact, though the preceding works had shown her in an impressive light I think it was in the Sibelius that she truly came into her own.
There was conviction and colour aplenty in Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari. The atmosphere of the piece was very well conveyed in an exciting and sometimes powerful performance. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela is the most dramatic of the four pieces and Ms Gražinytė-Tyla established in the opening bars a high degree of tension which was never lost. I thought this was a gripping performance, especially during the last few minutes, and it seemed to me that both conductor and orchestra displayed a strong understanding of the composer’s sound world. The opening of The Swan of Tuonela was bleak and doleful; Rachel Pankhurst’s cor anglais solos were keening and expressive. The playing of everyone involved in this movement was concentrated and highly controlled. This was eloquent music-making. In Lemminkäinen’s Return his mother has found his slain body and restores him to life, enabling him to ride home in triumph. From the start this performance had terrific drive and energy. The CBSO’s playing was colourful and rhythmically strong, urged on by their highly animated young conductor. Lemminkäinen came home triumphantly.
This was a terrific concert containing three highly contrasted, expertly delivered performances. Musically, each performance was extremely satisfying. On this evidence Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is already a highly accomplished conductor who genuinely has something to say about the music she conducts. It seemed to me that the CBSO responded very positively to her. Who knows how the process of the selection of the CBSO’s new principal conductor will pan out? But whatever the outcome I hope we shall see much more of this exciting young conducting talent in Birmingham. “
Posted in CBSO, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Music
Tagged Beatrice Rana, CBSO, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Debussy, Encore, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Schumann, Sibelius
Thursday, 7th January, 2016 by azuriteenigma
Thursday 7th January, 2016, 7.30pm
Samuel West – Narrator
Strauss Macbeth, 18′
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs, 8′
Verdi Macbeth – ballet music, 12′
Walton Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario (arr. Christopher Palmer), 60′
“O for a Muse of fire…” Shakespeare’s Henry V crammed the Battle of Agincourt into a tiny wooden theatre. Four centuries later, William Walton matched that vision with music that redefined British cinema, and this lavish concert version weaves all the play’s greatest speeches and Walton’s score into a compelling musical drama. Edward Gardner launches our year of Shakespeare celebrations with passionate Shakespearean masterpieces by Verdi and Richard Strauss.
Available on BBC Radio 3 iPlayer here for 28 days
… “The CBSO Chorus, prepared by Julian Wilkins, performed Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs and excelled in the charmingly delicate Full Fathom Five.
They ended the concert in full cry with the stirring Deo gratias conclusion to Walton’s music for Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film of Henry V.
Christopher Palmer weaved the film cues, some other Walton filler material and the play’s great speeches into a convincing and moving hour-long Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario.
The narrator Samuel West played the King, the Chorus (and more) switching between swagger and sobriety with ease and delivering a St Crispin’s Day speech that would have made even a pacifist feel like taking up arms.
Gardner elicited playing of equal ardour from the orchestra. Splendid!”
“As the orchestra closest to Shakespeare country, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra naturally has a role to play in this year’s anniversary celebrations of the Bard. But there is nothing dutiful about its approach to Shakespeare 400: this start of the CBSO’s “Our Shakespeare” season showed it not only getting in ahead of other British bands with its Shakespearean programming, but doing something more interesting than most.
Edward Gardner opened the concert by conducting a great rarity, Richard Strauss’s early tone poem Macbeth. This work’s neglect is not hard to fathom, for it lacks big tunes, but as a study in darkness it is fascinating. Sounding a little as if the midsummer light of Wagner’s Meistersinger had been switched to midwinter, with touches of Tchaikovsky at his gloomiest, this music blows in stormily and seldom lets up. Icy shivers accompany Lady Macbeth’s entry, and the textures run deep. Gardner drew a taut, brilliantly energised performance that showcased the orchestra at its surging best.
Balancing this was the ballet music from Verdi’s Macbeth, an obligatory addition when the composer revised his opera for Paris. Verdi’s sophisticated scoring, evoking supernatural elements, inspired the orchestra to play with colour and bite.” …
Review by Sam Chipman, TheReviewsHub:
… “Walton’s score was written for the 1944 Henry V film, starring Laurence Olivier – at one of the darkest periods in Britain’s history the film was a propaganda effort commissioned by the government to buoy the national spirit during the onslaught of World War II. From the court in England to Falstaff’s death and the send-off of the troops to the battlefields of France, Walton’s score tells the story vividly, making no attempt to hide in the background, and complements the famous words of Shakespeare. The brass and percussion come into their own during this section of the concert, adding the much needed triumphant feel that rings around the magnificent Symphony Hall, a jubilant performance from all involved. Falstaff’s death features an exquisitely played lower string melody which much resembles a theme from Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and a rustic bassoon melody adds a real English courtly feel. Seasoned Shakespearian actor, Samuel West masterfully weaves his way through Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, a performance of real stature and variation. He is compelling throughout, and his St Crispin’s Day speech is a stand out moment, truly rousing. The CBSO make an enormously full sound, leading to a powerful and climactic end befitting of the evening and Shakespeare’s magic.
“In sweet music is such art…” Shakespeare’s work lends itself incredibly well to the musical world, and the imaginations of those that inspired such musical feats – when the words and the music come together a higher emotional plane is reached.”
… “Under Gardner, the orchestra and its chorus made it a vivid enough experience, though, and there was a nicely judged virtuoso performance from Samuel West as the narrator, who took on a variety of roles, from the Chorus to the king, via Falstaff, Pistol and the Duke of Burgundy.
The concert had begun with another rarely heard work, Macbeth – one of the least known of Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems. It’s a dark, turbulent piece, without too many memorable moments, though Gardner made its fierce climax impressive enough. There was more Macbeth-inspired music in the shape of a taut, rhythmically snappy account of the ballet from Verdi’s opera, while in between came Vaughan Williams’s Three Shakespeare Songs, insubstantial, but a chance for the CBSO Chorus to shine without the orchestra getting in the way.”
… “The Olivier film of Henry V had started as a piece of propaganda in 1943 and thankfully co-producer Dallas Bower convinced the actor that William Walton was the best man to provide the backing score. This combination, together with the later arrangement by Christopher Palmer, lives on in the concert hall and its enactment proved to be the ideal platform from which to launch CBSO’s commemorations to Shakespeare: vibrant music from the conductor and orchestra, patriotic delivery from the narrator. Gardner induced a sense of period colour and mysticism before sheer grandness took over in the Prologue, a royal sensation reinforced by trumpet fanfares (the trumpet section crisply led throughout by Jonathan Holland) and a flamboyant crescendo of the choir. The scene was set, as in the play by the commentator ‘Chorus’, actor Samuel West dramatically entering stage left for ‘O for a Muse of fire’. Elizabethan merry-making and enthusiastic drum rolls (the CBSO percussion section had a busy night) gave way for the bassoon and brass to introduce the corpulent Falstaff, jug in hand, At the Boar’s Head. But the flatulent jester is dead, his heart broken by the king, having been rebuffed by Hal’s ‘I know thee not, old man’ at the end of Henry IV Part Two, the solemn tone of West and the orchestral accompaniment knitting together impeccably. This eventually gives way to the jubilant familiar Waltonesque strains of Embarkation and a resolute ‘No king of England, if not king of France’ from West. The leave Pistol takes from Mistress Quickly in Touch her sweet lips and part seems an Interlude somewhat out of place to me, not being from Shakespearean text. By contrast Harfleur was dominated by the iconic ‘Once more into the breech’ and although no Olivier (who is?) West oozed inspiration and patriotism, fortified by the ranks of the CBSO willing to follow him. After Chorus describes the early skirmishes, Gardner brought a tension to Walton’s swirling dark music in The Night Watch as West portrayed a ‘little touch of Harry in the night’, the lowering of the hall lights and subsequent total extinguishment, adding to the atmosphere. West was at his best for the philosophical and prayer-like Upon the King, verse so appropriate on the eve of such an historical day in 1415, an execution worthy of the stage of Stratford’s Memorial Theatre or London’s Globe. Agincourt and the St Crispian address to the ‘rememberèd…. band of brothers’, the first ‘few’ to whom so much is owed, saw West begin in conversational mood, gradually building up the fervour in his voice to match the exciting loin-girdling score. Mid-battle King Henry has another word with his maker ‘to dispose the day…. how He pleaseth’ and as the battle raged Gardner seemed to squeeze that extra ounce from the strings (well by Zoë Beyers) fiercer than ever amid the Spirit–of-England theme on the brass, leading to an excruciating musical climax. Against the odds Henry is rewarded – West’s ‘The day is ours’ poignantly heard across the hushed auditorium before praising God. The choir gleefully rejoiced with the Agincourt Song, continuing this mood into At the French Court, where the Duke of Burgundy acts as mediator with more beautiful Shakespearian lines; this sentiment made more contextual by the orchestra’s pastoral back-drop that dissolves into a snatch of Cantaloube’s Baïlèro, hauntingly played by the oboe of Rainer Gibbons. In the Epilogue, the French King offers his daughter Kate to seal the truce. Now with something to genuinely celebrate, Gardner and the CBSO let it rip, revisiting earlier Walton themes. Chorus resumes his story-telling role with ‘Thus far…’ relating how for Henry V ‘Fortune made his sword’, the Agincourt Song and ‘Deo gratias Anglia’ wholeheartedly rounding it all off.
A five star send-off to Our Shakespeare.”
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The Career Coach Stripped Bare
by Mary Goldsmith | 09/07/2018 15/04/2019
A few months ago, the usual stream of work had dissipated, and I started to explore my options. After doling out career advice to thousands of people over the years, I was getting a taste of my own medicine.
It all began in 2005, when I took a leap of faith and plunged into self-employment. After more than two decades of a coddled corporate life, I was a sole-trader with no promise of work in the pipeline. Slowly but surely, projects came my way. I enjoyed working without the shackles of an employment contract, and the newly found freedom allowed me to commute between a city apartment and a house in the country.
Eventually, I developed relationships with several consulting firms which provided me with a variety of assignments, added value to my expertise, and offered the collegiality that sole-traders often sorely miss. As I settled into my new routine, I created a website and started blogging. Seduced by the new age of social media, I devoured the articles, posts and ideas written by ‘experts’ and consumed e-courses that offered the promise of a thriving online business. My income supported a modest lifestyle, in exchange for a schedule on my terms. But the gut wrenching moments of this rollercoaster ride were always around the corner.
Over 50 + Not Done Yet!
When I turned 50, I didn’t think about “slowing down”. Retirement was some far-flung destination. I didn’t give populist chatter a second thought + chose to make career moves on my terms.
After all, 50 is the new career midpoint.
Unless you have a fabulous inheritance or superannuation fund, the reality is that your working life is likely to exceed that of previous generations. And as government + company policies can’t influence community perceptions + behaviours fast enough, I want women to feel empowered to generate their own career pathways – well into their sixties.
This starts with an understanding of our signature strengths, articulating how we add value in an organisation + knowing why employers love having us around. It involves upbeat attitudes, defying the deluge of negativity, being prepared to make compromises + work differently. And finding ongoing career opportunities also means focusing on the sectors, industries, organisations or individuals that make us welcome + allow us to shine.
As a career consultant, mentor + coach, I’m on a mission to help women galvanise their wealth of experience + expertise, communicate their worth with confidence + continue to make meaningful contributions in a job market in a constant state of flux.
We may be over 50, but we’re not done yet!
You can read my earlier post Career Savvy After 50 here.
Sistas are doing it for themselves
There’s nothing like the adrenelin rush you get, when you’re in the company of bright women with entrepreneurship on their mind. Women who are passionate about creating their own destiny and economic independence. AWCCI‘s recent research suggested that women are increasingly leaving corporate jobs to start their own services business.
The number of females running their own business has increased by 8.9% in the past five years. And with many professionals cashed-up after a redundancy, entrepreneurship is attractive to women who want a more flexible career option. When women talk about starting a business, Marie Forleo is often mentioned in the same breath.
Thanks to B-School, Marie Forleo’s 8-week course for “business owners who want more sales and more impact from their online presence”, this savvy Italian-American is leading a quiet revolution for (mainly) women entrepreneurs. Last year I attended B-School. At the time, I figured out that more than 300 fellow Australians joined me in the 2013 intake. And if the 13,000 members of B-School’s Facebook group is any indication, entrepreneurship is contagious.
Earlier this week, I attended the League of Extraordinary Women’s breakfast in Melbourne. I was there to listen to the Fashionista Sistas, twins Lissa Marshall and Leane Flynn, who shared their start-up experience as ‘First Impression Consultants & Style Advisors’.
Fashionista Sistas was created out of a concern for the extraordinary low self-esteem of women, and Lissa and Leane’s desire to change how women felt about themselves. And it’s not just about fashion. The twins also help clients manage those first three seconds we have to impress someone, especially in an interview situation.
When I worked in an executive recruitment firm in the 1990s, our receptionist was referred to as the Director of First Impressions. In a world where we all now have a ‘personal brand’, this stuff matters, especially in competitive job market.
Now working together as Melbourne’s answer to Trinny & Susannah, the Fashionista Sistas offer one-on-one and group styling sessions, first impression management and positive image consulting, to schools and organisations throughout Victoria.
If owning a business is on your mind, here are my 10 key takeaways from breakfast with them this week:
Resilience and confidence in your abilities are important
Don’t fear failure – you can always get another job
Invest in yourself to establish credibility with your business offering
You may need to juggle other jobs while you’re building the business
Business development takes grit and determination, it doesn’t just happen
Everything can be done on a budget, eg building a website and promotion
It’s important to be across your finances eg cashflow projections
There will be blips along the way, but you need to learn and move on
You need to believe in your business and create room for it to grow
A strong support network and a partner with complementary skills is invaluable
Lissa and Leane subscribe to Marie Forleo’s mantra “create a business and life your love”, and want to leave a legacy. Going by the vibe and range of women in the room, there’s clearly a big appetite for entrepreneurship. And it’s no surprise that the League’s membership is gathering momentum throughout Australia. London and New York are next on the list.
As business ownership can be a lonely experience, the support offered by like-minded women can make the entrepreurial journey a lot sweeter. For information on joining the League of Extradordinary Women, click here for details.
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Pesky Perfection
Last week friends and I had lunch with Jane, who had just returned from London, enroute to her next posting in Singapore. Given her international moves over the last five years or so, it was clear that Jane was going places. When I asked about her new job, Jane showered us with anxiety about her ability to perform in the new position, which was essentially the same role and organisation, but in a different location.
It seemed like the weight of Asia was on her shoulders. Jane admitted that she had become comfortable in London, where she knew her job inside out and was worried that she wouldn’t be able to contribute 100% (if not more), immediately. I thought to myself, blokes don’t talk like this, and hoped an HR mole wasn’t lurking in the corner of the cafe.
Although Jane was about bound to be stressed about the relocation, there was something else bothering her. After all, Jane was bright, highly competent in her area of expertise and multi-lingual to boot. With a little prodding, Jane confessed she was a bit of a perfectionist and had high expectations of herself. In her book It’s Not a Glass Ceiling It’s a Sticky Floor, Rebecca Shamburgh writes:
Perfectionists function in a mode where nothing is good enough but their self-imposed standards are far higher than others expect
Jane exhibited the tell tale signs, especially self doubt; risk aversion; low tolerance for mistakes in yourself and others and fear of failure.
Shamburgh says it is important to know when to say “this is good enough” and move on. Over perfectionism can also send the message that you aren’t confident and overtrying to get it right and that we should ask ourselves “Is this really what the job requires or are you requiring it of yourself?” Why can being a Perfectionist be a problem? The big risk is that while obsessing over the perfect output, you might actually miss the big picture, distort perceptions about your capability, sabotaging your career in the process. Nevermind the stress you may be placing on yourself and your relationships. What can you do to overcome being a Perfectionist?
Think about why you are a Perfectionist. What do you get from it and what does it cost you?
Check your standards of performance against your goals. Ask yourself, “Is this good enough to get the job done?”. If so, let go and move on (or go home!).
Seek feedback from stakeholders. Use it to calibrate your standards & guide the work, rather than your exacting but arbitrary standards.
Identify peers who are recognised as great leaders. Observe them as they deal with similar work situations.
Focus on the things that matter & bring the most value to your organisation. Decide what you really need or want to do, and delegate the rest.
Shamburgh says that letting go of your standards doesn’t mean slacking off. It’s about putting your energy and attention to better use. So, to all of the talented Janes out there, is being a Perfectionist getting in the way of your career?
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Are You on a Career Ladder or Jungle Gym?
What does your career path look like? Are you climbing a ladder, or has your career taken you through a zig-zag of moves, with the end goal in mind?
Globalisation and technology have transformed organisations over the past two decades. Professionals now navigate flatter structures, which may offer limited and less visible pathways to career progression. With a few exceptions, well sign-posted careers are so very last century.
In her recently published book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg refers to her own career path as being more like scrambling a jungle gym, than climbing a ladder. Where a career ladder offers just one way to get to the top, she writes there are many ways to get to the top of a jungle gym.
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Jigsaw: A new direction for an old franchise that’s been failing the mystery genre
By Khalid Rafi Published: September 29, 2017
I think it goes without saying that the Saw movies are definitely an acquired taste. It probably also goes without saying that over the years, the series has developed more into torture porn rather than actual horror. In Hollywood though, the only thing that really matters are the numbers and numbers suggest there is an audience out there for these kinds of movies.
With seven films, the Saw franchise has raked in nearly $874 million worldwide, all on a budget of approximately $67 million. And to think, the first one was shot on a low budget in a run-down warehouse, over the span of just 18 days.
Jigsaw, the eighth film in the franchise, seems to be all about the greatest hits. Chainsaws, pitchforks, knives, syringes, tape-recorders and an array of death-traps, are all back and put to gruesome use. Also returning is the titular character and the franchise’s iconic big bad, Jigsaw.
Photo: Screenshot
The latest film picks up nearly a decade after the events of the prequel and focuses on the story of a mysterious madman who rounds his victims to play sadistic games of life and death. After much investigation, the police narrow down their suspects to one name – John Kramer, more commonly known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for 10 years.
The trailer begins with screams that shift into these piercing devil red eyes – it sets up the premise for the fear that is to come. Those piercing red eyes stay with you until the end of the trailer. There are glimpses of Jigsaw’s horrid games where people are chained and dragged around. All this gore takes place while the police try to figure out how the serial killer is someone who has been dead for 10 years.
There are instances of light humour displayed in the trailer that provide the viewers a breather from the carnage. The two-minute preview captures the true essence of Saw movies – a slasher-horror movie that will creep out even the most desensitised viewer.
With a new cast, a new duo of directors, and possibly an attempt to meddle with some fresh new ideas, Jigsaw feels like a new direction for an old franchise that has been trying and failing to foray into the mystery genre for quite some time now.
The violence and gore that it’s famous for is still there, according to co-director Michael Spierig, but the film is also less vicious than previous entries and the filmmakers have expressed a genuine desire to inject some fun into the film and adopt a more meta approach to the story.
Photo: IMDb
I think this new approach will do the series some good as many people, myself included, have often shied away from it simply because of the grotesqueness and extremity of the gore. And the fact that they’re trying to go meta with the story seems very much in the vain of Wes Craven’s Scream, which adopted a similar meta approach towards slasher-flicks and did so quite successfully.
Let us just hope the viewers can stomach it.
Jigsaw hits US cinemas on October 27th this year. As of yet, it does not have a confirmed release date in Pakistan.
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Anwar would’ve fainted in dock
Those intent on continuing to politicise the Federal Court’s unanimous decision convicting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan will not have a leg to stand on if Anwar had been called to the stand.
The grilling by the prosecution team, Tan Sri Dr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said, would have been incessant. The torrent of questions would have come in rapid-fire, staccato bursts, withering and unrelenting. Anwar, Shafee said, would have been cut to pieces.
The scale would have also tipped in the prosecution’s favour from the start, had Anwar’s alibi witnesses taken the stand, he said.
Shafee began leading the prosecution team only when the case was brought to the Court of Appeal in 2012. He said if Anwar had, at the High Court in 2010, agreed to subject himself to questioning by the deputy public prosecutor, it would have been like bringing the proverbial knife to a gunfight.
“If the prosecution had been cross-examined, I think he would have fainted in the witness box because he would not be able to explain a lot of things, like why he put in his defence of alibi and then backed off.
“He made silly remarks from the dock, saying this was because his alibi witnesses would be interviewed by the police. Look, that’s the whole idea of a notice, isn’t it? You give a notice of alibi so that the police can interview the alibi witnesses as provided for by the law (under the Evidence Act 1950).
“I can easily tell you hundreds of facts that would have been zoomed in on if he was cross-examined. He knew that, so that is why I believe he took the cowardly step of giving a statement from the dock,” he told the New Straits Times in an interview, a day after he secured the conviction against Anwar under Section 377B of the Penal Code.
Anwar is now serving a five-year jail term at the Sungai Buloh Prison.
Shafee, who during the trial at the High Court was just an observer, said it was clear to him that Anwar retracted his list of alibi witnesses as he knew it could go pear-shaped in a hurry under his cross-examination.
“His main defence was his alibis. Yet none of his 13 alibi witnesses, including his own wife, was produced.
“We even got the closed-circuit television camera calibrated to the very second, showing the exact time Anwar and Saiful arrived and left the apartment on separate occasions. It was clear that Anwar’s alibi had been cooked up.
“He said he was never in apartment No. 1 but was in apartment No. 2. Yet they were just next door to each other and were owned by the same person, who was his friend,” he said.
Among the names in Anwar’s list of alibis that the prosecution were looking forward most to grilling, he said, would have been the owner of the apartment, whom Shafee was confident would have been able to contribute significantly to the facts of the case, and the maids who were apparently present in apartment No. 2.
“And, of course, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who was on the top of the list of alibi witnesses. We wanted to know why she was significant to the alibi when she was never even there.
“At the end of the day, to me, Anwar hid behind a skirt. He didn’t dare come into the witness box to be cross-examined and he never provided any defence at all.
“Instead, he hatched this idea of a conspiracy when he knew we had all the hard, incontrovertible evidence which was clinically true. Crying political conspiracy is a convenient way of hoodwinking the public, so that they get all excited and readily subscribe to the ‘Anwar is a victim of political conspiracy’ theory, so he can blame everyone else,” Shafee said.
But the lynchpin, the cornerstone of Shafee’s methodical, surgical, legal hammerblow that blew Anwar’s arguments clean out of the water was the strength of the DNA evidence the prosecution team had at its disposal.
This, coupled with the credibility of the two chemists produced as prosecution witnesses.
Shafee said with the stellar track record from scores of criminal cases, nobody had been able to poke holes in the result of the evidence examined by the Chemistry Department.
He asked those who bought into the conspiracy theory to look at the case purely on facts.
“Anybody with half a brain, when he finally reads the full judgment, would know that the Federal Court came with a judgment based entirely on facts, not fanciful ideas like the ones the opposition and the Bar Council are entertaining.
“I will politely tell them to go and read the judgment. I have read the compressed summary of the judgment and can gauge what is coming, and I’m sure the full version of the judgment will be very thorough.”
Shafee said he had guessed as much, that if the verdict were to go his way, he would be accused of having fixed the judges.
“My answer to them is: ‘that’s utter rubbish, go and read the judgment’.
“Have a debate with me. I am game for a public debate with the Malaysian Bar Council or whoever.
“I will tell the public why Anwar is guilty and why the Federal Court was right.”
Shafee said he wanted to make it clear that Section 377B of the Penal Code (offence does not require lack of consent of the complainant) was preferred instead of 377C (lack of consent must be proven), which comes with harsher penalties, was not a misstep on the part of the attorney-general.
“If the A-G had gone for 377C, Anwar would still have been convicted and the sentence may have been more than five years because five years is the minimum.
“Maybe the A-G was being sympathetic and exercising his discretion as a public prosecutor, because under 377C, you will not escape caning even if you are above 50 years old.”
To those arguing why action was not taken against Saiful, Shafee said if they had the two previous two judgments, they would find the answers staring at them right in the face.
“Saiful resisted, he was not willing, he did not go willingly to be sodomised by his dominant employer.”
Shafee said he fought to the best of his ability to convict Anwar with a clear conscience and that he was 100 per cent sure of the latter’s guilt.
“If you ask me if I am satisfied that Anwar was found is guilty, I say yes. But I had argued with the court that as he was a repeat offender, he should serve a longer prison time.
“If I had the chance, I would have told Anwar in court that day ‘to stop this habit and repent’ and use his prison time to do that.”
Reporting by Farrah Naz and Hidir Reduan of NST. Additional reporting by Khairah N. Karim
Source: http://www.nst.com.my/node/72852
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A novel nasal powder formulation of glucagon: toxicology studies in animal models
Frederick E. Reno1,
Patrick Normand2,
Kevin McInally2,
Sherwin Silo3,
Patricia Stotland4,
Myriam Triest4,
Dolores Carballo4 and
Claude Piché4Email author
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology201516:29
© Reno et al. 2015
Received: 9 May 2015
Glucagon nasal powder (GNP), a novel intranasal formulation of glucagon being developed to treat insulin-induced severe hypoglycemia, contains synthetic glucagon (10 % w/w), beta-cyclodextrin, and dodecylphosphocholine. The safety of this formulation was evaluated in four studies in animal models.
The first study evaluated 28-day sub-chronic toxicology in rats treated intranasally with 1 and 2 mg of GNP/day (0.1 and 0.2 mg glucagon/rat/day). The second study evaluated 28-day sub-chronic toxicology in dogs administered 20 and 40 mg of formulation/dog/day (2 and 4 mg glucagon/dog/day) intranasally. A pulmonary insufflation study assessed acute toxicology following intra-tracheal administration of 0.5 mg of GNP (0.05 mg glucagon) to rats. Local tolerance to 30 mg of GNP (equivalent to 3 mg glucagon, the final dose for humans) was tested through direct administration into the eyes of rabbits.
There were no test article-related adverse effects on body weight and/or food consumption, ophthalmology, electrocardiography, hematology, coagulation parameters, clinical chemistry, urinalysis, or organ weights, and no macroscopic findings at necropsy in any study. In rats, direct intra-tracheal insufflation at a dose of 0.5 mg of GNP/rat (0.05 mg glucagon/rat) did not result in adverse clinical, macroscopic, or microscopic effects. In dogs, the only adverse findings following sub-chronic use were transient (<30 s) salivation and sneezing immediately post-treatment and mild to moderate reversible histological changes to the nasal mucosa. Daily dosing over 28 days in rats resulted in mild to moderate, unilateral or bilateral erosion/ulceration of the olfactory epithelium, frequently with minimal to mild, acute to sub-acute inflammation of the lamina propria at the dorsal turbinates of the nasal cavity in 2/10 males and 3/10 females in the high-dose group (0.2 mg glucagon/day). These lesions resolved completely over 14 days. Histological examination of tissues from both sub-chronic studies in dogs and rats revealed no microscopic findings. In rabbits, clinical observations noted in the GNP-treated eye and/or surrounding areas included ≥1 of the following: clear discharge, red conjunctiva, partial closure, and swelling of the peri-orbital area, which correlated with erythema and edema noted during ocular observations and grading.
The studies reported here revealed no safety concerns associated with GNP in animal models. Studies published earlier have highlighted the local safety profile of intranasally administered cyclodextrins (a component of GNP). The choline group, the phosphate group, and the saturated 12-carbon aliphatic chain that are present in the dodecylphosphocholine excipient used in GNP are all present in the phospholipids and lecithins seen ubiquitously in mammalian cell membranes and are unlikely to pose safety concerns; this notion is supported by several studies conducted by the authors that revealed no safety concerns. Taken together, these results suggest that intranasal delivery of GNP holds promise as a future rescue medication for use by caregivers to treat insulin-induced hypoglycemic episodes in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
This novel drug product is well tolerated in animal models.
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Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions in much of the western world and is a serious and growing public health concern in many developing economies. Globally, there are approximately 285 million people with diabetes and that number is expected to reach 438 million by 2030.
Diabetes complications are usually associated with chronically elevated blood glucose levels, which result in heart, kidney, and eye diseases, amputations, and neurological impairment. Unfortunately, there are very real and serious complications associated with use of medications used to treat diabetes-related hyperglycemia. One of the most common complications of treatment to reduce blood sugar levels is hypoglycemia, most frequently seen in patients being treated with insulin (i.e., all patients with type 1 diabetes as well as patients with type 2 diabetes on insulin), but also in patients with type 2 diabetes receiving insulin secretagogue (sulfonylurea and meglitinides) treatment. Indeed, if it were not for the barrier of hypoglycemia, people with diabetes could probably have normal blood glucose levels and thus avoid the complications associated with hyperglycemia [1].
Depending on the severity of the episode, hypoglycemia causes a wide range of physical problems ranging from weakness, dizziness, sweating, and hunger to more serious symptoms including blurred vision, behavior change, seizures, coma and even death. In addition to the physical effects of hypoglycemia, there are significant psychological effects including fear of another episode, high levels of anxiety, and low levels of overall happiness that adversely affect glucose control and quality of life [2].
Based on reviews of the subject, patients with type 1 diabetes experience an average of one episode of severe temporarily disabling hypoglycemia each year [3, 4]. Although persons with type 2 diabetes are generally less susceptible to severe hypoglycemia, the incidence of severe hypoglycemia is significant with annual incidence rates varying from 0.02 to 0.35 episodes per patient per year [5]. However, as the disease progresses, patients with type 2 diabetes frequently show similar susceptibility to severe hypoglycemia as seen in patients with type 1 diabetes [6, 7].
According to the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), severe hypoglycemia in a conscious person should be treated by the oral ingestion of 15–20 g carbohydrate, preferably as glucose tablets or equivalent [8]. For severe hypoglycemia in an unconscious individual in the home setting, the recommended treatment is 1 mg glucagon by injection. For severe hypoglycemia in an unconscious individual in the presence of professional medical assistance and intravenous access, 10–25 g intravenous dextrose is recommended. In all cases, once the hypoglycemia has been reversed, the patient should be given oral carbohydrates to prevent repeated hypoglycemia.
Glucagon is a highly effective treatment for severe hypoglycemia outside and within the hospital setting. Because glucagon is unstable in solution, commercially available emergency glucagon kits consist of lyophilized glucagon powder that must be mixed with a diluent immediately prior to injection. This procedure can be complex, intimidating, and prone to potentially serious errors, especially in an emergency situation for a caregiver, companion, or stranger who is not trained in reconstitution and injection techniques.
Glucagon nasal powder (GNP; previously referred to as AMG504-1) is a novel, nasally administered glucagon powder formulation being developed for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia, a commonly encountered life-threatening emergency in which the patient, typically an insulin-using diabetic, requires third-party assistance to correct the hypoglycemia. The drug is packaged within a very simple and user-friendly, single-use, nasal powder dosing device that delivers its entire contents into the patient’s nose when it is activated by pushing on the bottom of the dispenser (Fig. 1). The performance of the device is patient-independent in that there is no need to inhale (drug is absorbed from the nasal cavity) and the device performs as expected regardless of the orientation of the device (i.e., right side up or rotated 180°). This product may simplify treatment of severe hypoglycemia for non-medical caregivers of persons with diabetes.
(a) GNP dosing device and carrying tube (b) GNP dosing device at activation
GNP contains synthetic glucagon (10 % w/w) as well as beta-cyclodextrin and dodecylphosphocholine (DPC). Of the three ingredients in GNP, extensive safety and toxicology data and a long history of clinical use have been generated for glucagon and beta-cyclodextrin. The third ingredient, DPC, contains a choline group, a phosphate group, and a saturated aliphatic chain that is 12 carbons in length. As all three moieties are present in phospholipids and lecithins ubiquitous in mammalian cell membranes [9], significant adverse effects associated with DPC were not expected when it was chosen as the excipient.
The toxicology program for GNP consists of three components. The actual formulation (i.e., combination of glucagon, beta-cyclodextrin, and DPC) selected for clinical trials was studied to evaluate local and systemic effects of the drug product. A second series of studies, developed in accordance with the United States FDA’s Guidance for Industry: Nonclinical Studies for the Development of Pharmaceutical Excipients, was conducted to provide additional safety information and supplement the safety profile of DPC. A third set of studies was conducted to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxicity, skin sensitization, and intra-cutaneous reactivity of the materials used in the actuator delivery device. We now report the findings of four toxicology studies conducted in animal models to evaluate the safety of the actual formulation of this product. The findings of the toxicology studies with DPC and the materials used in the delivery device are being reported separately.
The four toxicology studies reported here included the following: a 28-day sub-chronic toxicology study in rats evaluating the safety of GNP in solution at 0.1 and 0.2 mg/rat/day (approximately 0.4 and 0.8 mg/kg/day), a 28-day sub-chronic toxicology study in dogs that evaluated the safety of GNP in powder form at 2 and 4 mg glucagon/dog/day (i.e., 20 mg and 40 mg GNP/dog/day, approximately 0.2 and 0.4 mg/kg/day), an acute toxicology study in rats administered 0.5 mg GNP intra-tracheally (i.e., 0.05 mg glucagon), and a local tolerance study in rabbits in which 30 mg GNP (i.e., 3 mg glucagon) was administered directly in the eye (Table 1). The first three studies (the 28-day sub-chronic toxicology studies in rats and dogs, and the acute toxicology study in rats) were conducted at the facilities of ITR Laboratories Canada Inc, Baie d’Urfe, Québec, Canada, while the last study (local tolerance study in rabbits) was conducted at the facilities of CiToxLab North America, Laval (Québec), Canada. The test species were chosen because they are the species recommended for these types of studies by the regulatory authorities.
Pivotal toxicology studies conducted with the GNP drug product
Species/N/Gender
Test articles and dosage
28-day sub-chronic toxicology
Rat/71M/71F
Saline, placebo liquid, GNP ingredients in solution at 0.1 and 0.2 mg/rat/day for 28 days
Dog/16M/16F
Saline, placebo powder, GNP at 2 and 4 mg/dog/day for 28 days
Acute toxicology
Air placebo control, GNP at 0.5 mg intra-tracheally
30-mg drug product administered directly in eye
M male, F female
The protocols for the studies conducted at the facilities of ITR Laboratories Canada Inc were reviewed and assessed by the Animal Care Committee (ACC) of ITR. All animals used in these studies were cared for in accordance with the principles outlined in the current “Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals” as published by the Canadian Council on Animal Care and the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals”, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) publication. The studies did not unnecessarily duplicate previous experiments. Procedures involving the care and use of animals in the study conducted at the facilities of CiToxLab North America were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) prior to conduct. During the study, the care and use of animals was conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the current Guidelines published by the Canadian Council on Animal Care and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, a National Research Council (NRC) publication. The CiToxLAB North America facility is accredited by the Canadian Council on Animal Care and AAALAC.
Sprague–Dawley Crl:CD (SD) rats (Rattus norvegicus) and male New Zealand white rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were obtained from Charles River Canada Inc. (St-Constant, Quebec, Canada). Beagle dogs were obtained from Marshall BioResources, Inc. (North Rose, New York, USA). On arrival, all animals were weighed and subjected to a detailed physical examination by the Clinical Veterinarian to ensure satisfactory health status. Each animal was uniquely identified. Animals were fed and housed using standard protocols, and allowed an appropriate acclimation period between receipt of animals and start of treatment.
Detailed descriptions of methodology used in these studies are provided in the Supplement to this article Additional file 1.
Twenty-eight-day intra-nasal toxicity followed by a 14-day recovery period in rats
Formulation analysis
The glucagon content in the test article formulation for Day 1 and for Day 28 was 5.7 and 5.8 mg/mL, respectively, therefore, within at least 2 % of the desired value of 5.7 mg glucagon/mL. The absence of glucagon was also confirmed in both control articles on both Days 1 and 28.
Placebo-control animals 1006B and 1518D were found dead after dosing was performed on Days 13 and 15, respectively. A necropsy of animal 1006B indicated the cause of death was most likely physical trauma and not related to placebo control as no clinical signs were observed prior to the animal death. There were no gross findings for animal 1518D and, as a toxicokinetic (TK) animal, a microscopic examination was not performed. There were no deaths in saline or test-article groups.
There were no adverse clinical signs related to treatment with GNP. All clinical signs noted were considered incidental and not related to the administration of GNP since they were sporadic, infrequent, and/or present in control animals at a similar frequency and/or incidence.
There were no body weight changes related to treatment with GNP. All body weight changes were considered incidental and not related to the administration of GNP.
There were slight increases in food consumption for the weekly periods between Days 8 and 15 and between Days 15 and 22. However, these were observed in all groups and were not considered treatment-related.
Ophthalmoscopy
No treatment-related findings were noted during the course of this study and the observations recorded were incidental in origin and to be expected in this type of animal.
Toxicokinetics
Levels of glucagon were below the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ, 200 pg/mL) in all serum samples collected from rats in the control groups, and low- and high-dose groups prior to dosing on Day 1. Following the first intra-nasal (IN) administration on Day 1, only 4 of 12 animals in the low-dose group displayed levels of glucagon above LLOQ while 12 of 12 animals in the high-dose group displayed levels above LLOQ on at least one occasion. The mean glucagon concentration levels increased quickly in rat serum to reach peak levels within 10 min and declined over the sampling interval in both treated groups, but peak levels were higher in the high-dose group. Following Day 1 administration, mean systemic exposure (AUC0-t) to glucagon increased with dose (8095 vs. 172,893 pg.min/mL, for the low- and high-dose groups, respectively) and mean peak glucagon was observed 10 min after dosing and increased with dose (390 vs. 9961 pg/mL, for the low- and high-dose groups, respectively) (Fig. 2, Table 2).
Mean (+ SE) glucagon serum concentration profiles in rats following a single intra-nasal administration—Day 1. Glucagon concentrations on Day 1 (linear scale, gender combined). Levels were below the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ, 200 pg/mL) in all samples collected from rats in the control groups and low- and high-dose groups prior to dosing on Day 1. Following the first intra-nasal drug administration on Day 1, only four of 12 animals in the low-dose GNP group displayed levels of glucagon above the LLOQ. Following a single high-dose GNP intra-nasal administration, all animals (12 of 12) displayed levels above LLOQ on at least one occasion, and mean glucagon concentration levels increased quickly in rat serum to reach peak levels within 10 min and declined over the sampling interval
Summary toxicokinetic parameters of glucagon in rats (gender combined)
Dose level of glucagon (mg/day)
Mean (± SE)
AUC0–t (pg min/mL)
AUC0–90 (pg min/mL)
Cmax (pg/mL)
tmax (min)
8095 ± 3266
390 ± 240
High dose
172,893 ± 72,774
43,036 ± 21,047
NC not calculated
On Day 28, all samples collected from placebo-control liquid and saline-control animals displayed undetectable levels of glucagon with the exception of two samples at 20 min post-dose (animals 1016D, 8644 pg/mL, and 2011D, 45 pg/mL). Those two values are probably due to variance of glucagon already produced in the body of the rats since those animals were both dosed before any treated animal; therefore, animals were deemed to have been dosed correctly. Following 28 consecutive daily dosings, all pre-dose samples collected from low- and high-dose groups were below or close to the limit of quantification indicating no accumulation, which is consistent with a fast systemic turnover of glucagon. After Day 28 dosing, nine of 12 animals from the low-dose group and all animals from the high-dose group displayed levels above LLOQ on at least one occasion. Mean AUC0-t and Cmax values were 43,036 pg.min/mL and 988 pg/mL for the low-dose group, respectively, and 60,073 pg.min/mL and 2109 pg/mL for the high-dose group, respectively (Fig. 3, Table 2). There were no statistical differences between sexes.
Mean (+ SE) glucagon serum concentration profiles in rats following 28 consecutive days of daily intra-nasal administration—Day 28. Glucagon concentrations on Day 28 (linear scale, gender combined). All samples collected from placebo-control liquid and saline-control animals displayed undetectable levels of glucagon with the exception of two samples at 20 min post-dose, one from the placebo-control liquid group (animal 1016D, 8644 pg/mL) and one from the saline-control group (animal 2011D, 45 pg/mL). Following 28 days of consecutive daily dosing, all pre-dose samples collected from low- and high-dose groups were below (animal 4516H, 20 pg/mL, animal 4519E, 180 pg/mL, and animal 4520E, 22 pg/mL) or close to the limit of quantification (animal 3515E, 345 pg/mL). After dosing, nine of 12 animals from the low-dose GNP group displayed levels above LLOQ on at least one occasion while all animals (12 of 12) in the high-dose group displayed levels above LLOQ on at least one occasion
Hematology, coagulation, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis
There were no adverse test-article related changes in hematology, coagulation, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis parameters. A number of mean parameters differed from control values, with/without statistical significance, but the differences were independent of dose and sex or were minor in magnitude (Table 3). Thus, they were considered incidental and of no biological significance.
Summary of hematology, coagulation, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis data in dogs, Day 29 relative to start datea
Group 1: Placebo control
Group 2: Saline control
Group 3: Low dose
Group 4: High dose
Male (N = 9)
Female (N = 10)
Male (N = 10)
Female (N = 9)
Red blood cells (1012/L)
8.62 (0.433)
Hemoglobin (g/L)
149 (6.8)
Hematocrit (L/L)
Mean corpuscular volume (fL)
55.1 (1.69)
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (pg)
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (g/L)
Platelets (109/L)
926 (148.3)
% Reticulocytes (%)
Reticulocytes (1012/L)
0.152 (0.0491)
White blood cells (109/L)
Neutrophils (109/L)
Lymphocytes (109/L)
Monocytes (109/L)
Eosinophils (109/L)
Basophils (109/L)
Leucocytes (109/L)
Prothrombin time (Sec)
Activated partial thromboplastin time (Sec)
15.5 (2.78) (N = 9)
Alanine transaminase (U/L)
27 (4.5)
Aspartate aminotransferase (U/L)
Alkaline phosphatase (U/L)
Total bilirubin (μmolL)
2.1 (0.58) (N = 3)
1.9 (−) (N = 1)
Cholesterol (mmol/L)
2.0 (0.453)
Triglycerides (mmol/L)
Glucose (mmol/L)
Total protein (g/L)
Albumin (g/L)
Globulin (g/L)
Albumin/Globulin ratio
Urea (mmol/L)
Creatinine (μmolL)
Calcium (mmol/L)
Phosphate (mmol/L)
Sodium (mmol/L)
Potassium (mmol/L)
Chloride (mmol/L)
Volume (mL)
aAll data are presented as mean (standard deviation)
Organ weights
There was a slight increase in organ weights relative to body weight in several organs (adrenals, brain, heart, kidneys, lungs/trachea, ovaries, and thyroid/parathyroid) in Group 1 female animals compared with all other groups. However, these differences were considered incidental and of no biological significance.
Macroscopic findings
Soft dark red material surrounding the heart and moderate, acute, multi-focal pulmonary intra-alveolar hemorrhage and many dark red areas in all lung lobes were observed in the placebo-control animal found dead (1006B). These findings, most likely due to physical trauma, contributed to the death of the animal. Since these observations were present in a placebo-control animal, they were considered incidental. Other observations were considered incidental or spontaneous. All gross pathology findings from all other main and recovery animals, regardless of experimental group, were considered spontaneous or incidental because of low incidence and inconsistency across control or treated groups.
Microscopic findings
Moderate, acute, multi-focal pulmonary intra-alveolar hemorrhage, mild mandibular lymph node sinusal congestion/hemorrhage, and mild, multi-focal acute thymic hemorrhage were observed in the placebo-control animal found dead (1006B). In comparison with the placebo-control and saline animals, GNP-related erosion/ulceration of the olfactory epithelium, frequently with minimal to mild acute to sub-acute inflammation of the lamina propria, was noted bilaterally or unilaterally at the dorsal turbinate of nasal cavity level 2, as a mild to moderate finding in 2/10 males and 3/10 females of Group 4 (high dose). Inflammation of the lamina propria of the olfactory epithelium was considered secondary to the erosion/ulceration of the olfactory epithelium. These lesions were always noted at the dorsal turbinate of the nasal cavity level 2, which suggested site-specificity of GNP-related insult in the nasal cavity. These lesions were not present in the recovery animals, suggesting reversibility of these lesions.
In Group 4 recovery animals, findings included retinal fold/rossette (1/10), cardiomyopathy (5/10), tubular basophilia of the kidneys (2/10), fibrosis of the kidneys (1/10), corticomedullary mineralization of the kidneys (5/10), healed infarct of the kidneys (1/10), focal cell infiltrate of the liver (1/10), focal necrosis of the liver (1/10), intra-alveolar hemorrhage of the lungs (3/10), increased cellularity of the mandibular lymph node (2/10), interstitial cell infiltrate of the prostate (1/5), inflammation of the prostate associated with urothelial hyperplasia (1/5), cell debris overlying epidermal hyperplasia (1/10), extramedullary hematopoiesis of the spleen (10/10), and hemorrhage of the thymus (1/10). The incidence and severity of these findings cannot be compared to control animals as there were no concurrent control saline recovery animals. However, these findings are common background lesions observed in Sprague–Dawley rats and were considered to be incidental or procedure-related rather than test-item related.
All other histopathology findings in other tissues, including those in placebo-control, saline, and low-dose groups were considered incidental or spontaneous or background and of no toxicological significance.
Twenty-eight-day intra-nasal toxicity followed by a 14-day recovery period in beagle dogs
The mean glucagon content in the test-article devices on both Days 1 and 28 was 2.1 mg, therefore within 10 % of the desired value of 2 mg per device. The amount of glucagon on Days 1 and 28 was consistent; therefore, stability of glucagon throughout the 28 days at room temperature was confirmed. There was no glucagon present in any control article device on Day 1 or Day 28.
Efficiency of devices
Achieved powder concentrations of the devices are presented in Table 4.
Achieved powder dose levels of GNP per animal
Group designation
Targeted powder dose (mg)
Achieved average powder dose (mg)
% efficiency
aCalculated using all values from the entire study including discharge weights obtained before implementation of a device wiping procedure to correct the adverse effect of device-related electrostatic charge on the analytical balance
bCalculated using values beginning April 8, 2011 (equivalent to study Day 10, 11, or 12 depending on the dog) after instituting a device wiping procedure to remove electrostatic charge and thus resulting in accurate and expected discharge weights
During the initial part of the study, the amounts of powder released from the devices appeared to be inconsistent, with several devices appearing to deliver less than expected and some devices apparently weighing more after discharge than before discharge. Following an investigation, these irregular values for test article discharge weights (i.e., delivery efficiency) were shown to be caused by an electrostatic charge on some of the devices that interfered with the device weight values obtained pre-dosing. The charge was removed by simply wiping each device with a small amount of alcohol. The actual amount given to the animals before the problem was discovered cannot be calculated accurately. However, since only a minimal amount of powder was present in devices that were opened after discharge, the animals were most likely given the correct dose; therefore, the impact on the study was assumed to be minimal. Also, as seen in Table 4, the placebo group was more affected by the electrostatic charge than the treated groups. As outlined in Table 4, the reported efficiency of the devices was between 82.5 and 94.5 % without wiping and between 92.8 and 99.5 % with wiping. However, efficiency values prior to implementation of corrective actions cannot be completely accurate since we cannot determine the exact amount discharged from the devices.
There were no drug-related deaths in the study.
With the exception of transient salivation and some sneezing in most dogs immediately after IN dosing with placebo powder or GNP, there were no treatment-related adverse clinical signs observed in this study. All clinical signs noted were considered incidental and not related to the administration of GNP since they were sporadic, infrequent, and/or present in control animals at a similar frequency and/or incidence.
Food consumption was unaffected by treatment with GNP.
No treatment-related findings were noted on the electrocardiograms.
Mean uncorrected glucagon concentration-time profiles of GNP on Day 1 are presented in Fig. 4. Glucagon concentration levels were below the LLOQ, 200 pg/mL, in all samples collected in the placebo-powder and saline-control groups on Day 1. Endogenous glucagon levels were observed in 11 of 12 dogs from GNP groups (animals 3502B and 3603B had reported values < LLOQ while animal 4001B had undetectable glucagon levels). Following a single GNP IN dose, mean glucagon concentration levels increased quickly in dog serum to reach peak levels within 10 min and declined over the sampling interval. Mean peak glucagon levels were similar across GNP dose levels.
Mean (+ SE) uncorrected glucagon serum concentration profiles in dogs following a single intra-nasal administration—Day 1. Glucagon concentrations on Day 1 (linear scale). Levels were below the LLOQ (200 pg/mL) in all samples collected in the placebo-powder group on Day 1. Following a single GNP intra-nasal dose, mean glucagon concentration levels increased quickly to reach peak levels within 10 min and declined over the sampling interval. Mean peak glucagon levels were similar across GNP dose levels
Mean uncorrected glucagon concentration-time profiles of GNP on Day 28 are presented in Fig. 5. On Day 28, all samples collected from placebo-control powder and saline-control animals displayed glucagon levels < LLOQ with the exception of four samples, one from the saline-control group at pre-dose (animal 2503, 211 pg/mL) and three from the placebo-control powder group at pre-dose and 20 min post-dosing (animal 1501, 229 pg/mL, animal 1502, 355 pg/mL, and animal 1503, 201 pg/mL, respectively). On Day 28, following daily dosing for 28 consecutive days, pre-dose samples collected from low- and high-dose GNP groups generally displayed measurable glucagon levels.
Mean (+ SE) uncorrected glucagon serum concentration profiles in dogs following multiple intra-nasal administrations—Day 28. Glucagon concentrations on Day 28 (linear scale). All samples collected from placebo-control powder and saline-control animals displayed glucagon levels < LLOQ with the exception of three samples, one from the saline-control group at pre-dose (animal 2503, 211 pg/mL) and three from the placebo-control powder group at pre-dose and 20 min post-dosing (animal 1501, 229 pg/mL, animal 1502, 355 pg/mL, and animal 1503, 201 pg/mL, respectively). On Day 28, following daily dosing for 28 consecutive days, pre-dose samples collected from low- and high-dose GNP groups generally displayed measurable glucagon levels
To comply with standard methodologies for endogenous compounds, a baseline correction was also applied to correct for endogenous glucagon levels and TK parameters were derived from corrected plasma concentration profiles. Baseline was defined as pre-dose values observed on Day 1. With baseline correction, after a single test-article administration on Day 1, the mean systemic exposures (AUC0-t) to glucagon were 213,385 and 148,561 pg.min/mL for the low- and high-dose groups, respectively. Median peak glucagon concentration was observed 10 min after dosing and increased with dose (6984 vs. 7251 pg/mL, for low- and high-dose groups, respectively). Following the last dose on Day 28, mean AUC0-t (267,261 vs. 343,597 pg.min/mL for low- and high-dose groups, respectively) and Cmax values (8684 vs. 13,171 pg/mL, for low- and high-dose groups, respectively) increased with dose (Table 5).
Baseline-corrected toxicokinetic parameters of glucagon in dogs
Mean (% CV)
GNP 2 mg/day
229,465 (27.9)
AUC0-t (pg min/mL)
6984 (26.0)
13,171 (56.4)
Tmaxa (min)
10.0 (10.0, 20.0)
10.0 (5.00, 20.0)
T1/2 (min)
NC (NC)b
11.4 (NC)c
21.1 (18.4)d
7.79 (NC)e
aMedian (Min, Max); bn = 0; cn = 2; dn = 4; en = 1
Although baseline glucagon levels were different between treatment groups, baseline levels were very low in both groups compared with glucagon levels observed post-dosing. These data suggest that animals treated with the experimental IN glucagon formulation experienced glucagon exposures well in excess of physiological levels. Consistent with the short half-life of glucagon in serum, minimal accumulation was observed following multiple GNP IN administrations and there were no statistical differences between sexes.
There were no adverse test-article related changes in hematology, coagulation, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis parameters. No effect was seen on blood glucose as samples were taken prior to dosing with glucagon. Any increases or decreases observed were all within the reference range for that species and all differences from the control values, with/without statistical significance, were independent of dose and were minor in magnitude. Thus, they were considered to have no biological significance.
There were no prominent organ weight changes related to GNP-dosed animals and all differences from the control group weights were considered incidental and of no biological significance. A number of means differed from the control values, without statistical significance, but considering the inter-animal variability, they were regarded as incidental or of no biological significance.
There were findings of a dark area and/or pale discoloration in the right middle lung lobe of one main animal in Group 2 and one main animal in Group 4, which was considered to be background or procedure-related following the microscopic evaluation. All other macroscopic findings were considered to be incidental or spontaneous because they were of low incidence or occurred in control and/or treated groups.
Minimal to moderate atrophy/degeneration of the olfactory epithelium (with/without sub-acute inflammation) was observed in level 4 of the nasal cavity of 2/6 (1/3 males and 1/3 females) Group 1 (placebo-control powder), 0/6 Group 2 (saline control), all Group 3 (low dose), and all Group 4 (high dose) animals. Since this finding was observed in Group 1, Group 3, and Group 4 animals, but not in Group 2, it was considered treatment-related. There was also an increase in the incidence and/or severity in the test-article treated animals in comparison to the Group 1 animals. Minimal atrophy/degeneration of the olfactory epithelium was also present in level 3 of the nasal cavity of one Group 4 male (4002B). Atrophy/degeneration of the olfactory epithelium was not observed in recovery animals, which suggests reversibility of the finding.
Minimal to moderate sub-acute bronchioloalveolar inflammation was observed in the lungs of 3/6 (2/3 males and 1/3 females) Group 1, 4/6 (3/3 males and 1/3 females) Group 2, all Group 3, and 4/6 (2/3 males and 2/3 females) Group 4 animals. This finding was observed in both control and treated animals and the mean severity grade did not vary in relationship to dose level of the test article, GNP. The sub-acute bronchioloalveolar inflammation of the lungs correlated with the macroscopic finding of dark and/or pale discoloration in one Group 2 and one Group 4 animal and was considered to be background or procedure-related.
Minimal to mild focal hyperplasia or squamous metaplasia of the respiratory epithelium was observed in the carina of 3/6 (2/3 males and 1/3 females) Group 1, 3/6 (2/3 males and 1/3 females) Group 2, 2/6 (0/3 males and 2/3 females) Group 3, and 4/6 (2/3 males and 2/3 females) Group 4 animals. Focal hyperplasia or squamous metaplasia of the respiratory epithelium was also present in one Group 1 animal and one Group 4 animal after the 14-day recovery period. This finding was observed in both the control and treated groups with an increase in incidence in Group 4 animals, but with no significant difference in the severity between groups. Hyperplasia and squamous metaplasia of the respiratory epithelium were regarded as adaptive responses following local irritation on the surface of the carinal epithelium and are not uncommon with inhalation of inert and/or non-toxic compounds.
All other microscopic findings were considered to be incidental, spontaneous, background, or procedure-related because they were of low incidence or occurred in control and/or treated groups.
Single-dose intra-tracheal insufflation toxicity in rats
Dose administration
The individual amounts of GNP delivered to Group 2 animals are presented in Table 6. Following dosing accountability verification, the devices used for animals 2003B, 2005B, 2503B, and 2508D were determined to have had low efficiencies. The efficiencies were 46, 24, 58, and 58 %, respectively. Therefore, it was decided to replace these four animals with spare animals and dose them with new devices. The data from these four replacement animals (2103B, 2105B, 2603B, and 2608D) are included in Table 6.
GNP doses administered per animal
Target (mg)
Actual (mg)
% of target
Mean values are shown in bold
There were no deaths over the course of the study.
There were no adverse clinical signs related to treatment with GNP. All clinical signs noted were considered incidental and not related to the administration of GNP.
There were no body weight changes related to treatment with GNP.
There were no changes in food consumption that were considered related to treatment with GNP. All variations were considered of normal biological variation.
There were no changes in organ weights that were clearly related to treatment with GNP. Changes observed were sporadic and considered incidental and of normal variation.
A dark area was observed in the lungs of 5/10 (4/5 males and 1/5 females) air-control (Group 1) rats and 2/10 (1/5 males and 1/5 females) GNP-treated (Group 2) rats at termination of the main study phase. The findings in the lungs and all other macroscopic findings were considered to be incidental, background, or procedure-related. These changes were not observed at termination of the recovery period.
Minimal alveolar histiocytosis and minimal alveolar hemorrhage were observed in the lungs of both air-control (Group 1) and GNP-treated (Group 2) rats. The alveolar histiocytosis was considered a normal non-specific pulmonary adaptive response associated with phagocytosis and clearance of inhaled particulates. These changes are commonly observed in inhalation studies, including from air-control animals, and could be related to inhalation of airborne particulates. The alveolar hemorrhage often correlated with the macroscopic finding of dark area and was considered to be procedure-related or background. The histiocytosis and alveolar hemorrhage were also present at the end of the 14-day recovery period. All other microscopic findings were considered to be incidental or spontaneous.
Single-dose ocular tolerance in rabbits
Three male rabbits (1001, 1102, and 1003) were treated with GNP. None of the test animals died during the course of this study.
Clinical observations noted in the GNP-treated eye (left eye) and/or surrounding areas included one or more of the following: clear discharge, red conjunctiva, partial closure of the eye, and firm swelling of the periorbital area. These observations correlated with erythema and edema noted during ocular observations and grading, and were associated with possible mechanical irritation due to eyelid movements in presence of a solid powder in the eyes. All other clinical signs were considered incidental and are common in laboratory-housed members of this species.
There was no body weight change related to the dosing administration of GNP. Body weights were measured for general health assessment, and showed expected progressive increases during the study period.
Ocular observations and grading
All animals presented slight unilateral (left eye) ocular findings related to the administration of GNP. In all cases, the findings noted at all time points (1, 24, 48, and 72 h) post-dosing, were limited to erythema (redness) and edema (swelling) of the conjunctiva and the palpebral membrane. These lesions were attributed to possible mechanical irritation due to eyelid movements in presence of solid powder in the eye since GNP was delivered to the eye as dry powder.
One animal (1001) presented a minimal area of fluorescein staining at 24 h post-treatment and none at the other time points. Ocular grading sheets only indicated a score of ‘1’ for the area of cornea involved with an opacity score of ‘0’. The score value of ‘1’ was intended for the area of ‘fluorescein staining’ following the observation after the fluorescein solution instillation for this animal. This was considered related to a trauma to the cornea during experimental procedures rather than a treatment-related effect.
No GNP-related macroscopic changes were observed at necropsy. Animal 1102 presented a single, bilateral dark red area at the nictitating membrane of the eyes. This change was considered to be incidental and of no toxicological significance.
The objective of these studies was to evaluate in animal models the safety of GNP, a formulation of glucagon for intra-nasal administration intended for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia.
Intra-nasal administration of GNP for 28 consecutive days at the estimated average dose rate of up to 2 mg GNP/day (0.2 mg glucagon/day) was well tolerated by rats. There were two deaths during the study, but they were in the placebo-control group and a necropsy indicated the deaths were most likely due to physical trauma. There were no test-article related mortalities or adverse clinical signs, and body weights, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy findings, and clinical pathology parameters were unaffected by GNP. Adverse effects were limited to local effects observed at the site of administration at the high-dose only. Daily dosing over the course of 28 days revealed no evidence of accumulation of glucagon in the serum and there were no gender-related trends in glucagon exposure parameters. Both on Day 1 and Day 28, mean AUC0-t and Cmax values increased with dose. Daily dosing over the course of 28 days at the high-dose resulted in mild to moderate, unilateral or bilateral erosion/ulceration of the olfactory epithelium, frequently with minimal to mild acute to sub-acute inflammation of the lamina propria, at the dorsal turbinates of nasal cavity level 2, in 2/10 males and 3/10 females of Group 4 (0.2 mg glucagon/day). These GNP-related lesions showed complete resolution following the 14-day recovery period suggesting the adverse effects are reversible. The no-observed-effect level was considered to be at the low dose of 1 mg GNP/day (0.1 mg glucagon/day).
Dogs tolerated daily IN administration of GNP for 28 consecutive days at the estimated average dose up to 39.6 mg GNP/dog/day (4.0 mg glucagon/dog/day) without any mortality. With the exception of transient salivation and some sneezing in most dogs immediately after IN dosing, there were no treatment-related adverse clinical signs observed in this study. Body weights, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy, and electrocardiography data were unaffected by the treatment in any test-article treated animals. There were also no adverse test-article related changes in clinical pathology parameters. Daily dosing over the course of 28 days revealed minimal accumulation of glucagon in the serum and there were no gender-related trends in glucagon exposure parameters. With baseline correction, after a single test-article administration on Day 1, the mean systemic exposures (AUC0-t) to glucagon were 213,385 and 148,561 pg.min/mL for the low- and high-dose groups, respectively. Median peak glucagon concentration was observed 10 min after dosing and increased with dose (6984 vs. 7251 pg/mL, for low- and high-dose groups, respectively). Following the last dose on Day 28, mean AUC0-t (267,261 vs. 343,597 pg.min/mL for low- and high-dose groups, respectively) and Cmax values (8684 vs. 13,171 pg/mL, for low- and high-dose groups, respectively) increased with dose. Although baseline glucagon levels were different between treatment groups, baseline levels were very low in both groups compared with glucagon levels observed post-dosing. These data suggest that animals treated with the experimental IN glucagon formulation experienced glucagon exposures well in excess of physiological levels. There were no test-article related findings observed macroscopically. Microscopically, mild to moderate atrophy/degeneration of the olfactory epithelium was observed in the nasal cavity (level 4) of the Group 1 (placebo-control powder), Group 3 (low dose; 20 mg/day GNP [2.0 mg/day glucagon]), and Group 4 (high dose; 40 mg/day GNP [4.0 mg/day glucagon]) animals, with an increase of the incidence and severity in Group 3 and Group 4 animals. After a 14-day recovery period, this treatment-related finding in the nasal cavity was no longer present, suggesting reversibility of the finding.
A single intra-tracheal insufflation of GNP was well tolerated by rats. The estimated average doses administered were 0.48 and 0.51 mg GNP (0.04 and 0.05 mg glucagon) for males and females, respectively. There were no changes observed in any of the parameters evaluated in this study.
In the final study, male rabbits were treated with GNP by a single ocular instillation using a powder dosing device. There were no mortality or body weight changes following GNP administration during the course of this study. Clinical observations noted in the GNP-treated eye (left eye; treated with 30 mg GNP [i.e., 3 mg glucagon]) and/or surrounding areas included one or more of the following: clear discharge, red conjunctiva, partial closure of the eye, and firm swelling of the periorbital area. These observations correlated with erythema and edema noted during ocular observations and grading. At all ocular grading time points (1, 24, 48, and 72 h) post-dose, all animals presented slight unilateral (left eye) ocular findings related to the administration of GNP. In all cases, the findings were limited to erythema and edema of the conjunctiva and the palpebral membrane. These lesions were attributed to possible mechanical irritation due to eyelid movements in presence of solid powder in the eye since GNP was delivered to the eye as dry powder.
Glucagon has long been recognized for its wide safety margin. Eli Lilly reports the median lethal IV dose at 300 mg/kg for mice and 38.6 mg/kg for rats [10] while Novo Nordisk reports the LD50 (lethal dose, 50 %) following IV or SC injection in rats and mice to range from 100 to >200 mg/kg [11]. Daily administration of glucagon for 6 months to rats (1 mg/rat/day) or rabbits (1 mg/rabbit once or twice per day) did not cause adverse clinical signs, had no effect on growth or weight gain, and did not cause any pathological changes. The only treatment effect reported was an increase in liver glycogen content [12]. More recent data show daily IV injection of glucagon for 4 weeks to rats (0, 0.2, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/kg/day) and dogs (0, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/kg/day) was well tolerated [13]. There were no significant adverse clinical signs in rats or dogs. Body weight and food consumption were unaffected. Liver weight was increased in both species, but was not associated with any microscopic changes. There was no evidence of any effect on fertility after treatment of rats with up to 2 mg/kg BID with animal-derived glucagon [10]. There was no evidence of harm to the fetus after daily IV administration of 0.4, 2.0, or 10.0 mg/kg (i.e., 100–200 times greater than human exposure) of recombinant human glucagon to rats and rabbits during the period of fetal organogenesis [11].
Regarding IN administration, considerable data on cyclodextrins (CD), primarily on CDs that are much more water soluble than β-CD (i.e., randomly methylated β-CD, dimethyl β-CD, hydroxypropyl β-CD, α-CD), have been generated and reviewed [14]. Overall, the local safety profile of IN CDs appears to be very good, with results indicating local effects on nasal morphology. In vitro ciliary beat frequency and cytotoxicity profiles were generally similar to those observed with saline control and much less than those observed with bile salts or 0.01 % benzalkonium chloride [14]. More recently, a paper was published showing no evidence of tissue damage to rat nasal mucosa following 5 min of in vivo exposure to 5 and 20 % hydroxypropyl β-CD or to 1.5 % β-CD [15]. Testing of higher concentrations of β-CD was not possible because of β-CD’s very low water solubility, a factor that should contribute to both the local and systemic safety of intra-nasally administered β-CD.
The third ingredient, DPC, is not an approved excipient. DPC contains a choline group, a phosphate group, and a saturated aliphatic chain that is 12 carbons in length. All three moieties are present in phospholipids and lecithins ubiquitous in mammalian cell membranes. In addition, several in vitro and in vivo studies conducted by the authors have provided data that reveal no safety concerns pertaining to DPC (manuscript in development). Taken together, these results suggest that IN delivery of GNP holds promise as a future rescue medication for use by caregivers to treat insulin-induced hypoglycemic episodes in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
In conclusion, IN administration of large overdoses of GNP to rats and dogs for 28 consecutive days was well tolerated and resulted in only mild to moderate fully reversible histological changes to nasal mucosa in some animals. Direct deposition into the lungs of rats did not result in any adverse findings, suggesting that inadvertent pulmonary exposure to GNP is likely to be well tolerated. In addition, a single ocular instillation using the intended powder dosing device pre-filled with 30 mg GNP to male New Zealand white rabbits was well tolerated, with minimal ocular irritation limited to slight erythema and edema localized to the conjunctiva and palpebral membrane.
AAALAC:
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
ACC:
Animal Care Committee
BID:
bis in die (twice daily)
Cyclodextrins
Cmax:
Maximum concentration (in the plasma)
Coefficient of variation
DCE:
Detailed clinical examination
DPC:
Dodecylphosphocholine
ECG:
Femtoliter
GNP:
Glucagon nasal powder
IACUC:
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Identification number
KIU:
Kallikrein inhibitor unit (of aprotinin)
LD50:
Median lethal dose
LLOQ:
Lower limit of quantitation
LSM:
Least square means
μmol:
Micromole
mmol:
Millimole
mL:
Millilitre
NIH:
NRC:
National Research Council
Picogram
PR interval (beginning of the P wave to beginning of QRS complex in an ECG)
QRS:
RS complex in an ECG (represents rapid depolarization of right and left ventricles)
QT:
QT interval in an ECG (beginning of the QRS complex to end of the T wave)
QTc:
Corrected QT interval in an ECG
RA:
Accumulation ratio
RPM:
Sprague–Dawley
Time for maximum plasma concentration of drug to be reached
TK:
Toxicokinetic
We are grateful to Dominic Poulin, BSc, GradDipTox, for his oversight in the conduct of the study, evaluation and interpretation of the data, and preparation of the study report for the single-dose intra-tracheal insufflation toxicity in rats trial.
Assistance in the preparation of this manuscript was provided by Roopashree Dwarakanath, PhD, Prasad Kulkarni, PhD, CMPP, and David Segarnick, PhD, of MedEvoke, High Bridge, New Jersey, USA, and was funded by Locemia Solutions ULC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Additional file 1: Manuscript supplement. (DOCX 191 kb)
Financial competing interests
Claude Piché, Patricia Stotland, Myriam Triest, and Dolores Carballo are employees of Locemia Solutions ULC, which provided the funding for the studies. Fred Reno performed the work reported in this studies as a consultant under contract with Locemia Solutions ULC. Patrick Normand and Kevin McInally are employees of ITR Laboratories Canada Inc. Sherwin Silo is an employee of CiToxLAB North America. ITR Laboratories Canada Inc and CiToxLAB North America performed these studies under contract with Locemia Solutions ULC.
Non-financial competing interests
All authors report no non-financial competing interests.
PN was involved in all aspects of the 28-day intra-nasal toxicity study in rats and dogs, including planning and conduct of the study, evaluation and interpretation of the data, and drafting and final approval of the study report. KM was involved in all aspects of the 28-day intra-nasal toxicity study in rats and dogs and the single-dose intra-tracheal insufflation toxicity study in rats, including planning of the studies, evaluation and interpretation of the data, and review of study reports. SS was involved in all aspects of the single ocular tolerance study in New Zealand white rabbits, including planning and conduct of the study, evaluation and interpretation of the data, and drafting and final approval of the study report. FR, CP, PS, MT, and DC contributed to all studies described in this manuscript, including planning of the studies, writing the protocols, analysis and interpretation of the data, and writing the study reports. All authors participated in writing this manuscript, have reviewed it, and have approved the submission of the manuscript for publication.
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Portland Trail Blazers new logo
By Sidney, September 18, 2013 in Concepts
Sidney 173
Location:Bordeaux (France)
Hey I've decided to redesign the Portland Blazers logo because to me, it's time to change something, so I post something.
Give me your feeling.
mr.nascar13 783
@loganaweaver
Location:Cookeville, TN
It looks a thousand times better by itself than on the black logo. Another great piece, my friend
mvk 1
Nice work, though I prefer the current design to it, myself. I'm not sure the differing sizes (widths) of 'trails' works to well on this logo, just seems a bit off to me.
MEANS 207
Favourite Logos:Logos designed: Toronto Maple Leafs / WCOH Canada / WCOH Team North America
Your mark starts to look like an "S" which reminds me of the Sonics wordmark. The line treatments are interesting but the clip-art basketball just looks placed in the center without any thought to it. If the basketball could be re-worked to work with the mark better plus some tweaks to the spacing of the extending lines I think you may have a good logo.
Windell918 287
Location:The Cornfield
this is a better designed the original I think. However I still hate the overall concept. I just don't think a hurricane symbol makes sense for the Trail Blazers. I've said that the blazers need a complete overhaul of their look for a long time. but nonetheless good work Sidney
Funkatron101 202
I was about to post the same thing as both MEANS and GoNordiques. I'll also point out that the logo with the black background has a lot of wasted space.
Kudos for exploring other options for the Blazers logo, but I think it misses the mark. Don't give up on this though, I would like to see how it progresses.
Thanks for feedbacks I've made some researchs on the meaning of the logo but I didn't saw anything on the five stripes. But Now I can say that I've learn something
I'll post updates soon
TheGiantsFan 132
That Hand-Drawn Series Guy
Location:Salinas, CA
In my opinion, I think the "Portland Trail Blazers" text on your logo is a bit too small. Just enlarge the text and it'll look better. But other than that, it's amazing!
Shadojoker 997
*round of applause* great job man...very good job!! Btw Nordiques is right. I don't know how much "research" you did but the blazers logo is supposed to represent 5v5 basketball..no biggie though. Good job.
upperV03 4,862
Jonah Henderson
Location:Salem, OR
If it were me, I would make the logo wider to avoid it looking like an 'S'.
On my research I've found something about the conquest of the west, and about some actors....
Yea a lot of symbol research is so vague I only remembered Portland's cause someone posted an article about it months ago...your right too bout the west expansion(Oregon trail,)..etc..
So if U guys do have something a web site with the history of teams to learn more about them
Hey, I've made updates, waiting on your feedbacks
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9581986/the-definitive-guide-nba-team-names-part-2
1. Portland Trail Blazers
What a wonderful name for a team, even if it wasn't close to the most popular choice in the "name the team" contest Portland held upon the birth of the franchise as part of the NBA's 1970 expansion. Fans overwhelmingly voted for "Pioneers," which evokes the settlement of the region, the Oregon Trail, and the brave struggles of those who staked early claim to the land.
But a local college, Lewis & Clark, was already using "Pioneers," and the new Portland franchise was aiming for something both original and without potential intellectual property baggage. They settled upon "Trail Blazers," a suggestion nearly 200 fans sent in during the contest, and, holy cow, did they make the right call. The name serves as a historical callback in the fashion of "Pioneers," but it's unique within the major sports landscape, it's fun to say, it carries an easy shorthand in "Blazers," and it recalls basketball and sports more readily than "Pioneers."
"Blazers" implies speed, perfect for a fast sport, and the full name pegs the franchise as one seeking both stylistic originality on the court and a trailblazing impact (along with the Seattle SuperSonics, founded three years earlier) in spreading NBA hoops to a new region. The 1977 title team famously played with a progressive unselfishness, using big man Bill Walton as its passing fulcrum, and the use of a "Knickerbocker"-style collective term works especially well for this franchise. The Blazers were long the only major pro sport in town, and there is a unique closeness here among fans, players, and team.
The Trail Blazers name also inspired the team's pinwheel logo, one of the rare abstract logos in all of sports. The red and white stripes (five of each) blazing in opposite directions, but coming together at the center, are meant to represent the blur of two opposing basketball teams working against each other while moving back and forth across center court. That's beautiful.
The full name is a bit of a mouthful, and the team's choice of mascot — Blaze the Trail Cat — is a clunky fit. But everything else is poetic. Portland wins.
I'm still not a fan of the varying sizes/widths of the 'trails'. Also, the basketball seem out of place/just stuck on, and not really a "part" of the logo - maybe it is the white lines on the ball. Sorry, but to me the Trailblazers logo is one that does not need to be re-done or updated.
Thank you for the link
I'll post something with same size widths of the trail. When I'll find the good fit I'll work on the ball.
sparky chewbarky 1,117
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Location:Campbell's Cross sparkychewbarky@live.com
I've learned, (with altering the old Nordiques logo), that it's sometimes easier to design an entirely new logo than tweak a classic.
So why not go down THAT road?
The old logo always (to me) looked like the letter "S". Why?
...And I like what you're doing here with the graduated lines.
Remove the grey lines altogether so you're only representing the 1 team (Blazers).
Put the grey (silver) into the panels of the ball and remove the white outline.
Now, horizontally flip the image and bingo-bongo, you've got a dynamic new "P" logo, that...
"Respectfully pays tribute to the old Blazers classic blah-blah-blah".
pianoknight 2,602
Location:Eugene, OR
When you skewed the swooshy things (is that what they're called?) the result was a logo that looks like an "S."
Seattle Trailblazers!
Keep making it wider and you've got something
which one the left one? or both .
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Realme 2 Pro India Launch Expected September-End
Mobiles September 14, 2018 No Comments Loknath Das 2, Expected, India, launch, Pro, Realme, September-End
Realme has sent out invites to the media for an event that is scheduled for September 26 and September 27. While the company hasn’t revealed any details about the event, the official invite suggests that it is set to expand its existing smartphone portfolio in India with the launch of the Realme 2 Pro. The new smartphone could include some upgrades over the Realme 2 that was launched in the country late last month. The Realme 2 Pro isn’t likely to be as affordable as the Realme 2 that carries a starting price of Rs. 8,990. However, it is expected to come with a new SoC to deliver faster performance than the existing Realme model. We can also speculate some improvements on the optics front.
The invite for the Realme 2 Pro reads, “We are back 2 surprise you.” The “2”, “Pr”, and “o” characters in the teaser come in red colour to suggest what’s cooking up behind the scenes. Considering the addition of the “Pro” title after the Realme 2 name, the new model could have some upgrades over last month’s Realme smartphone. Some of the initial reports suggested that the company could deploy a new SoC to deliver an enhanced experience over what was provided through the Snapdragon 450 SoC on the Realme 2. It may include 6GB of RAM, something the the Realme 1 offered. To recall, this is not the first time that Realme is teasing the launch of the Realme 2 Pro – it had done so right at the time of the Realme 2 launch, and said it would arrive in September itself.
The new model may also improve the imaging experience through new optics. The company could additionally opt for a new display panel for the Realme 2 Pro since we found the panel of the existing Realme 2 model to be mediocre. Furthermore, there could be a diamond-cut effect at the back panel, similar to the Realme 1 and Realme 2.
To recall, the dual-SIM (Nano) Realme 2 runs ColorOS 5.1 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo and features a 6.2-inch HD+ (720×1520 pixels) in-cell display panel with a 19:9 aspect ratio and 88.8 percent of screen-to-body ratio and 360 nits brightness. Under the hood, there is an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 SoC, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU as well as 3GB and 4GB RAM options. The smartphone has a dual rear camera setup that includes a 13-megapixel primary sensor along with an f/2.2 aperture and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor along with an f/2.4 aperture. On the front, there is an 8-megapixel sensor with a fixed focus, f/2.2 aperture lens. The frontal sensor enables a Face Unlock feature that comes alongside the rear-facing fingerprint sensor.
The Realme 2 has 32GB and 64GB of onboard storage options that both are expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB). There are connectivity options such as dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB with OTG support, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The smartphone packs a 4,230mAh battery and measures 156.2×75.6×8.2mm.
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BizTalk360
What is going to be the future of BizTalk360?
By Saravana Kumar
| Posted: May 9, 2017 | Categories: BizTalk360
Tags: Azure BizTalk Services BizTalk360 Features New features Product update
About 10-12 years ago (around 2004-2005), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was a big topic in the enterprise world. Massive projects were initiated to align enterprises to be more service oriented with a middleware/ESB platform like BizTalk Server in the middle.
You can download the entire article as a PDF document.
When we talked about SOA implementation using Microsoft technologies during this period, only two technologies/platform stood out –
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and
WCF was set of libraries built on top of the .NET Framework that helped to build SOAP based (later REST support was added) web services. WCF was more of a platform that shipped along with the .NET Framework and evolved gradually along with the .NET releases. BizTalk Server, on the other hand, was a full blown Enterprise Server Product that acted as a Middleware platform mainly addressing the challenge of not creating an integration spaghetti between those services (represented as APP in below pictures) created using WCF.
Without BizTalk Server With BizTalk Server
BizTalk360 journey between 2011 – 2016
When we started BizTalk360 back in 2010, the objectives were pretty straight forward. Nearly 10,000 medium to large organisations have invested in Microsoft BizTalk Server to address their integration requirements.
We spotted a lot of gaps in BizTalk Server when it comes to BizTalk Server day-to-day administration and monitoring. It looked like a straightforward bet to build a world-class product that can help these 10,000+ customers to improve their operational efficiency.
We started off initially with BizTalk360 as a monitoring solution for BizTalk Server and the product slowly evolved into addressing various operational and analytics needs of the BizTalk Server. There are over 100 features in the product now covering various aspects of day-to-day operational needs like Security, Governance/Auditing, Monitoring, Analytics, Productivity Tools, Knowledge Base, Rich Dashboards, etc. making it a must have add-on product for any Microsoft BizTalk Server customers.
BizTalk360 currently has over 500 enterprise customers, and we are proud to say that Microsoft itself is one of our biggest customers. Microsoft internally uses BizTalk Server for all of their IT and Supply Chain requirements and they rely on BizTalk360 for their day-to-day operations. You can read the case study “Why Microsoft chose BizTalk360 instead of SCOM”
What is the state of Integration today in Microsoft Stack?
In the last 5-6 years, the innovation around technology exploded in all directions. Cloud and mobile became mainstream and companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM pumped a lot of investment into the cloud. On the other hand, SaaS (Software as a Service) based products exploded in other direction. Today, no one really wants to buy off-the-shelf software products, run their own servers and manage upgrades and patches. They simply want to use software or services provided by the third party rather than owning them. About 10-15 years ago, SIEBEL was the leader in CRM space, however, today that segment is ruled by technologies like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Similar story exists in all software segments like Source Control (GIT and Visual Studio Team Service), Productivity Tools (Office365, Google Apps), Email (Office365, Google) etc.
With all these changes, it’s natural for Integration Platforms and Products to evolve as well. The role of integration has become so immense in the last 5 years due to the above mentioned reasons. Today, companies buy/use multiple software products which do one thing really well rather than living with a monolithic beast software which claims to do everything but not good at anything.
This change in attitude also means all these independent software product/services need to talk to each other, which created a new segment of integration products in the likes of IFTTT, Zapier, Azure Logic Apps, SnapLogic, Dell Boomi, etc
Microsoft responded well to this growing challenge in the integration space, addressing the requirements of: Hybrid Integration solutions (the combination of Cloud + On-Premise integrations), Quick & Easy integration solutions, Business Users (aka citizen integrators) integration solutions etc.
If you look at Microsoft Integration Stack today, it’s not just BizTalk Server and WCF anymore. There are at least a dozen products/services that are mainly geared towards Integration in Microsoft Stack.
ASP.NET Web API’s
Azure Logic Apps
Azure App Services (Web Jobs)
Azure Functions (Serverless Compute)
Azure API Management
Azure Service Bus (Queues/Topics)
Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Gateway (Hybrid Connection)
BizTalk360 – 2017 and beyond
One of the key aspects of a product company like us is that we need to be on the forefront of technology all the time. We need to adapt quickly to the change and understand the fact “change is the only constant”. We cannot just sit back and relax saying BizTalk360 is doing well. We have been closely monitoring the trend what’s going on, what will happen to the existing BizTalk Server customers in the next 10-15 years.
We are fortunate enough to build up a close relationship with Microsoft and the Integration community and are fully aware of the changes that are happening around Integration.
BizTalk360 is now slowly evolving into a product that will cater for the big picture. We wanted to create a single unified tool that will help any customer who invested in Microsoft platform for their integration needs.
We can clearly see the challenges that are building up when you have so many technologies included in a solution. There is no single management tool that will cater for the day-to-day operations. Customers might end up using BizTalk Server Admin Console for some of the activities and Azure Portal for some of the other activities, which is not productive and you are never going to be confident you set up access rights correctly across multiple tools, educating support people how to operate and monitor your solutions.
There are various other challenges like, for example, for Monitoring, you will need an end-to-end monitoring solution that covers both on-prem and cloud, you will also need tracking and analytics solution that will stretch between on-prem and cloud etc. We predict customers might end up building management tools, exactly like what they did 10 years ago for BizTalk solutions. BizTalk360 was born to address the challenge faced by BizTalk Server customers.
Today we are at a juncture where we see the same challenge at a bigger level and BizTalk360 is well positioned to address that challenge since we are already halfway through covering the on-premise solution.
What available and what’s coming in BizTalk360
We realized this situation almost 2 years ago and started expanding BizTalk360 to cover both on-premise and cloud technologies that fall into the Integration bucket with a vision of creating a single unified management and monitoring tool for Microsoft Integration.
Today, BizTalk360, in addition to its full blown support for BizTalk Server, can also manage and monitor related Azure Integration Technologies like
Azure Logic Apps: Management and Monitoring (available now)
Azure Service Bus Queues: Monitoring (available now)
In the upcoming 8.5 version (planned for July 2017), we are bringing in support for Azure Integration Accounts, App Services, and Azure Stream Analytics.
We are also working on a secret project with a bigger vision, which I cannot talk much at this stage (stay tuned).
We will continue our investment in this direction and make BizTalk360 a single must have tool for anyone using Microsoft Technologies for their Integration Requirements.
Author: Saravana Kumar
Saravana Kumar is the Founder and CTO of BizTalk360 | Serverless360 | Atomic Scope | Document360. Founder of multiple B2B products that solve the pain point of enterprise customers. Entrepreneur, Investor and Technical enthusiast. Passionate about running and scaling a company in a profitable way with calculated risks. View all posts by Saravana Kumar
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Project Spartan now available in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones
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Walden and civil disobedience
(Thoreau, Henry David, )
Presents the texts of American writer Henry Thoreau's "Walden," his reflections on living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and "Civil Disobedience," a treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest.
Nonfiction; Wilderness areas Massachusetts Walden Woods
Natural history Massachusetts Walden Woods
Authors, American 19th century -- Biography
Kit Level: Adult
Number of Kits: 1
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Walk, The
(Evans, Richard Paul.)
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Diary fiction
(Howrey, Meg, )
"In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov must prove they're the crew for the job by spending seventeen months in the most realistic simulation ever created. Retired from NASA, Helen had not trained for irrelevance. It is nobody's fault that the best of her exists in space, but her daughter can't help placing blame. The MarsNOW mission is Helen's last chance to return to the only place she's ever truly felt at home. For Yoshi, it's an opportunity to prove himself worthy of the wife he has loved absolutely, if not quite rightly. Sergei is willing to spend seventeen months in a tin can if it means traveling to Mars. He will at least be tested past the point of exhaustion, and this is the example he will set for his sons. As the days turn into months the line between what is real and unreal becomes blurred, and the astronauts learn that the complications of inner space are no less fraught than those of outer space."-- Provided by publisher
Astronauts Training of -- Fiction
Space flight to Mars -- Fiction
Watsons go to Birmingham--1963, The
(Christopher Paul Curtis)
Junior Fiction (210 pages) Recommended for Grades 4-12. The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. (Newbery Honor, 1996 & Coretta Scott King Award Honor, 1996) [Kit added 09/2009]
Kit Level: Kids
Wednesday Letters
(Jason F. Wright)
After the deaths of their parents, three siblings return home to make funeral arrangements and find boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday, uncovering the shocking truth about the past. [Fiction 280 pages] [Added 1/10] [39093047159355]
(Paul Fleischman)
Easy Fiction (40 pages) Recommended for Grades PreK-4. Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life. [Kit added 11/2012]
Westing Game, The
(Ellen Raskin)
Junior Fiction (216 pages) Recommended for Grades 5-8. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. (Newbery Award, 1979) [Kit added 09/2009]
When the sea turned to silver
(Lin, Grace, )
Juvenile Fantasy (370 pages) Recommended for Grades 3-6. "Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"-- Provided by publisher [Added 1/2018]
Where the Red Fern Grows
(Wilson Rawls)
Junior Fiction (212 pages) Recommended for Grades 4-8. A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. [Kit added 09/2009]
Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
(Strayed, Cheryl,)
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
Nonfiction; Biography - Hiking & Backpacking, Pacific Crest Trail
(R. J. Palacio)
Junior Fiction. (315 pages) Recommended for Grades 3-7. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. [Kit added 10/2013]
Wrinkle in Time, A
(Madeleine L'Engle)
Junior Fiction (202) Recommended for Grades 5-9. Meg and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. [Kit added 04/2011]
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Historic Layton Mine Ditch II (Williams, Oregon) 31-Jan-2018
2018-01-31 Boots on the Trail Hiking, Oregon, Southern Oregon 3 comments
In March of 2017, our search for a new (to us) low-altitude hike brought us to the Layton Mine Ditch Trail, recently restored through the efforts of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Williams Community Forest Project. At that time we did the 6-mile (roundtrip) hike north from Panther Gap along the remains of the ditch to the Chinese Wall – one of Williams’ most famous architectural structures. Although it is still a work in progress, I recently learned from the project’s Cheryl Bruner that the trail has been largely restored for the 7 miles south from Panther Gap to the ditch’s end at the head of the East Fork of Williams Creek. So, after waiting out some harsh weather and an even harsher bout with the flu, I finally got the chance to explore this part of the ditch trail. The LovedOne, still recovering from her flu experience, and behind on her library volunteerism, decided to take a pass on this one.
The ditch trail will eventually have several trailheads but, at present, the most accessible one is on the Panther Gulch Road. From Highway 238 south of Grants Pass, Oregon, go south on the Williams Highway to Williams, then south on East Fork Road to a left (east) turn on to Panther Gulch Road (Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Road 39-5-2). Going east on Panther Gulch for 2.3 miles (paved, then good gravel) brings you to a T-junction where you can park – there’s no trailhead per se (and no amenities). The ditch trail – whether you’re going north or south – starts just down Panther Gap Road from this T-junction. There is an information plaque at the start of the trail going north and a small carsonite sign to mark where it starts south.
J. T. Layton’s mine (the first hydraulic mine in Southern Oregon) in Ferris Gulch on the other side of the ridge from Williams, Oregon was, by the early 1870s, productive enough to justify digging a second 21-mile long ditch from Williams Creek to the mine. This was accomplished between 1874 and 1877. Even after 140 years, the ditch is still clearly visible alongside the trail originally used to maintain it.
Start of the trail going south from Panther Gulch Road
The ditch was graded at about 14 feet per mile (0.5 inches per rod), so I hardly noticed I was hiking “uphill” as I went south toward its source.
An easy walk through the forest
In about a mile, the ditch is cut by BLM Road 39-5-2 and I had to negotiate a slope before picking up the trail again. Carsonite (fiberglass) signs and a trailhead kiosk will eventually be placed here. After crossing the road, I continued along the ditch.
Continuing along the ditch going south
At 1.6 miles, the ditch has been obliterated by a combination of natural erosion and road-building, so a trail has been built down and around this lost section. After a little less than a mile, I got back to the ditch, where there was clear evidence of the hard work being done to restore the trail.
Keeping the trail clear
At 2.7 miles, I passed another future site of a trailhead and a kiosk, before turning north to go around the ridge between Panther Gulch and the East Fork of Williams Creek. The ditch is filled-in along here,
Starting around the ridge
but re-appears further along.
Artfully bent madrones along the trail
At 3.8 miles I passed another future sign site (and crossed an eroding motorcycle rut running straight up the ridge) and continued south along the west side of the ridge. This is the one of the few places where this trail offers a view of anything other than itself and forest. It had been clear and sunny early on, but as the day progressed, a milky white cloud layer started to intrude.
Looking south toward Grayback Mountain, source of the ditch’s water
Looking northwest into the upper Williams Creek Valley
From here south, there was still much of the ditch intact but sections of it had been obliterated by old roads so, for some short distances, these old roads became the trail.
An old road serves as a section of trail
At 5.5 miles from Pather Gap, I passed a gravel road (BLM 39-5-14.2) coming up from the northwest. At some point in the future, a trailhead and a kiosk will be placed along it and its connector road (BLM 39-5-23.1). These stretches of old road did, occasionally, afford me a view of Big Sugarloaf Peak to the south.
Looking south toward Big Sugarloaf Peak
In it’s last mile, the trail is unimpacted by roads and runs alongside a still evident ditch, just like it did back in the day.
Near the end of the trail
And, then, the ditch just ended, on a slope where forest thinning was obviously in progress.
The end of the trail (and the future site of a trailhead and kiosk)
At first I thought the ditch had been lost to another road (no), natural erosion (no), or the thinning project (no). So what happened to it? And where was its water source? I could hear the East Fork of Williams Creek gurgling away some 200 feet below the end of the ditch. I went down to take a look at the creek while pondering this conundrum.
East Fork of Williams Creek
Because the Layton Mine had been one of the successful (of which there were few) hydraulic mines in Southern Oregon, it got noticed in some of the mining periodicals of its day. It took some research but I found an article in Mineral Wealth (March 15, 1904) which explained how the ditch worked: “This ditch…takes up the water from the east fork… It…has an inverted siphon of 600 feet length over the Williams creek divide, the first siphon introduced into the country.” So, they captured water up on the East Fork (called the Pipe Fork higher up), dropped it down into the drainage through an inverted siphon (made from 36-inch diameter cast iron pipe), which then shoved it up the other side of the drainage to the end of the ditch.
An inverted siphon (HT = Pipe Fork, RT = end of the ditch)
Inverted siphons (today they are called “sag pipes”) date from Roman times and were popular for conveying water to hydraulic mines at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th Centuries. I couldn’t find any record of what the Layton siphon looked like, but I’m guessing it looked a lot like the one used by the La Grange Mine in Trinity County, California in the early 1900s.
Building the inverted siphon at the La Grange mine (c1910)
I poked around some looking for old pipe but none was evident. That much 36-inch pipe was valuable and probably got re-purposed sometime in the last 100 years or so (or succumbed to a WW2 scrap metal drive). The headworks at the ditch end are gone but there’s always a chance that some evidence of such is still present up the Pipe Fork.
The hike along the ditch was 7.3 miles with 500 feet of elevation gain. I took a different way back to make a loop, so the whole hike was 14 miles with 1,300 feet of elevation gain. A pleasant, long, leg-stretching hike on a pretty nice day (with no ticks!); one that provided an opportunity to connect with some of Southern Oregon’s mining history. When all of the carsonite signs, information kiosks, and tailheads are in place, hikers, mountain bikers, and equestrians will be able to sample interesting sections of the ditch trail without having to commit to a 14-mile round trip!
Layton Mine Ditch Trail 1 (CS = carsonite sign, K = kiosk)
Layton Mine Ditch Trail 3 (CS = carsonite sign, K = kiosk, blue dots = siphon?)
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Glenn & Carol Pitcairn says:
Another new trail in the area……my list grows again!
Kate Morgan says:
Thanks so much! I’ll try this one next week but I’ll stick to the ditch, unlike you I think I’d get lost trying to make a loop.
My hike was more of a lollipop than a loop. I went to the end of the ditch, then came back along the ditch trail to CS-7 but stayed on the old road to the top of the ridge – this is the end of BLM Road 39-5-2. From there, I went cross-country east up the ridge – open terrain and a bit of a use/hunter’s trail – to the end of BLM Road 39-5-1.1, then walked along it back to Panther Gap Road. Because of the maze of old unmapped roads up there and the intrusions private land, I think making a true loop out of this hike might not be possible.
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BSO’s Widmann premiere bridges Leipzig’s musical past and present
By Aaron Keebaugh
Jörg Widmann’s “Partita” was given its U.S. premiere Thursday night by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Marco Borggreve
The current alliance between the Boston Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras has already brought exciting new works into the world. Last month, as part of Leipzig Week in Boston, Andris Nelsons led the BSO in the world premiere of Sean Shepherd’s Express Abstractionism, an attractive and colorful musical canvas that was commissioned by both ensembles.
Thursday night, Symphony Hall witnessed another contemplative work as Nelsons conducted the American premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Partita, a BSO-Gewandhaus commission celebrating the partnership between the two ensembles.
Widmann’s star is ascendant as of late, and given his deep and profound sound worlds it is easy to see why. In fall of 2016, Nelsons introduced Boston audiences to Widmann’s Trauermarsch, a dark, brooding affair for piano and orchestra.
Like that score, Partita is bathed in mystery. The five movements recall the music and styles of two of Leipzig’s most famous musical citizens: Bach and Mendelssohn. Quotations of their works are woven into dense tapestries, and strains of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s Clarinet Sonata and hints of Bach’s “Badinerie” and themes from the Brandenburg Concertos crop up to remind listeners, in an Ivesian manner, of the wonders of the city’s musical history.
But Widmann wraps these elements in a subtle yet thorny texture all his own. Familiar melodies are set against grinding basses, shimmering celeste figures, and piercing whistle tones in the violins. Such colors drive this 35-minute work ever forward, and Widmann’s music continuously entices the ear with its unique sound.
Nelsons, who led the world premiere of Partita in Leipzig earlier this month, has a fine feel for the score. Throughout, the conductor led with a keen sense of the musical line. Phrases rose and fell like breath, and instrumental colors flowed smoothly from one passage to another. Gleaming trumpet figures and a glistening concluding chord supplied a touch of light to make this performance, and this work, stand out as one of the best of the current season.
The second half of the program was dedicated to Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, which spotlighted cellist Yo-Yo Ma and BSO principal violist Steven Ansell as soloists.
Both musicians brought avuncular warmth for Strauss’s depiction of Cervantes’ memorable characters. As the Don, Ma played with deep, rosy tone. When the knight dreamt of his beloved Dulcinea, Ma’s sound swelled with intensity, as if a man caught up in the moment. Ansell’s viola brought out the chattering and galumphing side of the Don’s sidekick, Sancho Panza. Together, both musicians found a chamber-like intimacy in their shared passages in a true conversation among friends.
The music of Strauss is a specialty for Nelsons, and details were aplenty. Bleating sheep, handled by the flutter-tonguing brass, and cooing flute and oboe melodies cast a pastoral glow. When the Don encountered the Knight of the White Moon, Nelsons drew powerful stacked harmonies from the orchestra to signal the end for the knight errant.
Nelsons’ tempos were fluid and his phrases beautifully sculpted, an approach that was most affecting in Don Quixote’s death scene. In Nelsons’ and Ma’s hands, the music sounded with poignant melancholy to bring the Don’s life and adventurous journeys to a peaceful end.
The concert opened with Mozart’s Symphony No. 23. Though not one of the composer’s more familiar works, the short symphony possesses a roiling energy, especially in its outer sections. Nelsons delivered a robust performance. His quick lunges brought out sudden crescendos, and the orchestra found a dance-like grace in the final movement. Most beautiful was the central movement, where a solo oboe melody hung over the string passages like a weeping willow. Such elements made this little-played work of Mozart’s something to relish.
After the concert, the orchestra paid tribute to three members who will be retiring later this year. French hornist Jonathan Menkis, a member of the BSO for 34 years, and bassist James Orleans, who has played with the orchestra for 35 years, will leave their posts after the orchestra’s European tour this September. 39-year BSO veteran and violinist Nancy Bracken will step down following the Tanglewood season this summer.
The program will be repeated 1:30 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday and Tuesday at Symphony Hall. bso.org; 888-266-1200
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June 6, 2018 / 4:47 PM / a year ago
Van Eck, SolidX seek to launch bitcoin-linked ETF
The Bitcoin logo is seen on a pillow on display at the Consensus 2018 blockchain technology conference in New York City, New York, U.S., May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Segar
(Reuters) - Asset manager Van Eck Securities Corp and blockchain company SolidX Partners Inc plan to launch a bitcoin-linked investment product that could be traded as easily as a stock, the two companies said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
The exchange-traded product, called VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Shares, will be insured against theft, fraud and loss of access to the currency, according to the filing, which is subject to a review by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The companies said they intend to buy and sell bitcoin in informally organized “over-the counter” bitcoin markets to cap transaction costs, while trading large blocks of the cryptocurrency.
Van Eck, which had $46 billion in assets under management, and several other fund managers had previously pushed for exchange-traded funds based on bitcoin futures instead of directly investing in the cryptocurrency.
This was to address concerns that bitcoin exchanges were not regulated by traditional financial market overseers, unlike the futures market.
The SEC has either denied or tabled all bitcoin ETF proposals received so far, joining a long list of regulators that have taken a tough stance against products and securities related to digital currencies.
Van Eck and SolidX hope to list the product on the Cboe exchange under the symbol “XBTC”.
Reporting By Aparajita Saxena in Bengaluru and Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; Editing by Anil D'Silva
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The constraints of financing VARs created huge problems. Then Global Technology Finance came along and brought simplicity and effectiveness to the process.
By Brandon Pho, California Business Journal
When Paul Stemler was COO/CFO at SARCOM, an IT service management company that catered to the Fortune 1000 with technology services, the constraints of financing Value Added Resellers (VARs) hit him square in the face.
VARs, which resell software, hardware and networking products with an added value, are broken down into two lines of business, according to Stemler: a distribution business that delivers product under thin margins and high volume, and a service business that requires technicians and product managers for consultation.
“Managing that on one balance sheet was very difficult,” he says. “So when you add in the constraints around acquisition financing, growth financing and so forth, it was hard.”
That was how Global Technology Finance (GTF) got started — to solve that constraint by providing technology financing in the industry channel to businesses.
Paul Stemler
“Our notion was, if you can rely on the credit quality of the end users, not the VAR, then you ought to get more money. So we formed GTF to solve our own problem at SARCOM to get more liquidity, get out of the bank constraints and operate in a financing strategy that’s more specific to the channel needs,” Stemler says. “That construct proved to be very successful for SARCOM.”
Relying on a company well-versed in the VAR and technology industry — a company like GTF — is more effective than relying on a bank for financing, Stemler says.
“Our process, knowledge and expertise is in this business, whereas for a bank, this is not the case,” he adds. “For example, if there’s a vendor that you are doing business with, and you need to get something from that business, the bank can’t help them do it. They don’t do regular business with that vendor, whereas we do. We can make a phone call and get something solved and help win the business. There’s a lot of value in having an expert in our world supporting them.”
GTF’s business model, which requires no personal guarantees, no capital use restrictions and no financial covenants, proves more profitable when a business is given more reign with its funding.
“If you are an owner of a business, you’re taking enormous risk. You own the business, you’ve got to pay all the people. On top of it, you’ve got a personal guarantee from the bank. It adds up to a lot,” Stemler says. “A lot of times the bank covenants say, ‘you can’t take any money out of this without telling us.’”
Foregoing such tight restrictions creates more flexibility.
“We want that cash to go to the company and we want the company owner to do what’s right for them,” Stemler says.
Stemler categorizes businesses as either a ‘three’, a ‘two’, or a ‘one’.” By his definition, a ‘three’ has financial challenges that need solving; a ‘two’ is in slightly better shape; and a ‘one’ is “really humming.”
Companies classified as ‘three’s’ are generally GTF’s entry point.
“The reason being is, they have a constraint they need to solve. We can step in very quickly, provide the capital and intellectual support to solve that,” Stemler says.
One such company was Sayers Group LLC, which had initially experienced problems with financing its technology services.
Enter GTF.
“GTF enabled us to do sizeable deals that would have been difficult to do on our own, especially early on in the relationship,” says John Kasser, COO for Sayers. “They just kind of simplified our life.”
That simplification was a result of GTF implementing and ensuring faster collections and increased cashflow, lower capital costs due to reduced borrowings and higher quality collateral, and lowering Sayers’ operating cost by “doing it right once” and eliminating any “redo’s” in production orders.
“We provided Sayers with vendor credit, so orders flow smoothly and their technology vendor partners were more confident in partnering with Sayers,” Stemler said.
GTF also provided faster, easier delivery and customer support for Sayers, which helped it in the marketplace.
“Sayers is a great example of a company that’s clearly now a ‘one,’” Stemler said.
The business model GTF uses to support Sayers is one that it has operated on since its conception in 1998.
“We rely on the credit quality of the end user, or the customer of the channel partner, not the channel partner,” Stemler says. “By doing that, we do not have bank covenants, we have very few restrictions on uses of capital and we are very focused on getting the orders out and the industry knowledge that goes with it.”
Paul Stemler, President
Global Technology Finance, LLC
WWW.4GTF.COM
pstemler@4gtf.com
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Malena Zavala, Blue Moon, Cambridge, 25 April 2019
First on at the Blue Moon were Love Trapezium, a likeable trio from Norwich and London. They were playing a blend of keyboard-driven funk, with rhythm guitar, vocals, rapping and a brief saxophone appearance too. They were a bit cramped on stage but presented as a unified and tight playing unit, every keyboard and percussion interjection in just the right place. With featured EP ‘Hyperlink’ and the infectious groove of ‘See U Around’ they were an enjoyable opening act.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Wovoka Gentle (their name taken from two poems by American poet Gary Short) but when they started with three-part harmonies and sounded like a sixties folk-pop chart act as they were joined by guitar I knew I would not be disappointed. With a set that visually featured many changes of staging structure and instrument line-up and complete genre-free unpredictability it was all a bit special.
Many keyboards, guitar, violin and percussive effects drifted in and out but it was the strong vocal combinations that leave the lingering memories for me. I was very impressed; the sonic textures and musical directions were really like nothing else I have ever heard, I look forward to their new album in June.
Malena Zavala is an Argentinian-born Londoner who brings her mix of influences to a stunning set drawn mainly from her debut album ‘Aliso’. As singer/songwriter she is a serene, magnetic personality in the middle of her accomplished band; the musicians able to maintain a restrained presence for many of the songs but able to push forwards when needed. Malena plays occasional keyboard and guitar including some subtle lead lines but her voice is always the key ingredient in the mix.
The easy groove of signature song ‘If It Goes’ had an early appearance, sounding like it was already a familiar hit, followed by the thoughtful dream pop of ‘Moon Song’. Up tempo ‘Cumbia’ brilliantly brought Latin dance rhythms into the middle of her set but it was the slower, musically rich ‘I Never Said It’ and ‘Should I Try’ that were the emotional core of her performance.
Finishing with the slow-building ‘A Vision That’s Changed’ with the ringing guitar accompaniment gradually building to an anthemic flourish finale, it was one of those shows where I felt it was a privilege to be there.
https://www.malenazavala.com/
http://www.wovokagentle.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lovetrapezium/
This entry was posted in Music and tagged Blue Moon, Cambridge, live, Love Trapezium, Malena Zavala, review, Wovoka Gentle on April 28, 2019 by iknoweno.
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Tag Archives: 9/11/2001 Tribute
Person In The River Dedicated to the Firefighter/First Responders of 9/11/2001
Posted on September 11, 2014 by kcaptain77
Person in the Water—Dedicated to the Fire Fighter/First Responders who gave their lives responding on 9/11/2001—a 911 emergency
The twenty-four hour tour of duty was just beginning. After radio check the crew of three from the outside satellite station had started their assigned tasks around the house. The officer was cutting the grass, the pump operator checking and cleaning the truck and equipment, and the back step firefighter cleaning the station. Bells and radio signal draw immediate attention, and station details are no longer of importance.
The call comes in with two bells and the announcement over the Personal Address speakers “Person in the River,” followed by closest location reported and response assignment.
Crews of First Responders head out the door; the closest crew of three arrive on scene where they are signaled by waving arms of the location. Just past the old stone arch bridge the river bends by a grassy field and is bordered by a line of trees and brushy growth, a place where there is a view of the river and shelter from the summer sun. A place where the old man who waved us over had been fishing until a passing pleasure boat transiting the river sighted someone floating in the water. It is a place where a homeless person known to the district fire company and police had been living recently.
Years of experience tells the initial crew that it is too late for a rescue. The officer unofficially announces a death over the radio with the transmission, “To all responding companies, this is a recovery, repeat, this is a recovery.” The response continues and the drill is the same as a rescue but subtle sorrow replaces urgency as another pump, ladder truck with rescue boat, command car, police local and state, and ambulance crews arrive. first responders all and the true meaning of 911 where calls for help of any kind are answered and dealt with professionalism and respect no matter who you are, alive, recently departed or those grieving and left behind.
The crews set up on shore at the opening as an inflatable life ramp is filled from one of the same air tanks used to breathe at fires; one firefighter in a bright orange Survival Suit enters the water tethered to shore by a colorful floating safety rope, a ‘Go Rescue’. The firefighter moves quickly and without hesitation. He is the first human contact for the victim. Carefully, condition and death are confirmed. The colorful line is delicately placed around the floating man and held together with a carabiner connector. If it were a rescue the firefighter would also be connected and wrap his legs around as the line tenders pull rescuer and victim to shore. The reality of a recovery is now in some waiting as the colorful line connects victim to shore, to the place where he watched the river.
Yellow hazard tape is set up around the scene to keep onlookers at a safe distance and to cordon off the scene until state investigator, photographer and coroner’s pickup van arrive. The cause of death, ruling out foul play, and recovery await their arrival. The first arriving responders stand by and stand guard over the man in the water near the river bank. We believe him to be the homeless person. Alone in life, he is now the center of attention and conversation to the onlookers outside the tape. The old man who waved us to the scene has strangely gone back to fishing, not knowing what else to do, as helpless as the victim and first responders without a rescue. The ladder company has checked the shore and river in the rescue boat for other victims with nothing found. The family transiting the river in a pleasure boat is questioned over the same cell phone the 911 came in on. They continue down the river to safe harbor and out to the ocean for the day. The day though sunny and hot is not as bright and warm for any of us who are witnesses, waiting, or standing guard. Who is the man in the water? Center of attention in death, he is tethered to land in a subtle noninvasive way by a lifeline. His life and soul passed probably a day earlier. Troubled spirit lost long before today? Who is he?
Clues and Questions
The water he watched from the riverbank had held him in a cool embrace and protected him from the start of a heat wave which followed violent thunderstorms. Embrace released, he now floats facedown like the lily pads across the river hugging the opposite shore in sunlight. His black sunglasses were found in a private place hidden from sight. Next to the glasses a bottle emptied of cheapest rum. He was wearing tee-shirt and shorts, black belt, white sneakers. He was about the same height as the homeless man who always stayed on the shady side of the river by the grassy field. The line of growth between field and river offered cover and privacy from critical eyes. The First Responders had helped him many times in past weeks. Calls for ‘person down’, had brought them to various locations to help him up, tend to injuries, get some history and give a little pep talk before he was taken to the local hospital—cleaned up treated and put back on the street. –911 responders get to know the regulars, ‘frequent fliers’, they know the present problems and get hints of troubled pasts. The regulars come and go, always to be replaced by another broken spirit standard-bearer. First responders can only help with immediate medical and emotional needs. First responders can not heal broken spirits and find lost souls. But they try! The clues point to the homeless man, the questions remain. The field, wood and river are the homeless person’s companions without judgment or criticism. A place where swans occasionally transit the river, nature in its perfection and the human nature of imperfection in uncomplicated unquestioned connection.
Who knows what defeats the spirit? What starts the downward spiral of hope and loss of faith? Why do so many get lost in a bottle, a drug, a bet, abuse and trauma? How the human nature of imperfection can let us think that we can find our spirit in imbibing substances? That we can find solace in anything that brings relief no matter how temporary or futile? Why did the homeless person leave the perfection of nature, walk past the health food store, the coffee shop and go instead to the liquor store? Was his last walk back to his natural shelter, the last spiral down the bank in drunken stupor into the cool embrace of his river? Did he die alone and frightened during the violent thunderstorm?
The investigator arrives and agrees with what the First Responders already know. The photographer arrives and takes his pictures of the scene. Both have a tough job in giving some closure and finality to the task at hand. Outside the tape the onlookers, bored, find connection and chatter with others who pass by and stop. They are told to move on, to move back, that this is nothing they want to see. Some of them have their children with them in a place no child should be. They move on but still gawk from a distance so the ambulance is moved closer and in their way. Bored curiosity and open indifference could be better spent. Children should be playing! Did the onlookers care at all when the man was alive? How many times was he told to move on, to be someone else’s problem? To find shelter in nature where questions were not asked and some peace found.
The Recovery
The minivan/hearse arrives. The coroner’s body recovery person is a young man wearing shorts, tee-shirt, black belt, and white sneakers. He is so relaxed and casual that his identification is checked. Already too experienced at a ghoulish but necessary job he covers up in a throw away white coveralls suit and the end of the recovery nears.
The line is cast to the rescue boat and they move to slowly bring contact with shore. Fire fighters and the ambulance crews grab the rope, belt, clothes and sneakers and carefully move him to a white body bag on the bank of the river. Pictures are taken, it is his tattoo, we cut open his back pocket to remove the wallet, and it is our homeless person, though with loss of life, spirit and soul he bears no resemblance. The bag is zipped up and six of us in procession move his body with care and respect to a stretcher. He is placed in another black bag, zipped in and strapped down to the stretcher. The responders are silent except for the commands to move and the sound of zippers and click of strap connections. He is moved into the back of the minivan hearse and the driver who is dressed the same but for the color of the tee-shirt leaves the bank of the river, drives across the grassy field, by the health food store, coffee shop and liquor store. He carries our once frequent flier over the river across the old stone arch bridge and along the sunny side of the river to highway and mortuary. The rescue boat crew follows the river back to the launching point and return to service as a Ladder Truck Company One. The onlookers disperse and all but the initial crew move on to other calls and duty. The first due company removes the hazard tape and retrieves the colorful lifeline. First to arrive are often also the last to leave. They return to quarters and the details of fire house keeping, cutting grass and mopping floors, checking equipment to ready for their next call, the next run out the door.
We know from past calls that he is from the same neighborhood. We know he once owned a house in another town and lost it. He grew up not far from the river. He lost home, house, business, jobs, cars and license. He made and lost friends family and connections. He played ball on the grassy field as an adolescent, hung out as a teen. He returned to his old neighborhood because he did not know where else to go. He returned for the memories of that childhood to teen home as a lost adult. Lost in a river of troubles he ended up in the water’s cool embrace. He found fleeting relief in a bottle but no answers. He slowly buried his spirit long before he became homeless. His troubles were just the marking posts of the loss.
Will the trees, field and river remember his passing? The river flows to safe harbor to ocean where it is freed to be part of the whole. From the ocean waters clouds rise and become rain. The lake fills drains to the river that flows by the shore. It washes a wooded bank by a grassy field. The rain splatters on lily pads as swans seek shelter where a boy played and a homeless person lived. The water carries a spirit and soul to find restful peace.
Who Is The Homeless Person?
The person is Everyman, who everybody knows and everyone has inside. He is in every family, in every town, village and city. He is everywhere we go.
He is us! He is the homeless guy, the alcoholic, the druggie, the lost soul, the village idiot, the gambler, the abused and the abuser, the trauma and the tragedy. He is your neighbor, your friend, your partner, your spouse.
He is the human being, the spirit, the soul, the body, the connection to us all, to the whole that we are all a part of and he is everyman. He is everyone who can see, feel, and care for the nature of it all.
He is hope, faith, love, charity.
He is connection, communication, caring, empathy, sympathy and warmth. He is commitment and truth. He is all of us and he is a broken spirit and a lost soul without us.
© Ken Pothier July 17, 2006—edited and republished on 9/11/14
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Police suspend search at landfill on southwest side Indianapolis for remains of missing 3-month-old
Posted 11:51 am, May 29, 2015, by Matt Adams - Web Producer, Amanda Rakes - Digital Director and Kylee Scales, Updated at 01:40PM, May 31, 2015
INDIANAPOLIS (May 31, 2015) – The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department moved their search for missing 3-month-old Janna Rivera to a landfill on the southwest side of Indianapolis Sunday morning, but they suspended the search around 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Reporter Charlie De Mar first obtains photo of missing baby
Police were prompted to look for Janna’s remains in the landfill after the baby’s biological father tipped police that she was placed in a dumpster on the city’s east side.
“We believe that the baby was placed into a dumpster on the east side of Indianapolis on Friday morning,” said IMPD Lt. Richard Riddle. “That trash from the dumpster was transferred to a transfer station out in Mount Comfort. A search was done in Mount Comfort yesterday with negative results.”
Police searched the southwest side landfill because of trash patterns and the way trash is transferred.
According to Riddle, nearly 50 officers searched through a large amount of material at the landfill, but nothing of evidentiary value was recovered. An evidence technician was called to the scene to take pictures of the search area.
Investigators do not believe Janna is still alive. “We will not stop until we can determine what happened to baby Janna,” said Riddle.
Janna’s father was the last person to see her before her disappearance. Police believe her mother was at work and is not a person of interest.
IMPD said the girl's mother called 911 Friday morning just before 9 to report her daughter was missing. Police said initial 911 calls reported the baby was deceased.
Authorities conducted an air and ground search in the 4100 block of Candy Apple Boulevard. A diving crew with the Indianapolis Fire Department was called to search a retention pond behind the family's home. Bloodhounds were also brought in to assist with the effort.
Police said there was a language barrier with the girl's mother that prevented them from getting much information. The circumstances surrounding the baby's disappearance were unclear, although police said the baby wasn't there when the mother returned home. That is when she alerted police, they said. FOX59 spoke with the homeowner, who said the mother also called her to say the baby was deceased and that her boyfriend had taken her.
"She called me today to say that her daughter died and she didn't know what happened,said Yesenia Guerra.
Several hours into the search, police were able to obtain a search warrant for the family's house. Authorities also searched a garbage truck that was in the neighborhood.
Authorities called off the search after eight hours and focused their attention on the house. Crime scene investigators were seen carrying items out of the home.
"We were trying to do everything within our power during that first seven-to-eight hours to locate that child and we weren't able to do that," said Wilburn.
Investigators said the mother and her boyfriend were being questioned separately. The boyfriend has been named a person of interest in the case. The boyfriend is not the baby's father, police said.
Janna's mother returned home around 8:30 Friday evening.
As of Saturday morning, the search was still suspended. According to Wilburn, “We won't resume searching until we have more reliable tips and more concrete information.”
According to IMPD, officers are following up on all leads and conducting searches for baby Janna based upon information they received.
Wilburn said police are treating this case delicately because of the missing baby case involving Delano Wilson last summer.
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IMPD Officer Rafael Diaz shared this update on the case with our Latino audience in hopes to obtain more information as the investigation continues.
If you have any information, please call police or Crimestoppers at (317) 262-TIPS.
Officers continue to follow up on leads in the baby Janna case. pic.twitter.com/xgWtFUQFEk
— IMPD (@IMPDnews) May 31, 2015
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Event: “From Hellboy To Baltimore” – An Interview with Ben Stenbeck
Saturday 14.00 – 15.00 at The Guildhall, Room 019
Join Host Leonard Sultana as he interviews the guest who has travelled further than any other to join us here in Shrewsbury.
Hellboy, Baltimore and BPRD artist Ben Stenbeck is joining us all the way from New Zealand.
Ben’s bold style has graced the pages of many Dark Horse comics over the years, most notably his long run with Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden an Dave Stewart on the superb Baltimore series of comic books.
Ben’s work on this alternative history pulp horror epic defined the visual feel for the character of Lord Baltimore and his distinctive line has also graced the pages of Hellboy.
In this exclusive live interview, find out all about the acclaimed artist’s history in the movie industry, his working methods and what drives him to keep making these wonderful things called comics.
From Hellboy to Baltimore
An interview with Ben Stenbeck
Saturday at 14.00 - Room 019
Join Host Leonard Sultana as he interviews the guest who has travelled further than any other to join us here in Shrewsbury. Hellboy, Baltimore and BPRD artist Ben Stenbeck is joining us all the way from New Zealand.
Some of the best writers in the entertainment industry today work in multiple mediums, including TV, Games and of course Comics.
Christos Gage has worked with all of the these mediums to great acclaim.
His credits include the first Daredevil TV series for Netfilx, a recent Spider-man Game for Marvel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Comics for Dark Horse and many more well known TV series and books.
Join host Leonard Sultana as he talks to this creative powerhouse about the full breadth of his work, his own comics created with wife Ruth and how they became so successful and prolific across so many mediums
Check out all of our Special Package Deals
The festival programme has been carefully designed to be accessible and attractive to visitors of all ages, all walks of life and all levels of interest in comics
There really is something for Everyone
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Dark Horse Comics #16
Dark Horse Comics » Dark Horse Comics #16 released by Dark Horse Comics on December 1, 1993.
last edited by pikahyper on 05/11/18 07:26PM View full history
Tony Vincenzo is what you might call "a family man." So is Bernie Jinks. Up until now, they had their own little disputes in the heart of Manhattan. But this time around someone's knocking off both Vincenzo's and Jinks' boys. Vincenzo's in the slammer, but he isn't telling everything. The truth is too unbelievable. But he has a plan. Don't miss this issue's premiere of "Predator: The Hunted City." Also, "Aliens: Cargo" concludes in this issue with part 2 as Coile realizes being trapped with an Alien isn't as bad as he thought -- after all, he has his wits and a five-minute head start. What more do you need when you're faced with the universe's most voracious and hungry xenomorph? In the pyrokinetic conclusion to "The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research," Douglas finally realizes what he has unleashed, and it's up to him to stop The Thing in its tracks -- even if it means sacrificing himself in the process!
George Pratt inker, penciler
Alien Warrior
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black Prototypes Revealed
The NVIDIA labs, in association with Reynhardt IntelliSys, are pleased to announce that prototypes of the GeForce GTX Titan Black graphics card are now available for purchase from one exclusive outlet.
A masterpiece of engineering, the NVIDIA Geforce GTX Titan Black represents the cutting edge of display technology. It balances a sleek design with uncompromising performance and unparalleled processing power, making the Titan Black one of the most desirable display modules in the entire galaxy. To celebrate the pre-release of the new module, NVIDIA are offering 5 lucky pilots the opportunity to win a commercial grade GTX Titan Black. Winning the competition couldn’t be simpler*.
The first 5 pilots to sell a canister of NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black Prototypes back to NVIDIA HQ aboard Godel Ring will be rewarded with a commercial model as soon as they become available. The only problem is NVIDIA isn’t saying where the prototypes are being sold.
Happy hunting Commanders.
*Entrants must have transported the prototypes under the Pilots Federation rules of 'open play' to be eligible to win.
Unknown Explorer Returns From NGC 3199 Nebula
In a press release submitted to GalNet news, Commander Swift Arrow is announcing his recent return from the NGC 3199 Nebula. Swift Arrow is claiming to be the first explorer to fully map out the entire NGC 3199 Sector, and the 2nd explorer to visit the nebula (the 1st was Commander Celmascant). According to the data turned in to Universal Cartographics, all but 5 of the 750 systems in the NGC 3199 Sector have been fully scanned for the first time by Swift Arrow.
The 35,000 light year journey started with an excursion to the Butterfly Nebula before heading to NGC 3199 and finally back to civilized space, a trip lasting approximately 5 weeks. Representatives from the Sirius Corporation, Patron's Principles, Chapter of Isinor, the Alioth Independents and the Sublime Order of Van Maanen's Star have expressed great interest Swift Arrow's findings. The data was sold piece meal to each organization, who made various bids ranging from 7.1 to 11.2 million credits for specific high value systems. However, the largest bidder by far was the Patron's Principles, who paid a whopping 37.3 million credits for a lion's share of the data. The total value of the exploration data was just shy of 71 million credits.
Swift Arrow has issued a statement saying that he intends to release a guide to the NGC 3199 sector shortly in order to aid future explorers in further research of the area, including a short list of recommended points of interest and systems to avoid.
Falisci: Democracy Denied
In recent weeks the tiny system of Falisci has become a hotbed of activity.
First came the war against the Falisci Purple Gang, which saw Senator Patreus and the Citizens of Tradition dominate the region with their superior firepower and overwhelming numbers. By the end of the week long struggle, the Falisci Purple Gang’s leadership was in chains, and its members sold off to work as Imperial Slaves.
Then the Social Falisci Party, backed by a coalition of Federal squadrons, began attempting to exert their influence over the system. Imperial pilots fought back until it became clear that the Federation had grown tired of its futile attempts to overthrow the rightful rulers of the region.
The region may be devastated and its people may be in chains, but the Emperor’s peace has finally come to Falisci.
Alliance Shines Light on Prism Senator
In an open letter addressed for the attention of Senator Kahina Tijani Loren, Alliance representatives from Alioth have extended an invitation for her to visit their star-systems with the assurance the her trip will be free from “bungling bureaucracy, petty-minded procrastinators and deranged docking debacles.”
Apparently Lady Kahina’s visit was placed on the agenda at a recent diplomatic exchange between the Alliance and the Federation with assurances sought by Alliance representatives that “somebody competent would be checking the paperwork in detail, and if at all possible, that landing pads could be reserved in advance.”
Lady Kahina is currently being entertained on Earth, where she was greeted by enthusiastically cheering crowds on arrival at the historic Cambridge spaceport before being taken to London to be met by Ambassador Waite.
The Mail on Mars even commented that “We should have more Senators drop in for visit, she’s done more for Imperial Federation relations in a month than all those ambassadors have done in decades.”
Explorers Needed for Alliance Colonisation Programme
Beyond the borders of occupied human space, the vast mysteries of the universe are waiting to be discovered. The last thousand years of human history have been shaped by our combined ability to travel through the stars in search of a better future.
Yet what has humanity done with this precious gift? The same thing we’ve always done. We wasted it.
Greed and war run rampant throughout the galaxy, and the concept of freedom has become nothing more than a buzzword spewed by people who have never known it.
The Alliance knows there’s a better way, but to prove it they need YOUR help.
For the next two weeks, the Alliance of Independent Systems will be collecting exploration data for an exciting new colonisation initiative due to launch later this year.
Commanders interested in working with the Alliance should deliver any information they’ve uncovered in relation to potential colony sites to Purple Power Interstellar aboard Ziemkiewicz Ring in Tsu.
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The Time of the Doctor, reviewed
Fanboy's triumph, viewers' tragedy
I've said it before and will certainly say it again: there is a big danger in giving control of a venerable and much-loved popular fiction franchise to a writer who grew up reading or watching the stuff.
When a true fan takes the wheel of their beloved creation, it can become a toy, a gadget used to satisfy the writer's childish fantasies, not a vehicle for delivering stories to others.
The results tend to become ever-more convoluted and self-referential, leading to a slowly-dwindling audience of those hard-core fans who enjoy the nostalgic winks, the meta nods, while the general public starts to look elsewhere for its entertainment.
As for fans like me, who wants story and character to go along with the in-jokes and arcana, the result can be torture. We feel almost as if a person, someone we love, is being abused and yet helpless to do anything about it.
And so I keep watching (for those of you who have wondered): because I care, even though my caring has been so painful, so often, these past three years.
I'm sad to say that "The Time of the Doctor" was not what I was hoping to get for Christmas. Far from it. So be warned: My review is long, spoilerific, and laced with venom and vitriol (though also, I fancy, sweetened with a strong dose of pure Canadian maple syrup. And pictures. And arguably one paranoid fantasy).
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Journalist killings ease from record highs as murders down, combat deaths up
December 19, 2016 12:00 AM ET
Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 from recent record levels as the number of journalists singled out for murder declined. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser and Elisabeth Witchel...
Searching for answers in murder cases amid violence and corruption in Guatemala
On June 25, unidentified assailants shot and killed Álvaro Aceituno López, director of Radio Ilusión in Coatepeque, a town in southeastern Guatemala. López often criticized local government officials when presenting the news and during guest appearances on other programs....
Getting Away With Murder
October 27, 2016 8:00 AM ET
CPJ’s 2016 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free By Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant Published October 27, 2016. Some of the highest rates of impunity in the murders of journalists...
CPJ welcomes UN Human Rights resolution on releasing jailed journalists, right to encryption
Washington, September 29, 2016--The United Nations Human Rights Council's annual resolution on journalist safety for the first time urges all states to release arbitrarily detained journalists. The resolution, co-sponsored by 87 countries and adopted today in Geneva, raises new concerns...
CPJ welcomes new probe into murder of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga
New York, September 27, 2016--Sri Lankan police today exhumed the body of slain journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga as part of a new investigation into his death in 2009, according to news reports. A Sri Lankan judge this month granted permission for...
Dangerous Pursuit
August 29, 2016 12:00 AM ET
Foreword: Journalism as well as journalists in danger from failure to stand up for India’s press P. Sainath This report by the Committee to Protect Journalists does more than tell us that reporting in India can be a dangerous business....
Impunity and lack of solidarity expose India’s journalists to attack By Sumit Galhotra Corruption scandals make for attention-grabbing headlines, but when journalists who expose wrongdoing are killed, their murder is often the end of the story. For eight years India...
Jagendra Singh: discredited after death By Sumit Galhotra and Raksha Kumar Covered in burns and writhing in pain, Jagendra Singh cries out, “They could have arrested me. Why did they have to beat me and set me on fire?” In...
In search of justice for Umesh Rajput By Sumit Galhotra and Raksha Kumar Parmeshwar Rajput walked exhausted into his lawyer’s office in Bilaspur, weighed down by a black bag filled with court documents, police records, and newspaper clippings about his...
Philippine leader blows hot and cold on press freedom
August 4, 2016 11:51 AM ET
Newly installed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sent mixed messages on his commitment to upholding press freedom and combating impunity in media murders, a mix of hope and fear that has broadly defined the first months of his leadership....
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The discreet and evolving charm of the medieval Bourg of Coppet
Many medieval villages dot the landscape of Vaud Canton, but of those that lie in populous areas and withstand heavy traffic, possibly none have preserved their charm and architectural integrity more successfully than the Bourg of Coppet. Located about halfway between the cities of Geneva and Nyon, Coppet’s main street, the “Grand-Rue”, runs parallel to the Lac Leman shoreline and in summer, day-trippers disembark from paddlesteamers at the town’s quay to visit the Château de Coppet, located a five minute walk uphill along a village sidestreet.
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Meet Céline Dreveton: Artisan, Entrepreneur and Creative Force behind the UNIcréa arts & crafts fair
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Food Trucks — Geneva’s all-year-round moveable feast
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Mafalda brings the authentic flavours of Sicilian home cooking to Geneva
When Mafalda Tavola Calda opened its welcoming doors at 7 rue des Etuves, between Manor and Bel Air on the city’s West Bank, a refreshing breeze of Mediterranean warmth and hospitality as well as the delicious scents of Southern Italian specialities epitomizing the best of Sicilian home cooking blew through Geneva. From its conical-shaped arancini to its deep and delicious coffee from Bannafranca, a city in the Sicilian province of Enna, as well as everything in between — handmade pizza, grilled vegetables, cured meats, delicate biscuits, scented pastries and creamy ricotta-based cheesecake, everything about Mafalda is authentically Sicilian, which is why its a favorite haunt of in-the-know Italian customers and a growing number of Swiss (and expat) ones, too. Fast food in service terms only Although Mafalda labels itself a ‘fast food’ restaurant (arancini are a favourite takeout item in Calabria) that description speaks more of the courteous haste with which food is served as opposed to its obvious quality and the care with which it is prepared. Mafalda has been a labor of love as well as no small amount of moxie from the very beginning when its proprietor, Fabrizio …
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The Yoga Shop Geneva: where body, mind & soul meet in perfect harmony
It’s always a delight to find that something you desire, but which seems out of reach, turns out to be available right on your doorstep. Last summer when visiting my hometown, Montreal, my sister Pamela introduced me to the Canadian yoga, fitness and relaxation clothing brand Lolë; it was love at first sight of their beautifully tailored garments in a wide range of styles and colors in easy-to-care-for materials. Great for wearing in a yoga class, but also for everyday and evening wear. So once back here I was really pleased to discover Lolë on my doorstep courtesy of a delightful boutique located near Plainpalais called the Yoga Shop. Everything you could ask for It’s fully stocked with everything you might want and need to practice yoga, from high-quality clothing for women (including, yippee!, Lolë) and men (and delightful yogi t-shirts, hats and bodysuits for tots) to bolsters, mats, blocks, straps ‘n belts, blankets, posters, books, cards, DVDs and some very hip jewellery as well as beautiful mala prayer beads made of wood, seeds or crystal. The shop itself is a bright, colorful and …
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Cappuccino gets star treatment at Geneva’s Boréal coffee shops
Of life’s simple pleasures, surely a beautifully made cappuccino ranks high on the list. But it’s surprising how many coffee shops get it all wrong: bitter coffee, lifeless froth, no heart put either into or onto the precious brew. So I was completely won over after trying a cappuccino at the boréal espresso lab (that’s a coffee bar to you and me) in the plaza facing Gare Cornavin in Geneva. In fact, I was heading over to a nearby Starbucks outlet when I thought, try something new. I haven’t looked back. Update: Discover boréal’s new coffee bar and outdoor terrace at the newly refurbished Chantepoulet Square near Cornavin Station. Boréal shares the space with Elsalad, which offers tasty salads and wraps. The bar is open from Spring to Autumn in good weather. And in the Eaux-Vives 2000 shopping mall a comfy new Boréal coffee shop opened in October 2015. Turns out that boréal has been putting smiles on coffee lovers’ faces ever since its first outlet, an airy brick-walled space with an outdoor sidewalk terrace at the back, opened …
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Prepare to be delighted by Geneva Boutique “La 5e”
Recently as I crisscrossed my way from Cornavin to Plainpalais I cut down a little street off my usual beaten path and as a result discovered one of the most enchanting shops I’ve come across in Geneva. At Boutique “La 5e” (La Cinquième) proprietress Estelle Ganguillet has assiduously collected antique and decorative items with a keen and knowing eye for beauty, heritage, quality and, in her selection of children’s toys, no small measure of whimsy. Estelle opened “La 5e” some thirty years ago and aside of a two-year hiatus during recent buiding renovations the shop has remained a favorite haunt for in-the-know shoppers ever since. Her instinct for sussing out the beautiful antiques — furniture, porcelain, fine china, glass, jewellery, and delightful nic nacs — at flea markets, garage sales and antique shops has been passed on to her daughters Alice and Marie, who also collect items on the store’s behalf and manage it on Estelle’s days off. A penchant for good taste and a sense of calm has also enriched the store’s decor, one half of which resembles an 18th-century boudoir complete with chandeliers, rich carpeting and soft furnishings as well as wonderful carved boiserie (woodwork) panels …
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Rocket Bottle Plus Launches Mobile Smoothies / Margaritas Blender/Shaker Machine via Upcoming Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign
Crowdfunders can make blended drinks such as smoothies, margaritas, or protein shakes on the go, which is perfect for the beach, floating on the river, camping, road trips, gyms, or tailgating at the game
By Robert Hoskins, Crowdfunding PR
Orlando, FL – The Rocket Bottle Plus plans to take the blending world by storm and is planning the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to support its fundraising effort to fund the development and manufacturing of the new innovative portable, rechargeable blender to make blended drinks such as smoothies, protein shakes or margaritas anywhere in the world.
Crowdfunders can make blended drinks such as margaritas, smoothies, or protein shakes on the go, which is perfect for the beach, floating on the river, camping, road trips, gyms, or tailgating at the game
Rocket Bottle Plus Inventor
In August of 2015, Archie Askie inventor of Rocket Bottle Plus was stationed in Afghanistan and needed a suitable device to mix his protein drinks. With limited resources, it was nearly an impossible task to find the right blender that was portable, lightweight, and easy-to-use. Archie recognized this problem and being a warrior by body, and innovator by mind, formulated the perfect device to suit his nutritional needs. This device was named the Rocket Bottle Plus.
Rocket Bottle Plus Multiple Uses
The Rocket Bottle Plus is designed to let the user make blended drinks such as margaritas, smoothies, or protein shakes on the go. The Rocket Bottle Plus is perfect for the beach, camping, road trips, gym, or tailgating for the big game because unlike traditional blenders it doesn’t require an outlet to operate. Simply charge the Rocket Bottle Plus and use it whenever you are ready to make your favorite blended drinks.
Rocket Bottle Plus Features
The Rocket Bottle Plus sports a sleek design that is aesthetically pleasing and functional. Its rechargeable motor spins 6 blades at a baffling 18,000 RPM, and of course, it is lightweight and portable to make blending on the go a breeze. Other features are below:
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Surveys show that 81% of people own multiple shaker bottles and blenders, and the Rocket Bottle Plus aims to cut that number down to one for everybody. 45% of these owners replace their mixer every 6 months and 75% of these owners experienced a foul odor coming from their shaker or blender.
The Rocket Bottle Plus will be the last blender bottle you will ever need, serving as a mixer that also blends ice, fruits, and vegetables. With its odor and stain resistant design, you will be able to drink in comfort without the foul smell of previous mixes.
Overall, the Rocket Bottle Plus will eliminate the need for fragile shaker bottles and bulky blenders leaving you with more money in your pocket to buy more nutritional supplements, take a vacation, and/or spend quality time with your loved ones.
The Rocket Bottle Plus is poised to take the blending and nutritional world by storm at an affordable price. Rocket Bottle, LLC is allowing early supporters to take advantage and is offering exclusive prices and rewards via his Kickstarter campaign that is coming soon.
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I've heard this song from time to time my whole life. I'm pretty sure it's southern in origin. Anybody know the story behind it? (I was in my bed trying to sleep, laid there for about an hour unable to, then this melody popped into my head for some strange reason. Couldn't sleep so I thought I'd put up this post, then maybe the melody would leave my head...which it hasn't yet.
Written By: Unknown
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Oh, I went down South
For to see my Sal
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
My Sal, she is
A s p u n k y gal
Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana
For to see my Susyanna
Oh, my Sal, she is
A maiden fair
With curly eyes
And laughing hair
Behind the barn,
Down on my knees
I thought I heard
A chicken sneeze
He sneezed so hard
With the whooping cough
He sneezed his head
And the tail right off
Oh, a grasshopper sittin'
On a railroad track
A-pickin' his teeth
With a carpet tack
Oh, I went to bed
But it wasn't any use
My feet stuck out
Like a chicken roost
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This is what I found...not sure if correct but sounds good and seems to be the right time period
The First Minstrel Lines
In the early 1840s, a group called the Tyrolese Minstrel Family toured the United States with a program of traditional mittel-European folk songs. Four unemployed white actors decided to stage an African-American style spoof of this group's concerts. Calling themselves Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels, their blackface revue premiered at New York's Bowery Amphitheatre in February 1843. Emmett, Frank Bower, Frank Pelham and Billy Whitlock became the first troupe to offer a full evening of blackface variety entertainment. With their chairs in a simple semi-circle, the quartet offered a fresh combination of songs, dances and comic banter, creating cartoonish Negro caricatures. Most historians mark this production as the beginning of minstrelsy.
The form was so natural, it seemed improvised – and, in fact. much of the evening, because of the talents of the four, was. But most of all, there was exuberance and excitement. The minstrels, in their wide-eyed, large-lipped, ragged-costumed absurdity, rolled onto the stage in a thundercloud of energy which hardly ever dissipated. They insulted each other, they baited each other, they made mincemeat of the language, they took the audience into their fun, and, in one night, they added a new form to show business in America – in fact, the world.
- Lee Davis, Scandals and Follies: The Rise and Fall of the Great Broadway Revue (New York: Limelight Editions, 2000), p. 31.
Over the next few years, the Virginia Minstrels introduced several hit songs that are still heard today, including "Polly Wolly Doodle" and "Blue Tail Fly." Similar all-white companies soon toured the United States and Europe. Although short on production values, minstrel shows became America's most popular form of stage entertainment. By 1856, New York City had ten full time resident companies, and twice as many a decade later.
Thanks Nate. It sounds like those fellows are the origin of the song.
I found a different version of the lyrics sung by a young Shirley Temple when I did a google search.
Click on the top link of the page, Shirley Temple, and you can hear the same melody but with different lyrics, sung by Shirley.
http://www.google.com/search?source...GGLT_enUS356US356&q=polly+wolly+doodle+lyrics
Found that one, plus a very, very politcally incorrect one which included lines about spittin' watermelon seeds, etc.
Nathanb1 said:
Oh yeah, I imagine there are some of those too. The opportunities for substitutions and variances from the original lyrics are boundless.
BTW -- thanks. Now it's stuck in my head.
Yer welcome. Hey it's a very catchy little tune, and I like the chorus, "Fare thee well, fare thee well."
dvrmte
I watch TV with my grandchildren and this song from the Mickey Mouse Club stays in my head day and night. I need help! It won't go away.
Hot dog! (Hot dog)Hot dog!
Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggety dog
Now we got ears, it's time for cheers
Hot dog, hot dog, the problem's solved
Grab my boots and a sandwich
Let's start a parade
Get the coconut drum kit
For Daisy to play
We're taking off, we're dancing now
Hot dog, leapfrog, and holy cow
It's a brand new day
Whatcha waiting for?
Get up, stretch out, stomp on the floor
We're splitting the scene
We're full of beans
So long for now from Mickey Mouse (That's me!)And the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Now that's funny. So, pop in a CD and drown it out.
K Hale
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Glorybound said:
See also, Old Dan Tucker. Jeez Louise.
pamc153PA
Whenever I get a song in my head, I use the "anti-song": the theme from the old TV show "Murder She Wrote." Don't know why, maybe because it doesn't have lyrics and it's kind of upbeat, but it always does the trick.
Of course, then I can't get Angela Lansbury out of my head. . .
pamc153PA said:
Whenever I get a song in my head, I use the "anti-song": the theme from the old TV show "Murder She Wrote."
Thanks Pam. I have one of those anti-songs that usually works for me. It's a little ditty from a '60's sitcom that stuck with me all these years. Don't remember the name of the show it came from and it wasn't the theme song, just some little ditty that played when the show came back from a commercial, or some such opportunity. It does the job though.
catspjamas
Roan Mountain, TN
When you're down and troubled,
and you need a helping hand,
and nothing, oh nothing is going right,
close your eyes and think of me,
to brighten even your darkest night
and you know where ever I am
I'll come running,
oh yeah baby to see you again
winter, spring summer or fall
all you got to do is call
and I'll be there, yeah yeah yeah, you got a friend
catspjamas said:
That'll work. Can't go wrong with James Taylor.
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DEC Freshwater Fisheries Insider: Summer 2017
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The Art of a Love Song
First dance songs are usually love songs.
Love is the most powerful force on earth. It is the very lifeblood of a marriage, which is why a love song is such a good choice for your first dance.
As a professional wedding DJ, I really appreciate the craftsmanship of good love songs. There are many that are used by brides and grooms throughout the country all the time. The best are timeless, because they integrate a powerful lyric with a lovey melody.
Let’s use as an example a song you know whose melody was written way back in 1784 by a French guy named Jean-Paul-Egide Martini. The name of Monsieur Martini’s song was “Plaisir d’amour” (or in English, “The Pleasure of Love.”)
Listen to the embellished melody as performed by The Piano Guy’s Jon Schmidt:
Powerful lyrics define great first dance songs.
Some 177 years later, three American songwriters stumbled upon this tune and penned their own lyrics in a song they titled, “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The writers, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David, penned a particularly strong lyric with an opening line that touches upon the sacrificial nature of authentic love:
“Wise men say only fools rush in,
But I can’t help falling in love with you.”
One can’t help but think of the first responders at Ground Zero who rushed in to the burning Twin Towers. That’s what defines true love, sacrifice, and this song touches upon this potent force of nature.
The lyric concludes with astonishing impact in its simplicity:
“Take my hand, take my whole life, too,
For I can’t help falling in love with you,
For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
This line defines marriage, as two people give their lives to the other, just as it demonstrates the impact of a timeless love song: great lyric and great melody.
Listen to various artists make this song their own.
As a DJ, I marvel at the way top vocal artists make a love song their own. For example, listen to what the great Andrea Bocelli does with this song:
For a completely different take, here is how a group called ‘twenty one pilots’ performs the song, complete with ukulele as the main instrumental accompaniment!
The English group, UB40, gives it an irresistible reggae beat:
If you think you’ve heard it all, you haven’t. Listen to what Haley Reinhart of America Idol fame does with the song. Is this first dance material or what!
Can it get any better than this? Well, 8 million people say yes! More than that many have listened to Michael Bublé’s silky smooth rendition on YouTube:
Am I missing anyone? Oh, there was this guy named Elvis who popularized the song in 1961. Some 22 million people have listened to his classic version on YouTube. Here’s what the fuss is all about:
There are a lot of other good first dance songs, and in fact, we wrote another blogpost on the subject called, “Top Ten Classic Songs for Your First Dance.” Check it out!
Why does Scott Stevens Entertainment love entertaining at weddings like yours? Because we can play the music you want to hear sung by the artists you want to hear. We offer a mammoth song list so you can select the versions of your favorite songs you love most.
Even more, we can MC your event with the grace and timing honed by years of experience, so you can simply be “in the moment” on your wedding day and revel in the beauty of falling in love.
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Creating a plaque: Navy history in San Diego revealed!
Molten bronze is poured in the foundry of the USS Ajax. Historical photograph of the Navy Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque being created. Photo credit: United States Navy.
A few days ago I received new information about an important bronze plaque, which was created in 1975 to commemorate the United States Navy’s 200 year anniversary. The historic Navy Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque stands today on San Diego’s Embarcadero, on the Greatest Generation Walk next to the USS Midway Museum. Thousands of people breeze past it every day.
People pass the Navy Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque, displayed on the Greatest Generation Walk near the USS Midway Museum. Photo taken October 17, 2015.
Photo of Navy 200 year commemoration plaque courtesy the Port of San Diego.
When I first saw the old plaque, I could find absolutely nothing about it on the internet. So I originally posted this blog. As new information trickled in–sometimes out of the blue–I posted this and this.
I was recently contacted by one of the plaque’s creators. He has provided detailed information about its history, including three amazing photographs and nine scans of a typed News Release from 40 years ago. The text of the News Release does not appear online, so I carefully transcribed the words. That way a very important bit of San Diego and Navy history won’t be lost.
(I tried to transcribe exactly, including possible misspellings. I’m not certain about the spelling of some names in the photo captions.)
If you know more about this plaque and would like to add some information, please leave a comment below. If you’d like to contact me, but don’t want to have your comment published, then please tell me that and I’ll email you.
Navy Commemorative Plaque News Release. Navy Bicentennial, October 3-13, 1975. Page 1.
NAVY COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE
by Pat Sutton
San Diego . . . . . The actual presentation of a plaque by the Navy to the people of San Diego on October 3, 1975 is the end of the story.
One might say the plaque story began October 13, 1775. On that day the Continental Congress authorized the fitting out of ships for the Continental Navy. This action constituted the first naval legislation and became the genesis of the U. S. Navy.
The skills and spirit which forged the Navy of 1775 also forged the commemorative plaque in 1975 . . . . .
In the spring of this year, representatives of various commands in the Eleventh Naval District met to discuss plans for celebrating the Navy’s 200th birthday. The group reviewed the heritage, the building of proud traditions, the horizons of the Naval Service. It was decided to hold a great celebration
to honor the Navy, its members past and present, the nation and San Diego – so long a part of the life, the heritage and tradition of the Navy.
The plaque story developed in an uniquely traditional Navy way. The Navy’s microcosmic capabilities began to surface and swing into action.
Civilian Mrs. Jo Palm is the Visual Information Specialist for the Commander Naval Surface Force, Pacific. She also chaired the Navy Bicentennial exhibits committee. Jo conceived the idea that there should be some lasting remembrance of the occasion for the people of San Diego – perhaps a commemorative plaque would be appropriate.
Civilian Francisco (Cisco) Lopez is a designer with the General Atomic Company of San Diego. He is also a First Class Draftsman in the Navy Reserve. Tall, 28-years-old, Cisco is a 12-year Navyman, combining four years active duty with eight years in the Reserve. Last June he served his annual two weeks active duty in the Naval Surface Force Public Affairs graphics shop, reporting from his Reserve Unit with the Fleet Intelligence Center, Pacific.
“Jo told me her idea and we decided I should design something depicting 200 years of Navy history – along the lines of a plaque, but not like the usual plaque.”
Cisco was raised in San Francisco and has lived in San Diego the past five years. He graduated from San Francisco State and hopes eventually to be a research historian or teacher.
“I have almost a passion for history. I’m taking a month off work in June ’76, I’ll be in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July. As an armchair military historian I really relished the opportunity to be a part of today’s history by designing a representation of our Navy over a span of 200 years”.
At the suggestion of her student husband, Mel, Jo Palm went aboard Mel’s former ship, USS Ajax (AR-6), with Cisco’s drawing and the question, “Can you make it a reality?”
For a fleet repair ship like Ajax, “can” is a reality because she is designed for heavy duty hull repair; to provide a full range of repair services to Navy units in remote areas.
On her way to see the Repair Officer, Lieutenant Commander Harley M. Oien, Jo Palm passed through the Patternmaker/Carpenter Shop, remarkably clean despite the several huge saws rasping, whining and spewing sawdust. She was escorted through the Heavy Machine and Shipfitter’s shops where expert Navy operators can literally rebuild a whole ship.
Twelve-year Navy veteran, Chief Molder Marvin E. (Tex) Feasell of Baytown, TX, is in charge of the Ajax foundry. He recounts the meeting below decks in Mr. Oien’s office where he and a few key men, including Patternmaker First Class Ronald Gray, held a conference with Jo.
“We hashed, squabbled, explained our methods, discussed time frames, costs to the Bicentennial Birthday Fund, and most of all, the making of the pattern. That’s the critical area. That’s the make or break of the job”.
Tex Feazell learned his profession when he was sent to the Moulder “A” school right out of Boot Camp in 1963. He reported aboard Ajax in May 1974. He has a keen appreciation of the expertise of the Ajax crew, and a keen pride in its performance.
“We have one of the most hard charging crews in the fleet. The people are hard charging – hit it! Hit it! We wanted to show our skills. We wanted to make that plaque for the Navy and for San Diego. We didn’t know for over a week if we would get the job. It made us feel proud when we heard we were going to do it”.
And so the “make or break” responsibility of the Navy’s bicentennial birthday memento to San Diego was enthusiastically assumed by Patternmaker Ronald Gray, who applied his
Navy-learned skills to transform from drawing to working pattern the impression of 200 years of the United States Navy.
Ron has not always served in the time honored rate of Patternmaker. He joined the Navy shortly after he graduated from high school in Olympia, WA, and served his first hitch as a Commissaryman. A friend, appreciative of his carving hobby, suggested Ron reenlist under the Navy’s SCORE (Selective Conversion) program and be schooled as a Patternmaker.
Now, after 7 1/2 years in the Navy, 2 1/2 aboard Ajax, this craftsman laid the historical design out, carved his first figures in bas relief, glued them on board, then build up the other details. The pattern for the 30″ x 24″, 150 pound metal plaque would end up basically wood and plaster, however, the rope detail was real rope!
The Spirit of ’75, the hallmark of the Navy, nowhere better manifested itself than aboard the USS Ajax as the work progressed.
Patternmaker Third Class Roger Richie of Denver, CO, was a millman in civilian life and when he joined the Navy he wanted to be a carpenter. But at the time, there was no billet open at the carpenter school.
“Now I think I got lucky, because I was sent to Patternmaker’s School. There’s not too many of us in the Navy, or in the country, for that matter. So by what you might call a ‘freak accident’ I was here to help Ron on the plaque. There’s pride in this job”.
The Ajax Dental Department loaned Ron Gray tools for working on the intricate wax carvings, and a dental drill for final sanding. The ship’s Dental Officer, Commander Roger E. Bisson of Helena, MT, enjoys woodworking and asked to carve the plaque’s Navy aircraft with his precision instruments.
“We all want to contribute. Gray is so willing to share the glory with the team, even though he has done most of the work”, Bisson said.
Below the gleaming metal decks, at the very keel of Ajax on the concrete deck of the foundry, Molder First Class William McCoy of Coshocton, OH, and his men were ready. McCoy spent his first four years in the Navy as a destroyer torpedoman. Then for ten years he was a civilian molder. Unable to wash the salt from his veins, he returned to the Navy a year and a half ago.
McCoy described his work, “The molding art is fairly unchanged since the middle ages. We use primitive tools, primitive casting methods. A person with an understanding of the primitive makes an excellent molder”.
Then he turned to his bicentennial commemorative plaque assignment, “We’re looking forward to this job. The foundrymen will tussle with 700 to 800 pounds of sand and probably 150 pounds of molten metal. That’s a big pour”.
In providing the material for that “big pour”, the Navyman’s natural penchant for building on a proud tradition swung into action again. Commander William D. Collins, Public Affairs Officer for the Commander Naval Air Force, Pacific Fleet, remembered the legendary aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). A World War II combatant, Bunker Hill, was nicknamed “Holiday Express” because from November 11, 1943 to May 11, 1945, when she sustained crippling bomb and Kamikaze hits, she had conducted ten major strikes on holidays. During this brief period she had run up a combat record of 430 enemy planes destroyed in the air; 230 on the ground; 146,803 tons of enemy shipping sent to the bottom and 20 enemy planes shot down by her antiaircraft batteries.
In 1947 Bunker Hill was decommissioned. In 1965, 22 years after her commissioning, the old warrior was fitted out as a research facility for the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center, San Diego. She became a San Diego landmark moored in the bay off North Island Naval Air Station as she served as a floating laboratory for seven years.
“The Bunker Hill was stripped of her brass and bronze fittings prior to her scraping in late 1972”, Commander Collins reported at a Bicentennial Committee meeting, “this was molded into ingots. Some of the ingots still remain and are stored at the Naval Station in Honolulu. We would be honored to have Bunker Hill permanently a part of San Diego. The Pacific Naval Air Force will provide her brass and bronze for the plaque”.
And so it was done.
In August Jo Palm called Cisco Lopez with the news that the plaque was to become a reality. Cisco told Jo of an uniquely Navy coincidence. “For my 1975 active duty tour I was stationed on Ajax! I designed ducting for ventilation of a spray booth. Great crew! I never expected to work with them again”.
On September tenth, after the sand had been rammed around the pattern and the pattern removed, leaving its historic impression (the negative), the excitement of expectancy on the Ajax foundry deck rose even as the metal of old Bunker Hill rose toward the proper temperature to pour.
Participants, both active and anticipating, ranged from Jo Palm and Cisco Lopez; Navy combat cameramen and photographers; to the molders, firemen, and as from the beginning,
Patternmaker First Class Ron Gray, whose work would not end until his bicentennial plaque received its final buffing.
In the seething depths of Ajax the bronze flared at 1850 degrees Fahrenheit and was poured at 1900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Emerging from the plutonic foundry floor, Molder Third Class Forrest L. (Lee) Garland of Longview, TX, removed his zinc-deposit-coated face mask saying, “A molder’s job is to know hear; how hot to pour, how much to pour in a little hole. We did a job today. And it was good.”
Lieutenant Commander Oien observed, “The men generated the enthusiasm for the plaque. If they had not wanted to do it, I suppose it could have been forced. Instead, it was a labor of love”.
At the San Diego Bay embarcadero, on Broadway Pier, permanently ensconced in a handsome planter, the Navy Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque is inscribed:
Dedicated to the People of San Diego
By the United States Navy
1775 – October 13 – 1975
Tex Feazell and Ron Gray with the first wood carving and the original drawing. Photo credit: United States Navy.
Patternmaker Kevin O’Connor, Molder Jessie Lopez, Molder Lee Garland, Patternmaker Roger Richie, two unidentified Molders, Bill McCoy and Ron Gray. Photo credit: United States Navy.
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Posted on October 18, 2015 October 18, 2015 Author Richard SchulteTags artists, bronze, embarcadero, history, military, navy, news, photography, plaques, port of san diego, sailors, san diego, ships, united states
17 thoughts on “Creating a plaque: Navy history in San Diego revealed!”
Whoa!! You must have been in awe to receive all this! After all the investigation – this is the result – true, honest to goodness – HISTORY!! Congratulations, Richard you deserve to this post – you sure worked for it!!! You do both The U.S. Navy and The city of San Diego proud!!!!
Richard Schulte says:
Yeah. The whole thing has been pretty incredible. All I ever really did was ask readers about a mysterious plaque. I’m as amazed as anybody at the result. And I’m grateful that history can live on.
You did an outstanding job!
usabaker says:
Very Cool – I’ve stopped and stared at this plaque a number of time, even have pictures of it someplace always wondered what it history was. Thanks!
Now we know!
sheldonk2014 says:
Great post excellent work
As always Sheldon
What a great story! Ronald Gray is my dad. What a special piece of history. Thanks for the discovery.
Wow! How cool is that? I’m glad the people who were involved have a chance to enjoy this! It’s something to definitely be proud about!
I remember your Dad. I was there when he and Roger Richie were making the matchboard for the plaque. I worked in the Dive Locker next to the Pattern Shop and your Dad let me use the shop tool to make furniture after hours. Still use the kitchen table I made on Ajax 40 years ago.
Kevin O’Connor says:
Hi I worked for your dad on this plaque. I’m kevin oconnor. I enjoyed working for your dad, many great memories. He enjoyed carving a lot.
My time on Ajax was the best. I think about your dad from time to time
I’ve spent the last 24 years as a General Contractor in San Diego
Tell him I said hello
4hills says:
Richard- This truly is a monument that deserves a little better recognition from the Port district. I checked, and even after all this it wasn’t even listed. Those otherwise forgotten Sailors on AJAX back in 75 and those who everyday help San Diego remember the Navy keep citizens like me proud of their service to our country.
In an email I offered to send the Port of San Diego hi-res files of those photos for their archives, but I have yet to receive a response.
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I’ll never forget working on this project. I was pretty new in the Navy and working for Ron Gray was great. I’m kevin oconnor, at the time PMFN. The wooden pattern, the plaster cast and rubber mold from it are in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington
Someday I’d like to go there and look it up. Of all my commands in 20 years the “Jax” was my favorite. I still live in San Diego county retired from active duty since ‘94.
BZ to all who contributed
Tom Weatherly says:
That Ajax was a great ship. My name is Tom Weatherly I was on the Ajax from 65 thru 67 in the molded shop. Went to A school then straight to the Ajax loved Japan and the Ajax!
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