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Tomb Raider 4KUHD Review
July 2, 2018 Ascully
Listen To The After The Show Podcast Here
The Movie: 5/10
Lara Croft doesn’t hold a spot in my heart the way she does for a lot of video gaming folks. I just like to enjoy these adventure stories as they are on the big screen, without a controller in my hand 🙂
As for the story, it’s OK, but not that deep or interesting. Our Lara starts as a bike courier delivering food in the city and we find out she’s in a position to inherit a bunch of money and a mansion and a big company, but she chooses to be poor? I think that’s the most hokey way to approach this character, but we moved on quickly from the poverty stage to having unlimited resources…oh but wait she still hocks a necklace that belonged to her late mother? Hmmmm This is some weak story telling, but I can overlook it for this movie, really I can.
I had a good time, even if it was not a well told tale, the big action sequences are the star of this show and they serve their purpose adequately. That’s really what you are buying the ticket for on this one, the action and the adventure, the tomb raiding, and yet there’s not a lot of tomb raiding unfortunately. We get one big tomb sequence, but it has the most gamey feel of any part of the movie. The story is handed to us with just some heavy exposition and it all feels quite shallow. The promise of some magic or mysticism is one of the Lora Croft trademarks, and yet we never get that kind of pay off.
Overall I do like the cast, the action, even the flimsy story because it’s all wrapped in a journey of our leading woman who takes a lot of hard knocks and keeps on going and going and going. I wouldn’t watch it again though. I would revisit the original tomb raider, Han Solo (wink) and have a good long movie marathon:)
Features: 5/10
Tomb Raider Uncovered (7 Minutes) – Studio style EPK with interviews from all the major players.
Croft Training (6 Minutes) – A look at Alicia Vikander’s training to become Lara Croft.
Breaking Down The Rapids (6 Minutes) – A look at the major action sequence in the film.
Lara Croft: Evolution Of An Icon (10 Minutes) – The history of Gaming Legend Lara Croft.
4KUHD, Blu-ray & UV Digital Copy
Audio & Video: 9/10
Tomb Raider is a real looker-on 4K and 1080P sets due to the AVC encode and high bit-rate used by Warner here. Colors are rich and shadow detail is as inky as it comes. One thing I noticed here is there are no gloomy hard to see scenes not even inside the Tomb towards the end of the film. This is a great looking transfer one of the best of 2018.
The disc comes with a Dolby Atmos track and a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. Both tracks are outstanding and feature surround sound from everywhere in the room during the action sequences. Dialog is clean and always prioritized over other sounds.
Overall Score 5/10
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Lynx, Verde sites close for bald eagles
February 13, 2012 February 13, 2012 by Arizona Heritage Alliance
[Daily Courier, 12/2/2011] Twenty-one sites on Arizona’s public lands are temporarily closing this month to protect bald eagle nesting sites. A portion of Lynx Lake and its eastern shoreline on the Prescott National Forest closed to the public Thursday and could remain closed as late as June 30. Six areas along the Verde River also closed Thursday and will stay closed as late as June 15.
Les Stukenberg/The Daily Courier
A bald eagle sits in a pine tree above Lynx Lake in this Daily Courier file photo.
They include the Verde near Chasm Creek on the Prescott National Forest, and the river below Sycamore Canyon on the Coconino National Forest. People still can float through, but no foot or vehicle traffic is allowed. Aircraft also should stay at least 2,000 feet above the Verde and Salt river drainages, as well as Lake Pleasant and Alamo Lake.
“Bald eagles continue to do well in Arizona, but they are sensitive to human activity during the breeding season and it can take as little as 30 minutes of leaving the eggs uncovered for a breeding attempt to fail,” said Kenneth Jacobson, head of the Arizona Game and Fish Department Bald Eagle Management Program. “Cooperation from outdoor recreationists during the breeding season has been a major reason that the population continues to grow.” The bald eagle was federally listed as an endangered species in 1978. Nationally, the birds recovered enough to be removed from the list in 2007.
In December, Arizona bald eagles begin rebuilding nests in preparation for laying eggs. Bald eagles nest, forage and roost at the rivers and lakes that have become some of Arizona’s most popular recreation spots, and this time of year can be challenging for the birds. Game and Fish’s bald eagle management efforts are supported by the Heritage Fund, an initiative approved by voters 20 years ago to provide for wildlife education and conservation through Arizona lottery ticket sales.
People visiting bald eagle country can make an advance call to the local land management agency (Forest Service or BLM, etc.) or the Arizona Game and Fish Department to help them plan their trip to avoid disturbing bald eagles.
By following these simple guidelines, the public can help ensure that the state’s living wildlife legacy will last for generations to come:
• Enjoy bald eagles from outside the closures, especially during critical nesting times (December to June). These areas are posted with signs and/or buoys, and many have daily NestWatch monitors. A few good places to see bald eagles without disturbing them (during December and January) are at Lake Mary and Mormon Lake near Flagstaff, or on the Verde River Canyon Train in Clarkdale.
• Bald eagles protecting an active nest will let you know if you are too close. If a bald eagle is vocalizing and circling the area frantically, you are too close and need to leave the area quickly. Bald eagles incubating eggs or brooding small young should never be off the nest for more than 15 minutes.
• Help from anglers is especially needed. Monofilament and tackle has killed two nestlings and has been found in two-thirds of all bald eagle nests in the state. Every year, biologists remove this potentially lethal material from nests and/or entangled nestlings. Ospreys, shorebirds, waterfowl and songbirds also succumb to this litter. Do not discard any type of monofilament along rivers and lakes, but recycle it at fishing stores. Keep your monofilament fresh; do not use old brittle line. Make sure to use the correct test line for the fish you are trying to catch. Also, do not cut the line when an undesirable fish is caught and return it to the water with the hook and line attached.
The public can help bald eagle research and recovery efforts by reporting any harassment or shooting of bald eagles. Call the Arizona Game and Fish Operation Game Thief Hotline at 1-800-352-0700 or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement at 480- 967-7900.
Categories Arizona Game and Fish Department, Conservation, Game & Fish, Heritage FundTags Alamo Lake State Park, Arizona Game and Fish Department Bald Eagle Management Program, Chasm Creek, Coconino National Forest, Kenneth Jacobson, Lake Pleasant, Lynx Lake, Prescott National Forest, Sycamore Canyon, Verde River
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B-Metro > Extras > Local > A Rocker Slows Down: Jason Slatton
A Rocker Slows Down: Jason Slatton
His sound: Rocker turned singer-songwriter
For fans of: Neil Finn, Paul Westerberg
Jason Slatton wrote his own headline for this feature: “Guy who used to play in much louder, occasionally faster bands slows down a bit and is perhaps easier on your ears. Perhaps.”
The Athens, Georgia, native once shared stages with Widespread Panic, Bright Eyes, Lucinda Williams, Verbena, and the Drive-By Truckers. He made records, toured, heard himself on the radio, signed autographs, and “barely made a living” with the Lures and Randall Bramblet. In the early 2000s, though, he got off the road to start a “next chapter” of life and eventually married, started teaching literature, and welcomed a daughter into the world.
It was her birth that inspired his new album, We Are Nighttime Travelers. In this season of life, Slatton found himself wanting to make music, but not like he used to. As he says in “And She Goes On”—which he recorded with his wife, Kristi Houk, on vocals too—it’s about “dismantling and then beginning.” “Anyone who has had a child can tell you about literal or figurative nighttime ‘travelling,’” he says. “Maybe it’s also about looking back and taking stock of some things I left in the rearview mirror.”
The album title comes from a short story by one of Slatton’s favorite writers, Ethan Canin. Slatton had already played some “quiet” shows with Janet Simpson-Templin (vocals, keyboard), so he recruited her along with Les Nuby (bass, drums)—who was “literally next door”—and Jason Hamric (guitar, production, engineering), the “backbone” of the album.
Slatton is always drawing inspiration from life, what he reads, and the literature he teaches to write music. What results he leaves up to interpretation: “I don’t want to put too fine a point on what the songs do or say, though. That’s up to the listener. I know what they mean to me, or my wife, but that’s for us. Once it leaves me, I don’t get a say, in my opinion.”
Hear more local artists in our full Magic City Mix 2016.
Eugenius Neutron
The Burning Peppermints
Anna Thomical of Zenosyne
Rashid Qandil
Jason Slatton
Ashley Sankey and Company
Creature Camp
In Snow
Lee Shook
Gary Wheat
Chris Hendrix
Tags: August 2016, Magic City Mix, Music
Posted on Monday, August 1st, 2016.
2 Responses to “A Rocker Slows Down: Jason Slatton”
John Scalici says:
I am so damn proud of my city and all the cool artists who are killing it locally, regionally, and nationally.
Jubal Dalzell says:
This town is full of wonderful writers and musicians and Jason Slatton is one of the best at writing evocative songs. If you haven’t heard his album GO CHECK IT OUT!
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Wendy Wilken executed: Walkerville khoi farm
Wendy Wilken (60), killed with a head-shot at their Walkerville Khoi-farm March 21 2011, nothing was robbed: husband Mario ends the business: another 4 black workers without any income. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-val-oor-vrou-se-lyk-20110322
Smallholder Mrs Wendy Wilken was killed execution-style with a single headshot in their humble homestead where she and her husband Mario were raising Koi fish for the gardening-market.
“My life is shattered, ‘ said her devastated husband. This was the second armed-attack against his smallholding in the past three years. Other smallholders also suffer regular attacks: Shortly after Mrs Wilken’s murder, neighbour Brain Ubsdell came to offer his condolances. He said he was attacked two years earlier: tied up and tortured with a hot iron.
“My neighbours also were robbed and another one was murdered last year,’ he told Riata Nel, a journalist at Beeld newspaper).
The Wilken couple have lived on the smallholding south of Johannesburg for the past 15 years to start the Khoi Farm as a business. Mr Wilken said he’s now lost all his courage to continue it: thus four black workers and their families now are without an income.
On March 21 2011, three black males attacked the small holmestead shortly after 9am and forced four workers into the house. Mr and Mrs Wilkens were forced at gunpoint into the food-storage area, which is called a ‘spens’ in Afrikaans. “We were forced to open our (registered) safe which is located in the spens,’ said Wilken. “There is nothing in the safe. They demanded money, dragged Wendy from the spens. I heard a shot, opened the door and Wendy was lying there, in a puddle of blood. She was the most generous person, always willing to help others irregardless of their skin-colour,’’ her grieving husband said. Nothing was robbed: after Mrs Wilken was shot execution-style, the attackers left.
Mr Wilken had just returned from Japan to place an order for world-famous, decorative Khoi fish, and was in the airplane home for about three hours when the earthquake hit there. “I just missed the earthquake and now my wife is dead.”“There were a lot of police on the smallholding afterwards. I doubt whether anything will come of this.’ Neighbour Ubsdell also wanted to start a Koi-businesses – but is deeply worried about the increase in armed attacks at the smallholdings in the region.
Mrs Wilken also leaves behidn the couples four daughters and five grandchildren. Original Afrikaans source interpreted by Adriana Stuijt - http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-val-oor-vrou-se-lyk-20110322
Labels: Boer Genocide, executed, khoi farm, South Africa, Walkerville, Wilken Wendy
Another white biker killed deliberately
Sasol-cricketer Christo Hattingh murdered in traffic: run over twice
http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/1111/
2011-03-20 In yet another deliberate act of murder in traffic -- very similar to the earlier death of Afrikaans schoolgirl Bernadine Kruger, 15, who was run over twice by black taxi-driver Percyval Matji, 31, enroute to school on her scooter ion 23 February 2009 -- Sasol cricket club's young cricketer Christo Hattingh, 26, was also run down deliberately while riding his bike from Trichardt to his home in Secunda.
He was killed instantly and his body dragged by the car for some distance, reported Beeld newspaper. Then the unknown driver of the Nissan Nivara which had hit and then dragged the Afrikaner biker, stopped, backed up his car over the white man's body before chasing away at high speed.
Hattingh was wearing bright reflective clothing for his night-time bike trip back home. He was a single man, living with friends in Secunda about 10km from the accident scene. He and a few players had stopped by a pub, The Hut, after playing his third cricket-game for the club against IFS Witbank earlier that day. His team-mate Doulas Gird said the accident happened opposite the Albany bakery on the main road between Trichardt and Secunda. The police immediately traced the Nissan Nivara - abandoned.. Its owner claimed it was stolen the previous day - but that he had never reported the theft to the police. The man was questioned but not arrested. The police say they are investigating a charge of culpible homicide. Sasol cricket club team captain Jacques Groenewald said Hattingh had played his third game for the club that Saturday. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-doodgery-na-krieket-20110320
Afrikaans Garsfontein High School pupil Bernadine Kruger was murdered by black taxi-driver Percyval Matji, 31 on 23 February 2009 while the girl was riding her scooter to school on a dual carriageway which was empty of any cars except the taxi on her side. Motorists sitting in a gridlocked tailback on the other side witnessed the scene, photographed it and testified against Matji in court. The school girl was riding her scooter when high-speed, honking taxi-driver Percyval Matji drove up fast, rode her bumper, following the girl from lane to lane. Witnesses testified that Matji was ‘clearly intent on wanting to force her off the road’.. Initially Matji was charged only with culpible homicide – but the Prosecuting Authority agreed with the formal petitions lodged by her mother and the Freedom Front Plus party ‘s legal team to change this charge to murder -- due to ‘overwhelming and convincing evidence before the court’. On Friday, September 11, 2009, Matji was found guilty of murder and reckless driving by a Pretoria magistrate. His defence: he claimed all the witnesses were white racists who were out to get black taxi-drivers. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/1c793dd123234ef7b48ef00a7f0e526a/10-09-2009%2001-19/Taxi_driver_guilty_of_murder
Taxi driver guilty of murder: said the magistrate: "it was not a mistake. It was not negligence...'
Handing down judgment to Percyval Matji, Magistrate Edmund Patterson said: "It was not a mistake. It was not negligence." Patterson said from the evidence it was determined that Matji had deliberately followed Ms Kruger and "wanted her out of his way". He said Matji had “made a lethal weapon of his vehicle by driving at speeds far exceeding the limit.”
Left: this picture by Beeld photographer Cornél van Heerden shows convicted taxi-driver Percyval Matji, 31, at Pretoria Regional Court. He was found guilty of murdering 15-year-old Afrikaans pupil Bernadine Kruger in Pretoria on 23 February 2009 by running her over deliberately. He claimed in court that ‘it was all a white-racist plot by people who hated black taxi-drivers’. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/1c793dd123234ef7b48ef00a7f0e526a/10-09-2009%2001-19/Taxi_driver_guilty_of_murder
The murdered girl’s mother, Elsabe Homan, Freedom Front city councillors Dr Conrad Beyers and Advocate Anton Alberts, councillor on the Johannesburg city council, all welcomed the decision by the Prosecuting Authority. The legal experts described it as a watershed-case. “This sends a message to all reckless drivers that they will have to pay a high price for taking someone’s life, ‘ they said in a statement. “This specifically applies to the country’s minitaxi-industry, of which some of its members drive as if they have no responsibility towards anyone else. This decision shows that human life still has some value in our land.’ The Freedom Front Plus assisted Mrs Homan in lodging civil claims against various people involved in this case. ( tel Adv Anton Alberts, tel 083 950 9272 for comment).
Beeld journalist Herman Scholtz quoted testimony by one witness, Mrs René van Zyl, testifying in Pretoria Regional Court on August 13 2009, that she and her 11-year-old daughter saw ‘Bernadine flying through the air” while they were slowly moving ahead in the grid-locked rush-hour traffic. Her daughter watched the event unfold and shouted ‘the taxi doesn’t stop,’ testified Mrs Van Zyl, who said her daughter also screamed: ‘He’s going to hit her, he’s going to hit her..’ as she saw the schoolgirl fly throught the air for several metres, and getting hit by the taxi after she fell on the tarmac. Other witnesses, Hugo Vermaak and Mrs Sanet Venter, also testified, as did Mrs van Zyl, that the taxi-driver was ‘honking his horn loudly, constantly and aggressively as he was approaching the girl on her schooter from behind at high speed. They all saw the taxi hitting the girl in the adjacent east-bound lane while the three witnesses were moving very slowly, stuck in a traffic jam going in westerly direction. All testified that the east-bound lane was clear, with no other traffic next to the taxi and Bernadine’s scooter going in the same direction. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2547632,00.html
Top swimmer Natalie du Toit also became disabled in a scooter accident:
Top-swimmer Natalie du Toit also became disabled after she was hit by a car while riding her scooter back to school after swimming practice in February 2001. Her left leg had to be amputated at the knee. As did ‘blade-runner’ Boer athlete Oscar Pistorius, the powerfully-built Boer girl also pursued a sports career by insisting on participating in events against able-bodied athletes. And like Pistorius, she also had to wage a legal battle with the Olympics committee to give her the right to compete with able-bodied athletes. Initially she won gold medals in the 2004 Paralympic Games but then went on to triumph at the Commonwealth games as an 'able-bodied' athlete, and became the first female amputee-swimmer to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/08/bernadine-krugers-accused-taxi-murderer.html
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Administration Denies Notion Jerusalem Embassy Isolates U.S. in Region
By John T. Bennett
Yucca Mountain’s Lone Ranger Finally Corrals House Attention
Visiting Nevada’s Yucca Mountain in 2011 was like walking through a ghost town, Rep. John Shimkus recalled in an interview this week.
It was the year after the Obama administration surrendered to fervent local opposition and halted work by the Department of Energy to prepare the site to store the nation’s commercial nuclear waste, even though Congress designated it for that purpose in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
By the time Shimkus arrived, empty desks and cubicles sat abandoned where hundreds of people had worked on those preparations, which included submitting an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
“They just locked the doors and told everyone to take their personal items and leave,” he said. “When you went back, there [were] still coffee cups on the desk.”
The Illinois Republican would bring those observations back to Capitol Hill, admonishing DOE officials for what he called a “colossal waste of resources.” His criticism was grounded in the $15 billion the federal government spent preparing and studying the site — an amount the Obama administration was willing to write off in the face of intense local concern, including from then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, over storing waste that would remain deadly for thousands of years.
Like a lone ranger in the Old West trying to right what he perceived to be an illegal action by the administration, the House’s most vocal and intense proponent of turning Yucca into a nuclear waste storage site has visited Nevada five times over the past decade in an attempt to resurrect the project.
Now, eight years after that Obama administration decision, Shimkus’ quest culminated on the House floor, where a comprehensive, bipartisan nuclear waste package passed Thursday, 340-72. It would give Yucca Mountain the needed policy jolt to start moving again.
Shimkus’ approaches over the years have ranged from biblical rage to statesmanlike diplomacy. But despite a Senate roadblock awaiting the bill, he’s pushed Yucca Mountain into the House spotlight.
“He has been all about Yucca, all of the time,” said Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden of Oregon. “I share his cause, but I don’t think I can achieve his level of commitment and enthusiasm, because nobody has. He’s been terrific.”
Indeed, Shimkus was so determined to see his Yucca Mountain bill to the floor, Walden said, that he sent handwritten letters to the homes of House GOP leaders for seven straight days during a recess week to win their support.
No nuclear reactor operates within the boundaries of his district, but Exelon’s Clinton nuclear station is 30 miles from its northern reaches. Illinois has six nuclear power plants with 11 generating units — and about 10,497 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste, the most in the nation.
Those nuclear ties have also come with some significant campaign contributions from Exelon Corp., the Chicago-based company that operates more nuclear plants than any other single company. Since he first ran for office in 1991, Shimkus has received approximately $111,949 in donations from the utility to his individual campaign account and PACs associated with him, according to OpenSecrets.org.
A military veteran and former high school U.S. government history teacher, he says his Yucca defense is also driven by his advocacy for law and order. He was furious, he said, when he perceived that the Obama administration ignored the law — the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act in which Congress determined that Yucca Mountain should be the nation’s nuclear waste repository.
“To have insider politics, presidential politics break the law, that’s what really got me fired up … just the total disregard for the law by the executive branch,” Shimkus said in the interview.
Despite that designation, the Obama administration called the site unworkable in the face of local opposition powered in Washington by Reid. But even Republicans in the state and on the Hill long complained that radiological leaks at the site could contaminate water supplies and that moving the material to the site could expose citizens to radiation should an accident occur.
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Shimkus’ anger about the decision would bubble to the surface during oversight hearings by the Energy and Commerce Committee and its environment subcommittee, which he chaired, a position he said he sought partially because of its oversight of the Yucca Mountain issue. His questioning of key Obama-era DOE officials was aggressive, to say the least.
One of those DOE officials, former Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy Peter Lyons, described those hearings “as the low point in my time of public service.”
“The most frustrating part was I was not able to even respond,” Lyons said. “It’s no fun to be yelled at without being able to respond. … He had the microphone and he could yell much louder than me.”
Shimkus said the intense questioning was warranted. The Obama administration objectively broke the letter of the law, he said, and he cited support for his view in the various federal court orders directing the spending of money appropriated by Congress to continue the Yucca Mountain licensing process.
“I think those tirades are, in biblical [terms], we would call it righteous anger,” said Shimkus, a bible study teacher and daily tweeter of biblical verses. “It’s unfortunate that you have to scream and holler to make your point.”
His approach has softened as he has taken on more responsibility as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee. He also acknowledges that with more Washington experience, he has learned how to better work with the other side of the aisle, as is evident in his successful bipartisan update to the Toxic Substances Control Act in the last Congress.
His willingness to work with Democrats helped produce the nuclear waste legislation that moved out of committee on a 49-4 vote. A central tenet of the legislation authorizes temporary sites to store nuclear waste consolidated from multiple plants, a policy identified as the preferred alternative to Yucca Mountain by the Obama administration.
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“It’s not an easy issue,” said Rep. Paul Tonko of New York, the ranking member of the subcommittee. “It’s a tough issue, but he is driving an issue that he has embraced, and I respect that.”
The legislation softened from draft versions to maintain key state water and air quality permitting oversight in a nod to Democratic concerns. The bill would also provide financial incentives to Nevada.
Shimkus said he has tried to establish a productive dialogue with groups in the state. He has visited Reno twice to make his case, and he has spoken in front of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce annually for the past five years when they have visited Washington.
But to many in the state, Shimkus’ policy ambition interferes with their state’s rights, putting citizens’ health at risk. The fact that the bill would expand the capacity of the Yucca Mountain site has not helped matters.
“We are pretty united in Nevada against Yucca Mountain, certainly in southern Nevada,” said Democratic Rep. Dina Titus. “We got the chamber of commerce, we got the Nevada resort association, almost all of the elected officials, so he’s not a real welcomed person there.”
Titus said that during one of his trips to Nye County, where Yucca Mountain resides, he visited with pro-Yucca local officials.
“He’s not been playing fair with us, we believe,” she added.
That Nevada opposition extends to Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto — both of whom have the ability to scuttle consideration of the bill on their side of the Capitol. And Heller will face a re-election challenge in November from Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen; opposition to Yucca will be a yardstick for most voters.
Shimkus said the House vote is part of the process, along with renewed interest from the Trump administration, in Yucca Mountain’s return. The administration’s backing could put pressure on the Senate to find some type of matching effort on nuclear waste.
“Getting people on record is an important thing to do,” Shimkus said.
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Ryan Talks DACA Solution, Pelosi Says Iran Deal Withdrawal ‘Dangerous’
Highlights of leadership news conferences today include: Speaker Paul D. Ryan said work with the White House and Democrats is a must for him in the search for a DACA solution. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., criticized President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
Analysis: Trump’s Iran Policy Unmoored From Facts
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government would drop out of the 2015 multinational agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear activities. His White House speech included inaccurate statements and omissions of fact that reflect either misunderstanding of the accord or an effort to distort the historical record.
“At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program,” Trump said. Actually, it was the concern that Iran might be creating the ability to build weapons that led to the 2015 deal.
Trump then said: “Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie. Last week, Israel published intelligence documents, long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the Iranians’ regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons.”
What Trump did not disclose: the Israeli revelations concerned already-well-known Iranian efforts to pursue a nuke more than 15 years ago. Regardless, with the kind of tough inspection regimes contained in the Iran deal, the world does not have to rely on Iran’s word about anything.
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Trump said the deal has allowed Iran to enrich uranium. He left out that Iran agreed to only enrich to levels of uranium-235 needed to operate a nuclear reactor (3.67 percent) – not to the vastly higher levels needed for a bomb (90 percent).
Trump did not mention that, under the 2015 deal, Iran can only maintain a stockpile of 661 pounds of that lower-enriched uranium, versus the thousands of pounds of the higher-enriched uranium it had before the deal.
Also not included in the speech: Iran limited its plutonium enrichment and its enrichment centrifuges, and has sent huge amounts of uranium and plutonium out of the country.
Trump said the deal’s monitoring provisions are inadequate. No credible other source has made that argument. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said it has the access that Iran agreed to provide to its nuclear sites.
Trump has previously contended that the Iranians can block access to sites. But that’s only the case with certain non-nuclear sites, and there’s a process for inspectors to get to those, too, in a short period of time.
Most importantly, international inspectors say they have access to many more facilities than they saw before the deal — and access to every single place they say they have needed to see. U.S. intelligence agencies and Defense Department leaders also have consistently and publicly said that visibility into Iran’s nuclear program has increased substantially and that Iran is doing everything it said it would do.
On Tuesday, America’s president effectively said this country would nonetheless not comply with its end of the bargain.
Trump said the nuclear deal is flawed because it lacks any constraints on Iran’s ballistic missiles and its support for terrorism, including the killing of Americans.
But the United States has sanctions on Iran for its non-nuclear behavior. Perhaps those could be ramped up. But why would the president scuttle progress in one area — the nuclear one — in the hope it would lead to better outcomes on the other concerns?
Trump implied that, under the deal, Iran could rapidly break out and attain a nuclear weapon. But it would take longer under the deal for that to happen than it would have without the deal.
Trump has complained that the deal’s provisions will start to expire in 2025. In fact, its most critical terms last until 2030 and inspectors have access to sites for even longer periods.
But if the problem with the pact is that it doesn’t last long enough, then why isn’t the answer to extend the deal — or to reach a better deal that lasts longer?
Trump says the deal’s limitations on Iran are “weak.” Even if that were true, and that is highly debatable, aren’t weak limitations better than the virtually zero limitations that existed before — and may exist again if the deal is abandoned?
The president seemed to suggest that he would have struck a better arrangement had he been at the negotiating table a few years ago. We’ll never know if that’s true. But why couldn’t Trump sit down with Iran now and hammer out what he thinks is a better deal? He says he’s working toward that. But why pull out beforehand?
Whatever the shortcomings of the Iran deal, the comparison that must be made is not Iran Deal vs. Ideal Other Deal. Rather, it is: World With Iran Deal vs. World Without Iran Deal, whether that world is the world before 2015 or whatever world follows Trump’s announcement.
That brings us to the key question: What’s going to happen now?
It depends on what other nations do. If the Europeans, Russians and Chinese keep doing business with Iran — and especially if the United States does not punish their continued trade with Iran — then little may change.
But there is a wild card question: How much will Trump’s move strengthen Iran’s hardliners? Will they succeed in returning Iran to its previous path of accumulating the know-how and material to build atomic bombs, if they were to choose to do so?
Trump said the 2015 Iran pact would lead to a nuclear arms race in the Mideast. But it’s hard to believe that the absence of a deal would reduce that likelihood. Quite the contrary: If Iran reacts to Trump’s move by returning to its pre-deal nuclear activities, such an arms race would almost certainly become more likely, not less.
Ironically, Trump also said Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was en route to North Korea to strike a nuclear deal with that country. Maybe whatever deal the Trump team reaches with North Korea will be much smarter than the one Obama and other world powers struck with Iran.
On the other hand, maybe Trump will learn how difficult such negotiations are. And maybe he’ll see how much harder it is to talk with an actual nuclear power (North Korea) than with a would-be one (Iran). He may also discover how much countries want in return for giving up a nuclear arsenal, the sort of weaponry that gives the United States and other world powers clout on the global stage.
But Kim Jong Un’s confidence in Trump’s word can hardly be bolstered by watching how Trump has treated the Iran deal — a pact that, according to its admittedly imperfect terms, is, by all believable accounts, working.
Frozen, Canned Fruit Could Become Norm for Fresh Produce Program
As the House GOP wrestles with whether to overhaul the food stamp program and tie it to work in the new farm bill that passed the Agriculture Committee in April, other small changes to the previous law stand out that could markedly affect longstanding federal nutrition programs.
Some lawmakers want to add frozen, canned, pureed and dried produce to the menus of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for schoolchildren.
It’s a proposal Maine GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin says will help American children “be able to eat healthy all year round with nutritious products from across the country,” according to The Associated Press.
Adding packaged and processed fruits and vegetables to the fresh produce snack program is not only “a huge win for our school children,” Poliquin said, but would enlarge the consumer market for blueberry farmers in Maine and other produce industries.
Some Democrats are already pushing back on the proposal to open the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which grants public schools money to purchase fresh produce to provide as snacks for its students free of charge, to more processed goods.
“Once you start whittling away at it, it’s no longer a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable program,” former Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, who initiated the program in 2002, told the AP.
Harkin is dubious of frozen fruits and vegetables because of the sugar and chemicals added to keep them from rotting too quickly. It’d be better to skip freezing and packaging blueberries and instead send fresh bushels straight to the schools, he said.
“People have wanted to include peanuts and trail mix and God knows what else,” Harkin said. “Now this guy from Maine wants frozen or canned blueberries.”
There is no set timetable for a vote on the farm bill, but House Republicans have said they have the votes and plan to proceed without Democratic support.
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Bishop Wants Answers on USDA Program That Kills Kittens
Michigan Rep. Mike Bishop wants an investigation into the Department of Agriculture’s “secretive and problematic” experiments that have reportedly led to the deaths of hundreds of kittens.
Bishop sent a letter on Tuesday to Secretary Sonny Perdue about the cats’ treatment in the experiments, WTOP reported.
The Michigan Republican’s letter said his office researched a project called “Toxoplasmosis in Cats” being conducted in Beltsville, Maryland.
“I’m shocked and disturbed that for decades the USDA — the very organization charged with enforcing animal welfare laws — has been unnecessarily killing hundreds of kittens in expensive and inefficient lab experiments,” his letter read.
Bishop’s letter described how cats were bred and then fed meat infected with toxoplasma so their feces could be collected to harvest parasites, after which the cats would be killed and their remains destroyed by incineration.
“Any government research program like this one that’s been funded since the Nixon administration needs to be put under the microscope, especially when it involves using kittens as disposable test tubes in harmful tests that most taxpayers oppose,” Bishop said in a statement.
Kim Kaplan of the USDA responded in an email to WTOP that using cats was “essential to the success of this critical research” and that “the estimate of 100 cats used in the research … is a serious overestimation.”
Kaplan also said the cats could not be adopted out because they could pose a risk to adoptive families.
“Women newly infected with toxoplasma during pregnancy and anyone with a compromised immune system should be aware that toxoplasmosis can have severe consequences,” Kaplan said.
Watch: The Congressional War on Flowers— A Brief History
Bipartisan Support for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Bill — Except in Nevada
The House will take up legislation this week that would help restart the stalled process for making Nevada’s Yucca Mountain a central repository for commercial nuclear waste. After years of false starts and misses, the bill is moving with bipartisan support.
In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state’s congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.
The Rules Committee on Tuesday readied, 7-4, a structure rule for floor consideration of the bill. In total, three Democratic amendments, but only one from the Nevada delegation, will be considered on the floor, including a Rep. Dina Titus substitute amendment to require consent-based siting in the approval process.
The bill would tackle a to-do list of pending Yucca Mountain policy items, including a series of federal government land transfers, a revamped economic incentive package for Nevada and a change to the fee collected from consumers of electricity generated by nuclear power.
The legislation would also authorize the Department of Energy to construct an interim storage facility to collect waste from reactor sites across the country and consolidate it in remote areas on a temporary basis while the federal government moves forward on a permanent repository.
The temporary storage option, originally backed by the Obama administration as its preferred alternative to Yucca Mountain, would open a new pathway for the nuclear waste, now stored on-site at nuclear generating stations. It would represent a breakthrough in the nuclear logjam that has flummoxed appropriators for most of this decade. Yucca Mountain would move on a parallel track to any pilot storage program.
“Interim storage was really the big thing that helped move this down the field,” Illinois Republican Rep. John Shimkus, the bill’s sponsor, told reporters.
The nuclear waste issue has been a regular feature of the annual Energy Department appropriations cycle. House Republicans have funded Yucca Mountain but not interim storage. The Senate has funded interim storage but not Yucca Mountain. The result has been that neither option has received funding in more than five years.
“People are ready to do something rather than nothing,” Shimkus said, predicting a strong bipartisan vote on the bill.
Local opposition to the Yucca site has always been strong, but this year two members of the Nevada delegation, Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, are heading toward a close Senate race against each other in November. Both oppose the project.
The state’s resistance extends back to when Congress first officially designated Yucca Mountain as the nation’s commercial waste repository in 1987 as an update to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Dubbed the “screw Nevada bill” by Democrat Harry Reid — a freshman senator at the time — the law moved forward without the support of Nevada lawmakers. Critics complained that the site and shipment of nuclear waste through the state could expose citizens to radioactivity via leaks into the water tables or a potential shipping derailment.
Reid would make the scuttling of Yucca Mountain a central tenet of his time in the Senate. The local opposition, combined with a sympathetic Obama administration, eventually led to the shuttering of the project in 2010. The license application, submitted in 2008, has remained in a suspended state, although it remains pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
But with the Trump administration renewing interest in moving Yucca Mountain forward, Nevada lawmakers are seeing the potential for a second “screw Nevada” congressional moment.
“This legislation is Screw Nevada 2.0,” Titus said in a statement. “Nevada is not a wasteland, and I’ll continue to fight any attempt to turn it into the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground.”
Rosen filed an amendment to the Rules Committee that would hold off any licensing activity for Yucca Mountain until the Office of Management and Budget conducts a study of the economic impacts from alternative uses of Yucca Mountain.
Heller, meanwhile, remains a roadblock in the Senate for the bill moving forward. He is already blocking consideration of two NRC nominees who have voiced support for continuing the Yucca Mountain license process. Those holds threaten to leave the NRC without the needed number of commissioners to hold a quorum by the end of June.
The legislation has the support of the nuclear industry and the DOE, both of which want to see nuclear waste moved from reactor sites across the country.
Shimkus’ bill “would help place the federal government on a path to fulfill its responsibilities and to unburden taxpayers of the ever-mounting liability by establishing a durable program for managing used nuclear fuel,” Nuclear Energy Institute President Maria Korsnick said in a Sept. 27 letter endorsing the bill.
In total, there are some 81,000 metric tons of nuclear waste across 35 states awaiting DOE action. That sitting waste represents about $34 billion in liabilities to the federal government. The United States paid out approximately $700 million in fiscal 2017 to compensate utilities for its failure to take title of the waste under timelines set in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, and those payments are likely to continue for the foreseeable future without action.
Movement on a nuclear waste strategy would also enable the federal government to begin collecting the Nuclear Waste Fund fee again. A federal court stopped the payments over a lack of a coordinated strategy to move the waste, leaving the fund to only increase through interest payments. It currently sits at about $40 billion. Cost estimates place the full construction of Yucca Mountain at over $100 billion.
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Part of Jun 2012 by Groovey
I Got the Hots for TheCoolTv
I hate cable. Do you remember when The History Channel had programming about stuff that happened in the universe before this present moment and not: “WAS HITLER BIGFOOT’S LOVE CHILD!?!” “I just gotta find out!” The answer is always, “ummmm, probably not. Where’s the closest bank? I have to cash this check.” They slap down the cheese, we always leap for it, and then the cold steel bar slaps down on the breaking neck of our collective intelligence.
Or do you remember when The Discovery Channel was about something called “Sci…Sci-uh…Science! Yeah that was the word!” “Whatcha watchin’ honey?” “Well first up is “Ghost Punchers”, then there’s the “Dumpster Painter’s” marathon and then a new show called “Idiot.” “What’s “Idiot” about?” “I guess they figured out a way to mirror the surface of your TV screen from the other side!” “Ohhh I’ll make popcorn!” And don’t tell me the “Premium” channels are worth it. Its 160 hours a week of “Earnest Goes Cross Country Bowling” type movies and then 8 hours of the one show you want to see played once and rerun 7 times. Just buy the DVDs when the season is over and watch at your leisure. Be sure and tell your friends and enemies to shut up when they try to ruin the plot for you. And we all freakin’ know the so called music channels on cable are a cruel joke of reality TV mush.
So a couple years ago I bought one of those cheap flat screens to play Xbox on. That’s all I used it for. Then one day about three months ago I got a wild hare of curiosity wondering if broadcast TV still existed. Rather than simply switch input from my Xbox to the TV I had to call a man-friend for man-support about my man-question. Hey, it’s scary stuff. His answer was, “Wow, I have no idea. Switch inputs and see what happens.” So there we were, struck silent by this adventure, and BAM! No way! All in the Family!
I abruptly hung up and watched Edith Bunker for a good week straight. Then the fateful moment came when I had to take my first baby steps out of the Bunker household and change the channel and BAM! Music video channel. 24 hours a day.
TheCoolTV is based out of Lawrence, Kansas (In an old cabinet shop.) which actually makes sense because Lawrence has a hopping music scene. The channel was founded by Joe Comparato as an outgrowth of his studio and his concert video production company Cool Music Network which is one reason why TheCoolTv has a ton of concert footage some of which is in definite over rotation like the Styx DVD footage which was cool the first few dozen times. The spectrum of videos that are played range from pop to “huh?” to “rad!” and from ancient to “As soon as I’m done with my coffee I will send it over to CoolTv.” I have heard that the programming is tailored to your local areas tastes so if the programming director of your local station is a dunderhead or you live in the polka capital of the world then I guess things could suck for you. There are some actual “programs” which are really just videos of the same theme all clumped together and these range from “Over Easy” to “Dance/Tonic” to the “Big Heavy Rock Hour”. There is one actual show that is a traditional show called “From the Road” which has interviews and concert footage. There’s no VJs getting their hair stuck in the spokes of their egos to deal with and besides a bit too many Time/Life infomercials about CD box sets the amount of commercial breaks aren’t too overwhelming I think mainly because the demographics are all over the place so is all the advertising.
TheCoolTV is currently in a crap ton (technical term) of cities and as usual you can go to their website to figure out your situation and Wikipedia has a list as well. In ABQ it’s KASA-TV virtual channel 2.2 physical channel 27 and in Denver KMGH-TV virtual channel 7.3 physical channel 7. About as well as I can describe the “virtual channel” thing is that there’s actually four channel seven’s in Denver and the third one is TheCoolTv. The videos on this page are three that were played in a row while I was typing this to give you a sample of the programming.
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BROCANTE TO LIVE IN PALMA
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After working for three decades as a banker and lawyer, the German Lothar Wackerbeck left everything to open ‘Decorum’, an exquisite brocante that blends East and West in Palma de…
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APARTMENT WITH GREEN MINT TOUCHES
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This apartment had a lot of light and possibilities, you just had to give continuity and spaciousness of spaces, so you chose white, gray and above all, small touches of…
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HOUSE WITH FRENCH ACCENT
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This small townhouse in Aravaca (Madrid) perfectly reflects the personality of its owner. It breathes tranquility, simplicity and luminosity. Feminine but subtle. Minimal but warm. Balanced.
The owner of this house had it for many years but had never lived there since she had worked in different countries for the French Embassy since she was young. Although Spanish has always been linked to that country, “to the point of having an accent”, according to the architect Helena Martín, responsible for the transformation of the home. When she retired, she wanted to live in Spain again and have a home in which to feel recognized. That was the big challenge.
“The original house was quite dark (all the living room and kitchen faces north), very compartmentalized, had a closed staircase lined with wood … and what the owner was looking for was an open, comfortable space that reminded her a little to the spacious and clear houses in which she had always lived, “explains Helena Martín, who, in order to do so, left the ground floor almost completely open and the whole stairway was demolished to make a new, open and light. In addition, in the upstairs plant a bedroom was suppressed to give more amplitude to the others and to be able to create a dressing room in the main one.
In the decoration is where Helena wanted to capture with more closeness the personality of the owner. “I tried to create a neutral base and give soft touches using colors in complements,” explains the interior designer and architect. Salon, chose a large sofa in linen color, vintage Persian rug, a pair of aged mirrors to support the search for light, a wooden table and demolition reddish pink lacquered desktop that provides color.
The house has a small garden and modified the porch to give half to the kitchen and make an office with large windows overlooking the garden, which serves as dining room. For that part, Helena designed a table made of iron lacquered in green, with an envelope in marble, and with a fabric of Ikea made some seats in black and white that soon accompanied with many cushions in the same tones. To give a little warmth, he put on chairs and a lamp with a slightly more country-like appearance. The perfect space to enjoy a good wine with a table of French cheeses.
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In Mayfair, the luxury (and expensive) neighborhood of London, the British capital, this floor full of works of art and design pieces fascinates us. Shalini Misra is the talent behind…
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LUXURY WITHOUT BRIGHTNESS
Facing the Pacific in Malibu, Kelly Wearstler reinvents his explosive style in the earthy shades of the beach where he sits his summer retreat. Sophistication without brilliance, natural and unrefined.…
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BEACH AND URBAN FLAT
Beach and urban flat. Vegetable papers, French furniture from the 50’s and the best Italian vintage. The pampered children of the Monegasque decoration, Humbert & Poyet sign this flat at…
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WOULD YOU BET IT IS PARIS?
When an interior designer decorates her own home in Paris, the result is always as peculiar as personal. The most fashionable decorator in France, Emilie Bonaventure, showed us in her Parisian flat.
Emilie Bonaventure – founder of the be-attitude agency in 2005 – is all that and her projects prove it to perfection. She is an interior architect, designer, decorator and contemporary art expert, passionate about fashion and gastronomy.
Located in the 9th arrondissement, on the famous street des Martyrs in the district of Montmartre, Emilie Bonaventure’s apartment is his personal refuge but until recently it was also his office. Here, she used to work with her team, particularly in the dining room where the Rose Bakery Team Room concept was born, for example, in the Le Bon Marché store. Today Emilie has an office outside her house, just a few meters from her bright and typically Parisian apartment that has a wooden floor, moldings and fireplaces.
Emilie studied art history at the school of the Louvre and the decor of her home reflects her taste for discipline and especially for objects. “An object is a part of itself, a piece of its own puzzle,” he says. Each element of his apartment tells a story and many were found in the flea market of Saint-Ouen (on the outskirts of Paris). Furniture from the 40s, 50s and 60s coexist with contemporary works of art.
In general, Emilie designs colorful creations with many contrasts. On the contrary, it privileged in its home the neutral tones like the Wimborne White of Farrow & Ball that is combined with some brown and black touches. In the room, he chose pieces from different periods – such as Geoffrey Harcourt’s chair and the neon work of the artist Eric Michel – but with the same types of colors. In the dining room where the table is by Angelo Mangiarotti, the chairs are from the 50’s and the brass lamp dates from the 70’s, the David Hicks wallpaper for Au Fil des Couleurs stands out.
Totally black and gray, the kitchen adorned with works by Pierre Soulages is one of the key spaces. Emilie loves to cook, a passion that was born from her childhood, because her parents own restaurants. “When I was eight, I was fortunate enough to eat with chef Marc Veyrat. I never forgot this experience. The mixture of curiosity, imagination, creativity and professionalism that characterizes it has become a true example for me, a way of thinking. ”
The chromatic palette of the bedroom refers to the living room and provides a peaceful feeling. Interested in people in their everyday universe and their relationship with objects in their environment, Emilie Bonaventure always seeks to generate new ideas to give life to spaces with style.
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I am back from some more travelling (onshore not offshore) and am catching up with the news from Sydney where Glenn Davies has been elected the new Archbishop (see here and here and here). That means I was not just wrong but very wrong when some months ago I posted with the headline 'Glenn, I would withdraw now'. Why did I write that and what did I miss?
I wrote that because I was impressed with the numbers and the names being marshaled in support of Rick Smith. It looked like 'the establishment' if not 'the hierarchy' of the diocese was naming 'its' candidate. To an extent I think that was so (because an impressive number were from Standing Committee and from Moore College, and the Dean of Sydney, Philip Jensen was among the prominent names). But what I clearly misread was the possibility that the Diocese in its vote would be capable of signalling a change from the direction it had been heading in.
Since I am a flawed interpreter the following sentences may be worthless but I will write them anyway. I suggest that the election was not about either Glenn Davies or Rick Smith (on all accounts very fine men in their character and very equal in their theological convictions) but about the theological character of the Diocese as it moves forward into a new future. The appalling (and I use that word deliberately) attempts in the last few days before the election to cast shadows of doubt on the theological convictions of Bishop Glenn Davies* serves as a salutary reminder that a strong motivation behind support for Rick Smith was the maintenance of a theological purity of a particular 'Reformed Evangelicalism' kind. By electing Glenn Davies to be the next archbishop I suggest the Diocese of Sydney has said, "Enough. We are going to live with a degree of tolerance among ourselves as to what constitutes conservative evangelicalism."
No one should expect (say) the ordination of women as presbyters to come to Sydney any time soon. But should that come to pass in 100 years time, historians will look back on 2013 as the year in which the Diocese indicated it would be open to a wider variety of theological voices speaking into the life of the Diocese than has hitherto been the case.
*Non-evangelical readers may need to understand that within conservative evangelicalism the mere casting of shadows of doubt on a brother or sister's theological standing within the evangelical community can be the death-knell of hopes for appointment, retention of tenure, continued invitations to speak and preach ... It would now appear that these attempts were the desperate attempts of supporters realising that the tide was flowing against them.
A moderated comment from Ron Smith:
"" But what I clearly misread was the possibility that the Diocese in its vote would be capable of signalling a change from the direction it had been heading in." - Peter Carrell -
No doubt, Peter, as you have suggested, the fruits of the election have arisen from a profound reaction to Dean Phillip Jensen's [...] of Bishop Glen's capabilities to lead the Sydney archdiocese into a time of more eirenic and open attitudes to the 'semper reformanda' ethos of traditional Anglicanism.
Had the alternative candidate been successful, it could have signalled a 'more of the same' alliance with the GAFCON Provinces' distaste for openness to new initiatives of the Gospel imperative - towards the consideration of a modern, eirenic understanding of the intrinsic value of women and gays in the Church. At least, that is my view.
With the Provincial Archbishop, ++Phillip Aspinall, my hope is that the new ABS will be more ready to listen to Anglicans in the wider world, in order to enter into a more collegial relationship with the home Province.
Prayers for the new Archbishop!
I have omitted a word because it makes for a phrase which is an inaccurate description of what transpired a few days ago. The Dean did not question, deny or generally run down the capabilities of +Glenn to lead the Sydney diocese. Rather he questioned the theology of the man.
No one should expect (say) the ordination of women as presbyters to come to Sydney any time soon.
They don't even ordain men as presbyters unless there is a parish vacant and the man gets picked to take it over.
Alan Wood said...
Peter, I think your interpretation over-reads the significance of +Glenn's election. In support of this, I'd offer Harry Goodhew's time as Archbishop in the 90s - in the teeth of a strong vote for Phillip Jensen. ++Goodhew was preceded by ++Robinson, succeeded by ++Jensen. I don't think Sydney-dislikers would say that ++Goodhew's election was 'the year in which the Diocese indicated it would be open &c'.
I think that one of "Sydney"'s strengths is that it is evangelical rather than fundamentalist - it values scholarship, and in particular sustained engagement with the Bible text. But to think well (especially in theology), you do also need to listen - so that broadens the field of "allowable" opinions. Sydney's other obvious strength is its size: 270 parochial units, big College (and not just of ordinands), big city, big glebe. But breadth also comes with a larger group.
As a result of those two factors, but not because of deliberate or conscious disagreement and differentiation in theologies, I think there are a 'wider variety of theological voices speaking into the life of the Diocese' than it appears from outside. Sometimes, that allowable breadth is indicated in elections, and can be interpreted as a reaction against narrowness. So, it is an 'enough', but it's not an 'Enough!'
And, it still leaves "Sydney" unacceptably narrow to Julia Baird and others.
I appreciate that insight - thank you. I take your point about the Goodhew 'moment' not being susceptible to the interpretation I bring!
My rejoinder (in a friendly spirit of enquiry rather than of argumentation) is to ask whether 13 years into a new century of rapid social and demographic change, this moment of choosing not to go down one path of (as I would argue) narrowness is a moment of great historical significance than the point when Harry Goodhew was elected.
One day the historians can give us an answer, should the Lord tarry!
PhillRead said...
as a member of the Synod the main feeling was that both were good candidates. The reason you would go for Rick was because he would continue to push mission. The reason you would vote for Glenn was experience.
That's what the debates centred on.
I know you're interacting with the Dean's papers, but I think that this is how many people on Synod approached the matter
It is always good, Phill, to hear that a synod is approaching such an important matter with maturity!
“Non-evangelical readers may need to understand that within conservative evangelicalism the mere casting of shadows of doubt on a brother or sister's theological standing within the evangelical community can be the death-knell of hopes for appointment, retention of tenure, continued invitations to speak and preach ...” Fr. Carrell
This situation seems quite oppressive to me. Almost Stalinist, in fact. But given the denunciatory ethos of much of the American Evangelicalism that I have witnessed during my lifetime, it’s a logical outcome.
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A Brief and Hasty Argument Against Genre
Gabriel Kahane · February 2016
I spent the afternoon talking to a pair of truly intelligent journalists who wanted to know why it is that I so often bristle against discussions of genre, e.g.:
Please, please, please, please, please, stop talking about genre
— Gabriel Kahane (@gabrielkahane) December 17, 2015
I thought it might be a good idea to lay out, briefly, what it is that I object to about genre as a discourse. Here’s the thing: For the most part, everything that is new is a hybrid of two or more things that came before. This has always been the case.
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Whether it’s Ligeti marrying the rhythms of West African drumming to the pianism of Debussy (with a little bit of chaos theory thrown in for good measure) in his first étude, “Désordre,” or Sufjan Stevens blending the ecstatic folk singing of Judee Sill with Philip Glass’ Music in Twelve Parts in “The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades,” progress is often found in the alchemy of disparate idioms. But the thing is, these sources, and the exoticism engendered by the apparent chasm between them, are only as interesting as the craft that’s brought to bear on their marriage. Anyone can put a hip-hop beat under a 12-tone row. The question is: Is it expressive, and is it in the service of something authentic?
What so often gets lost in the discourse on genre is precisely the issue of craft and the extent to which craft is or is not present in these hybrid works. I wish that we could start conversations about a work of art from a place of examining its craft and then, if necessary, work our way back to talking about the component parts or idiomatic reference points that comprise the language of that work. One of the dangers of simply talking about genre qua genre, aside from the fact that hybridity is the order of the day, is that the quality of the work becomes secondary to its stylistic attributes.
If we just call it songwriting, there’s a better chance that more listeners will give it a chance…
But the other thing I find irritating about all of these hyphenated-descriptor-laden genre conversations is that I believe they’re alienating to a lot of listeners. If you describe your work as “art pop song,” you threaten to drive away listeners who may not think they’re sophisticated enough to like “art music” or who generally don’t care for such highfalutin things. As far as my own work as a songwriter is concerned, my credo is to let whatever is sophisticated or complex be a humble and often invisible servant to the primary concern, which is to tell a story or depict a character in as clear and succinct a way as possible. If we just call it songwriting, there’s a better chance that more listeners will give it a chance than if we silo the thing as “art song” or “chamber pop” or what have you.
Now, I know that descriptors often provide a useful shorthand for letting a reader know what something is going to sound like, but in an era where kids are making playlists that run from Kendrick Lamar to Karlheinz Stockhausen, shouldn’t we allow craft, rather than categorization, to lead the conversation?
See the original publication of this article and more from Gabriel Kahane here
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Around 700 attend Sunday flea market
April 22, 2012 Anisha Nair
It was an unusual Sunday buzzing in Bengaluru with activities. Colours were all around. Creativity seemed to be at its peak. From perfectly cut wine bottles to make a pot, to neatly sewn fabric wastes forming into beautiful earrings and a lot more. You name it and you have it there.
All this and more was at the fourth edition of "Second to none" flea market held at Jaaga on KH road. "This was the busiest of all the flea markets we have held so far," says Anupama G, the organiser of this market.
"Second to none" (220) flea market is a platform where people come together to sell recycled and upcycled stuff and also some second hand products that are no longer useful to them. Clothes, luggage bags, books and a lot more was on sale at the market. More than 40 sellers came up and sold their old belongings and recycled or upcycled products.
Visitors having a gala time. Pic: Anisha Nair
Bottles made of paper mache. Pic: Anisha Nair
Boxes made of Banana Fibre. Pic: Anisha Nair
Bum bags. Pic: Anisha Nair
Hand woven colourful pen stands. Pic: Anisha Nair
Pots made of waste bottles on sale. Pic: Anisha Nair
Pen stands made of old cassettes. Pic: Anisha Nair
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For some, the products were more out of the time spent with family. For others, it was using waste material to make something new and trendy. There were also those motivated to help the needy.
Every seller had their own story
"For me, it is the time my 10-year-old daughter Anokhi and I get together and do something creative. We come up with ideas to upcycle products and something innovative out of the waste. This is the time we indulge in activities and have fun," says Poornima Bhola, who sold pen stands and holders made of cassettes, button necklaces, message bottles and trendy hair bands made of jean fabric and buttons.
Two friends got together and decided to do something about the waste keyboard keys and the perfume bottles. Abhishek Agarwal, 35, says they did not want to waste the keyboard buttons and perfume bottles.
"We made finger rings out of keyboard keys and necklace out of the spring underneath. That was trendy and usable. And we enjoyed doing that," says Luis Svarez, 36, who sold cassette pouches, key necklaces, key cap finger rings and more at the market. They participated in the 220 market for the second time and say that the response has been better than the previous one.
Just wanting to make something out of waste
Recycling is not only the need of the hour, it has also become a trend these days is what they believe.
Preeti Maneesh, designer says, "I was once at a tailor’s shop and saw a lot of fabric waste lying there. That’s when I thought of this idea of using these fabrics and making them into earrings. They are not only trendy but also use up the small waste materials." She sold earrings made of waste fabric and papers.
A stall full of incomplete masks was an eye-catcher. Sharwari Tilloo, an artist, made these masks out of paper mache and completely organic and herbal materials like Methi, twigs and leaves. Some feature was missing from every mask. She says, "No person is complete. Nobody is perfect. These masks symbolise the imperfection in every person. Also masks are always in muted colours. So I wanted to give a Kaanjivaram touch to these masks."
Anindita Chakraborty, 29, says she was shifting place and had a lot of stuff to be given away. So she decided to come to the 220 market and sell her belongings. "I am moving elsewhere to pursue higher studies. I have a lot of clothes and books to be given away. So I though of coming to the market and trying to see if I find any buyers."This was the first time she participated and the experience has been overwhelming for her. She sold her clothes and books that she could not take along with her.
Sonia D, a designer selling Bum Bags at the market says, "We have collaborated with NIMHANS where mentally challenged people make bags out of the waste, roughed pair of jeans. In this way, they are able to make some money for themselves." These bags are made out of the waist and bum portion of the jeans stitched and made into trendy handbags. She says this is the fourth time she has participated and the response is increasing with each time.
The stories were never-ending. In addition, it was a sign that people’s minds were opening. Some were welcoming the concept of ‘garage sale’-culture from the West while some others felt it was too early to accept the concept completely.
Still, it surely was a fun market with lot of happenings all around. Not to forget Krishna Panyam’s beautiful Origami structures on display.
What is fun without food!
Flavours like tomato jams were a sure hit. Freshly baked cupcakes were the major attraction. Strawberry cupcakes with chocolate frostings, and chocolate cupcakes also with the same frostings were on demand by kids.
All in all, it was a fun day on a Sunday. About 700 people from all age group visited the 220 flea market on April 22, 2012 and had loads of fun. Anupama says, "The response is very high this time. When we held it for the first time, it was just about 20 sellers and 250 people who joined and participated. This is the fourth time, the numbers are more than double."
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Cheap TVs - As previously mentioned, both Amazon and Best Buy are going to have some really cheap TVs for Black Friday this year. Amazon will have more off-brand models, while Best Buy will feature premium brands. Expect Amazon to feature another off-brand 32-inch TV for $69.99 and I expect Best Buy will offer a 50-Inch 4K TV for $169.99 and 55-inch 4K TV for $219.99 - both from decent brands.
Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and Turkey. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were also launched.[7][8][9] Amazon also offers international shipping of some of its products to certain other countries.[10]
After the introduction of the September 5, 2018 'Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act', Amazon announced to its workers on October 2, 2018, that the minimum wage paid to salaried workers be increased to $15 per hour.[153] The wage increase applies to about 350,000 workers. It does not apply to the majority of Amazon's employees who are contract workers. Furthermore, Amazon has also removed some grants and stock options.
West Basics via Amazon offers the West Leathers Men's Italian Top Grain Leather Belt in several styles (202 pictured) for $25.99. Coupon code "KQDXI6PL" cuts that to $10.40. With free shipping, that's tied with our mention from two weeks ago, $16 off, and the lowest price we could find. It's available in sizes 20"-36" and 20"-42", although not in all styles. Deal ends November 7.
Make your home environment even smarter with Amazon Echo Show. Echo Show brings you everything you love about Alexa, and now she can show you things Watch video flash briefings and YouTube, see music lyrics, security cameras, photos, weather forecasts, to-do and shopping lists, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more Powerful, room-filling speakers with Dolby processing for crisp vocals and extended bass response. Make calls to friends and family or make video calls to anyone with an Echo Spot, Echo Show or the Alexa App See lyrics on-screen with Amazon Music. Just ask to play a song, artist or genre, and stream over Wi-Fi. Also, stream music on Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and more What's Included Echo Show Power adaptor 7.4H x 7.4W x 3.5D Cord length: 6-ft... Less
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Yiues via Amazon offers its Yiues Nylon Sport Loop Replacement Band for Apple Watch in several colors (Black/White pictured) for $10.99. Coupon code "I2QA8GDL" cuts it to $5.49. With free shipping for Prime members, that's $6 off and the lowest price we could find. It comes with an Apple Watch case and is available in sizes 38mm and 42mm. Deal ends November 20.
Twitch is a live streaming platform for video, primarily oriented towards video gaming content. The service was first established as a spin-off of a general-interest streaming service known as Justin.tv. Its prominence was eclipsed by that of Twitch, and Justin.tv was eventually shut down by its parent company in August 2014 in order to focus exclusively on Twitch.[104] Later that month, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for $970 million.[105] Through Twitch, Amazon also owns Curse, Inc., an operator of video gaming communities and a provider of VoIP services for gaming.[106] Since the acquisition, Twitch began to sell games directly through the platform,[107] and began offering special features for Amazon Prime subscribers.[108]
One of the pleasures of online shopping is the ease of comparison browsing. With the online-business boom, however, there are now thousands of new stores, and a lot of confusion. Not all Web stores are equal, and hours can be lost--in the pursuit of saving time--perusing Web sites that provide scanty information or complicated procedures or both. And some Web sites turn out to be mere catalog pages and don't allow you to order at all.
Throughout the summer of 2018, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Amazon's wages and working conditions in a series of YouTube videos and media appearances. He also pointed to the fact that Amazon had paid no federal income tax in the previous year.[170] Sanders solicited stories from Amazon warehouse workers who felt exploited by the company.[171] One such story, by James Bloodworth, described the environment as akin to "a low-security prison" and stated that the company's culture used an Orwellian newspeak.[172] These reports cited a finding by New Food Economy that one third of fulfilment center workers in Arizona were on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).[173] Responses by Amazon included incentives for employees to tweet positive stories and a statement which called the salary figures used by Sanders "inaccurate and misleading". The statement also charged that it was inappropriate for him to refer to SNAP as "food stamps".[171] On September 5, 2018, Sanders along with Ro Khanna introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act aimed at Amazon and other alleged beneficiaries of corporate welfare such as Wal-mart, McDonald's and Uber.[174] Among the bill's supporters were Tucker Carlson of Fox News and Matt Taibbi who criticized himself and other journalists for not covering Amazon's contribution to wealth inequality earlier.[175][176]
To avoid copyright violations, Amazon does not return the computer-readable text of the book. Instead, it returns a picture of the matching page, instructs the web browser to disable printing and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Additionally, customers can purchase online access to some of the same books via the "Amazon Upgrade" program.[citation needed]
Premium TV Deals - Amazon was the winner when it came to the cheapest possible TV deals, but Best Buy offered higher quality TV deals. Last year, it sold a Sharp 50-inch 4K TV for $179.99 (review deal) and a 55-inch Toshiba 4K UHD TV for $279.99 (review deal). Factoring in price and quality, those were arguably the top two TV deals of the year. Unfortunately, both TVs were available in-store only, but it was well worth the trip if getting the best deal was your goal.
As a reader discovered, BJ's Wholesale Club offers the Dyson V6 Animal Bagless Cordless Stick Vacuum in Slate Grey for $199.99 with free shipping. That's tied with last month's mention as the best price we've ever seen for a new unit. (It's a current low by $79.) It features a Dyson digital V6 motor, and includes a mini motorized tool, mini soft dusting brush, docking station, combination tool, and crevice tool.
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In March 2015, it was reported in The Verge that Amazon will be removing non-compete clauses of 18 months in length from its US employment contracts for hourly-paid workers, after criticism that it was acting unreasonably in preventing such employees from finding other work. Even short-term temporary workers have to sign contracts that prohibit them from working at any company where they would "directly or indirectly" support any good or service that competes with those they helped support at Amazon, for 18 months after leaving Amazon, even if they are fired or made redundant.[190][191]
Who doesn’t like to save money on their purchases? Comparison shopping is a habit that customers have developed that helps them find the best deals online. With a tonne of price comparison shopping engines and discount shopping websites, it’s becoming increasingly simpler for customers to find the best deals online. Whether they’re looking to compare flight prices or hotel prices for a vacation, or they’re simply looking to compare local supermarket prices to see where they can get the best deals. Everything is becoming attainable through price comparison search engines.
What’s great is the ability to search for exactly what you want instead of wasting your time scrolling through a list of deals. You can also search by category. Each one has a separate webpage with multiple tabs - including tabs listing special offers, coupons and markdowns taken off the already discounted outlet price! Just keep in mind, this may not be the best the price on Amazon. A search for digital cameras pulled up good deals on both Amazon and Amazon Outlet.
Amazon Device Deals - Last year, Amazon offered the Echo Dot for $29.99, (review deal) the Echo Plus for $119.99, (review deal) the Fire 7 Kids Edition for $69.99, (review deal) the Fire HD 10 for $99.99, (review deal) and the Kindle for $49.99. (review deal). While Best Buy had an impressive selection of Amazon device deals last year (review deals), it is still better to make the purchase from the source. Amazon not only had the largest quantity of its own devices, but it also had special deals that you do not generally see at Best Buy and other retailers. For example, it offered the Fire HD 8 Kids Edition for $89.99 but you saved an additional $10 if you purchased two (review deal).
It's almost the weekend and we all need to a little distraction to get us through those final hours of the workweek. Personally, I like to do a little online shopping during my work breaks. Every day, Amazon has some great deals and price drops on some of our favorite products, but it takes some digging to find them and some research to make sure they're actually a good deal. Lucky for you, I did that work for you and found some great deals on products we've actually tested, so you know you getting your money's worth.
As one of its daily deals, Woot via Amazon offers the refurbished Samsung 28" 4K LED-Backlit LCD Monitor for $229.99 with free shipping. Although it was $10 less for a refurb in August, it's still $65 cheaper than the best price we could find for a new unit today. It features a 3840x2160 4K native resolution, 1ms response time, DisplayPort, and two HDMI inputs. A 90-day Samsung warranty applies. Deal ends today.
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Enjoy music in a new way with this crazy looking speaker that won't just look good in whatever room adding a touch of modern design but offer a precise wireless solution to play your music. Newegg is offering these speakers for a $110.99 w/ free shipping but enter the promo code and it drops to just $99.89. Alternatively, I found the same speaker listing for $149.95 on Walmart's site. More Info »
As part of their Deal of the Day, Zojirushi is offering great prices on some of their best products, including the best travel mug we've ever tested. We loved this mug because it literally keeps your drink warm all day long, easily fits into a cup holder, and comes in a few stylish colors. Right now, you can get it Smoky Blue for the lowest price we've ever seen and Slate Gray for just a few dollars more. It's the perfect container to make that switch to hot coffee and save a few bucks (and the environment!) by not going to a coffee shop each day.
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Found an item at a good price? Before you purchase, check promotional code sites like our own Clark Deals as a final step to see if you can save a little more, or maybe score some free shipping. (Tip: Read the comments under the codes to get additional saving tips from other shoppers — these can give you valuable clues to getting a better deal with that store or item). See Clark’s master list of Deal-a-Day websites and online coupon sites.
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Promo codes are a great way to get additional savings at checkout. They can be issued by the seller, as well as Customer Service directly through Amazon. You can also find them on those digital coupon websites, but they are not always an extra discount. Sometimes they are simply the sale price currently being offered on Amazon, so don’t waste too much time trying to track down an extra code.
The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that is updated hourly. Effectively, it is a "best sellers list" for the millions of products stocked by Amazon.[134] While the ASR has no direct effect on the sales of a product, it is used by Amazon to determine which products to include in its bestsellers lists.[134] Products that appear in these lists enjoy additional exposure on the Amazon website and this may lead to an increase in sales. In particular, products that experience large jumps (up or down) in their sales ranks may be included within Amazon's lists of "movers and shakers"; such a listing provides additional exposure that might lead to an increase in sales.[135] For competitive reasons, Amazon does not release actual sales figures to the public. However, Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the Nielsen BookScan service to verified authors.[136] While the ASR has been the source of much speculation by publishers, manufacturers, and marketers, Amazon itself does not release the details of its sales rank calculation algorithm. Some companies have analyzed Amazon sales data to generate sales estimates based on the ASR,[137] though Amazon states:
Buying a tech gift this holiday season? Download BuyVia to your iOS or Android device. It compares prices at national and local outlets and lets you set up alerts (including location-based) for products. At a store and unsure if the price on the shelf is the lowest you can find? Use the UPC barcode scanner to get an answer on the spot. BuyVia also simplifies the tech jargon for gift buyers and quotes reviews (including PCMag's) in its product descriptions, recommending who it would make a good gift for and how they can use it.
In November 2015, Amazon opened its first physical bookstore location. It is named Amazon Books and is located in University Village in Seattle. The store is 5,500 square feet and prices for all products match those on its website.[149] Amazon will open its tenth physical book store in 2017;[150] media speculation suggests Amazon plans to eventually roll out 300 to 400 bookstores around the country.[149] Amazon plans to open brick and mortar bookstores in Germany.[151]
On Amazon, the basic search lets you filter returns on the left side-rail by product specifications, brands and reviews. Once you start to narrow your search, you can define it further by price and discount. The fewer restrictions you put on your search, the higher the number of returns. For example, many people mistakenly only search for items with “Free Shipping”, which could exclude better deals.
Shopping robots like camelcamelcamel, the tracktor and Online Price Alert can help you track prices on Amazon, but you have to be patient. Set up an account, then simply copy the URL for the exact product you want from Amazon’s website into your account. The Camelizer and Tracktor chart out the recent price history so you know if it is going up or down. All three sites alert you when the price matches what you designed as the price you will pay.
Junglee is a former online shopping service provided by Amazon that enabled customers to search for products from online and offline retailers in India. Junglee started off as a virtual database that was used to extract information off the internet and deliver it to enterprise applications. As it progressed, Junglee started to use its database technology to create a single window marketplace on the internet by making every item from every supplier available for purchase. Web shoppers could locate, compare and transact millions of products from across the Internet shopping mall through one window.[114]
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As one of its daily deals, Jos. A. Bank discounts a selection of its Jos. A. Bank men's dress shirts to $19 $19.97 (Traveler Collection Slim Fit Dress Shirt pictured). Plus, Bank Account Rewards members get free shipping. (Not a member? It's free to join.) It's not the lowest price we've seen on most of these shirts, but each style is still discounted by a substantial $51; stock is also better than usual for these sales. Deal ends today.
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Maxar brings together Earth and space technologies that enable unprecedented capabilities to observe, analyze and monitor, and communicate across our planet and throughout the solar system.
Solving Problems in Space
At Maxar, we develop technologies essential for sustainable exploration of deep space. With our on-orbit servicing capabilities we can solve problems, add capabilities and refuel space vehicles—the pit-stop services (hundreds of miles up) that enable a new era of exploring and understanding the universe—and Building a Better World.
Maxar Missions Video Series: Robotics in Space
Episode 1 is the story of how two Maxar companies, MDA and SSL, are developing technology that will change the satellite market with robotic servicing including refueling and repair.
Now is the Time for On-Orbit Satellite Servicing
The combination of on-orbit satellite servicing and assembly could drastically change the industry. SSL's Richard White explains to Via Satellite.
A Look into NASA's Dragonfly Program
Dragonfly is a robotic assembly-in-space program designed to provide flexibility with building and operating structures in space.
Canadarm2 Makes 30th 'Catch'
“We didn’t come close in terms of envisioning the amount that the arm would get used over the years … or all the things that we ended up using it for.” -Layi Oshinowo, Director of Robotics and Automation for MDA
SSL Partnering with NASA to Develop Space Exploration Tech
Maxar's SSL is collaborating with NASA to accelerate the development of high efficiency solar electric propulsion and in-orbit servicing and refueling.
What is on-orbit satellite servicing?
Learn more about this process that involves approaching a spacecraft in orbit, and modifying, repairing or refueling it in space.
How MDA played a big part in the success of NASA’s space shuttle program
Neptec (now part of MDA) and MDA itself have provided key instrumentation used on the space shuttle to construct the International Space Station and complete cutting-edge science experiments.
MDA to provide sensors for the SPACE DRONE on-orbit servicing spacecraft built by UK's Effective Space
Capable of extending the life of ageing satellites by as many as 15 years, the SPACE DRONE spacecraft uses MDA’s LIDAR and infrared camera to confidently and safely approach and dock with orbiting geostationary satellites.
In "Endurance," astronaut Scott Kelly shares an inspiring message for future generations about his record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station.
SSL Aims to Parlay NASA, DARPA Work into Viable In-Orbit Repair Business
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If I Were Crazy, Would You Still Call Me Superman
It's Not Easy
That is pretty much the word that best describes the most recent session of our Champions campaign, 'The New Age of Champions' (based on my friend William's 11 year tour De force Champions game, 'The Age of Champions').
To begin I would like to note that our friend Corey, who has participated in a few weak and false start games with us, finally got to be in one that rocked. Fitting and ironic, since now he is moving away, out of state, and it will likely be the last time we play together.
His moving wasn't a surprise. We knew a while back (way back when we first met actually) that this would eventually be the case. Now, having had running a game that included him and was pretty darn awesome, I am feeling a bit of sadness and regret that as a friend and GM I didn't figure out how to make his inclusion work sooner. Oh well. Life goes on and an open invite to our table remains should he ever find his way back to the Big Apple.
Corey, it was a blast. Good luck and godspeed.
The game as a whole keeps on trucking and keeps getting better. The successful inclusion of Corey's character Ballistix to the continuity puts a very interesting and somewhat powerful Superhero in the Philadelphia, PA area which it kind of needed (the other two or three PA heroes are cool but not overly mighty).
Thanks to some quick thinking on Corey and my part we found a way to insert Ballistix in flawlessly to what was going on in the story.
If you'll recall (and even if you don't), Marcus' character, The Power, was recently fired from the superhero division of the United Nations SHIELD type organization UNTIL for insubordination, recklessness and, well, generally acting like a nut. His last recorded position was a train station outside Philly. Ballistix, a Philly based hero who works with UNTIL's Project: UNITY is sent to bring The Power back to base. It's one part apprehension, one part rescue and the powers that be at UNITY New York think that maybe, just maybe, The Power didn't come right back because he might be in some kind of trouble. Maybe he even ran afoul of some or all of the escaped super-criminals who recently broke out of Stronghold (the Super-Max Super-Bad Guy prison).
Pocket Full of Krytonite
Now sometimes players have these plans that seem, y'know, a little bit crazy. Occasionally, they're crazy like a fox. Sometimes they aren't. No, sometimes they're just batsh*t crazy. We're talking crazier then Sh*t House Rat.
Ninjette: "Don't you mean, "Crazier then 'A' sh*t house rat?"
Thugboy: "No, I mean what I said..."
Marcus had a plan. In his head, it was a great plan.
Basically, it involved capturing the currently on-the-loose AI of the arch-villain Mechanon, who is essentially an evil machine god, and trapping it in a new body that the team could then shut down. This is a good idea. Difficult to be sure but a good idea. It's been part of Mechanon's M.O. in the past to build a new, more advanced body to inhabit each time he returns. The idea of baiting him by letting it be known that someone recently developed some awesome new robot would be pretty enticing to someone like Mechanon.
He's where is starts to break down...
His first thought was to contact the evil technological conclave called ARGENT and get them to do it. Hmmm...I guess if you're pretending to be a villain making the request and offered them a lot of money or resources it might work. But then how do you know they won't double cross you or worse yet, make an awesome robot body for Mechanon that he will then possess and use to kick the crap out of everyone.
His second plan was to find one of the escaped criminals, a villain called Think Tank, and get Mechanon to possess him. Think Tank is a telepathic human brain inside a large robot body. Marcus' theory was that is Mechanon tried to enter Think Tank, the two consciousnesses would be locked in conflict and the heroes would be able to capture them both. In a single body no less!
Again, nice idea but waaay too chancey. Think Tank is a upper mid-level villain. Mechanon is, did I mention 'evil machine god'? 'Cause yeah, evil machine god. Do we want an Ultron with telepathic and psychic abilities kids? No we do not.
I Am Superman And I Can Do Anything
So the other problems with his plan(s), aside from those issues mentioned above, were that he saw the end results but had not clearly thought out how to achieve them.
He didn't take into account the fact that Think Tank had escaped with 4 other villains, one of whom was basically Superman with Captain Atom's nuclear powers.
He decided to get himself fired in order to go it alone, hoping to investigate and spare his allies the dangers of the plan, when in fact they could have helped immensely. A lesson learned early in the campaign by another PC apparently fell on deaf ears..."This universe is tough. Heroes are not guaranteed to win. You need friends and you sometimes need their help just like they need yours."
I had one NPC say, "The team isn't called The Champions anymore. It's not the Freedom Force or the Justice Avengers. We're called UNITY. There's a reason."
Really, I think he just wanted the glory, a win that said, "I, The Power, captured this major mojo, bad guy Mechanon."
Somebody Save Me
In the end, The Power found that the villains who escaped Stronghold were on a freight train bound for Upstate New York. They had commandeered the train, attaching a series of Inertial/Kinetic Energy Field Generators to their conveyance that enabled it to travel much faster on much less fuel.
When The Power snuck onto the moving train, he passed a conductor/train worker fellow who was terrified, saying that the villains were in the front car.
When The Power entered the engine car he was immediately attacked by a villain called Mako, a shark themed, underwater Wolverine type. The Power's psychic force field barely prevented Mako from biting his shoulder off. At this point, Endurance wise, The Power is running on fumes. He is down to the very bottom of his Endurance Reserve, not having rested since a battle with villains the day before and flying all over the USA all morning trying to track these criminals down. Also, he has a weakness that his Flight takes more Endurance then Flight normally does.
The Power asks Think Tank and the other villains to call off Mako in hopes of talking, when he is hit with a stun beam from behind. The Conductor. In truth he was a shape-shifting villain (a former hero actually but that's another tale) called The Outsider. Ya'see...
How did 5 villains escape Stronghold without anyone busting in, busting out or any alarms going off? Why spring only these five dudes? Who was behind it all? Well, as it turns out, some mysterious head honcho villain hired Outsider to do it. He shifted into one of the Stronghold guards after knocking the guy out and taking his security access card. He used devices supplied by his employer to mess with the Stronghold security cameras and speed up the train. He got the drop on The Power.
Luckily, help was on the way whether Power wanted it or not. Ballistix, having found no sign of The Power at the coordinates provided, figured the train barrelling through at well over two to three hundred miles an hour might be a clue to something suspicious...
Posted by Adam Dickstein at 8:09 AM 3 comments:
Labels: Art, Champions, RPG, Superheroes
New Age Heroes - Part 2
I realize that the previous post may have been a bit confusing without certain frame of reference elements. As noted, there are past posts that reference the ups and downs of our Champions game. Essentially, after the initial story arc, Jeff got married and wasn't able to come around and play on our scheduled day. We took a short break, originally thought to be a long and/or even indefinite one, only to miss it and try to resurrect it some time later with a few new players added.
The first attempt to pump new life into it was a one shot that really didn't pan out well. A second attempt was made a bit later after a little tweaking and it turned out much better. While not quite up to its former glory yet, the game shows continued potential.
Now, three sessions after the restart, Jeff returns! He will be available on and off, roughly every other session, so his character has become more of a support character with an eye toward helping facilitate several projects that may radically change the background and setting. Woohoo! I am so excited I can hardly wait to see what the heck he's going to do.
If you will recall in my previous post, The Power had gone off half-cocked to investigate several instances that the team had learned about just prior to his making a fool of himself and getting canned from Project: UNITY.
When Jeff's character Revenant (formerly known as Siphon Zero) returns from a black ops mission in Afghanistan and discovers what happened, he decides to have a heart to heart talk with NPC group leader Night Force. Revenant brings up some great points and spouts some solid philosophy and the next thing you know he's convinced Night Force to give The Power another chance. Revenant contacts The Power on his cell (they were pals outside of the team as well as on) and talks him into waiting for a lift back to New York and UNITY's base.
Only...The Power doesn't intend to 'wait' exactly. He is going to try and check into what's going on before heading home.
Meanwhile, Dave's alt character, Silver Sun, met up with Britian's Ultramarine while saving the international space station. A huge fan of Ultramarine's, Silver Sun asks if he can fly with him back to England. Ultramarine agrees and the two fellows end up talking shop and comparing notes. Finally arriving in London, Silver Sun gets to meet the entire British super team. Silver Sun decides to hang out with them for a bit and he and several members go for breakfast and of course, tea.
Now Conrad was out Saturday, so we didn't do much with his character Makeshift, a mysterious android found inside a bunker-like base belonging to the high-tech, anti-supers villain Paradigm Shift. Shift was our main nemesis in the first story arc and now here in the second, some of what he left behind after being sent to prison is continuing to make life heck for the heroes. Is Makeshift one such element or is something deeper at work here? Time will tell.
Much, much more happened in the roughly 8 hour session but that should suffice for now.
As always, more to come,
Labels: Champions, RPG, Superheroes
The latest session of our rejuvenated 4th Edition Champions campaign (simply titled, The New Age of Champions*) was also one of the best sessions of anything we've had in a while.
Although there was not a bit of combat and no direct adversary, the game felt more meaningful and full of activity then the two previous ones, which were chuck full of hero vs. villain full-contact craziness.
What made this session so special (And it was special. There is no other word for it.)?
First, and perhaps foremost, it featured a slight change to the Player roster. Ray and Conrad were absent and Jeff made a return guest appearance. This changed the dynamic considerably. Jeff was there at the beginning of the campaign and he had a big impact on the story and style of the game. Also, Jeff is a very unusual type of player. He is the kind I grew up with but don't see a lot these days. Jeff gets into his PC's head and his PC lives in this campaign setting. He is not merely going on the adventures and fighting the bad guys and seeing how much xp he received. Jeff, and by association his PC, cares about the people, places and events as if they are a part of him and he them. It makes even minor actions and activities seem to have weight. It's extremely refreshing to see that mindset return.
The other thing Jeff's presence seems to do if spur on one or more of the other players to get proactive and appreciate the campaign the way Jeff does. This meant we saw a lot more interaction between the PCs and the NPCs, the PCs and each other and the PCs and the various organizations that make up the setting.
Secondly, without a direct threat, the PCs have the chance to explore the consequences of their recent actions in previous sessions. Honestly, after saving an international space station full of astronauts of varying accents, the rest of the "adventure" was mostly talk and investigation.
After congratulating the team on a job well done in saving the astronauts and the station, Night Force (Major NPC) dropped some intel on some new situations that developed while we were occupied averting the aforementioned potential disaster in orbit. This was immediately followed by a one-on-one with three of the PCs.
Night Knight (Dave) was confronted about the somewhat excessive use of force during the the group's previous outing on an opponent who didn't really warrant it (in Night Force's opinion). Night Knight agreed it was regrettable and a bit excessive. This somehow turned into a philosophical debate between the two characters (Dave as Night Knight, me as Night Force) about the differing mindsets of the Captain America or even Superman hero (highly moral boyscout with a black and white world view) and the stop-crime-by-any-means-necessary mindset of a Batman or Daredevil type character. Neither was advocating a kill-them-before-they-kill-us/Punisher approach but Night Knight came close a few times. The two men came to an understanding but only time will tell if they can hold on to their compromise.
Next, The Power (Marcus) was called in by Night Force, who was joined by Omni (another Major NPC and a mentor like figure to The Power). A session or two ago, The Power went on a solo mission that he didn't tell the team about. In addition to the mission being unsanctioned, The Power decided to contact Superhype!, a 24 hour TV and Internet cable channel that covers anything and everything Supers, from news to entertainment, etc. A film crew from Superhype followed him in a ride along a la' COPS as The Power tried to uncover and capture a ring of high-tech weapon smugglers. In the process, he threw a couple of cars, a small truck and managed to set part of a city owned housing project garage on fire. The two higher ranking heroes simply approached Power with a nice, calm, "WTF! What the hell were you thinking? Who is paying for the vehicles and the building damage. Don't think we are. It was an unsanctioned mission meaning no government help to cover damage to public property. What's wrong with you man?!"
Now Marcus, the player of The Power, is normally pretty good at bluffing or getting himself out of tight spots be they physical or verbal. Yesterday however, something bizarre possessed him and he just started having The Power act like a total as...jerk. He went on mouthing off to the veteran heroes, getting all egotistical and just generally making himself out to be a glory seeking loose cannon. So...Night Force discharged him. Yep. He was made to turn in his supergroup ID and hand in his communicator. Fired.
Upon being escorted out of the secret base, Power flew skyward and went to investigate some of the recent reports of trouble on his own. At this point he believes there may be a connection between several seemingly unrelated incindents. He hopes to prove he can solve these mysteries on his own and then, quote, "They'll be begging me to come back to the team".
Finally, Arcane (Lee) is approached by Night Force and Omni and thanked for all he's done so far. He has had an excellent track record in a short period of time. A new addition to the team, he was nonetheless very helpful in defeating several pretty tough villains and saving the space station.
The two veteran heroes think Arcane can help undo some of the public relations issues The Powers activities might have caused. Also, since he is a former 'graduate' of the Scaramangler Foundation, he is the perfect fellow to strengthen ties between the superheroes of Project: UNITY and that organization. Omni hopes that by carefully handling their public image and maintaining the public's current approval rating of superheroes, he may be able to reinstate 'The Champions', the premier super team that disbanded some 20 years ago in disgrace.
But wait! What about Jeff's character Revenant? Where is Dave's other (alternate) PC, Silver Sun! Who is Makeshift?
Find Out Next issue...
Storming Heaven
I was talking to one of my players about how he wanted to spend his experience points in our Champions campaign and after he told me what he was thinking of doing I said, "Very logical."
He replied with a "Thank you Captain" and for a brief moment neither of us said a word. This pause in our Champions conversation was immediately followed by his request that, one of these days soon, I run a one-shot or short campaign of FASA Star Trek.
I am on such a superhero kick right now that pretty much the only thing you could tempt me with would be Star Trek. And FASA Star Trek at that! While I dearly love the Last Unicorn Games ICON system edition, there is a very special place in my heart for FASA Trek as any long time reader of this blog knows.
If you don't know this or are not a long time reader (Hey, it's possible. Not everyone is as lucky and privileged as you are), please check out some of my earliest entries on the subject or follow the label marked Star Trek.
Will I be accommodating my good friend's request? Most assuredly. Soon? Perhaps. Right now I need to finish the current adventure in our Champions game and reestablish the flow of the campaign before I consider dabbling in something else.
It's funny but it just some happens that I am currently reading Storming Heaven, the latest and last book in the Star Trek: Vanguard series of Trek novels. Picked it up the same day my pal asked about playing Trek. Surely it's a sign.
Labels: Champions, FASA, RPG, Star Trek, Star Trek: Vanguard, Superheroes
Supers And Their Supporting Cast
As usual, a little sad my last post didn't solicit any comments even as the previous one, which inspired it, did. Oh well. They say timing is everything and perhaps my timing is a bit off with the weekend approaching (and now here as of this writing).
Still and all I think some of the ideas I put forth are worth a look. Please take a gander when you get the chance.
Now then...
One of the under used elements of the Supers genre among many Superhero gamers and GMs (myself included from time to time) is the use of an effective supporting cast in the heroes' costumed and secret identities. In Champions especially, the 'Dependant NPC' Disadvantage is only a disadvantage if the NPC is truly dependant upon the PC. If Lois Lane is never in trouble or even around, Superman has less to worry about and as we all know, that's not as fun.
The problem for me is, more and more, my new and younger players don't really think about plucky reporters, dear old aunts and best buddies who try to figure out their identities. Most are reading Marvel comics where the secret identity and double life traditionally attributed to the superhero is sort of passe'. The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, Luke Cage and many other Marvel heroes have publicly known 'secret' identities. It doesn't hinder them in the least because their supporting cast, once an important part of the comic book soap opera milieu, now consists primarily of other costumed super beings.
This conversation is not out of the question:
Hawkeye: "I'm worried that if they find out my secret identity, they'll go after my girlfriend."
Spiderman: "Um...dude. You're dating Spiderwoman. She can kick your ass. And mine. And likely theirs who ever 'they' are."
I do have one player, the always awesome Dave, who has an interesting Dependant NPC for his Champions alt character, Silver Sun. Silver Sun adopted a young boy who has evidenced super powers of his own and with the help of the Scaramangler Foundation (a sort of global, non-profit Xavier's School For Gifted Youngers meets the Red Cross), the kid is learning to handle his abilities while Silver Sun learns to handle having a kid.
Again however, the kid has powers. He is not a normal child who has no means of defending himself at all against an attacking supervillain. That dynamic is simply not often as evident as it once was.
Now, as to a supporting cast of Supers and those who can hang with them...
I can create Superhero concepts at the drop of a hat and as such, I tend to. For my Champions campaign I am actually showing a huge amount of restraint, as part of the setting is that the word has considerably less Superheroes than Marvel or DC comics.
New York City for example, often depicted as the mecca of all superhero activity in mainstream comics, has just over a dozen Supers. What I have done is given the team, individually or as a group, the chance to move around and see the rest of the country and even the world. As such, they have forged relationships with Supers from other states and discovered just how hard their jobs can be.
For example, Georgia, former home town of Silver Sun before he moved to New York, is protected by only three other heroes. Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming appear to share not but a handful of costumed do-gooders between them. This makes each one stand out more and gives the players a reason to not only help but to get to know them. Sometimes they become friends, sometimes they rub each other the wrong way. It makes for good TV as they say.
Finally, taking a cue from current Marvel as well as my old Villains & Vigilantes days, the government agents, SHIELD types and other law enforcement officers and officials round out things nicely as people who can handle themselves but still need to call in the heroes for the big jobs. Here more than anywhere else you get the people who can either love or hate the PCs and NPC heroes in a big way and have enough clout to make things easy or hard for the supers. Some agents are honored to fight beside these gifted individuals. Some would prefer the freaks would stay out of the way and let them do their job. You know the drill.
So those are some of my supporting cast thoughts. Not all of them mind you but enough for an early Saturday morning. No game today as personal stuff takes precedent but back to the fold next week.
Oh and just a quick heads up...June 30th is the next RECESS game event! I'll be there and I hope, if you can, you will too.
Laters,
Labels: Champions, Comic Books, Marvel, NPC, RECESS, Superheroes, Villains and Vigilantes
Saving The World Proactively
In response to my last post, wherein I stated..."Unless really, really into the game, my players can be a bit lazy. This means they are not proactive in the game and I have to do all the work."
"It seems they are most proactive in Champions, actually generating plot and subplot ideas themselves and often pursuing exploration of the setting."
Justin Davis of the visually brain-blasting A Field Guide to Doomsday commented...
"You mention how your players aren't proactive enough. Perhaps you could elaborate further...?
Because what you're touching on is one of the fundamental issues of superheroic gaming itself. If the villains don't act first, what are the heroes supposed to do?
(I'm not busting your chops. As I've mentioned before, I've paid my dues GMing the funnybook genre.)"
Justin is quite right in his assessment that proactive adventuring seems counter intuitive for most Superhero gamers. Indeed, the genre itself seems to enforce the practice of a crime being committed, someone or something alerting the heroes and the heroes then responding.
Comic book Superheroes don't usually go hunting for criminals. Or do they? It's certainly been done. Punisher does this from time to time but the argument can be made that he isn't really a 'superhero' in the traditional sense. The Authority are certainly more proactive then most superhero teams.
The truth is there are lots of ways for heroes in the Supers genre to be proactive and many of them can lean towards new adventure ideas and a much more involved campaign.
For example...
Ways To Incorporate Pro activity In A Supers Game:
Invent Something.
Take a cue from Prof. Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. Many issues of the Fantastic Four begin with Reed having just invented some bizarre device or interdimensional portal that leads the team on a crazy, Kirby Krackle-filled adventure.
If you're the 'Tech-Guy' on the team, build stuff. Don't wait until you need to build an Anti-Time Dilation Device...start the game trying to make one just in case you need one some day. Maybe, after having had a hard time stopping the villainous Baron Barometer again and again, you decide to try a construct a Weather Control Machine of your own. If the Baron gets wind of this (weather...gets wind of it...heh, I kill me) he will surely try to steal this invention. Instant plot.
Suffering Speedsters people! Why doesn't anyone go on patrol anymore? I remember myself and many of my old Supers GMs starting the game with the time and the day and "Where are you?". My answer, "Out on patrol". What's really cool about this isn't just the idea that you might randomly run into crime but think about what out on patrol means for different types of heroes.
Spiderman out on patrol is swinging through the city with his Spider Sense alerting him of street crime or gang violence. Superman out on patrol is flying overheard and using his X-ray vision if he hears something odd with his super-hearing. Next thing you know he is swooping out of the sky toward an apparently abandoned warehouse which hides a high-tech weapons building operation.
Now go further...What is out on patrol for Silver Surfer? Aquaman or Sub-Mariner? Supernatural characters like Dr. Strange, the Spectre or Ghost Rider?
One of my players has become proactive in finding the next generation of Superheroes.
It seems that new heroes are popping up here and there and with the superhero community having suffered some recent losses, the chance to increase the ranks of the good guys is well worth investigating. Dave's character Night Knight hopes to not only recruit and train some young heroes but also get to them before a like minded villain makes a similar move.
Explore/Investigate The Setting
The Superhero world(s) I run often have mysteries built in. Whatever happened to that World War II patriot hero who seemed to turn coward when we needed him most? Each time we meet Lady X her powers are different and even her personality seems to change. Why? Last adventure we fought Dr. Vicious and, while we all know villains seem to escape death all the time, we were absolutely certain he was killed in that explosion three months ago. Is this the same guy or a copy cat?
I love it when players look at these things and go, "I'm going to look into this."
I have some more ideas on the subject and a few other often overlooked areas of Superhero gaming which I want to address in the near future. THIS is why I like getting comments. It spurs me on to answer not only your questions but some of my own.
Posted by Adam Dickstein at 10:11 AM 3 comments:
Labels: Comic Books, RPG, Superheroes
Hi all. Miss me? I missed you.
I didn't post much in March because, this year, that particular month had it in for me something fierce. I spent the last two weeks of it very sick and the vast majority of it strapped for cash as business was very up and down.
This month, Galactus willing, I am going to try to make up for lost time by redoubling my efforts to give you a break from your every day gaming blogs (i.e., stuff about Dungeons and Dragons*), focusing instead on Sci-Fi, Muppets and of course Superheroes.
In the last four or five weeks I have played or ran sessions of Champions 4th Edition, Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition and Marvel Heroic, which I am still very excited about.
I have also attempted to incorporate both new and old players into my different campaigns with varying degrees of success (and terrifying, abject failure). Going forward and trying to figure out which game best suits my group, there are several factors involved.
1) Unless really, really into the game, my players can be a bit lazy. This means they are not proactive in the game, and I have to do all the work. I don't mind working hard on a good game, heck I love it, but I don't like feeling that it's all on me. In our recent M&M 3E game I felt that way. We haven't played Marvel Heroic for more then a one shot so I can't say how they would take to it as a campaign. It seems they are most proactive in Champions, actually generating plot and subplot ideas themselves, and pursuing exploration of the setting.
Winner: Champions.
2) Some of the players are kinda old school, some are kinda new school and the setting that works best seems to be the Champions one. I think I made M&M 3E/Freedom City too Silver Age-y feeling. Again, unfair to Marvel in this case 'cause we haven't really played it enough to know if the Marvel universe setting and tone might be just the mix we need.
Winner: (By Default) Champions.
3) My players...
Conrad is not really feeling his M&M character. Not sure why. I love it and think the character has the potential to be awesome. His Champions character concept is...well brilliant...but hasn't he gotten to really play him yet. Ray likes his M&M character but the character is really a thinking character. Sometimes he's in the thick of things and sometimes he's more in background.
Ray has no problem with this and neither do I do one of the new players perceives it as contributing to a slow game (more on that in a bit). Ray has not made a Champions guy yet.
Dave loves his M&M guy and I like him a lot too but we both think his Champions character Night Knight is AWEsome! This Capt. America/Daredevil type guy has caused the most powerful villain in the setting to stop, think and then depart on two occasions. His secondary Champions guy is also very fun and very different from his first guy.
Marcus...oh Marcus. I like both of Marcus' guys and I must say his M&M character has a fantastic backstory, arch-enemy and his fights are always interesting. Hid Champions guy took an intriguing turn in the latest session though and I want to see where it goes.
Lee jumped back in with us for the latest Champions session and did really well despite the fact that after coming up with two different characters and everyone encouraging him to play character A he went with character B. That's Lee. His character is pretty cool but his power source is a bit, well, let's just say he's not the only one in the setting with that source by a good margin. I see potential though.
Corey...now Corey is our new guy who I believe I've mentioned before and he throws a wrench into the works a bit. I like the guy, quite a lot actually, but he is a very different kind of player from the rest of the group. Not being as big comic book fan as the rest, some of my favorite approaches and references simply have no meaning to him. Likewise, his tastes in adventure and gaming style differ from what the rest of us seem to enjoy. He creates character whose comics I wouldn't read. That are way too Iron Age/90's/New 52. They are cool, don't get me wrong. They just aren't my cup of java. In each session his been in, he complained that our style seems slow, we sidetrack too much and waste a lot of time. He is not wrong. It is something I have brought up with the guys before (though I have not had to address it in a while) and again recently. However...last Saturday's Champions session we got a lot done. Corey did not attend as he had something else he had to do. Makes me wonder why the dynamic changes so with him there to something he doesn't like. Hmmm.
Winner: Champions (With Conditions).
So Champions takes the gold in this particular analysis.
If I can incorporate Conrad and Ray into the Champions campaign I may have found my all inclusive, ultimate Supers campaign. Unfortunately, it may only be ultimate because it's currently just Dave, Marcus and Lee (and Jeff when he his schedule allows).
What about Corey?
The battle rages on...
* I hope you didn't actually believe my last post. Surely not. April Fools everyone!
Labels: Champions, Marvel Heroic, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, Superheroes
My Return To Dungeons And Dragons
Sorry I've been gone so long loyal fans, friends and faithful followers but I had to let this place lie fallow for a while so I could announce my newest endeavour.
Dungeons and Dragons - The MegaDungeon known as...
The Crypt of Neppah Ot Gniog Reven, The Lord of A Zillion Chambers!
I can't wait. I've gotten everyone together, we've created a host of PCs strictly by the book using Labyrinth Lord mixed with 1st Edition AD&D and we expect few if any to survive. So excited!
So as to save time better used listening to pop music, I have created a series of over 100 random charts that will tell me everything from what the rooms in the megadungeon look like to what monsters will be encountered and of course, which PC dies in that particular session. I even have a chart to randomly determine which chart to use at any given moment. What could be better?
Anyway I am so jazzed to be back and I'll be blogging about this new campaign as soon as we get started. I have posts on new forms of initiative (using a D30 and a D20 and an additional random chart), house rules for weapon speeds (because seriously, who isn't interested in how quickly you can swing a Guisarme at a Shambling Mound? Am I right?) and my favorite, the Ecology of The Giant Turtle.
Come back soon and join in on all the excitement!
Forsooth!
Posted by Adam Dickstein at 11:39 PM 3 comments:
Labels: April Fools, Dungeons and Dragons, Humor, Personal, RPG
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Westminster Handbook to Karl Barth
Burnett, Richard E. ed. The Westminster Handbook to Karl Barth (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013), 272 pp. $40.00 (paperback).
Reviewed by J. Scott Jackson (March 26, 2019)
The theologically curious, many of whom have read little if any of Karl Barth’s work, occasionally will ask where the great Swiss theologian discusses a particular topic. Anyone who has spent some time poring through Barth’s writings knows how tricky such questions can be. Rather than sending these interlocutors scrambling to the now numerous standard, introductory works or to the imposing fine print in the index of the Church Dogmatics, I might rather point them to one or two articles in the Westminster Handbook to Karl Barth, ably edited by Richard Burnett of Erskine Seminary.
This volume aims to define and contextualize the key terms, ideas, and figures that shape Barth’s work, and to do so concisely. Within the limitations that inevitably hamper such an ambitious project, it succeeds remarkably well. Moreover, as a compilation of short pieces from an international team of 65 scholars, the Handbook serves not only as overview of the key themes and concerns that permeate Barth’s daunting corpus, but also as a precis of the state of Barth studies in the early 21st century to date. Contributors hail from the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, and Croatia (the editor himself acknowledges the lack of contributions from thinkers from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America is a weakness of the text).
Articles in this text are written by established experts who have published on their respective topics—so, among many notable examples, there are essays by Bruce McCormack on “Revelation,” Kimlyn Bender on “Church,” and by Kathryn Sonderegger on “Israel”—such that the articles often serve as an entree into a particular scholar’s own body of work. The research value of the book is enhanced by all-too-brief bibliographies at the end of each entry, and a summary bibliography at the end; Barth’s works in German and in English translation are also listed near the front.
An exhaustive compendium of the Barthian lexicon, Burnett admits, is impossible in one slim volume, but it does achieve an admirable comprehensiveness, nonetheless. There are nearly 100 articles—from “Actualism” (Paul Nimmo) to “Worship” (Michael D. Bush)—ranging from 500 to 2,500 words. 19 of these articles, particularly those on issues of biblical interpretation and historical criticism, were authored by Burnett himself. As he points out, the breadth, scope, and depth of Barth’s corpus can be intimidating, not only for the neophyte taking her first plunge into the material, but also for seasoned scholars seeking to summarize complex theological topics in such a compressed format. Nonetheless, as Burnett quips, “Life is short. Barth is long,” (p. x), and a roadmap such as this one might help the explorer on the long journey through the caverns of this theological oeuvre. A number of contributors reported that writing their assigned articles with such brevity was a singularly vexing task. Some writers approach their topics more genetically, whereas others take a more synthetic approach; many writers touch upon not only bellwether works such as The Church Dogmatics and the second edition of Romans, but they also draw upon early lectures, sermons, and other material published and/or translated in recent decades.
A few articles are devoted to other theologians whose work shaped, impacted, or intersected with Barth’s work directly, including Luther and Calvin, Harnack and Hermann, and Bultmann and Brunner. However, there are no articles on younger contemporaries such as Bonhoeffer or Gollwitzer. The authors that address Barth’s theological Sitz im Leben by and large share the consensus of most recent researchers that Barth’s vexed relationship with the 19th century’s mixed theological legacy was complicated. For example, Christophe Chalamet, in a piece on Wilhelm Hermann, notes the lines of continuity between Barth and his esteemed teacher that persisted throughout his dialectical and dogmatic work: thoroughgoing Christocentrism, the independence of theology from philosophy and the natural and social sciences, and the self-authenticating character of Christian faith.
The more thematic articles are, quite naturally, weighted toward Barth’s overriding preoccupations; I count at least eight articles that focus directly on the person and work of Jesus Christ (and many more that do so indirectly), and a bevy of pieces pertaining to Barth’s actualist theological ontology, his aversion to speculative natural theology, and his dynamic view of Biblical inspiration and interpretation. For example, Garrett Green, in his entry on “Faith,” insists on the event character and ineluctably mysterious nature of the human encounter with God.
The volume on the whole focuses on exposition of Barth’s work rather than plumbing the contemporary issues and controversies it has spawned. Nonetheless, one does find words of critique. For example, in a perceptive and otherwise appreciative article on “Christian Life,” Joseph L. Mangina echoes a common criticism that Barth’s ethics is sometimes deemed lacking in the arena of concrete application: “At times one longs for him to descend from those long, looping trains of thought in the large print, and even from the riches of Scripture in the small print, into the realm of the empirical and practical,” (p. 30). Such critiques notwithstanding, several articles do situate Barth’s theological and ethical commitments within the matrix of the practical socio-political struggles of his day. Thus, in his entry on “Liberalism,” Georg Pflederer argues, “Barth’s antiliberalism and antimodernism played a key role in the fight against National Socialism and its theological devotees,” (p. 139). Yet Pflederer also shows that such a stance of “antipluralism” was rooted not in a wholesale rejection of the modern Protestant tradition but rather stemmed from the early (pre-dialectical) Barth’s intensive engagements with socialist praxis during his Safenwil pastorate. Moreover, Stephanie Mar Smith (“State”) shows that Barth views civil authority—not uncritically, to be sure—but positively as a structure intended to preserve the freedom of the church to proclaim the Gospel—a role that was viciously abrogated by the idolatries of National Socialism. As someone interested in such matters, I would have liked to see more articles exploring Barth’s political theology and practical engagements, a fertile field for much contemporary research. Articles by George Hunsinger (“Justification”) and Timothy Gorringe (“Freedom”), two scholars who have explored the relationship between Barth’s dogmatics and his politics in depth, do not focus on these issues in this volume. Gorringe does, however, argue that Barth conceives God as identifying with the oppressed in their concrete struggles, though the human quest for liberation inevitably falls short of this ideal: “Barth thought the revolutionary could be an agent of God, but revolutions cannot accomplish real freedom,” as the fundamental existential problem of sin cannot be overcome through social struggle alone (p. 79).
This Handbook would serve as an excellent resource, especially for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) pulling together a term paper on Barth’s theology as well as for more advanced scholars who seek a refresher. A pastor friend, who has read a decent amount of Barth, tells me he has found the volume full of grist for the mill of his sermon preparations. One caveat, though: as the articles can be dense at times, given the complexity of the material, I would not necessarily recommend this book as the text best suited to be the student’s initial foray into Barth’s work. For that task, the many fine surveys now available, coupled with focused primary text selections, might still make the best route for the beginner—though there is much serviceable material here to use in tandem with other introductory texts. Still, the Handbook is a superb resource for the reader with at least a little background in Barth and modern theology.
J. Scott Jackson, Independent Scholar
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More Details on LICH Deal, but Questions Remain
By Claude Scales on February 21, 2014 10:59 pm in Cobble Hill, Government, Health, Legal, News
Update-update: See Mary Frost’s Eagle story for a detailed summary of the agreement. The latest date for a SUNY exit is May 22. Also, the issue of the Othmer bequest is still open.
Update: Capital’s Dan Goldberg confirms that LICH “could temporarily close” if a deal is not finalized with a new operator by May. Goldberg notes:
Closing the hospital, even for a short time, would seem to fly in the face of everything community groups and politicians have fought for during the past year. Their argument has always been that LICH needs to remain open to save lives.
News 12 Brooklyn reports “new details” on the agreement between SUNY and the community groups and unions opposing SUNY’s plan to close Long Island College Hospital that was reported to have been reached yesterday. It does not say if the agreement has been approved by Justice Johnny Lee Baynes, which is a requirement for its effectiveness. It says there will be an “expedited bidding process to find a new operator” but does not say, as “sources” were quoted as saying yesterday, that only those proposing to operate LICH as a full service hospital could have their bids considered. It says that SUNY will–this seems to be a “hell or high water” provision–stop operating LICH “by May.” There is, however, no provision as to what happens if there is no acceptable new operator by then, just over two months from now. Finally, it is said that “the community will have a 49 percent say in choosing a new operator for LICH.” But who has the other 51 per cent? Are the unions considered part of “the community”? If not, and they have a separate “say,” there is an assured majority for keeping LICH a full service hospital. If not, then it’s important to know how the remaining 51 per cent of the “say” is allocated. Our guess is that it’s divided among SUNY, the Governor, and the Mayor. Since the Governor can be presumed to ally himself with SUNY, the Mayor’s “say” becomes crucial.
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Monty1
This is what I don’t get, the neighborhood does not need a full service hospital as Lich sits well over half empty everyday. Plus there is not one person defending the quality if the care there. So what’s the problem with downsizing the care functions to something the community actually needs, freeing up space to build much needed amenities in that neighborhood and widening the tax base while adding much needed affordable housing. Yes SUNY did a terrible job handling this process but let’s move on now and get a good equitable deal done. Not everyone will get everything they want, but we’ll all benefit from that area being redeveloped.
To Monty1 — Stop stop these destructive lies already. LICH was NEVER 1/2 empty until SUNY forcibly cleared as many patients out as it could, discontinued the residency programs, refused to renew doctors’ contracts, illegally closed medical operations and procedures. LICH has always had over 90% occupancy rate. Our community and the others in Brooklyn have always used LICH and have fought to continue to use it.
As far as quality of care is concerned, US News and world Report named LICH the no. 2 hospital in Brooklyn in terms of quality of care.
But you probably know all that and are just another real estate shill. So go build your condos somewhere else in Brooklyn. In a few more years, Brooklyn will be almost a over-built has Manhattan.
People like Monty1 may indeed be shills for the greedy RE interests, or simply misguided by the news reports that foster the mininformation fed them by SUNY, Continuum Partners (CP) and Cuomo. CP has mismanaged the hospital , sold off many of its properties, closed its satellite clinics, and, worst of all,shut down its successful departments such as OB-GYN, to CREATE the impression that the hospital is hoplessly underused, etc. Politicians and the special interests that support them ($$) are very good at getting their phony talking points out there in the media. And people like Monty! obviously don’t bother to do some basic research for themselves before they offer an uninformed (if not deliberately misleading) opinion.
Agreed. Thank you.
It appears that the Governor is on the side of the real estate developers.
Hopefully the Mayor can be counted on for his continued support. Both of them should be held accountable for their positions on this important neighborhood issue..
The 2 best hospitals in Bklyn for decades were LICH and Maimonides — until Continuum Partners arrived to “manage” LICH for those who saw the profit possibilities of replacing it with luxury housing. Get it now?
Summary of Settlement Details from Cobble Hill Association (as tweeted to #SaveLICH.
Summary of Settlement Details from Cobble Hill Association — as tweeted to #SaveLICH.
obviously the main reason why the last mayor and the real estate interests wanted desperately to close down LICH is because it has a site with water views. That is like crack to the real estate industry. Never mind that it is a well respected and much used hospital never mind that the community relies on it, it has WATER VIEWS!
I am very glad that the new mayor understands the value of local hospitals and is at least attempting to preserve some sort of health facility there. The irony about living in hot real estate markets is that the libraries, the churches, the hospitals -all are seen as soft sites. We will be left with nothing except expensive condos, which by the time they open will not be desirable because the area has no amenities left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton
“the neighborhood does not need a full service hospital” That statement clearly makes you an idiot.
Here is the video of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press conference about the LICH settlement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Px8Qs8UZMhU#t=3354
And here’s to a new operator for LICH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82xgyxl-Kk&feature=youtu.be
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#Discussion: Top 5 Reads of 2018...So Far!
Today I’m going to tell you about my top 5 reads so far since we are half way through the year… I had a tough time figuring out which ones I would pick for this since I've actually read a lot of good books so far this year, but these are the ones that have left as lasting impact!
THE NAVIGATOR’S TOUCH
Author: Julia Ember
Series: The Seafarer's Kiss #2
Source: eARC from Author
Publisher: Duet Books, a YA imprint of Interlude Press
My Review! (To come in late August!)
After invaders destroyed her village, murdered her family, and took her prisoner, shield-maiden Ragna is hungry for revenge. A trained warrior, she is ready to fight for her home, but with only a mermaid and a crew of disloyal mercenaries to aid her, Ragna knows she needs new allies. Guided by the magical maps on her skin, battling storms and mutiny, Ragna sets sail across the Northern Sea.
She petitions the Jarl in Skjordal for aid, but despite Ragna’s rank and fighting ability, the Jarl sees only a young girl, too inexperienced to lead, unworthy of help. To prove herself to the Jarl and win her crew’s respect, Ragna undertakes a dangerous expedition. But when forced to decide between her own freedom and the fate of her crew, what will she sacrifice to save what’s left of her home?
Inspired by Norse mythology and J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, this companion novel to The Seafarer’s Kiss is a tale of vengeance, valor, honor, and redemption.
Why it made the list...
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ONE. This was so good. It allowed the characters to grow and change together and apart.
THE WITCH DOESN’T BURN IN THIS ONE
Author: Amanda Lovelace
Series: women are some kind of magic #2
My Review!
2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one — the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic” series.
The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn’t burn in this one.
This had a great message and flow to it but I felt like it got a little broken up at the end in the last section that pulled me out of the "poetry" and it didn't read as smoothly as the rest of the book. However, I would definitely recommend this one. I think it is really empowering and I am probably going to get the poem I included in my review tattooed onto my ribcage because yes. I can't wait to read the rest of the Women Are Some Kind Of Magic poetry collections that Amanda Lovelace produces.
DEAR RACHEL MADDOW
Author: Adrienne Kisner
Source: ARC via Raincoast
Publisher: June 5, 2018
Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends
In Adrienne Kisner's Dear Rachel Maddow, a high school girl deals with school politics and life after her brother’s death by drafting emails to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in this funny and heartfelt YA debut.
Brynn Haper's life has one steadying force--Rachel Maddow.
She watches her daily, and after writing to Rachel for a school project--and actually getting a response--Brynn starts drafting e-mails to Rachel but never sending them. Brynn tells Rachel about breaking up with her first serious girlfriend, about her brother Nick's death, about her passive mother and even worse stepfather, about how she's stuck in remedial courses at school and is considering dropping out.
Then Brynn is confronted with a moral dilemma. One student representative will be allowed to have a voice among the administration in the selection of a new school superintendent. Brynn's archnemesis, Adam, and ex-girlfriend, Sarah, believe only Honors students are worthy of the selection committee seat. Brynn feels all students deserve a voice. When she runs for the position, the knives are out. So she begins to ask herself: What Would Rachel Maddow Do?
I am a fan of Rachel Maddow, which is why I requested it when I saw the title on Raincoast Books' mailing list form. It sounded good - and I love books written in different formats - so I was really happy when I saw it was included in my package.
But the book you wrote was better than I could have ever anticipated. DEAR RACHEL MADDOW broke my heart, rebuilt it to whole, only to break it again and leaving me realizing how amazing you are as an author, how important it is to have someone to talk to, and what it means to have someone on your side. Plus there was complex and great f/f relationships that made me really happy to read about.
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Series: Legacy of Orïsha #1
Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.
This was such a fantastic debut that I read all 600 (!!!) pages of ARC in one sitting (sorta - I stopped to watch ice dancing for a bit). I thought there were a lot of elements that were really well done and this was a good character study. However, I had one complaint but it definitely isn't enough to really bother me while reading.
CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE has a lot of your typical fantasy tropes in it but it puts them together in such a way that you don't feel as though you've ever read them before. I liked that Adeyemi spun how I thought about all these things I've read before. I knew some of the things and situations that were about to come but they were executed brilliantly and left me breathless.
SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS
Author: Alisha Sevigny
Source: ARC via Publisher
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Julia Ducharme is ready for a fresh start. Her little brother has finally recovered from a serious illness, and now she just wants to enjoy peak season at the campground her family owns. Maybe this will be the year her annual summer fling with Dan Schaeffer becomes something more?
But her summer dreams are quickly shattered. First, Dan arrives for vacation with a new girlfriend in tow, and then Julia discovers this may be her last summer in the only home she's ever known.
Crushing medical bills have brought her single mom to the brink of bankruptcy, and a wealthy developer is sniffing around the campground. He sees what Julia sees: lush woods, a pristine lake, miles of trails for adventure. Unlike Julia, he thinks this is the perfect spot for a casino resort.
Heartbroken and afraid, Julia looks to the stars for some perspective. Taking her telescope down to the dock one night, she has a chance encounter with a guitar-playing boy who offers some helpful advice. Too bad this handsome stranger is the developer's son, Nick Constantine.
As plans for a resort move forward, Julia is desperate to find a solution that doesn't mean leaving the lake. Nick, in turn, is desperate to separate himself from his father's aggressive business tactics. He promises that, together, they can thwart the sale.
But can Julia trust him to conspire against his own father? And could she ever she trust him with her heart?
SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS is a story of lost summers, hidden treasure and love written in the stars. It is also a thoughtful reflection on what it means to love --- and leave --- one's childhood home.
SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS has everything you need to be satisfied with a summer, contemporary, romance novel so I do hope you pick it up. The family relationships were amazing. I loved seeing how much Julia, Caleb, and their mother cared about one another - and how familial relationships went beyond blood to Red. Everyone looked out for everyone and I just realized how grateful I am for a family relationship like that - and how much I wish everyone had that.
What were some of the best books you've read so far this year?
top five reads
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Home » best-of list • live shows » Best Asheville Concerts of 2015
Posted in best-of list, live shows By Bill Kopp On January 13, 2016
Best Asheville Concerts of 2015
I’m always amazed and grateful that despite being a comparatively small market, Asheville draws high-end touring talent. 2015 was no exception. Among a long list of local shows, these are my Top 5 for this year:
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas – The Grey Eagle, March 12
Hernandez got her big break when she wowed on one of David Letterman‘s last shows. Hers is a gritty, soulful, Detroit-flavored take on the kind of music Amy Winehouse made. “Sorry I Stole Your Man” is sexy, smart-alecky, and supremely catchy. The Grey Eagle show was sparsely attended, but Hernandez and her Deltas played as to a capacity crowd. Read my review of Jessica Hernandez and The Deltas’ Secret Evil.
Jaga Jazzist – New Mountain, June 23
On paper, the idea of a large ensemble playing a trip-hop influenced rethink of big band jazz reads as all head, no heart, and not all that much fun. The reality is quite different. This Norwegian experimental jazz group has seven albums to their credit (2010’s One-Armed Bandit is their best to date), and their wordless music is engaging and positively entrancing. The enthusiastic crowd at New Mountain agreed. Read my full review of Jaga Jazzist’s 2015 Asheville concert.
World Party – The Altamont Theatre, July 6
Karl Wallinger and band played Asheville in 2014, but that was a drummerless show. For this intimate performance, World Party was once again a full band. The bigger sound and smaller venue equaled a near-perfect show that showcased the group hits and near-misses, and was marred only by some sound issues that were due to late arrival and a too-brief sound check. Read my 2015 feature/interview with World Party’s Karl Wallinger.
Pugwash – The Altamont Theatre, September 4
After years of trying, Irish classic pop group Pugwash is beginning to enjoy commercial success commensurate with their critical acclaim. Sounding a bit like Electric Light Orchestra crossed with late-period XTC, the group’s Thomas Walsh turns out the sweetest of ear candy. And like all the dates on this tour, for the Asheville show Pugwash played with borrowed gear. Read the second of my two interviews to date with Thomas Walsh of Pugwash.
Fred Wesley and the New JB’s – RiverMusic, October 9
This season’s successful RiverMusic series wrapped with legendary band leader Fred Wesley. Mere days before this show, the band was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That likely means that their live fee will be higher when it’s time to bring them back to town, but this outdoor show’s rapturous reception makes a return likely (and a good value no matter the cost). Read my review of Fred Wesley and The JB’s The Lost Album featuring “Watermelon Man.”
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Category: environment
San Gabriel River is flowing deep this spring
San Gabriel River at the East and West Fork Junction, click to embiggen
All that glorious rain that fell this winter made a dent in the 9+ year old drought through out the Los Angeles Basin. The impact of those rains is most evident in the San Gabriel Canyon. Both major dams are way up…and where the river was a barely a trickle where the East Ford and West Fork of the San Gabriel River meet the water is at near historic highs. All that water will eventually work its way down to recharging out depleted water tables.
To get there to see it and the wild flowers in bloom take the 210 towards Azusa, exit CA Highway 39 and head north into the Canyon. Word of caution, grab your Adventure Pass at the Rangers station at the mouth of San Gabriel Canyon to avoid a ticket for not having a permit.
Sac to LA County and Cities…here is a bill, figure it out
LA County Due Bill…click to embiggen
Where exactly to start. The California State Water Resources Control Board decided to that LA. County doesn’t do enough to capture rain water and cycle it into our water supply. Fair enough. This group of appointees, not elected officials came up with a plan to use “green streets” and parks to capture rain and get it into the ground water tables and our water supply. The cost? A tidge more than $20BILLION with no provisioins for funding. They dropped that bombshell due bill on the county this week and left it as figure out how to pay it. Full plans HERE
I learned of this from community leaders as it was a topic of conversation at this weeks Council Meetings that my little corner of L.A share of this some $250M. The city can’t afford it and was told by the county, state board either add it as a tax (Approx $2.000 per household) or as a fee to monthly water bill of $200/mo per household. Indefinitely. Needless to say the mayor and council don’t want to do either option.
This affects every homeowner and renter in the county and various cities. No one was left untouched. To save you the look up, Los Angeles share is $8.7B and I know Mr Garcetti doesn’t have a slush fund to cover that.
The turds dumping this on us say the normal 2/3 vote required to pass a tax can be circumvented through loopholes provided in State Initiative 15-0116,
I know my corner of L.A plans of fighting this as we just can’t afford it. I’d imagine other cities and the county will resist as well. Do check with your city council, representative to see what actions if any they are taking.
Help the homeless in DTLA with tarps and tents
Screen grab from the Crowdrise donation page.
Its sorta the lull between storms and the homeless are getting a bit of a break from the rain, but not the cold so much. I got this email from former BLA’er Dave Bullock and thought I’d share it with you all here. Its a campaign to raise funds to buy tarps and tents for the homeless on skidrow. Help if you can.
People are dying from exposure in Skid Row and there is something we can do about it.
My long time friend, community activist Don Garza, has been walking the streets of Skid Row before and during the rain storms and handing out tarps and tents to the homeless who don’t have adequate protection from the elements. He needs our help to buy more tarps and tents that he can hand out. Please consider donating and sharing to your friends and social network:
https://www.crowdrise.com/TentsAndTarps
Don and I really appreciate your help.
Dave and Don
BMW Loans i3 EV to Los Angeles Police Department for Evaluation
A detective loses his Dodge Patrol car with a hemi and cries…
Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck announce a year long test of a BMW i3 electric vehicle at a City of Los Angeles press conference in Los Angeles, Sept. 11, 2015. Photo by Danny Moloshok/Newscast courtesy BMW PR
I could add a few more snarks, but bottom line a few electric cars in the LAPD make sense in the right applications. No I can’t imagine them used in a high speed pursuit, but contrary to local TV that is not a constant occurrence. There’s plenty of things they do that involves just slogging around town and idling in traffic that an electric car and its zero emissions at the tail pipe make sense. Detectives cold calling witnesses and victims on follow up doesn’t need speed nor lights flaring. Parking meter slugs idling around town issuing tickets is another area that kinda makes sense.
Regardless of what you think of the EV, they make sense in some applications and if we can save some gas money swapped for electrons cheaper off the grid to power these little beasts its better for the cities bottom line.
Personally, I like the BMW i3, Drives very much like what you expect from BMW, with its aggressive regeneratvie braking systems a quick lift of the throttle feels more like downshifting a gasser than just idle coasting. My full review from a few years ago HERE that included an interview with the BMW i project manager.
Free subscription to blogging.la for the first person who captures a pic of the BMW i3 in action on the streets of L.A.
Hahamonga and the San Gabriels, discussion tonight
Flyer – click to embiggen
I wish I had more information for you, but I just got notice and no press release with a lot of details. Altadena Heritage is putting on the discussion with 3 speakers on the importantance of Hahamonga and the Arroyo Seco river system that brings rain water from the San Gabriesl to the ocean. The speakers are:
Dave Douglas, PhD, Geologist and Dean of PCC School of Science and Mathematics
Tim Brick, Director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation
Josephine Axt, Army Corp of Engineers, Planning Division
If interested please RSVP to [email protected]
Deets: February 19,2015 7-9PM Alta Dena Community Center, 730 E Altadena Drive, Altadena CA 91001 MAP HERE
Dogs Are A Crime On The Lake Hollywood Loop
It was with not a little fanfare less than two years ago that the road around the reservoir known as Lake Hollywood was reopened to walkers, runners and cyclists, a scenic route that had been closed since landslides during those crazy rains of 2005.
Little did I know that when my wife Susan and I drove over there this morning and set out with our faithful — and needless to say well-behaved and leashed-up — border collie mix Ranger to explore that roughly 3.3-mile loop for the first time, we would be greeted by this sign at the north gate and again at the east gate:
Being that I’m law-abiding to a fault I dutifully turned us around and we made our way to the far more enlightened Parc du Griffith where dogs are not a crime. Soon we found our way along a loop that included a rigorously vertical set of dirt steps carved into the hillside and leading to the oasis that is Amir’s Garden.
While one part of me is all “Thank you!” to the dog-banning powers that be at Lake Hollywood for allowing us to discover a previously unknown aspect of Griffith Park, the other part is all “You dog-banning powers that be at Lake Hollywood totally suck!” And it was that latter half that got all googly once I got home in searching out the specific statute — LAMC 64.06 — authorizing the prohibition. Turns out it’s an ordinance designed to prevent water contamination that reads a little somethin’ like this (on the other side of the jump):
Continue reading “Dogs Are A Crime On The Lake Hollywood Loop”
Final effort for the “No Big Dig” to save Hahamonga
Time is limited and the citizens in Pasadena aligned against the counties plan to rape, scrape and gut the Hahahmonga watershed need your help. All efforts to bring reason and preserve the area have fallen on deaf ears.
Their “Hail Mary” plan is to resort to litigation and they need our help. They have a crowd sourced fund raiser going on indiegogo to raise the funds to litigate and bring a stop to the Counties plan. Please donate today. They’ve got 9 days left to raise the funds.
Preserving Los Angeles history one building at a time
Broadway Arcade in DTLA, click to embiggen
The good folks at Esotouric Bus Tour Adventures, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave do a lot more than give really nifty tours of the city. They are historians with a major heart on for the city. In the best way of course.
This weeks newsletter outlined the winners and losers in their efforts to help preserve the cities architectural history. It outlines 25 things this year, good bad and ugly, that happened in terms of historic preservation.
The most exciting bit was the passing of city ordinance 13-1104 requiring public notification when any building more than 45 years is to be demolished. Why does this matter? It will give preservation groups around the city the chance to speak up and stop the destruction of those building with a history or architectural significane from being trashed in the name of progress and a new high density mixed use project. Not all buildings need to be preserved that are that old, but many should as it is part of the texture and character of the city that shouldn’t be trashed for a new parking lot or apartment jungle.
Pic by me of the Broadway Arcade while on an iphone safari. Click to embiggen
Hiking Fish Canyon
Fish Canyon is open, and the waterfalls are flowing.
I want to write that first line in all BOLD CAPS.
Because that hasn’t been said in 30 years.
Fish Canyon, in the San Gabriel Mountains above Azusa and Duarte, used to be humming with people. Cabins were scattered along the trail and hikers posed next to the stunning triple waterfalls.
But the cabins were destroyed in one of the many fires that flash along the mountains, and then the mining company who owns the canyon, closed the entrance to the public.
But in a deal with the city of Duarte, in June of 2014 the Vulcan Materials Company opened access to the valley for the first time since it was closed in the mid-1980’s. I went on this hike in June when it first opened, and it was hot and dry, the only water standing lonely in sad dirty little pools. At the peak of the hike, where the waterfall should be, was just a towering cliff face standing bleak and empty of water in the summer sun.
But now the rains have come and the valley has come alive with the sounds and sights of tumbling, churning, splashing and falling water.
In the summer, when everything was hot and dry, this canyon did not feel so special, but now with the falling water, it’s easy to see why it was once a haven.
It is a wonderful little river valley, with standing oaks, sticky cactus, a gurgling stream and the occasional birdcall.
But the real treat is the waterfall. It falls in three sections…. Continue reading “Hiking Fish Canyon”
Posted on December 5, 2014 December 10, 2014
Hike To LA’s Abandoned Dawn Mine, aka, Attempted Murder by Squirrels
There are three ways to hike to the abandoned Dawn Mine above Altadena.
The first is closed, the second is overgrown, but the third, in a metaphorical bear sense, is just right.
John W. Robinson, in his book “Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San Gabriels,” calls it “the most storied gold prospect in the front range.”
But that’s not saying much.
Because no one has made their fortune from gold in the mountains overlooking the San Gabriel Valley, that doesn’t mean that a bunch of people haven’t tried.
The prospectors started to scratch the surface of Millard Canyon in 1895, and one of those prospectors, Bradford Peck, named the area near the top of the canyon after a friend’s daughter, Dawn Ehrenfeld.
It wasn’t until 1902 that the real mining began. Michael T. Ryan, an Australian, began the first tunneling into the cliffs on one side of the tiny stream, creating the tunnel that we can still enter.
But he came across one problem. How to carry the tons of ore, that needed to be crushed to extract the gold? Hiking the two and a half miles down boulder strewn Millard Canyon was difficult and time consuming. So he forged a trail up the side of the mountain to the Mt. Lowe Railway. Once there he loaded the ore onto the Mt. Lowe train and it headed down, via the funicular, to extract that beautiful gold.
After Mr. Ryan gave up, realizing that he, like the others, was not going to make his fortune, the mine changed hands many times. In the 1950’s the area became derelict, littered with mining equipment and abandoned shacks.
Over the years they became covered with graffiti and run down. Eventually all were removed except an old engine, which still sits as a marker to the mine entrance.
To hike Dawn Mine, drive up the road called Chaney Trail (which is “closed” sunset to sunrise). Chaney Trail tees off West Alta Loma Drive, between Lincoln Ave and Fair Oaks Ave in Altadena.
Chaney Trail is a small winding road that leads up into the San Gabriels. At the end of this road is a car park — don’t park here, because this is the entrance to the closed section of the trail. Park instead at the highest point of Chaney Trail. It’s where the fire road leads up into the mountains. Parking is a problem, because there are so few spaces. It is usually full on weekends, so if you can, go on a weekday, or pray to the parking fairies.
Hike around the fire road barrier, past the water tank and then make a left after 0.4 of a mile, according to my phone, which obviously knows everything.
The turn is the sign posted for The Sunset Ridge Trail. This trail leads down into Millard Canyon.
Note: There is a fork on this trail, but keep left, down toward the canyon floor. At 1.05 miles from the car park, the path reaches the gently flowing stream at the bottom of the canyon, which was, in this October 2014 drought, really just a trickle. The mine is near the top of Millard Canyon, so head upstream, north, away from civilization.
Note: Downstream from here the trail is closed, which leads to the car park you are not supposed to park in, as the forestry service is attempting to rehabilitate it after the Station fire in 2009.
My first attempt to find Dawn Mine was a failure, because I went the wrongway. Although on the plus side, I did come across a stunningly beautiful three tiered 40-foot waterfall.
Where is went wrong was not making a right turn, although it is probably worth it just to see the waterfalls.bIf you do want to see Dawn Mine make a right 1.25 miles from the parking lot. Or to put it another way, make a right 0.2 miles after reaching the tream; Once making this turn, follow the river another 1.6 miles upstream, or 2.85 miles from the parking lot to the mine itself.Note: Downstream from here the trail is closed, which leads to the car park you are not supposed to park in, as the forestry service is attempting to rehabilitate it after the Station fire in 2009.
My first attempt to find Dawn Mine was a failure, because I went the wrong way. Although on the plus side, I did come across a stunningly beautiful three tired
40-foot waterfall. Where is went wrong was not making a right turn, although it is probably worthnit just to see the waterfalls.
If you do want to see Dawn Mine make a right 1.25 miles from the parking lot. Or to put it another way, make a right 0.2 miles after reaching the stream. Once making this turn, follow the river another 1.6 miles upstream, or 2.85 miles from the parking lot to the mine itself.nAlmost all of this 1.6 miles is hopping over rocks, clambering over boulders, or ducking under fallen trees.
Note: While doing all this hopping, clambering, and ducking, pause for a momentnand enjoy the peaceful miles-away-from-the-city burbling stream, squirrel and bird sounds.
From here on out it is practically impossible to get lost, just follow the stream.nThere are spray-painted arrows along the way, but they are not really necessary; just follow the stream.
Because this is not a well traveled path a number of the stones are loose so be careful of twisting an ankle, but that is not the only danger. When the cliffs were towering on one side of the valley, there was a huge cracking noise 50 feet ahead. A stone the size of my head had fallen from the cliff face and I just saw it bounce and settle with the other stones in the stream bed. Sitting on a tree limb, near where the stone fell, were two squirrels staring at me.
Because I can speak to the animals, here is a translation of what one of them was saying: “Damn it Bob, you pushed it too early, I told you to wait, I get to push it next time, then we get to have hiker for dinner.”
Because of all the clambering the trail seems longer than it is, but keep going, and then eventually there is an abandoned piece of machinery up to your left. It’s an old engine, with a flywheel attached to each side. The entrance to the mine is hidden just the other side of the engine. On hands and knees, the first view into the mine is what everyone expects when looking into a mine, the classic wooden posts holding up a crosspiece. Althoughnlater, thinking about it, I think this is part of a door to keep people out, and just thenjamb is left. But I could be wrong.
Barring entrance to the cave is a small body of water, people had helpfully thrown in pieces of wood and tree branches to create a slippery unstable walking surface. But I was told by another hiker I met that day, when he had visited the mine the
previous year and had decided to not enter as the water was too deep. I don’t know if this was because of the drought, but like those signs at amusement park water rides, You Might Get Wet.
Thirty feet into the tunnel, just past the pond, is a dry area splitting off into two tunnels, with a huge open gallery above. The light grey rock is splattered with yellow, which reflects in the second pond. There are holes drilled for dynamite still visible in the rock.nYou will need a flashlight, as the mine is pitch black even so short a distance inside. I didn’t go any further than this, as mines and underground scare the hell out of me, but just this short distance inside it was cool and peaceful, in a I-might-die-from-a-cave-in, sort of way.
But remember kids, abandoned mines are dangerous, and while I went alone, anfriend knew where I was going, and was waiting for my back-to-civilization text.
Now the facts: Starting elevation: 2000 ft. Ending elevation: 3135 ft. The total time of my hike, from car to car was three and a half hours, with a total of 5.7 miles,
all according to my phone. When hiking up Millard Canyon to Dawn Mine, it feels like sprawling Los Angeles is hundreds of miles away, with the silent trees and the burbling stream and the imposing canyon walls and the murderous chattering squirrels it’s a moment of quiet in a noisy city.
P.S. I mentioned that there were three ways to reach Dawn Mine, and just for balance sake, I will mention the abandoned trail, although I don’t recommend it, unless you like long hikes in the sun and wielding a machete. It is the trail that the Australian forged from the mine up to the Mt. Lowe Railway. Start at the same place, but follow the tarmacked fire road up the ridge of the mountain for three miles. Unlike down in the shaded valley, it is in the harsh sun all the way, but the road is smooth underfoot,neven if it is steep uphill most of the way. After the three miles there is a historical marker pointing out that this was a stop of the Mt. Lowe Railway and passengers used to disembark and hike down to Dawn Mine.
I attempted hiking down the trail, but after 50 feet it was almost completely overgrown and difficult to discern, so I left it for someone else, with an adventurous spirit, and a machete.
Street Seen: L.A. Bus Stops Can Be The Loneliest Places
L.A. Auto Show starts in 5 weeks….I’ve got a promo code
L A Auto Show logo…
Although I can’t help with a freebie…this promocode AUTOTRADER2014 good through 11/15 will get you discounted tickets good for admission 11/24-27.
I’ll try not to throw too many superlatives at the event, but this year I think they are going to be able to outdo what they’ve done the last several years.
On tap are 60 reveals for this show, 30 of which will be Global Reveals…or reveals for the first time anywhere for the global market. Those are always pretty spectacular as the manufacturers really want to get our attention.
In addition to the Green Car of the Year, Green Truck of the Year and Green Fleet of the Year awards are going to be awarded at this years Los Angeles Auto Show. Smell us…we’re really a big deal.
As always I’ll be there for press days and blogging what happens along with the oddities of the day that regular show goers don’t get to see. I’m even going to a few of the Manufacturer private after parties which are always fun. Last year Hyundai had Ziggy Marley as the entertainment and the wait staff was all dressed as zombies. Too. Much. Fun..
Watch This: I Live In The L.A. River
One woman has spent the past 15 years living at the bottom of the L.A. river, this is her story. From the team at BuzzFeedYellow.
Lamp offers mental health care and other services to homeless people.
http://m.lampcommunity.org/give.php
Friends of the Los Angeles River is a non-profit set up to restore the natural habitats of the river.
http://folar.org/
Solar powered cars – what will they think of next?
While the rest of the city was chasing #hiddencash I was doing something a lot more entertaining yesterday. I learned about solar powered cars. Then again, I nerd out on technology and cars so this was a double win for me.
I spent a nice chunk of yesterday listening to Mike Tinskey at Fords Los Angeles Regional office talk about the future of electric cars. Mike is the Global Director of Vehicle Electrification and Infrastructure so he knows a few things on the topic. Continue reading “Solar powered cars – what will they think of next?”
Camelopardalid Meteor Shower to peak Friday Night
Reports on this meteor shower are all over the board. In short from what I’ve been geeking out over is that this is the first time we will be crossing this debris field from a some forgotten comet. The potential is that it will exceed 100 meteors hour at its peak here Friday Night. Maybe even be a full fledged meteor storm, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Venerable JPL in Pasadena is hosting an open house of sorts Friday evening for the public to view it. Their facebook page HERE. They predict peak viewing for us will be Friday 11PM to 1AM Saturday. The meteors will appear from an area of the barely visibile Camelopardalid constellation. Easiest way to remember is that this is between the Big Dipper and Little Dipper in the North, North Eastern sky.
Those of you sitting in traffic on points east or on your way to Las Vegas in the middle of the desert may get a great viewing as well. Since I’m in the foothills with no city lights or street lights for that matter, I’ll simply set up some lawn chairs in the front yard and hope for the best. To add to the nerding out over this…I”ll be out there with a camera hoping to capture one or two of them zipping across the sky. I’d much rather be out at Joshua Tree for this, but too much is going on this weekend to do that.
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What Does GM's Bankruptcy Mean for Its Much-Hyped Electric Car?
By Eliza Strickland | June 4, 2009 3:07 pm
The electric car under development at General Motors has been heralded as a potential savior of both the American car industry and the environment, but in aftermath of the automaker’s bankruptcy filing many questions are being raised about the Chevy Volt’s future. GM executives swear that the cutting edge vehicle is still on track to reach auto dealerships late next year: GM executive Jon Lauckner says that the bankruptcy filing “has no bearing on the Volt, quite frankly…. We’re not anticipating any changes. November 2010 remains our date with destiny” [Wired.com]. Lauckner added that engineers have already begun assembly of the pre-production Volts that will be used to test handling and durability, and for crash tests. But some outside experts wonder whether bankruptcy courts will permit the expensive Volt program to continue.
The Volt could revolutionize driving for many commuters, allowing them to cruise to and from work without ever stopping by a gas station to fill up. Different than traditional hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles, the Volt can go 40 miles on a single charge on the electric engine and then a smaller, gasoline-powered combustion engine generates electricity for the motor, acting as a range extender [GreenBiz.com]. GM has said that the Volt should be able to drive 400 miles on a full charge and a full tank. The car is expected to sell for around $40,000.
But before the Volt can revolutionize anything, it must get over a big bump in the road: profitability. The high cost of the new technology means that the car will most likely lose money for at least the first several years of production. And as GM sheds workers, factories and dealerships, the bankruptcy court could question the wisdom of manufacturing the expensive new vehicle [Politico].
While the Volt certainly fits with the Obama administration’s mandate for greener, more fuel-efficient cars, some experts note that the U.S. government is not entirely bullish on GM’s electric car. Earlier this year, the White House released an assessment of the automaker that concluded that the Volt will cost too much to make to be a commercial success. From the report: “GM is at least one generation behind Toyota on advanced, “green” powertrain development. In an attempt to leapfrog Toyota, GM has devoted significant resources to the Chevy Volt. While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable” [Technology Review].
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Chinese Link: Intermediate Chinese, Level 2/Part 1 (2nd Edition)
Author: Yueming Yu, Sue-mei Wu
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2011)
CHINESE LINK: Zhongwen Tiandi Level 2 provides a practical, learner-centered, and enjoyable language and culture learning experience for intermediate level Chinese learners, as well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for instructors. The intermediate level in the Chinese Link: program, this series systematically emphasizes and integrates the “5Cs” principles of the National Standards for Foreign Language Education—Communication, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities—throughout the program. While learners of Chinese at the intermediate level need to continue to build their mastery of commonly used vocabulary and grammatical structures, they also need to begin to train for advanced level language usage: Chinese Link Level 2 supports these two needs. Chinese Link Level 2 continues to systematically build learners’ abilities in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing so that they can reach the intermediate level of competence. The content and exercises in the intermediate level program build upon what has been studied in the introductory level program, gradually adding more sophisticated vocabulary and grammatical structures. Frequent consolidation and review exercises are included. Chinese Link Level 2 also helps learners get ready for advanced Chinese study by introducing formal and written expressions and increasing students’ “media literacy.” This is accomplished by providing exposure to common Chinese idioms and the stories behind them, and by including texts written in the style of newspaper, magazines, and Internet news articles. Chinese Link Level 2 / Part 1 is comprised of 10 lessons, presenting traditional and simplified character versions side-by-side, allowing students to focus on one or the other, or to see the variations between the characters. Chinese Link Level 2 Parts 1 and 2 are designed to be completed in an academic year of college-level study.
Chaoyue Workbook: Advancing in Chinese
Author: Yea-Fen Chen, Natasha Pierce, Yuanchao Meng, Frances Yufen Lee Mehta, Mei-Ju Hwang, Yeh Meng
Publisher: Columbia University Press (2010)
Paired with the Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese language text, this workbook completes one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive language instruction tools currently available. The workbook cements students' interpersonal communication skills and their ability to present and interpret Chinese as it is spoken and written. Filled with authentic uses of the language from everyday life, the workbook, just like the textbook, paints a vivid portrait of the Chinese-speaking world for a variety of students to grasp. Also in line with the text, the workbook emphasizes communication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and communities, and includes relatable topics, such as the self, schooling, and social customs, altogether engendering an appreciation of Chinese within a solidly global context.
Chinese in Motion Part 2 An Advanced Immersion Course 体演中文
Author: Yi Lin
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui (2012)
Perfect for students with two years of college Chinese, Chinese in Motion is designed to bring students up to ACTFL's intermediate-high or advanced-low proficiency level. This structured curriculum has lessons that transition from controlled to free production as students build on the textbook material to exercise their new language skills in real conversations with native Chinese speakers. On returning to the classroom, students exchange their experiences with each other and build their writing skills by crafting formal journal entries and then presenting their findings to the class. Serving double-duty as a language textbook and a reference guide for contemporary China, this book encourages students to move their language ability beyond the classroom walls and engage with the people, culture, and realities of life in China today.
1. Student field work as the core of a comprehensive study abroad experience. 2. Professional-level vocabulary and sentence structures presented in context to aid acquisition of professional language ability. 3. Targeted themes and dialogues that focus each lesson on topics relevant to contemporary China. 4. Interactive lesson outlines that build on student at-home preparation for more effective in-class learning. 5. Perfect way to continue study after completing Integrated Chinese Level 2, Part 2.
Integrated Chinese Character Workbook: Level 1, Part 1 (Simplified & Traditional Character, 3rd Edition)
Author: Yaohua Shi, Liangyan Ge, Nyan-Ping Bi, Tao-Chung Yao, Yuehua Liu
The character workbook provides writing practice for all characters found in the Integrated Chinese third edition textbook. Both traditional and simplified characters are included on the same page and appear in the same order as in the textbook. Each character also includes pinyin pronunciation and English definitions, its radical highlighted, and clear, step-by-step stroke order with practice squares that include guide lines to help students balance characters correctly. Includes two indexes, one arranged alphabetically and one by lesson.
A New Text for a Modern China
Author: Irene Liu, Jui-Nien Liu, Hsiao-Chi Li
This set of two 60-minute audio cassettes for A New Text for Modern China (an updated and revised version of A Chinese Text for a Changing China) contains essays and vocabulary lists recorded by native speakers of Chinese. In this third-year course for college and adult learners of Chinese as a second language, elements of a language instruction book and an up-to-date cultural reader are combined into an innovative whole. Each of the five units in the textbook begins with an original essay on topics relevant to everyday life and contemporary issues in China. Each essay is accompanied by three related newspaper or magazine articles from Chinese publications. The reading material is followed by lists of new vocabulary, stock phrases, grammatical explanations and exercises to reinforce language learning. Material is in traditional and simplified characters with pinyin. Grammar explanations are in English.
Korean for Beginners
Author: Henry J. Amen IV, Kyubyong Park
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Binding: Paperback, 176pages
Japanese Respect Language
Author: P. G. O'Neill
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (2008)
Respect language—the special style of polite spoken or written Japanese—is involved almost every time people communicate with one another in Japanese. In order to learn Japanese an understanding of this respect language is essential. Japanese Respect Language outlines and explains how to understand which situations require respect language; how to identify the most suitable grammar, honorifics, and more and provides self-tests to help you master the skills.
Basic Japanese Kanji Volume 1
Author: Kaori Hakone, Timothy G. Stout
Basic Japanese Kanji, Volume 1 is your introduction to the first 205 of the 410 core characters in Japanese (plus 18 additional kanji that serve as building blocks). These kanji are the most frequently used in newspapers, conversations and the top college-level beginning Japanese textbooks. Using a focused combination of proven traditional methods and unique new methods, this book will help independent learners and university or high school students to write, read, speak and use Japanese better.
Teaching and Learning Korean as a Foreign Language
Author: Andrew Byon, Danielle Pyun
Publisher: Foreign Language Publications (2012)
Binding: Paperback, pages
Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) in U.S. college settings began on a small scale. Despite experiencing huge growth in recent years, KFL pedagogy is still in its beginning stages. KFL research monographs and/or edited volumes are relatively few, as compared to mainstream second/foreign language (L2) field. The NEALRC published this volume as a timely addition to the growing KFL field. This volume, edited by Andrew Byon and Danielle Pyun, contains eleven original studies that explore various pedagogical issues in KFL . This book aims to facilitate the dialogue between the existing instructional L2 acquisition theories and their applicability/practicality when implemented in actual KFL classroom settings. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students, language teachers, curriculum developers, and researchers in the fields of KFL as well as applied linguistics.
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Cool Jerk and San Diego Comic-Con ’17
It's a bookmark! It's a coupon! It's your lucky day!
Today begins Cool Jerk’s 15th straight year exhibiting at San Diego Comic-Con International. Come find us in Small Press (K9), right next to the same spot we’ve had since 2003. Got some new stuff, some old favorites, and some ridonkulous, show-only deals on Cool Jerk books (see above)!
We’ve been thinking of doing Cool Jerk Enamel Pins for a couple years now (originally thinking of Velcro patches to wear on hats or sew onto backpacks), but this year we’re debuting the first three designs. They’re really spiff! Most places sell enamel pins for $10, and I’m no exception… but do they include ORIGINAL ARTWORK with each pin? Yep— each backing board has a drawing by yours truly! Choose from pre-drawn ones or request a special someone! Each one is a limited print run of 100 and when they’re gone, they’re gone. SPECIAL ‘CON DEAL: Buy all three, get a book for free!
We still have copies of last summer’s The Girl Who Kicked The Donut Habit, the follow up to 2012’s The Girl With The Donut Tattoo which sold out after three printings. It’s another venture into Darlene’s food-centric world, and pays homage to her mom who passed away unexpectedly in 2014. It’s 24 color pages of comics, recipes, a centerfold (?!?) and costs six bucks with $1 of each sale benefiting the Colon Cancer Alliance. Be sure to get one from Darlene directly so she can sign it for you!
I’m kind of burning through my limited run of Jerkopædia— The Official Visual Style Guide to Cool Jerk, the MUST-HAVE for fans of Cool Jerk (or comic strips in general), character design and animation model sheets. And it’s much more than just fun drawings… it’s fun drawings WITH ANNOTATIONS! Find out who walks around commando! Discover the secret of Armpit’s feet! When was Arms-Over-Head Guy’s first appearance? This guide has it all AND MUCH MORE. It’s 24 pages, professionally printed with a heavy stock color cover, six bucks.
Folks just love Canvas Panels and I’ll be debuting several more varieties at the show! How about a panel depicting a Human Centipede diagram? Or the Chupacabraccino?? A mere $15 a pop for hand-sized artwork, suitable for any room in the house!
Further on that, I’m also selling a few Long-form Cool Jerk Canvases of some fan-favorite strips! They’re $35 each, which is surprisingly the most expensive item at the table. Don’t see your personal favorite? I’ll also be taking orders at the table, which I can then ship out for free!
We’ll also have all the other items you could ever possibly want:
• All Cool Jerk books, and they’re discounted for the show! Get ‘em here, get ‘em signed and avoid shipping fees!
• T-shirts in a variety of styles, fits (M or F) and sizes! All shirts are $15-$20. CHEAP!
• Stickers, buttons and the like!
• As ever, sketches are free!
Click it to find the Zoya the Destroya cosplayer!
Here’s a map I made while you were binge-watching “Glow.” To recap, we’re right next to the same spot we’ve always been, Small Press K9, a stone’s throw from the communal baths/vomitorium/emergency cosplay repair stations.
Find us on Twitter — @cooljerk and @darleneeats. We’ll be live-Tweeting throughout!
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Home Gallery Rwanda now a stable nation, says Museveni
Rwanda now a stable nation, says Museveni
Museveni congratulates Kagame and his family
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni attended the inaugural ceremony of President- elect Paul Kagame as he was sworn into office.
Rwanda held presidential elections on August 4th 2017 that saw the incumbent President Paul Kagame emerge victorious.
President-elect Paul Kagame was sworn in after garnering 98.7% of the votes against main opposition party leader Frank Habineza and independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana.
According to the Rwandan Constitution, the President-elect takes oath of office within thirty days after the final results of the election have been officially released.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the Chairperson of the East African Community joined other Heads of State and dignitaries from the continent and around the world attending the ceremony at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali.
He described Kagame’s win as an “emphatic victory” for a third term recently.
“I congratulate His Excellency Kagame upon his re-election and the people of Rwanda on active participation in the electoral process and peaceful conclusion of the elections.”
Museveni said Rwanda has over the past two decades rebuilt itself into a stable nation, registering strong economic growth and development.
He also commended Rwanda’s engagements in East African Community and the African Union.
“Our two countries enjoy warm bilateral and historical ties and I look forward to even stronger ties in this new term.”
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Removing the roadblocks to environmental innovation
By EIC|2018-03-13T16:27:17+01:00February 13th, 2018|Staff posts|
Government strategies, white papers and even reshuffles come and go, but one constant is a desire to encourage innovation in UK business, says Matthew Farrow. Ever since Harold Wilson talked of “the white heat of technology”, politicians of all persuasions, in good economic times and bad, have eulogised innovation and pledged to increase it. Here at
Keeping the government ‘honest’ on the green agenda
By EIC|2018-03-13T16:25:50+01:00February 5th, 2018|Staff posts|
The creation of a new body to hold the government to account on environmental issues is significant and could have implications for decades to come, says Matthew Farrow. I’ve been lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on your view!) to work with many ministers over the years in my career at different trade associations. While
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082012@1618hrsEDT - I was wondering if there was a way to use the standard Slackware logo and wallpaper from the Slackware website for this wiki. It would give it that comfortable old shoe type feeling, I think. ~V. T. Eric Layton
I think that depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured. If it is not a slackware.com site I would not want to use a full set of Slackware visuals.
— Eric Hameleers, Mon Aug 20 22:11:13 UTC 2012
082012@1821hrsEDT - Ah! That makes since, Eric. Thanks for the reply. I guess it's something we can consider down the road a piece. ~VTEL
The front page says that you must create an account to be able to edit the wiki… OK, but where is the link to create such an account? I love Slackware and I'd love to participate! (and I have my own Slackware wiki as well: http://www.gilandre.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SlackwareLinuxPage )…
Simple. Click “logon” and then register.
— Eric Hameleers 2012/08/23 07:05
082312@2100hrsEDT - I've created a hyperlink on the main page in the paragraph under the Help topic where it says “you must create an account”. Hopefully, this will make it easier for folks to figure out how to register new accounts. ~vtel
Is it really useful to hyperlink every mention of “Slackware Linux” to slackware:slackware and even “documentation” to the main page itself? Why “NEWS” is in uppercase? http://docs.slackware.com/start?do=diff&rev2%5B0%5D=1345722255&rev2%5B1%5D=&difftype=sidebyside
— bormant
Yes, NEWS looks out of step with the rest of the page. I've changed it. — Brian Lawrence 2012/08/24 13:49
102512@0841hrsEST - Site doesn't renders well on mobile devices (at least on my android's default browser). Mobile adaptation should be added.
— paco
PLEASE do not edit the Main Page without consulting someone on the admin/editor team first !!!
I think a link in the “Help” section is wrong. The hyperlink tells to 'create an account', but the link is 'start?do=login', so to login. In the french translation, I supposed the text was right and the link wasn't. Also, I dont think that links must have the 'http://docs.slackware.com/' part. In fact, the register link can simply be “?do=register”. EDIT: the french translation shows “?do=register” (so pages are similar) — zithro
You are absolutely correct zithro. I will alert Eric or Niki to change the link to: http://docs.slackware.com/start?do=register
Thanks for alerting us to this.
— V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/25 11:19
Do the site admins intend to follow the documentation structure recommended on http://docs.slackware.com/slackdocs:contributing#subjects_to_cover and if so will it be added to the main page immediately or will it be added as the content is created?
—mfillpot 2012/08/26 02:03 EDT
Matthew, the TOC is just a list of suggestions, AFAIK. I do not think there's any specific plan to follow it literally. Having said that, it's for Eric and Nicolas to decide.
— sycamorex 2012/08/27 17:04 GMT
@ Matthew & Marcin - We are still in flux over the TOC issue, I believe. I am of the belief that the main page needs a traditional table of contents (or a link to one in the toolbox). Currently, I'm using the Site index link to navigate, but that leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not really sure what Eric and Niki's vision for a TOC is, to be honest. Niki will be back with us later this week. He and Eric can comment further here or on that list to give us a better direction on which to focus. — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/28 18:45
Shouldn't the header on each page of the wiki say, “Welcome to the Slackware Linux Documentation Project”?
Also, while I'm thinking about it… The “Navigation” sidebar shows all external links, with the exception of the loop link to the main page. Shouldn't “Navigation” contain links to areas of the wiki like the TOC, Random Article generator, Help pages, etc? And the external links (including one for Slackware.com) could be placed in a sidebar labeled “Links” or something similar.
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Thoughts? — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/28 18:59
Time's up for me tonight but I think you are making valid points about the sidebar Eric. I will work on that tomorrow.
Good night, Eric. Pleasant “alien” dreams to you. ;) — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/29 16:12
I changed the sidebar content to align mostly with what you suggested. I think there is a better logical separation of topics now.
What I found out in the process is that the two pages Style guide for articles published at SlackDocs and Editing Etiquette should really be merged into one.
Looks really good, Eric. My only suggestion (complaint ) would be that we need to use consistent capitalization rules for the sidebar headings and the links within the sidebars (see my suggestion above). I prefer this because I'm a hard-ass when it comes to the written word. I think texting and chatrooms have done major damage to proper writing and punctuation over the last decade. I mean how hard is it to let your left pinky hit that Shift key? It makes for a more professional presentation; something of which we'll all be proud. — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/30 13:27
Oh, and if someone hasn't already merged the styleguide and editing_rules, I'll see what I can do to facilitate. — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/30 13:37
Looking at the start page and thinking about some people's desire to see the FAQ and beginner's guide standing out on that page - what if the current block of “Getting Started” is split, with just absolute beginner info remaining in “Getting Started” and then adding a new section below that with another heading. Suggestions? “Dive into Slackware”?
Personally, I would prefer a more technical/professional name for it… “For Advanced Users” or “Your Next Steps In Slackware”, etc. — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/30 13:27
All good! Things are really shaping up. The Main Page is the hook. It needs to be enticing, informative, concise, etc. You always want that cover page to get their attention. Great work, everyone! — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/08/30 13:34
Has there been a syntax decided on to note which version of Slackware (or application) a page is applicable to? Subtle changes that aren't caught/updated will cause all sorts of grief. EXAMPLE:
Slackware 12.1 (and later): mysql_install_db --user=mysql
Slackware 12.0 (and before): mysql_install_db
Also, my 2 cents: “…depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured” - docs.slackware.com looks more professional (which I realise in the Slackware realm, isn't much of a concern but…). - arfon
Please follow our guidelines about updating the discussion pages… in particular the use of a Wiki signature function - it adds a timestamp.
I noticed a page edit of our Wiki start page by a non-staff member. It made me realize that we must protect our start page from vandalism (even though this particular edit does not belong in that category) and therefore made the start page read-only to everybody except the staff editors.
If you (editors) would be so kind to evaluate if mentioning slackpkg on the main page is beneficial? I think not!
Re: slackpkg on main page – myeh… it's not necessary, but it is something a beginner would need to use after installing their system.
Re: slackpkg on main page: Noting slackpkg on the main page is not necessary since it should be documented in the install article and will be covered in all package management tutorials.
— Matthew Fillpot 2012/09/11 20:48
Been thinking this over. What we might want to have instead is a chapter “slackware maintenance” which would not only include instructions about how to configure and use slackpkg, but also some information about best practices: following the ChangeLog.txt ; subscribing to the security mailing list ; setting up a cronjob that automatically downloads (but not installs) new patches and sends you an email upon new arrivals ; stuff that any aspiring Slackware sysadmin (and home user) should know of. A link to such a chapter would be good to have on the main page
I think it would be a good idea to add a link to the beginners_guide following this link:
Update your new system: Configure and use slackpkg.
Like so:
Beginners guide: Some post installtion consideration
— Mario St-Gelais 2012/09/13 13:58
Thanks for this suggestion, Mario. Oh, I've moved your post to the bottom of the page (older at top - newer at bottom). Cheers! — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/09/13 15:18
I've been wondering, if there is a good article (example: this guy) on some other site, do we simply create our own article and link to it as a source, or do we ask permission to move the article wholesale to the wiki? — Jared Przybylski 2012/09/16 13:30
I am not in favour of copying whole articles into our wiki, except if the person doing the copying is also the author of the original article. You can use another article as the source or inspiration for your own article here, and if you are re-using parts of it, it is good practice to mention it in the Sources section.
I tried sending an email to the mailing-list twice this morning, but the connection failed. It was about Hazel's revisions. I missed those minor errors she corrected, maybe because I was used to Eric H.'s articles being so clear and easy to follow as far as the actual instructions are concerned, that minor flaws in his English were overlooked. So it's a good thing we've got Hazel on the team, for the benefit of both native and non-native English speakers/authors/editors. — Brian Lawrence 2012/09/19 06:09
Found out the email did get sent, after all. — Brian Lawrence 2012/09/19 06:30
VERY NICE!!! I like. :) — V. T. Eric Layton 2012/10/19 14:16
Thank you I also sent an email to the users list as a wake-up call
Great stuff!!! Eric, are you planning to send an extended statistics pdf on a regular basis? It'd be interesting to have it, say, on a monthly basis. Thank you. — Marcin Herda 2012/10/19 15:02
I hope I remember to do that once a month. If I forget, feel free to remind me.
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Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty-seventh report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
The 27th Report to the Government of Lao PDR (GOL) of the Panel of Experts (POE) on its mission of November-December 2017 reviews achievement of the Resettlement Objectives and Provisions (ROPs) in the Concession Agreement (CA) required for closure of the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP), extended for two years to December 2017. ... See More + A final chapter discusses the current situation of the Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA). The report follows an interim report made at the close of the mission and a draft report to GOL in February this year. POE advice takes account of the project’s record over the past two decades in terms of global good practice in large dam projects. The CA’s innovations include offsetting biodiversity loss with the Nakai-Nam Theun Protected Area (NNTPA); addressing project impacts on villages downstream of the dam; improving housing, education and health; extending support to descendants of the original resettlers; and public reporting by independent external monitoring agencies. Resettler households and villages have largely exceeded their CA income targets, with many over double the target levels in terms of consumption, although there are still some risks to sustainable livelihoods. Over the past two years the program to meet the CA’s environmental and social requirements has greatly accelerated. A Joint Working Group (JWG) of GOL, NTPC and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) has overseen implementation of a List of Actions (LoA) aimed at achieving the ROPs. The LoA does not meet all that is required by the CA but is significant evidence of progress. The NTPC has agreed to fund and complete any LoA requirements remaining after closure. Following closure, plans and finance are in place for continuing development of resettler livelihoods through to 2035. The GOL and other JWG members have asked the POE to ‘endorse the immediate closure of the RIP’ based on a proposal to establish a Nakai Plateau Working Group (NPWG) to fulfil remaining obligations under the CA and establish a post-RIP institutional platform. The authors accept that all parties apart from some resettlers wish to close the RIP soon. The project’s overall innovatory aspects and its recent swift adjustment to a framework more closely aligned to the CA merit recognition. The POE is therefore prepared to recommend that the RIP be closed subject to meeting specific conditions recommended in this report. A closure decision on or around 30 June 2018 would fit the JWG’s timetable for completing CAP activities. A further POE mission will verify that the conditions have been met. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: POE27 Document Date: MAY 01, 2018
Author: Mcdowell,David K.; Mann,Elizabeth; Talbot,Lee M. Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Laos – Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Hydro Project : Twenty-sixth report on the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
The 26th Report of the Panel of Experts (POE) summarises evidence of progress on the Listof Actions (LoA) in the Comprehensive Action Plan (CAP) towards closure of theResettlement Implementation Period (RIP) by December 2017, comments on the MediumTerm Development Plan (MTDP) following closure, and suggests priority actions betweennow and the end of 2017. ... See More + Achievement of the LoA will be a significant step towards closurebut does not replace the project's Concession Agreement (CA) as the basis of the POE'srecommendation. The POE will return in November for an assessment and recommendationon closure. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 118758 Document Date: JUN 01, 2017
Author: Mcdowell,David K.; Talbot,Lee M.; Mann,Elizabeth Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Lao People's Democratic Republic Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty-fifth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This report responds to a request from the Government of Lao PDR (GoL) to comment on an Action Plan (AP) to close the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP) as defined in the Concession Agreement for the Nam Theun 2 Hydro Project (CA) by December 2017. ... See More + The report records our detailed comments on the objectives, indicators and key actions in the draft AP. Our suggestions are summarised under each pillar of the AP in terms of overall outcomes and indicators and specific important actions both by December 2017 and the longer term. We also comment on the institutional responsibilities and required capabilities for the period to the end of 2017 and the longer-term arrangements for governance and management of the development of the Nakai plateau and on. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 108522 Document Date: SEP 01, 2016
Lao People's Democratic Republic Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty fourth report of the international and social panel of experts (English)
This is the Twenty-Fourth Report of the International Panel of Environmental andSocial Experts for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Multipurpose Project in Lao PDR (POE). ... See More + The report covers the POE’s visit to Lao PDR in April/May 2015. The members ofthe Panel are D. K. McDowell (consultant, Otaki, New Zealand), T. Scudder (ProfessorEmeritus, California Institute of Technology, USA) and L. M. Talbot, (Professor, GeorgeMason University, Virginia, USA). While Dr. Scudder was unable to participate in person inthe mission to Laos on this occasion, he was fully informed of the findings of the field teamand was actively involved in the writing of this report. The team was joined for the missionby R. G. Laking (consultant, Wellington, New Zealand) in an advisory capacity.This mission was not the usual monitoring and advisory exercise. It had a specialpurpose. This was to meet the legal requirement in the Concession Agreement1 (CA) that atleast six months before the expiry of the intended Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP)the POE review activities performed during the RIP, analyze whether the ResettlementObjectives and Provisions spelled out in the CA have been achieved in accordance with theCA, and make a recommendation to the GOL accordingly on whether the RIP should beended in December 2015 or extended for a designated period. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 100591 Document Date: OCT 23, 2015
Author: Mcdowell,David K.; Scudder,Thayer; Talbot,Lee M. Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Lao People's Democratic Republic Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty third report of the international and social panel of experts (English)
This is Report 23 of the International Panel of Environmental and Social Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The mission was initially seen as primarily a monitoring and fact-finding one, with two main foci. The first was the resettlement process, assessing progress on the Nakai Plateau in establishing new livelihoods and in handing over to the Government of Laos (GoL) responsibility for execution and completion of resettlement. The requirements of the impressive and comprehensive Concession Agreement (CA) covering the extension or closure of the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP) will be assessed during a further POE visit in 2015. The second main focus was the status of the Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA). The performance of the WMPA has always been problematical, most particularly in terms of its responsibilities for conservation of the globally important biodiversity of the Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area (NPA). The new team has begun drawing together a Road Map to guide the further evolution of the project’s five livelihood pillars and to help create a consensus among stakeholders on how to round out successfully the resettlement process. More flexibility on timelines and the prospect of additional resources add up to an appreciation that fostering development, adopting new livelihood systems and achieving the CA goal of sustainability of livelihoods cannot be achieved in a few months or in some sectors years. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 96161 Document Date: DEC 29, 2014
Author: Mcdowell,David K.; Talbot,Lee M. Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Development Project : twenty second report of the environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is Report 22 of the International Panel of Environmental and Social Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + This mission had two main foci. The first was the resettlement process and progress on the Nakai Plateau to assess the progress of handing over to the Government of Laos (GoL) the responsibility for execution and completion of the resettlement component so that the requirements of the Concession Agreement (CA) for the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP) could be assessed during the first quarter of 2015. The second main focus was the Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA). The performance of the WMPA has always been problematical, most particularly in terms of its responsibilities for conservation of the globally important biodiversity of the Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area (NPA). Two recent external reviews of the WMPA (a Fiduciary review and an Organizational one) have documented that the performance of the WMPA has been so lacking that a comprehensive restructuring is required. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 88356 Document Date: MAY 08, 2014
Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : Report 21A and 21B of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This report details seven recommendations from the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Multipurpose Project in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. 1) Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA) conservation patrols will be repeated at least once a month, including the wet season. 2) The provincial and central government authorities will take effective action to recognize and halt the undermining of village authorities in the Nakai Nam Theun National Protected Area (NPA) for the illegal rosewood trade, including its participants, supporters, and enablers. 3) The WMPA will assure that law enforcement staff is provided at least two reliable, functional vehicles, a boat with good motor, motorbikes and laptops. 4) The organizations responsible for monitoring, patrolling and enforcing management of the reservoir, especially the WMPA and the resettlement-based village fisher groups, will find or develop mechanisms to complement and harmonize their activities to achieve effective management of the reservoir and its fishery. 5) The WMPA will develop rigorous criteria for evaluating which existing WMPA staff meets the present requirements and which do not, and to seek to replace the latter with university graduates or experienced staff from conservation organizations. 6) An institutional review of the WMPA and relevant line agencies will be carried out to consider the functions that the WMPA should implement in accordance with Decree 471. 7) The WMPA will monitor track construction in the NPA, only allow tracks that are in the agreed upon access plan, and actively halt and as appropriate destroy any other track construction. ... See More + See Less -
Document Type: Other Environmental Study Report No.: 81534 Document Date: MAR 12, 2013
Author: Mcdowell,David K.; Scudder, Taylor; Talbot,Lee M. Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Development Project : twentieth report of the environmental and social panel of experts (English)
The main focus of this Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Development Project was to assess the process and impacts of handing over progressively to the Government of Laos (GOL) the responsibility for execution and eventual completion of the project in all three principal areas; (i) notably downstream of the dam in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) basin,(ii) on the Nakai Plateau, (iii) and in the watershed. ... See More + The handing over process from project agencies to affected people, villages, government agencies and such civil society agencies as Non-Government Organization (NGOs) has seldom been satisfactorily implemented in connection with large dams. In the Panel opinion it remains to be seen if GOL and the Nam Theun Power Company (NTPC) will be able to complete a satisfactory handing over process. Consistent with this mission focus, the report is organized into three main sections dealing (1) with the handover process in the Downstream Program (DSP) in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF); (2) the handover process in the resettlement villages and ongoing livelihood activities on the Nakai Plateau; and (3) the restructuring and handing over of some responsibilities in the watershed by the Watershed and Management Protection Authority (WMPA). See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 76355 Document Date: FEB 02, 2013
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : nineteenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is report 19 of the International Environmental Panel of Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Second Nam Theun (NT2) Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The panel derives its mandate from the concession agreement. This is a 600 page legal documents which assign the POE a contractual responsibility to provide independent review of, and guidance on, the treatment of environmental and social issues associated with the project, along with some executive functions, and after the implementation period of nine years or more, to determine whether the project's environmental and social goals have been met. The POE remains a standing body for the period of the concession. The POE submits its findings to the Government of Laos (GOL) Minister of Energy and Mines and to Deputy Prime Minister addresses recommendations to the GOL, Nam Theun Power Company (NTPC) and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and is required to assess the extent to which NT2 meets the requirements of the safeguard policies of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on such issues as the environment, indigenous peoples and resettlement with development. The Panel may engage consultants to help with its work and has done so for the first time in this instance. The time is approaching when the POE will be required to begin the process of addressing the requirement in the Concession Agreement (CA) to undertake a final evaluation of the Nakai resettlement process. The agreement calls for the POE to review the activities performed during the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP), determine whether the resettlement objectives and the resettlement provisions in the CA have been achieved and provide advice on this to the resettlement committee. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 71296 Document Date: MAR 20, 2012
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : report 18A of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
In its previous reports the Environmental and Social Panel (POE) has described the Nam Theun National Protected Area (NTPA) and its globally significant biological and cultural diversity, along with the threats it faces, so that will not be reiterated here. ... See More + As we have noted before, since the start of the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project, conservation of the biodiversity of the NPA and protection and rehabilitation of forest cover in the watershed have remained a fundamental objective. They are also a primary reason for the involvement and support by the World Bank and other international financial institutions and key environmental organizations. This is in part because protection of the NTPA is an explicit offset under the World Bank's requirements for the area to be inundated, but it is also because of the clear global importance of conserving the area's biological diversity. In a somewhat similar fashion, protection of the area's cultural diversity has been an important objective of the project. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70889 Document Date: JUL 15, 2011
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : seventeenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the seventeenth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Second Nam Theun (NT2) Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The commercial operations date for the NT2 project occurred on April 30 of this year, and the principal focus of this present POE mission was schedule 35 of the Concession Agreement (CA). However, the panel has felt that the NT2 Project has the potential to break this downward cycle and to result in real gains for the affected people as well as the environment, the latter particularly in terms of conservation of the NPA's biodiversity. The panel remains cautiously optimistic that these objectives can be met, if the actions recommended below are carried out in the near future. The POE and all other parties involved in NT2 have been and remain severely handicapped by the inability of the project agencies to implement, and analyze data from, a satisfactory monitoring system prior to the December 9 inauguration of the NT2 project. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70888 Document Date: NOV 22, 2010
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : sixteenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the sixteenth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The panel members have an aggregate of over 150 years of professional experience, much of it international and much of it specifically involving development projects and/or their environmental and social impacts. The panel derives its mandate from the concession agreement which assigns the POE a contractual responsibility to provide independent review of and guidance on the treatment of environmental and social issues associated with the project, and after the implementation period of nine years or more, to determine whether the project's environmental and social goals have been met. See Less -
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : fifteenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the fifteenth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The view of the project is not universally held. Some contend that the project has proved too drawn out, too demanding in its standards and too costly on the environmental and social sides to be seen as a model. Two key project documents are the social development plan and the innovatory concession agreement. Both stand up well still-but they should not be seen as infallible or immutable. In aggregate the panel members have over 150 years of professional experience, much of it international and much of it specifically involving development projects and/or their environmental and social impacts. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70885 Document Date: APR 30, 2009
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : Thirteenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the thirteenth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The POE has been strongly supportive of the project since its first visit in January, 1997, and it remains so. It has steadily evolved in more recent years from a one sector hydropower project into a multipurpose development enterprise we have become the more convinced of its potential as a global model. And the solemn undertaking by the Concession Agreement (CA) parties to continue to meet their obligations and responsibilities until in the opinion of the POE the CA's social and environmental goals have been met, a period of nine years or possibly more, is a breakthrough in implementing infrastructure projects of this scale. This thirteenth mission is occurring at a particularly crucial time for the project. Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) wishes to seal the diversion tunnel and thereby commence impoundment of the reservoir on April 10, 2008. Only two months remain before that date, and as detailed in this report, the POE questions whether or not the 10 April date can be met in view of various considerations including the number and magnitude of CA requirements that have not yet been met. However, in the hope that the target can still be met, we have set out below what needs to be accomplished in the time available. See Less -
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twelfth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the twelfth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project. The project is a multisectoral one featuring the construction of a large dam on the Nam (river) Theun and the diversion of waters through to the neighboring XE Bang Fai river basin principally for the purpose of producing hydroelectricity for export to Thailand, but also for fostering dry season irrigation where feasible. ... See More + See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70882 Document Date: SEP 29, 2007
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : eleventh report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the eleventh report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The members of the Panel are D.K. McDowell (consultant, Otaki, New Zealand), T. Scudder (California Institute of Technology, USA) and L.M.Talbot (George Mason University, Virginia, USA). The Panel has a contractual responsibility to provide independent review of and guidance on, the treatment of environmental and social issues associated with this multi-sectoral project. The concession agreement accords the panel compliance, supervision and a number of enforcement functions. The POE is required to act independently of the parties and in a manner which best protects the environment and the interests of those impacted by the project. The POE submits its findings to the Government of Lao P.D.R (GOL) Minister of Energy and Mines as Chair of the NT2 Steering Committee. It may also address comments and recommendations to the Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) and is obligated to assess the extent to which the NT2 project meets relevant World Bank and Asian Development Bank safeguard policies including those on the environment, indigenous people, and resettlement with development. Its reports are made public. The panel is pleased that this current report and future POE reports are to be translated into Lao to expand their accessibility. See Less -
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project : tenth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the tenth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) act firmly to ensure that there is effective interaction, including consultation and timely preparation and review of environmental documents and plans, between and among the Head Contractor, the sub-contractors and the NTPC Construction and Environmental and Social Teams. NTPC and Government of Leos (GOL) develop the necessary reservoir, downstream and project lands institutional structures as a matter of urgency. The highest priority is placed by the GOL and the World Bank on ensuring that there are effective external monitors on the ground by the time of the next POE visit in January 2007. The success in reducing turbidity through flocculation is followed up fast in the many sedimentation ponds around the project. Henceforth increasing priority be given to livelihood activities, including crop agriculture, livestock management, fisheries and off-farm employment activities, in the already resettled villages. Government family planning services are more carefully tailored to meet the existing and presumably growing demand at the village level among younger women for smaller families. Maximum use is made of the opportunities over the next two years for the resettles to obtain employment, build up harvesting and processing and forest management expertise, and add to their income through participation in the drives to produce housing timber and clear the reservoir. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70880 Document Date: OCT 30, 2006
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Project : ninth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
This is the ninth report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts (POE or the Panel) for the Second Nam Theun (NT2) Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + The Lao national committee on energy issues a strong policy statement emphasizing the importance of environmental and social issues in the NT2 project and calling on all ministries and other governmental units involved to ensure that their activities reflect this importance. The NT2 steering committee could be tasked with monitoring the issue. The Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) Board establishes an independent committee on environment and social issues that would report to the board chairman. The committee should have at least two outside specialists and might include an at large member of the Board. The Government of Laos consider whether a stronger over-arching project committee, with adequate political backing, decision-making authority and budget should be soon established for overseeing implementation of the NT2 project. See Less -
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project : joint report of the international environmental and social panel of experts and the International Advisory Group (IAG) (English)
This is a joint report of the August 2005 mission of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts and the International Advisory Group for the Second Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. ... See More + In addition the mission briefly reviewed the developments in the NT2 project since its previous visit in January 2005. The principal focus of the mission was the revised proposal of the National Thermal Power Corporation for the location of the camp site for the labor on the NT2 dam. The dam site is within the Corridor, a protected area that was established to protect the biodiversity in the area surrounding the gorge of the Nam Theun below the Nakai Plateau, and particularly to provide for movements of elephants and other wildlife off the plateau and possibly between the plateau and the limestone protected area. Unless it is very carefully planned and managed, a labor camp can represent a major disruption to the countryside and can be devastating to biodiversity. The camp for a work force attracts camp followers who are families of the workers and others who assemble to provide food and other goods and services. There are often three or more camp followers for each laborer. Experience throughout the world has shown that the uncontrolled and unplanned growth of labor camps with camp followers leads to severe problems of sanitation and other health issues, crime and security, and to a devastating drain on the biodiversity of the surroundings from the demands for food and other forest products. See Less -
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70876 Document Date: AUG 25, 2005
Author: McDowell, David; Scudder, Thayer; Talbot, Lee M. Disclosure Status: Disclosed
Laos - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project (Vol. 22) : Eighth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
The Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic will dam the Nam Thuen, creating a reservoir and generating power. ... See More + Key environmental impacts of project operation are in the areas of physical and biological environment, associated with changes to hydrology, water quality, erosion rates, climate and groundwater, aquatic and terrestrial habitats, species diversity, protected areas, and endangered species. Hydrology impacts include impoundment of the Nam Thuen, diversion of water, and changes in flow. Water quality impacts include low dissolved oxygen concentration, increased nutrient concentrations in initial years, wastewater discharges from construction sites and work camps, and sedimentation from construction sites. Erosion and sedimentation impacts include changes in sedimentation in the reservoir and downstream and changes in riverbank erosion. Impacts on aquatic species include alteration of habitats, disfavoring certain species, imposing a barrier to migration, unfavorable conditions for species, alterations in species composition and productivity of the river; and damage due to sedimentation. Terrestrial biodiversity impacts include affects on land and vegetation including loss of land to reservoir, increased access to area, and increased human habitation. Other impacts include generation of minor micro-climatic changes on the plateau and affects on endangered species. Mitigation measures for these impacts are provided. See Less -
Document Type: Environmental Assessment Report No.: E385 Document Date: FEB 07, 2005
Author: EcoLao; International Advisory Group (IAG); Laos; Nam Thuen II Power Company Ltd.; Norplan Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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This needs to be Clayton Kershaw’s moment
Chad Moriyama 10/19/2017 Clayton Kershaw Leave A Comment
After wasting yesterday’s golden opportunity to take Game 4 of the NLCS and sweep the defending champion Cubs, the Dodgers enter Game 5 seemingly setup perfectly to end things without sending fans into a panic. After all, they have Clayton Kershaw on the mound, who is undoubtedly the best pitcher of this generation and will likely go down as one of the best to ever take the ball. Of course, well, you know the problem by now. For whatever reason, the man with a 2.36 ERA and 2.60 FIP for his career over 1935 innings now has a 4.57 ERA and 3.68 FIP over 100.1 innings in the playoffs.
On social media, we all love to laugh when analysts desperate for content early in the season trot out Clayton’s middling ERA in late-April and early-May as some kind of sign of decline or a harbinger of impending career doom. It’s understandable, because what’s 30-40 innings against thousands for his career or over 200 for the season? Easily reversible, which is what he’s done every time that’s been a thing. Well, what concerns me about his playoff track record is that we’re now about a half season into his struggles, and if Kershaw had a mid-4 ERA with troubling peripherals in July, people would be a lot more concerned about his season outlook and understandably so.
Given that the postseason sample size continues to get bigger, it’s fair to wonder at this point whether Kershaw will actually turn it around. Every time he delivers a quality start in the playoffs or has a moment, people declare that the postseason narrative for him is over, and it is … at least until the next start that usually eliminates the Dodgers from the postseason.
That said, do I buy into the people calling him a choker and all that? I honestly don’t. To me, choking is shying away from the moment, like Jonathan Broxton pitching around a declined Matt Stairs in the 2009 NLCS because of what happened in the 2008 NLCS or Chris Douglas-Roberts leaving free throws short in the 2008 National Championship Game. If anything, I feel like Kershaw gets too amped up and is too eager for the moment, resulting in either tiring early, his breaking stuff flattening out, or poor command. But I suppose that’s me making excuses for him, right? I guess so, and it’s a familiar trend. It’s either sample size or the bullpen shouldn’t have forced him to go seven or it’s because he started on short rest. I know this because it’s the excuses I’ve used for years to defend him, assuming that one of these years he was going to go on a “fuck you” playoff tour like Randy Johnson in 2001 … one that hasn’t come yet years later.
It’s not that the excuses for Kershaw are necessarily invalid, and I even agree with them to an extent, but honestly? I’m just tired, man. Tired of hearing about how it’s actually the fault of the rest of the team when he’s always the best player, tired of explaining how the rare dominant playoff start is proof enough of his greatness, tired of making excuses for why the best pitcher of his generation has an ERA double that of his regular season career. At this point, I just desperately want to see him excel when it matters most for some kind of meaningful run, and Game 5 of the NLCS would be a perfect time to start, as his team is still comfortably up 3-1 in the series and he’s on regular rest with a chance give Dodgers fans something we haven’t seen since 1988: a World Series.
Here’s hoping he delivers.
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ICANN attendance soars but “females” stay away
Kevin Murphy, December 4, 2018, Domain Policy
ICANN attendees identifying themselves as female plummeted to 20% of the total at ICANN 63, even as overall attendance rocketed.
According to just-published stats from ICANN, 2,639 people checked in at the Barcelona venue for the late-October meeting.
That compares favorably to the Abu Dhabi meeting a year earlier, which saw 1,929 participants show up, to the last European meeting, Copenhagen in March last year, where there were 2,089 attendees, and to the last European AGM, 2015’s Dublin meeting with its 2,395 people.
Oddly, the number of people self-declaring their femaleness was down hugely. It reliably hovers around the 33% mark usually, but in Barcelona it was down to one in five.
The number of “males” was also down, from 59% in Abu Dhabi to 53% in at 63.
It seems very likely that the gender balance has not substantially changed, but that fewer people are ticking the gender box when they sign up.
The number of participants who chose not to disclose their gender was 27%, up from 10% in Abu Dhabi, 11% at ICANN 61 and 14% at ICANN 62.
There were wide regional differences in gender balance.
There were 1,440 attendees from Europe in Barcelona, more than half the total, and 28% of them did not disclose their gender. That number was just 8% among North Americans and 9% for Africans.
I’m at a loss to explain why the number of undeclareds would see such a sharp increase — did ICANN change how it gathers gender data this time around, or are people, women in particular, becoming more reticent to disclose their gender?
Perhaps Europeans registering on-site, where perhaps the gender option was easier to ignore on the terminals, tilted the balance? I’m speculating.
In other stats, it seems the number of sessions and session-hours is (thankfully) on the decline.
There were 338 session at 63, down from 407 a year ago, and the number of hours was down by 100, from 696 to 596.
The numbers also show a strong bias towards sessions involving the Governmental Advisory Committee when it comes to attendance, but that’s probably due to the GAC being so bloody big compared to other groups.
All this, and more additional statistics than anyone could possibly ever find useful, can be found here.
Kirikos lawyers up after ICANN etiquette fight
Kevin Murphy, October 25, 2018, Domain Policy
Domain investor George Kirikos has hired lawyers to send nastygrams to ICANN after a fight over the rules of etiquette on a working group mailing list.
Kirikos claims there’s a “campaign of intimidation” against him by fellow volunteers who do not agree with his opinions and forthright tone, but that he “has not done anything wrong”.
In response, ICANN CEO Goran Marby this evening revealed that he has assigned his general counsel and new deputy, John Jeffrey, to the case.
Even by ICANN standards, it’s a textbook case of a) manufacturing mountains out of molehills, and b) how it can become almost impossible to communicate like sensible human beings when everyone’s tangled in red tape.
The dispute started back in May, when Kirikos got into a fight with IP lawyer Greg Shatan on the mailing list of the Rights Protection Mechanisms working group.
Both men are volunteers on the group, which seeks to refine ICANN policy protecting trademark owners in gTLDs.
The argument was about the content of a World Intellectual Property Organization web page listing instances of UDRP cases being challenged in court.
Kirikos took a strident tone, to which Shatan took exception.
Shatan then reported Kirikos to the working group’s co-chairs, claiming a breach of the Expected Standards of Behavior — the informal code of conduct designed to prevent every ICANN discussion turning into a flame war and/or bare-knuckle alley fight.
Under GNSO PDP rules, working group volunteers have to agree to abide by the ESB. Group chairs have the ability to kick participants who repeatedly offend.
At this point, the sensible thing to do would have been for Shatan and Kirikos to hug it out and move on.
But this is ICANN.
What actually happened was a pointless procedural back-and-forth between Kirikos, Shatan, and working group chairs Phil Corwin of Verisign and Brian Beckham of WIPO, which resulted in Kirikos hiring two lawyers — Andrew Bernstein of Torys and regular ICANN participant Robin Gross of IP Justice.
It’s believed to be the first time a WG participant has hired counsel over a mailing list argument.
Far too boring to recount here, Corwin’s timeline of events can be found from page 24 of this transcript (pdf) of remarks delivered here in Barcelona during ICANN 63, while the Bernstein/Kirikos timeline can be found here (pdf).
The rub of it is that Kirikos reckons both Corwin and Beckham are biased against him — Beckham because Kirikos voted against his chairship, Corwin because of a similar dispute in a related working group earlier this year — and that the ESB is unenforceable anyway.
According to Bernstein: “Mr. Kirikos has strong concerns that whatever process ICANN purports to operate with respect to Mr. Shatan’s complaint, it will not be fairly or neutrally adjudicated.”
He added that Kirikos had said that “due to the precise language of Section 3.4 of the Working Group Guidelines, Mr. Shatan lacked a basis to initiate any complaint”.
That language allows complaints to be filed if the ESB is “abused”. According to Corwin’s account, Kirikos — well-known as a detail-oriented ICANN critic — reckons the correct term should be “violated”, which rendered the ESB “null and void and unenforceable” in this instance.
Bernstein has since added that the ICANN board of directors never intended the ESB to be anything but voluntary.
The sum of this appears to be that the dispute has had a chilling effect on the RPM working group’s ability to get anything done, consuming much of its co-chairs’ time.
Kirikos lawyering up seems to have compounded this effect.
Now, as ICANN 63 drew to a close this evening, CEO Marby said in a brief prepared statement that the WG’s work has “more or less stalled for the last several months” and that he’s assigned general counsel John Jeffrey to “look into the issues surrounding this matter”.
ICANN “takes the issue very seriously”, he said.
As well it might. The Kirikos/Shatan incident may have been blown waaaaay out of proportion, but at its core is a serious question about civil discourse in ICANN policy-making.
Personally, I hold out hope it’s not too late for everyone to hug it out and move on.
This is how AppDetex works
Kevin Murphy, October 25, 2018, Domain Services
A small brand-protection registrar with a big friend caused quite a stir at ICANN 63 here in Barcelona this week, after accusing registrars for the second time of shirking their duties to disclose private Whois data to trademark owners.
AppDetex, which has close ties to Facebook, has sent something like 9,000 Whois requests to registrars over the last several months, then complained to ICANN last week that it only got a 3% response rate.
Registrars cried foul, saying that the company’s requests are too vague to action and sometimes seem farcical, suggesting an indiscriminate, automated system almost designed to be overly burdensome to them.
In chats with DI this week, AppDetex CEO Faisal Shah, general counsel Ben Milam and consultant Susan Kawaguchi claimed that the system is nowhere near as spammy as registrars think, then showed me a demo of their Whois Requester product that certainly seemed to support that claim.
First off, Whois Requester appears to be only partially automated.
Tucows had noted in a letter to ICANN that it had received requests related to domains including lincolnstainedglass.com and grifflnstafford.com, which contain strings that look a bit like the “Insta” trademark but are clearly not cybersquatting.
“That no human reviewed these domains was obvious, as the above examples are not isolated,” Tucows CEO Elliot Noss wrote.
“It is abundantly clear to us that the requests we received were generated by an automated system,” Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon, who said he had received similarly odd requests, wrote in his own letter.
But, according to AppDetex, these assumptions are not correct.
Only part of its service is automated, they said. Humans — either customers or AppDetex in-house “brand analysts” — were involved in sending out all the Whois requests generated via its system.
AppDetex itself does not generate the lists of domains of concern for its clients, they said. That’s done separately, using unrelated tools, by the clients themselves.
It’s possible these could be generated from zone files, watch services, abuse reports or something else. The usage of the domain, not just its similarity to the trademark in question, would also play a role.
Facebook, for example, could generate its own list of domains that contain strings matching, partially matching, or homographically similar to its trademarks, then manually input those domains into the AppDetex tool.
The product features the ability to upload lists of domains in bulk in a CSV file, but Kawaguchi told me this feature has never been used.
Once a domain has been input to main Whois Requester web form, a port 43 Whois lookup is automatically carried out in the background and the form is populated with data such as registrar name, Whois server, IANA number and abuse email address.
At this point, human intervention appears to be required to visually confirm whether the Whois result has been redacted or not. This might require also going to the registrar’s web-based Whois, as some registrars return different results over port 43 compared to their web sites.
If a redacted record is returned, users can then select the trademark at issue from a drop-down (Whois Requestor stores its’ customers trademark information) and select a “purpose” from a different drop-down.
The “purposes” could include things like “trademark investigation” or “phishing investigation”. Each generates a different piece of pre-written text to be used in the template Whois request.
Users can then choose to generate, manually approve, and send off the Whois request to the relevant registrar abuse address. The request may have a “form of authorization” attached — a legal statement that AppDetex is authorized to ask for the data on behalf of its client.
Replies from registrars are sent to an AppDetex email address and fed into a workflow tool that looks a bit like an email inbox.
As the demo I saw was on the live Whois Requester site with a dummy account, I did not get a view into what happens after the initial request has been sent.
Registrars have complained that AppDetex does not reply to their responses to these initial requests, which is a key reason they believe them frivolous.
Shah and Milam told me that over the last several months, if a registrar reply has included a request for additional information, the Whois Requester system has been updated with a new template for that registrar, and the request resent.
This, they said, may account for duplicate requests registrars have been experiencing, though two registrars I put this to dispute whether it fits with what they’ve been seeing.
The fact that human review is required before requests are sent out “just makes it worse”, they also said.
US not happy with Donuts hiring Atallah
The US government appears to have reservations about Donuts’ recent hiring of ICANN bigwig Akram Atallah as its new CEO.
Speaking at a session of ICANN 63 here in Barcelona today, National Telecommunications and Information Administration head David Redl alluded to the recent hire.
Atallah was president of the Global Domains Division and twice interim CEO.
While most of Redl’s brief remarks today concerned internet security and Whois, he concluded by saying:
While the community has greatly improved ICANN’s accountability through the IANA stewardship transition process, there are still improvements to be made.
As one example, we need safeguards to ensure that ICANN staff and leadership are not only grounded ethically in their professional actions at ICANN, but also in their actions when they seek career opportunities outside of ICANN.
One potential fix could be “cooling off periods” for ICANN employees that accept employment with companies involved in ICANN activities and programs. This is an ethical way to ensure that conflicts of interest or appearances of unethical behavior are minimized.
ICANN faced similar scrutiny back in the 2011, when ICANN chair Peter Dengate Thrush pushed through the new gTLD program and almost immediately began working for a new gTLD applicant.
That was the same year Redl moved from being head of regulatory affairs at CTIA — lobbying for wireless industry legislation — to counsel to the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee — helping to craft wireless industry legislation.
Here are his remarks. Redl starts speaking at around the 38-minute mark.
ICANN denies it’s in bed with trademark lawyers
ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby has strongly denied claims from non-commercial stakeholders that its attitude to Whois reform is “biased” in favour of “special interests” such as trademark lawyers.
In a remarkably fast reply (pdf) to a scathing October 17 letter (pdf) from the current and incoming chairs of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, Chalaby dismissed several of the NCSG’s claims of bias as “not true”.
The NCSG letter paints ICANN’s efforts to bring Whois policy into line with the General Data Protection Regulation as rather an effort to allow IP owners to avoid GDPR altogether.
It even suggests that ICANN may be veering into content regulation — something it has repeatedly and specifically disavowed — by referring to how Whois may be used to combat “fake news”.
The “demonstrated intention of ICANN org has been to ensure the unrestrained and unlawful access to personal data demanded by special interest groups”, the NCSG claimed.
It believes this primarily due to ICANN’s efforts to support the idea of a “unified access model” — a way for third parties with “legitimate interests” to get access to private Whois data.
ICANN has produced a couple of high-level framework documents for such a model, and CEO Goran Marby has posted articles playing up the negative effects of an inaccessible Whois.
But Marby has since insisted that a unified access model is still very much an “if”, entirely dependent on whether the community, in the form of the Whois EPDP working group, decides there should be one.
That message was reiterated in Chalaby’s new letter to the NCSG.
The conversation on whether to adopt such a model must continue, but the outcomes of those discussions are for the community to decide. We expect that the community, using the bottom-up multistakeholder model, will take into account all stakeholders’ views and concerns.
He denied that coordinating Whois data is equivalent to content regulation, saying it falls squarely within ICANN’s mandate.
“ICANN’s mission related to ‘access to’ this data has always encompassed lawful third-party access and use, including for purposes that may not fall within ICANN’s mission,” he wrote.
The exchange of letters comes as parties on the other side of the Whois debate also lobby ICANN and its governmental advisors over the need for Whois access.
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Operation September Thrust leads to another million-domain Radix gTLD
Kevin Murphy, February 4, 2019, Domain Registries
Radix has become the first new gTLD portfolio registry to hit over one million domains in more than one TLD.
It said today that .site has crossed the seven-digit threshold, joining .online, which hit a million names in 2018.
It’s huge recent growth for .site, which had around 561,000 domains under management at the end of September.
Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani told DI today that the rapid uptick comes as a result of a marketing program internally code-named “September Thrust”.
This involved promotional pricing — Ramchandani said the cheapest a .site could have been obtained would be about $0.99 — and joint-marketing efforts with multiple registrars.
This mostly involved plugs on registrar home pages, email shots, and promotion in the “check availability” part of registrar storefronts, he said.
The latest transaction reports filed with ICANN show .site grew by about 120,000 DUM in October, with West.cn, NameCheap and Network Solutions (Web.com) the biggest beneficiaries.
NetSol’s .site DUM actually grew by about 10x in the month.
The $1 retail pricing was apparently available at some registrars prior to September, and continues to exist on storefronts today.
Radix claims 77% renewal rates after two years
Kevin Murphy, November 14, 2017, Domain Registries
New gTLD registry Radix says that three of its larger TLDs have seen a 77% renewal rate two years after launch.
The company said today that .online had 75% renewals, with .tech at 78% and .site at 81%.
It appears to have carved out these three from its portfolio for attention, ignoring the rest of its portfolio, because they all went to general availability in the same two-month period July and August 2015.
The renewal rates are for the first month of GA. In other words, 77% of the domains registered in the TLDs’ respective first month have been renewed for a third year.
Radix, in a press release, compared the numbers favorably to .com and .net, which had a combined renewal rate of 74% in the second quarter according to Verisign’s published numbers.
It’s probably not a fully fair apples-to-apples comparison. Domains registered in the first month of GA are likely higher-quality names registered by in-the-know early adopters, and therefore less likely to be dropped, whereas .com and .net have decades of renewal cycles behind them.
Radix also said that 86% of domains registered during the three TLDs’ sunrise periods and Early Access Periods are still being renewed, with .tech at 92% and .site at 88%.
Eight more gTLDs get Chinese licenses
Kevin Murphy, October 12, 2017, Domain Registries
Radix and MMX have had four new gTLDs each approved for use in China.
MMX has had .work, .law, .beer and .购物 (Chinese for “shopping”) approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Radix gained approval for .fun, .online, .store and .tech.
The approvals mean that Chinese customers of Chinese registrars will be able to actually use domains in these TLDs rather than just registering them and leaving them barren.
It also means the respective registries have to apply more stringent controls on Chinese registrants.
They’re the first new gTLDs to get the nod from MIIT since April.
Only a couple dozen Latin-script new gTLDs have been given regulatory approval to operate fully in China.
MMX’s biggest success story to date, .vip, is almost entirely beholden to the Chinese market. Before today, it was also the only gTLD in its portfolio to pass the MIIT test.
The company said in a statement it has another four strings going through the approval process.
Radix already had .site on sale in China with government approval.
Radix targets a million .online names in 2-3 years
Kevin Murphy, August 27, 2015, Domain Registries
Having just finished the most-successful new gTLD launch day to date, Radix Registry reckons it can get .online to seven figures in two to three years.
“We’re at 37,170 names as of an hour ago,” Radix CEO Bhavin Turakhia told DI at about 1000 UTC this morning.
That represents less than a full day of general availability. The company said last night that 28,000 names were registered in the first 30 minutes.
UPDATE: At the 24-hour mark, Radix tweeted this:
What an exciting Day 1 it has been for .online! Total DUMs 24 hours into the GA is 39,449 #newgTLDs #domaining
— Radix (@RadixRegistry) August 27, 2015
That beats .club’s 25,000-ish, which was Radix’s publicly stated goal, but it also tops .berlin’s 31,000 first-day names.
The CEOs of both these rival registries had publicly predicted their positions would be toppled and actively encouraged Radix to claim the crown.
Turakhia said that the majority of names registered came from pre-orders, largely at 1&1.
“Fourteen thousand names came from 1&1, 6,000 from Go Daddy, 2,700 from United Domains, 1,900 from Name.com and 1,400 from Tucows,” he said, partially breaking down the 37,170 figure by registrar.
He said the goal is to have a .online zone measured in the millions of names.
“I estimate that we should be able to get to a million names in a period of two to three years,” he said. “That’s on a conservative basis.”
Depending on how you count domains, .xyz may have already been the first to hit one million. Its zone never got as high as a million names, but it may have briefly crossed a million in terms of domains under management earlier this year.
At auction, .online sold for what is believed to be an eight-figure sum, originally to a joint venture of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap.
Radix bought out its partners earlier this year.
That was an increase in risk exposure Radix business head Sandeep Ramchandani said made him nervous. He said launch day’s numbers show .online’s potential.
Turahkhia said that there are 680,000 names in the .com zone that end in “online” today, and a million that have “online” somewhere in the second level, showing that the string is desirable to registrants.
Radix said last night that its Early Access Period — during which names are sold for a higher price — ended with 1,130 sales.
Turahkhia said that of these, about 1,000 were registered in the last three days, during which time the price was $100. Regular .online pricing is around the same as .com ($14.99 at 1&1 and Go Daddy), but some registrars are selling for as much at $50.
Radix targets 25,000 names for .online’s first day
Radix Registry reckons .online will move at least 15,000 domains in its first day of general availability, but it’s aiming higher.
“We are confident .online will be amongst the biggest new gTLDs that have launched,” Radix business head Sandeep Ramchandani said in a press release today.
“The same sentiment across several Registrar Partners has reinforced our beliefs. We expect to start off with at least 15,000 registrations at launch and would love to break .club’s launch record,” he said.
When .CLUB Domains launched .club in 2014, its zone file showed over 25,000 domains after the first 10 hours.
Radix is basing its projections not only on its registrar conversations, but also on .online’s sunrise period, which ended yesterday with 775 sales.
That number is of course low by pre-2012 standards, but it’s in the top tier of sunrise periods for non-controversial new gTLDs.
The only strings to top 1,000 names to date have been ICM Registry’s .porn and .adult and Vox Populi’s .sucks.
.CLUB’s sunrise weighed in at 454 domains.
Radix had better hope .online is successful — the gTLD sold for seven or eight figures at private auction.
The gTLD will go to its Early Access Period tomorrow before settling down to regular pricing August 26.
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Interview with Neale Safaty, fund manager of the KBC Japan Fund of Funds
July 2003 | Eurekahedge
KBC Alpha Asset Management is the Fund of Funds division of KBC Alternative Investment Management. The two key principals, Neale Safaty and David Walter have 20 and 17 years expertise in Japan & Asian equity and equity-linked capital markets that includes broking, risk-management, trading and direct experience in setting up and running Asian hedge funds.
Interview with Neale Safaty
How are the underlying hedge funds selected for your fund?
We have identified 160 funds that are Japan-only or have a significant exposure to Japan. This includes long/short, merger arbitrage, distressed securities & real estate, options and CB arbitrage and equity statistical arbitrage. Weak managers and poorly run companies are removed at the outset. The process is dynamic, however, as new entrants are added and monitored. We then conduct qualitative research during one or more site visits where the managers and key support staff are interviewed. In addition each manager's return data is analysed and key statistics are calculated. Qualitative research is given priority over quantitative research. At the shortlist stage we leverage our longstanding independent professional network to assess managers credentials and conduct a thorough legal review. Potential funds are then evaluated for their risk-reward and correlation impact to the portfolio. Finally we ensure that our diversification objectives and risk management guidelines are not compromised.
How would you describe the strategy of your fund and what % of the NAV is allocated to which sectors? What do you look for in managers in each strategy?
93.5% equity long/short and 6.5% relative value.
The mandate of the fund allows for investments across strategies. The universe of Japan absolute return funds is dominated by Long Short strategies and to some extent our fund reflects this. Within the Long Short spectrum, however, it is possible to attain diverse risk/return profiles that don't have a great deal of correlation. We do not think it is appropriate to invest in Japan CB arbitrage or real estate/distressed securities at this stage. We are however considering two corporate activity/ risk arbitrage type of funds to give us exposure to a different source of alpha.
How long do you monitor a hedge fund manager before making an initial investment?
Monitoring is a function of how well we know the key principals, whether the entity is an institution or a boutique, the track record of the fund and whether it is a start-up or a more mature fund. We can move rapidly and invest several weeks after we've initially seen a manager and we can commit on day one as an early bird investor. However, we do not seed or take equity stakes in investment management companies.
What size are your initial investment?
Initial investments in our Japan Fund of Fund are normally between $2 to $3million. We are in the process of constructing our Asian Fund of Fund and initial investments so far have been $1.5 to $2 million.
What is your process of increasing investment from the initial investment?
We have made additional investments in all our managers bar our most recently acquired fund. We consider our concentration risk guidelines, the overall potential volatility of the portfolio, the performance of the underlying fund and market conditions when directing inflows.
What information do you require from the underlying Funds? How often is this information required?
Naturally prior to investing in a manager we may require a reasonable amount of documentation as part of our due diligence. Post investment, we require Weekly NAV's, monthly newsletters and dialogue with the portfolio manager(s) when appropriate.
How often do you visit the underlying managers? And examples of questions asked?
Across both our Japan and Asian Fund of Funds, our managers are located in South East Asia, Japan, Australia, the UK and the US. We conduct investment reviews on site or in London several times a year. A benefit of being part of a large institution is that we can travel regularly and use KBC offices. We are also in regular communication with our managers including formal conference calls.
Please explain the background of the manager(s) and analysts for the Fund.
The two main managers at the fund have combined Asian experience covering the last 3 decades. Neale Safety specializing in convertibles and then Japanese Equity. David Walter having specialist expertise in risk management and over 6 years as a hedge fund manager.
What type of risk management systems are employed by the manager(s). How often is this analysed?
Qualitative risk
Operational, legal and strategy risks are assessed during due diligence and monitored on an ongoing basis.
Key risk/reward individual fund statistics and correlation analysis is integral to portfolio construction.
Monte Carlo Simulation Stress Tests are conducted and the portfolio has performed robustly, although they are of limit merit due to insufficient data.
Investment process risk
This is reduced through a consensus orientated Investment Committee.
Organisational risk
Risks are mitigated through the segregation of portfolio management and operational responsibilities.
Risk Management Guidelines
a) No single fund to exceed 20% of NAV. At the outset, an initial investment is normally less than 10% and typically will be 6-12% of the fund. If, through performance, an investment appreciates significantly towards 20% of NAV, the holding will be reduced or inflows or cash will be directed towards other funds in order to reduce concentration risk.
b) No greater than 30% of exposure will be in underlying funds that have quarterly or longer redemption liquidity.
c) Currency forwards are used to minimise Yen/US $ risk.
d) The portfolio will not employ leverage other than to manage mis-matches between redemptions and subscriptions. This is limited to 10% of NAV.
e) With respect to boutique managers, the fund will normally invest once assets under management have exceeded break-even levels for the investment management company.
f) Top five positions will not normally exceed 50% of total assets.
g) The fund will not normally own in excess of 20% of the assets of a single fund unless the fund is a small fund that is run by an institution that has significant assets under management and the fund is expected to grow in the near term.
Can you describe the correlation of the underlying funds in the portfolio.
We prefer to be discreet with respect to our underlying managers. The majority of our funds have less than a 0.5 correlation to both the portfolio, the equity market and to each other.
Please describe the differences between building Asia fof vs Japanese fof ? Is it harder to find suitable Asian hfs vs Japanese equities long /short given that some view Asia as a harder place to operate as an hf compared to Japan where markets are deeper and more liquid?
It was relatively easy to construct the Japan Fund of Funds because of our personal background in the Japanese capital markets, our professional network and our practical experience of the products and strategies. Asia is a different beast, we've found a broader range of opportunities but a wider variance in quality and greater strategy and entity risks.
Japan hf performance: any differences performance and style wise between Tokyo, London and US based managers?
We have analysed performance based on location because we thought intuitively domestically-based managers might have an edge due to ease of access to companies and advantages of operating during a live market. Our results were not statistically significant.
It's been suggested in some commentaries that institutional investment from Japan in hedge funds worldwide has dropped off quite radically this year, is this something you've noticed and do you have any theories as to why?
In our case we have seen inflows into the Japan Fund of Fund as it is distributed by Nikko Cordial in Japan. The outbreak of SARS inevitably restricted face-to-face meetings within the region and this may have caused a reduction in capital allocation from Japan.
How do you see the future for Japan and Asian Hedge funds and fund of funds operating in this field?
We are optimistic that there is tremendous amount of talented managers that are focusing on generating absolute returns from Japan and Asian capital markets.
With respect to Japan, 70% of the universe has emerged in the last three years and we anticipate even more investor choice going forward. Nevertheless it is not a crowded field relative to the size of its capital markets and undiscovered compared to the US and Europe. We are excited by our partnership with Nikko Cordial in Japan as they have a strong tradition of distributing alternative products. With practically zero interest rates and poor returns from equities over the last thirteen years, low correlated, good risk adjusted absolute returns derived from markets that they are familiar with should appeal to local investors.
Asia is extremely interesting. It is less mature, less sophisticated and culturally and economically diverse which potentially throws up enormous absolute return opportunity. In some sub sectors of the market place there are managers who are generating returns against very little competition. In the nine months we have been developing the product we have visited managers all over the world and discovered some excellent opportunities.
Neale Safaty
KBC Alpha Asset Management
info@kbcalpha.com
Correction - Eurekahedge mistakenly reported on 1/7/2003 that the KBC Alpha fund would be launched in July 2003. In fact, the fund was launched in January 02. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
I came across this article in Eurekahedge's monthly newsletter which you may be interested in: http://eurekahedge.com/Research/News/1380/Hedge-Fund-Interview-Neale-Safaty-KBC-Japan-Fund-of-Funds
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Cardinal Müller Acknowledges Pope's Unjust Dismissal of His Men -- SSPX Reconciliation Needs More Time -- Dismisses the Dubia as "Ideological"
A "deeper reconciliation is needed, not just the signing of a document" - deaconess ordination "impossible".
Vatican City (kath.net/ KAP) According to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, an agreement between the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and the Vatican is not yet within reach."This takes time," said the Prefect of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, according to Catholic broadcaster EWTN. What is needed is a "deeper reconciliation, not just the signing of a document." Those who wish to be Catholic must accept, among other things, the councils and other ecclesiastical doctrine as well as the "hierarchical communion with the local bishop, the communion of all bishops and the Holy Father". [Apparently, they will be expected to check their reason. Really, considering that most of the world's bishops don't respect the Councils, how can they expect that level of obedience to the SSPX?]
On the question about the liturgical form in the course of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Müller said that it was a Catholic concept that the pope and synods had the right and the duty to redesign the "external form of the liturgy". "The substance of the liturgy is given by revelation and can not be changed by anyone," he added. The interview was published on Thursday as a video on the Internet; On Saturday written extracts appeared in social networks.
With regard to a study commission on deaconesses in the history of the Church set up by Pope Francis, Müller said that the pope did not refer to the three-level Catholic consecration of the deacon, priest and bishop. It was about women who had worked in the early church as assistants in the baptism of women or in charitable tasks.
The Cardinal concluded that a diaconal consecration is "impossible". "This will not happen," says Müller. Moreover, this is not necessary either. Today, women in the church are in higher positions of responsibility than the deaconesses of antiquity.
Unusually open criticism was exercised by the Cardinal on the alleged dismissal by the Pope of three members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The move had become known at the end of 2016 and was said to be against Müller's wishes. He said in the interview that this story was true. He wanted "a better treatment of our staff at the Holy See." One should not only talk about the social doctrine, but also respect it, according to the Cardinal.
Müller put the staff changes in the arena of the "old courtly etiquette," which Francis himself has criticized. Employees could only be dismissed if they made a mistake or did not fulfill the requirements of legal faith, integrity, and material competence.
Labels: Doctrinal Preamble, SSPX
What on earth is "the Congregation for the Congo"?
Bring back the Holy Office,it sounds so much better than "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
JBQ said...
The replacement for Muller is already in "the pipeline". He is a Philippine Cardinal. Muller is living on borrowed time. Francis has his de Chardin socialist agenda. -------Malachi Martin (SJ who died in 1999) documented the entire process in his book on "The Jesuits". There will be women priests. The Communist liturgy is in the works. These are little communities or "pods" which set their own agenda. Francis is "way out there" and only the intervention prophesied to Sister Lucia will make things right.---JPII encountered an immovable force which was the "gay agenda". Francis has made peace with this group and the dominos are falling. Cupich, Tobin, and McElroy dress like the "jack of hearts" and act accordingly.---The attack on the traditional family presaged by Sister Lucy is well underway. The acceptance of the gay family with children was announced this week by the Diocese of Jefferson City which is the state capitol of Missouri and part of the metropolitan structure of Missouri under the auspices of Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis.----Let's be direct. According to Malachi Martin, SJ, the future Jesuit pope will void the parish structure as well as the diocese environment. There is a new entity developing under the umbrella of "Amoris Laetitia" which is little more than the deluded dreams of the "amorous laity" and its takeover of the Church political agenda.
Jack D said...
Malachi Martin obviously did not understand that the Commandment, “Thou shalt not covert thy neighbor’s wife” actually applied to him. Any subsequent opinion on divine revelation by Martin should be appropriately discounted.
And yet you probably follow the guiding lights of Bernardin, Weakland and Daneels.
That, Tancred, is deflection from my point. Your use of 'probably' deserves to be what it is, an uniformed diversionary guess. Take your own advice and stay on track.
If you have more than the evidence of the evil and manifestly unreliable John Courtney Murray, I'd love to see it.
It seems that you are intent on flying off on safer tangents. Tell me, do you approve of Malachi Martin's adultery, violation of religious vows, the shattering of a key Commandment of God and the subsequent destruction of a Catholic-Christian marriage?
We humans cannot know of any particular case of someone saved in invincible ignorane of Jesus and the Church.We cannot know of someone saved with the baptism of desire or blood, all without the baptism of water in the Catholic Church.If there are such people they would only be known to God.
Neither can we say that someone in the past is a known case of salvation outside the Church.No one in the past could have seen an invisible person. And an invisible person cannot be an exception in the present times, to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).So every one needs to be a member of the Catholic Church for salvation in 2017 and there are no practical exceptions.
MULLER AND ARROYO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT THERE IS KNOWN SALVATION OUTSIDE THE CHURCHHowever Cardinal Muller and Raymond Arroyo continue to assume that there are practical exceptions to the dogma EENS in 2017 or in the past. So there is salvation outside the Church for the both of them and this was indirectly expressed in the May 25 interview of EWTN The World Over.
They interpret Vatican Council II by assuming there is known salvation outside the Church and this is incorrect reasoning.It is irrational.It is bad philosophy.Common sense tells us that an unknown person in the past cannot be a known exception to the dogma EENS in the present times.Yet this was the deception of the cardinals in 1949 Boston and Rome and then again at Vatican Council II(1965) and the popes let it pass.No one protests against it even today.
THEY HAD A CHOICE BUT NEGLECTED IT
So Raymond Arroyo and Cardinal Muller repeated this error when they really had a choice. They could have interpreted magisterial documents without this contradiction, just as I do.Then they could accept 'the rigorist interpretation' of the dogma EENS( if they really wanted to) and a Vatican Council II which will not contradict it.
MULLER'S INTERPRETATION OF VATICAN COUNCIL II IS FALSE, IRRATIONAL,NON TRADITIONAL WITH BAD PHILOSOPHY CREATING A NEW THEOLOGY
Cardinal Muller's interpretation of Vatican Council II was false, irrational, a deception and bad philosophy.It is non traditional and heretical.It is the false conclusion made with a false premise.He assumes that there invisible cases of the baptism of desire, for example, so there is known salvation outside the Church for him.We can see and meet people saved in invincible ignorance(I.I), without the baptism of water, for him, and so there is known salvation outside the Church.So every one does not need to enter the Catholic Church as a member is his false conclusion.Outside the the Church there is salvation he told Edward Pentin in the interview for the National Catholic Register when Pentin asked him about the dogma EENS.
No one protested after reading that interview.
No one protested since about every one assumes invisible cases are visible and so there is known salvation outside the Church.
No Gaybriel, I'm just holding your feet to the fire. I've never seen the supposed letter from the dishonest Jesuit who promoted abortion and birth control in the possession of the deeply heretical and stark raving Kaiser.
Have you interviewed his wife?
Cardinal Muller states that no ordained women diaconesses will be considered. Only women for assistance at baptism and "charitable" tasks...such as?? Socialist Justice community activism a la Saul Alinsky. Each parish a "cell" controlled by A marxist clique to support illegal immigration, illegal drug decriminalization, greater abortion and sexual "rights", greater monies for promiscuous women or unwed couples who want to stay at home and do no work, and collect government welfare. In short, these women are going to be used for grassroots struggles and consciousness awareness in the fight for marxist causes.
Brilliant analysis, I think. He's got deep problems to contend that are frequently of his own making and that of his socialist allies, as a fervent exponent of liberation theology.
Blotto said...
I believe that's the fastest growing Pentecostal-Mercantile Church in central Africa. Francis is sending a Special Apostolic Delegation to meet them next month and ascertain if they're wacky enough to be invited to speak at the Vatican's next autumn conference which is entitled 'Truth: No One Has The Monopoly'.
CARDINAL MULLER'S HERESY MUST BE POINTED OUT TO HIM
Cardinal Muller's heresy must be pointed out to him. On his own he will hide this subject and not talk about it.It is the same with the two popes.They will not want Catholics to discuss this.
It is possible Cardinal Muller knows that there are dogmatic and doctrinal errors being enforced by the two popes and he is being obedient to them.
He possibly knows that Vatican Council II is not a rupture with the dogma EENS( Feeneyite) but is still going along with Pope Benedict on this issue.They want to please the Jewish Left even when they know that the Sacraments are necessary for salvation and there can be no exceptions.
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/05/for-muller-seven-sacraments-are-not.html
I second the motion. However, prior to the reorganization of the Curia by Pope Paul VI, the Pope was actually Prefect of the Holy Office. If I remember correctly, Cardinal Ottaviani and his predecessors had the title of Secretary.
This is nothing but pure slander invented by the modernist liberals to denigrate or water down all what Fr said about the pending corruption and evil forces at work in the RCC.
Fr Malachi knew the contents of the 3rd Secret of Fatima and promised to reveal the true Secret in the case the Vatican would unveil a forgery
He was probably murdered in 1999. The purported 3rd Secret was unveiled soon after, in 2000.
How is this possible that people who joyously discarded previous councils like the Council of Florence in 1439 that teaches that there is no salvation outside the RCC, are requiring the SSPX to acknowledge the VATII council that teaches the religious liberty.
Kathleen1031 said...
I'd take Fr. Malachi's word for things far more than the ones you mentioned Tancred. There are good men who make mistakes and bad men who make mistakes a career.
Cripe, what a mess.
@Jack D: The truth hurts. To have sexual attraction is not a sin. In fact, in today's environment, it is a virtue if it is directed toward a woman. Father Martin said the Latin Mass every morning till his death in 1999. You are nothing more than a Bolshevik bearer of "disinformation". ---It is interesting to note that the purported Third Secret was released after the death of Father Martin who would have held the paperwork "up to the light".
I just look at what Father was doing through the 70s and till his death. It looked like the hard work of a committed and orthodox Jesuit. Kaiser's career was devoted to promoting pederast enablers like Weakland and Mahony.
It was unclear to me in Muller's answer if all of Vatican II's doctrines would be held up for their affirmation or not.
I continue to ask, if Vatican II is so essential, why is it that almost none of the Bishops in the world have much respect for it or even read it?
I haven't seen many parishes where Gregorian Chant has pride of place, have you?
Magic mushrooms!
Pray for the Dead,don't speak ill of them.
Jon Kabel said...
Muller's term expires on July 2nd. "Old courtly etiquette indeed."
May be this link could help with reference to religious liberty
Poland is consecrated to Christ the King but the laws are secular and pro-Satan
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/05/poland-is-consecrated-to-christ-king.html
Cardinal Muller is not affirming Catholic teachings according to magisterial documents especially Vatican Council II
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Cardinal Muller is not affirming Catholic teachings according to magisterial documents especially Vatican Council II and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) while I am affirming these magisterial documents in harmony with Tradition and rationality.
For me Vatican Council II(Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14-all need faith and baptism for salvation) says all non Catholics need Catholic faith( which include the Sacraments and the faith and moral teachings of the Church), they need it for salvation.Without any known exceptions they all need the Catholic faith to avoid Hell in 2017.Cardinal Gerhard Muller will not say this.
The two popes will not say or teach this.
I affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). They do not.
So I affirm magisterial documents and the present magisterium (teaching authority of the Church) does not.
I affirm magisterial documents assuming invisible cases are physically invisible. They affirm magisterial documents assuming invisible people are physically visible and they are saved without the baptism of water. This is irrational and non traditional. Yet it is magisterial.
I interpret Vatican Council II with Feeneyism( invisible cases are invisible) and they do so with Cushingism( invisible cases are visible).
It is common sense that invisible people are invisible. This is common reasoning.Yet this is not the reasoning of Cardinal Muller and the two popes.
We now have magisterial heresy. We have a corrupt magisterium. They want to live comfortably and not be martyrs.So they are teaching and enforcing error among Catholics in general.
Zero cases of something cannot be exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus said the apologist John Martignoni who has a program on EWTN.
The baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance are not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus said Fr. Stefano Visintin osb, the present Vice Rector and former Dean of Theology at the University of St. Anselm, Rome.
They contradict Cardinal Muller and the cardinals and bishops at the CDF.
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/06/cardinal-muller-is-not-affirming.html
> unflattering but true posthumous biographies about heretics shouldn't be written, because it's bad to speak ill of the dead.
> the gloves are off when it comes to St. Pius XII.
> Or Father Malachi Martin
50,000 in people in Warsaw just marched in a sodomite/dyke parade.
The Catechism of the Summa - XX. OF GOD'S ACTION IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE; AND OF MIRACLES (D)
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The Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers has called for a countrywide stir on February 12 and 13 to highlight their demands.
The conferderation had urged the Central government employees to participate in the 48-hour stir. The major demands put forth by the confederation include merging dearness in basic salary, regularisation of temporary employees, review of salary allowances and other.
Regional president of the confederation RN Parashar addressed two gatherings, one at Rail Mail Service (RMS) on Cantt side of the railway station and other at GPO on Bada Chauraha. Parashar said that the national president of the confederation KKN Kutti and national general secretary M Krishnan had urged the Centre to accept their demands while staging demonstration on January 9 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
On January 10, the decision was reached to hold a two-day stir in which the employees of railways and defence establishments were also urged to join.
He mentioned that on Wednesday, the employees of Income Tax department, postal department and others will be urged to participate in the stir.
CONTEMPT PETITION IN CAT PB ADJOURNED
The contempt petition CP 158/2012 which is listed to be heard in CAT PB on 15/12/2014 stands adjourned to 12/02/2014. Hence it is obvious that the CAT PB doesn't want to take up this contempt petition before supreme court takes a decision in the 3SLP'S filed by UOI.
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EPPO HAVILDAR Y 26 YEARS 1st ACP RETIRED ON 31/08/2009 BASIC PENSION 26741
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CGDA TRIES TO SCUTTLE OROP REVISION TO EX-SERVICEMEN
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IESL LODGES STRONG PROTEST WITH DESW REGARDING THE ATTITUDE OF CGDA ON THE REFIXATION PENSION OF ESM UNDER OROP SCHEME
Bureaucracy deny veterans their due? A second struggle for OROP revision by ESM all over the country is in the offing
In a letter dated 5 April, addressed to the Directorate of Ex-servicemen Welfare of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Comptroller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA), a part of the same ministry, has queried the logic of initiating the One Rank One Pension revision due on 1 July after directions were issued by the government.
The directions of the government on the grant of OROP to military veterans stated this would be equated every five years. The last equation was done with the base of 1 July 2014. Para 3 (a) of the CGDA letter states, “Whether there is any logic to initiate process of OROP revision (equalization) once the pension of past and current pensioners has been equated on 01 Jan 16 by the 7th Pay commission.”
This seems a case of creating confusion where none should have existed. The 7th Pay commission and OROP have nothing in common, nor were they even linked. The pay commission only revises existing salaries and pensions on a common factor, whereas OROP is meant to equate pensions of earlier retirees with present ones.
Revision and equating are vastly different and done in different timeframes. Revision as per the dictionary means ‘correction/ alteration’, whereas equating means to make ‘uniform or equal’. The CGDA seeks to create confusion by mixing up the two words. The defence minister was convinced by his bureaucracy to establish a committee to work out modalities and method of next revision of pensions under OROP.
It is surprising that he was not told the difference between revision and equation and its impact on pensions. The CGDA letter suggests a preconceived mindset of the bureaucracy aimed at delaying and denying rightful dues to veterans. While the letter innocently seeks clarification on the procedure for implementation of OROP, methodology for which formed the basis of the last OROP equation, its wording hints that OROP should not be granted as the pay commission does the needful at regular intervals.
The CGDA is the same organization which three years after the implementation of the pay commission has been unable to fix anomalies in salaries which arose in its wake. It also seeks to offer this as justification to delay equating pensions. In any private organisation, such incompetence would have meant sacking of the top hierarchy, but the MoD defends and accepts it. Will the new rules laid down by the Prime Minister of inefficient bureaucrats being given ‘pink slips’ also apply to the CGDA? If it does, then multiple heads should roll.
There have been many cases in the past when the CGDA has denied rightful pensions to martyrs and war veterans on flimsy grounds, compelling them to approach courts for justice. Nirmala Sitharaman, as defence minister, had on occasions promised to stop fighting wasteful cases of pensions in court, yet the organisation has not reformed.
A recent case is most appalling. The case began in December 1999, when militancy was rising in the valley. An operation to flush out militants, infiltrated into an army unit in Baramulla, was launched. In the conduct of the operations, the company commander was injured in the thigh by a bullet fired by a militant from close range. He survived, but the bullet damaged his nerves leading to a paralysis of his left leg.
The officer, a battle casualty, continued to serve with the injury and is now nearing retirement. His case for grant of war injury pension due to him as a battle casualty was sanctioned by Army HQs and sent to Principal Controller of Defence Accounts, (PCDA) Pensions, a part of the CGDA, in April this year. It was a simple case and should have been cleared. However, bureaucratic blocks began appearing.
PCDA Pensions questioned Army HQs (vide their letter of 12 June this year), stating that unless additional documents including proceedings of the court of inquiry conducted in 1999, injury report and charter of duties of that period were not submitted, the case could not be processed. It has refused to accept that the officer was declared and served as a battle casualty since 1999. For the bureaucrats serving in the CGDA, the injury suffered and difficulties experienced through life by that officer have no relevance.
If the authority to declare war injury pension to an individual is that of Army HQs, which does so after detailed scrutiny of records and analysis of the incident, then does it require another bureaucratic institution to conduct its own inquiry at the time of the individual being released from service, 20 years later? What would the PCDA gain by examining these documents? With a new defence minister sworn in, the bureaucracy and its offshoots have begun playing games once again.
They have tried to mislead the defence minister and the nation by confusing equation and revision of pensions and in the bargain seeking to block release of OROP which was granted after a prolonged agitation by veterans. Are these actions a case of testing waters as the new defence minister settles in? The defence minister should not have been misled and compelled by his advisors to order setting up of a committee but instead given a simple direction to implement government orders.
Unless the defence minister acts firmly, by either sacking the hierarchy of the CGDA for its failure to resolve anomalies even after three years, or for questioning government decisions, he would only face stumbling blocks throughout his tenure. He needs to send the right message immediately. The question is, will he?
Rajnath forms committee to work on modalities of revising pension under OROP
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has constituted a committee to work out the modalities and methodology of the implementation of next revision of pension under One Rank One Pension (OROP), the Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the working of DESW including the welfare schemes being extended to the ex-servicemen, widows and dependents. A committee was also constituted today to work out the modalities and methodology of the implementation of the next revision of pension under OROP," the statement said.
All three services will have their representation in the committee which will give its report within a month.
According to the statement, the Defence Minister was briefed by various officials.
"In a free-flowing interaction, Minister expressed his general satisfaction but also gave certain directions to the department and sought a response in a time-bound manner," the statement said.
AN OPEN LETTER TO DEFENCE MINISTER BY BISWASDA, VICE CHAIRMAN, JCO/ORS VETERANS WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
Sri Rajnath Singh.
Defence Minister of India.
Through: PA to Defence Minister.
I, on behalf of millions of Ex-servicemen and their families of India congratulate you for adorning the prestigious mantle of Defence Minister of India. We feel that after multiple changes on the important post of Defence Minister in the previous government, the new government on its onset has put the baton to the able and strong hands of an ironman. We admire you as a man of principle, who has in-depth knowledge and insight into Defence preparedness of India as well as the problems of serving men and Ex-servicemen.
Sir, from the viewpoint of an ex-serviceman may I be allowed to raise a few concerns of ex-servicemen and veer naris which are listed below. These are the concerns of the serving soldiers as well, as today's serving soldier would be tomorrow's ex-serviceman.
1. OROP Revision:
The last government implemented OROP with effect from 01.07.2014 and notified in clear terms that OROP be revised after every five years. The revision of OROP ought to be implemented automatically from 01.07.2019. But sadly, no preparatory work could be initiated by Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) for want of policy direction from Ministry of Defence.
Sir, as per the reply I received from CGDA (by my RTI application), CGDA has raised multiple queries to Ministry of Defence about the modality of implementation, the base year of calculation etc, for which they are yet to get any reply. In such a situation the OROP revision is heading for an indefinite delay.
2. One Man Judicial Commission Report:
Sir, I do not want to elaborate on the constitution of OMJC and subsequent fate of its report in the hands of high level scrutiny committee. The report still remains under examination and none of us know why is it delayed indefinitely. I understand that the Government has every right to accept or reject a commission report. But if some of the recommendations of the OMJC are accepted by the Government, it is logical that they should be reflected in the revision of OROP. Keeping the report under a wrap will only complicate the whole process.
3. Multiple Court Cases:
Sir, I regret to mention that in many occasions ex-servicemen had to knock at the doors of a Court of Law to get their rightful dues. And even after getting a favourable judgment, the benefits were extended to the litigants only and no universal orders / notifications were issued by the authority to extend the benefit to similar cases. Sir, is it possible by thousands and thousands of affected ex-servicemen spread over the rural areas of our country to seek remedy from a court of law?
4. Equal MSP:
Sir, Military Service Pay was introduced by VI Pay Commission. By definition this benefit was extended to all jawans, officers and MNS (Military Nursing Service) considering the rigour and dangerous service conditions of military service. The VII pay commission also recognized this and recommended MSP as a unique element of pay for defence services. Now all JCOs and other ranks get equal MSP irrespective of their rank or basic pay.
But there exists wide difference in the quantum of MSP among jawans, MNS and Officers. A personnel in MNS, who is never exposed to any combat duty or any dangerous situation gets almost double the amount received by a jawan. An officer gets almost three times more than a jawan. It is an irony that a jawan who is at the forefront of war or war-like situation and who is in the first line of enemies' and terrorists' fire gets the least MSP. Respective Pay Commissions overlooked this great anomaly and the Government never stepped in to correct it.
Sir, these are the major concerns of ex-serviceman community. There is growing indignation amongst ex-servicemen that every political party swear by the patriotism of Armed Forces, but when it comes to the welfare and benefit of its personnel, the government often buckles under the pressure of civilian bureaucracy and deny them of their rightful dues.
Sir, we strongly believe and hope that with the fine acumen of a strong administrator like you most of the above anomalies will be rectified soon.
Jai Hind.
Manananda Biswas
Vice Chairman,
JCO/ORS Veterans Welfare
Association of India
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The Ultimate Blog of "The Expendables" Franchise
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Confirmation: EX4 In The Works
In an interview with Grit Daily News, Campbell and Grobman, the CEO and Founders of Campbell Grobman Films, discussed their entertainment career trajectories as powerhouse female producers in Hollywood, and their current work on EX4 was also mentioned.
Known for their past successes with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Hollywood producers, Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman have made new strides with their recent productions like Rambo: Last Blood and Red Sonja.
Asked about when they knew they had reached success as a company and if there was a particular film that was a turning point for them, this is what they had to say:
"We got a strong start with Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D unexpectedly beating some more high profile movies at the box office upon the opening. After that, we went on to make more dramatic and light hearted films as well (She’s Funny That Way). We also continue to make action films because we are able to reach a broader audience. We are currently working on The Expendables 4 and The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard."
This should further confirm that EX4 is indeed in the works, and we should be hearing more news soon.
Thanks to EXfan57 for the tip.
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EX4 "Dream Cast"
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Sly Cooking Up EX4
I guess it's finally getting started. Sly posted on his Instagram today that he's cooking up "the next adventure" by showing a picture of Barney Ross. Hold on tight, it's coming...
EX4 Set for a 2021 Release?
According to HN Entertainment some of Lionsgate’s 2020-2021 releases include the new Chris Rock-produced Saw reboot, Doug Liman’s Choas Walking, Ryan Reynolds’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife, and Keanu Reeve’s John Wick: Chapter 4/Rally Car. There also is an expectation that Sly Stallone’s The Expendables 4 and Chris Evans’ Jeykell will eventually be released by 2021. Lionsgate and Chad Stahelski were developing a feature film reboot of Highlander, but it remains to be seen if that project will be part of the deal.
Assuming that Lionsgate remains consistent with an August release in 2021 which is 2 years away, there is no wonder why filming has not yet started. I suppose there is plenty of time, but the only problem is that the main cast is not getting any younger!!
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Statham Talks EX4
A French movie outlet reported a recent interview with Statham himself on F&F 9 & EX4. This is what he had to say:
"Sylvester Stallone has been talking to me about this for a while, and the film should be done before we're all too old." Again, that's not my decision. If Sly calls, I’ll answer immediately, we have so much fun on the Expendables sets. "
More Hints to EX4
After a couple of hints by Sly & Couture early this month, more hints to an upcoming EX4 have been captured in interviews with Lundgren and the franchise's producer Avi Lerner.
In a sport related interview, Lundgren mentions that he is working with Sly on "possibly an Expendables 4".
And in an interview during this year's Cannes festival, Lerner mentions that another Expendables movie is part of his upcoming projects.
We seem to be getting closer to EX4...
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Couture: EX4 Filming in the Summer
Couture is at it again. In an interview with MMA Core, he shared that there is a script for EX4 that he’s excited to read, and that filming should start in the summer. He further shares that things have been going back and forth with Sly for the past couple of years, who was busy with Escape Plan, Creed and Rambo but has now come around and ready to shoot EX4.
It's not the first time that Couture has given out info on production dates that did not transpire, but given the recent hypes around the movie, he might be right this time.
Sly (Kinda) Reconfirms EX4
Promoting Rambo 5 and Rocky 7!!! on his Instagram, Sly confirmed back to an EX4 craving fan that the upcoming installment will be the best in the series and that we had to be patient. Easy for you to say Sly, we’ve been patient since 2015!
Stallone in Tunisia to scout for EX4?!
A Tunisian news outlet has reported today that Stallone & Lundgren will be soon coming to their country to scout locations for the filming of EX4. The reliability of the news is obviously questionable but could also be true, timing is in line with previous reports of an April production start date. Here's the translation of the article pertaining to EX4.
The two world stars will enjoy their stay in southern Tunisia to scout locations for their film "The Expendables 4".
Taking advantage of his friendship with the great Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren, the world champion of Karate, Sadok Kouka, took the initiative to invite his childhood friend for the third time to Tunisia.
"Dolph has been my friend for 25 years...
"It's official, then, these two sacred monsters of the American cinema will be, on March 25, in Kantaoui for two days, before moving to Tozeur to scout filming locations " said Sadok Kouka.
Jet Li/Mickey Rourke Had Bigger Roles with Plans To Film Scenes In China
HN Entertainment’s Nicholas Whitcomb recently spoke with screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Equalizer 1-2, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Kraven The Hunter) about his previous work on The Expendables franchise specifically his work on The Expendables 2. Richard revealed that Mickey Rourke’s role was given to Liam Hemsworth and Jet Li had a scaled-back subplot due to the production losing an offer to film a segment of the film in China (something that has been rumored for The Expendables 4 for years).
HN: I did want to touch upon The Expendables 2, what was it like I guess working with Sly [Stallone] on that sequel? How did that project come to you?
WENK: “It came to me through the director Simon West, who I had written a movie for previously called The Mechanic and he was hired to do The Expendables 2 and called me. I met with Sly [Stallone] and he was very gracious, open, and allowing me the freedom to create the story and the additional characters that I thought would be needed for the second movie.”
“Those movies are puzzle pieces, who is going to be in them, and how long? What’s the driving inciting incident and all those things with the creator, which is Sly. But I worked with Simon [West] on the size and scope of the movie and the action blocks and things like that.”
HN: Was there anything major you had to cut from the film? Perhaps, like a cameo or an actor you couldn’t work in there?
WENK: “Originally, Mickey Rourke was in the movie, then he wasn’t. That facilitated the creation of the [Liam] Hemsworth character, the additional character.”
“I can tell you that the original script called for a big chunk of the movie to take place in China and at the last minute China decided to rescind their offer to shoot there. We had to come up with a way of having Jet Li stay in China when they never actually went to China.”
“It was actually Sly’s idea to have him just jump out of the plane over China. Those are the kind of things that you’re flying by the seat of your pants and you’re like ‘What do we now?… Cause the rest of the script Jet Li’s not in it’. There was a whole subplot they brought these Chinese businessmen home and he decided he wanted to stay home with his family, that was all in the script. It was Sly’s idea to just open the bottom of the plane and have him leap out.”
When asked about ideas for the possible fourth film Wenk suggest maybe scaling back the cameos and number of characters to the original two movies that focused on the main core of guys.
WENK: “If I were the boss of The Expendables franchise I’d circle back to the origins of it I think it feels like I’ve attached myself to the core group of guys and what I liked about doing the second one it didn’t really expand into the Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas additions. It was sort of living with the original concept that Sly came up with and I would probably circle back and have it a little more like that. I think it kind of expanded beyond, it kind of jumped-the-shark a little bit and I think the best action movies are the best [when] you attach yourself to certain characters and when you have too many or it gets too loud, you’re less engaged. So, for me, I’d tie it back.”
“Those are the key characters we fell in love with and want to follow and I think in the second one with the addition of the cameo of Chuck Norris was a nice wink to that time [the era of 1980’s action films], it was organic to the story it didn’t intrude. I’m a big believer of sticking with what got ya there and their interpersonal relationships.”
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EX4 to Start in April?
Although still questionable, this Bulgarian website claims that filming of EX4 should begin in April in Bulgaria as previously speculated by many other reports and various outlets.
April is only less than 2 months away and no official word has come out of anyone's mouth yet.
New EX Official Dicussion Group
Whether it's a sign that production is gearing up, the official EX Twitter site has launched a new discussion group on Facebook. Check it out!
EX4 Script Is In!!!
Not sure how this has been missed by anyone on the internet...Gregory Poirier seems to have finished the script of EX4 at the end of July already!! He actually posted it on his Twitter account: "Expendables 4 script is in. Watch this space for more details. #Expendables".
Does this mean it's finally happening? Latest news of Sly's next projects seem to point to the direction of other movies such as Samaritan or Hunter. Will Sly make EX4 before heading to doing his own projects? I for one am tired of waiting until this project happens...
EX4 Getting Closer to Reality
Since Stallone has started his preparation for Rambo 5 - to be filmed in Bulgaria - the news outlets in the country have begun reporting on the star and his future trips to Bulgaria. 24 Chasa, one of the most reputable news outlets there is reporting that EX4 will indeed begin filming in Bulgaria in April.
Other semi-confirmation is Gregory Poirier's twitter page where he's now listing EX4 as one of his current projects. It was reported in the past that Poirier would team up with Sly to write the script for the fourth installment.
EX4 Back on Track for NOW!
After six months of doubtful news including a Couture type of hint to the filming start date, there is a more solid confirmation of the EX4 project being back on track.
According to Deadline Stallone will return for Rambo 5 in September 2018 and star in The Expendables 4 in early 2019. Apparently the Chinese exhibition giant Dadi has pre-bought mainland China distribution rights to Sylvester Stallone-fronted action sequels The Expendables 4 and Rambo 5 from Avi Lerner’s Millenium Media.
I remain skeptical until the project starts filming and we see set photos. A similar deal was announced in October 2015 and then fell apart. in December 2016 a distributor bought the rights to EX4 in Germany but again nothing followed and Sly backed out of the project entirely in March 2017 before he was convinced late last year to return.
There is no question that Avi is trying hard to make the project take off but the stars have not been lining up for him. Maybe this time...
Looks Like EX4 Is Actually Happening Again!
After a few “not sure what to think of” posts on Instagram, Sly has now posted a rather firmer confirmation that EX4 is back on track by teasing the return of Barney. Something must be cooking for Sly to hype EX4 in such a fashion. His Christmas picture with Avi and now his series of posts on Instagram insinuating the return of the Expendables team doesn’t seem to be a coincidence any longer or some sort of a wishful thinking on the action icon’s part. It looks like it’s finally happening or at least there is intent of making it happen again. It’d better be, they’ve been teasing it for over 2 years!!
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A Glimpse of Hope?
I don't even feel like updating the blog anymore as I've come to believe that this project is dead for good. But again now and then there's a glimpse of hope that things might be back on track. This was the case last week with first a picture of Sly & Avi appearing together in a Christmas family reunion maybe telling us that they are at least somehow friends again? Or talking some serious EX4 deal? And then Sly for the one millionth time posted a couple of teasers on his Instagram saying that he was getting back into action shape despite being old, and that old school action was coming back. Go figure.
Maybe it doesn't mean anything as always but like I said, there is maybe a glimpse of hope...
EX4 Back On With Sly?!
After a long silence since Avi's announcement of Sly's exit from the EX4 movie, over a week ago, a number of hints were thrown at fans by Sly on his Instagram page, implying his return to the project.
First an ambiguous hint that the Expendables were about to get " ... Very Dark" .... Again... and then a week later he posted a childhood picture of himself, Arnold, Willis and Van Damme, promising that "the boys were back in town! " all together!".
Fans who have known Sly over the years know best how famous he is for teasing upcoming projects that often don't realize.
A couple of days ago a video appeared online in which Sly confirms that EX4 is "gonna happen". Not sure how old and real this video is but if it is, then maybe there is hope for the project to be truly back on track with its originals cast members. At this point after so many controversies and cancellations over the 2 years since it was first announced, it's hard to trust anything until production kicks off...but stay tuned, you never know.
EX4 Moving Ahead Without Sly!
It's finally confirmed by Avi himself - EX4 will be moving ahead without Sly, it's official, Sly is out of the EX franchise. Here's what Avi had to say:
THR: Sylvester Stallone said there will be no more Expendables with him.
Avi: Well, that's what he said last time.
THR: You think there might be another?
Avi: Not with Sylvester. There will be more Expendables, but not with him. Sly wanted to produce the movie, and I don't think he can produce the movie. He's a good actor. He's a good writer. But he's not a good producer. And I didn't want to give him $100 million to produce.
THR: Are you still friends with him?
Avi: Obviously less. But I respect him. I think he's one of the icons of the world. You know, without being too mean, I took him when he was down, when nobody wanted to hire him, and I gave him Rambo and The Expendables. I think I gave him a new life.
THR: So you're not doing Expendables 4?
Avi: We will do Expendables 4, without Sylvester Stallone. We've got a script. We're working on it. Look, Batman, they changed the guys. Spider-Man. You name it.
THR: What's the biggest-budget movie you've made?
Avi: Expendables 3 was $80 million.
THR: What's the most you've paid an actor?
Avi: Twenty million. Sylvester Stallone. We were going to pay him that for Expendables 4.
THR: What's next?
Avi: We are going to do Hellboy [and] Expendables 4 next year. We're doing Expendabelles. It will be 10 big female names. We're doing Angel Is Fallen, we're shooting a movie called #211 with Nicolas Cage, and we just finished a movie called Stoic with Antonio Banderas.
So that's it...it's kind of sad. I can't imagine the EX franchise without Sly but I'm willing to give it a chance if they make it a quality production keeping the original concept, no young Expendables please.
Personally I think it will not draw the same amount of crowd without Sly and Arnold (who said would be totally out without Sly), but who knows, he might accept to return if Avi gives him the lead role and more money. Now anything could happen, Avi seems to be determined to get the 4th installment going.
The other point where I believe Avi is overly optimistic about is when he compares the EX franchise with Batman or Spider-Man. It's an interesting and disconnected perspective that he carries. I believe there was some comparison when they were promoting EX3 to the Avengers as well!! People go see Batman for Batman not so much for the guy behind the mask, same for Spider-Man or any comic book superhero, that's why you can keep recycling the actors. The concept and context remain the same no matter who plays the character (of course people have preferences, Bale over Kilmer, or Keaton over Clooney, etc.) but they still go see Batman. The EX franchise is based off a unique concept of assembling old time action icons i.e. Sly, Arnold, Willis and Co. You can't replace them by new actors, people go see the Expendables for the men behind the action not so much the characters in the movie. You can't replace Sly or Arnold...
That being said, if Avi remains authentic to the original concept and is able to keep Statham on board, give Arnold more money and one of the lead roles, bring Willis back, make peace with Seagal, add other action Stars such as Jaa, Yen, Chan (unlikely as he's already doing a project with Sly and has never been a big fan of cameos, unless he also gets a lead role with some hefty money), bring Van Damme back in some new capacity, get Russell (he's taking any ensemble role nowadays) or even add some newer action guys such as Johnson (unlikely to happen but Avi has the money now since Sly's $20M is up for grab and money talks in Hollywood) or Diesel (he might actually do it for $20M); then we might be going somewhere here...knowing Avi's track record, what I'm wishing for here is probably optimistic on my part!
EX4 Cannes Poster
A glimpse of news. A poster of EX4 has been identified as what seems to be a promotional item for Cannes. It looks to be legitimate but the question is how realistic is it for Avi & Co. to sell EX4 to distributors at Cannes knowing that Sly has declined to take part (so far) as there hasn't been any news of the contrary.
The other interesting point is the cast. Only Sly, Statham & Banderas appear on the poster whereas in the past Li was always promoted even when there was no definite negotiation for his participation. It looks thin and I wonder whether we'll have EX4 at all and if yes will any of the heavyweight action stars be in it?
EX4 Now or Never!
There has never been a better time to make an EX movie. If Avi has some good business sense he will put his ego and differences with Sly aside and work things out to get EX4 going. This is probably his best window of opportunity to leverage the star power momentum building up around some of the main cast members of the franchise - namely Statham, Sly and Lundgren.
Statham has seen his star power propulsed thanks to the mega success of the 8th FF, and a spin off movie focusing on his character (and Johnson's) is being widely talked about. He is now a well recognized star worldwide and should enjoy that status over the next few years with the FF franchise.
Sly is set to appear in the upcoming GOTG2 a guaranteed blockbuster. He should be getting a fair amount of publicity over the next while and his star power could keep going up. He's being talked about to play a major role in the upcoming instalment and maybe even in the Avengers series. He has once again risen from the ashes.
Lundgren was recently confirmed to appear in the next DC Aquaman and has received a lot of attention. It is still to be seen whether his momentum will be sustainable over time but for now and until Aquaman is released he should enjoy some comeback.
Now you have 3 EX actors attracting a new fan base from the FF, Marvel and DC universes - put them together in a movie and you could bank on a fairly strong amount of interest and publicity if timing is right, which should be now or it might just be too late.
So Avi what are you waiting for? This is the time, the franchise has never had so many of its cast members enjoy this much publicity and attention at the same time. Don't waste the opportunity.
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Now Lee Christmas!
Something's cooking up. I wonder why EX's FB keeps posting these new artworks of the EX characters? Started with Barney and it's Lee's turn now! Like I said I like them, just hope it means they are refreshing fan's memories to prep them for the upcoming installment.
EX FB Still Active!
While contradictory news & rumors about a fourth installment of the The Expendables keep frustrating fans, the franchise's official FB page keeps posting new artworks teasing the same fans I imagine. Not sure what to think of it but here I found the newest artwork posted on the website and it's kinda nice...I just hope we get an official announcement soon, totally getting pissed and impatient.
Sly Open to Reconsidering EX4
It looks like Sly is not completely closing the door to Avi. Asked by TMZ if he was open to doing EX4, he quickly replied "Absolutely". And further added that some bumps have to be taken out of the road.
TMZ further claims that they got some other actors from the "Expendables" franchise earlier this week -- including Wesley Snipes and Dolph Lundgren, both of whom said they wouldn't do 4 without Sly.
Avi, you heard the man, take those bumps out and bring the movie back to life.
Arnold: Never EX4 without Sly
Looks like Arnold thinks like many of us fans out there and won't be doing EX4 without Sly.
He told EW that he will not appear in The Expendables 4 without Sylvester Stallone, who has reportedly departed from the action sequel. “There is no Expendables without Sly,” says the Terminator star. “I would never do the movie without him, no.”
Arnold is out so is probably Statham who received kudos from Sly on his Instagram account for being a standup guy and having Sly's back, so we can safely assume that he'd be out too if Sly was.
Here we have it, EX4 seems to be going back to either being a dead project again or becoming a DTV franchise...RIP.
Sly Exits EX4!
As per Deadline: "In a crushing blow to fans of The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone has washed his hands of the franchise. He has withdrawn from taking part in the fourth installment, even though, sources said, it would have meant the biggest upfront payday in his career at north of $20 million. The reason? He and Nu Image/Millennium chief Avi Lerner could not find common ground on a new director, on the script and on certain qualitative elements of the film. That went right down to the selection of the CGI house to handle visual effects. The franchise has used Lerner’s own VFX house, Nu Boyana in Bulgaria.
Sources said that Stallone — who set a high bar for himself reprising Rocky Balboa with Michael B Jordan and director Ryan Coogler in Creed — was concerned about potentially underwhelming results of another franchise with which he is indelibly linked. Stallone wrote the first script with Dave Callaham, co-wrote all the sequels, and directed the first film. But knowledgeable sources said that Expendables team leader Barney Ross has led his last mission.
One who knows the dynamic of the long Stallone-Lerner relationship suggested they often disagree and eventually work it out over a couple of cigars, but it doesn’t sound like that’s going to happen this time. Lerner acknowledged the differences he has had with Stallone, but wasn’t willing to concede a divorce just yet. “We’ve got disagreements with Sly, but we’ve had them for over a year and a half,” he told Deadline. “Right now, each one has opinion. We agreed on 95% of things, but there are certain things in production we don’t agree on. I don’t think it’s over, but what write whatever you want. In my opinion, it’s not dead.”
It is unclear how Stallone’s exit impacts the film or its beefcake action hero cast.."
Well, if this is the case the franchise is done in my opinion and will turn into a DTV cash cow. I for sure am done with it if Sly is not part of this.
Sly Confirms EX4 Will Be Different
Sly has confirmed on his Instagram account that he's preparing for EX4 and since everyone has been asking for something different he's gonna give it to them. Here we go, EX4 is finally coming probably sooner than later...
EX4 Coming in 2018
Splendid Film who has secured the distribution of EX4 in the German-speaking European market, has confirmed that the fourth installment of the franchise will be released in 2018 with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes and Dolph Lundgren. They also expect more stars to join the party as usual.
After so many rumors and half-ass news we could take this announcement as a solid possibility of EX4 to finally moving forward.
Couture Talks EX4 With Sly
Asked by Tulsa World about the status of “The Expendables 4,” Couture said they’re waiting on a script. He saw Stallone at the gym a couple of weeks ago and Stallone talked about how he wants to take the next installment in a different direction.
So the project is not dead and well in the works with Sly still planning to not only participate but in the driver's seat!
Seagal Interested in Villain Role
It looks like Seagal wants to be in the EX franchise at last. To a fan's tweet suggesting whether he'd be in "Expendables 4 ? vILLian ? need a bad~ass to take 'em down", Seagal responded that he "would be willing to chat with @TheSlyStallone He knows I [Seagal] appreciate his project."
Well it is a very encouraging statement since Seagal was not really interested in the past due to his fallout with Lerner (rumor has it). I for one am super excited if this happens, I always felt the franchise missed him big time along with Jackie Chan, and if EX4 can pull if off to have those guys finally in it, it'd be complete and can close off on a high note (well given that the baby Expendables are not in it anymore and it's rated a solid R).
The only concern now is whether EX4 will ever happen...if it does will Sly be in it?
Seagal finally in EX4?
There has been a slight sign of revival of EX4 through Seagal's tweeter page. He first responded to a fan's tweet that EX4 "is being discussed". Then he has been retweeting posts from this unofficial EX4 page. He followed a few hours ago by tweeting that "The Expendables is a great franchise".
There seems to be some EX4 discussions going on with the man. That's all we have for now, still not sure if the 4th installment is going to happen...
EX4 to Shoot Soon After All?
Not a lot of news but not long ago Couture was heard say that he “heard they had a script they were adapting for '(The Expendables) 4' and that we were going to start shooting for '4' in the fall”.
Also the guy who supplied the bikes to the EX team in the last movie (Tarhan Telli) tweeted: "The Expendables 4 soon......."; not sure what that means but it might be in line with what Couture heard.
EX4 to start shooting soon?
Lundgren Talks EX4
It's been very difficult to report any news on EX4 since there hasn't been any! There is no sign whatsoever of whether the project has been put on hold (or even dead) or secretly in the works. Even Lundgren, who was recently interviewed by HEYUGUYS on his new movie KC2, doesn't seem to know much about the future of EX4. Here's what he had to say:
HUG: There’s been some speculation about an Expendables 4 – is it something that you are keen to revisit at all and has Sly spoken to you about it at all?
DL: I haven’t talked to him about it, I kind of leave it up to him. Yeah, if it comes about it would probably be next summer. Usually those films are shot in the fall so it may be next year. I know he was side tracked a little because of the success of Creed, and of course the fact he was nominated for an Academy Award and all of that. He should have won, by the way! I think if it comes back, I’d give it another shot. It would be fun.
HUG: Who would you personally want to work with on Expendables 4 if it happens?
DL: Well, obviously there are icons like Clint Eastwood so that would be wonderful. There are other guys like Kurt Russell and Jackie Chan as well. I am trying to think of action people that haven’t been in it! Jackie Chan for sure, he’d be really cool.
EX4 Finally Moving Ahead?
There hasn't been any reliable news on the development of EX4 since the movie was semi-officially announced for a release in 2017, raising doubts in the viability of the fourth installment. The doubts were further reinforced when Stallone himself made a statement that an EX4 would be "Stallone-less" if it was to move ahead. Plus he seems to be involved in the Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and actively searching for dramatic roles, distancing himself from action movies. That being said, not winning his Oscar might have changed things.
Now 2 more or less reliable pieces of news have surfaced over the past few days giving some more life to the viability of an eventual EX4.
Randy Couture has confirmed to The Arnold Fans that filming on The Expendables 4 will get underway in the fall.
At the #ArnoldSportsFestival, Randy Couture confirms Expendables 4 starts filming this fall! #schwarzenegger
Yibada is reporting that Li Bingbing will appear in the sequel and according to the American based Chinese outlet, after the delays because of the script changes, the movie will finally start filming in May! The outlet further reports that while in Australia, Li said she got sick out of worrying she might not be able to do "The Expendables 4" because of a barrier.
Not sure how reliable all of this is, but if true more news should surface soon.
Another EX4 Rumor Squashed
Back in May Stallone exchanged a couple of tweets with the Indian actor Salman Khan, and alluded to maybe having him in EX4; probably as a courtesy response to Khan's earlier tweets complimenting Sly.
Some media outlets and fans took the twitter exchange and blew it out of proportions by making the assumption that Khan would appear in the 4th installment of the franchise.
Well after the Hogan rumor was squashed here's another one ending up with the same fate. In an event in India as reported by this Indian news outlet, Khan stated clearly that he had no intentions of taking part in any Hollywood production that he would only continue to make Indian movies.
I guess for lack of better EX4 news we'll keep squashing rumors...
Hulk Hogan Just A Rumor in EX4
There have been many rumors around Hulk Hogan taking on the role of the main villain in EX4.
Well Hogan who himself is sometimes the source of those rumors, has confirmed in an interview with The Star that "I [Hogan] haven't talked to him [Sly]. But there's a bunch of people who have thrown my name around and done stuff. I'd love to read the script. I don't know how many more Expendables they're going to make, so I'd love to be in the next one. I'd love to be the bad guy again in a Stallone movie. It would be a lot of fun."
Here you have it, he's just a rumor in EX4.
EX4 Likley to Film in Bulgaria Again!
Update: it appears that Johannes Hartmann was working on the set of Boyka 4 and not EX 4, he might have confused the 2 movies when tagging his pictures. I apologize, I should have paid closer attention to the photos, I took Johannes's post for granted. Thanks to "Jeff" for bringing it to my attention in the comment section.
Although EX4 seems to have received some serious Chinese investment support and there is a likelihood of a partial production in China, several clues still point to the direction of Bulgaria.
Back in September this year the CEO of NU Boyana (that is the Studio where the first 3 movies were shot) told Xinhua that The Expendables 4 would probably be made mid-2016 in his Studios.
Also a certain Johannes Hartmann posted pictures of the set construction for The Expendables 4 at Nu Boyana Studios four months ago. Looks like work on EX4 has been in motion for a while now and well under the radar.
The majority of fans will certainly be disappointed if this was to happen, but the business reality is that Bulgaria is a cheap place to get movies done, and Lerner & Co. who are co-owners in the Bulgarian Studios will probably want to rip the benefits of that cheap fact.
'The Expendables 4' Is Coming in 2017!
Despite a very weak performance from all aspects (BO, quality, PG-13 rating, script, cast, editing, etc.) of its 3rd installment, the Expendables franchise is moving ahead with a 4th movie. Building on the franchise's strong market demand in China, Avi Lerner et al. were able to secure a deal with Steven Paul’s SP International Pictures on behalf of SSXH Beijing and Max Screen Film Distribution.
Expendables 4 will shoot in 2016 and be released in 2017. Neither director nor cast have yet been announced, though the picture is expected to maintain its all-action star formula. It is to be produced on a budget of over $100 million!
I'm absorbing this news with mixed feelings. Although the kid inside me gets always excited by the prospect of a new movie assembling my childhood heroes, the thought of seeing another fiasco is almost agonizing. Let's hope for the best.
The Fall of a Franchise
I had to come out of retirement for one last post to review EX3 and put my opinion out there. Not that it matters but I felt I had to express my frustration over this 3rd useless installment to vent a little bit...
Where do I begin? EX3 is so bad and in so many areas that it's hard to write a condensed review. But let's try to compartmentalize.
Stallone: I know most people - except for his hardcore fan base on StalloneZone - have been calling him a sellout, a greedy ego driven arrogant @$$hole, etc and you know what, I understand their feelings. Real, true fans of the hardcore action films of the 80s who paid and supported him with the EX franchise to allow him to make yet another come back, felt betrayed by the fact he let them down to pay his due to the new generation. I'd never know what was it that he owed to this new generation...
I'm not naive to think that all decisions around EX3 were made by Stallone and probably most of them were not. Lionsgate that is the major distributor of the movie is a public company that has to respond to shareholders and they're not gonna let Stallone decide of their fortune. But Stallone had enough weight to influence some important decisions and he possibly didn't use it that much caught in his madness to please the new generation and stay relevant in the 21st century. And I'm saying that based on past history of the actor who keeps repeating the same career mistake due to an ego the size of a dinosaur. There's no doubt that Stallone is a life fighter and rises from the ashes, and he's done it more than once, but his demise is to let his perspective and senses be blinded by his ego and complacency once he gets to the top. He did it after his first series of success with Rocky & Rambo, then again after he was able to come back with Cliffhanger & Demolition Man, and here we go again after he built a new franchise with the Expendables. Unfortunately he might be too old for another comeback, who knows. I hope this EX3 debacle will bring his senses back so he makes his (probably last) Rambo with passion fed by those values that made him one of the legends of the action movies. An EX4 is not needed if he's not allowed or able to bring it back to its essence and what it was meant to be.
PG-13: a lot has already been said about this fatal mistake. Although some people are still trying to blame the fall of this movie on piracy - and yes the mysterious leak of the movie probably hurt the BO numbers, researchers say at best by 20%, which would have given the movie an opening of about $20M, which is still a mediocre result given the magnitude of expectations, expenses and pedigree of cast members - the real reasons are franchise fatigue, terrible quality, bad reviews, and most importantly alienation of true fans. Unfortunately history repeats itself and studios either don't learn or don't care to learn from past mistakes. Some say LG was trying to seize the opportunity of a missed summer opening by the FF franchise to bank on their audience, wrong gamble. Some say Stallone/Lerner wanted to attract a broader audience and make more money, go figure. Whatever the reason behind the PG decision, it was a bad one and the movie paid for it, from both marketing and quality perspectives. If anyone decides to make an EX4 please learn from this, but I won't be surprised if they don't.
The Movie: poor editing, average CGI, bad acting, crap story. The use of Li and Schwarzenneger in the manner it was done was a crime and deserves to be tried at the Hague. Banderas was a joke. One would almost feel that those actors were disrespected in the movie. I'm surprised that Arnold has even accepted to be treated like this and is promoting the movie. The "old" Expendables are in the background. The fight scenes are poor or non existent, the Sly/Mel fight was a shame, worse than Sly/JCVD in EX2. Bad, bad, bad and bad again. WTF?
The New Blood: I'm speechless. What was that all about? Seriously? Lutz is the worst actor probably seen in recent years. Has no presence and charisma, then you let him disrespect our icons? At least in EX2 one could develop some sympathy for Hemsworth. He was respectful towards the older EXs and died quickly to make room for the real heroes. Rousey was ok since she's a fighter and had some ok fight scenes but don't have her talk or walk. The boxer guy, give me a break, what was that? Actually if I had to force myself to like one of them it'd pick the hacker guy, he was ok.
This was Stallone's biggest mistake in his entire career, to write those pathetic characters and then choose a bunch of useless people to play them. Sly, please read this and all the other millions of articles, posts, tweets on the internet, open your eyes, let go of your ego. You should try to stay relevant to your fans who made you not to a bunch of kids who don't know who you are. If by any chance you are given the opportunity to make EX4, kill those guys off in the opening or come up with a story not to show them in the movie anymore. Do your best to get Chan and give him a proper role. Make it a good R like you did your last Rambo. Bring on a few good villains, lobby for the money and give it to The Rock, he wants to play ball. Do the Right Thing!
The fall of a franchise and hardcore action movies a la 80s as witnessed by the Gen X...
EX3 Is PG-13, Moving on to EX4...
Stallone officially announced it in Cannes: EX3 is PG-13. I'm skipping this one and already preparing for EX4 hoping that EX3 bombs and they learn their lesson to make EX4 "R". These movies are only supported by hardcore fans, I was hoping that by now it was well understood by the greedy producers...
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Statham might finally take a knocking in EX3
During a 90-minute question and answer session with Jonathan Ross at the London Palladium, Stallone also talked a little bit about Expendables 3: he revealed in the third film Jason Statham might finally take a knocking.
"You may see history made in the next Expendables," he said.
"I actually believe there's a bloody nose on the horizon.
"We have a great rapport together.
"You know he doesn't do that very often, he's very straight [in his films], but when he smiles, when he jokes around, he's good."
Big crowds turn out to see Sylvester Stallone in London for a Q&A session with fans AND Jonathan Ross
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More Indication that Sly Might Quit Action
Back in November 2013 Stallone hinted at eventually retiring from Action Movies and the EX franchise (article here) which raised a lot of questions in the fans minds. Yesterday again he told U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "I'm trying to avoid going to the gym. I ended up doing a lot of action films and you have to be in shape. I swear I was in the gym so often that if I'd had another daughter I would have called her Barbella! I figure at a certain age you get clogged arteries and you drop dead happy."
I'm starting to think he's really serious about quitting the action genre and that his participation in EX4 might be compromised. I for one won't be interested in an EX4 without Stallone...
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EX3 Shot with RED Cameras
To those who do not know this, EX3 was shot with the RED cameras, under DP Peter Menzies Jr. Films such as Transformers 4, The Hobbit, Elysium and The Amazing Spiderman have all been shot using RED.
According to RED.com:
Since its arrival, the RED ONE has established a pedigree of Oscar winning films, 3D features, and even magazine covers that have solidified its reputation as a reliable workhorse. Introduced as the purest digital alternative to 35mm film, the RED ONE has shot some of the most influential films of our time - from “Che” to “The Social Network”. Its ability to sustain brilliant 4K images in even the toughest environments has contributed to its enduring success as one of the greatest digital cinema cameras of all time."
The RED website has this on their page....interesting they use an EX2 promo shot.......
This site is a forum for RED users. A few interesting posts about EX3 I spotted.
Jarred Land posted "Teaser Trailer. Love the franchise or not.. from the footage I have seen from the show it looks incredible. Peter Menzies Jr. did one hell of a job. The first 2 Expendables were shot on Film and we are very proud that Peter chose RED for the 3rd.
Peter Mosiman posted "I gaffed a pickup shot where we shot Terry Crews doing his bit. Cool to see them all put together in a finished product.
(referring to the teaser trailer......so it confirms they were all or mostly shot separately)
This is very cool. EX3 should be the best looking of the 3. Peter Menzies Jr. is a great DP, having shot such films as Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Shooter and The Incredible Hulk. The RED cameras are really gonna make EX3 look epic onscreen.
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PR 93 - FINA BUREAU MEETING - 30 November 2017
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FINA Communication Department
During its Bureau Meeting held today in Sanya (CHN), FINA approved a new programme directly aimed at supporting National Federations, through the distribution of up to 70% of the IOC TV revenue share. This project represents a total of US$ 21.5 million in the next four-year period, to assist FINA National Members in the development of their activities.
Called “FINA Aquatics Olympic Support”, the budget distributed under this project comes as an addition to the amount already available through FINA Development Programme – support for the participation in FINA events and prize money - and will be given on an equal share basis.
Therefore, each National Federation – participating at the FINA World Championships, FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) or FINA World Junior Championships - will be offered up to US$ 25,000 each year to assist in specific projects related to:
construction, refurbishment or maintenance of facilities;
purchase or hire of sports material equipment;
administration fees;
technology resources (website, online ranking, database);
technical support;
preparation and training of athletes, coaches and officials;
staging and participation at national and continental competitions;
talent-identification programmes.
FINA, through a dedicated Commission, will carefully study and approve the projects submitted by the National Federations in which the value, purpose, viability and quality of the proposals are assessed.
“Considering the top position of FINA in the Olympic Movement, and the decisive contribution and support of our Members to this achievement, we think it’s fair to create a dedicated programme to support their activities and development in the five continents”, said FINA President Dr Julio C. Maglione.
Other highlights of the FINA Bureau meeting in Sanya (CHN) include:
The approval of FINA’s 209th member: Anguilla Amateur Swimming (AGU);
The organisation of a Water Polo Conference in the first half of 2018, to discuss and recommend new paths for increasing the popularity and improving the worldwide value of the first Olympic team sport;
Designation of host cities for the following competitions/events:
FINA Diving World Cup 2018 – June 5-10 in Wuhan (CHN)
FINA World Junior Diving Championships (& FINA Diving Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament) 2018 – July 23-29 in Kiev (UKR)
FINA Diving World Conference 2018 – 1-3 February in Chongqing (CHN)
FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships 2018 – 7-9 September in Eilat (ISR)
Approval of the 2018 calendars for the FINA Marathon Swim World Series, FINA Diving World Series, FINA Diving Grand Prix, and FINA Artistic Swimming World Series;
Approval of updated By-Laws, namely referring to the recent changes in the Water Polo and Artistic Swimming format competitions starting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games;
Update on ongoing initiatives under the FINA Development Programme, namely the “Swimming for All, Swimming for Life” project, the Scholarships for athletes, Development Centres, Coaches Certification, and the new E-Learning platform and National Aquatics Managers Programme.
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Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–89) of Boston was a key figure in his family's business in the China trade. While his brothers and cousins took positions as land-based merchants stationed either in Boston or Canton, Robert Bennet Forbes chose life at sea. He went on many trips to China, starting in 1817 as a cabin boy—thirteen years old—and eventually as a ship captain.
Forbes became a partner in the firm in 1832, known by then as Russell & Co., Canton, and went for a two-year trip to China in 1838–40 as a merchant. He was a proponent of steam power, which helped ships on the long voyage to China and Japan, and gave them the speed to evade the pirates who were ever present in the opium trade. His firm built about 70 ships, of which he was owner or part owner of several.
Robert Bennet Forbes also helped to introduce yachting as a sport, and participated in some of the first yacht races. His book Personal Reminiscences, published in 1892, lists many of these exploits, as well as all of the vessels he owned and built.
Forbes was known for his adventurous spirit. In 1846, when news of the Irish famine reached Boston, he convinced the U.S.Navy to lend him the "USS Jamestown" to take food to famine sufferers in 1847. He was the first civilian given the honor of commanding a naval vessel, and he crossed the Atlantic in a record seventeen days. Forbes wrote a book about his trans-Atlantic voyage for which he commissioned Lane to make the frontispiece illustration.
The "Jamestown" commission was one of several works Lane made for Forbes. Forbes was not only adventurous but innovative, and he commissioned Lane to make works after two of his newly designed steam vessels: the "Massachusetts," a packet ship that used steam power to supplement wind power, and the "Antelope," that relied primarily on steam power.
The Forbes family lived in Milton, Massachusetts, and also had a home in Beverly, Massachusetts. In 1856 Forbes bought land in West Manchester and built a summer home there which he christened "Masconomo" after the sagamore, chief of the Agawam.
In 1834 Captain Forbes married Rose Greene Smith. She died September 18, 1885, having borne her husband three children: Robert Bennet Forbes (1837–June 30, 1891); Edith Forbes, who married Charles Eliot Perkins; and James Murray Forbes (b. July 17, 1845). He died on November 23, 1889 in Milton.
Related tables: "Antelope" (Brig) » // "Antelope" (Steam Demi-Bark) » // "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) » // "Massachusetts" (Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship) » // "R. B. Forbes" (Tow Boat) » // Forbes, John Murray » // Manchester, Mass. »
Portrait of Captain Robert Bennet Forbes
Chester Harding
Copy of original
Courtesy of Forbes House Museum, Milton, Mass.
Table of private signals, Boston, c.1860
Allan Forbes, Ralph M. Eastman
As reproduced in Yankee Sailing Ship Cards by Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman (Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1948).
Also filed under: "Eastern Star" (Bark) » // Signal Systems (Flags & Maritime Codes) »
photo (historical)
Captain Robert Bennet Forbes in his workshop at The Birches
Edith Perkins Cunningham, ed.
"Family Photographs" I:140
Privately Printed: The Riverside Press
Courtesy of the Forbes House Museum
Robert B. Forbes with Grandchildren
Book: "Family Photographs"
Privately Printed: Riverside Press
Collection of the Forbes House Museum
Daguerreotype from about 1848
The Birches, The Robert B. Forbes House, Milton, Massachusetts
Ruth Perkins Cunningham, ed.
"Family Photographs" I:43
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"Auxiliary Screw Packet Ship 'Massachusetts:' Forbes's New Rig"
Robert Bennet Forbes
Pamphlet publication of article from the April 1853 "Nautical Magazine"
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
1011.2 F695
Also filed under: "Massachusetts" (Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship) »
Auxiliary Steamships and R.B. Forbes
Cedric Ridgely-Nevitt
"The American Neptune"
Also filed under: "Antelope" (Steam Demi-Bark) » // "Massachusetts" (Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship) »
Description of photograph of "Masconomo"
Typed transcription of photograph caption
Manchester Historical Museum, Manchester, Mass.
Also filed under: Manchester, Mass. »
List of ships owned by R. B. Forbes
Table within book
From R. B. Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., first published 1876).
Also filed under: "Antelope" (Brig) » // "Antelope" (Steam Demi-Bark) » // "Massachusetts" (Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship) » // "R. B. Forbes" (Tow Boat) »
Map of Manchester, Massachusetts
Manchester Historical Museum
"Masconomo", Manchester, Mass.
In 1856 Robert Bennet Forbes bought nineteen acres of land for $2,800 from Israel F. Tappan in the section of the West Manchester shore known in those days as Newport. There he built Masconomo, named for the sagamore of the Agawam. In her unpublished letters to her son Robert, his wife Rose Greene Forbes wrote:
"...I think Father will put up a good sized cheap summer house, rough pillars, pine furniture etc., and very likely we shall all be there for two months next summer. He means to show people how rational people ought to live at the seaside. What nice times we shall have..."
The house was sold to Benjamin G. Boardman in 1865.
"Masconomo", Manchester, Massachusetts, The Robert Forbes House, 1856
Edith Perkins Cunningham
Book "Family Photographs" 1:45
Collection of the Forbes House Museum.
Also filed under: Forbes, John Murray » // Manchester, Mass. »
Personal Reminiscences
1876 (first edition)
University Press, John Wilson and Sons, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Second edition, 1882, contains "Rambling Recollections Connected with China." Google book version.
Portrait of Margaret Perkins Forbes
Collection of the Forbes House Museum, Milton, Mass.
Also filed under: Forbes, John Murray »
Regatta at New Bedford, August 8, 1856
Reprinted in American Neptune, Vol. 10, 1950, pp. 213-234
First-hand account by Robert Bennet Forbes of the 1856 New-York Yacht Club regatta.
Also filed under: "Julia" (Sloop Yacht) » // "Widgeon" (Sloop Yacht) » // New-York Yacht Club » // Regattas »
Robert Bennet Forbes About 1850
Book 'Family Photographs" vol. 1
Silver Salver
Gift to Robert Bennet Forbes from the people of Cork
Delivered to Forbes after his voyage of the "Jamestown." Brought back on the "Macedonian," which also made a relief voyage.
"Splendid Naval Victory"
Danvers Courier as published in unidentified publication
Robert Bennet Forbes scrapbook
vol. 1, p. 4
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum (SCR 4)
"SPLENDID NAVAL VICTORY. We have received intelligence by the arrival of the Caledonia of one of the most splendid naval victories ever achieved under the American flag..." This article is a humorous metaphor, comparing Forbes' mission to bring food to the starving Irish to a naval assault on the city of Cork.
Also filed under: "Caledonia" (Cunard Steamship) » // "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) » // Newspaper / Journal Articles »
Painting of the yacht sailed by R. B. Forbes in the first yacht race in America, off Nantucket on August 3, 1835.
"The Haide"
Perhaps painted in Canton
Given to the Forbes House Museum by H.A. Crosby Forbes, Ph.D., Robert P. Forbes, Ph.D., and Douglas B. Forbes in 2012
The painting was commissioned by Robert Bennet Forbes to commemorate the death of his brother, Thomas Tunno Forbes, in 1829 on "The Haide" during a storm off the coast of Macao.
The Jamestown
George M. Atkinson
Scene depicts the "Jamestown" being towed out of Charlestown Navy Yard. Plaque reads: "To Captain R. Bennett [sic] Forbes / From his English friends. / The "Jamestown" American Sloop of War as she left Boston under his command / bound to CORK with DONATIONS of FOOD / freight free for the Irish. / 1847."
Also filed under: "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) »
The Red Drawing-Room at the Birches, Milton, Massachuetts
"Family Photographs" 1:44
The Voyage of the "Jamestown" on her Errand of Mercy
Eastburn's Press
Link to Google Books.
Also filed under: "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) » // Lane & Scott's, Lith. – Boston » // Professional »
U.S. Sloop of War, "Jamestown"
George W. Atkinson
Lithograph, hand-colored
16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in., on sheet 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 in.
Courtesy American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
One of these lithographs was given to R. B. Forbes at an event held on the 19th of April at the Cork Temperance Institute.
"U.S. Sloop of war, Jamestown: Capt. R. B. Forbes. This print, commemorative of the splendid generosity of the American government in dismantling a ship of war for a mission of peace and charity, & of the noble-hearted citizens who humanely & benevolently responded to the call of Irish distress, is respectfully dedicated to the President, House of Representatives, Congress and people of the United States of America, by their obedt. servants, George M. W. Atkinson, William Scraggs, Cove of Cork 13th April, 1847"
Wheel of the "Jamestown"
Wooden ship's wheel
Collection of the Forbes House Museum, Milton, Massachusetts
Gift to R. B. Forbes from the U.S. Navy to commemorate voyage of the "Jamestown."
Citation: "People." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/historical_material/index.php?type=People§ion=Forbes%2C+Robert+Bennet (accessed July 17, 2019).
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Runaways, and other comics
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Contact Jesse
Postby Jesse » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:38 pm UTC
Okay, so we got told off for discussing Runaways etc. so here is our thread for it.
I'm going to take a look at it on Saturday. Anyone interested in Marvel stuff I suggest you read Marvels by Kurt BUsiek and Alex Ross, it being one of the best graphic novels of recent years.
Also, the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is incredible and probably appreciated a lot more by the more educated intelligent types that we generally are.
Good adventure games, bad platformers, and British swear words.
Postby Oort » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:40 pm UTC
I think Runaways is really good. It's about to change writers to Joss Whedon, so hopefully it will keep its good writing.
Joss Whedon can write amazing things even when he's writing them five at one time. Witness the simultaneous writing of 'Buffy', 'Firefly' and 'Fray'.
And Astonishing X-Men too, right?
Was he writing that simultaneously, I mentioned those three as an example of things he was writing at the same time.
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Postby Belial » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:12 am UTC
If he was still writing buffy, he was still writing angel, too....
Also, without realizing this was here, I already split the runaways discussion from the photo thread.
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To answer someone's question from the other thread, ie "So are they good to spite their parents"?
Yeah. Kindof. I imagine they'd like to think their reasons are more noble than that.
Also, it's not like they were raised *knowing* their parents were supervillains. The impetus for their runaway was the discovery of that little fact.
Also: Psychic Raptors.
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Postby Teaspoon » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:51 am UTC
Belial! With your use of rare phrases that I commonly use, such as "gorram" and "I am human. Just look at my neck", I'm beginning to wonder if you are, in fact, me.
Well? Are you? Did I come back from the future to protect XKCD, who is destined to be the anti-raptor equivalent to John Connor? If that's the case, it doesn't seem strange at all that I would behave in a manner that arouses suspicion of raptorness from others. My years of infiltration work clearly made it a habit to seem raptorish enough that the raptors would assume I was one of their own human-disguised spies returning with a report instead of gutting me before I even knew they were there.
Yes! That's exactly it! I'm you! From the FUTURE! That explains my suspicious behaviour perfectly!
How is it hanging, mammalian past-self? How's the scale-less skin and body-hair working out for you? Going great for me!
But anyway, back on topic....
If you're looking for runaways collections, keep in mind they're generally not collected in standard book-sized collections like most graphic novels. Marvel is doing this wierd "manga-shaped" thing with their comics, lately, so they'll be roughly pocketsized and probably shelved differently in the bookstore.
Despite the silly amerime-influenced packaging, the art-style refrains from just ruthlessly bending over to anime, and manages to be its own thing. I like it a lot.
Postby SpitValve » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:33 am UTC
Runaways is fully good. To be honest I think it's the only good modern superhero team comic I've read. (1970s-80s x-men are good too tho)
I don't see how they managed to have a girl who gets magic powers by cutting herself without getting sued...
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Postby Lani » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:32 pm UTC
SpitValve wrote: I don't see how they managed to have a girl who gets magic powers by cutting herself without getting sued...
She cuts herself to get her powers?? Sweet jeebus, please tell me that's not so!
- Lani
"They think they're so high and mighty, just because they never got caught driving without pants."
Postby Belial » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:49 pm UTC
Specifically, she has a rather powerful magical staff that takes residence in her body, and she can only get it to emerge when her blood is shed. They made the teenage cutting joke at one point, it made me giggle.
"Nico, it's okay, I understand...my last girlfriend was a cutter, she made me read this book, so I understand about having so much anger you can't express and having to turn it inward to-"
"I do it to release the powerful magical artifact lodged in my soul."
".....Oh."
So far (and I'm only two books in), there's only been one occasion where she's really inflicted it on herself. In other situations, there was someone else there who had conveniently already injured her.
Arilakon
Postby Arilakon » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:04 am UTC
I've found it interesting so far, and I don't like any other Superhero comics. Haven't read any for a while, so I should probably catch up. The only other actual comic I read is Y - The Last Man. which I love!
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Postby German Sausage » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:10 am UTC
has anyone read the martha washington series? i think alan moore has something to do with them...the surgeon general is terrific, and the maccas tanks blew my mind
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Postby Belial » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:49 pm UTC
There are a lot of really good comics out there that aren't traditional "superhero" comics.
Ranging from comics about superheroes that don't act like traditional superheroes ("The Authority" and "Rising Stars" spring readily to mind), to comics about other subjects entirely (Sandman, Books of Magic, Lucifer, just about anything else by Vertigo).
That said, I haven't read any of Y. What's it about?
Postby Arilakon » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:58 pm UTC
Belial wrote: That said, I haven't read any of Y. What's it about?
Basically, all but a few men instantly die out all across the planet, throwing the world into chaos. The antagonist Yorick was talking on the phone to his girlfriend in Australia when this happened, and the connection died just as he was proposing to her. So he decides to start looking for her.
Which of course, won't be easy.
Postby Belial » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:26 am UTC
Hmm. Cool.
By "all but a few men" do you mean "all but a few males" or "all but a few humans"?
Postby German Sausage » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:42 am UTC
males. hence it being called y (chromosome)
Postby Belial » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:18 am UTC
Cool. I knew the author had to be pretty cool, because she's going to comiccon as a "special guest" this year. I should probably pick some of that up.
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Postby Narsil » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:42 am UTC
I've only read 1-18, my freaking school didn't have vol. 2. Damn them. They also have a poster in the library for Neil Gaiman's Sandman, but conveniently no books to go along with it. I'm just flat out pissed.
It's all about the manga in my library. I'm sick of manga.
EsotericWombat wrote: MORE JUNK THAN YOUR BODY HAS ROOM FOR
Mother Superior wrote: What's he got that I dont?
*sees Narsil's sig*
Oh... that.
No Sandman? That's inhumane.
I heartily recommend the everloving hell out of sandman. If you can't check it out of the library, buy it. It's worth it.
Postby Belial » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:04 am UTC
Bumped.
Jessseeeeeee, make them release Runaways twenty-eeeeiiiiiggggghhhhttt ::whine::
Postby Jesse » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:13 am UTC
Belial wrote: Bumped.
Oh gods yes. I mean, it's not like I don't have the entire Lucifer, Books of Magic and Death (TOYL + HCOL) to read, but I wants Runaways.
Postby SecondTalon » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:29 pm UTC
Belial wrote: Hmm. Cool.
Specifically, Our Hero, his Monkey, and two guys in Space.
I have no problem mentioning Spaceguys, as though they aren't revealed until .. I dunno..somewhere in the teens.. the series itself is pushing 60, so.. no longer a spoiler.
Also, Girls...while making me feel like a pervert for reading a book full of naked women, it's still a surprisingly good book. It's like Zombies, only they're naked chicks... sorta.
I swear, it's better than I'm making it sound.
And Walking Dead is made of Win and Hotsauce.
Postby Belial » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:58 pm UTC
Jesster wrote:
I've already read all of those things. I bore.
Postby SecondTalon » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:21 pm UTC
Invincible?
Actually, I need to get on this "Y" business.
Yeah, you probably should. Yorick's a good everyman Houdini wannabe.
Postby Oort » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:51 pm UTC
Belial wrote: Cool. I knew the author had to be pretty cool, because she's going to comiccon as a "special guest" this year. I should probably pick some of that up.
The author is a man, not a she (Brian K. Vaughan). And I strongly recommend him. In fact, he wrote most of Runaways.
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Postby Zohar » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:04 pm UTC
Regarding Y, there's also Israeli people there! And they speak Hebrew for a few pages! But "Alter" is in no way a name in Hebrew. I wish he'd have found a real name ("Tse'elon is an appropriate last name, though).
Mighty Jalapeno: "See, Zohar agrees, and he's nice to people."
SecondTalon: "Still better looking than Jesus."
Not how I say my name
Postby Belial » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:10 pm UTC
Oort wrote:
Hmm. Why did I think it was written by a female? Strange.
Postby SecondTalon » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:14 pm UTC
Belial wrote:
Wikipedia wrote: The series' art is handled primarily by series co-creator Pia Guerra. Much has been made of the fact that Guerra is a woman, but Vaughan insists that her sex is incidental.[citation needed] He says that Guerra's work simply fit best with what he had in mind for the series.
Any title.
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Postby Rodan » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:17 pm UTC
that's the price you pay for more Joss Whedon awesomeness...
always cite your sources.
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Scott Auld
Postby Scott Auld » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:30 pm UTC
mojacardave
Postby mojacardave » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:30 pm UTC
blowfishhootie wrote:
mojacardave wrote: There's a significant time yet before this reaches the level of work shown in 'Click and Drag' and it seems to be a sort of unofficial companion to that.
Based on...? What does it mean to be a "companion to" a comic anyway?
There's a definite similarity...
What similarity do the two share that they don't share with ALL xkcd comics, other than taking a longer time than most to put together?
The truth is, we all still know next to nothing about the total context of this comic and so any comment about what it "is" or what it "means" is strictly a statement on the observer making the claim, with insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about the comic.
I see what you mean, but in terms of general feel, at least so far, it seems to evoke the scale of Click and Drag, but stretched over time rather than space. It's pretty unlike the comics around it - it's just a pleasant scene extended to a ridiculous degree. I've no idea what's coming up, but I think I'd be surprised if the scene ended tonight.
TheMulattoMaker
Postby TheMulattoMaker » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:31 pm UTC
Is he... is he- standing- on the sand caste? That's quality engineering, right there...
Postby tarry » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:31 pm UTC
tarry wrote: Where's all the sand coming from? I'd have expected a depression somewhere in the frame as the castle went up. Instead, R seems to be intentionally violating the law of Conservation of Sand.
mojacardave wrote: We're viewing a 2D cross section of a 3D scene. Presumably the sand is coming from a pit behind the sandcastle. Edit: Ninja'd
OK, I see you both (the ninja'r, too), and raise you a dimension:
"We're viewing a 2D cross section of a 4D scene. Presumably the sand is coming from a depression that was dug many frames in the future -- we'll see it appear in a few days."
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Postby TheBauhausCure » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:33 pm UTC
stringman wrote: I put together an animated time-lapse of the comic so far with a slider to control the framerate, but the forum is flagging the post as spam
According to the rules, you must have a minimum of 5 posts in order to post a link.
Blake wrote:
Primis wrote: Live updating GIF:
Feel free to give me an internet for the service
Just brining the gif back into the most recent page.
Moar bumpination for gif.
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Postby rhomboidal » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:34 pm UTC
Wow, just saw it update live right before my eyes at 10:30 AM -- he moved on top of the castle construction. Epic animation!
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peewee_RotA wrote: *EDIT
I think there's an off by 1 error on the forward frame functionality. You have to press rightarrow twice to get from last frame to frame 1. Getting from frame 1 to last frame with backarrow seems to work properly.
I really like that bit of functionality, and assume it's intentional. It acts as a stopper at the end of the sequence when you step through. When the right arrow repeats the image, you know you've got to the last frame. Prevents overstepping the end by mistake.
tvall
Postby tvall » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:35 pm UTC
another day of work lost to one comic..
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Postby SWuh » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:35 pm UTC
Well, that escalated quickly. Lot of construction in one frame. And I can't help but feel we lost dialogue ... shame.
Maybe this means it's more about the construction than the two of them?
mojacardave wrote: I really like that bit of functionality, and assume it's intentional. It acts as a stopper at the end of the sequence when you step through. When the right arrow repeats the image, you know you've got to the last frame. Prevents overstepping the end by mistake.
Agreed. That stopper is needed when you're scrolling through it as much as I am!!
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Postby iisjreg » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:37 pm UTC
TheMulattoMaker wrote:
I wonder when Primis' bandwidth will start taking a knock!?
Mithramuse
Postby Mithramuse » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:37 pm UTC
TheMulattoMaker wrote: Is he... is he- standing- on the sand castle? That's quality engineering, right there...
Well, he *is* as skinny as a stick... go figure? Though a bit of shock was my first impression, too.
Though I suppose that actually means that since they don't have discreetly drawn feet, the people should actually be plunging down into the sand instead, as there's no real way for what weight they do have to be distributed across even a small area. Hmmm....
Anyway, originally registered for the forum to express my joy as well that "he" returned to the frame. I also noticed that there were 666 guests viewing the forum at the time, but I think that's more coincidence than any doom-and-gloom scenario.
--Mithramuse
PS -- fixed your spelling for ya
Hrm. Gif isn't showing the last couple pics.
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Postby peewee_RotA » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:40 pm UTC
mojacardave wrote:
Not a bug, a feature!
I thought so at first but I keep ending up passing it regardless. Plus I think if it were a feature the same would be done for the fristframe-lastfram backwards motion.
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Postby YellowYeti » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:44 pm UTC
peewee_RotA wrote:
YellowYeti wrote:
daef wrote: "animated shorts"
Those shorts are decidedly animationless.
As with the inappropriateness of ugmhemhe's signature, I was worried about searching "Dancing Shorts" at work. Google image search had at least 1 scantily clad underwear model in search for "animated shorts".
But had I waited till work was over I would have lost the original post in about 4 more pages of posts. This is one of those.
I hesitate to use the phrase 'quick and dirty' in relation to animated shorts
You certainly made that in a giff. You most certainly did not save it as a .gif.
<sigh> Yes it was a GIF, the uploading site decided that even though it was a GIF, and it was called .GIF, it would rename it as .jpg... but it's still a GIF
peewee_RotA wrote: I thought so at first but I keep ending up passing it regardless. Plus I think if it were a feature the same would be done for the fristframe-lastfram backwards motion.
The fact that it only happens in the forward direction is what makes me think it's NOT a bug. I'd assume that if it was a coding issue, it'd be more likely to happen in both directions. If I go through the steps backwards, it's normally because I'm trying to shortcut to the last frame, so a buffer at the beginning is less important.
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Postby J L » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:46 pm UTC
That's exactly how I feel about it. This isn't about any "message"-reading or claim to truth, just the observation that both comics blow the usual boundary of the common panel: by either sheer size or duration; both represent windows into a much larger world, and they share that certain sense of pastoral innocence xkcd sometimes, but not always, employs. Plus, the community made it into a similar event, searching for the boundaries of that world, trying to outsmart the author, writing scripts and providing custom mods allowing an easier access and faster navigation. Both comics are much more a "happening" than a static piece of art to be consumed.
Of course it might be over tomorrow. But as has been said before, up to now it's still tiny compared to the megalomania of "Click and Drag", and it's just my personal guess that Randall likes that sort of artistic challenge, because he has accepted it before.
Wnderer
Postby Wnderer » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:48 pm UTC
It's really cool if you zoom out.
Ñbrevu
Postby Ñbrevu » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:51 pm UTC
Another one who finally registers because of this comic.
This thread is, in a way, part of the comic. It's kind of a collective art form where the appreciation and the discussions about the meaning (and whether there IS a meaning) are at least as important as the comic itself (many may argue that this is a common characteristic of all art). Here we are, in this tiny corner of the internet, so astonished by the unusual way the comic presents itself, that we're desperately trying to understand it. And the way Randall did it is so simple!
THIS is why we love XKCD. This is the kind of originality that keeps us hooked, that makes us come for more thrice a week.
JaynMerry
Postby JaynMerry » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:51 pm UTC
I hope someone is grabbing all of them!
another lovely idea
Wnderer wrote:
Wait, what ... ?
When the Click and Drag sandcastle competition was mentioned earlier in the thread, I was very tempted to go and search that comic, to see if there was any relation. I'm assuming from the fact that you've copy-pasted, there wasn't anything relevant there in the first place?
Postby patzer » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:00 pm UTC
dammit ninja'd
...wait, what? my post just moved
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*ninja'd
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Assassine
Postby Assassine » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:00 pm UTC
you guys are fast
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We're going fairly... square-y. Hmm. Interesting.
Well, intriguing at least
Bits are falling off again. Sand is a frustrating material.
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Postby Envelope Generator » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:03 pm UTC
Where's the +1 button for posts on this forum?
I'm going to step off the LEM now... here we are, Pismo Beach and all the clams we can eat
eSOANEM wrote: If Fonzie's on the order of 100 zeptokelvin, I think he has bigger problems than difracting through doors.
Postby kryton » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:03 pm UTC
It looks exactly the same in that copy/paste clip from click and drag as Time did 2 pics ago, ...
Not really. I think the beach with the umbrella is the closest approximation to the beach in 'Time'.
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Nah: that's an obvious picture stitching job. Zoom in and look at the resolution of the sections.
iisjreg wrote:
once y'all manage to kill his, i have a mirror for you to also kill
edit: yeah, bad idea. i don't even have the bandwidth to be a backup... curse you randall
fetches his gif every 60 seconds if it has changed
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sorry - ignore my noob first post. Didn't go to the end of the thread brilliant idea!
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Huh? Maybe I've missed something, but I'm assuming that your grabbing is just denting Primis' bandwidth more, and if we manage to kill the availability of that link, it's going to ruin your gif fetching process anyway!
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Postby Corrado » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:12 pm UTC
The intersection of Space (Click & Drag) and Time!
mojacardave wrote: Bits are falling off again. Sand is a frustrating material.
Oh bugger!!!! I missed that. Now one of them is just going to be fixing that bit in 17 minutes time. That's no fun!!
Egg on my face...
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Postby jag426 » Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:14 pm UTC
It's clear to me that this is the temporal companion to Click and Drag: rather than a joke, it's a scene expanded far beyond the scope of a normal comic, but rather than being expanded spatially, it's being expanded temporally.
Would now be a bad time to also point out that Kryten has an 'E' in it?
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Taliesin was the first stop on the road that followed the trail of Wright's operate, some of his most iconic, from the prairie landscape he so cherished. The trip was designed around a sneak critique of the new Frank Lloyd Wright art gallery at the SC Johnson entire world headquarters in Racine, Wis. a campus already boasting long history with, and several architectural structures in via preliminare (http://www.lusilab.it/css/form.php?tu=23) designed by, Wright. We took in some other Wright sites, including other open public buildings in Wisconsin plus the Monona Terrace overlooking the eponymous sea in Madison plus his residence and studio, along with FLW operate in the Oak Park, Ill., historic district.
All around Taliesin start at the visitor center designed by Wright as a gateway to help Taliesin, but never completed. We have a huge gift shop, even so waited for my tour inside River View Restaurant. The following, as I sat over a wine or two, I got my first Wright experience: soaking in an uncomfortably hard Wright designed chair at a table embellished with a sort of low window holder containing two boulders and a vertical wood shoot, looking through gorgeously designed windows 7 onto a gorgeous view of this Wisconsin River. I smiled with the physical discomfort as I drank in, well, both the wine and the view and the engage in of light on the two stand rocks I'd originally regarded laughably austere.
On the bus that transported us up to Taliesin, our guidebook pointed out the wide, low waterfall created when Mister. Wright diverted the river and manufactured the small but significant fall of water. Significant for its good, the guide explained. The tunes of the water was included in the design. Wright, whose father would be a musician, grew up loving popular music and considered it and architecture closely related, calling each "sublimated mathematics" and felt that realizing music makes one a better builder.
Taliesin was the site of their greatest tragedies and victories. In August 1914, three years after it was built, the most awful Knowle Media Centre West (http://www.yogamerkeziurla.com/css/fonts/utilities.asp?mod=52) incident of his living occurred when a mentally unsound worker set fire towards living quarters and killed the love of Wright's life, Mamah Borthwick, her two children, and four many people while Wright was away in Chicago. Devastated, he located solace only in his do the job, and turned his power to rebuilding Taliesin in Mamah's memory space. Once completed, he then efficiently abandoned it for nearly ten years; an electrical malfunction ravaged it by simply fire once more, and he reconstructed it then, too. In fact, it had become an ongoing project throughout his or her 48 years there, till his death in The spring 1959.
Japanese art taught them how to see the essence involving nature, and eliminate the insignificant. Wright shook architecture free from the package like and fussy Victorian style of the 19th century. He went about "breaking the box" by creating start plans with rooms which In attesa di giocare 916 (http://www.sonnenschutz-bs.at/produkte/bilder/faltstore/access.asp?mod=117) flowed from one to another. As being a big fan of small spaces, definite doors and defined spaces, this has always been a primary reason I wasn't fond of Wright. Over the tour, however, my face were opened to the deft and subtle ways he produced spaces without using all those standard devices. For example, he would vary the heights of roofs, using a low roof in a very corridor to move people as a result of it, and a high roofing and lots of windows for meeting people in a living room.
Your exhibit had only a few of actual pieces, most of them accompanied by blown up photos exhibiting them in situ, and in some cases design plans of the houses the location where the pieces were placed. Initially I was disappointed that there wasn too much to see, but soon discovered that apropos of Wright philosophy significantly less can offer more. Less intended we could spend more time learning about a nuances of his "butterfly" stained goblet lamps or his inclination back chair, and realizing all the "more" that went into the style of each building, each piece involving furniture even a willow thin container.
The Admin building appeared to be our next stop, but as we passed through the huge Fortaleza Hallway, we stopped to learn more about whatever we were seeing. The rising space features granite flooring surfaces inlaid with a wood variety of the Americas, tracing the route Herbert Johnson took in 1932 when he travelled a plane from Racine to the jungles near Fortaleza, Brazil, in search of innovative ingredients for his organization products. Johnson great grand son Sam retraced that journey in the own plane several years ago; Mike plane hangs from the ceiling.
We arrived at the operations building through a series of undercover tunnels it was like DisneyWorld! appearing right into the Great Workroom. The cross over from windowless, confined tunnels on the workroom was gasp inducing. Wright designed an awesome, soaring space held up simply by dendriform (plant shaped) columns along with flooded by indirect lumination filtered through innovative cup tubes. The space provides an start environment et linterleukine recombinante humaine 211 70 (http://www.burhaniyeotokurtarma.com/loganaliz/icon/browser/install.asp?pear=142) colored with comfortable reds and beiges, and filled up with furniture that echoes this soft curves of the building.
As we stepped out, the night was warm, the air bathwater heat range. The dogs sniffed the old sources of trees, no doubt getting your hands on decades of canine message. Tonight dogs were crafting new messages as local community residents walked them together well worn sidewalks. The sun above melted into the black color treetops, and the streetlights ignited. Inside the buildings the day's last things to do began behind walls in addition to windows created by the master, a person who believed that every design added to one's life. Your glow of dining rooms sparked the windows involving Wright beveled panes. We stopped looking at one house with its large windows designed to frame the particular scene within which tonite was overtaken by the wide expanse of a flatscreen TV, expressing a baseball game. After i took photos, my husband Paul asked, "Did you get the TV in every that?"
Monona Terrace, Madison, Wis.: A redesign
Wright initially fashioned the Monona Terrace Community Conference Center in 1938 as a ethnic, governmental and recreational setting up, but reworked it many times. He finally signed away from on the plans just more effective weeks before his passing away in 1959. It was finally constructed in 1992. While Wright's design was implemented for the building's exterior, the within was redesigned by Wright beginner Tony Puttnam to house a state from the art exhibition, meeting as well as public space.
Inside, shminside. Many of us arrived late (even my better half, who was driving couldn't entirely cancel out my sense of time). But in this case, late has been more, as we plied our way up the ramps to the eponymous patio just at sunset's most extraordinary moments. But turn around plus a horizon filled with water Pond Monona Zeit oder dosh sie haben können Aber seine bis zu ihrem eigenen Gewissen (http://www.enertesmuhendislik.com/loganaliz/icon/flags/gallery.asp?gr=86) will disabuse you of that hallucination. Madison, otherwise known as Mad City, has several waters, which I unfortunately did not see. But the views of this one particular, with Wright's clean lines constructed into the railings along the slowly curved walkway, and Jetsons esque lighting, certainly did justice to be able to both the natural and the man made just the way, I'd learned, Mr. Wright intended.
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Ancient molar points to interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia: Analysis gives new continental bite to evolution
An analysis of a 160,000-year-old archaic human molar fossil discovered in China offers the first morphological evidence of interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia.
The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on a three-rooted lower molar — a rare trait primarily found in modern Asians — that was previously thought to have evolved after H. sapiens dispersed from Africa.
The new research points to a different evolutionary path.
“The trait’s presence in the fossil suggests both that it is older than previously understood and that some modern Asian groups obtained the trait through interbreeding with a sister group of Neanderthals, the Densiovans,” explains Shara Bailey, a professor of anthropology at New York University and the paper’s lead author.
In a previous study, published in Nature, Bailey and her colleagues concluded that the Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau long before Homo sapiens arrived in the region.
That work, along with the new PNAS analysis, focused on a hominin lower mandible found on the Tibetan Plateau in Baishiya Karst Cave in Xiahe, China in 1980.
The PNAS study, which also included NYU anthropologist Susan Antón and Jean-Jacques Hublin, director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, centered on the molar, with the aim of understanding the relationship between archaic humans who occupied Asia more than 160,000 years ago and modern Asians.
“In Asia, there have long been claims for continuity between archaic and modern humans because of some shared traits,” observes Bailey. “But many of those traits are primitive or are not unique to Asians. However, the three-rooted lower molar trait is unique to Asian groups. Its presence in a 160,000-year-old archaic human in Asia strongly suggests the trait was transferred to H. sapiens in the region through interbreeding with archaic humans in Asia.”
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The World - The Characters - The Stories - Aeterno Elementum
Aeterno Elementum: A Fantasy Rock Opera
A brief scene by scene description of the events of Aeterno Elementum.
Father Castitas begins to relive his past through nightmare, just as he does every night. The demons of his fractured psyche come to torment him, but are driven back briefly by a mysterious protector, allowing him to walk through his memories without fear.
Stain the Dove
The dream begins in the Priest Emperor's temple at the Center of the Quintessence, where Castitas spent most of his life prior to the wars, serving as an adept under his mentor, Arch Bishop Hale. Here, his genuine desire to help mankind despite the ever growing darkness pervading it has caused him to fall into a dark despair. After Viddr Wolfsbane's assault on the temple where he seized the crown of the Priest Emperor for himself, Castitas cries out for divine assistance in desperation. His call is heard by an ancient being who has been awaiting this very moment for unknown millennia. A young Siris and his sister, Selene, witness their father being killed by Viddr and he swears vengeance.
Silence and Darkness
Castitas struggles to comes to terms with his new relationship with the Demoness, and finds no solace in his former devotions.
The Generals
Castitas' memories move forward to shortly after the wars where he is approached by the four immortal leaders of the Demoness' armies: Sanbou Koujin, the Fire Warrior from the Eastern lands of Hiyama, Edmond, the Embodiment of Water from Tyr'Mallor to the West, Soter Perdiccus, the Air Assassin from the Southlands of Haikhma Basileia, and Viddr Wolfsbane, the mighty General of Earth from Norrmark to the North. Weary of body and soul and having fulfilled their blood sworn pact, they ask Castitas to give them the absolution they cannot attain on their own and release them from their eternal bonds.
Lure of the Flames
The first of the generals, Sanbou Koujin, tells his tale to Castitas. A former Samurai of Hiyama, he abandoned his title and lands rather than continue to serve a corrupt Daimyo named Honda Sadaaki. He turned instead to the theater, where he fought back by staging political farces. After attending one of his performances, Honda's wife began a surreptitious affair with him, and before the actor had learned her true identity, the Daimyo discovered them in the theater where they lay in the throes of passion. Trapping his wife in the theater, he burned it to the ground. Outside, Honda presented the former samurai with one last chance to die with honor. In his final moments, the Demoness offers Sanbou the chance to unleash his fury on his enemies in exchange for his undying service.
Syren’s Embrace
The second general, Edmond Perrian, begins his tale. Edmond was a powerful Tyr'Mallorean noble of tremendous wealth. On a pilgrimage into the Quintessence he fell in love with Selene Van Sol, the sister of Siris, who had grown into a woman of incredible beauty. Disgusted by his overly amorous advances, Selene rejects him. Unable to believe there is a problem he cannot solve with money, Edmond seeks the aid of a dark magicks. So ensorcelled, the woman falls in love with him and bears his child. When payment for the sorcery is collected and the child disappears in the night, the resulting stress causes the charm spell to weaken and fade, leading Edmond to realize that he can never truly possess Selene. In his despair, the Demoness offers him to ability to control the minds and emotions of all men in exchange for his servitude, but still he knows that Selene will never truly love him as he loves her...
The third general, Soter Perdiccus, tells of his past. A former assassin of the Grey College in Haikhma Basileia, he was given a contract to assassinate the daughter of a wealthy landowner who refused to lend his resources to the defense against Viddr Wolfbane's incursions out of fear for his family's safety. Upon seeing the policitian's daughter, Perdiccus fell instantly in love and furtively seduced her. Together, they fled far from the lands of her father. Soon she bore his child, and the three of them lived in peace for many years, constantly on the move lest they be discovered by their enemies. Over time, their vigilance began to waver, until one night the past caught up to them…
The Star of Dawn
2,300 years in the past, the Priest Emperor is betrayed by his children and falls, signaling the end of the Golden Age of Pentar. Witnessing the fall of her beloved, the Demoness descends from the heavens and awaits his return...
Tenebrous Absolution
In recent times, The Priest attempts to find comfort in his religious ceremonies, but is disrupted by a disapproving Demoness.
The final general, Viddr Wolfsbane, speaks. After killing his father for weakness and uniting the tribes of Norrmark under his banner, Viddr set out with his brothers, Velox and Draevul , as well as a mighty host of Northmen warriors to retake the Priest Emperor's crown for himself and his people, leaving his wife, Dagny, to rule in his absence. They journeyed into the Quintessence, and stormed the Priest Emperor's temple, seizing the crown and allowing Viddr to name himself as ruler of Pentar. From there, they set out on a seven year campaign to subjugate the other three kingdoms. After an extended stalemate in the hostile deserts of Haikhma Basileia, Viddr was forced to turn his armies northward, back towards home. His enemies, however, had banded together, led by Siris Van Sol, whose father Viddr had killed seven long years ago during his assault on the temple. Viddr's armies were scattered, and the warlord himself was taken captive by Siris to be locked away deep under the Priest Emperor's temple for all time. Soon however, the Demoness came to him, showing him visions of his brother usurping his rightful place as ruler. She then offered Viddr the chance to retake what was rightfully his.
Shadows of Twilight
Viddr continues his tale. He returns home to find the visions have come true, and his brother Velox has claimed the Priest Emperor's crown as his own.
Tapestry of Fate
Again, Castitas returns to his rituals, and this time is able to find solace. The Demoness acknowledges that she cannot keep him from becoming who he truly is.
The Generals gather their armies and prepare to lead them against mankind.
The Coming Storm
The Generals address their armies prior to battle.
In a quiet moment before the armies march, Father Castitas anoints each of the Generals.
Siris Van Sol and his companions have fought long and hard against the forces of the Demoness, but nation by nation, city by city, mankind has fallen until there are none left to fight. In a rare moment of peace, the four companions sit around their campfire at night, morosely contemplating the end. An unlikely visitor brings hope in the form of a young child that Siris had never expected to see again.
With newfound purpose, Siris leads his companions and his niece to the Priest Emperor's temple where they barricade themselves and prepare to make a stand. As the armies of the Demoness approach, Siris hides the child in the dark passages below the temple, preparing to defend her with his very life.
“A Perfect world… A world without sin. In this I have succeeded. But only now do I realize my folly…”
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It’s a system, dammit, not a horse-race (review of Griffith Review 51)
‘It’s a system, dammit, not a horse-race’ (review of Griffith Review 51), Honest History, 2 February 2016
David Stephens reviews Griffith Review 51, ‘Fixing the system’, edited by Julianne Schultz and Anne Tiernan
Once upon a time gentlemen who made a living calling horse-races were notable for their taste in hats, either fedora or trilby, in nice felt, with a little feather on the side. Nowadays, with the fondness for calling politics as if it is a horse-race, one wonders if there is a row of such titfers hanging on the wall in every parliamentary press gallery. There would be a women’s version also, like the ones worn by trainer Gai Waterhouse.
Griffith Review 51 does not see our politics and governance as an extension of Flemington, Morphettville or Randwick. It implicitly starts from the proposition (Politics 101 recalled here) that in systems there are inputs, outputs and a box in the middle where things happen – or are supposed to. Then there are outcomes, feedback loops, and an environment. Systems in government generate, among other outputs, policies, which, in turn, have outcomes, that is, they affect people.
Without needing to categorise each article in GR 51 as being about particular bits of the generic system – it’s a crude model anyway – it is clear that the volume ranges widely and mostly fruitfully in the interest of fostering ‘a society that really works’. Some pieces are reruns of things the authors have said before but they will probably reach a bigger audience in this medium.
Julianne Schulz’s brisk introduction marks out the territory of the book, pointing out that ‘systems are human constructs, shaped to address complex problems and to enable us to shape our own destiny’. How is this shaping to be done? Schultz nails it while writing an epitaph for our manifestly inadequate former prime minister and his beknighted catchphrases, ‘captain’s pick’ or ‘captain’s call’, the latter recently chosen by the Macquarie Dictionary as the word of the year.
It [the catchphrase] demonstrated that he did not have sufficient mastery or respect for the processes of government – of rigorous, evidence-based policy-making tested by a robust exchange of views – or the essential skill of a politician to negotiate, compromise and find solutions that achieve the desired end while alienating as few as possible (emphasis added).
The best pieces in GR 51 are about fear, Indigenous Australia, and institutions and organising. First, fear. This reviewer saw fear as a theme in five of the articles. Carmen Lawrence’s book Fear and Politics (2006) was perceptive on how xenophobia has shaped Australian history and politics and her article in GR 51 carries on from there, describing how she encourages her students to ‘live with doubt’ – which sounds somewhat like coping with fear, all of us to confront our own history – where white fear of our First Peoples has been central – and her former colleagues in politics not ‘to be captive to the idea that to admit uncertainty is certain death’ – which covers the fear of being seen temporarily without policy clothing while not having the capacity (through ‘rigorous, evidence-based policy-making’) to remedy the situation.
Julian Burnside reprises part of his Hamer Oration from 2015, talking about the collapse of our values as we deal with fear of ‘the other’ by incarcerating asylum seekers, saying that
by our response to boat people since August 2001, we may have defined our national character … Just as a person’s character is judged by their conduct, so a country’s character is judged by its conduct. Australia is now judged overseas by its behaviour as cruel and selfish.
Julian Burnside (ABC)
Burnside sees hope for the future, however, in the reaction of Melburnians to the attempted sweep by police and Border Force officers in August 2015. ‘Despite the wilful cruelty of government policies, we are still the fundamentally decent country. Perhaps someone should tell our politicians.’
Klaus Neumann says we need to confront the fact that ‘for more than twenty years Australia’s response to asylum seekers has been deliberately cruel’. He notes also that the famous Howard mantra, ‘We decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come’, has been on government templates since at least the 1930s. Yet elected governments only trot out that sort of rhetoric, and the policies that go with it, if they know the policies resonate in the community.
From within non-elected government comes a judicious tour d’horizon by the new secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Martin Parkinson. It may seem strange to put this piece under the fear rubric but fear always seems to be somewhere lurking in analyses of our future in Asia, even if the word is not used explicitly: fear of what will happen to our economy after the mining boom, fear of what the Chinese might be up to in the South China Sea (but not of what they might do in the Port of Darwin), fear that the Americans might look the other way if ‘the balloon goes up’. The most prescient Parkinson paragraph, however, is this:
The critical point from all this is to acknowledge that most of the emerging and developing world does not share the West’s “world view”, and that changing economic weight makes it harder to ride roughshod over their objections to the West’s objectives or means of achieving them.
Now, that will provoke fear among some of us.
Finally, at the personal, private end of the fear spectrum is Lynn Garlick’s reminiscence of her experiences as a middle-class, professionally qualified victim of domestic violence. She was treated well neither by the system nor her violent husband. ‘I left the court with a Temporary Protection Order and a police frisk, only to find him waiting outside, pale and livid.’ Her story shows that violence does not only happen to working-class women tied to tattooed boofheads.
The outputs (and outcomes) of the Australian system have also been particularly deficient and destructive for Indigenous Australians. In GR 51 Megan Davis is critical of ‘faceless, unnamed drivers of my people’s destiny’ who have steered Australia into rejecting self-determination for its First Peoples, John Boulton argues that the poor health of Indigenous children in remote communities is due to a particular cast of mind in the system, Ann Arnold examines Indigenous incarceration rates, which contribute heavily to an overall increase in imprisonment, and Dawn Casey presents a personal and historical view of Indigenous struggles for equality and land rights.
To me, [Casey concludes] it seems that not just Indigenous peoples, but all Australians are suffering from the fraught practice of modern politics – the entrenched short-termism, the way party positions trump evidence, the sheer exhaustion of political language. Truly innovative changes are needed in Indigenous policy settings, but can our politics deliver this?
Max Weber (Famous Economists)
If the system is to do better for Indigenous Australians and all of us, there may be some practical hints in Chris Wallace’s examination of Max Weber’s famous article ‘Politics as a vocation’. Weber was into the taming of the soul, the forging of compromises, and the idea of politics as ‘a strong and slow boring of hard boards’. Wallace misses this last aphorism, one which just about says it all, really. (Patrick Weller puts it in similar fashion when he says the problems facing our governments ‘are pressing, complex and often diabolically hard’. Asylum seekers, one is moved to say.) Wallace does preserve a nice line from Michael Ignatieff, an academic who tried to wrest Canada’s government from Stephen Harper before Justin Trudeau made his successful assault. Ignatieff learnt the lesson that ‘successful democracies have to practise a politics of adversaries, not a politics of enemies – the difference being that an adversary wants to defeat you whereas an enemy wants to destroy you’.
One wonders what Weber – or, indeed, the outgunned Ignatieff – could have done with social media in 2016. Anne Coombs explores the role of this utensil in stirring the policy soup while Christopher Warren puts in a word for a reinvigorated union movement as a medium of influence using some more traditional methods, including those set out by Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals. (Elsewhere, Andrew Leigh MP has said in his book, Battlers and Billionaires, that unions have a role to play in reducing inequality.)
It is Tamson Pietsch’s contribution, however, that muses most effectively on the modern role of institutions, defined broadly to include the way we make effective use of stories, the way we use the digital world and the ways we overcome ‘[t]he alienating effects of life in a marketised society’. She tells us the type of institutions to look for, ones that link the past and the future, that bring people together, that have purposes transcending profit, that are feminist, committed to equality and to doing practical things to meet human needs.
There is lots more in this eclectic volume. Clare Wright’s piece is a version of a 2014 article about the role of women, particularly Vida Goldstein, in the Federation era development of Australia. Clare Wright is one of Honest History’s distinguished supporters and her article contains a pithy summary of one of the many ways of looking at Australia’s history. She describes this feminist suffrage banner from 1911.
‘Trust the women Mother as I have done’: women’s suffrage banner by Dora Meeson Coates, 1908 (ABC/Parliament House Art Collection/National Museum of Australia)
This feminised coming-of-age story, implicit in Australia’s critical role in the British suffrage campaigns, provides an alternative to the androcentric underpinnings of Gallipoli’s enduring “birth of a nation” mystique.
Yet it didn’t last.
Gallipoli also represented the heady, irrestible triumvirate of militarism, empire and race … Underpinned by the same imperialist subservience that ultimately fuelled the Anzac legend, with its heroically active men and patriotically domestic women, the transnational potential for feminists to take a leading role on the world stage was impaired. Australia’s relevance as a youthful ambassador for change diminished as its acquiescent ties to Mother England remained stubbornly tangled.
The collection also includes essays by editor Tiernan on how political professionals can become more useful (by making a bigger contribution to public policy), Pat Weller taking a long view of political crises, Vishaal Kishore and Peter Van Onselen and Wayne Errington musing on the nature of public policy and how it might be improved (govern rather than rule, the latter authors exhort our elected representatives) and Andrew Fowler on the depths to which journalism has sunk (though no mention of fedoras and feathers).
Then there are ‘memoirs’ – GR’s distinction between ‘essays’ and ‘memoirs’ still eludes me – by Kate Veitch on overcoming acquisitiveness, GJ Stroud on the rewards and frustrations of teaching to standards rather than needs and Lee Kofman on her uncertain existence as the holder of a bridging visa and the impecunious dependant of unprepossessing men. In this section also, Gabrielle Carey and Paul Ham have intriguing views on ‘being Australian’: Carey analyses our ambivalent attitudes to authority while Ham reckons we are but ‘a half-formed nation’. Rounding off the collection are a couple of slices of fiction by Laura Elvery and Murray Bail and a perceptive set of photographs by Sally McInerney on life in the asylum seekers’ prison camp in Nauru.
GR 51 provokes some more general thoughts. It shows we are not in Australia bereft of worthy thinking and writing on government and what should be its policy priorities. The mainstream media is no longer the place to find this material – though there are some notable exceptions like Nic Stuart in Fairfax and Lenore Taylor in Guardian Australia (Paul Kelly in The Australian not so much these days) – but non-MSM online publications like Australian Independent Media Network, Australian Policy Online, Independent Australia, Inside Story, New Matilda and Pearls and Irritations do their best. Some of this material is scrappy or self-indulgent but at its best it is very good. GR 51 adds to the stock.
Turning to one-off volleys, Laura Tingle’s recent Quarterly Essay made some good points about the state of our polity (though Paddy Gourley took Ms Tingle to task in Inside Story on some issues of fact and interpretation). Then there is Fairness, Opportunity and Security, the collection of essays edited by John Menadue (another one of Honest History’s distinguished supporters) and Michael Keating, which forensically examined most fields of public policy.
The Conversation is the place to go, though, if you are looking every day for academics who try to write clearly and helpfully on issues of current moment. Honest History, in its role as information-broker, finds itself linking more and more to pieces in The Conversation, both for their current relevance and as solid first drafts of history. It is good to see the growth and flourishing of a cadre of academics who are ready to contest in today’s marketplace of ideas rather than being content to finely hone their work over months for presentation to a few dozen colleagues in a peer-reviewed, pay-walled journal a year or more later. Such is the path of dinosaurs.
Gai Waterhouse and titfer (Fairfax)
For intelligent, well-written quarterly commentary, however, Griffith Review remains the gold standard, cohering around simple but robust themes, handsomely produced with a minimum of editorial clangers. The theme in GR 51 is not quite as strong as that in GR 48, which Honest History also reviewed, and a couple of the articles were in need of a good editorial scrub but, that having been said, ‘Fixing the system’ is well up to par and should be compulsory reading for ministers and representatives in our various parliaments. It should also be well-thumbed by political journalists, the men and women who have become too comfortable wearing those race-callers’ hats.
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Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County
Preserving, Creating, Facilitating
Special thanks go to Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, Columbus City Council and the Franklin County Commissioners for their ongoing support and funding of the Affordable Housing Trust.
Andrew J. Ginther, Mayor
Franklin County Commissioners
(Left to right) Marilyn Brown, Kevin L. Boyce and John O’Grady
Columbus City Council Members
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Bihar-mother state of Jharkhand-continues to be liquor causing untold miseries to booze lovers. They had turned cold after the state government led by Chief Minister Raghubar Das began selling liquor through its shops. Now, the Das government has taken a U-turn and decided to sell liquor in the market.
This was solely due to dip in revenue from liquor selling along with unfavorable inputs given by the Jharkhand State Beverages Corporation Limited (JSBCL).
www.jharkhandstatenews.com has learned that the Das government is going to adopt old practice existed for liquor trade in Jharkhand.
The Excise and Prohibition Department and the Corporation inform that the policy has taken a shift with in-principal agreement given by CM Das toward this end.
This means that the liquor sale would go to private hands positively from the next financial year.
“The matter came on several occasions before the Board of Directors the JSBCL for discussion. There was unanimity in the Board that this is not the job of the Government or the Corporation to directly sell the liquor in the State. Also, with time it was getting unmanageable since there was a third party involved with their own set of staffs. Keeping a constant tab on the sale and resultant issues coming in have become a burden,” said a top officer of the JSBCL.
It is learnt that after repeated opinions given supporting the departure from the existing mechanism the Chief Minister has also approved the proposal. “The CM has provided his in-principal agreement to the proposal to go back to the old system. It is with the Board of Revenue and after getting passed by the Department finally it would be placed before the Cabinet approval. Chances are that from the beginning of the financial year 2019-20 liquor sell would be handed over to private players through auctioning,” he elaborated.
The Managing Director of JSBCL Bhor Singh Yadav confirmed that ays are being explored to attain our goals. “It is true that decision has been taken to adopt the previous method of liquor sale in the State. We are deliberating upon whatever value added decisions can be taken so that the trade is managed in better ways and prohibition is attained,” he said.
In fact, the mismanaged system was causing revenue dent besides fueling the illegal trade. Nearly Rs 500-600 crore of loss has occurred. Though the sell is picking up this year in comparison to last year when the Government had decided to takeover but still lesser than what it was when private operators were in operation. It was found that it is becoming very difficult for the Corporation to manage the private manpower, who in many cases are reported to be indulged into black marketing of liquor.
Another factor is rooted in the fact that the JSBCL was unable to concentrate on conducting the sell as well as prohibition properly.
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Introducing our Addams Family Cast!
Owen Berry - Gomez Addams
Owen joined IODS Theatre Company 5 years ago playing the role of Ali Hakim in ‘Oklahoma’ (Ipswich Regent). Since then Owen has enjoyed being a member of the ensemble in ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ (New Wolsey), ensemble in ‘Sounds Familiar’ (St Peters by the Waterfront) & ‘Sounds like Christmas’ (St Peters by the Waterfront) where he very much enjoyed being a member of the production team!
Owen was also very proud to take on his first directing role with ‘My Fair Lady’ which played at the Ipswich Regent last year, but is now thrilled to be back on the stage as Gomez Addams.
Previous roles include:-
Fagin in ‘Oliver!’ With The Coop Juniors (New Wolsey)
Corny Collins in ‘Hairspray’ with The Gallery Players (New Wolsey)
Lumiere in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with The Coop Juniors (Ipswich Regent)
Charlotte Curtis - Morticia Addams
Morticia is a dream role for Charlotte: “The show has gorgeously dark humour and the ensemble numbers are fantastic fun but for me the best things will be the tango with my Gomez, Owen, and taking on Morticia’s iconic look!”
Charlotte joined IODS in 2014 and has played Mary in Sunset Boulevard, Gertie in Oklahoma!, and Glinda in The Wizard of Oz as well as being featured ensemble in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Renee) and My Fair Lady (Maid).
With other companies Charlotte has had roles as: Sarah in Guys & Dolls (WWAOS), Helen in The Vortex (Paper Lantern), Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall (Gallery Players), and Mrs Hurst in Far From The Madding Crowd (Gallery Players).
Shay Sharp-Ling &
Oliver Jenkins
as Pugsley Addams
Shay started performing 2 years ago when he joined Pauline Quirke Academy Ipswich. He also has singing lessons with Alex Johnson an Andrew Lloyd Webber Scholar, whilst training at Mountview. Theatre experience: Pauline Quirke Academy productions: The Lazy Ace in Shaftsbury Avenue, London- Ensemble, How the Grinch stole Christmas- Ensemble and Hairspray jr- Ensemble. CBM Theatre Productions: Bugsy Malone- Lt O’Dreary and Ensemble (Felixstowe Spa Pavilion), High School Musical- Mongo and Ensemble (Felixstowe Spa Pavilion) and What’s a Musical? - Billy Elliot (Electricity) and Ensemble.
‘This is my first IODS production and I am excited to play the role of Pugsley. I like playing comedy roles as I find they suit my cheeky personality. I have a real passion for singing and combining this with Pugsley’s characteristics is a real opportunity for me to share with everyone.’
Oliver attends PQA Ipswich, which he goes to every Saturday. He has performed Into The Woods, Hairspray, Grinchmas & various other showcase productions with them. He also got to perform in the West End and be part of the choir that sang with G4 on two of their tours last year!
He is a member of CBM Theatre & has performed Bugsy Malone & High School Musical at The Spa with them. He also enjoyed being in the Ensemble for The Wizard of Oz with IODS.
‘I am so happy & excited to have been chosen to play Pugsley, I cannot wait to start rehearsing & being on stage in June!!!’
Ryan Cope - Lurch
Ryan is thrilled to be playing the role of Lurch, making his theatrical debut with IODS Theatre Company. Ryan appeared in Mad Hatters production of ‘Big Fish’ at the Headgate Theatre in Colchester in March 2019.
Previous roles include Darryl in Witches of Eastwick during his second year at college.
Being tall already, Ryan will be the perfect stature for the looming figure of Lurch and he can’t wait to get practicing on stilts!
Tom Mayhew - Uncle Fester
Tom is really looking forward to performing with IODS Theatre Company again for The Addams Family after his appearance as Freddy in My Fair Lady last year.
Previous roles include:
Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (IODS Theatre Company - Ipswich Regent)
Link Larkin in Hairspray (Gallery Players - New Wolsey Theatre)
Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (Paper Lantern Theatre Company - Sir John Mills Theatre/Headgate Theatre Colchester)
Georg in Spring Awakening (Gallery Players - New Wolsey Theatre)
Rapunzels Prince in Into The Woods (Gallery Players - New Wolsey Theatre)
Emmo in Our House (Gallery Players - New Wolsey Theatre)
Robbie in A Man of No Importance (Gallery Players - Sir John Mills Theatre)
Rudge in History Boys (Gallery Players - Sir John Mills Theatre)
Danny in Jumpers for Goalposts (Gallery Players - Sir John Mills Theatre/Headgate Theatre Colchester)
Ensemble work includes Love Story (New Wolsey, Gallery Players), Follies (New Wolsey, Gallery Players), Oh What a Lovely War (Sir John Mills, Gallery Players).
Tom has also appeared in pantomimes for The Dennis Lowe Theatre Company at the Spa Pavilion, including the title role of Aladdin and Prince Charming in Cinderella.
Hannah Gingell - Wednesday Adams
Hannah grew up watching musical theatre and was finally brave enough to audition for a part in Legally Blonde at Spotlight Productions in Cambridgeshire when she was 17 years old. After thoroughly enjoying the experience of playing a Cheerleader in the production, Hannah auditioned for and secured the part of Sister Mary Roberts in Sister Act in 2018. Now 19 and having recently moved to Ipswich, she is extremely excited to be given the challenge of playing the crazily wonderful character of Wednesday.
Hannah feels very blessed to have found such a lovely and supportive group of people to work and perform with.
Serena, Legally Blonde the Musical (Spotlight Productions - Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre)
Sister Mary Roberts in Sister Act the Musical (Spotlight Productions - Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre)
Stephen Lawrence - Mal Beineke
Stephen studied Drama at Northgate Sixth Form under the guidance of Gloria Henshall (Ruthies mum). He has gone on to play many different parts since this time - Freddy (My Fair Lady); Joe (Some Like it Hot); King Arthur (Camelot); King of Siam (King and I); Mushnik & Dentist (Little Shop of Horrors); Reecey (Our House); Fagin (Oliver) and has played Dame for the Dennis Lowe Theatre company since 2015.
Stephen is thrilled to be playing the part of Mal as he gets to be part of the chaos that is the Addams Family whilst trying to keep a straight face.
This is the first time Stephen has performed with IODS and we are thrilled to have him!
Stephanie Brown - Alice Beineke
Steph is no stranger to the local theatre scene and has been treading the boards for many years.
Previous roles for IODS include Polly (Crazy For You), Lina Lamont (Singing In The Rain), the title role in Evita, Reno Sweeney (Anything Goes), Aunt Eller (Oklahoma!), Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard, winning NODA’s John White ‘Best Actor in a Musical’ award) and Muriel (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). Roles for other companies include Mrs Potts (Beauty and the Beast), the Witch and Jack’s Mother (Into the Woods), Sally (Follies), Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) and Mother Superior (Sister Act).
She is very excited to be adding Alice Beineke, the neglected housewife with a burning secret, to her long list of theatre credits and hopes you will come and support this fabulous show.
Sam Brown - Lucas Beineke
Sam is delighted to have recently been offered a place at the prestigious Arts Ed school of Musical Theatre in London.
Having previously played Slim in ‘Oklahoma’ and The Scarecrow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (both at the Ipswich Regent) Sam is very much looking forward to performing with IODS Theatre Company again. He also feels very lucky to be able to perform at The New Wolsey Theatre for the sixth time in an Open season production.He can’t wait to start rehearsing for this wierd and wonderful show.
Marius, ‘Les Misérables’ (The Childrens Theatre Company – The Corn Exchange), Chip Tolentino, ‘Spelling Bee’ (Gallery Players - Sir John Mills Theatre), Rum Tum Tugger, ‘Cats’ (The Childrens Theatre Company – The Apex), Eddie Birdlace, ‘Dogfight’ (Eastern Edge Theatre Company – St Peters Church), Link Larkin, ‘Hairspray’ (The Childrens Theatre Company - The Apex), Joseph, ‘Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat’ (The Childrens Theatre Company - The Apex) and many others!
Angela Rankin - Grandma Addams
Angela started dancing at 3 years of age and went on to train and teach all types of dance becoming a Licenciate of the ISTD.
She ran her own school in Colchester and also taught classes in the Tendring area alongside being a member of Clacton and Colchester Societies where she played various comedy roles including pantomime Principal Boys, Scarecrow, Ado Annie (Oklahoma) and Gladys (Pajama Game). She has also choreographed shows for Clacton and was Director’s Assistant at Colchester.
She joined IODS in 1996 and has great fun juggling her love of theatre plus 4 grandchildren. She is very excited to become Grandma again – to the Addams family!
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Gandhi And RSS
There are continuous attempts from RSS camp to show that Mahatma Gandhi looked up to RSS with respect. The latest in this direction is the piece by RSS joint General Secretary Shri Manmohan Vaidya. (The Mahatma and the Sangh, IE, 12 April 2019). Vaidya first tries to dissociate from Godse by stating that in the many discussions which he has attended on Gandhi within Sangh, Godse is not mentioned. Does that mean Godse had nothing to do with RSS? He was a Pracharak of RSS who later joined Hindu Mahasabha as its Secretary of Pune Branch. His brother Gopal Godse, Nathuram’s younger sibling and a co-conspirator in the assassination plot, disclosed in 1994 that his elder brother was anxious to protect the RSS , which had been "like a family to us". "[Nathuram] said in his statement that he left the RSS", Gopal continued. "He said it because... the RSS were in a lot of trouble after the murder of Gandhi. But he did not leave the RSS". Gopal denounced the "cowardice" of those disputing his brother's unbroken membership of the RSS. Corroborating Gopal's statement is the influential pro-RSS scholar Dr Koenrad Elst who, in his 2001 book Gandhi and Godse, wrote that "Nathuram contrived to create the impression that the RSS had little to do with him, simply to avoid creating more trouble for the RSS in the difficult post-assassination months."
Right in the beginning of the article Mr. Vaidya is forthright to point out his opposition to Gandhi, “…despite disagreeing with him and his surrender to the extremist and jihadi elements among Muslim community RSS had admired… (Gandhi)” This distortion of history is deliberate in keeping with Hindu nationalism espoused by Vaidya and his RSS. While from within Muslims there were Muslim Nationalists, whom Gandhi abhorred, he wooed over large section of Muslims to Indian Nationalism. To call the Muslims who participated in freedom movement under the leadership of Gandhi extremist or jihadi is not only a travesty of truth; it is more a revelation of RSS worldview where Muslim is seen as alien, foreigner, aggressor and terrorist. It is this root of RSS ideology which prompted Godse to put three bullets in the chest of Mahatma.
Vaidya does try to present as if RSS was part of freedom movement, by showing that RSS founder Dr. K. B. Hedgewar participated in 1921 non-cooperation and 1930 civil disobedience movement. On one side Hedgewar participated in Non-cooperation movement on the other he is critical of the impact of the same, ‘As a result of non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi, the enthusiasm in the country was cooling down and the evils of social life, which that movement generated, were menacingly raising their head. As per him, ‘it is due to this movement that Brahmin–non Brahmin conflict was nakedly on view’. (C.P.Bhishikar in Keshav Sangh Nirmata, Pune 1979, p 7) Surely these participations by the RSS founder were purely in personal capacity and RSS never participated in any anti British movement as an organization. In 1930, (RSS was formed in 1925) Hedgewar discouraged those who wanted to participate in anti-British Movement. And in 1942, his successor also forbade RSS volunteers to take part in 1942 Quit India movement. Golwalkar reminded the RSS that fighting against British is not a part of their agenda. This RSS ideologue clearly spells out that fighting against the British has not been part of their agenda, “We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of freedom of the country through defending religion and culture, there is no mention of departure of British from here.” (taken from Shri Guruji Samagra Darshan, vol. IV, page 40)
As far as Gandhi’s views on RSS are concerned there are some scattered observations, but these give an apt understanding of what he thought of about RSS. As far as Gandhi’s understandings about RSS is concerned there are authentic sources to tell us the real story. In Harijan on 9th August 1942, Gandhi writes, “I had heard of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its activities; and also know that it was a communal organization”, this was in response to the slogans and some speech against ‘other’ community, about which a complaint was made. In this Gandhi is referring to the drill of RSS volunteers, who shouted that this Nation belongs to Hindus alone and once the British leave we will subjugate the non-Hindus. In response to the rowdyism indulged by communal organizations he writes, “I hear many things about RSS. I have heard it said the Sangh is at the root of all this mischief.”(Gandhi, xcviii, 320-322)
Amongst the recorded opinions about Gandhi’s evaluation of RSS, the most authentic is the one of his secretary Pyarelal. Pyarelal narrates an event in the wake of 1946 riots. A member of Gandhi’s entourage had praised the efficiency, discipline, courage and capacity for hard work shown by RSS cadres at Wagah, a major transit camp for Punjab refugees. Gandhi quipped back, ‘but don’t forget, even so had Hitler’s Nazis and Fascists under Mussolini’ Gandhi characterized RSS as a communal body with a totalitarian outlook’ (Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, Ahmadabad, page 440)
After independence, in the context of Delhi violence (Rajmohan Gandhi, Mohandas, page 642), Gandhi confronted the RSS chief Golwalkar, with reports of the RSS hand in Delhi violence, Denying the allegations Golwalkar also said that RSS did not stand for killing the Muslims. Gandhi asked him to say so publically. Golwalkar said Gandhi could quote him on this. Gandhi did this in his prayer talk that evening, but he told Golwalkar that statement ought to come from him. Later he told Nehru that he did not find Golwalkar convincing.’
So today when point is being made about choice between Gandhi and Godse, what is being pleaded is that the choice is between inclusive Indian nationalism of Gandhi and exclusive Hindu nationalism being propounded by RSS progeny BJP. Godse is synonym of Hindu nationalism, the agenda of RSS Combine!
(Published on 29th April 2019, Volume XXXI, Issue 17 & 18)
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Calgary’s DECIMATE METALFEST Announces First Round of Bands For 2018 Line-Up
Posted on January 4, 2018 AuthorEvanLeave a comment
Calgary, Alberta – Distortion – Live Music Venue – June 7-9, 2018
Gearing up for their first annual year of brutality, DECIMATE METALFEST announces Chaos Being, Accostal, Hazzerd, Widow’s Peak, From The Wolves and Hammerdrone as the first batch of local bands to be added to the 2018 line up for the three night festival descending on Calgary, AB from June 7th – 9th at Distortion Live Venue.
DMF organizer Sloan Voxx comments:
“There is so much incredible talent in our city and we are very fortunate to have the pleasure of working with so many of them. We feel that the locals we have included on the first annual DECIMATE METALFEST are a wonderful asset to our fest and will round this bill out perfectly!”
Weekend Passes available at the following link (single tickets to be sold at a later date): https://www.showpass.com/decimate-metalfest-2018/
Website: https://decimatemf.wixsite.com/decimateme
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/decimatemf/
Events Page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/decimatemf/events
E-Mail: decimatemf [AT] gmail.com
Instagram: DecimateMetalfest
Twitter: @decimatemf
Details on performing bands:
ChaosBeing
These boys are full metal jacketed. With grinding riffs, twice as hard as a coffin nail, and an “all in it together” stage presence, you’re bound to bang your head along with their powerful metal grooves! Calgary-based, they’ve lit the scene up for years, and still got gas in the tank.
ChaosBeing was unleashed onstage May 2016 and came crashing forward with technical riffs, aggressive drums, melodic harmonies and wicked hooks. Immediately, they established themselves as a force to reckon with in the community of original metal bands from Calgary, Canada.
ChaosBeing’s sound is best described as new age technical metal mixed with classic thrash. It is a well-orchestrated blend of melody and monstrosity. ChaosBeing are down to earth guys who are looking to branch out and be heard. They love to play and support the other amazing musicians in the local community!
The next part of ChaosBeing’s journey will consist of producing some videos, writing new material and releasing a full length CD.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChaosBeing666/
Website: www.chaosbeing.com
Accostal
Accostal is a blend of old school thrash riffs, pounding fast bass, drums and exciting vocal styles coupled with harmonies that are sure to get your fists in the air.
In early 2016, Accostal found their final line up, playing their first show rather quickly. Accostal came out in the summer of 2016 playing along with Brazilan superstars Hibria and opening Calgary Metal Fest, which brought Canada’s big 4 thrash bands to Calgary.
Accostal’s sound has evolved to a mix of melodic hooks and fast harmonies, high vocal range, with a mix of screams and growls. Each member brings his own preferred style of metal ranging from old school traditional and thrash to metalcore, and what you get in the end is something we are proud of and are constantly overwhelmed by the support of the metal community!
Accostal is truly excited to be added to the Decimate Metal Festival line up!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AccostalMetal/
Bandcamp: https://accostal.bandcamp.com/album/accostal
Hazzerd
Hazzerd was formed by Drummer/Vocalist Dylan W. and Guitarist Brendan M. in August of 2012 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The two musicians jammed together a few times before realizing they had something good going. They agreed to join up and form an 80’s styled thrash metal band closely following the roots of thrash legends such as Megadeth, Anthrax, Overkill, and Metallica.
In June 2014, Hazzerd entered the studio to record what was to become their first EP (With Brendan recording the Bass) “Victimize The Innocent” a concept of the innocent people in today’s society being the victim no matter what the cause, Religious warfare, a deal made with the wrong character, all-out nuclear war, and the fantasies of a sick serial killer.
In March 2015, Hazzerd recruited their youngest member Toryin Schadlich at 18 years old he fit the lead position just right.
After months of searching and failing, they finally found a longtime friend and bassist Aaron Mckay who joined in August 2015.
In October 2016, Hazzerd entered the studio to begin work on their 2017 debut album “Misleading Evil.
In January 2017, Hazzerd parted ways with Aaron M. and was replaced by David S.
The debut album “Misleading Evil” released worldwide via World War Now Records on September 22, 2017 gaining the title of “One of the best thrash albums since the late 1980’s”
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HazzerdThrash/
Bandcamp: https://hazzerdthrash.bandcamp.com/merch
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheParanormal4
April of 2016, Widow’s Peak came spewing forth a unique and ferocious assault of death metal delivered through dynamic and unrelenting drumming, dissonant and technical riffs, crushing layers of vocals and blistering solos. Delivered with an undeniably contagious level of intensity, Widow’s Peak demands absolute mayhem in response. This unstoppable assemblage revels in depravity and the obscene. Not for the faint of heart.
In the span of a year, WP has toured Alberta extensively ensuring no stone was left unturned in the local metal communities. Opening for bands such as Archspire & Reaping Asmodeia on their Relentless Mutation tour along with numerous local and smaller touring acts. Not to mention a crushing EP soon to be released in early 2018.
“We are ruthlessly driven and passionate about our music and are driven by an insatiable hunger to succeed. Our unique approach to music and business in general is forged through a persistent work ethic, no small measure of risk taking and a genuine “be yourself” attitude dedicated to becoming an unstoppable war machine. We pride ourselves on delivering an intense and fresh take on death metal that has been turning heads in our direction since day one.” – Widow’s Peak
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/widowspeakdm/
Bandcamp: https://wpdm.bandcamp.com/releases
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widowspeakdm/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WidowspeakDM?lang=en
From The Wolves
Calgary reformed From The Wolves brings you hard hitting deathcore with heavy hardcore influences.
While releasing their newest track ‘Necrotic Bloom’, From The Wolves have demonstrated the raw power that they are capable of creating.
Despite only having one track recorded at the moment, their live shows pack a horrific punch that will leave you bruised and wanting more.
Some say From The Wolves is slam, but call it whatever you like; if you do not want to get hit, run the hell away!
Facebook: Facebook.com/fromthewolvesband
Instagram: @fromthewolves
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FzSunE40TIg
Bandcamp: fromthewolvesband.bandcamp.com
Hammerdrone
Hammerdrone is a melodic death metal band from Calgary, AB, Canada.
Their music mixes up intense aggression, dark atmosphere and elegant melodies to deliver songs that are both epic and catchy.
Hammerdrone have been compared to the likes of Amon Amarth, early Soilwork, Behemoth and Rotting Christ.
No clean singing, no symphonics.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hammerdronemetal/
Website: https://www.hammerdronemetal.com/
Music: https://hammerdrone.bandcamp.com
(Credit: Band bios written by Sloan Voxx)
Decimate MetalFest is the brainchild of Sloan Voxx of Voxx Promotions, which is destined to become an annual Canadian metal pilgrimage to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. With the many yearly festivals becoming part of the national metal heritage, Sloan wants Decimate MetalFest to become one of the best-known events alongside the various festivals located within Alberta, and Western Canada. With Voxx Promos booking and promotional experience, and the support of metalheads internationally, there is nothing to stop them from reaching their goal of bringing in the masses and putting on incredible metal festivals for years to come!” (writing credit – Ingrid Newton)
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Learning & Memorising Ritual
Web-master's note:
Our ritual work is the life's-blood of Freemasonry. It is what sets us apart from every other fraternal and charitable society in existence. In this essay Wor. Bro. Waks reveals what every actor learns and what every lodge officer should know. There is almost nothing I could add to this excellent explanation of how to learn ritual.
If you give this an honest try, and are careful not to skip to the next step before mastering the previous ones, you will be a skilled ritualist. You will enjoy doing the ritual work, and most importantly, your candidates will be moved and will learn something of the heart of Freemasonry from your presentations.
Feel free to print out this article to share with your lodge officers. An Adobe PDF version of this article.
Learning & Memorizing Ritual
by Wor. Mark Waks
This article originally appeared -- in a different format in Masonry Universal..., issue 26
Ritualist's Corner
One of the problems that most often plagues Masonry is poor ritual. By this, I don't just mean getting the words wrong -- I mean ritual that is drab and uninspiring, which fails to actually *teach* a candidate. Ritual is often mediocre, and it doesn't have to be; anyone can do ritual well, provided he knows a little about acting.
It isn't hard, actually; it's mostly a matter of knowing how to do it, plus a lot of practice. This article is intended to impart some guidelines on how to do Good Ritual. It doesn't demand a lot of time, or any particular talent, just a little drive to do well. Read it and play with it. With some practice, you should be able to use these techniques to good effect in your Lodge. The course is specifically aimed at dealing with the longer speeches, but much of it is also relevant to shorter pieces; I commend it to junior officers.
This is adapted from a lecture that I worked up for my own lodge; having done that, I figured I should try to spread these tips around for the common weal of the Craft. (Caveat: I do assume that you have some kind of cypher book, with encoded ritual. If your jurisdiction doesn't use this, you'll have to adapt these lessons.)
1: Figure out the Words
The first step of learning any ritual is to know what you're saying! This should be obvious, but is often overlooked, because brethren are afraid to admit that they don't already know the right words. Don't be afraid to admit your own limits -- I've never met *anyone* who gets every single word right every time.
Start out by listening to someone say the speech, preferably several times. (You should be doing this the entire previous year, listening to your predecessor.) Listen carefully, and make sure you understand what's being said; ask questions if you don't. (After Lodge, of course.)
Next, go through your cypher or code book carefully, and see how much you can read. Mark words that you can't figure out, or that you're unsure of -- this is the point to catch any mistakes you may be making. Then call or get together with a Ritualist or a reliable Past Master, and talk through it, reading out of the book slowly. Have him correct any mistakes, and fill in the words you don't know. Take notes (preferably somewhere other than in the book), because you will forget the corrections as soon as you're on your own.
2: Understand the Speech
This step gets overlooked even more often than the previous one. Read through the ritual a couple of times, and make sure you really grasp it. Don't just know the words -- know what it's talking about. Find out who the characters being talked about are. Again, ask questions.
Now, start trying to understand the speech structurally. Any ritual is made up of components, separate pieces that are linked together. For example, a section may be talking about symbols, with three paragraphs per symbol: concrete meaning, abstract meaning, and purpose. Figure out what these pieces are -- you'll use them later.
The next step is especially useful for long speeches -- visualize the speech. Any speech can be thought of in terms of movements, places, rooms, stuff like that. Words are hard to remember in order; places are easy. The canonical example is the Middle Chamber Lecture, which walks through King Solomon's Temple. That's no accident -- that path is easily visualized, and makes a good example of how to learn ritual, which is probably why it is the first major speech an officer learns. This is why we use symbols in the first place: because they are easy to learn and internalize. Use them.
3a: Small-Scale Memorization
This is never anyone's favorite part; anyone can do it, but no-one finds it simple. It's considerably easier if you do it right, though.
Start out by reading the speech over and over. Don't move on to the next step until you can read it from the cypher quickly, without breaks or hesitation. Read it *out loud*, when you get the chance. This step is particularly important, and skipped more often than any other. Don't skip it -- this is how you get your brain and mouth trained to the words. It may sound silly, but it really matters -- the mental pathways used to talk are distinct from those used to read.
Now, start trying to learn sentences. Just sentences. Read the first word or two of the sentence, then try to fill in the remainder from memory. Don't fret if you can't do it immediately; it will probably take at least 5 or 10 times through before you're getting most of the sentences. You'll find some that are hard -- hammer those ones over and over (but don't totally neglect the rest while you do so). Again, get to the point where you're doing reasonably well on this, before going on to the next step.
3b: Large-Scale Memorization
Once you've got most of the sentences, try to move on to paragraphs. Again, some will be easy and some hard. Try to understand exactly why this sentence follows that one -- in most cases, the ritual does make sense. An individual paragraph is almost always trying to express a single coherent thought, in pieces; figure out what that thought is, and why all the pieces are necessary. Keep at this until you're able to get most paragraphs by glancing at the first word or two, or by thinking, "Okay, this is the description of truth," or something like that.
Finally, start putting it all together. This is where the structural analysis in Step 2 gets important. You visualized the speech, and figured out how it hooks together; use that visualization to connect the paragraphs. Make sure you have some clue why each paragraph follows the one before. In almost every case, the next paragraph is either a) continuing this thought, or b) moving on to a related thought. In both cases, you can make memorization much easier by understanding why it flows like that. Convince yourself that this paragraph obviously has to follow that one, and you'll never forget the order.
4: Smoothing It Out
You're now at the point where you've got pretty much all the sentences down, and most of the paragraphs, and you're able to get through the whole thing only looking at the book a few times. Now, start *saying* it.
When you're driving in the car; when you're alone at home; pretty much any time you have some privacy, try saying it all out loud, at full voice. Trust me, it sounds very different when you actually say it aloud. You'll find that you stumble more, and in different places. Some words turn out to be more difficult to pronounce than you expected. Try it a few times.
Start out by trying to do this frequently -- once, even twice every day. It'll be hard at first (and it's a real pain to pull out the cypher book while you're driving), but it'll gradually get easier. When you're starting to feel comfortable, slow down, but don't stop. Practice it every couple of days, then every week. Don't slow down below once a week. If you feel up to it, see if you can speed up your recitation. (But do not ever speed-talk the ritual in open Lodge -- that's for memorization and rehearsal only.)
5a: Mindset
Last part. You're now at the point where you pretty much have the ritual memorized. Now, the trick is learning how to perform it well. Very nearly everyone has some amount of stage fright; us acting types often have it even worse than most. The trick to overcoming it is control of the nerves.
Now that you're comfortable reciting the ritual, observe how you do it. By now, you're not thinking about it so much; your mouth is doing almost all the work, with the conscious mind simply making a few connections between paragraphs. That is the right state to be in. Think about how that feels, and learn it.
Before you go in to "perform", do some basic acting exercises. Take a few deep breaths; concentrate on not thinking. I think the ideal is a little light meditation, but it takes a fair bit of practice to be able to drop into that state on demand; for now, just worry about being calm. Being calm is far more important than anything else. If you're calm, you're unlikely to screw up too badly; if you're tense, you're far more likely to. Some people like to exercise the body a bit, to relax the mind; you should do what works for you.
5b: Acting
Now the final nuance, which separates merely competent ritual from the really good stuff. Now that you're able to let your mouth do all the talking, start listening to yourself. Think about the ritual again, but don't think about the words, think about what it means. What are the important bits? Emphasize those. How could you use your body or hands to illustrate a point? Try talking *to* the person in front of you, not just *at* them -- look them in the eye and make them get the point. You are teaching important lessons here; try to capture a little of the emotional intensity of that importance.
Think of your "performance" as a melding of two parts. Your mouth is providing the words, your mind and heart the emotion. Again, nothing beats practice. This is what rehearsal should really be for -- taking a dummy candidate in hand, and learning how to really get the point across. Don't fret if you find that you need to change "modes" now and then -- here and there you will need to think about the words briefly, when you change paragraphs or hit a hard sentence. That won't throw you, though, so long as you keep track of what you're saying; you've already figured out why each part leads into the next, and that will guide you when you stumble.
Don't expect to get all this down instantly; it takes most people a few years to really get good at it. Just try to advance yourself bit by bit. Learn the transitions and pieces first -- if you have that, you can get through the ritual. Next time, work on memorizing more thoroughly. The time after that, work on getting it really smooth. After a while, you can build up to the point where you have the luxury to act. And at that point, you will find that you start doing the kind of ritual that Masonry is meant to have -- both moving and interesting, enough so that the candidate (who is, remember, the whole point) actually *learns* what you're saying, and what it actually means. And if you really do it well, you'll find that you come to understand the meaning of the ritual a good deal better yourself...
Wor. Mark Waks
Master, Hammatt Ocean Lodge - Saugus, MA
Mostly known on the Net as Justin du Coeur
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Economic recovery for whom?
A story in today's Blade speaks volumes. Talking at a meeting ofsmall business leaders at the University of Toledo, U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said Friday:
"Manufacturing is recovering, "but more slowly, unlike services.
But later, Snow admitted something very revealing:
"Asked when he thinks manufacturers will start hiring again, Mr. Snow said companies in general have had record profits and high cash flow for some time, focusing on productivity gains, not expansion." [emphasis added]
So, manufacturing has actually already recovered in the Midwest, for everyone, that is, except workers.
ACT has act together with absentee ballots
Absentee ballot levels in Akron and other areas are surging ahead of 2000 levels. According to a story in today's Beacon Journal:
"The number of requests already has exceeded the 18,900 [Summit] county residents who voted absentee in the 2000 presidential election -- and voters have until Oct. 30 to ask for the ballots.
'We expect to be up around 30,000, easily. It could be even higher than that,' said Bryan Williams, director of the Summit County Board of Elections.
[Cuyahoga County Board of Elections director Michael] Vu said he expects absentee ballot requests in Cuyahoga to exceed 100,000 this year. His office already has begun mailing the more than 66,000 absentee ballots that voters there have so far requested.
In Stark County, the elections board already has sent out 11,973 absentee ballots, compared to the 9,443 staff put in the mail in 2000, said Jeff Matthews, elections director."
Apparently much of the credit goes to ACT.
"Vu said tracking of absentee ballot applications in his county shows that 18,702 came from America Coming Together, while 7,041 were provided by the Republican Party"
The article also credits ACORN, MoveOn.org and Bring Ohio Back for increasing absentee requests.
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Plain Dealer: Zogby predicts Kerry win
I don't know if this is old news or not, but this is the first time I have seen Zogby mentioned in this regard in today's Plain Dealer:
"Pollster John Zogby thinks John Kerry will probably edge past President Bush in the race for the White House.
[ . . .]
"The race is John Kerry's to lose," Zogby said. After meandering for a few weeks, the Democrat seems to be sharpening his focus. Besides, undecided voters traditionally swing 2-to-1 for the challengers and already rate Bush poorly.
It may hinge on turnout. If as few as the 105 million votes of 2000 are cast, Zogby expects a Republican win. But he predicts 115 million to 120 million votes, with a Demo cratic plurality."
Bush debate performance like a lead balloon in Ohio
It's not the only issue, but jobs and the economy is still the main issue in Ohio. More than security and terrorism.
Working class, middle class Ohioans aren't happy about their economic security to begin with. So, on a day that its announced that only 96,000 news jobs have been created nationally, my sense is that many, many fellow Ohioans were especially listening to that part of the debate.
Strictly from an Ohio perspective, I wish Kerry had hit Bush harder. Frankly, I wish he had looked into the camera and ask Bush to explain to Ohioans how the latest BLS report shows anything but a failure of his economic and tax policies.
But, Kerry did hit Bush on the economy and - again from an Ohioan's perspective - there was absolutely nothing in Bush's response to offer hope to Ohioans. Zero. Zip. Nada.
It's no accident that the BC04 folks having been ramping up the 'guns-n-abortion' campaign in southern Ohio, but that is a losing strategy. That only gains them, at best, the same votes they had in 2000. They have to make new inroads to counter the growth in anti-Bush turnout and the job-security voters, but there is no real way to do this.
In Ohio, the debate was a slamdunk loss for Bush and there is no doubt that the polls will continue to show Kerry expanding his margin in the state.
Sinclair to prempt Nov. 1 programs to air anti-Kerry: Time to call WSYX advertisers
I think this is a huge opportunity for Kerry folks and an utter blunder by Sinclair. From the LA Times:
"The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
Sinclair has told its stations — many of them in political swing states such as Ohio and Florida — to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," sources said. The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POWs accusing Kerry — a decorated Navy veteran turned war protester — of worsening their ordeal by prolonging the war. Sinclair will preempt regular prime-time programming from the networks to show the film, which may be classified as news programming, according to TV executives familiar with the plan.
Station and network sources said they have been told the Sinclair stations — which include affiliates of Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, as well as WB and UPN — will be preempting regular programming for one hour between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24, depending on the city. The airing of "Stolen Honor" will be followed by a panel discussion, which Kerry will be asked to join, thus potentially satisfying fairness regulations, the sources"
Sinclair's holding in Ohio include 5 TV stations:
WSYX/WTTE
1261 Dublin Rd.
http://www.wsyx6.com/
News Fax: 614-481-6624
Community Affairs Fax: 614-481-6804
5177 Fishwick Drive
(513)641-4400x111
Jeff Fosco
WKEF & WRGT
1731 Soldiers Home Road
(937)263-2662x1911
Glenda Hoagland
Besides some public statements (labor folks, Ohio Dems, ACT, etc. - you hear me?) about this, it's time for some calls to advertisers. I will post a list with contacts.
In the meantime, it looks like a few others have had a problem with WSYX. See this.
Toledo greets you, Mr. President
This from the ACT.org
From Act:
"On President Bush's recent visit ACT Ohio greeted him with a giant "Outsource Bush" sign in a field next to the Toledo airport."
AP/Ipsos shows Kerry with lead nationally
This poll of likely voters indicates:
Kerry-Edwards - 50%
Bush-Cheney - 46%
Strength and resilience? Buck up Ohio
Good news Ohioans! Labor Secretary Elaine Chao responded to the pathetic growth of jobs with this:
"the strength and resilience of our economy and that the labor market continues to improve."
The "Up is downism" is out of control.
UPDATE: By the way, Chao was suggesting that the hurricanes had something to do with the numbers. But, according to her department's own report:
For weather conditions to reduce the estimate of payroll employment, people have to be off work for an entire pay period and not be paid for the time missed. While some employed persons were off payrolls during the survey reference period because of the hurricane effects some jobs were added as part of recovery efforts. . .
At the ment growth, but not enough to change materially the Bureau's assessment of the employment situation in September.
Also, the "Household Survey" that Bush-Cheney folks occassionally like to use as a defense when the numbers are convenient shows a loss of 200,000 jobs.
Ohio Congressman shows how to be straight with the American people
Tim Ryan represents parts of Summit, Mahoning, Trumbull and Portgage counties in Congress, and a new video of his ripping the Bush administration is burning up the internet. Thanks, at least in part to Kos, the video is now available in PC and Mac compatible formats. Link to the right version off that site.
Uh, you know that robust jobs report that was expected?
It didn't happen. Shocked? Instead of the 150,000+ net new jobs that had been predicted - which would have even been very modest by any measure except the White House's - the numbers show only 96,000 new jobs.
That's well below expectations. That's only 96,000 new jobs nationwide! It's been a bad, bad week for Bush, and I think it's going to get worse in the debate tonight.
Akron police now investigating Issue 1, Nader petitions
Hypothetically Speaking has been urging that reporters and prosecutors take some time to dig into the firms and payments behind a huge number of forged signatures on petitions for Issue 1 and Nader. Earlier stories detailed fraud found in several counties and the opinion of a Sect. of State hearing office who recommended that a criminal investigation be pursued.
Today's Beacon Journal reports that the Summit Co. sheriff's office and begun an investigation and has asked for assistance from the Akron police department.
"Akron police said Thursday that their department has assigned two lieutenants to join the effort, although they weren't sure which election matters they would pursue. Sheriff's investigators are looking at forged signatures on voter registration cards and anti-gay marriage petitions"
The sheriff got involved in the marriage petition probe Tuesday after the Board of Elections referred about two dozen signatures that appeared to be forged. The sheriff already was looking into scores of allegedly fraudulent voter registration cards that were sent to Akron from collection points in Cuyahoga County.
The names that keep coming up are two petition circulating companies, JSM and Arno,
and Citizens for Community Values, one of the groups that initiated Issue 1.
We now know that CCV hired Arno, and Arno hired JSM. A good prosecutor's office should know how to work their way up that chain.
New Wall St. Journal/Zogby continues to show upward trend for Kerry in OH
Updating the recent Zogby poll, the Oct. 6 WSJ/Zogby now shows Kerry with very slight marging over Bush among Ohio voters:
Kerry - 49.1
Bush - 48.8
Nader - .4
MoE - 2.3%
Solution to provisional ballot dilemma probably not in HAVA
Not being an attorney, I am on somewhat shaky grounds interpreting HAVA. Many pro-Kerry forces (including myself) have been hoping that the federal court would rule that because of HAVA, Sect. of State Ken Blackwell cannot enforce his directive to block the use of provisional ballots when a voter shows up at the wrong precinct.
The OSU Moritz School of Law's Election Law website has posted an extend analysis of how HAVA may affect the ruling and their conclusion isn't promising.
In brief, writer Edward Foley acknowledges that "both sides have plausible arguments." A point of conflict is over what the term "jurisdiction" means in HAVA. Does it refer to something larger like a county, or something on a much smaller scale such as a precinct.
However Foley says a look at the legislative history of the bill sheds some light. The House version of the bill would have explicitly permitted provisional ballots to be offered under certain circumstances to voters at the wrong precinct. While the House was concerned about creating more opportunities for fraud, it was concerned about the following situation:
“Voters may appear at the wrong precinct because they did not receive, or received but did not heed, a notice that their polling place had moved.”
Unfortunately, when the Senate considered the bill, the Republicans led an effort to delete this provision. In conference committee, the Senate version - at least in this area - seems to have prevailed.
Not all legislators apparently agree on this point. One in particular is/was Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones. According to Foley, Tubbs Jones:
". . . referred to the experience of voters in the state’s 11th congressional district during the 2000 election. 'Because of a 1996 State law cutting Cleveland precincts by a quarter, their polling places had been changed.' Although the local board of elections purportedly notified residents of this change, many voters said they never received the notice. They showed up at their usual polling places expecting to cast a ballot without difficulty. Instead, they were turned away without even the opportunity to cast a provisional ballot. Rep. Jones argued that these voters “should have been given provisional ballots, to be certified later,” and she urged HAVA’s enactment on the premise that it would guarantee the availability of a provisional ballot in this situation."
Nevertheless, Foley indicates that the legislative history probably favors Blackwell.
Foley warns, however, of the dilemma a voter could face if the voter "gambles wrong" about what his or her precinct is:
"Of course, it is conceivable that a voter could get bounced around from one polling place to another, where at each one the pollworkers think the voter is in the wrong place. In this circumstance, the voter has no idea what to do in order to protect against the risk that his or her vote ultimately will be discarded under state law. If the voter guesses incorrectly, the voter loses. One might think that going to the polls should not be a gamble about whether one’s vote will be counted. But it seems as if, under the system of provisional voting adopted as a result of the bargain struck as a result of Senator Bond’s leverage over the process, a voter has no fail-safe way to cast a provisional ballot if there is genuine uncertainty among all concerned about where a particular voter should vote."
ARG LV poll confirms up trend for Kerry in Ohio
The American Research Group's new poll conducted Oct. 4-6 of 600 Likely Voters has the race as a dead heat. But like the other recent polls, ARG also shows Kerry on an upward trend since ARG's last poll. The results are as follows:
Kerry - 48%
Bush - 47%
Nader - 1%
Undecided - 4%
MoE - 4%
Without Nader:
This compares favorably to ARG's last OH poll, Sept. 20, that showed
Black recruits decline
The Wall Street Journal (sorry - pay site) has a story today that indicates that the number of African American recruits in both regular Army and reserves has fallen dramatically over the last four years. The numbers are down 21% since fiscal 2002 for the Army and 27% for the Army reserve.
In what Josh Marshall would probably call a classic case of "Up is downism" the WSJ writes that the
"Army says the drop in black recruits as part of the overall force is a positive sign, since it wants to build an organization that roughly matches the demographic makeup of the nation."
Oh, that bag of shit? Yes, of course we always designed it to smell bad. . .
AP: Kerry takes lead with LVs, tied with RVs
In my opinion, we are moving into the phase where Likely Voter polling is starting to be more accurate than Registered Voters. There is not exact science here. We are dealing with a continuum where at one end, far from election day, Registered Voter polls are more accurate and on the other end, at or near election day, Likely Voter polling is more accurate.
Where we are on that continuum is guesswork that, in my experience, depends on how far from election day we are, how many undecided voters there are, and what the likelyhood is of a major event that could cause another swing among votes (like the first debate). So, given that we still have two debates to go and some opportunities for other surprises (bad jobs numbers, bin Laden capture, etc.) but less than four weeks away from the election, I think that both the RV and LV results have to be discounted somewhat.
Having said that, the new AP poll confirms the upward arc of Kerry support with a lead outside the Margin of Error. The hust completed poll was conducted Oct. 4-6 of 944 Likely Voters:
This same poll put the candidates at 47-47 among Registered Voters. Either way, the trend is great news, especially when coupled with the Survey USA and Zogby results for Ohio.
Take a look at Jeff Seeman (Akron Congressional candidate)
From today's Beacon Journal:
"Seemann sees [incumbent Ralph] Regula's recent tenure as a rare opportunity to go after the incumbent.
"'For the longest time he was untouchable,'' Seemann said of Regula. 'He was a moderate Republican who did everything for his people, then he took a hard shift to the right.'"
"Since Regula's run for the appropriations chairmanship, ``he's stopped caring as much about the people of the 16th District,'' Seemann said. ``Right now he's more concerned about pleasing (House Majority Leader) Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and President Bush. He's more involved in raising money for other Republicans than he is in saving jobs at the Timken plant.''
"Seemann began his political career volunteering for Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992. He also worked for Howard Dean, and has won Dean's endorsement for the office in Ohio.
"As a candidate against Regula, Seemann virtually was invisible until he gained wireless celebrity by standing up for the First Amendment right of an Internet blogger who made a tasteless remark about dead American contractors in Fallujah."
"Practically overnight, Seemann was nationally known to progressive politicians and tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions richer."
"'I didn't agree with what was said, but I was tired of watching people turn good Democrats against each other,' Seemann said.'"
"'We sat back, and got eight years of Clinton investigations. We sat back and we lost (U.S. Senator) Max Cleland.'"
"'We brought lawyers to a knife fight,' Seeman said. 'It has to stop.'"
"If elected, Seemann said, he would work to see that companies who outsource to other countries or who threaten to close down plants in the United States would not get tax breaks. He opposes any privatization of Social Security and supports the repeal of federal tax cuts."
"'Congressman Regula has had power for a long time and things are not getting better at Hoover and Timken,' Seemann said."
"'It's time for a fresh perspective from someone with new ideas. Every floor vote I will make will be for the people of the 16th District,' he said. 'Just throwing money at the district is no longer effective.'"
"Regula has rejected an offer to debate, but said he has agreed to joint appearances with Seemann arranged by the League of Women Voters after the House session ends."
"Seemann thinks the attention his campaign has received is wearing on the incumbent. 'Ralph came back from the Republican Convention a day and a half early to go to the Stark County Fair,'' Seeman said. 'That shows me that getting our message out is making him feel pressure.'"
"Seeman said he fully expects to be the next congressman from the 16th District, but if he isn't? 'People can expect to see my name on the ballot in 2006,' he said."
Voinovich, DeWine oppose Issue 1
I know what the Enquirer's headline writer meant, but "Gay-marriage measure splits senators, bishops" made me think Voinovich and DeWine disagreed with each other and there was split among the bishops. Even more bizarre was the bumper headline: "GOP officials also divided on proposed amendment"
In fact, I think nearly everything got a little mis-edited in this story. The gist is that both US Senators DeWine and Voinovich (both Republicans) came out against Issue 1, the proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Details or evidence for the aforementioned division among GOP officials is not provided.
The story also indicated that Akron mayor Donald L. Plusquellic and the state AARP chapter also announced their opposition Wednesday to Issue 1.
Clogging the voting lines
Increasingly, there is growing concern among Democratic circles that Republicans in Ohio will try to jam up voting centers by aggressively challenging registered voters. The thinking is that in Kerry-leaning precincts, Republicans designated as "official challengers" will argue that many voters should have had their names purged from the rolls because they had become 'Inactive" because they skipped voting in recent prior elections.
Besides the obvious concern about denying legal voters, a big concern that this will create enormous delays and long lines - long enough to cause would-be voters to give up before they cast their ballots.
Republican denials sound very hollow.
Provisional ballots issue gets murkier
As reported here earlier, the Cuyahoga Co. election board said it would defy SOS Ken Blackwell's directive not to give provisional ballots to voters who show up at the wrong precinct.
Yesterday, several radio reports indicated that other election boards might join the Cleveland-area board, boards like Franklin Co. and Montgomery Co.
Now, however, according to today's Dispatch story, it seems that at least the Franklin Co. board is unsure what to do and the Franklin Co. democratic party is sending some mixed signals. Furthermore, Blackwell is hyperventilating and saying he'll seek the removal of all board members who defy his directive.
Here is what seems to be the crux of the issue, if the Dispatch story is accurate: Ohio state law does not permit that a vote to be counted if it was cast in the wrong precinct. Let me recast this in another way. Theoretically, Blackwell could relent - or the county boards could defy him - and let voters show up in wrong precinct cast a provisional ballot. But that doesn't really resolve the issue because it seems that Blackwell (and his Republican proxies) will try to keep the provisional vote from being counted.
Does this violate HAVA? According to the Dispatch,
"[HAVA] says any qualified voter who asks for a provisional ballot shall receive one. But the section also says the vote will be counted according to state law — which in Ohio says votes cast outside a voter’s precinct are illegal."
Letting people cast provisional ballots in the wrong precinct is apparently not something new. Franklin Co. Democratic Party officials seem to agree. Bill Anthony, county chairman of the party, was quoted as saying, "There's a lot of us that probably broke he law in an effort to have folks' vote counted.
One thing that baffles me is why Blackwell is waving his sword over this. He clearly knows that a federal judge is to rule on he ballot issue by Oct. 15. What does he gain by making threats at this point? As in this case, it just keeps the issue alive in the press which doesn't engender new support for Blackwell.
I know it sounds a little far fetched, but it sounds like he intends to either defy the federal ruling if it doesn't go his way or take pre-emptive action to remove board members before the election - or both.
New poll gives Kerry leading margin in Ohio
Kerry's upward trend in Ohio is holding. Survey USA's new poll collected 10/2 - 10/4 gives a slight advantage to Kerry-Edwards. They polled 761 Likely Voters on behalf of WCP0-TV (Cincinnati) and WKYC-TV (Cleveland):
Other/Undecided - 3%
MoE 3.6%
Will new registrants make a difference?
I think it will be close.
In 2000, Gore lost by 176,426 votes. How can that difference be made up?
It currently appears that there will be at least 600,000 new registered voters in Ohio. Typically, somewhere between 40-50% of new registrants actually vote. Let's make a conservative assumption of 40%.
It also appears that the majority of new registratants will vote for Kerry. A conservative assumption is that they will split 3-2 for Kerry.
So, if only 240,000 (40% of the 600,000) actually vote, the new votes split this way:
Kerry: 144,000
Bush: 96,000
Difference: 48,000
At that point, Kerry still falls short by a net of about 129,000 votes
But there are a many wild cards here.
Not the least of which is that Nader sapped 3% of the vote in 2000 or 114,482 and other independents took 42,762 votes. That's not going to happen this time. I think the independents will take at most 1.5% or about 50,000. I think those might split 2-1 so that could swing a net of about another 33,000 votes. Whether Nader stays off the ballot will be a big concern.
Thus, Kerry's victory in Ohio rests on 1) getting a voter turnout among new registrants that is much higher than 40%, and moving about 1% (50,000 but a total difference from one side to the other of 100,000) of the swing voters from 2000 into his column. Thats's why the debates are so key. Right now, it appears that Kerry can bring enough swing voters, but that assumes no major inroads or gaffes by this campaign for the next four weeks.
Last minute registration avalanche
In Cuyahoga County, some 5,000 new registration cards were filed on Friday and possibly 20,000 Monday. (Plain Dealer)
"Yesterday’s drive increased the [Franklin] county total by at least 20,000." (Dispatch)
"2,000 new voter registration requests landed in the Lebanon[!!} election office Monday." (Enquirer)
"More than 25,000 new voters in Lucas County are qualified to cast ballots in the Nov. 2 election, with thousands more meeting yesterday's deadline." (Blade)
"The demand was steep on Monday." (Lorain Chronicle Telegram)
"[Butler County] residents rushed to be among an estimated 5,000 Monday to register." (Middletown Journal-News)
Cuyahoga Co. to Blackwell: Screw you
The Plain Dealer reports that County officials will defy Sect. of State Ken Blackwell's directives and will give a provisional ballot to every voter that requests one. I suspect Montgomery County and others to do the same.
The courts may force Blackwell on this. U.S. District Judge James Carr of Toledo says he will rule on a suit by the Ohio Democratic party by Oct. 15.
There is no possible good outcome for Blackwell at this point. Even if Bush wins, he has probably tainted his political career beyond repair. That doesn't preclude a great appointment to some hack job in the future. But given that the Republican establishment hates Blackwell and that typical Ohioans, especially African-Americans in the state, will never forget how he has blocked voter registration efforts.
From the PD:
"'We paid for the right to vote,' said [Jesse] Jackson. 'Our basic American inheritance will not be taken by any secretary of state.'"
But Kenny hasn't figured it out yet. He still rationalizes:
"But Blackwell, a Republican, said he's merely repeating a state law that says all ballots must be cast in the correct precincts - a law shared by 27 other states. Until now, he said, no one had complained that the provisional rule conflicted with federal law.[emphasis added]"
"'If the courts tell us to change it, then we change it," Blackwell said."
Dragged, kicking and screaming, is a poor image for a leader.
The Republican message in a word (or two, or three)
Great new video here.
Zogby national poll shows a dead heat
From Zogby:
"Four days after the first presidential debate, Senator John Kerry has pulled within one point of President George W. Bush (46%- 45%), according to a new Zogby poll. The telephone poll of 1036 likely voters was conducted from Friday through Sunday (October 1-3, 2004). Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.1%."
"The close race got even closer. There is some evidence that Kerry’s debate performance and increased clarity on the war has helped him consolidate at least some of the support that he has lost. But undecideds are up to 8 percent and there is still a month to go. There is also no doubt that Ralph Nader is hurting Kerry. The post convention bounce for Bush is over and his biggest hurdle is among undecided voters who give him a 31 percent positive job performance rating and a 69 percent negative rating. Only 13 percent of undecided voters feel that the president deserves re-election (his lowest yet) while 37 percent feel it is time for someone new."
Weird Dispatch decision
Several people have asked me if I thought the Dispatch deserved more criticism than I initially gave them for the way the editors handled the results of their new poll that was taken pre-debates.
In brief, yes. I first saw the poll results in the Dispatch's online version. The problem with online versions is that you don't get a feel for the effects that story placement have on readers. Consciously and unconsciously, story placement means a lot for print readers - especially when it is the headline story on the A section.
Now that I have seen a printed version, I do have to wonder what the editors were thinking. Running "Bush pulls in front" across nearly the entire top half of the front page with 51-44 number highlighted is inexcusable, especially when by the second and fourth paragraphs the editors start running from the results with caveats and warnings.
Further, the editors in retrospect have to see that the scheduling for this poll was a total blunder.
So what happened? Here are some potential ideas:
1) They just screwed up and it never occurred to them to think about the timing. Even given the obvious post debate bounce for Kerry, once they committed the time and resources and the likelyhood that the results would be leaked anyway, they decided to go ahead. The weakness with this argument is that it doesn't explain the banner positioning. (A mea culpa is overdue. How about an explanation in the next Ben Marrison column?)
2) The editors had already bought into Republican spin that the race was already over, the debates will ultimately be insignificant, and the timing was meaningless.
3) John Wolfe issued the orders about where to place the poll results, and the editors did their best to not get fired but offer some sort of apologies through the numerous caveats.
My guess is all of the above.
http://www.dispatch.com/default.php?story=dispatch/2004/10/03/20041003-A1-00.html&rfr=nwsl
Rasmussen shows dead heat in Ohio
The latest Rasmussen poll of 597 Likely Voters includes the slimest of post debate results, and they numbers are still good. It was conducted Sept. 25-Oct 2:
Bush 48%
Kerry 47%
MoE 4%
The previous Rasmussen poll (approximately 2 weeks ago) showed Bush with with a 3 point margin.
Jobs situation underreported in Ohio by nearly 180,000 - Part 2
This is a continuation of the previous post
POPULATION GROWTH AND JOBS
One area that has received absolutely no attention by the Ohio media is the worsening jobs situation cause by population growth. The dynamic of population growth on the jobs picture has received occasional coverage by the national media. Some have nailed the issue by noting that Bush needs to grow the number of jobs by something like 125,000 a month just to keep up with the number of new workers entering the labor market.
This same dynamic is very much a factor in Ohio, but no one has touched this issue: The number of jobs needs to keep growing in Ohio to keep up with the growth in the working-age population.
Here are the numbers. According to ODJFS's Labor Market Information "Employment Situation Indicators" reports:
Aug 2004 Working Age Population: 8,815,000
Jan 2001 Working Age Population: 8,637,000
Difference: 178,000
This 178,000 number is initially too high. Only about two-thirds of the total working age population is actively a part of the labor force at any given time. This is because about one-third are not part of the labor force by choice, by disability or by hopelessness.
So, we get a more accurate number by reducing the 178,000 by a third which gives us a number of about 118,700 additional Ohioans have joined the civilian labor force since Bush took office.
Therefore, the most accurate description of the jobs situation in Ohio is to note that ther is a "shortfall" of jobs that is currently about 407,200 (118,700 + 288,500).
Damn. Sometimes when ya want things done right, ya gotta do it yourself.
Nearly everyone is underreporting how bad the job situation is in Ohio. The Bush-Cheney folks have a reason for getting it wrong. The newspapers reporters in Ohio seem to be in a "spin coma" but shouldn't get it wrong. And the pro-Kerry forces have absolutely no excuse for getting it wrong.
There are two part to this problem: the number of jobs lost, and the increased demand for jobs due to the growing number of workers. In this two part post I try to explain this simply, because it is simple.
JOBS LOST:
I'm totally baffled by the reported number of jobs lost in Ohio since Bush took office. Newspapers have reported anywhere from 215,000 and 240,000 lost. Even a pro-Kerry site (www.facts4ohio.com) reports, "Ohio has lost 231,000 jobs since Bush took office. [Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001 to August 2004]."
As far as I know, the BLS gets its data from the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. When I go to the ODJFS site, their numbers show as much higher number:
Jan 2001 nonfarm payroll: 5,655,100 (updated/corrected in March 2001)
Aug 2004 nonfarm payroll: 5,366,600
Difference: 288,500 jobs lost
Reporters: This is not rocket science, just back of envelope stuff. How about getting your pencils and calculators and quit ingesting the spoonfed stuff from the campaigns?
Surprise(!) - Dispatch endorses Brooks and Kilroy
Maybe the Dispatch WILL endorse Kerry. Somewhat unexpectedly (to me anyway) today the editors announced the paper was endorsing the two Democratic candidates for Franklin County commissioners, Paula Brooks and Mary Jo Kilroy.
It wasn't surprising that the paper endorsed Kilroy, an incumbent, the only Democrat on the three-commissioner panel. She has been been adminstratively and politically savvy, and has served well. But the step of endorsing a second Democrat has to be a little surprising. The weight that comes with a the Might D's endorsement could lead to an even larger expansion of the Democrats control in this region. Mike Coleman's successful run as mayor of Columbus showed the Dems what was possible.
I think that the fact Brook's opponent has some seriouos IRS problems and that Kilroy's opponent has been linked to a fund-raising scandal made the Dispatch's effort a little easier to justify.
Pre-debate Dispatch poll gives Bush lead
The Dispatch's most recent poll of 2,859 potential voters gives Bush a 51-44 lead with a MoE of 2%. The poll was "conducted" Sept. 22 through Oct. 1. Since the Dispatch does this poll by mail, I assume this means they accepted responses through Oct. 1, so technically this included one post-debate day, but this has got to imply that this poll includes virtually no reflection of the debate.
As always, it must be noted that the Dispatch has a unique polling (via mail) - but historically accurate - methodology. Its last poll from late August showed the candidates in a dead heat.
The Dispatch adds several caveats. The first, of course, is that it captured none of the presumed post-debate bounce for Kerry. More importantly, the newspaper points out that its poll does not capture the sentiments of those who registered to vote since May.
The Dispatch says, "But a crucial dynamic of this year’s campaign is that Kerry has not made the sale with many Ohioans who disapprove of Bush’s performance." At the same time, the editors point out that respondents only give Bush a 50% approval on his handling of Iraz and 48 % approval on the economy.
Obviously, that's the benefit of the debates: The heavy margin that gave the debate win to Kerry undoubtedly went far to make that sale.
The poll also shows that independents break for Kerry 47% to 41% for Bush.
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Paging Sen. McCain
John McCain appears to us to have gotten himself in a bit of a pickle. Just a few days ago Kenny Blackwell announced that he had the endorsement of the Senator from Arizona.
Today, we learn that McCain has endorsed the Arnold's re-districting proposal and claims he will be campaigning for them. How long is it going to be before someone puts McCain on the spot about Issue 4 if he is so concerned about Ohioans.
By the way, it should be noted that the California redistricting initiative falls far short of Issue 4. As we understand it, it doesn't improve competitiveness and doesn't prevent gerrymandering. The main thing it apparently does is takes the district drawing out of the hands of elected politicians.
Gallows conversions
About a week ago we had the laughable spectacle of the Ohio GOP (in the form of Kevin DeWine) suddenly wanting to appear more anti-gerrymandering than anyone in the state, including even the Reform Ohio Now campaign.
Today we have another laugher with Sen. President Bill Harris suddenly finding religion about making voting easier.
Neither move passes the smell test, except for the smell of sheer terror that is increasingly surging through the body politic of the ORP. This crap couldn't be any more transparent, but it's fun to see them running to catch up with a train that left the station a long time ago.
The suspense is killing us . . .
Tim says to watch his place this evening. We suspect a Sherrod Brown announcement.
Administration counter-attacks unions
Stung most recently by labor's highly visible efforts to defend Social Security, the Bush administration has been looking for ways to sidetrack the unions. They have apparently decided on several tactics (from the Plain Dealer):
The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board says his prime objective is reviewing Ohio and Michigan cases on card-check, labor's top strategy in recent years for adding members.
That the Republican-controlled NLRB has even agreed to evaluate card-check sent shivers through organized labor, which says that the tactic is long enshrined in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act.
With card-check, employers agree to recognize unions when a majority of employees sign cards saying they want a union. Card-check is often used with "neutrality agreements," in which employers agree to stay neutral in an organizing drive.
Other important issues that will lead the NLRB's calendar, Battista said:
Whether companies can restrict employees from going to a union Web site while at work.
Evaluations during the hiring process of alleged "salts" - paid organizers who apply for a job at a nonunion company.
Whether certain union displays of banners are free speech or are "speech plus" - involving conduct rather than mere speech, and so more subject to regulation.
Actually, we think the unions can beat this thing back if they approach it politically, hit it hard and don't rely on the courts to do the heavy lifting.
Hackett, Brown or both?
Lot's of buzz today about who's in to run against Mike DeWine. The AP has a story about Hackett deciding to run, plus some info on DeWine's position vis a vis the Miers nomination.
But several sources such as the WaPo say Sherrod Brown's back in. Jerome at MyDD is backing Brown but with appropriate props to Hackett, and the comments to his post are worth wading thru.
The OH-02 blog will be in Hackett's corner and is another good place to watch. Maybe the corollary to that blog is GrowOhio, and we are waiting for when GO maestro Tim Tagaris weighs in on the matter. He's yet to post, but there is a least one GrowOhio thread on the Hackett/Brown nominations started by others.
Dispatch poll: The good, the (sorta) bad and the ugly
The Dispatch has unveiled the results of two panels of polling questions from a survey done Sept. 22-29. We realize that several others like the UAPA folks and KTinOhio have posted on this, but we thought we put in our two-cents about the results.
First, it’s important to note that the mail poll system the paper used (designed by now-VP and associate publisher Mike Curtin) is notoriously accurate, and therefore we accept the results at face value – with a few caveats described below.
With that out of the way, let’s start with the ugly. The Dispatch had a panel of questions about Gov. Taft and the paper reports that only 15% approve of the job he is doing. That’s, of course, ugly, but not the ugly we’re talking about.
We think the premise behind this set of questions is ugly. Does Ohio need one more poll about how unpopular Bob Taft is? To us, and we think to most Ohioans, this isn’t news and is starting to sicken us in a way. Let’s be clear here – we aren’t complaining about news media “piling on” in regard to Taft’s popularity problems and we have no personal sympathies for Taft, either.
What sickens us about the Dispatch’s questions and a lot of the recent reporting around the demise of Taft support is based on the notion - and reinforces that same notion - that Taft is to blame for “what’s wrong” with Ohio.
Taft, of course, and his current and former staffers rightly deserve much of the grief . But, what about the broader Republican leadership in the Ohio Senate and House over the past 15 years? A real news story would be a poll that asks the public what grade they give these thieves and cretins for the job they have done (for starters) on issues like 1) jobs, 2) primary and secondary education, 3) higher education, 4) health care and 5) property tax relief. That’s the shit that would really get us excited about reading an Ohio paper in the morning! But please no more goddamn polls telling us that Ohioans want Taft to go away and no more polls that seem to suggest that everything will be rosy if we get rid of him.
Now, on to the other panel of questions used by the Dispatch. These had to do with the Issue 1 plus the four Reform Ohio Now amendments. The bad news is that Issue 4 – the one that would clean up the district-drawing system and arguably the most important of the four proposals – is currently losing. The good news is that it is only losing 38-26% and that a near-plurality (36%) is undecided. The other good news is that Issues 2 and 3 have enormous leads and with relatively small undecideds. Issue 5 is also winning, but we’d like to see the 20% undecideds decrease.
Maybe it’s obvious to everyone, but the timing of the poll initially seems problematic because neither the RON campaign nor Ohio First had begun to hit the airwaves with their ads. But we suspect that the Dispatch was fully aware of this. We think that what’s really going on is that the Dispatch, in fact, wanted to conduct a poll before the ad wars started in order to establish a baseline to measure the campaigns in the next five weeks. The Dispatch’s pattern in recent elections in fact has been to conduct a series of polls, one early in the campaign, one mid-way and a few days before election day.
The cross-tabs of this current poll reveal some useful information. With the Democratic vote currently split 35% for – 28% against, and a plurality of 37% undecided it will be extremely important to try to work on the democratic base.
Union members are split 28% for – 39% against and 38% undecided, but we have been told that many union are just now launching their internal education efforts.
But, all in all, the cross-tabs show that there is across-the-board an enormous number of undecideds in every demographic category. The nation’s most important election is still a toss up, and deserves every minute and dime supporters of the RON movement can spare.
Dispatch: Time to cut the federal budget
We always thought there were two options for dealing with the federal budget problems: roll back the tax cuts or reducing spending. Apparently one of the Columbus Dispatch's demi-gods, John Kasich, has spoken and settled the matter.
By the way, you can tell Jon Riskind, Jack Torry and the Dispatch editors to go fuck themselves here.
Angela puts it together for RON
Congrats to Ms. Cardwell for solving the redistricting puzzle.
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The Four Southern States
For most of us in the North, South Indian food is a largely homogenous entity, comprising idlis, dosas and not very much else. So I was in for a surprise last week when Trident Gurgaon invited me for a festival that was no short of brilliant. Not only did the variations in the food of each state stand out, the chef single-handedly brought out the brilliance of fish curries, poriyals and staples from four different – and disparate – regions.
To Chef Saneesh Verghese, who heads the Samudra kitchen at Trident Chennai, the difference between one cuisine from the southern region and another is vast. He does admit that almost all cooking from the four states have tempering as a basic principle: in the northern half, tempering is the thing you do to dal; for all other purposes, it is non-existent. Tempering is usually done with mustard seeds, curry leaves, broken red chillies and sometimes urad dal, but there the similarities end.
Kerala’s cuisine uses coconut oil almost exclusively; Tamil Nadu has its gingelly oil, Andhra Pradesh favours peanut oil and Karnataka has a variety, depending on where in the state you are: in Mangalore, coconut oil is favoured. Fish curries vary widely not only from state to state but from region to region as well. Thus, the northern part of Kerala, populated by the Muslim community, has a fish curry that is thick and spicy and is soured with tamarind, something that would never, but never happen further south along the coast. In central and south Kerala, it is only fish tamarind that is used as a souring agent, and the texture of the gravy is decidedly silky and thinner than in any other of the four states. Because of the use of coconut milk/ground coconut, the colour is either fiery orange or mild yellow.
Kerala’s northern neighbour Karnataka has fish and prawn curries, the most famous of which are in Mangalore (though by itself, Mangalore is not representative of the cuisine of the state) that are the thickest in the region. Never made with coconut milk alone, they all use ground coconut with Kandapuri or Bedgi chillies, both of which grow in the state. Gassi as the fish curry is called, is traditionally eaten with sanna, a spongy bread that is fermented with toddy vinegar. It is the country cousin of Kerala’s appams.
On the east coast, coconut is used as an ingredient of cooking, but never ever in a fish curry. Why? I’d be interested to hear your view: I myself can’t think of a plausible reason. Both Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu use approximately the same ingredients: onions, tomatoes and tamarind, but in Tamil Nadu, according to Chef Saneesh, the taste is more sour while in Andhra Pradesh (as befitting the country’s chilli capital) the curries are more spicy. The result is bright red fish curry in Andhra that has slightly thick gravy while in Tamil Nadu, gravy contains both pulp of cooked tomatoes and onions and a thinner sauce.
And that’s just the fish curries.
Recipe courtesy Chef Saneesh Verghese
Thoran from Kerala’s central region
250 grams long beans
1 tbs mustard seeds
2 red chillies
5 curry leaves
1 green chilli
2 shallots
2 tbsp grated coconut
Pick over the beans, remove the tough fibrous string that runs through each bean, chop evenly and steam in salted water till tender. In a kadhai, heat the coconut oil, add mustard seeds and when they splutter, fry shallots. Then add 2 red chillies broken up with your fingers, curry leaves, chopped green chilli and salt to taste. After taking off from fire, stir in grated coconut and serve
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The Black Moment is a Restraining Order, Part 1
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Tagged: character development, writing romance
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Last week, I added a parenthetical remark to my list of things a heroine should do. That aside sparked the idea for this post. I’m limiting myself to ten randomly chosen ideas (broken into two weeks–my words go on and on!), but there are probably a million more. Please add yours in the comments.
Five things your hero should never do because he cares (in no particular order)
1. Beat her. I would have believed this self-explanatory as well as perhaps negated by the-hero-is-flawed-but-always-acts-heroically rule. I was wrong. Sophia Martin (Twitter, Site) shared a story she remembered in which “the hero BEAT the heroine for a transgression AND SHE FORGAVE HIM.” Then, she (the heroine) found herself charmed by a promise to beat their children and send them to her for comfort.
Heroes never assault women. Any women, but especially the heroine.
2. Cheat on her. Nothing says, “I couldn’t care less about your feelings,” like cheating. I’m not talking glittery hoo-ha here. There’s a line where the couple starts the you’re-my-potential-mate dance. Heroes don’t step outside that line.
I might, and that’s a doubtful might, forgive a hero who cheated in the past. But a hero, in the story of loving the heroine, who has sex with someone else after they’ve kissed, declared their intentions, or become intimate? No. Just no.
3. Dump her because he has trust issues. And is a stupid ass-hat. This, and the one above, were shared by Carinae L’etoile (Twitter, Site). She read a book where the heroine has a twin. That she doesn’t know about. Who stars in porn. See the big misunderstanding coming?
Hero sees new, unknown twin in porn (how did he explain that?) and, according to Carinae, “viciously kicks the heroine to the curb.”
What?? So, heroes with trust issues? That’s fine, if it’s fear of the future or of being hurt. The fear that his heroine is a big whore? That’s abusive, not heroic.
4. Manipulate her. I’ve read lots of books where the hero or heroine try to make the other jealous. And I’ve enjoyed them despite the fact that this is a form of emotional manipulation.
In real life, as it should be in romance writing, it’s never okay to act in a non-genuine way to force an emotional response.
All I can say is that there’s a line. As a subplot, intended as a comedy, or maybe even as a flaw the character arcs from, you can pull it off. But, be aware, that’s a fine line. Go over it, and he becomes an emotionally abusive asshole.
5, Dismiss her. Does he misjudge her at the beginning? Fine. He doesn’t even know her and maybe he has really valid reasons to dislike her.
But once he beings to care for her, once she shows vulnerability, then don’t treat her like she’s not smart, or capable, or enough.
Do you know how many women have felt this way? Pretty much all of us. I know I don’t want to identify with a heroine because the future/current love of her life makes her feel that way. That drives me right into wallbanger territory.
Disclaimer: I’m sure these have all been done. Some of them even successfully. I’m not criticizing anyone or calling anybody out. It’s just… my blog, my opinion. But, I’d love to hear yours! Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments.
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This is definitely a good list.
I just experienced #4, but it worked ultimately for the character arc. You’re right though, it doesn’t take much to push the boundary into AA (abusive asshat) territory.
I’ve seen the ‘I was a really bad boy’ Hero and what makes them heroic is the fact that being with the Heroine changes them from all of the above mistakes to someone who every woman would love to have.
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Home Teamsters
Business, Louisville, Politics February 11, 2019
UPS Air Cargo Teamsters Ratify Contract in LouisvilleKY
New Agreement Covers Over 1,400 Mechanics and Related Classifications LOUISVILLE, Ky.,/PRNewswire/ — UPS aircraft mechanics and related employees at UPS Air Cargo have voted to ratify their newest contract with the company. The contract, which becomes amendable on November 1, 2023, makes UPS Air Cargo mechanics the highest-paid air cargo mechanics in the country by a wide margin. “We knew if we stuck together and stayed committed to protecting the pay and benefits we’ve earned over decades of hard work, we’d do what many thought was impossible and win big for our families, the future of our company and our customers,” said…
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Louisville KY Teamsters Vow to Stand LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an unqualified show of support, James Hoffa, General President and Ken Hall, General Secretary-Treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, pledged to the Independent Pilots Association that “if a strike is necessary, we will not cross your lines, but will stand with you on them.” This commitment from Hoffa and Hall came in a letter to IPA President, Captain Robert Travis. “The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 250,000 workers at United Parcel Service,” said Captain Travis. “This unflinching support from the Teamsters on the eve of…
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Full Spectrum Dominance: Caught in the Crossed Wires
November 16, 2018 MHB Admin 4 Comments
Radio host Clyde Lewis provides an excellent overview of the grave threat 5G wireless technology poses to public health and social well being. Despite serious health concerns this all-encompassing human health experiment is being rolled out to every nook and cranny of the nation and is a colossal exercise of collective uninformed consent and continued abandonment of the “precautionary principle” that should arguably govern decisions where human health in particular is concerned.
As we noted here at MHB in 2012:
The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment & Development adopted the precautionary principle as a rule to follow in the situations utilities and school districts find themselves in today. “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”[17] In exercising the precautionary principle, public governance and regulatory bodies should “take preventive action in the face of scientific uncertainty to prevent harm. The focus is no longer on measuring or managing harm, but preventing harm.”
As Lewis explains, the 5G grid being rolled out today poses a much greater threat than its present 3 and 4G incarnations. Moreover, the technology at present alongside implementation of biometric devices and the “internet of things” will greatly accelerate corporate/government control over everyday existence, particularly for already powerful entities like Google, Amazon, and the local and regional authorities they partner with to “service” your community.
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A few weeks ago at The Hague in the Netherlands, many birds died spontaneously, unexplainably falling dead in a park. I guess the story may not mean anything to most people because nowadays there are reports all the time of birds dropping dead – or even whales that beach themselves. But this case was different.
It is just business as usual in the apocalypse.
At first, a few birds were dropping dead which prompted the authorities to not rule out that someone was actually poisoning them. However there were reports of 150 more dying, then 200 and then 200 plus.
In the aftermath, it was proposed that perhaps the culprit was a new 5G Mast that was hanging from the roof of a nearby train station.
Later there were also reports that some of the area geese had dropped dead. Some were not eating while others were acting erratically.
Some of them were actually putting their heads in the water until they drowned.
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Stealth Terror II: Hurricanes, 9/11, and Geoengineering
September 11, 2018 MHB Admin 1 Comment
Expanding the Stealth Terror Thesis: Hurricane management
By James R. Hanson
The following Atlantic hurricanes, of those exceeding $10 billion in damage, are the costliest to date. Dollars are approximate, Sandy’s estimates still in flux. Those in bold occurred after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) took responsibility for the weather-control program beginning in 2003.
Katrina $108 billion 2005 Bush 43
Sandy $72 billion 2012 Obama
Ike $38 billion 2008 Bush 43
Wilma $29 billion 2005 Bush 43
Andrew $27 billion 1992 Bush 41
Ivan $23 billion 2004 Bush 43
Irene $17 billion 2011 Obama
Charley $16 billion 2004 Bush 43
Rita $12 billion 2005 Bush 43
Gilbert $10 billion 1988 Reagan
Of the next ten in rank (less than $10 billion in damage but more than $5 billion) Bush 43 had five, thus the majority of the “top 20” hurricanes were during the presidency of George W. Bush. Only one of these, Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, was prior to DARPA’s jurisdiction. Before Obama’s entry with Irene and Sandy, George W. (Bush 43) could claim 69% of the dollar cost of this list. Following from this, those hopeful that Obama would not continue the Bush excesses may find little reassurance.
Another means of comparison of all 32 hurricanes costing more than $1 billion is by the percentage of total cost of all 32. Bush 43 had 62%, Obama had 19%, Clinton 8%, Bush 41 8%, Reagan 3%, Carter a third of 1%
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RFK Assassination: Urgent Call For New Inquiry
June 8, 2018 MHB Admin 2 Comments
Dr. William Pepper and Andrew Kreig
Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5 and died June 6, 1968, fifty years ago today. A new examination of evidence is forcing human rights organizations — including the OAS— to consider probing the case.
Recent news about Robert F. Kennedy’s fatal shooting sharpens the challenge for human rights organizations in how to address the shocking justice issues raised by the continued imprisonment of RFK’s convicted slayer Sirhan Sirhan.
Reporters and researchers have recently shown the disturbing pattern of suppressed evidence and other legal irregularities that led to Sirhan’s 1969 murder conviction after his scanty defense at trial.
On Sunday, May 26, The Washington Post published a front-page story by Tom Jackman headlined Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.
The report constituted a breakthrough for a mainstream news organization, particularly because the article extensively examined scientific and other evidence supporting Sirhan’s innocence.
The official story is that Sirhan was a Kennedy-hating killer who acted alone to kill the senator at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following RFK’s speech thanking his supporters for victory in the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary.
More than any other mainstream media journalist, the Post’s Jackman delved in depth into the evidence in both that first story and in a follow up on June 4, Was Sirhan Hypnotically Programmed to Assassinate RFK? Jackman, while presenting diverse views in a professional manner, clearly showed anyone with an open mind that important evidence has been withheld and that Sirhan may well have been a victim of CIA MK Ultra mind control efforts with the goal of setting Sirhan up to be a patsy through the use of hypnosis and chemicals.
Many other researchers such as filmmaker, author and professor Shane O’Sullivan have shown that Sirhan’s role was to perform a distraction so that the real assassin could do his work and put three bullets into RFK’s body at much closer range while Sirhan was always three to five feet in from of the senator, according to eye witnesses.
It is now up to human rights organizations to step up to the challenge of confronting evidence that the United States and its vaunted legal system may have wrongfully convicted on murder charges and kept imprisoned in near solitary confinement a defendant in one of the most notorious U.S. murders in modern times.
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The CIA and the Media
The CIA and the Media: Historical Fact #99
The CIA used a mind-controlled assassin to kill the most politically-outspoken recording artist in modern music history. This is the claim of attorney and UK legal reporter Fenton Bresler, who spent eight years investigating the December 8, 1980 murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman.
At the time of his death Lennon was poised to secure US citizenship and in the process of launching a comeback with chart-topping albums. At the same time the former Beatle’s political views were at sharp variance with the election of Republican Ronald Reagan to the US presidency that took place one month before Lennon’s assassination.
Bresler argues in his 1989 book Who Killed John Lennon? that the CIA oversaw Lennon’s murder by collaborating with Atlanta police intelligence to train Chapman as the assassin. Author Phil Strongman reached a similar conclusion after his detailed study of Lennon’s death. Atlanta police officer Dana Reeves was Chapman’s handler, “guid[ing] Chapman through his path of becoming a drugged and hypnotized CIA tool, in the way other investigators believed had been done with Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan,” according to historian John L. Potash.
Dana Reeves was working as a Dekalb County sheriff’s officer in the Atlanta area, where he developed a close relationship and extreme control over Chapman by the time he was nineteen years old. Chapman’s parents feared Reeve’s involvement with their son, and said the police officer changed their son’s personality. For example, the parents and others described Chapman as anti-gun throughout his teens, but Reeves turned Chapman on to guns, training him to be a very competent shooter. Chapman had worked at a regular YMCA summer camp in Atlanta. In 1975, Chapman applied for exotic positions in YMCA’s abroad program, first unsuccessfully in the Soviet Union, despite not speaking Russian, and then working in Beirut, Lebanon in June 1975.
Reportedly a hotbed of CIA-backed terrorist activity in the mid-1970s, Chapman was “blooded” (desensitized to violence) in Beirut before returning to the US to work as an armed security guard. In early 1977 he moved to Hawaii where he was eventually treated for clinical depression at Castle Memorial Hospital., a Seventh Day Adventist institution. Bresler argues that at Castle Memorial and several other locations Chapman underwent “CIA-developed behavior modification” as he was honed as a mind-controlled assassin.
In the remaining period leading up to late 1980 Chapman, who continued employment as a security guard, allegedly received a loan from Castle Memorial to tour the world, visiting a dozen countries where he sometimes lodged at luxurious hotels Such an excursion would have been difficult on his modest security guard salary.
After Chapman shot Lennon with a .38 caliber revolver at the entrance of the musician’s residence on the night of December 8, 1980, instead of fleeing the scene the assailant calmly took out a copy of J.D. Salinger’s A Catcher in the Rye and waited for law enforcement to arrive.
Lieutenant Arthur O’Connor, a police officer who oversaw the murder investigation, informed Bresler “that someone could have programmed Chapman for the murder of Lennon. ‘I studied him intensely,'” O’Connor said.
“[Chapman] looked like he could have been programmed, and I know what you are going to make of that word! that was the way he looked and that was the way he talked.” He was the second police officer to make that assessment. After Chapman was arrested for killing Lennon, his bizarre behavior was never checked with a drug test.
John L. Potash, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists, Walterville OR: 2015, 208-213.
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Take America’s Cowardly Professoriate Off the Dole
May 27, 2018 MHB Admin 6 Comments
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D.
Everyone should contemplate this very disturbing fact: There are certainly hundreds, and possibly thousands, of highly “educated” professors at colleges and universities all over this country. Most hold the “highest” degree, Ph.D. in diverse fields like mathematics, physics, chemistry, forensic sciences, criminal justice, law, and even art or political science or engineering or biology or biochemistry or genetics or geology or philosophy or earth sciences or journalism or investigative journalism or medicine or anthropology, and so on.
Are these the “experts” who are the examples of use of logic and the scientific method to discover and learn from analysis and observations of events and the world around us to discover “truth”? If so, why are they so silent about the official lies about the events at Sandy Hook School on Dec. 14, 2012, or the attacks on 9/11/01, and many others? How many of them have contacted professor Jim Fetzer, Ph.D regarding his startling discoveries about Sandy Hook or the Boston Bombing, or the many other false flag attacks to promote gun control? How many of these great “teachers” and “searchers for truth” have contacted him about his startling discoveries on who and why and what attacked the U.S. on 9/11/01?
The answer is almost zero! Essentially none, zero of these “courageous” experts even call or question the official narrative of these events. The silence is deafening.
Much of the money for their research support comes from the U.S. Government. Obviously they fear uttering a peep using their true names, although they have lifetime tenured jobs, because they might lose some of that good easy government money, or become persona non grata with the powers that be so their own ox’s might be gored.
What about truth? What about knowledge, truth and understanding? What about being an inspiration to kids to ask rude questions of the powers that be? Are not these thousands of Ph.D.’s little more than gutless cowards who likely would not call 911 if they observed a woman being raped on the sidewalk? What good are these worthless shameful parasites on the public dole?
Let’s end the easy money supply to these worthless cowards of America who set exactly the wrong example to our young who will be the new cowards on the block if something is not done soon to reverse this trend.
In fact, has not America already been destroyed by a bunch of brainwashed fools who can’t distinguish up from down or truth from fiction when Israelis own all the major media and continue a big propaganda lie every day 24/7? Let’s abolish these worthless parasites and the institutions who support them. Never donate one dollar to these useless hypocritical institutions that are destroying America from within by brainwashing its young college-age students and teaching them cowardice instead of instilling in them traits of courage, questioning and honor and truth.
Evidently our colleges are producing graduates who can’t discern truth from fiction. Let’s end these hollow institutions of lower learning and indoctrination today and stop their easy government funding. Put these cowardly professors on the street where they belong.
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A lengthy prosecution of teachers and owners of the Manhattan Beach California-based Virginia McMartin Preschool for sexual abuse allegations dominated news headlines and broadcasts throughout the 1980s. An initial investigation involving interviews with hundreds of McMartin students by an experienced child therapist found a majority of students affirming such abuse.
Despite abundant evidence and blanket media coverage the defendants were acquitted in 1990 after six years of trial proceedings costing $15 million. Defendant Raymond Buckey was retried shortly thereafter and again exonerated.
The observations of students included a number of tunnels existing underneath McMartin classrooms and bathrooms connecting to external exits, through which students passed to be taken to other locations where they attended and partook in occult rituals. Following the McMartin students’ allegations reports of similar abuse began to emerge at preschools throughout the US.
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April 29, 2018 MHB Admin Leave a comment
The CIA’s well-known MKULTRA mind control experimentation program that began in the early 1950s. Operation MKU was partly justified by the Agency and DCI Allen Dulles through a propaganda campaign using the news media to push the false notion that communist forces were carrying out similar tests on US prisoners of war.
Indeed, the term “’brainwashing’ was coined by Edward Hunter, a CIA-employed journalist who authored many emotionally-charged books and articles on the subject,” according to authors Martin Lee and Norman Solomon. During World War II Hunter worked with the Office of Strategic Services, in propaganda operations.
When he launched his crusade to bring “the facts about brainwashing … to the people,” Hunter was working for U.S. intelligence. Popularizing the concept of brainwashing was part of his job as a CIA operative, despite U.S. Army studies which”failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of the actual ‘brainwashing’ on an American prisoner of war in Korea.” Indeed, it appears that the communist brainwashing scare was a propaganda ploy, a kind of “brainwashing” or mind control in its own right designed to dupe the American people.
Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon, Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, New York: Carol Publishing, 1992, 118.
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Metal Assault: Gig Reviews
Posted on July 2, 2016 July 2, 2016 by admin
The Drama Headlines Metal Monday At Crazy Girls Hollywood
By Lisa Burke
June 20th 2016, Crazy Girls, Hollywood CA: Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll has been the taboo of this nation in a music sense since its heyday in the ’60s and ’70s when these items were much more free to go hand in hand. The music back in those days, no matter how much sex and drugs were behind it or involved in it, was still always primarily about the music. Today it is more common to find sex and drugs as a primary reason to join a band while the music becomes secondary. That said, why not enhance the mood of a rock n’ roll show by adding in that extra splash of sex by playing in a strip club on none other than the most conservative night of the week, Monday night? That is exactly what I attended on Monday June 20th 2016 at Crazy Girls strip club, which is hosted by Nick Fucco who runs the Metal Mayhem Mondays, and is supported by Lost Anarchy magazine as well. On this night, Nick was not in attendance because he was in New York managing his own yearly rock n’ roll and heavy metal festival called Nickstock.
Crazy Girls has recently added some new stage accommodations such as a better equipped sound booth as well as two giant pimped out lounge booths on each side of the stage. The overall sound is now a few miles better than it used to be, although the obstacles that bands have to dodge to load in and out of this stage that includes strippers, just got more intense. It is highly recommended to load into this venue as sober as possible to avoid any unnecessary encounters with pointy furniture, in my opinion. Monday nights here are free if you are special enough to know the password which you can acquire from Nick or one of his friends, and on this night with the bartenders they have had in attendance as of late you may find yourself waiting twenty minutes for an expensive cocktail when there are two girls working the bar with only five customers waiting, and you’ll be asked to tip before the drink is rung up. Whether this is a new policy or just someone trying to cover their ass, despite the fact that this is a strip club so quite the opposite will grant more tipping, I’ve seen much more crowded bars serve better experiences to their customers.
Moving on to the actual music, because that is what’s most important here, I arrived shortly after 9 PM to see three bands Icarus Landing, Heavenly Trip To Hell and The Drama, in that order. Icarus Landing is a quartet of alternative rock who played a Misfits cover of ‘Die My Darling’ that was fitting with their personal style more so than the original, which is an interesting way to go with it. I found the songs with the faster tempos and specifically faster paced drum beats to be the most entertaining, yet all the songs had something to offer and the singer/guitar player commanded the stage nicely. During this group and this group only, most of the strippers were out dancing. Everyone who shows up late usually complains on lack of strippers, which is definitely true the few times I’ve attended. They seem to disappear perhaps off to bigger things later in the evening. Regardless, Icarus Landing got their fair share of booty shaking during their set while the focus still remained on the music and there is a reason why people have two eyes and two ears.
Next on deck was a six-member industrial band that took about as much time to set up and tear down as a carnival would, and for good reason. This band is called Heavenly Trip To Hell, and they were loud, fun and crazy on stage. The one stripper up on the side stage was a portly tough girl with an oddly placed chest tattoo who was highly entertaining with her moves and flipping off the audience during some of the songs. Back to the band because that’s what’s important here, the singer had that slightly guttural, harsh, tough voice that was reminiscent of Rob Zombie, or perhaps Johnathan Davis of Korn. The music was along those lines as well, but unique with a carnival vibe and experimental noise additions as well. The keyboards/backing tracks were interesting at all times, and even when it got high pitched and slightly painful to the ear, it was an appropriate vibe for the act. The red flying V guitar was really flying out the industrial grooves and was certainly a creative highlight of the band. The name pretty much explains the total experience, and I definitely recommend checking them out if you get the chance.
The Drama
The headliners of the evening The Drama took the stage, and while the odd balls out in the line up on this bill happened to be the previous band in terms of style, they also made for a hard act to follow. The Drama is a modern-day rock band with a very classic seventies vibe and very natural in sound, despite the uniquely enhanced vocals crafted on a special wooden voice box at times. To me it was appealing to hear after such an oppositely driven band, however, some people may not have understood it that way. The singer made a few jokes about them playing Rolling Stones covers for almost every song, which was not the case at all, but lightened the mood for sure. This band has been known to pull stage antics out of the blue that are shocking and unexpected and also beautiful in all their glory, and it is definitely part of the charm this band brings to the table. For their last two shows they have taken a more somber and straightforward approach mainly due to the locations that speak for themselves, and therefore the antics aren’t as expected to begin with, given the setting. Now we are left to enjoy the quality of the music, because that’s what it’s all about, remember? Also, there were only two strippers available during their set who mostly didn’t understand how to dance to the tunes, as is usually the case there these days. It does make a difference, however minor, to see the dancers understand the music, or at least something other than hip-hop, and it helps out everyone in the end.
My favorite from the night was the tune ‘Down By The River’ with its retro vibe and catchy lyrics and jamming. One of the newest tunes ‘Mother Superior’ is also a favorite and has more of that classic Beatles vibe in the guitar and vocals, while the bass and drums take on a creatively more modern approach that carries into a few other tunes as well, but they always possess the originality that is The Drama in everything they craft up. Another always interesting moment is the interlude where all the members leave the stage and only singer Ashley Winters is left to as he said ‘whip his dick out’ or in other words perform his most vulnerable and beautiful solo piece with him on the guitar. This current lineup is the strongest ever and they are all just as silly as they are professional, which is a great combination, especially in the world we live in today. If you are in the market for some high quality rock n’ roll with a super creative and talented vocalist that sometimes unleashes wildly dramatic surprises in the right setting, check out The Drama who will be returning to the Loaded Rock Bar live venue every other Thursday night and will be in charge of the rest of the lineup on those nights, which will ensure that we keep rock n’ roll alive and kicking, which is the way I like it best.
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In this chapter, I provide an overview of this social view of literacy, drawing the wide range of research in different settings which has now been done. In particular I will draw on examples from the study of people's everyday uses of reading and writing which we carried out in Lancaster, reported in the book Local Literacies (Barton and Hamilton 1998), and the studies reported in the book Situated Literacies (Barton, Hamilton and Ivanic 2000). These studies were specifically of literacy; I see close parallels in the study of language as a social practice and of numeracy as a social practice in the ways in which language, literacy and numeracy are intertwined in everyday life.
Barton, D. and Hamilton, M. (1998) Local Literacies: A Study of Reading and Writing in One Community. London: Routledge. , Hamilton, M. and Ivanic, R. (eds) (2000) Situated Literacies. London: Routledge. Bathmaker, A. (2005) Achieving the adult basic skills targets in England: what picture can we gain from available statistical data and what issues does this raise? Unpublished paper presented to BERA Conference, Pontpridd, September. Cobb, P. (1994) `Where is the mind? Constructivist and sociocultural perspectives on mathematical development'.
For instance, in many literacy events there is a mixture of written and spoken language. Many studies of literacy practices have print literacy and written texts as their starting point, but it is clear that in literacy events people use written language in an integrated way as part of a range of symbolic resources and communicative resources; these resources include mathematical systems, graphics, maps and other non-text based images. The cookery text has numeracy mixed with print literacy and the recipes come from books, magazines, the internet, television, as well as orally from friends and relatives.
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Do you remember the roads in the 1970s? Oh, the misery, the queues into Penzance stretching back to Crowlas and Marazion, the dreary circuit of rammed car-parks, the laughable idea of even trying to get to St Ives. The authorities tackled the problem at their usual snail’s pace. They built the Penzance by-pass, opened two or three new car-parks with more stringent time allowances and higher charges, installed the St Ives Park-and-ride to make better use of its fabulous railway line, etc etc. And for a while things got better.
However all I hear this summer, on the street, in shops and everywhere else that people stop for a good moan, is people exchanging awful stories of traffic.
Of course it’s a hardy perennial, as the summer builds towards August, the crowds close in and the weather denies them the beach conditions they long for. We suffer their rudeness, their inexperience of our scary country roads, and their addiction to the 4 x 4 style – presumably they fell in love with the TV image of a deserted moorland track rather than the reality of the enervating crawl down to Hayle’s eastern roundabout in the drizzle with a carful of fractious kids. We can’t really blame them, and it gives us something to grumble about.
But this year there are signs of a real crisis. The crazy decision to re-route the access to Lelant was a classic case of a Planner In The Works, an ill thought-out attempt to fix one problem by creating a bigger one. Cornwall Council, in its Hate Penzance period, proposed something even more ridiculous at St Erth, a massive Park and Ride from which – yes, they really said this – people would distribute themselves all over Cornwall (except Penzance) by train, even back to Truro and St Austell, i.e. they’d drive dozens of miles past a place so they could get on a train back to it. Some watered-down version of this is back on the agenda and we can only wait and dread.
An even bigger disgrace lurks in the dark vaults of Cornwall Council’s hard-drive: the Sainsbury money. You may remember (or never have known) that Cornwall Council kept back a million plus pounds of the sweetener Sainsbury’s offered Penzance for the privilege of knocking out its heliport and enticing more of its shoppers out of town. This was put aside for a new park-and-ride facility, cunningly placed right beside Sainsbury’s store. The idea that motorists, having crawled down the A30, would abandon their cars within sight of the town was clearly ludicrous, especially as there was to be no actual provision for the ‘Ride’ aspect, no fleet of minibuses but merely directions to the bus stop where they could stand in the rain and wait for the regular bus services. The money still languishes in Cornwall Council’s account and could be so much better used.
What’s to be done? The Lelant-to-Penzance dual carriageway would help. Proper king-sized seasonal park and rides outside Penzance and St Ives would be cheap and work like a dream. Notices of queues ahead, as on motorways, wouldn’t be too difficult to do. But we can’t go on like this. We need some urgent action before our roads are marked on maps: “For Winter Use Only”.
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Nebraska Indian Community College has joined Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of more than 220 colleges in 39 states dedicated to improving student success. As a Network institution, Nebraska Indian Community College will innovate to implement, align, and scale cutting edge reforms, work with ATD coaches to build institutional capacity and connect with peers to foster learning and share information.
“The strength of local and regional economies, our ability to rebuild the middle class, and the possibility that a new generation will achieve their goals depends on community colleges,” said Dr. Karen A. Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream. “Colleges that join the ATD Network show an exceptional commitment to becoming the kind of institution that will lead the nation into the future.”
ATD offers a capacity-building framework and companion self-assessment that allow colleges to pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement across seven institutional capacities in areas such as leadership and vision, teaching and learning, and data and technology. With the capacity framework as a guide, ATD’s approach integrates and aligns existing college success efforts and offers valuable support in preparing for accreditation, fostering conversation about goals, and making bold, holistic institution-wide changes be-cause initiatives that don’t reach most of a college’s student body have not shown strong results.
ATD Network colleges report data using metrics that answer critical questions about who attends college, who succeeds in and after college and how college is financed. To advance goals of social mobility and equity, the metrics provide information on how low income and other underserved students fare. These metrics are categorized into performance metrics, efficiency metrics and equity metrics at points during the student experience from access through post-college outcomes.
As colleges in the new cohort progress, they may apply to participate in initiatives sup-ported by philanthropic funding and managed by ATD. These initiatives help incubate new ideas that help colleges refine practices based on evidence of what works and allow ATD to disseminate knowledge to the broader network and the field. New initiatives ad-dress the challenge of engaging adjunct faculty more deeply as key members of colleges’ workforces and implementing degree programs using only open educational resources (OER).
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The Queen of the Southern Seas, Kadita, was once the princess of a small island nation. Admired by everyone, Kadita was considered by all to be genuine, intelligent, and kind hearted. Though, fate often times finds its way to hit people with strife. Kadita was no different. As the heir apparent to the king, a member within the royal family grew jealous of Kadita and conspired to ruin her — An unknown mage wielding the power of black magic viciously attacked the princess. Kadita came under a powerful spell that robbed her of all her beauty, giving her a strange skin disease in the process.The kingdoms people tried everything could to help their beloved princess, but no one could break the spell. Overtime, the people’s love for Kadita faded, causing her to lose power and confidence. Out of tremendous despair, Kadita threw herself into the stormy Southern Seas. However, Kadita was rescued by the ocean demons. Using the trident of the seas, the ocean demons were able to break Kadita’s powerful spell, but due to her skin disease her skin was never able to return to its original complexion. On that day, Kadita become the legendary Queen of the Southern Seas. Assuming all new powers, Kadita became adept at controlling the ocean waters and the weather. Sailors from all corners of the world came to fear the Southern Seas as they were bound to suffer the wrath of Kadita — No one dared to conquer the Southern Seas any longer. Survivors recant their experiences facing Kadita. Some say she had the appearance of a strange mermaid, while others said she was more beautiful than the princess they knew before. As stories of Kadita began to spread, legends say that she possesses seven legendary spears, each with its own unique abilities, used to punish any invaders who intended to violate the Southern Seas. As the story goes, Kadita collected the seven spears while guarding the Southern Seas. No one has the power to use all seven spears at once, except for Kadita.
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Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is facing challenges on scarcity of water due to the drying up of water sources throughout the District. We take note of the plight of our communities including those of Majemantsho, Magogoe Central and Koikoi in the Mahikeng Local Municipality
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality as a Water Service Authority takes account and is responsible for providing access to clean water and sanitation to its communities throughout the District, but due to the ageing infrastructure and the limitations of underground water, water tankering is used as an intervention of the last resort, as proper plans for the rehabilitation of infrastructures are put into place. The Executive Mayor, Cllr Tshepo Justice Makolomakwa acknowledged that Water tankering is not an effective method of provision of water, but a temporary measure.
”Thus as a District, we have made an assessment on the status quo of our water and sanitation infrastructure which needs more that R 675m and applaud the Department of Water and Sanitation for funding Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality through a drought relief program, an amount R 157m for restoration and refurbishment non-functional boreholes as well as drilling and development of new boreholes amongst others in identified hot spot areas. Service Providers are already on site as per the approved time line schedule” said the Executive Mayor.
Over the past years the underground water levels dropped, which posed a serious threat regarding the provision of water to communities as currently, in the Mahikeng Local Municipality and surrounding areas, the District is experiencing low water pressure as a result of only three of the twelve boreholes are operational from Molopo Eye.
Previously, the Eye as affectionately known used to produce 1 400kl/hr and currently it produces only 800 kl/hr, therefore it is difficult to have an ongoing and unrestricted water supply.
In three villages within the jurisdiction of Mahikeng Local Municipality, Sedibeng Water as an implementing agent for Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is currently implementing the Water Supply Project of which the bulk pipe line from Mahikeng Water Treatment Works (WTW) has been completed.
The Municipality has thus set-aside R 6 m from the drought relief programme to ensure that these three (3) projects are completed.
Majemantsho, work is in progress as the project is only awaiting for the installation of steel storage tank and equipping/drilling of three (3) boreholes.
Magogoe Central and Magogoe-Koikoi, pipe lying has been completed, the borehole are equipped and the steel storage tank has also been installed, only awaiting Eskom to energise these boreholes. Our working relationship with ESKOM would certainly assist in fast-tracking energising
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is committed in providing quality water diligently in order to address the plight of accessing clean water in a sustainable manner.
The Executive Mayor Makolomakwa continue to plead with Communities to preserve and protect their own infrastructure as theft and vandalism cause a delay in completing most of these projects.
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15 Key Metrics for Evaluating Participatory Budgeting: A Toolkit for Evaluators and Implementers
Posted by Keiva Hummel | June 2nd, 2016
The 29-page toolkit, 15 Key Metrics for Evaluating Participatory Budgeting: A Toolkit for Evaluators and Implementers, was created in collaboration with Public Agenda (PA), the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), and the North American Research Board. The toolkit includes 15 metrics to capture major elements of a PB process, to support the evaluation of a specific PB site and use the data to inform the larger PB movement.
Below is an excerpt from the toolkit, which you can find in full PDF, both in English and in Spanish on Public Agenda’s site here.
From Public Agenda…
Evaluation is a critical component of any PB effort. Systematic and formal evaluation can help people who introduce, implement, participate in or otherwise have a stake in PB understand how participatory budgeting is growing, what its reach is, and how it’s impacting the community and beyond.
We developed the 15 Key Metrics for Evaluating Participatory Budgeting toolkit for people interested in evaluating PB efforts in their communities. It is meant to encourage and support some common research goals across PB sites and meaningfully inform local and national discussions about PB in the U.S. and Canada. It is the first iteration of such a toolkit and especially focused on providing practical and realistic guidance for the evaluation of new and relatively new PB processes.
Anyone involved in public engagement or participation efforts other than participatory budgeting may also be interested in reviewing the toolkit for research and evaluation ideas.
To develop the 15 PB metrics, the North American Research Board, Public Agenda (PA) and the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) drew on previous evaluations of PB in the U.S. and around the world, the academic literature on PB as a democratic innovation and the experience of local evaluators in the U.S. and Canada. To create the research instruments, Public Agenda and PBP adapted surveys originally developed and used by local evaluators in various PB sites across North America.
The toolkit includes:
-15 Key Metrics for Evaluating Participatory Budgeting: 15 indicators (“metrics”) that capture important elements of each community-based PB process and the PB movement in North America overall
-Key PB Metrics Research Instruments: A set of Research Instruments (all customizable) to support local evaluation and facilitate the collection of data that address the key PB metrics: Idea Collection Participant Survey Template, Voter Survey Template, and Questionnaire for Evaluators and Implementers
-Introduction to the Instruments and Evaluation Timeline: An introduction to the above instruments, which also includes a timeline for how evaluation can fit into PB roll-out
15 Key Metrics for Evaluating Participatory Budgeting
Measuring PB’s Impact on Civic and Political Life:
To what extent does PB engage a significant and growing number of residents, including those who cannot or do not participate in mainstream political life?
1. Number of PB participants and percentage of eligible residents who participate. Indicates PB’s reach and ability to engage the targeted population.
2. Number and percentage of PB voters who are eligible to vote but did not vote in the most recent local election. Indicates PB’s potential to engage residents who don’t participate in the mainstream political process.
3. Number and percentage of PB voters who are ineligible to vote in local elections. Indicates PB’s potential to engage people who are excluded from standard forms of political participation owing to age, immigration status or other reasons.
4. Number and percentage of participants who report prior civic engagement or participation. Indicates PB’s potential to attract otherwise less civically engaged residents.
5. Number and percentage of participants who report being new or returning to PB. Indicates both growth and retention of PB participants and various patterns of participation over time.
To what extent does PB foster collaboration between civil society organizations and government?
6. Number of nongovernmental and community-based organizations involved in PB. Indicates the extent to which PB engages civil society. Also an indicator of variation in how processes are implemented.
Is PB associated with elected officials’ political careers?
7. Number and percentage of elected officials re-elected. Helps to assess over time PB’s association with officials’ political careers.
Impact on Inclusion and Equity:
Is PB engaging traditionally marginalized communities?
8. Number and percentage of participants who are of low socioeconomic status (SES) and/or people of color; and relative to demographics in the jurisdiction and in the most recent local election. Indicates PB’s potential to engage communities that are marginalized in the traditional political process.
Through what means does PB facilitate participation?
9. Accessibility indicators for idea collection phase, project development phase and voting. Captures aspects of the process implementation that increase access during the idea collection phase, the project development phase and the voting phase.
Is PB fostering equitable distribution of resources?
10. Allocation of PB funds by project type (to be compared with the allocation of comparable funds prior to PB). Describes how PB funds get allocated across types of projects. Informs study of differences in allocation and of equity in the distribution of PB funds.
Impact on Government:
How are the number of PB processes and dollar amounts allocated to PB changing from year to year?
11. Number of new, continued and discontinued PB processes from year to year. Tracks growth and sustainability in PB processes over time.
12. Amount and percentage of funds allocated to PB projects. Tracks the money allocated to PB projects in any one year.
What is the implementation rate of winning PB projects?
13. Project completion rates and final project costs. Highlights the # and % of winning ballot projects that are completed and how much money was spent on them (compared with how much was allocated).
Are additional resources being allocated to projects or needs identified through PB?
14. Amount of additional money allocated to projects and needs identified through PB. Indicates PB’s potential to bring additional funds to communities and/or to allocate funds differently by raising the importance of an issue.
What is the cost to government of implementing PB?
15. Dollar amount spent on PB implementation. Makes transparent how much money is spent on implementation and how that compares with the funds allocated to projects, with quality indicators of the process and with outcomes.
Above is an excerpt of the toolkit. It can be found in full PDF form on Public Agenda’s site here.
About the Participatory Budgeting Project
The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) is a non-profit organization that helps communities decide how to spend public money, primarily in the US and Canada. Their mission is to empower community members to make informed, democratic, and fair decisions about public spending and revenue.
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About Public Agenda
Public Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps diverse leaders and citizens navigate divisive, complex issues and work together to find solutions.
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Durand Jones came from humble southern gospel roots. He attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington and it was there he met drummer Aaron Frazer & guitarist Blake Rhein. The three began writing soul tunes and recording straight to tape. Little did they know that they would become Durand Jones & the Indications & release their debut album on Colemine Records. Colemine has been serving up sultry soul sides for almost a decade including lost gems, funk floor fillers, deep soul bangers, and latin grooves with an inexorable DIY approach and a pristine level of taste. Durand Jones & the Indications self-titled LP continues this tradition of quality authentic soul music from the independent Ohio label. The LP opens with “Make a Change” a funky deep soul song reflective of the current socio political temperament of our country. It’s not a call to arms, more a cry to listeners that only we can make a change; and Jones delivers! Another standout track is the sweet soul ballad “Can’t Keep My Cool”. There is something delicate & reflective in Jones’ lyrics & voice and the Indications compliment that feeling superbly. Other sweet soul highlights include “Giving Up” & and the powerful “Is It Any Wonder?”. The former is a ballad deserving of a Lee Fields cover & the latter is a soft soul tune with long moody horn rolls & a guest (Frazer) falsetto that steals the show. “Now I’m Gone” unleashes the funkier & fuzzier side of the group with minimal rolling piano stabs layered with some stellar guitar work. Honestly, a record like this is hard to describe in words. Mentioning just a few tracks seems unbecoming, as this is a record that will be talked about for years to come. As he winds through the roads of soul music performing deep and sweet soul songs along with funkier tracks like the Curtis Mayfield-esque “Groovy Babe”, Durand Jones & the Indications leave you with a warm heart, refreshed ears, & salivating for more. This is an album every soul music collector should own. Jones vocals are authentic and heartfelt which are essential for any soul singer and his band is absolutely phenomenal. From start to finish Durand Jones & the Indications deliver a complete knock out soul music performance. And there is nothing annoying on the record. No cheesy lyrics. No humdrum choruses. No annoyingly indulgent bits of over-singing. This is modern retro soul at its finest in 2017, and there’s no surprise that it’s an exact reflection of the 60s. Durand Jones & the Indications “Make a Change” video Durand Jones & the Indication “Is It Any Wonder”
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Last Updated: Sunday, 20 November 2005, 00:01 GMT
How singing unlocks the brain
By Jane Elliott
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Singing is thought to help the brain re-learn communication skills
As Bill Bundock's Alzheimer's progressed he became more and more locked into his own world.
He withdrew into himself and stopped communicating with his wife, Jean.
Jean said Bill lost his motivation, and his desire and ability to hold conversations, but all this changed when the couple started attending a local sing-song group, aimed especially for people with dementia.
Jean said Singing for the Brain had unlocked Bill's communication block.
Personality change
"The first time we went to Singing for the Brain he did not join in. On the second session he was starting to join in and by the third he was thoroughly taking part.
"It was wonderful for us. The singing had started to change something. It really did make a tremendous difference. He started to come out of himself.
I would take the song sheets home after the sessions and we would sing them at home
Jean Bundock
"His personality started to change and he became much as he was before, and he was able to hold a conversation.
"He is 82 and likes all the old-time songs, but he also started singing some Beatles songs and songs from the Broadway shows and even some modern stuff as well.
"He seemed to be able to slowly learn things again. I would take the song sheets home after the sessions and we would sing them at home. It enlivened him and he really enjoyed doing it."
Bill, from west Berkshire, has been in hospital recently after having a stroke, but Jean kept up the singing and said it has given them both a focus, even helping his slurred speech recover following the stroke.
"I don't know what it is that changes in the brain when people with Alzheimer's sing, but obviously something does change and there is something very beneficial about it. It seems to kick-start something in the brain and has made such a difference to Bill."
Emotional resonance
Chreanne Montgomery-Smith, who founded Singing for the Brain, three years ago, said the weekly sessions had proved so popular they were hoping to expand the project and get more weekly groups.
"We do have quite an avid following in the group that we have. Families believe it has enhanced their lives and in some ways it has kept people well longer.
"People who have constant memory problems are so undermined by this, but somehow the memory for singing is preserved for ever in the brain and it gives people a lift when they can remember things".
We choose things to sing for people that have an emotional resonance
Chreanne Montgomery-Smith
Chreanne started singing with groups when she was working in a residential home and was so amazed by the positive effect on people with dementia that she decided to include this when she went to work for the Alzheimer's Society West Berkshire branch.
"We choose things to sing for people that have an emotional resonance, things that allow them to express their emotions such as feeling cross or sad as well as happy.
Singing tutor Liz McNaughton, a freelance voice coach with Singing for the Brain, explained the concept had been so popular and successful that she had been asked to run workshops for people with Parkinson's Disease, those who had strokes and head injuries and for people with special needs.
"It would seem, and there is a lot of research about this, that the music has the ability to access words. It is so powerful that people who have lost their ability to speak can access songs and words from the melody."
She said the singing sessions appeared to have positive effects on participants' cognitive powers, their physical ability and their emotions.
Rhythm 'beneficial'
Clive Evers, of the Alzheimer's Society said Singing for the Brain was proving so popular and beneficial that he hoped more groups would soon be established.
"What Chreanne Montgomery-Smith is tapping into is very important. It is not the stream of consciousness, but a level of consciousness, a level of awareness people have with the real world.
Singing for the Brain
"The music allows them to engage. Her project is very important and shows what can be done."
Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer's Society and Professor of Age Related Diseases at King's College, London, said singing as an activity did seem to help people with dementia.
"People seem to enjoy doing something jointly with other people and there is a lot of evidence that being socially engaged is good for people with dementia."
He said the part of the brain that worked with speech was different to the part that processed music, allowing those who had lost their speech to still enjoy their music.
Mr Ballard said rhythm had also been shown to be beneficial, particularly for those with diseases like Parkinson's where movement was a problem. He said listening to rhythms, even just a metronome, could help.
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Remote school rebuild budget averages $11,000 per classroom
The average budgeted cost of classrooms being rebuilt with NAFA funds in Nepal is approximately $11,000 per classroom, based on estimates provided by the Nepalese architect who designed them. Factors affecting the cost include: whether the classroom blocks are two storey or one storey; how far the villages are from the end of the road-head (which affects transport costs); the size of the classrooms (three sizes being built in accordance with local school student numbers); and the local cost of materials, labour and transport.
Passing the trays of concrete
Budgets for the classrooms are more than double the budgeted cost for classrooms built before the 2015 earthquakes due to earthquake resistant components that are now required in buildings constructed in Nepal. These features include: deeper foundations and more substantive cement pillars and buttresses; reinforcing iron rebars, concrete (sand, cement and aggregate) in the foundations, floors and walls; and metal plates tying the roof trusses together.
Local volunteer labour has kept the budgets at a low enough level for NAFA to fulfil its rebuild commitments and to reinforce local ownership of the schools.
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THE MANCHESTER CITY FC TROPHY TOUR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DASHING
EXCLUSIVE MEDIA PREVIEW OF THE BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE TROPHY AND THE CAPITAL ONE CUP
For the first time in Malaysia in conjunction with the #DASHINGgoesMANCITY contest
Barclays Premier League Champions and Capital One Cup Winners, Manchester City, along with their Malaysian Partners DASHING are proud to announce that they will be bringing both trophies to Malaysia courtesy of Etihad Airways and providing exclusive access to Malaysian fans on 25 and 26 October 2014, at Sunway Pyramid. An exclusive media preview was organised to allow members of the media a first look at the two trophies.
During the preview members of the media were given the privilege to experience unique English football activities. They enjoyed the free kick challenge, Play Station 3 (PS3) football showdown as well as the foosball competition.
The Trophies were unveiled by Mr. Sriram Krishnamurthy - COO Wipro Unza, Ms.Pan Choi Yen -General Manager Marketing, Wipro Unza; Mr. Rishi Pahwa - Marketing Manager- Dashing, Mr. Stephan Cipelik MCFC Asia Regional Manager and Mr Camm Mustapha, Etihad Airways Sales Manager for Malaysia.
Mr Sriram Krishnamurthy, Chief Operating Officer of Wipro Unza (M) Sdn Bhd.
“As a company we always strive to give our customers not just state of the art product innovation but also brand experiences. The event on 26 October 2014 marks another milestone for us as the purveyor of men’s grooming brand in understanding what’s make you a DASHING Man, a unique English football experience. With DASHING you are always cool, confident and deserve to achieve this great experience”, said Mr Sriram Krishnamurthy, Chief Operating Officer of Wipro Unza (M) Sdn Bhd.
Mr Rishi Pahwa, Marketing Manager of Dashing further added, “Our customers have always been our inspiration to achieve greater things, with #DASHINGgoesMANCITY contest we are giving you two unparalleled English football experiences. The first is an opportunity to watch Manchester City take on Arsenal live at the Etihad Stadium in The United Kingdom. We are flying the winners to Manchester coutesy of Etihad AIrways and giving them VIP seats and a chance to meet members of Manchester City’s first team squad. The second is to see the Barclays Premier League trophy and Capital One Cup in person, something I am very excited about as a football fan.”
The Dashing Trophy Tour would not be possible without the support of Manchester City FC’s lead partner and national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways.
Dave Walsh, Etihad Airways General Manager for Malaysia said: “We are delighted to work with DASHING to be part of this exciting campaign and to offer Club fans in Malaysia the opportunity to see up close both the Barclays Premier League Trophy and The Capital One Cup.”
Malaysian football fans will get an exclusive access to view the coveted trophies up close on 25th and 26th October 2014, at the Orange Concourse at Sunway Pyramid between 4-9pm on 25th October 2014 and 3-8pm on 26th October 2014. Trophy pass holders will be able to get a close up look and a chance to take photographs with the trophies. The two day Trophy Tour is the culmination of a weeklong celebration where fans and customers got to experience the brand, play games and win exciting prizes such as Manchester City FC and DASHING jerseys.
Group pic of first round winners with the VIP
Commenting on the partnership, Chief Business Officer for Manchester City, Tom Glick, said:
“DASHING is a major player in the Malaysian body and skin care market, which has gone on to become one of the nation’s leading brands. Having built up a long and trusted reputation among the millions of young men in the region who also love football, DASHING is the perfect fit for Manchester City.
When the Club visited Kuala Lumpur during a previous pre-season tour, we were blown away by the passion and commitment of our Malaysian’s fans. We look forward to working with the DASHING team and to welcoming our loyal Malaysian fans to the Etihad Stadium throughout the season.”
During the event DASHING also announced the first round winners for the #DASHINGgoesMANCITY contest. The first four of the 20 X Monthly winners are Mohd Razali Bin Mohd Saleh, Low Kah Wai, Daniel Tan and Ahmad Najib Bin Mohamad. The winners will be flying out on 30th October 2014. The next round of winners will be announced in November 2014.
#DASHINGgoesMANCITY contest which was launched on the 1st August 2014 and will end on 28th February 2015 consist sets of two rewards of 20 lucky winners for a one in a lifetime English football experience.
For more information follow DASHING on Facebook.com/dashingformen or the hashtag #DASHINGgoesMANCITY.
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F&T Group and SCG America top out Tangram House West project; Designed by Margulies Hoelzli Architecture
May 07, 2019 - Owners Developers & Managers
Aerial of Tangram - Queens, NY
Queens, NY Tangram House West, the new condominium and final piece of Tangram, the transformative 1.2 million s/f mixed-use development redefining the lifestyle of Flushing, has officially topped out at 13 stories, with sales slated to launch late this spring.
“We are thrilled to celebrate such an important milestone at Tangram House West on the heels of incredibly successful sales at our first residential condominium offering, Tangram House South, which is already more than 95% sold with homes being delivered in early summer,” said Helen Lee, executive vice president of F&T Group which is developing Tangram with SCG America. “With its marriage of striking design, amazing city views and unparalleled access to luxury amenities, Tangram House West will introduce a coveted residential experience for the new Flushing.”
Located at 37-09 College Point Blvd., Tangram House West will introduce 132 residences ranging from studios to four-bedrooms, including a collection of penthouses. The building is designed by Margulies Hoelzli Architecture and features a glass façade that is punctuated with a series of undulating balconies. The design evokes waves of water, drawing inspiration from Tangram’s location near Flushing Bay and the spectacular water views enjoyed from many homes in the building. Homes with garden views will also be available.
Crafted by architect and designer Jean-Gabriel Neukomm, the interiors at Tangram House West bring eastern sensibilities to western design culture. The homes are modern, yet warm and enveloping.
In addition to having the best of Tangram’s retail, dining and entertainment right at their fingertips, residents will also enjoy access to an array of exclusive amenities and hotel-caliber services, including an 8,000 s/f health and wellness club, featuring wellness spa facilities with sauna and salt room, 60’ long indoor heated saltwater lap pool, and a heated indoor vitality pool. Residents arrive home at a private porte-cochère, set back from Flushing’s 39th Ave., and enter via a fully-attended lobby with a 24-hour doorman, concierge and live-in residents’ manager.
Other amenities include a one-acre garden with a 3,500 s/f teahouse-inspired Pavilion featuring private seating lounges, a Japanese sand garden, and a space for outdoor fitness classes; a library and lounge; an outdoor lit tennis court; indoor and outdoor children’s play areas; dog run areas; and BBQ grills with seating and dining area.
Tangram House West is an important piece of Tangram, a forward-thinking development inspired by the traditional Chinese dissection puzzle “tangram,” which consists of seven flat pieces called tans. Tangram is elevating Flushing through its groundbreaking vision of cutting-edge retail, residential, office and hotel space.
Once complete, Tangram will feature one of Flushing’s first four-star hotels from Marriott International’s Renaissance brand and American cinematic powerhouse Regal Cinemas, operator of the second-largest theatre circuit in the U.S.
Just below the collection of 324 private residences across Tangram House West and Tangram House South, Tangram offers an immersive retail experience, featuring 275,000 s/f of high-end curated retail in a multi-level space alongside a sweeping, sky-lit atrium. The Tangram development is also home to curated food and beverage offerings, including Flushing’s first beer garden and a culinary food hall. The project also includes the 48 office condos at Tangram Tower that is 80% sold. Closings at the office condominium are slated to begin later this month.
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Phillies vs. Nationals series preview: Phillies pitching staff, take a bow
By Jonathan Jansen
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A 162-game season can provide many peaks and valleys and the Philadelphia Phillies (17-13, 1st in NL East) short two-game series against the Detroit Tigers was a good example of that. After game one was maybe the lowest point of the Phillies season so far. Boos came down on the Phillies prized outfielder and it looked like the Phillies were continuing its slump. Then the next day came a seven-run performance that resulted in the Phillies fourth win in five games. What Phillies team are we going to see when divisional foe Washington comes to Philadelphia.
Pitching Match-ups and Start Times:
Friday 5/03, 7:05 p.m.: Jeremy Hellickson (+149) vs. Jerad Eickhoff (-166)
Saturday 5/04, 7:05 p.m.: Patrick Corbin (+105) vs. Jake Arrieta (-115)
Sunday 5/05, 7:05 p.m.: Anibal Sanchez vs. Zach Eflin
Phillies pitching has only had one blunder this week. Other than the nine allowed runs against the Marlins on April 27, the Phillies staff has held teams to zero, one, three and three runs. The low-run total in the past week can mostly be attributed to some unlikely play from the back-end of the rotation. Especially Zach Eflin and Jerad Eickhoff.
While Nick Pivetta was being touted at the start of the season, Eflin and Eickhoff were not getting any attention. In the their past two starts, it’s what we should be talking about most. Eflin pitched the first complete game for the Phillies since 2017. A couple games before that, Jerad Eickhoff surrendered only two hits in seven shutout innings.
Come July, it’s possible that both Eflin and Eickhoff may not even be in the starting rotation. For now, it reinforces why the Phillies aren’t in a rush to make a move at the moment. From now until July it is up to Eflin and Eickhoff to continue to help the Phillies and so far they’ve done that, and a little extra.
Oh, and Adam Morgan still has not allowed a run. Remarkable.
What to Watch For:
So, have the Phillies bats returned?
Game one against the Tigers seemed like a setback for an offense that started to come alive again. Then a win in game two completely shifted the narrative for the Phillies lineup:
What a difference one game makes. Now if the Phillies win tonight, it will be their fourth win in five games and 29 runs (and counting) in that span. Hard to believe, but that’s pretty darn good. @PHL_Influencer https://t.co/vWhRCX7fFO
— Jon Jansen (@jjansen34) May 2, 2019
It helps that the pitching staffs for the Marlins and Tigers aren’t very good, but that may have been what the Phillies needed. Consistency from the lineup is going to be important as it is the biggest strength of the 2019 Phillies.
The recent success for the Phillies lineup has come mostly without the bat of Bryce Harper. His batting average has now dipped to .231 and is gone without a hit in three straight games. Although the Phillies are missing Harper, the team still has found a way to score runs and hold the top spot in the NL East. That won’t last forever though. The Phillies need Harper to play well, but for now Maikel Franco and company are picking up the slack.
Prop Bets (from Monkey Knife Fight):
Game 1:
Jeremy Hellickson – o/u 3.5 strikeouts – That is a very low strikeout total for Hellickson. While I don’t feel too comfortable with it, I have a feeling the Phillies will get to Hellickson early. UNDER
Jerad Eickhoff – o/u 5.5 strikeouts – Eickhoff has had six or more strikeouts in his three appearances this season. OVER
Run Total – o/u 9 – Again, I think the Phillies pounce on Hellickson early and Eickhoff is prone to surrender a few runs as well. OVER
DFS Play: Rhys Hoskins
Hoskins has a hit in five straight games and also has two home runs in that span. Love the home run potential for Hoskins and is one of the cheaper options for a top first baseman. Also, this may be a good opportunity to do a mini-stack with the Phillies against Hellickson.
Jimmy Rollins retirement night is May 4. Fans will receive a replica 2008 World Series Championship ring. This puts a stamp on the the Phillies-era with the core group of Rollins, Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. It really is incredible to think about the legacy those three have left behind. While those three may not be considered the two or three best Phillies players of all time, they certainly were part of the best era in Phillies history. Any chance we get to celebrate what those three did for the franchise should never be taken lightly. Soon enough, I hope we see the numbers 11, 6 and 26 retired some day.
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Phoenix Sport and Social Club
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Phoenix Sports and Social Club Hockey Section started over 30 years ago and is still thriving. We have a single team which plays in Division 6(south) of the Yorkshire Hockey League and we have a full fixture list on Saturdays from September through to March.
Our pitch is on Astroturf at Ecclesfield School near Chapeltown and home games start at 11am. We currently join Rotherham Ladies for their training sessions every Thursday at Firth Rixon Aurora in Brinsworth starting 7pm.
We gladly accept players of any age and standard, our current age range is 15 to 58.
We are a social and friendly club who enjoy the competition on the pitch but definitely play for the sheer enjoyment of taking part in a great sport surrounded by great people.
Anyone who would like to be involved in any way as a player, umpire or supporter please come along and join in, for details please contact the Phoenix Office on 01709 363788
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Introducing Noah Slee, who makes a big return with Soulflower
It's the first song since the Berlin-based artist's 2017 debut album Otherland, and it's a good one.
Posted By Hayden Davies 10 days ago
Noah Slee isn't a new artist in the international electronic sphere, but he's one you should be paying attention to. Since arriving back in 2014, the Berlin-based musician has grown to become a trusted collaborator (particularly in the Australian space, where he's worked with names including Carmada, YesYou, Sampology and more) and on his own level, a rising star-in-the-making, pushed into the spotlight with a consistently strong discography full of EPs, singles and his 2017 debut album Otherland. Featuring acts including Jordan Rakei, Otherland was the perfect encapsulation of Noah Slee as an artist at that point, capturing his genre versatility and range as he swerved through sounds across its 16-track duration - indie, pop, R&B and electronic being the most common overlap.
The time since, however, has been fairly quiet. He's remained a frequent collaborator working with the likes of Yoko-Zuna and Sola Rosa, but on a solo level, he's largely spent much of the time since Otherland building on his sound and songwriting while working on whatever's next, something we get the first taste of now with Soulflower. Soulflower is a returning moment of triumph for Noah Slee, solidifying his craft in the R&B and electronic-tinged neo-soul world as he combines a percussive instrumental thick with soothing, hazy synth melodies with his stunning vocal, which soars above the song's gentle mix of keys and percussion. There's a full EP to come, which on release, is bound to further flesh out Noah Slee's versatility as a songwriter and vocalist, but in the meantime, lose yourself in the hazy R&B dreamscape of Soulflower below and better introduce yourself to Noah Slee while you're at it:
I love to create and perform music, I love to dance, I am confused by the state of our Earth, I love being around people that make me laugh. I could go on forever but I am saving it for the book haha…
What’s the vibe music-wise?
I like to call it breezy r&b dance music. I also don’t think genres matter so much, people are just creating what they like and a project could be a variation of different ideas and themes all together.
What are your production and writing processes like?
It constantly varies, at the moment I’m using the voice memo app on my iPhone to record all my music. It has a certain texture I really enjoy. It seems that the compressed sound we listen to on a daily basis is considered intimate because we use it every day to communicate. I am using that idea to create music.
I am always writing though, and when I feel I have a project I enjoy I try to complete it, studio spaces aren’t so important for me. I prefer a great space with a good vibe and environment. Relaxing places always help me to create with ease.
Can you tell us about your new single, Soulflower?
Soulflower speaks about souls connecting or souls flowering, but for whatever reason, they only have their memories. Natural conditions, constraints force them to not be together. It’s more than a breakup song, it's about appreciation for those special moments shared.
It marks your first solo release in around two years. What have you been up to during that time?
Yeah the first release in two years, damn - just flew by like that. 2018 I was on the road and writing simultaneously. Earlier this year, I took some time out to chill before getting into finishing new music. It seems a little weird to be based in Berlin for so long. It’s been a wonderful two years. My album has given me so much confidence and appreciation because of how people connected to it.
Any tour dates coming up?
I will be announcing shows in the near future, I am excited to change up my stage show. Follow me for deets.
What does 2019 have in store for you?
I’m eager to share new music and already have some other projects in the works. I obviously want to tour the new music and I’m making an effort to see more of Europe while I’m living here.
Where can we find more of your music?
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The Rise of the Cupcake Class
Posted by Mike Madison on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | Tags: | 3 Comments
Yes, Chris Briem actually used the phrase first, but he knows that I was thinking along the same lines and yet understandably reluctant to say it out loud.
Now that I think about the phrase, though, it makes perfect sense. Cities that want to compete economically in the 21st century need to attract and retain The Cupcake Class: People with the time, money, and taste to consume small portions of upscale baked goods.
Take a look at my small but expanding list of cupcake retailers; run a search on Google for cupcake blogs. What you find are cities laden with people who are energetic and entrepreneurial -- San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Washington DC. You find growing economies. These aren't necessarily the hippest places, but they are places that any city today would be proud to emulate. And these are cities that are putting away gourmet cupcakes by the truckload. Clearly, the more cupcakes-sold-per-capita, the better off a city is likely to be.
Next, and dovetailing only semi-seriously with my nascent series on The New Pittsburgh: Cupcake Class strategies. If we bake it, will they come?
3 Responses to "The Rise of the Cupcake Class"
Anonymous said... 11/28/2006 11:39 AM
Actually, I invented the phrase "Cupcake Class" in the early '70's, but I was referring to the Mister Rogers crowd. I certainly can't refute the analysis above, but I can't help but think that, at the very least, it would be very difficult for one of the old rust belt towns to break into this class. Has it ever happened? When we were the third largest Fortune 500 city in America, for many years, we probably had a disproportionate number of the Cupcake Class, or its equivalent back then, living here, but those days are over. Am I being too pessimistic, Mike/Chris?
C. Briem said... 11/28/2006 6:30 PM
Maybe we are seeking the lumpia class. Note Pittsburgh mentioned today in an ap article today in the online version of the Manila Standard Post: Click here for more...
Vivian, The Angry Copyreader said... 12/10/2006 7:39 AM
Again, I must reference my grandmother -- a woman who ran her own bakery and for every birthday sent me to school with cupcakes (giving literal meaning to "cupcake class"), and for every Halloween gave children fresh-baked cupcakes (back in the '70s).
Of course, that was when kids actually said, "Trick or Treat," stepped inside your front door, and you'd spend a few minutes guessing who was who and tell them "my how you've grown!" (Even "Shorty" Hogan, just to make him feel good.)
Watching these kids receive a fresh-baked cupcake in-hand did give me some rather anecdotal stories about the dilemma it presented: they pretty much had to stuff it in their face on-the-spot or otherwise risk disaster if they dropped it in their bag. What can I say. My grandmother was a Sadist.
(In fact, once, she hit a man with a hot skillet --just to watch him fry.)
Anyway, even though it confounds me (yet it doesn't), if the cupcake du jour is tomorrow's bread and butter for us, so be it.
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Maverick investigator Søren Marhauge returns in a high-stakes case that reveals a profit-motivated conspiracy with roots that extend all the way from the upper reaches of Big Pharma to the national government.
When controversial Professor Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office, his assistant Marie Skov refuses to believe that he has committed suicide. The late scientist had uncovered a shocking truth involving immunology programs in the developing world during a recent research trip to West Africa. Marie believes he was silenced before he could share what he had learned.
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Home » Local News » Bas Muafakat Johor – free bus service to start in April
Bas Muafakat Johor – free bus service to start in April
In Local News, Public Transport / By Chris Aaron / 22 March 2016 12:29 pm / 17 comments
As revealed earlier in the year, the state of Johor will flag-off its new free bus service by the middle of April 2016. As part of the state’s pilot project, four local councils have allocated an annual budget of RM11 million to fund the initiative.
According to The Malay Mail, a total of 30 busses will serve at various routes in the Pasir Gudang and Kulai area. The busses will feature a “Bas Muafakat Johor” logo, different colour schemes to match the districts they operate in. Each bus is said to have free WiFi and a CCTV system.
However, while the bus rides may be free, an annual membership card will be required. For adults, the membership card is priced at RM10, while senior citizens, the physically challenged and students aged seven to 17 may have it for RM5. The membership card is free for children under the age of six.
“We estimate that by providing the free bus service, it can help each passenger save up to RM150 a month. Although it is not a lot of money, it is still useful,” said Datuk Latiff Bandi, the local government and housing committee chairman.
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“We have appointed two bus companies, Handal Indah Sdn Bhd and Maju Bus Service, with good track records in Johor to manage the service. Handal Indah operates a fleet of buses which serves the city and also offers long-haul routes. Maju Bus has been in the transport business for over 30 years,” he added.
Despite the new bus service being free, the chairman insisted that it will offer top quality services, and will be monitored closely by the Johor Public Transport Corporation (JPTC). He reportedly said that rude and reckless drivers will be dealt with by the JPTC. “Free service does not mean poor service,” he exclaimed.
The free bus service is not the first of its kind in Johor. Two years ago, the city council introduced its first free bus service under the “Johor Bahru Di Hati Ku” initiative. But while the latest service offers a total of 30 busses, the previous venture only had six.
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syed zamani bin syed zain on Mar 22, 2016 at 12:31 pm
good job. make sure card only for citizen. if not it will be full with indo/bangla/myanmar
Sewel on Mar 22, 2016 at 1:09 pm
I agree with syed zamani..
Prihatin on Mar 22, 2016 at 1:15 pm
#be like johor
john on Mar 22, 2016 at 2:02 pm
If I have to pay for it in some form or another, then its not FREE!
Abc on Mar 22, 2016 at 2:32 pm
rm10 still very cheap. good job Johor!
CarGuy on Mar 22, 2016 at 3:02 pm
If you don’t willing to board the bus, just shut up.
Then dun call it FREE BUS, cuz the meaning is misleading. Call it membership bus, subscription bus, MLM bus, or Johoreans Only Club Bus, its just not free.
Sharul on Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Better than nothing…..at least I can use the bus for RM10 the whole year…..
Joey on Mar 22, 2016 at 3:36 pm
Hope thay can provide good/high frequency periodlically per hour. If not, it will be another let down.
Rent on Mar 22, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Annual pass cost less than a pack of cigarette still Malaysian want to complain?..just wow. Even if you have a car, this could still be an option when needed.
bibikbiru on Mar 22, 2016 at 9:12 pm
I bet brother bangla and myanmar nationailty will be very happy about this……
David tay on Apr 01, 2016 at 6:45 am
How do I register the bus card
lee ching ching on Apr 01, 2016 at 12:33 pm
S Angelina on Apr 12, 2016 at 9:30 am
Johor MB had done good job by putting the public/Rakyat as a priority to benefit from CSR project. Unfortunately this had not gone well in the ground level. The service had made a twist at the wimp of the drivers/company (Causeway). Especially route to JB-Larkin, Tmn Johor during period from 30 minutes had turned to hours with the timekeeper taking joy ride on route P104 and the bus missing for more than 1 hr. P101(JB) in the evening hours are running empty, refuse to stop even in front of MBJB which has no traffic jam. Matter gets worse on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Checked with drivers only to be informed it is the company that wanted them to run empty to cover the trips. This unethical method is being abused to the advantage of the drivers. The company given and paid for this contract shouldnt allow such practice as reflect/impact on Menteri Besar who had championed this project for the sake of the Rakyat. As for the Rakyat is being bullied or tricked to accept such nuisance of the company service. Traffic jam MUST NOT be the reason for such practice as MBJB area is traffic clear, the P101 buses are auto,even with the GPS the camera should be facing the front screen & not road which does not show the clear road in front. Menteri Besar does not know what is happening at the ground level tho millions spend to pay for substandard services. The company mgmt should seriously taste hands on experience especially in the evening instead of making decision from the aircond office which is not promoting the Menteri Besar effort for the Rakyat. This had also been highlighted to the Muafakat Bus PENYELARAS who was in the bus last week but no improvement at all instead it had become worse. Peoples comment ‘ini lagi teruk dari dulu’ (JB route only with interval of 10 – 20 minutes which we had option as bus are there within half hour. Also the timing was till 12 midnite allow those lower income working in supermarkets/fast food had bus to take. Safe on teksi cut throat charges. Promotion for the bus service is also VERY POOR. Website not working. Not everybody has access to internet, promotion should also be in physical forms especially on HOT SPOT area LARKIN, JB TOWN, SUPERMARKETS ETC.
joanne on May 31, 2016 at 12:28 pm
how to apply online or wat
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Jen on May 11, 2017 at 10:21 am
Make good and full use of the free transports.
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Federal court makes orders against former CEO of Katungul medical service
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Mr Anthony Beven, has noted declarations made today by Justice Jacobson in the Federal Court in Sydney against Mr Damien Matcham, the former CEO of the Katungul Aboriginal Corporation Community and Medical Services (Katungul). Mr Matcham consented to the declarations being made.
Justice Jacobson made 25 declarations of contravention by Mr Matcham. Mr Matcham was declared to have contravened the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 in relation to a series of unauthorised payments to himself from Katungul’s funds. The unauthorised payments were for bonuses, time in lieu, superannuation, recreation leave and life insurance and amounted to in excess of $700,000.
Justice Jacobson declared that Mr Matcham had not exercised due care and diligence, had not acted in good faith in the best interests of the corporation and had improperly used his position as CEO to gain a personal advantage and to cause detriment to Katungul.
Katungul is a not-for-profit corporation that provides essential primary and secondary health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living on the far south coast of New South Wales.
‘This is an important decision,’ Mr Beven said. ‘It sends a very clear message that chief executive officers are in an important position of trust and leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations, and there are serious consequences if they misuse their position.’
Justice Jacobson adjourned the proceedings until 13 November 2013 when he will hear submissions from the Registrar and Mr Matcham on penalty orders. The Registrar is seeking an order disqualifying Mr Matcham from managing companies and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporations, pecuniary penalties (fines) and an order requiring Mr Matcham to pay compensation to Katungul.
‘I would like to thank the former and current directors and staff of Katungul,’ said Mr Beven. ‘When they became aware that money that was to be used to improve the health of their community was being diverted to one person they notified my office. They also provided invaluable support during the Federal Court proceedings.’
Katungul has achieved a significant turnaround and is now in a strong financial position. It has also expanded the range and type of health services it delivers. Mr Beven said, ‘This is a good outcome and it is pleasing to see that truth and justice have prevailed for Katungul and its members and clients.’
For more information on this matter please see the Registrar’s media releases of 29 June 2012 (ORIC MR1112-44), 8 June 2012 (ORICMR1112-39), 3 February 2012 (ORIC MR1112-21) and 25 January 2012 (ORIC MR1112-19).
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Amara Kanu, Seun Awolowo, others share their journeys as The Joy Masterclass debuts in London
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Participants at The Joy Masterclass London have learnt and started applying the principles for living a centered, joyful, and fulfilling lives. This was learnt after a successful hosting of the first edition of The Joy Masterclass in the United Kingdom.
Organised by award-winning multi-media personality and presenter, Shedzi and Phillipa Nnanyere, the masterclass was held at the London Business School.
Making remarks about The Joy Masterclass London, an attendee who chose to be anonymous said: “The tips, advice and resources shared were very useful and practical such as reflection, meditation, the joy compass and others.”
“I loved it and I learnt so much. I even applied something Chude said [about] ‘what’s happened to you for you to feel like this’ and it worked; I was like so happy,” another participant added.
Other speakers who shared insights into their stories are fitness coach, Amara Kanu; founder of Still Dapper, Dr. Sheun David-Onamusi; and the creator of the 3-D Living Empowerment movement, Seun Awolowo.
In his remarks after the masterclass, founder of the happiness company, Joy, Inc., Chude Jideonwo noted that “because it was the inaugural [United Kingdom] class, I expected a handful of students and was pleasantly surprised by a full house.”
“People from across industries – oil and gas, investment banking, academia, media, sports – together for 8 hours on Saturday learning the timeless principles for finding and keeping happiness, balance, and purpose. It’s always a great sign of impact when, after 8 hours, people are still seated or standing, taking it all in, with a million questions and comments and thanks,” he added.
The Joy Masterclass, which now runs as a franchise, weave the confluence of thinking and research about happiness, human flourishing and resilience – across psychology, economics, divinity, and philosophy – into practical lessons, habits, and tools that help participants transform their thinking, attitudes, and actions.
Individuals interested in hosting a masterclass in their city, school, business, church/temple or organisation, can email Joy, Inc. on [email protected]
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The best restaurants in the world according to The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018
Since 2002, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants has published a ranking of top restaurants and chefs. Candidates are determined by a jury of more than 1,000 people worldwide. These are top chefs, restaurateurs, critics, food travelers and other industry experts. The whole world is divided into 26 regions depending on the concentration of gastronomic thought: for example, France was assigned a separate region, and our country is included in the “Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe” block. Each has its own election commission of 40 people, from year to year its composition changes. Voting takes place as follows: the expert chooses the top ten best restaurants in the world, and at least 4 should be located outside his region. An obligatory condition is to visit each of the establishments at least once during the past 18 months and not have any economic ties with them. The purity of the vote is controlled by an independent auditing agency Delotte.
The restaurant from Russia for the first time hit the top 50 in 2011, then the 48th line was occupied by Anatoly Komm’s “Barbarians”. But as high as in 2018, domestic projects never happened. The Moscow restaurant White Rabbit, headed by chef Vladimir Mukhin, ranked 15th in the list. For the year, White Rabbit improved its position by eight divisions: in 2017, he occupied the 23rd place.
Other Russian establishments did not make it to the top 50, but two restaurants are on the extended list: Selfie in 70th place and Twins Garden on 72nd.
We publish the top 5 best restaurants in the world:
NO.1 OSTERIA FRANCESCANA (MODENA, ITALY)
This is the small restaurant of the legendary chef Massimo Bottura. Francescany has an interesting story: first, the place almost closed, because conservative local people did not understand the innovative cuisine at all. At the core of Massimo’s gastronomic philosophy is a love for authentic Italian products and a daring modern approach. The restaurant regularly leads prestigious ratings and has three Michelin guide stars. First place of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Osteria Francescana was previously in 2016, in 2017, the restaurant went down to second place.
NO.2 EL CELLER DE CAN ROCA (GERRY, SPAIN)
The restaurant is owned by three brothers: chef Juan Roca, sommelier Josep Roca and pastry chef Hardy Roca. Their cuisine is based on local ingredients and childhood memories. Among the specialties of the restaurant are recommended frozen olives, oyster tartar, interpretations of Basque specialties and a line of desserts according to old recipes.
NO.3 MIRAZUR (MENTON, FRANCE)
An idyllic panoramic view of the Mediterranean and an hour’s drive from Nice is already an application for success. Here, the Argentine chef who worked with such gurus as Alain Passar and Alain Ducasse, Mauro Kolagreko prepares dishes inspired by the Cote d’Azur. Many products come to the restaurant from their own farm, other chefs buy from the local market. The menu is ruled by seasonality, a lot of dishes from vegetables and seafood. Anchovy fillets are especially noted here on the skeleton of anchovy with juice of Menton lemons, oysters with tapioca, champagne and pear.
NO.4 ELEVEN MADISON PARK (NEW YORK, USA)
Swiss chef Daniel Humm began working in the kitchen at the age of 14. He was 24 years old when the restaurant where Daniel worked was given a Michelin star. In Eleven Madison Park, he prepares European cuisine with Scandinavian aesthetics and American audacity. One of the most daring dishes here is smoked sturgeon cheesecake with a heap of caviar.
NO.5 GAGGAN (BANGKOK, THAILAND)
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Shatta Wale unveils his $1 million mansion in Accra
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Self-proclaimed king of dancehall music in Ghana and Zylofon Media artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, known in the world of showbiz as Shatta Wale, has finally opened his much talked-about $1 million mansion.
In a video sighted by YEN.com.gh, Shatta Wale was seen in the company of his close friends and some of the loyal members of his Shatta Movement as they officially opened the house.
The building which is believed to be in East Legon has a big swimming pool in it, amon gother luxurious amenities that are found in most mansions.
The ‘Taking Over’ hitmaker however revealed that he bought the house for his sweetheart, Diamond Michelle Gbagonah, known widely as Shatta Michy.
Shatta Wale, in the video he recorded made it known that the million-dollar mansion belonged to the mother of his son.
Shatta Wale’s status read, “Shatta Michy your house is ready…I bought it for you…Latest Slay queen in Town…She owns a mansion.”
Some of the people who were seen at the unveiling were Shatta Wale’s close friend, Solash, musician Pope Skinny and some cast of the popular Kejetia Vs Makola series.
Shatta Michy was also present and she could not hide her joy as she expressed her love for their new edifice. She was seen in a few lovey-dovey moments with her man as they ensured that their guests were having a nice time in their new home.
Earlier on, Shatta Wale’s dad, Shatta Capo is noted to have indicated that his son is ‘undieable’ and also revealed that he was going to ‘take on’ some prophets who had prophesied doom upon his son.
Shatta Wale appears to be on a ‘warpath’ with some Men of God and threatened to burn down some churches soon. In one video which the ‘Dem Confuse’ song maker recorded, he revealed that his parents split up because of ‘influence’ from a man of God.
He added that he ended up becoming a ‘street child’ as a result of the split up.
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THE HOME & CASTLE VINEYARDS
Mick and Pam were initially enticed by Road 13’s scenic setting. Through research and an association with viticulture consultant, Richard Cleave, it quickly became clear that the area known as the “Golden Mile” is a unique terroir. The two vineyards that surround the winery, Home Vineyard and Castle Vineyard, are situated on east-facing sloped benches up against mountains. The two locations have slightly different soil conditions and are healthy farms that feature hard ground with high mineral content, high moisture and nutrient-holding capacity, and an open southeast exposure that provides all-day, extended sunlight. The slopes provide excellent cold air drainage, protecting the vines from winter frost damage.
HOME VINEYARD DETAILS
Location: Elevated bench up against the mountain on the west side of the valley in the area’s “Golden Mile.” There is all-day and late-day sun exposure.
Vines: First planted in 1968 to Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay, then in 1980 with Riesling and Chardonnay. Today this vineyard still holds Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay and Riesling, but Merlot and Syrah have also been added.
Soil: A small smattering of humus on top, hiding hard ground and rock – lots more rock. The nutrient-holding capacity is high.
CASTLE VINEYARDS DETAILS
Location: Elevated bench up against the mountain on the west side of the valley in the area’s “Golden Mile.” All-day and late-day sun exposure. Adjacent to the Home Vineyard.
Vines: First planted in 1986 to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Merlot. Syrah was added in 2005.
Soil: It’s not! It is the usual stuff vines really love: hard and rocky with fine clay interspersed. This clay results in a high moisture-holding capacity, giving the vines a natural and constant reservoir of nourishing moisture and nutrients.
PETER'S VINEYARD
Located just across the road from the Castle Vineyard, this block of grapes has always added appeal to the view from the picnic area, and now adds aromatic varieties to the Honest John's blends. Peter's Vineyard was purchased from Peter and Helga Serwo late in 2009. Like the Castle and Home Vineyards this vineyard features an open southeast exposure that provides all-day extended sunlight.
PETER'S VINEYARD DETAILS
Location: Elevated bench on the west side of the valley in the area's "Golden Mile." Adjacent to the Castle and Home Vineyards.
Vines: Planted in 1982 with of Riesling, of Kerner, and of Bacchus. The Bacchus and some of the Riesling were recently replaced with Chardonnay, Gamay, Syrah, Viognier, and Orange Muscat.
Soil: Gravel and sand. Despite the proximity to both the Castle and Home Vineyards soil types are competely different.
ROAD 7 VINEYARD
Road 7 Vineyard is located between roads 7 and 8 and should, admittedly, be called Road 7.5 Vineyard as it can be accessed from either side. The varied elevation site is on the west side of the valley within the area's "Golden Mile." South-west exposure provides full-day sun allowing the grapes plenty of time to develop full flavour.
The addition of Road 7 Vineyard to the Road 13 holdings is a testament to Mick and Pam's confidence in the Golden Mile area and the fruit that is produced there.
ROAD 7 VINEYARD DETAILS
Location: Located on the west side of the Okanagan Valley, south of Oliver, in the area's "Golden Mile." Incorporates two distinct vineyard sites, one on the Golden Mile Bench and the other on land that slopes toward the valley bottom.
Vines: Planted in 1999 this vineyard includes approximately of Merlot, each of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, and of Gewurztraminer. A little more than half an acre of Syrah was added in the spring of 2014.
Soil: Gravel and sand.
Today Road 13 Vineyards owns and farms a total of about and also relies on long-term contracts with some of the South Okanagan's top grape growers. The winery takes great pride in its positive reputation amongst grape growers as an excellent winery partner. The respect of the growers is reflected in the quality of the fruit that they deliver to Road 13 Vineyards.
Road 13 Vineyards benefits greatly from its Southern Okanagan Valley microclimate, which is arid, offering a significant reduction in grapevine diseases. Consistent warm summer weather is moderated by nearby lakes; and the bench lands, which rise 50 to 100 metres above the valley floor, permit cold air to drain off the bench vineyards, extending the safe growing season. Generally speaking, the soils are well-drained with appropriate mineralization.
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You are here:Homepage / About RTI / Road Transport Images - About RTI
Road Transport Images was developed by Frank Waller from Seasalter in Kent as an extension of a hobby he started in the late nineties, purely for nostalgic reasons, to recreate lorries he had driven and / or operated, or ones he could recall from the "good old days". Frank retired in 2002 after a lifetime in transport and distribution, starting as a driver's mate and driver, retiring as a national operations manager.
Frank passed away in 2018 and the business subsequently passed to its current owners; Graeme and Lorraine McQuaker who are based in Ayrshire in West Central Scotland.
All of the cabs consist of two parts: complete cab shell and interior, plus steering wheel and appropriate style fuel tank for the cab type. Chassis are also two parts: chassis rails and rear mudguards, plus underside transmission, including axle beams and dif. to hold the axles in place. A range of white metal wheels is available to suit all cab types. An increasing range of bodywork is available, plus a selection of loads to replicate a lorry "earning it's keep".
All cabs and components can be built as a complete vehicle, or you can just buy individual items, such as cabs, bodies, wheels etc. to convert or improve EFE, Trackside and other kits you may have bought previously. An increasing range of water slide transfers and registration numbers (with an option to have fifty sets made to your own requirements) are also available for super detailing. The objective is to take the masochism out of modelling.
Half a dozen components and you have a rolling chassis/cab. We have made the price list as easy to follow as possible. First listed is the range of cabs with cab prices. The next column to the right indicates the chassis(s) that will fit each particular cab; the third column is the wheel set to suit the vehicle type. The prices for chassis and wheels are priced under the appropriate headings.
If you are a model collector as opposed to a modeller, we can now offer a bespoke building service to a very high quality. Please contact Chris Staniland by telephone 01670 712 698 or by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a quotation, indicating to him the model you want built. It will then be necessary to buy the modules for the model you require, plus any transfers and accessories, which are delivered to your home address for you to post on to Chris Staniland.
Bodywork is also available, mostly one piece, ready for painting. Against each body type is shown the price and the chassis it will fit. All images give the cab code for easy recognition, with many showing chassis, body and wheel codes.
We attend a number of model and transport exhibitions throughout the year, with advance notice being published on the website and sent to customers on the email list. Our show stand has examples of all current items on display with stock available for sale and numerous fully assembled and painted models on display.
We'd be pleased to meet you to explain our range further. We hope this has further fired your interest and look forward to receiving your orders.
Graeme and Lorraine McQuaker
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January 1, 2019 johndolt
2019 could be interesting.
Presumably, the people in charge know what they’re doing.
Top Ten Super Fun Brexit Scenarios
December 5, 2018 johndolt
Scenario 1: Poisoned Chalice, Take One
Parliament votes down Theresa May’s “deal”, then narrowly approves a second referendum.
Remain wins the second referendum by a tiny margin.
May steps down.
The Tories hold a leadership election. Tory party members pick a hard Brexiter.
The new, hard-Brexit Tory government declares that the second referendum result is invalid because (a) there wasn’t a “no-deal” option; and (b) fewer people voted Remain in the second referendum than voted Leave in the first; and (c) lots of other bogus reasons.
The Conservative Party splits.
The new hard-Brexit Tory government loses a no-confidence vote.
Labour wins the ensuing general election, promising to “respect the results” of BOTH referendums.
The new Labour government takes office.
It then discovers that it can’t agree what to do.
And the Article 50 clock is still ticking.
Scenario 2: Poisoned Chalice, Take Two
Parliament votes down Theresa May’s “deal”, then approves a second referendum.
Remain wins the second referendum by a large margin.
With the assistance of the Putin-Facebook-Trump axis, as well as the newspapers, the BBC and the Corbyn-fearing establishment, the new-look, far-right Conservative Party wins a landslide.
And finds itself in charge of implementing the Will of the People – to stay in the EU.
Scenario 3: Yellow Vests
Parliament votes down all the options that anyone can think of.
Article 50 expires; the UK crashes out of the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
Almost immediately there are shortages of food, medicines – and fuel.
A populist, French-style “Gilet Jaunes” protest movement erupts.
But there aren’t enough yellow vests to go around – they all have to be imported from France.
Under pressure from angry populist mobs, Theresa May is forced to apply for emergency readmission to the EU in order to get vest imports moving again.
Scenario 4: Abdication Crisis
Taking her constitutional duty seriously during a time of political crisis, the Queen phones the Beeb and says she wants to address her subjects.
The Beeb instantly gives her a slot just before Strictly (or Countryfile or whatever).
The nation tunes in. “Good evening,” says her Majesty. She probably has a corgi on her lap, but it’s not essential. “One has gorn orff Brexit. That is all.” The dog – if there is one – says “arf”.
Politicians – all except for the hardest of the hard Brexiters – fall over themselves to agree that yes, they too have gone off Brexit, and that the Queen, naturally, is channelling the Will of the People.
So Parliament cancels Brexit.
The Brexiters, and certain newspapers which hitherto were staunchly Royalist, denounce the Queen as an Enemy of the People.
Social media instantly fills with Royal kompromat.
The Queen steps down in disgust. Charles takes over. Vast sums of money are spent on a coronation meant to ‘cheer up the nation’.
The kompromat keeps coming.
Charles abdicates and flees to Botswana.
The Brexiters declare that Oliver Cromwell was right after all and seize Parliament.
Civil war ensues.
Scenario 5: The Iraq Option
Tory hard-Brexiters bring down their own government in a no-confidence vote.
A general election is scheduled.
Before the vote takes place, however, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo arrange for Boris Johnson to address the UN Security Council.
Johnson presents incontrovertible evidence that Jeremy Corbyn has built up a secret stockpile of WMD – provided by Iran and Venezuela. Johnson pleads for US assistance in facilitating “a new birth of freedom”.
Trump immediately sends US military “advisors” and “peace-keepers” to the UK, in a mission called “Operation Enduring Brexit”.
A “Provisional Wing” of Momentum is formed.
Trump appoints Steve Bannon as Viceroy of the new UK “Coalition Provisional Authority”, to Johnson’s disappointment.
Tunbridge Wells becomes the new Falluja.
Scenario 6: London Secedes
Theresa May actually wins the meaningful vote on her deal, through some mysterious means that baffles historians for decades to come.
Giddy with vindication and hubris, she reverts to type and plays her hits, denouncing “citizens of nowhere”, “cosmopolitans” and “multi-culturalists”, and promising to deport anyone who looks “too foreign”.
A list of potential deportees is leaked to The Guardian.
Finding himself on the list, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, to great popular acclaim in the metropolis, declares London to be an independent city state within the EU. Kind of like San Marino, only bigger.
The M25 becomes an international border.
Gun boats patrol the Thames to keep vital sea routes open and guard against Brexiter saboteurs and pirates.
Passport and customs checks begin at South Mimms.
Scenario 7: Global Britain
The hard Brexiters depose Theresa May and take charge.
Parliament votes against a “no-deal” Brexit, but the new PM, Jacob Rees-Mogg, invokes a clause in an obscure treaty from the 12th century that rules that Parliament can only debate in Latin.
While MPs struggle to learn Latin, Article 50 expires and the UK crashes out of the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
The new government abolishes all tariffs and all regulations affecting businesses, workers and capital, as well as nearly all government departments.
Too general amazement, investment pours in from across the world and Britain becomes the “Singapore of Europe”.
But then a SARS-type virus – later traced to a contaminated shipment of dollars from Panama – slips into the country.
And, because there is no longer an NHS, or a Department of Health, everyone dies.
Scenario 8: Ireland’s Revenge
Theresa May wins the meaningful vote (see Scenario 6).
But negotiations with the EU during the “implementation period” go nowhere, and the “Irish Backstop” takes effect.
Anti-Irish agitation in the Brexity north of England provokes a pro-Irish backlash in the southeast.
Violence breaks out and escalates.
The southeast pleads for Irish assistance.
Irish peace-keeping troops arrive as part of a UN-mandated mission.
A popular plebiscite in the southeast is held.
The southeast votes to become part of Ireland.
The counties of the north form the province of “Northern England”, which becomes a poverty-stricken US Territory, like Puerto Rico.
Scenario 9: It Was All A Dream
David Cameron wakes up in a cold sweat inside his luxury shepherd’s hut to discover, to his surprise, that it is 2018 and he is still Prime Minister.
“Phew,” he thinks, “thank God it was just a nightmare!”
But then he picks up the Daily Telegraph and reads that Tory hardliners are plotting to remove him and UKIP is stealing Tory voters.
“Why won’t they stop banging on about Europe, like I told them to!” he fumes.
Then he reflects for a moment and decides that, for the sake of the Conservative Party, he must sacrifice himself and go ahead with the referendum.
Scenario 10: Zombie Apocalypse
Despite the urgent warnings of Theresa May, the Conservative newspapers, the BBC and establishment commentators that it will unleash “dark forces”, a second referendum is held.
Remain wins.
Dogs begin to howl. Cats hide under the furniture.
The spectre of Enoch Powell flits across the landscape.
David Cameron takes a sudden, unplanned holiday in the Maldives.
Deceased Leave voters rise from the dead.
The Zombie Apocalypse commences.
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Theresa May’s Brexit Letter to the Nation (Corrected)
November 25, 2018 johndolt
When I became your prime minister got the job of PM because Gove stabbed Boris and Leadsom bottled it, the United Kingdom had just voted to leave the European Union been subjected to a Russian-backed onslaught of lies and bigotry.
From my first day in the job, I knew I had a clear desperate mission before me – a duty to fulfil on your behalf save the conservative Party: to honour exploit the result of the referendum and secure a brighter power-grabbing future for our country Party by negotiating blackmailing and weaselling a good any old kind of Brexit deal with out of the EU.
Throughout the long deceitful and complex incompetent negotiations that have taken place over the last year and a half, I have never lost sight of that duty holding on to power.
Today, I am in Brussels with the firm obstinate and pig-headed intention of agreeing swallowing a whatever Brexit deal with the leaders of the other 27 EU nations will give me.
It will be a deal that is in our national Party’s interest – one that works for our whole country class and all of our people donors, whether you plebs voted ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’.
It will honour fetishize the result of the referendum – whose result would be very different today, I dare say!
We will take back control of our borders lobsters, by putting an end to the free movement of people fish once and for all.
Instead of an immigration system based on where a person comes from getting along with our neighbours, we will build one based on the skills and talents how much money a person has to offer.
We will take back control of our money, by putting an end to vast annual payments to holidays in the EU.
Instead, we will be able to spend British taxpayers’ more and more borrowed money on our own priorities, like the extra £394 million per week that we are investing in our long-term plan for the NHS hand-outs to rich people.
And we will take back control of our laws, by ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice all voting in the UK.
In future, our laws will be made, interpreted and enforced by our own courts and legislatures English Nationalist sharia-style panels.
We will be out of EU programmes that do not work in our interests: out of the Common Agricultural Policy Galileo satellite programme that has failed our farmers 4×4 drivers, and out of the Common Fisheries Policy Erasmus student exchange programme that has failed our coastal communities freshers’ discos.
Instead, we will be able to design a system of agricultural support bungs that works for us Tory farmers, and we will be an independent coastal economically-underwater state once again, with full partial control over our waters bladders.
The deal also protects the things we Tories value.
EU citizens who have built their lives in the United Kingdom will have their rights protected are on their own, as will be UK citizens living elsewhere in the EU.
A free 1930s-style protected trade area will allow goods to flow easily with great difficulty across our borders, protecting the many skilled jobs right customs bureaucrats across the country that rely on we didn’t need when we had integrated supply-chains.
Because our European friends will always be our allies in the fight against susceptible to bullying by us on terrorism and organised crime, the deal will ensure that security co-operation will continue, so we can keep our people safe get a free ride.
As prime minister of the United Kingdom, I have from day one been determined to deliver bodge together a Brexit deal that works for every part of our country keeps Jeremy Corbyn out of Number Ten – for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, for our Overseas Territories like Gibraltar, and also for the Crown Dependencies no, actually just for England.
This deal will do that put the fix in.
Crucially, it will protect the integrity of our United Kingdom trap the whingeing Scots and ensure that there will be no hard border an acceptable level of violence between Northern Ireland and Ireland – so people English Tories like us can live their lives as they do now.
It is a deal for a brighter an authoritarian future, which enables us to seize the opportunities populist levers of power that lie ahead.
Outside the EU, we will be able to sign new trade deals with other countries hand ourselves over to Trump and open up new markets in fall further and further behind the fastest-growing economies around the world.
With Brexit settled forced through at gunpoint if necessary, we will be able to focus our energies on the many other important issues facing us here at home: keeping our economy austerity strong, and making sure every community shares in prosperity poverty; securing privatising our NHS for the future, giving every child rich kid a great start in life, and building the homes Rachman-style slums that families Tory landlords need; tackling the burning injustices that hold too many people Old Etonians back, and building a country for the future that truly works for everyone the new Tory rentier class.
On 29 March next year, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union.
We will then begin a new chapter in our national life decline. I want that to be a moment of renewal desolation and reconciliation capitulation for our whole country.
It must mark the point when we put aside pretend that the labels lies of ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ for good are all forgotten and we come together again as one people under Farage.
To do that, we need to get on with bow down before Brexit now by getting behind utterly crushed by this deal.
Parliament will have the chance to do that itself in in a few weeks’ time when it has a meaningful an ultimately meaningless vote on the deal I hope to strike slink away with today.
I will be campaigning with my heart and soul whatever empathy I can fake to win steamroller that vote and to deliver impose this Brexit deal, for the good of our United Kingdom English Nationalist Conservative Party and all of our people Little Englanders.
Future News From the BBC…
September 3, 2018 johndolt
It’s 9:00pm on Wednesday, November the 4th, 2020 – and here is the news from the BBC:
* The Prime Minister congratulates President Trump on his landslide re-election following a ruling by the Supreme Court in which millions of illegal votes were disqualified.
A Downing Street spokesman for Mr Rees-Mogg said that Britain had backed the President all throughout his campaign, and now hoped and prayed that Mr Trump would re-think his complete ban on British exports. Mr Rees-Mogg is said by sources to believe that a comprehensive free-trade deal with the US may be only fifty years away. Downing Street had no comment to make about the imprisonment of Elizabeth Warren in Guantanamo, except to note that it was a domestic American matter.
* The British economy scales new heights.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, under its new Chairman, Iain Duncan-Smith, has announced that GDP per head has picked up markedly in the first quarter, and is now on course to match Greece within the foreseeable future.
* Corbyn refuses to admit mistakes.
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the now-disbanded Labour Party, speaking from exile in Quito, Ecuador, has told local media that he had no idea that tanks would be deployed in the snap election, and that Labour’s National Executive Committee hadn’t even discussed the possibility. Asked to comment by the BBC, the leader of the opposition, Dominic Grieve said, ‘I didn’t agree with military intervention at the time but, clearly, Corbyn hasn’t learnt a thing.’
* Immigration drops to a record low.
Immigration into the UK has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded. The Home Secretary, Nigel Farage, told the BBC that this was cause for ‘great celebration and rejoicing’ and added that pubs would be permitted to stay open an extra hour on Andrew Adonis Day – formerly known as Guy Fawkes Day. Asked about rumours that the government had turned a blind eye to armies of ‘dark migrants’ smuggled in to pick crops, work in kitchens, and operate call centres, Mr Farage confirmed to the BBC that this was merely ‘fake news put about by the failing EU.’
* Japan boost for Brexit Britain.
The Chairman of the Japanese Keidanren business lobby, which includes such giants as Toyota and Panasonic, has said that Japanese firms have not ruled out a return to the UK, and that the relevant decisions will be taken in ‘the fullness of time.’
* Terrorist attack brings chaos to Paris.
The Foreign Secretary, Peter Bone, condemned the attack, but told the BBC that British intelligence could have thwarted the attack if only the EU hadn’t refused to give Britain access to the Single Market for goods.
* And, on a lighter note, a new BBC poll finds that the nation’s favourite food is now spam!
The presenter of the BBC’s Great British Spam-a-Lot, former Love Island contestant Heidi Crass, told the BBC, ‘Obviously, the show has a lot to do with it. And Brexit. But, obviously, there’s so much you can do with it! I mean, obviously, I live in LA now, and there aren’t any food shortages, obviously, but I still love my British spam! Obviously.’
Top Ten Ways in Which Jeremy Corbyn Will Not Become Prime Minister Even If He Wins
August 28, 2018 johndolt
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party may well win the most votes at the next election – and, quite possibly, the most seats. But fear not: should such a disaster occur, there are ways of getting around it and saving the nation for Capitalism:
10. The Liberal Democrats suddenly decide to form another coalition with the Tories. Nobody sees this coming. They still don’t have the numbers, but the media says that ‘once again Britain has voted for coalition government’, and the Queen summons Jacob Rees-Mogg to the Palace because he looks and sounds about right, like Cameron did. The Lib Dems promise to restrain the Tories’ extremism. But they don’t. Nobody sees this coming.
9. Anti-Corbyn Labour MPs defect, having just won their seats under Corbyn’s leadership, declaring that they are shocked – shocked! – to discover his hitherto-secret true agenda, which has only now been exposed in the Tory papers.
8. The Queen – or, more likely, one of her minions – declares that Corbyn ‘is not in a position, alas, to form a government’. It turns out that his allotment has been inspected and his radishes are not up to scratch. Or something.
7. An ‘honest mistake’ by the Bank of England sends the markets into turmoil and causes the pound to plunge on the foreign exchange markets. The outgoing Tory government declares a State of Emergency and puts the election result ‘on hold’ until ‘stability is restored’. Which just seems to take forever.
6. A mysterious letter is discovered, in which the head of the Russian FSB accepts Corbyn’s proposal that he be supplied with free potatoes and vodka in return for dropping all UK sanctions against Russia, plus handing over Bill Browder and the Skripals.
5. Trump declares war on Iran. Or possibly North Korea. Or possibly Canada. The outgoing Tory government declares a State of Emergency and forms a ‘National Government’ from which all alleged ‘conscientious objectors’ are excluded.
4. A suspected novichok attack on The Great British Bake Off causes the outgoing Tory government to declare a State of Emergency, etc, etc…
3. The Librarian at the House of Lords discovers an ancient parchment amendment to (the) Magna Carta which prohibits anyone called ‘Jeremy’ from coming within a hundred cubits of the Monarch. So Corbyn is dead out of luck, PM-wise.
2. Trump tweets that ‘millions of illegals’ voted for Corbyn and that ‘the greatest tariffs the world has ever seen’ will be levied on the UK if Corbyn is not disqualified. For the sake of the economy and just-about-managing voters, the post-Brexit outgoing Tory government has no choice but to reluctantly comply.
1. Between the Newsnight exit poll and the first result from Sunderland, the outgoing Tory administration, adopting a strategy used to great effect by US Republicans in North Carolina, transfers all the powers of the office of the Prime Minister to the hereditary members of the House of Lords. When Corbyn turns up for work at Number Ten, he finds that it has been converted into a Gentleman’s Club, and is refused admission on account of the dress code.
Top Ten Reasons Why the New “Centre Party” Will Be Tons Better Than Labour or the Tories
10. Austerity. This new party – let’s call it the Centre Right Action Party – won’t continue austerity in mindless perpetuity, like the Tories; or recklessly abandon it, like Labour. We’ll end it the moment the poor and the working class get the right idea and do as they’re told.
9. Health. We won’t sell off the NHS to Trump and his cronies, like the Tories; nor will we bring it fully back into so-called “public ownership” at enormous expense to higher-rate taxpayers, like Labour. Instead, we’ll take the sensible and pragmatic approach of having a quiet word in private with that nice Mr Branson.
8. Foreign Policy. We won’t turn a blind eye to suffering in Yemen, like the Tories; or attack British industry, like Labour. We’ll make sure that all munitions we sell to Saudi Arabia have a sticker that says “This bomb is helping to preserve British jobs.”
7. Housing. Unlike the Tories, we won’t ignore the homeless; and, unlike Labour, we won’t attack Middle Britain by undermining house prices. Instead, we’ll make sure that each homeless family is offered an affordable tent in a field that we’ll rent from Tory or Lib Dem farmers.
6. Education. We won’t force all students to pay extortionate amounts for their education, like the Tories; nor will we let taxes on wealth-creators soar, like Labour, so that any old so-and-so get can an education for nothing. We’ll see to it that only nice, middle-class kids get the subsidised education they deserve.
5. Immigration. Far from demonising and tormenting all non-rich immigrants, like the Tories; or operating a socialist-style open-door policy for anyone who wants to come here and pay taxes, like Labour, we’ll institute a fair and balanced points system in which each sector of society gets the immigrants it needs: nannies, gardeners and housekeepers for upper-class Tories; footballers for working-class Labour voters; au pairs for the Lib Dems and us; and so on.
4. Crime and Justice. Unlike the Tories, we won’t let our prisons decay into Dickensian hell-holes or run down the police until they’re mere night watchmen; nor will we pamper criminals with cushy “rehabilitation” schemes and books in their cells, or hand out legal aid as if it grew on trees, like Labour. Instead, we’ll tackle crime head on by reinstituting foot patrols in nice, middle-class areas and fencing off the dodgy, crimey bits.
3. The Economy. We’ll put an end to the Tories’ rent-seeking, low-wage, financialised, spiv economy, but, unlike Labour, we won’t waste time hopelessly trying to copy non-British countries like Germany, Denmark and Norway in creating a high-productivity, export-based economy with proper worker training and less inequality. Instead, we’ll focus on what Britain does best: costume dramas, cake contests and housing bubbles – after all, they make us feel good, don’t they? Oh, and military hardware.
2. Trump. The Centre Right Action Party abhors Trump and all he stands for and, unlike the Tories, we’ll never suck up to him. However, we don’t want to insult him all the time, like Labour, because he can get a bit nasty. Once we are in government, however, we will respond to each new Trumpian outrage with a stern “Tsk!”, followed by “Please don’t hurt us.”
1. Brexit. Unlike the Tories, who hate everything to do with the EU – or Labour, who want some kind of People’s Socialist Federation of Europe* – our policy is entirely in tune with the views of the British people: we are going to leave, but not really; there will be a Brexit-in-name-only, but it will be a real Brexit; nothing will change with respect to our status as EU members, but we will not be EU members; we will keep the negotiations going interminably until everyone forgets about them, and then we will quietly drop the whole idea. (This is our best policy of all.)
(*The members, not the leadership, obviously.)
Theresa May’s Hostile Environment – The Top Ten Ways YOU Can Help
April 26, 2018 johndolt
10. ‘Show me your papers!’ Yes, memorise that phrase! If you’re out and about – on your way to Gregg’s say, or Iceland – and you see someone who doesn’t look like they ought to be here, rush up to them and utter those words as sternly as you can. If they look frightened and run away, pat yourself on the back. If they don’t, call the free Home Office Hotline on 0-800-STASI.
9. Stay informed. Keep up to date on who’s welcome in Britain and who’s not by reading the Express, the Mail or the Telegraph. From time to time, you may hear on the BBC that ‘mistakes were made’ or that ‘too much emphasis was put on policy’. You can ignore all that.
8. Organise. Show some community spirit and set up a neighbourhood watch! Every group that catches at least one illegal immigrant will win ‘Make Britain Great Again’ baseball hats for everyone in the group. The group that catches the most will be presented with a special trophy at the Tory Party conference. And remember – if there’s any violence, you can always say you thought they were a burglar.
7. Vote. Don’t bother voting for UKIP any more – the Tories have adopted all their best policies! And remember, Labour only hate the Jews – not the people you’re worried about.
6. Passports. Make sure you apply for your new blue passport as soon as possible. If you still have an old EU one after Brexit, you’ll be classified as a Remainer and will be subject to deportation to Belgium.
5. Children. What if you know someone who doesn’t look very British, but still seems to have all their paperwork in order? Well, think laterally! Do they have children? Do THEY have all the right documents? Get creative!
4. Money. Thanks to EU spite and sabotage, money could be tight after Brexit. But detention centres don’t grow on trees! Consider organising a sponsored run through areas where there are lots of immigrants. Make some noise! Think about carrying flaming torches. You never know who you might flush out. Or find an empty field in Lincolnshire and set up your own concentration camp!
3. Jobs. Somewhere, somehow, there’s a migrant, or someone who doesn’t seem at all British, who has a better job than you. Is that fair? Your mission is to replace them. Who dares wins!
2. Culture. Thanks to Labour, the EU, and political correctness, our culture has been far too welcoming. What’s wrong with traditional British culture, anyway? Write to the TV companies and demand that they immediately start reruns of ‘Love Thy Neighbour’, ‘It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum!’ and ‘The Black-and-White Minstrel Show’.
1. Patriotism. Theresa May needs your help in facing down the Citizens of Nowhere. As you know, they are the ones to blame for everything you don’t like. Now, no one’s saying we need to turn Britain into Nazi Germany – well, not yet, anyway! – but that doesn’t mean that if you see someone reading the Financial Times or The Guardian you shouldn’t give them a dirty look. And as for the New European… Well, enough said. And where’s the harm in asking someone where they’re from if they don’t look British? You’re just taking a friendly, patriotic interest. Remember, the Prime Minister’s goal is to create a Hostile Environment that we can all feel at home in. But that doesn’t mean that being patriotic can’t also be fun! So long as you’re really British, of course.
Top Ten Tory End-of-the-Pier Acts
March 30, 2018 johndolt
Nnarghh! The Conservative Party seems to have devolved into a particularly awful End of the Pier Show. In fact, here are the…
Top Ten Tory End-of-the-Pier Acts:
10. Ventriloquism with Gavin ‘Stupid Boy’ Williamson and his talking spider, Cronus. You can’t see his lips move, except when he’s campaigning for the leadership! Listen with awe and hilarity as Cronus threatens Russia with nukes! Most popular catch-phrase: ‘Shut up and go away!’
9. Character-Comedy Monologues with Jacob ‘The Country Squire You Love to Hate’ Rees-Mogg. Best-loved character: the Member for the Eighteenth Century, with his hilarious pre-Enlightenment views! Tory policy may be a bit of a wasteland, but never mind – he do the police in different voices!
8. Conjuring and Sleight of Hand with Boris ‘Alexander de Bottle’ Johnson. Now you see it, now you don’t! Just like the £350m! Don’t lend him your watch, you’ll never get it back! Favourite trick: sawing Theresa May in half and putting her back together! Second favourite trick: responding ‘robustly’ to Russia. Brilliant at escapology (excluding Iran)! No, don’t boo, he’ll run away!
7. Flying Trapeze Artist, John ‘When Your Back’s to the Wall, Turn Around and Fight’ Major. It’s true that he ran away from the circus to become an accountant, but now he’s back in the ring, swinging high above those Brexit clowns, the Famous Bastard Brothers, and dumping you-know-what on them!
6. Old-Fashioned East End Pugilism with David ‘Fight of the Summer’ Davis. A battle-scarred prize fighter with absolutely no notches on his belt, he’ll go six rounds with all comers! With no preparation whatsoever! And with the predictable results!
5. Mind Reading, Frightful Apparitions and Occult Visions with Phil ‘The Undertaker’ Hammond and his crystal ball. He knows the future! And he knows what you’re thinking! Yes, this Brexit thing is going to end very badly! But do not despair – with his spells and incantations, and a bit of help from the global economy, we might not be totally doomed!
4. Tall Tales from Exotic Lands, illustrated via Magic Lantern, with Intrepid Explorer Liam ‘I’ll Be Needing Two Seats’ Fox. Thrill to stories from the far reaches of the Empire; of gold, jewels and ivory – just there for the taking; and of bizarre and mysterious potentates, such as the Mighty Trump of the West and the Meddlesome Vlad of the East! You’ll believe in two-headed flying camels! And trade deals that can replace the EU!
3. Knife Throwing with David ‘I Think I’ll Be Good at It’ Cameron, and his glamorous international assistant George ‘Gizza Job’ Osborne. Every time he hits the spinning target without impaling George, a Russian oligarch donates £100k to the Tory Party! Hurrah! And such confidence – he can even do it blindfolded! What could go wrong? Oops…
2. What the Butler Saw, with Raffish Old-School Raconteur Damien ‘PornHub’ Green. Ooh-la-la! Is it really like that in Downing Street, or is it more like the Joe Orton play?
1. Musical Hall Artiste of Yesteryear and Songbird-in-a-Gilded-Cage, Theresa ‘Maybe It’s Because I’m a Blunderer’ May. Chaste and aloof, the Ice Princess all the way from Maidenhead! No innuendo, no smut, no smile, no dancing nor flash of ankle, and no idea what she’s singing about. Just the leopard-print shoes and her unchanging catalogue of timeless and well-worn standards: ‘Nothing Has Changed’, ‘Let Me Be Clear’, ‘Brexit Means Brexit’, ‘A Britain That Works for Everyone’, ‘Just About Managing’, ‘The People Have Spoken’, and so on and on and on…
Top Ten WMD Nasties Currently Stored in the Bunkers at Porton Down
10. Farage Gas. Produces blindness, headaches, crippling attacks of jingoism and an aversion to public transport. Now banned everywhere except the US, Russia and the BBC, although for many years it was unwittingly subsidised by the EU.
9. Johnsonium. Highly radioactive and easily dispersed via TV and print media, Johnsonium decays into different isotopes depending on which way the fallout from the Tory leadership fight is blowing.
8. Cameranthrax. Spread by spores typically incubated in a hot, steamy right-wing environment. Causes nausea, vomiting and verbal diarrhoea, mostly on account of the way the host organism walks away without suffering any personal ill effects whatsoever.
7. Govichuk. A mere trace of this nerve agent is enough to kill off any Tory leadership campaign.
6. Thatcherium. An extremely toxic element, originally synthesised in the US, with a very long half-life. Because of the way it interferes with the DNA of all public life, it is all but impossible to eradicate, once contamination has occurred. Will explode violently if brought into contact with trade unionism or civilised values.
5. Botulinum Europhobia. Produces foaming at the mouth, double standards, hot-headedness, flashbacks, and an irrational fear of foreigners. The only known cure is a diet consisting of nothing but British haddock (or kippers).
4. Turkish Flu. Resistant to all known antibiotics or facts, this highly contagious flu virus causes lurid hallucinations – typically of hordes of migrants crossing the English Channel – followed by severe amnesia.
3. NHVX. This agent destroys a health system by constricting the flow of vital funding. Side effects include exhaustion, despondency, poverty and death.
2. Austerium. Experiments, theory and history have all shown conclusively that the effects of this substance on 99% of the population are entirely harmful and destructive. However, for some reason, research continues to be funded.
1. Maydon. A colourless, odourless, radioactive gas that occurs naturally under certain geological conditions – such as strata of extreme inequality or deposits of Tory schist. In sufficient concentrations in confined spaces – such as the corridors of Westminster – it induces paralysis and narcolepsy, along with acute feelings of inadequacy, persecution and fatalism. Death comes slowly and painfully, although the body may appear to function long after the brain has putrefied.
Top Ten Tips from a Former Top MI6 Spook: What YOU Can Do NOW to Stop the Traitor Corbyn Seizing Power by Winning the Next Election
(From an upcoming pull-out special in the Daily Telegraph.)
10. Allotments. Subversives like Corbyn like to use ‘allotments’ to avoid surveillance. In the somewhat unlikely event that you know of someone with an allotment – they’re usually lower-class and may live in a ‘council’ house – make sure to plant a bug in their shed (see Reader Offer below) and send us your recordings.
9. Horses. When Corbyn stages his coup, by ‘getting the most votes’, we’ll need to mobilise. The Reds will act fast to take control of the CCTV and ANPR networks, so we’ll need to avoid motorised transport. Get in touch with your local hunt and make arrangements. Ex-police horses are usually best.
8. Guns. We’re talking to Trump’s people about this. You normally need to be 18 to get an AR-15, but Trump may waive the rules in the face of the Corbynite threat.
7. Fashion. Even counter-revolutionaries need to look their best as they man (or woman!) the barricades. Do look at our special feature on what the Country Set are wearing to defy Corbyn.
6. Media. We’ll be just fine with Sky and the BBC (and the papers, of course!), but Channel Four could be a problem. Get on to Ofcom and help us get Jon Snow, Michael Crick and the other trouble-makers moved up North, which is where we’ll send all the subversives once democracy is restored.
5. Money. Betting against Corbyn is the best investment you can make (after Buy-to-Let, water company shares and offshore), so send us your cash and we’ll invest it for you in our anti-Corbyn hedge fund (managed by Anthony ‘The Mooch’ Scaramucci). Bitcoin gleefully accepted!
4. Russia. Some of you may still believe that Russia is ‘communist’. But we’ve had a word with Steve Bannon, and it turns out that Vladimir Putin is actually a traditional-values conservative. Yes, it’s true! What’s more, he’s very keen on Brexit and he’s told all his ‘oligarch’ friends to donate to the Tory Party! So keep the back door unlocked, if you know what we’re saying. After all, what’s a bit of nerve agent between friends?
3. The EU. Corbyn poses as a ‘Eurosceptic’, but he hates Britain, so it stands to reason that he must be in league with Brussels. We’ll need to guard against invasion. Gavin Williamson, Liam Fox and Jacob Rees-Mogg will be organising a Dad’s Army-style guerrilla outfit. Contact your local golf club for details.
2. The Royal Family. Obviously, the Royals will be one of Corbyn’s first targets. We will need to hide them until the fuss blows over. If you have a spare castle, moated estate or manor house, please get in touch.
1. Democracy. After the Corbyn threat is despatched, we’ll need to restore democracy in accordance with the Brexit vote. If you fancy a seat in the reformed House of Commons, it’s not too soon to be thinking about your donation. Remember, democracy is just like the property market – you get what you pay for, the south east is way more expensive than the rest, and you can look forward to handing on your assets, tax-free, to your children. On with the revolution!
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Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016
December 10, 2016 September 28, 2017 ~ Saad719
The Swedish Royal Family attended the annual Nobel Prize Ceremony and Banquet in Stockholm on December 10th. King Carl XVI Gustav personally awarded the Prize to each Nobel Laureate. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo earlier on the same day in the presence of the Norwegian Royal Family. The King’s sister, Princess Cristina wasn’t able to attend as she is suffering from chronic leukemia.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were joined by Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Prince Carl-Phillip, Princess Sofia, Princess Madeleine, and Christopher O’Neil. The Nobel Laureates received their Nobel Medal, Nobel Diploma and a document confirming the Nobel Prize amount from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. A winner was American singer, Bob Dylan for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” Only Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel join the King and Queen on the stage, while Prince Carl-Phillip, Princess Sofia, Princess Madeleine, and Christopher O’Neil sat in the audience.
After the Prize Ceremony, the members of the Royal Family and the Nobel Laureates attended a Banquet at the Blue Hall of the City Hall in Stockholm. They processed down the balcony and the grand staircase, before sitting at the central table. The first toast was in honour of the King by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin (Chairman of the Board of Nobel Foundation), while the second was in honour of Alfred Nobel’s memory made by HM King Carl Gustaf. The Royals and their guests watched three musical performances before dinner was served. Afterwards, they listed to speeches from a laureate of each category, and attended an “after Banquet” reception before departing the City Hall after midnight.
Queen Silvia wore a sparkly gown with the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure. Crown Princess Victoria wore a custom gown from H&M with the Cut Steel Tiara and the earrings, necklace, and brooch of the Cameo Parure.
Princess Sofia wore an emerald green gown from House of Dagmar with the Cut Steel Bandeau and Queen Silvia’s emerald earrings. Princess Madeleine wore a pink gown by Fadi EL Khoury with the Connaught Tiara, pearl earrings, and a pearl and diamond bow brooch.
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T. Kiguradze - The Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age transition in the eastern Caucasus
Tamaz Kiguradze
The Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age transition in the eastern Caucasus.
In: Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux IVe-IIIe millénaires. From the Euphrates to the Caucasus: Chronologies for the 4th-3rd millennium B.C. Vom Euphrat in den Kaukasus: Vergleichende Chronologie des 4. und 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr.Actes du Colloque d’Istanbul, 16-19 décembre 1998. Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2000. pp.321-328. (Varia Anatolica, 11);
http://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_11_1_937
In the early forties Boris Kuftin coined the term "Kura-Araxes" and provided the first clear definition of this cultural assemblage in the Transcaucasus. For him the Kura-Araxes period belonged to the Eneolithic, or what we now call Late Chalcolithic, which he dated to the late 4th and 3rd millennium B.C. According to Kuftin, the Early Bronze Age was characterized by the increase in metal work that is represented at such sites as Sachkere and early Trialetian Kurgans. Since the sixties, however, certain scholars have viewed the Kura-Araxes as belonging primarily to the Early Bronze Age. During the last few decades a number of settlements have been discovered in the eastern Caucasus that relate to the transition between the Shulaveri and Kura-Araxes cultural complexes. These settlements which in eastern Georgia number more than twenty are grouped by the author into a cultural complex termed "Sioni". Similar sites have been reported in Armenia, Azerbaijan and the northeastern Caucasus, in the latter they are represented by settlement Ginchi. This paper will focus on the precursors of the Kura-Araxes which have only become known to us in recent decades. Furthermore, I will suggest a possible connection between what is here termed as the "Sioni" cultural complex and the earliest Kura-Araxes phase.
In eastern Transcaucasus the Shulaveri culture, best represented by Shulaveris Gora, Imiris Gora and Khramis Didi Gora in Georgia, Shomu Tepe in Azerbaijan, and Khatunarkh in Armenia, encompasses 5th millennium the Neolithic b.c. (uncalibrated). and Early Chalcolithic The Shulaveri periods culture that fall is between characterized approximately by : the mid-6th to the - mud brick circular cell compounds consisting of domestic quarters and storage; - coarse, handmade pottery reflecting a limited repertoire of jars and pots, fired mainly to a greyish brown colour. Certain vessels bear relief or incised decorations; - a lithic assemblage consisting of a sophisticated blade industry; - a very rich bone and antler assemblage. The late Shulaveri period merges almost imperceptibly with the following cultural developments that extend from the late 5th millennium B.C. to the mid-4th millennium B.C. termed "Sioni" by me. The main characteristics of the Sioni cultural complex are as follows:
DISTRIBUTION AND GEOGRAPHY (Map 1)
Altitudinally, Sioni sites are found on the valley floors, foothills and uplands, a zone which extend from 300 m above sea level to almost 2000 m. This range of ecological zones occupied by the inhabitants of Sionian sites contrasts with the distribution of Shulaveri sites which are invariably positioned on the lowlands, but compare well with the geographical distribution of Kura-Araxian sites. These Sioni sites are found in the central and eastern part of north Caucasus, eastern Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Sites are generally one period, shallow and small, occupying an area of no more than 1 hectare. A small number of sites, however, have Sionian deposits stratified either above Shulaverian levels (Alikemek Tepesi), or below Kura-Araxian ones (Berikldeebi, Aranisi, Araplos Gora in Georgia, Ovchular Tepesi in Azerbaijan, and Geoy Tepe M near Urmiah). This absence of a deep and reliable stratified sequence necessitates a periodization of material culture based on typology and seriation.
Architecture is mostly mud brick, but poorly represented at Sionian sites. The best example comes from Berikldeebi where a large public building (possibly a temple, according to the excavators, Alexander Djavakhishvili and Lili Glonti) and an enclosure wall were uncovered in level V. The building measures about 14.5 x 7.5 m, and consists of three rooms - a large and two small ones. Evidence of domestic houses at Berikldeebi was scanty. Houses, rectangular in form, are better represented at Alikemek Tepesi and Leila Tepe, where multi-roomed structures were exposed. A fragmentary section of a curved stone wall about 4 m in length and 80 cm in width, preserved to a height of a metre, was found at Sioni. Common to all Sioni sites are pits that are either straight-sided or bell-shaped and generally larger than a metre in a diameter. Evidence of plaster on the interior face is rare.
Ceramics from the site of Sioni, attributed to the early Chalcolithic, are hand made, using slabs of clay clearly evident in cross section. The fabric is mostly grit tempered and often micaceous, and fired to a reddish brown colour on the exterior and pale greyish on the interior. Certain vessels are fired to a pale brown colour all over and display a dark grey /black core. The least common are sherds that have a consistent colour (pale brown) throughout. Surfaces are mostly slipped and either smoothed or lightly burnished. Additionally, some pieces are flint-scraped on one or both surfaces. Typologically, vessels are mostly ovoid-bodied jars or pots with a sinuous profile, though angular forms are not uncommon. They have a straight or everted neck, or have a hole-mouth. Bases are generally flat with spiral basket impressions. Hole-mouth jars and flat bases, typical of the earliest phase of the Sioni complex, are also attested at late Shulaverian sites, suggesting either a chronological overlap between the two periods, or that they are consecutive. Rims are often decorated in the following ways:
- perpendicular or oblique incisions on the lip; - perpendicular or oblique shallow grooves on the lip; - perforations on the lip; - crinkled rim; - serrated rim. The closest parallels that may be drawn with the ceramic repertoire from Sioni are to be found at Jinvali and Tsiteli Sopeli where the perforated and incised lip type, and the serrated rim occur. At Alazani III (Kviriastskali) the decorated rims are restricted to two types: the incised and perforated lip. Noteworthy are the numerous mat-impressed bases. Elements new to the ceramic tradition, including solid knobs, tab handles, perforations around the rim, loop handles joining neck to shoulder, and a finger-impressed relief band around the body. The next stage of development is represented at Damtsvari Gora which has produced only the obliquely incised lip, perforated rim, solid knobs and tab handles. New forms appear at Tsopi, including bag-shaped vessels with sharply flared rim or gently everted neck. Chaff-temper is also introduced. Continuity with the earlier phases, however, is evident in ornamentation, with certain vessels having the serrated rim, incised lip, solid knobs and perforations around the rim. The final stage of the Sioni sequence is attested at Berikldeebi V, Tekhut and Leila Tepesi whose pottery is similar to the chaff-tempered wares at Tsopi, but with a marked decrease in decoration which is represented only by incised lips. Broad shallow plates are the only new form to be introduced during this phase.
LITHICS
Ninety-four percent of chipped stone from Sioni is manufactured from obsidian and present an equal quantity of flakes and blades. Microliths are very rare. Formal tools are mostly blades. Some specimens display fine shallow, squamous retouching over the entire surface. The most common tool types, in order of quantity, are: - pièce écaillée; - end scraper; - burins; - awls. Ground stone objects such as saddle querns and rubbers are not as conspicuous as during the Neolithic. As the Sioni sequence develops, the lithic tradition is represented by a greater proportion of flakes. The fine squamous retouching evident at Sioni is represented by only a few pieces at Alazani III which has also yielded a pièce écaillée, an end scraper and burins. During the last stages, as represented at Berikldeebi, stone tools are predominantely obsidian flakes; the few blades recovered are almost all manufactured from flint.
A few examples of arsenical bronzes point to a period of experimentation with metallurgy. Types are standardized and comprise:
- square-sectioned awls (Alazani III, Berikldeebi, Tekhut and Leila Tepesi); - spiral bracelet (Berikldeebi); - knife (Tekhut).
BONE AND ANTLER
Bone and antler tools are rare and stand in contrast to the Shulaveri assemblage.
CONCLUSION (Tables 1-2)
The material culture outlined above that may be placed chronologically between the Shulaveri and Kura-Araxes period is marked by subtle regional and inter-site variability. Only a few common denominators are evident:
- pale brown slipped ceramics with mica inclusions; - the manufacture of vessels using the slab technique, seen as laminations in cross section; - incised decoration along the lip of vessels; - vessels bearing a flint-scraped surface. This characteristic of variability together with the absence of a deep stratigraphy suggests, for the time being, that the Sioni period should be viewed as comprising a cultural complex. The earliest sites of the Sioni complex have parallels only with the Neolithic of western Georgia (Odishi, Anaseuli II, and Gurianta). Notably different, however, are the lithic industries of the two regions. The style of ornamentation using a relief band with finger impressions around the body, evident at the sites of Alazani III and Damtsvari Gora, may be compared with a similar decorative concept used in the Early Chalcolithic level at Korucutepe. The Korucutepe connection is further strengthened in the Late Chalcolithic period when comparisons may be drawn with Late Sionian sites. These with their chaff- tempered, bag-shaped ceramics point to Amuq F, Gawra XII-IX, and Late Ubaid. This last link is most clearly seen in the painted wares from Tekhut. In some ways, this Sionian complex may be seen as foreshadowing the Kura-Araxes period. Sites of both periods occupied a similar ecological zone which differed from that preferred by the Shulaverian inhabitants. It is tempting to establish a chronological connection between the Late Sioni and the earliest phase of Kura-Araxes because of:
- the Trelli and Grmakhevistavi settlement assemblages which have both chaff-tempered ware and early Kura-Araxes represented by smoothed pale brown vessels; - the handful of early Kura-Araxes sherds found within the Berikldeebi V deposit; - the concept of a contrasting colour scheme, the discrete use of relief ornamentation and perforations under the rim common to both assemblages The earliest Kura-Araxes sites should be placed within the Late Chalcolithic and be seen as transitional to the Early Bronze Age.
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Kushnareva, K. and Chubinishvili,T., 1963 "Historical Place of South Caucasus in the Ilf Millen. B.C.", Sovetskaia Archeologia, N3, Moscow (in Russian).
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Fossilized dinosaur mummy gets X-rayed
in Scientific Inquiry and Biological Populations Change Over Time
Dinosaur body found
Imagine how much we could learn if instead of only bones, we could find a dinosaur body. Nate Murphy, curator of paleontology at the Judith River Dinosaur Institute, along with 20 experts in various fields are X-raying and photographing a dinosaur named Leonardo this week. In October, Murphy plans to present his findings at a medical imaging conference in Houston.
Leonardo is a 77-million-year-old fossilized mummy of a duck billed dinosaur known as a brachylophosaur. Since the mummy is now stone, it had to be removed in one, world record sized, 6.5 ton chunk. Leonardo's stomach contents are so well-preserved that researchers can tell what he had for his last supper; a salad of ferns, conifers, and magnolias. The stomach also contained the pollen of more than 40 different plants. The scientific work on Leonardo will keep paleontologists occupied for years. Murphy hopes the studies will build interest and funding for more tests — particularly CT scans that could take three-dimensional images instead of the one-dimensional pictures captured in the X-rays this week.
X-rays show more than just bones.
Until now, the technology didn't exist to look at what was inside of Leonardo. Over the next 20 months, the Discovery Channel is filming how non-destructive x-rays combined with imaging technology from Eastman Kodak that is 10 times as sensitive as film, and a computer that sifts through the layers of data will reveal skin and bone and Leonardo's insides. Here is a Discovery Channel video about Leonardo.
See an X-ray of our mummy.
Here at the Science Museum of Minnesota we used X-ray imaging to look inside our mummy. You can see where the heart has been relocated. Our mummy is in Collections Gallery on the fourth floor.
Sources: National Geographic; Great Falls Tribune
Your Comments, Thoughts, Questions, Ideas
why is this only being done now when he was discovered in 2002?
posted on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 4:33pm
Most fossils are found encased in stone. (This dinosaur apparently was embedded in six-and-a-half TONS of rock.) It takes a log time to remove all the excess material. This has to be done very carefully, so as not to damage the fossil.
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陳家強現任香港科技大學工商管理學院兼任教授及院長資深顧問。於二零零七年七至二零一七年六月他擔任香港特別行政區政府財經事務及庫務局局長。加入政府前陳家強是香港科技大學工商管理學院院長。他於一九九三年加入科大商學院之前曾在美國俄亥俄州立大學任教九年。
陳家強畢業於美國Wesleyan大學獲授經濟學學士學位其後在芝加哥大學獲授工商管理碩士和財務學哲學博士學位。陳家強專長研究資產定價、交易策略評估及市場效率並曾發表不少有關文章。
陳家強曾擔任多項重要公職包括消費者委員會主席、香港期貨交易所董事、策略發展委員會委員、扶貧委員會委員、外匯基金諮詢委員會委員、恆生指數顧問委員會委員及香港學術評審局委員。此外他曾出任亞太金融學會主席及亞太商學院聯會主席。
Professor KC Chan, GBS, JP
Professor Chan is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor to the Dean at HKUST Business School. He was appointed as Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from July 2007 to June 2017. Prior to that, he was Dean of Business and Management in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Professor Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.
Professor Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.
Professor Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, Director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and Member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.
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Atlus’ Naoto Hiroaka releases open letter to customers
September 19, 2013 by Nuckles87
The news that SEGA had acquired Index Corp, and by extension Atlus, shook the gaming world yesterday and left many fans worried for the future of the developer. Atlus’ Head of Consumer Software has released an open letter to the customers to reassure them of Atlus’ future:
We are very grateful to have your continued support for our products. Today, as announced through investor relations, we will be continuing our business as part of the Sega Sammy group, starting on November 11th. As you may know, Index Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection on June 27th, and have looked to transfer their business to other companies.
Above all, we, Atlus corporation, have had our consumer game business supported by an exceptional amount of fans. Regardless of the business itself rising to a much favorable position in recent years, lately, we have caused concern to our customers, to whom we deeply apologize.
We’ve traditionally maintained strong relations with Sega Corporation, using consumer game business as the main pillar. This time, we expect to maintain the relationship, while achiveing better business synergy. By using Sega’s strong circulation network, we look forward to further expanding our development. In terms of consumer games expertise, this relationship will be mutually benefitial for both sides. It is about the deep acknowledgement of wanting to further raise our brand.
We feel that our ongoing business is in very good shape, and it brings us great pleasure to be able to report our continuing business, here, today. This has been made possible thanks to your patronage and support. On behalf of all the employees, we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.
Currently, the employees of the consumer game business, are working zealously on future releases, and are vigorously looking forward to taking on new challenges. In the near future, we will be reporting our ongoing situation through the media, so please expect further developments. – Director of consumer software department Naoto Hiraoka
Acquisitions can be a tricky business in the video game industry. Sometimes they can go horribly wrong and lead to the eventual death or loss of identity for the developer, such as when Microsoft acquired Rareware or when EA acquired and eventually closed Origin Systems. Other times they can go right, such as in the cases of Creative Assembly and Sports Interactive: when SEGA acquired them for their talent and financial success and just allowed them to continue doing what they’d been doing. So far, SEGA has proven to be a good steward for the developers it has acquired. Hopefully Atlus will receive the same treatment in both the East and the West.
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9 responses to “Atlus’ Naoto Hiroaka releases open letter to customers”
TreyTable says:
I think it’s great for both Atlus ans SEGA Sammy Holdings. Persona 5 Pichinko! (sp?)
Nux says:
pachinko 😀
cube_b3 says:
I also expect several Sega AM employees move to this studio. Specifically OverWorkers/WOW.
P.S. You forgot to link the source.
Here. http://www.atlusnet.jp/
Trippled says:
I still want the next Skies of Arcadia/Valkyria tier game released under Sega.
I’d hate to see that happen…
InTheSky says:
I thought Overworks didn’t formally exist anymore, but anyway—
Is what you’re suggesting possible or likely? I don’t think for one that Atlus has ever had a problem with making their own games (the few problems they do have are things like getting their stuff out to Europe.) And I am personally highly skeptical of the idea that Atlus will be inclined to make Sega RPGs that I want all of a sudden. The most they’ve done for other developers is publish their games in the West (like SRW) IIRC
GuitarAnthony says:
Hmm…Shenmue 3 done with Yu Suzuki and the Atlus team…hmmm
See, this is a different story compared to Creative Assembly and such. For one, Atlus was not just a game developer but a publisher too. Also, consider the majority of what they make, or what they’re most famous for—unabashedly Japanese games. Creative Assembly and Sports Interactive make titles that clearly face a lot less friction in the West–and they’re also PC. I’ve seen someone make a comment once that the PC Sega acquisitions were Sega West/Europe led but never have been able to verify it.
We who are not in japan have gotten a very clear message from Sega as of late–the West and Japan operate on very different wavelengths. We are continually getting shafted for Japanese products.
Now of course this isn’t to say that Sega will torch Atlus. It remains to be seen what exactly they will do. See how the handling of Persona 5 will be executed, see if Etrian Odyssey 5 gets to the West without any form of brinkmanship, whether or not of course the operations of Atlus USA as they have occurred thus far change at all.
Sorry but I expect Hiroaka to talk a good game. I will wait and see (and piss and moan if things get ugly, of course).
Yeah I was going to say, Atlus is not just a developer but a publisher. It’s a pretty big difference.
Atlus was also kind to the Western market with their localizations, something that (as evidenced yet again with Phantasy Star,) Sega is not.
It’s a source of concern that Atlus Japan may not be aware of. Hopefully Sega does not interfere with Atlus’ plans to localize their games, or try to take over their marketing.
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River Basin Canoe & Kayak - IA Des Moines, Burlington 52601
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From: TheNewAmerican.com By Warren Mass
Comedienne and actress Sarah Silverman (shown) revealed in a Tweet on July 2 that her understanding of socialism is so lacking that she might be better off sticking to comedy and leaving serious political analysis to those better qualified. Silverman took it upon herself to lecture former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who stated on Fox & Friends earlier that day, “Socialism is a disaster. The only people who support socialism are people who don’t know what it is or people who want to win elections.”
In response to Bongino’s statement, Silverman tweeted: “Forgive me but you are daft. Socialist democrats are for socialized programs within our democracy. Like, education &health care available 4all, making sure all@kids have the same opportunities.. u don’t like socialized programs? Do you like the police dept? The fire department?”
Aside from the fact that Silverman is unaware that our Founders established the United States as a republic, not a democracy, she is woefully ignorant about the differences between socialism and its philosophical opposite — free market capitalism. While free market capitalism leaves property and the means of production in private hands, socialism places those things under government control and ownership.
Constitutionalists and libertarians believe that the redistribution of resources favored by socialists is not merely unconstitutional, but is also little more than legalized theft. They believe government exists, principally, to protect life and property. And which government agencies do this? Why, our fire and police departments. Furthermore under proper separation of powers, these functions should be carried out at the state and local level, not the federal level. Socialism eventually leads to near-universal failure and impoverishment, not success and wealth — look at Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc. Look at the disasters that are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (they’re broke). Look at the massive costs and lousy service of the VA and Indian Health Services, public schools, and more.
Silverman has a track record of supporting socialist or socialist-leaning candidates for public office. In 2015, she endorsed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders for president and spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton, urging other supporters of Sanders to back Clinton.
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A test of political will EDITORIAL 08/13/2010
A test of political will
Noynoy Aquino should be in a tight fix over the expanded value added tax (eVAT) that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) wants to collect on road tolls starting Monday.
For starters, it is a clear breach of his promise not to impose new or additional taxes to raise revenues; a promise that was later revised when it became clear that he would be inheriting a bankrupt government from Gloria to having the tax option as a last resort if other measures to raise revenues fail — although he should have known that when he threw his hat into the presidential ring.
The premise thus was that all other options will be tried in raising revenues such as obliterating corruption in both the BIR and the Customs bureau before Noynoy would consider imposing additional tax burdens to the public..... MORE
Cases piling up FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/13/2010
Cases piling up
Cases being brought before the Supreme Court these days against the incumbent administration’s official acts are interesting and make for even more interesting legal and judicial arguments and depending on how these issues are resolved by the SC, could well enrich Philippine jurisprudence.
The latest executive order being questioned today before the high court is EO 1, which is the creation of the Truth Commission, with a petition filed by the allies of Gloria Arroyo, seeking the nullification of the Noynoy’s EO 1 which calls for the investigation of the alleged anomalies committed during Gloria’s term.
The minority’s arguments are pretty good, and appears solid, but then again, everything depends on what the court will say in the end.
That the creation of the Truth Commission is infirm, if not illegal and unconstitutional, has already been pointed out earlier in opinion pieces and commentaries, not because a president is not empowered to create a commission, but because Noynoy, in creating the Truth Commission, insisted on vesting this particular commission with quasi-judicial powers — and all to probe these alleged graft and corruption committed by Gloria..... MORE
No Ramadan respite as unrest rocks Indian Kashmir focus 08/13/2010
No Ramadan respite as unrest rocks Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR — The fasting month of Ramadan looks set to be one of curfews, protests and hardship for Muslims in Indian Kashmir, which is experiencing a wave of popular unrest directed against Indian rule.
For two months, violent demonstrations have rocked the troubled Himalayan region. Around 50 protesters and onlookers have been killed.
Each fatality has fuelled fresh anger, in what Kashmir’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has acknowledged is a “cycle of violence.”
The constant round of protests, strikes and curfews has all but shut down daily commerce in the mainly Muslim Kashmir Valley, hurting small traders and making shopping for basic provisions a major challenge.
With Ramadan starting Thursday, residents have been advised to stockpile essentials in preparation for a difficult month..... MORE
Time for a divorce law? MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 08/13/2010
Time for a divorce law?
Gabriela party-list Rep. Emmy de Jesus filed a divorce bill. Lawyer
Evelyn Ursua explained that there is divorce for Muslims under Muslim law since 1977; divorce during Japanese time; divorce before Aug. 30, 1950 and divorce in Spain, Italy and Ireland, Catholic countries.
The Catholic church has indirectly allowed divorce under the guise of annulment. In civil courts, divorce is allowed under the term “declaration of nullity” under the broad term psychological incapacity under Article 36 of the Family Code, which is easy to prove if the two parties agree to the dissolution.
The lack of divorce law has resulted in the corruption of judges who received bribes to allow the dissolution of the marriage or annulment. Under the Gabriela bill, the grounds are:
1. Spouses have been separated in fact for five years;
2. When the parties have been legally separated for two years;
3. Any of the grounds for legal separation has caused irreparable breakdown of the marriage;
4. Psychological incapacity;... MORE
PeNoy, Gloria, et al. — all one family DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 08/13/2010
PeNoy, Gloria, et al. — all one family
At the gathering for Sen. Sonny Trillanes’ birthday at Camp Crame last Aug. 7, I predicted the “rehabilitation” of Gloria Arroyo within a year or two. I was with Dodong and Princess Nemenzo, NGO leader Manjette, lawyer Argee Guevarra, Oliver Felix (of our guerilla radio Sulo group), and Linggoy Alcuaz at that time. The Nemenzos found this both funny and appalling, as they laughed, doubted and lamented at the same time. Someone interjected: “Sa bagay, the Marcoses are rehabilitated.” To which I hurriedly added that “at least Marcos had the right nation-building program,” unlike Arroyo’s which people believe was pure kleptocracy.
The truth of my prediction is already being seen on radio and in Congress today, as Teddy Boy Locsin glorifies Gloria’s non-imposition of the Value added tax (VAT) on toll ways while the likes of Rep. Neptali Gonzales Jr. shield her from Rep. Walden Bello’s righteous condemnation.
Gloria Arroyo will be “rehabilitated” under the present system because the system itself is corruption incarnate, in which Arroyo is just one of its children. The other children of the corrupt system will naturally come to her rescue, as sure as Speaker Sonny Belmonte will always be by Gloria’s side to escort the one who has been tagged by many youth activists as “President Evil.” But really, she can only be as evil as the system is.
Belmonte, meanwhile, is said to personify the institutionalization of corruption in Quezon City, the alleged basis of which is that he raised the corruption incarnate “pork barrel” and other fund prerogatives of the Office of the Mayor and all councilors to unprecedented amounts (P2 billion for the mayor, P42 million each for councilors). On the other hand, Lakas to Liberal Party turncoat Neptali Gonzales Jr. has been the alternating partner of Mayor BenHur Abalos in the exploitation of Mandaluyong, the latter being the heir apparent to Ben Abalos’ NBN-ZTE “borger” fortune.
Gonzales invokes “parliamentary courtesy” to shield Arroyo. Coming from a most vulgar Congress, it is truly laughable. They are all claimed to be part of the alleged corrupt family of political degenerates running the country. Walden Belo’s party-list group Akbayan may not be much different, maybe just a bit more ethical by some degree. His party-list matriarch Etta Rosales isn’t exactly a paragon of any virtue, having been a chief lackey of Gloria Arroyo during the 2004 illegal proclamation of the “Hello Garci” president. Rosales will be rewarded by the new Gloria Arroyo, i.e. Noynoy “PeNoy” Aquino, with an appointment to the Commission on Human Rights — to carry on the charade of human rights in an essentially plutocratic, oppressive and exploitative corporatocracy.
Already, PeNoy has proposed to raise the “pork” of senators and congressmen for 2011, from P6.9 billion this year to P22.3 billion next (a whopping 223.18 percent or P15 billion increase). This seems incredible since PeNoy campaigned on the promise of “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap,” but PeNoy’s Budget Secretary Butch Abad was quoted on it. In fact, one report stated, “Even as the PDAF allocation was increased, the government proposed a reduction of subsidy programs… amid the state’s cash flow problems.”
Those subsidies include those earmarked for the National Food Authority rice purchase. So are they saying that there will be no subsidy for farmers but increased “pork” subsidy for politicians? Everyone knows just how “pork” is the mother of all corrupt funds that politicians dip into, so why is PeNoy increasing this? Perhaps if we put this in context with a new development, a clearer picture on how invisible forces behind PeNoy are reinforcing the edifice of corruption will come about.
This new development is the proposed postponement of the barangay election slated for October on due to alleged financial constraints, together with the simultaneous proposal that it be synchronized with the 2013 national elections.
There are several deleterious effects of these two initiatives: (1) abusive and corrupt barangay officials will not be called into account as a democratic system requires; (2) it will strengthen the indebtedness of the present barangay officials to the present PeNoy regime; (3) these barangay officials will then be used by the current regime to consolidate tyrannical powers in 2013 toward the continuation of the corporatist dictatorship consolidated under Gloria Arroyo; and (4) it will make the “fully synchronized” 2013 elections even more massively chaotic than the already messy elections of 2010.
If the present system is corruption incarnate, then a super-synchronized election aimed at securing it is none other than a perpetuation of this systemic corruption, the evil results of which those jaundiced by the Yellow fever can’t seem to see as continuously ravaging the nation.
For those who still do not know, here’s a sampling of these evils — July 2010 item: Power rates to rise again in August (due to Wesm power horse trading); Aug. 8: Manila Water net income up 34 percent (while people suffer heavier costs); Aug. 9: Robredo wants strengthened Small Town Lottery (cover for jueteng); Aug. 10: AFP suppresses Adm. Feliciano Angue exposé on 2010 elections; Aug. 11: $10-billion offer for Pagcor.
As long as the corrupt system goes on and on — exploiting, inveigling and plundering — PeNoy only continues the legacy of Cory, FVR and Gloria.
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MOSCOW — Be it dousing fires from a plane or sacking several officers in a single meeting, Russia’s ruling tandem is battling to ensure its hold on power does not go up in smoke in the wildfire crisis.
Image-making has emerged as significant a weapon in the crisis as hoses or water-bombing jets as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev seek to ensure their popularity survives the crisis intact.
With Russia emerging from the slowdown, the duo may have been congratulating themselves on deftly seeing off the economic crisis as they planned their summer holidays.
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HAVANA — For the first time since the Cuban revolution half a century ago, an icon of Cuba’s patron saint is making the rounds of the island in a sign of a gradual rapprochement between the Communist authorities and the Catholic Church.
The pilgrimage’s send-off took place Sunday at the shrine to the Virgin of Charity of Copper, in a valley peppered with copper mines near Santiago de Cuba, 950 kilometers (590 miles) east of Havana.
Its year-and-a-half journey through the Cuban countryside is a highlight of festivities organized by the church to mark the 400th anniversary of the virgin’s appearance, according to legend, to three fishermen lost in a storm..... MORE
GMA allies seek SC’s voiding of truth body By Gerry Baldo, Benjamin B. Pulta and Aycth S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
‘Violates equal protection clause and amends Charter’
GMA allies seek SC’s voiding of truth body
By Gerry Baldo, Benjamin B. Pulta and Aycth S. de la Cruz
Members of the House minority bloc yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the creation of the Truth Commission through Executive Order (EO) 1, on the ground that its establishment is unconstitutional.
This is the third EO issued by President Aquino, through his Executive Secretary that is being challenged before the high court.
Earlier, EO 2 and 3, seeking the dismissal of Palace-claimed appointees and the nullification of an Arroyo issued EO granting government lawyers career executive officer status, have also been questioned before the high court.
Minority leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman and three other senior lawmakers, in a 55-page petition for Certiorari and Prohibition, challenged the constitutionality of EO 1 which formed the “Truth Commission” with Palace-designated head, former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.
They asked the SC to issue a temporary restraining order and or a writ of preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo.
Docketed as G.R. No. 193036, the petitioners including Lagman, Reps. Rodolfo Albano, Jr, Simeon Datumanong and Orlando Fua, Jr. posited that EO 1 violates the separation of powers as it arrogates the legislative authority of the Congress to create a public office and appropriate funds for its operation.... MORE
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Unless SC issues TRO, toll VAT on, says Palace By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/13/2010
By Benjamin B. Pulta
Despite being deluged by demands for the government to defer the imposition of the 12 percent value added tax on road tolls, both the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Palace said yesterday that the tax will be imposed on Monday as scheduled unless the Supreme Court issues a hold order.
Unless the SC issues a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the imposition of VAT on tolls nationwide, the BIR will start imposing the tax on Monday, Aug. 16, Malacañang stressed yesterday.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda maintained that the 12-percent VAT on toll is not a new tax measure.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares said the VAT on tolls should not significantly affect the cost of transporting people and goods.
Henares said the measure will not impact heavily on the public because of the input or output formula.
The substantial amount to be collected by the government will go the programs for the poor, she added..... MORE
Too many spokesmen in Cabinet spoil budget By Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
In accomodating too many mouthpieces of Cabinet rank, the Palace is in a bind over where to place the new communications offices created under Executive Order 4 to keep the Executive under the bounds of law that bars it from creating a new portfolio agency that gets budget funding.
Yesterday, the head of the new Presidential Communi-cations Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) said his office might be placed under the Office of the President (OP).
PCDSPO Secretary Ricky Carandang revealed this to reporters who were inquiring on the budget plans of the the former Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) now called the Presidential Communi-cations Operations Office (PCOO).
The PCOO led by Secretary Herminio ‘Sonny’ Coloma is expected to get the bigger share of the budget of the former OPS according to Carandang as he found out that his office will be placed under OP just like the office of presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, who also has a Cabinet rank.... MORE
DoST chief’s appointment raises conflict of interest concerns By Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
It is now the Aquino administration’s turn to defend itself from the conflict of interest issues that might hound it soon, as Malacañang yesterday confirmed reports that Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo is related by affinity to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
The admission was made by presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda during a post-briefing interview but he denied that Ochoa, a close ally of President Aquino, has lobbied for his brother-in-law’s appointment at the helm of the
Department of Science and Technology (DoST).
“Secretary Montejo is in a relatively apolitical department. He is in the DoST and he is qualified to head that agency. There was no politics involved there,” Lacierda said.
He stressed that Montejo was appointed owing to his feats cited by the President in the field of science and technology including some of the inventions that he supposedly made in the past.
“Secretary Mario Montejo is the brother-in-law of Secretary Ochoa but please don’t put any political color because he is more than qualified. Again, the appointing power is the President, not Secretary Ochoa — just to emphasize that point,” he told reporters.
Because of this confirmation, speculations become widespread that Montejo has something to do with Aquino’s decision to sack Prisco Nilo as chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) last week..... MORE
Pirate attack on Norwegian ship with 29 Pinoys thwarted By Michaela P. del Callar 08/13/2010
By Michaela P. del Callar
Some 29 Filipino seafarers onboard a Norwegian-flagged ship survived a hostage attack by Somali pirates after it was foiled by European Union forces patrolling the dangerous Gulf of Aden off Somali waters.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Filipino sailors could have been among the 81 other Filipino seamen being held hostage in Somalia if not for the “timely action” of the European Union Naval Force (EU NavFor).
In a letter by manning agency ODFJELL Philippines Inc. to the DFA, chemical tanker MT Bow Saga was attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden in the early morning of Aug. 3, when it was proceeding westward in
the International Recommended Transit Corridor in the Gulf of Aden.
Seven armed brigands using a small boat fired shots at the vessel.
The ship’s crew adopted security measures and conducted various counter actions, including evasive maneuvering and water deployment to prevent boarding.
The ship’s captain sent out a distress call and an EU NavFor unit close by responded.... MORE
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SC rebukes Palace on EO 2 rush, calls for courtesy By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/13/2010
Not so fast. A little judicial courtesy should be in order.
President Aquino and his spokesman, lawyer Edwin Lacierda, must be red in the face, especially after bragging that, as the Supreme Court (SC) had failed to issue a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Executive Order (EO) 2 on the so-called Midnight Appoint-ments, the firing of these officers appointed by former President now Rep. Gloria Arroyo has been given the green light.
SC spokesman and Court Administrator Midas Marquez yesterday “advised” Malaca-ñang to put off ousting the alleged midnight appointees despite the absence of a restraining order from the high court.
Calling what he described as “judicial courtesy,” Marquez pointed out that the Palace should put off the implementation of executive orders of Aquino revoking the “midnight appointments” of the Arroyo administration while the case has not yet been finally resolved by the high court.
Marquez, said “It would be more prudent (for Malacañang) to maintain a status quo in the meantime since the Court has already acquired jurisdiction on the issue. What we’re asking is for them (Palace) to just give the Court a little more time on deciding whether it would issue a TRO or not,” he said.... MORE
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When: 8:15 PM ET, Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Umpires: Home - Alan Porter, 1B - Mike Winters, 2B - Jansen Visconti, 3B - Tim Timmons
Right-hander Trevor Williams struck out a career-high eight batters in six scoreless innings Wednesday as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates ended a two-game losing streak with a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Edgar Santana, Keone Kela and Felipe Vazquez pitched a scoreless inning of relief apiece to complete the five-hit shutout. Vazquez picked up his 28th save.
Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco each hit an RBI single in the fifth for Pittsburgh, which had lost six of seven.
The Cardinals had their two-game winning streak snapped and missed a chance to move within 3 1/2 games of the first-place Chicago Cubs in the National League Central.
St. Louis has been shut out five times, three of them by Pittsburgh.
Williams (11-9) allowed three hits and walked three. He has a 0.75 ERA over his past eight starts, giving up four runs in 48 innings over that span. He has started eight of Pittsburgh's 14 shutout wins.
St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas (13-4) allowed two runs and eight hits in five innings, with five strikeouts and a walk. It was his first loss since June 29. He was 5-0 in 10 starts in the interim.
Both teams threatened in the first.
The Pirates loaded the bases with two outs, but Mikolas got Josh Bell to fly out. St. Louis had runners on second and third with no one out, but Williams got two strikeouts and a pop-up.
In the fourth, with Pittsburgh batting, Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter, who had walked twice, left the game because of nausea.
The Pirates broke through in the fifth. Jordy Mercer, fresh off the disabled list, led off with a double to the wall in left-center. Williams bunted Mercer to third. Marte's broken-bat single to shallow left drove in Mercer for a 1-0 lead. Adam Frazier moved Marte to third with a single to left-center, and Polanco followed with an RBI base hit to right for a 2-0 advantage.
Starting Pitchers
Pittsburgh St. Louis
Trevor Williams Player Miles Mikolas
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 5.0
8 Strikeouts 5
3 Hits 8
0.00 ERA 3.60
Corey Dickerson Player Matt Adams
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 1
.500 Avg .500
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Pittsburgh 10 0 12 .286 15 7 2 1 0 1
St. Louis 5 0 8 .156 20 10 0 3 0 2
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