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Learn The New Ways Marketers Can Measure All Those Emojis
March 20, 2017 8 Mins Read
“Currently 270 billion messages are sent per day and somewhere around 6 billion emojis are sent per day.”
– Christian Brucculeri, CEO of Snaps
Text messages alone can lack a lot of detail. In the most cases, the tone of text-based messages can be misinterpreted. The use of emojis fills in some of these informational gaps. Emojis can not only shed light on the tone of a message but also add some context to a point-of-view.
Take a simple statement like, “I spent all my money on the latest iPhone,” and try adding a range of different emojis to the end of that sentence — happy, sad, angry, love — to see how the tone of the message is reshaped.
Digital marketing efforts can be drastically shaped in much the same way with the incorporation of emojis. Not to mention, emojis can strengthen the customer-brand relationship. Emojis help people relate to each other in the digital landscape. For this reason, emojis have become such a key component of marketing messages with big brands eager to strengthen their relationship with younger audiences.
In the past, there was little assurance of ROI with emojis in marketing. Today, however, new measuring tools are able to collect not only basic figures, like the number of downloads or shares of emojis, but also the context certain emojis frequently appear and which demographics use them most often.
From branded emoji keyboards to emoji-based ad surveys, businesses now have plenty of ways to incorporate the colorful imagery and track its effect on their marketing campaigns.
The Growing Demand for Emojis
We know emojis are popular, but that isn’t the only incentive for brands to invest in emojis. Currently, there are a little under 2,000 available emojis, but a reported 75% of U.S. consumers have expressed an interest in receiving more branded emoji options.
In fact, half of U.S. consumers would use a branded emoji as an alternative to messaging if given a choice. The individualized experience users enjoy in their text messaging apps only further feeds into this need for branded emojis. Rather than having a single emoji design for a dog, users would prefer to have various breeds; rather than a single beer emoji, users would prefer to use emojis of their favorite beer brands.
Brands now have an open invitation to appear in the mobile messaging space, a space which marketing agencies previously, had limited ways of accessing with traditional advertising.
So just what are the options available for emoji-based advertising and what impact are they having? Let’s take at some of the latest measuring tools for emojis as well as some brands that have successfully tried these technologies out.
Branded Emoji Downloads
Branded emoji keyboards are nothing new to social media users. Celebrities as well as big name companies, like Taco Bell, have invested in branded emojis to further their customer engagement.
Taco Bell secured the creation of the taco emoji in 2014 after fans of the food chain voiced a desire for one.
The company capitalized on the taco emoji by creating an entire marketing campaign around its launch. The campaign, #TacoEmojiEngine, asked customers to tweet the taco emoji along with another emoji of their choice to receive a surprise mash-up GIF.
This campaign’s interactivity increased Taco Bell’s customer engagement and brand loyalty.
There are many services to create your own branded emojis and branded emoji keyboards. One of these services is Swyft, which creates branded emojis and stickers for download on iOS and Android devices. The company partners with numerous messaging apps, like Kik and Whatsapp, with which their keyboards are compatible.
Swyft provides an excellent example of what their campaigns can accomplish with a case study on the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team.
The team was looking to create buzz around their March 2016 Social Media Night event. They enlisted the help of Swyft to “emojify” some of the team’s star players, create Hurricane-themed reactions, as well as Hurricane logos and mascots.
Fans could download and share the emojis across virtually any messaging app or social platform, according to Swyft. The emoji campaign resulted in 13K+ shares on Social Media Night and over 50K + interactions in 24 hours.
Native Branded Emojis
Providing downloadable content, such as an emoji keyboard, is an excellent way to delve into the world of emojis. However, there is also the option for brands to provide customers with branded emojis without requiring any download.
Machine technologies can detect and inject branded emojis within everyday digital chats. This inherent accessibility makes it a great way for brands looking for new seamless ways to interact with customers to do so.
For example, a message to a friend “Hey, have you seen my running shoes?” would automatically generate branded emoji suggestions within the predictive texting bar. So if Nike and Adidas have native branded emojis, their emojis could automatically pop up as a suggestion for the texter to drop into their messages.
Through advanced machine learning, the context of conversations is identified so brands can introduce their content natively. There is also no need for users to download a separate keyboard or any app for them to view the branded media. Companies like Smart Emoji and Emogi are just a few of the businesses offering these services.
Tracking branded emojis with these services comes down to using location and demographic data to target particular target audiences. Advertisers are charged based on a cost-per-thousand-impression metric.
Additionally, payments aren’t based on how many people utilize the branded emojis. Providing detailed information, like the context within which the emoji is shared, is collected so brands receive detailed insights into the preferences of their users.
For example, a branded coffee cup emoji featured in a text message next to a smiley face is an indication of a happy client that the coffee brand should target during times when they have new offers or products.
Emoji-based Ad Surveys
Branded content isn’t the only way to incorporate emojis. They’ve also proven useful when featured in ad surveys. Emojis make expressing opinions very easy for customers, and they like the option to show a range of reactions.
Take it from Facebook who changed their “Like/Dislike” feature last year to offer Reaction Emojis instead. To accompany the range of reaction options, Facebook provides a Reactions API, so it’s easy for businesses to measure the performance of each reaction.
Not only are emojis expressive and fun to use, but they also help brands understand their target customers’ preferences in better detail. Emoji-based surveys give consumers a chance to rate an advertisement by choosing between emoji reactions – happy, neutral, or sad. This type of ad can help brands isolate possible leads – those that clicked the happy reaction – as well as identify the customers that should receive a different approach – those that clicked the sad reaction.
At GAIN, we utilize emoji-based surveys for all of our announcements. Any time we roll out an upgrade or new feature, our users get a pop-up notification about the upgrade. After reading the announcement, our users can tap an emoji to provide us with feedback and let us know what they think about the news.
These emoji ratings have proven to be an effective way to understand the preferences of GAIN users in greater detail.
These types of survey-based campaigns come accompanied with detailed performance tracking analytics. Social media is the ideal location for these surveys, mainly because they provide a direct link to customer profile pages, making customer-brand engagement easy.
Going Forward with Emoji-based Marketing
Notable brands adopting emojis as a marketing tool is nothing new, and the popularity of the trend shows no signs of slowing down. Research from Appboy found that emoji use is up 609% year-over-year. Now, with notable advances in tracking the performance of emojis, this marketing trend can provide brands across all industries with a solid way to track ROI.
If your brand is considering adopting emojis into your marketing campaign, start by answering these general questions:
In what ways does your customer base interact online?
Do emojis align with your branding profile?
Are their emoji-based marketing campaigns that would invite your target audience to collaborate directly with your brand?
A notable example of a campaign that did not benefit from including emojis was this infographic from the White House featuring an onslaught of emojis.
Emojis did not align with typical White House marketing campaigns, making their inclusion seem out of place and forced.
“Data needs to underpin everything brands are doing today. You can’t focus on trends blindly; it’s important to understand your demographic and then target them through means specifically tailored to them — whether it is emojis or anything else.”
– Nelson Freitas, chief strategy officer at Wunderman
So if your brand is ready to make the jump to emoji-based marketing, begin by answering the questions above to decide how and why emojis would be an asset to your marketing strategy.
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How Co-Creation is Fueling The Future of Marketing
March 7, 2017 5 Mins Read
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Scroll through the list of terms below or click a letter to jump directly to that section of the glossary.
American Association of Retired Persons
Accounting method that reports income when earned (not necessarily received) and expenses when incurred (not necessarily paid), as opposed to the cash method.
Active Participation
When a taxpayer makes significant rental or business management decisions, such as approving rental terms, repairs, expenditures, and new tenants (versus passive activity). Taxpayers who use a leasing agent or property manager are still considered active participants if they retain final management rights.
Active Pay
The military income a service member receives while on active duty (versus retirement or retainer pay).
Actual Expense Method
One of two methods for calculating business automobile expenses. For the actual expense method, the taxpayer determines the business portion of expenses for fuel, auto maintenance, parking fees and tolls, and auto loan interest. (The other method is the standard mileage method). The actual expense method is out of scope for the VITA/TCE programs.
Additional Child Tax Credit
A credit that may be taken if the full amount of the child tax credit cannot be claimed.
Adjusted Basis
The adjusted basis is the taxpayer’s basis in a home increased or decreased by certain amounts. Increases include additions or improvements to the home such as installing a recreation room or putting on a new roof. In order to be considered an increase, the improvement must have a useful life of more than one year. Repairs that maintain the home in good condition are not considered improvements and should not be added to the basis of the property
Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)
The taxpayer’s total adjusted gross income (AGI) is the amount that is used to compute some limitations, such as the medical and dental deduction on Schedule A and the credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number
A nine-digit tax-processing number issued by the IRS for children who are in the process of being adopted and who can be claimed as a dependent or claimed for a childcare credit. The ATIN is used wherever the child’s social security number is requested.
Advance EIC Payments
Payments of the earned income credit (EIC) paid to qualified taxpayers through the regular paycheck.
Advance Earned Income Credit Payments
After-tax Contributions
After-tax means the employee paid taxes on the money when it was contributed, i.e., the taxpayer has a cost basis in the plan.
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child: Was the potential dependent under age 19 and younger than the taxpayer at the end of the year? Or, was the person under age 24 at the end of the year and a full-time student for some part of each of five months during the year? Or, Was the person any age and permanently and totally disabled?
Alimony is a payment to or for a spouse or former spouse under a separation or divorce instrument.
Allocated Tips
Tips an employer assigns to an employee. They are in addition to the tips the employee reported to the employer.
Alternative Motor Vehicle Credit
Taxpayers may be able to claim a credit for an alternative motor vehicle placed in service for business or personal use. Refer taxpayers who choose to claim this credit to a professional tax preparer.
A tax credit that temporary changes the Hope educational credit, making it available to a broader range of taxpayers, including higher income taxpayers and those who owe no tax.
Amount Realized
The amount realized is the selling price minus selling expenses commissions, advertising fees, legal fees, and loan charges paid by the seller, such as points).
A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
ATIN
Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number, issued by the IRS while a final domestic adoption is pending and the child does not have a social security number.
At-Risk Rule
One of two restrictions on how much a loss from passive activity can offset other sources of income. Taxpayers are restricted from claiming a loss for more than they could actually lose from the activity; they can claim a loss only up to the amount for which they are personally at-risk in the activity. (The other restriction is the passive activity rule.)
Basic allowance for housing, a type of excludable military income.
Basic allowance for subsistence, a type of excludable military income.
The basis in a home is determined by how the taxpayer obtained the home. If a taxpayer bought or built a home, the basis is what it cost the taxpayer to buy or build that home. If the taxpayer inherited the home, generally the basis is its fair market value on the date of the decedent’s death, or on the later alternate valuation date chosen by the representative for the estate. There are special rules for determining the basis of property received from decedents who died in 2010.
Before-tax Contributions
Before-tax simply means that the employee did not pay taxes on the money at the time it was contributed, i.e., the taxpayer has no cost basis in the plan.
Blocked income
Blocked income is when a taxpayer cannot convert foreign currency to U.S. dollars due to local law or local government policy. Special tax rules allow taxpayers with blocked income to delay reporting part of their income.
Bona Fide Residence Test
To meet the bona fide residence test for the foreign earned income exclusion, taxpayers must show that they have set up permanent quarters in a foreign country for an entire, uninterrupted tax year.
Business expenses are amounts that are ordinary and necessary to carry on a business.
Business income is income received from the sale of products or services. For example, fees received by a professional person are considered business income. Rents received by a person in the real estate business are business income. Payments received in the form of property or services must be included in income at their fair market value.
Business Travel Expenses
Qualified business expenses for members of the armed forces such as uniforms, education and travel. Military employee business expenses are necessary business-related expenses incurred by active members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cancellation of Debt For Principal Residence
Under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, taxpayers may exclude certain debt forgiven or canceled on their principal residence. This exclusion is applicable to the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness. If the canceled debt qualifies for exclusion from gross income, the debtor may be required to reduce tax attributes (certain credits, losses, and basis of assets) by the amount excluded.
Capital Gain or Loss
Sale of stock, mutual funds, and the sale of a personal residence. The Capital Gain or Loss lesson will help you identify the asset’s holding period, adjusted basis, net short-term and long-term capital gains or losses, the taxable gain or deductible loss, the tax liability, and the amount of any capital loss carryover.
Capital Gain Distributions
Capital gains passed to investors typically by Mutual funds (regulated investment companies) and real estate investment trusts (REITs)
See Capital Gain Distributions
Capital Loss Carryover
A taxpayer cannot take net losses of more than $3,000 ($1,500 for married taxpayers filing separately) in figuring taxable income for any single tax year. The allowable loss is referred to as the deduction limit. Unused losses can be carried over to later years until they are completely used up. The carryover losses are combined with the gains and losses that actually occur in the next year.
Cash Method
Accounting method that reports income when constructively received (not earned) and expenses when paid (not incurred), as opposed to the accrual method.
Child and Dependent Care Credit
A nonrefundable credit that allows taxpayers to claim a credit for paying someone to care for their qualifying Dependents under the age of 13 or spouses or dependents who are unable to care for themselves. The credit ranges from 20 to 35% of the taxpayer’s expenses.
A credit that may reduce tax by as much as $1,000 for each qualifying child.
Citizen or Resident Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child or qualifying relative as a dependent: Assuming all other dependency tests are met, the citizen or resident test allows taxpayers to claim a dependency exemption for persons who are U.S. citizens for some part of the year or who live in the United States, Canada, or Mexico for some part of the year.
Any area (1) the President of the United States designates by Executive Order as an area in which the U.S. Armed Forces are engaging or have engaged in combat, (2) the Department of Defense has certified for combat zone tax benefits due to its direct support of military operations, or (3) a Qualified Hazardous Duty Area established by statute where the service member receives imminent danger pay. Members of the U.S. Armed Forces who serve in a combat zone may exclude military pay from their taxable income.
Wages, salaries, commissions, tips, bonuses, professional fees, earnings from self-employment, and alimony.
Constructively Received
When an amount is credited to the taxpayer’s account or made available to the taxpayer (or taxpayer’s agent) without restriction.
An amount for which taxes have already been paid.
A Coverdell ESA is a trust or custodial account created or organized in the United States only for the purpose of paying the qualified education expenses of the designated beneficiary of the account.
A direct reduction of the taxpayer’s liability. Credits are allowed for such purposes as child care expenses, higher education costs, qualifying children, and earned income of low-income taxpayers.
Credit for the Elderly or Disabled
The credit for the elderly or the disabled is calculated on Schedule R and reported in the Tax and Credits section of Form 1040.
Either the date on a check made payable to the taxpayer or the date money is credited to the taxpayer’s account. When converting foreign currency to U.S. dollars, the date of transaction is the date that determines the exchange rate to use.
Dependency Exemptions
Amount that taxpayers can claim for a “qualifying child” or “qualifying relative”. Each exemption reduces the income subject to tax. One exemption is allowed for each qualifying child or qualifying relative claimed as a dependent.
Dependency Tests
Tests used for identifying qualifying children or qualifying relatives as dependents.
Someone who meets all applicable dependency tests to be claimed as a dependent.
Dependent Care Benefits
These benefits include amounts employers pay to a taxpayer or directly to the care provider.
Dependent Taxpayer Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child or qualifying relative as a dependent: Can the taxpayer or spouse (if filing jointly) be claimed as a dependent by another person?
An annual deduction that allows taxpayers to recover the cost of property used in a trade or business or held for the production of income. The amount of depreciation depends on the basis of the property, its recovery period, and the depreciation method. This is in-scope for Military certification only (rental property).
This income comes from an employer’s disability insurance, health plan, or pension plan. The payments replace wages for the time the taxpayer missed work because of the disability.
Generally paid to a taxpayer who retires because of a disability before the minimum retirement age (set by the employer). The disability pension is considered regular pension income when the taxpayer reaches the minimum retirement age.
DITY Move
Do-it-yourself move. The most common form of military move is the partial DITY move, where the military provides a moving company to transport some of the service member’s goods. Service members who receive DITY payments must include them in their gross income if it exceeds the allowable expenses.
A corporation’s distributions to its shareholders from its earnings and profits.
Divorced, separated, or never married parents
Special rules apply if the dependent is supported by parents who are divorced or separated; these rules also apply to parents who were never married. In general, the child will be considered a dependent of the custodial parent, assuming the child meets all the rules for a qualifying child or qualifying relative. However, the custodial parent can agree to allow the noncustodial parent to treat the child as a qualifying child or qualifying relative if certain conditions are met. A signed Form 8332 or equivalent is required and must be attached to the noncustodial parent’s return, or attached to Form 8453 if filing electronically.
A taxpayer’s legal, permanent residence. It is not always where the person presently lives.
DRIP Accounts
DRIP accounts leave cash dividends with the company for the purchase of additional shares. Even though these shares are from the same company, they retain their own individual basis separate from the original purchase. Each new purchased share could have a different basis.
Dual Status Alien
An alien who is both a nonresident and resident alien during the same tax year. The most common dual-status tax years are the years of arrival and departure.
Any income received for work, such as wages or business income. Earned income also includes net earnings from self-employment and other income received for personal services.
Earned Income Credit (EIC)
A credit that can be paid to low-income workers, even if no income tax was withheld from the worker’s pay. To receive the credit, a taxpayer must file a tax return. Unemployment income is not considered earned income for the purposes of calculating EITC.
Education credits
Credits that reduce the amount of tax due and are based on qualified education expenses that the taxpayer paid during the tax year.
Earned income credit.
Earned Income Tax Credit. See EIC.
Electronic Filing (e-file)
The computer transmission of a tax return directly to the IRS.
Under common-law rules, anyone who performs services for you is your employee if you can control what will be done and how it will be done. This is so even when you give the employee freedom of action. What matters is that you have the right to control the details of how the services are performed.
Coverdell Education Savings Account
Excludable Income
Income that is not included in the taxpayer’s gross income and therefore exempt from federal income tax. Certain income may be exempt from tax but must be reported on the tax return.
Exempt (from withholding)
Free from withholding of federal income tax. Must meet certain income, tax liability, and dependency criteria. Does not exempt a person from other kinds of tax withholding, such as social security tax.
Exemption Amount
The dollar amount that can be deducted from an individual’s total income, thereby reducing the taxable income.
Exemptions (Personal or Dependency)
Amount that taxpayers can claim for themselves, their spouses, and eligible dependents. An exemption is a dollar amount that can be deducted from an individual’s total income, thereby reducing the taxable income.
Filing statuses
Five taxpayer categories that determine the amount of tax and/or tax credits that apply to different taxpayers. The five filing statuses are (from lowest to highest tax): Married Filing Jointly; Qualifying Widow(er) with Dependent Child; Head of Household; Single; Married Filing Separately.
First-time Homebuyer Credit
The first-time homebuyer credit is a maximum of $8,000 ($4,000 for Married Filing Separately). This is a refundable credit which means that even if the taxpayer does not owe any tax, the money will be refunded to the taxpayer. There are payback provisions if the home was sold within a 36 month period.
Five-Year Test Period Suspension
Taxpayers can choose to have the five-year test period for ownership and use suspended during any period the homeowner (either spouse if married) served on qualified official extended duty as a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service of the United States, as an employee of the intelligence community, or as an employee or volunteer of the Peace Corps. This means that the taxpayer may be able to meet the two-year use test even if the taxpayer and/or spouse did not actually live in the home during the normal five-year period required of other taxpayers.
The foreign earned income exclusion allows eligible taxpayers to avoid paying federal income tax on their foreign earned income.
U.S. tax credit used to offset any foreign income tax taxpayers have paid on qualified income that is also subject to U.S. federal income tax.
Tax return used to report income from wages, salaries, and tips; qualified tuition program earnings; Alaska Permanent Fund dividends; taxable scholarships and fellowship grants; interest of $1,500 or less; and unemployment compensation.
Form 1040 Schedule A
Form 1040 Schedule B
Interest and Ordinary Dividends
Form 1040 Schedule C-EZ
Net Profit from Business
Form 1040 Schedule D
Capital Gains and Losses
Form 1040 Schedule E
Supplemental Income and Loss
Form 1040 Schedule L
Standard Deduction for Certain Filers
Form 1040 Schedule M
Making Work Pay and Government Retiree Credits
Form 1040 Schedule SE
Self-Employment Tax
Form 1040A
Tax return used to report all Form 1040A items, plus all other forms of income.
Form 1040ES
Estimated Tax for Individuals
Form 1040EZ
Tax Return for Single and Joint Filers with No Dependents, used to report income from wages, salaries, and tips, plus income from dividends and interest greater than $1,500; capital gain distributions; IRA, pension, and annuity income; and social security and railroad retirement benefits.
Form 1040NR
U.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax Return
Form 1040NR-EZ
Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, used to modify a previously filed tax return.
Form 1041 Schedule K-1
Beneficiary’s Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc. Used by the fiduciary of a domestic decedent’s estate, trust, or bankruptcy estate to report income, gains, losses, etc., of the estate or trust.
Form 1042-S
Foreign Person’s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding
Partner’s Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc. Used by partnerships to report the taxpayers’ share of the partnership’s income, deductions, credits, etc.
Statement showing Mortgage Interest
Form 1098-E
Statement showing Student Loan Interest
Form 1098-MA
Form 1098-MA, Mortgage Assistance Payments, is a new information return. The form is used to report to the IRS and homeowners the total amounts of certain mortgage assistance payments made to mortgage servicers. Although, mortgage assistance payments are not included in income, taxpayers cannot deduct interest that is paid for them.
Form 1099-A
Acquisition or Abandonment of Secured Property
Form 1099-B
Proceeds From Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions
Form 1099-C
Cancellation of Debt
Form 1099-DIV
Statement showing Dividends and Distributions
Form 1099-G
Statement showing certain government payments (such as Unemployment Compensation Income)
Form 1099-INT
Statement showing Interest Income
Form 1099-K
Form 1099-K is used to report the proceeds of payment card and third party network transactions made to taxpayers under Internal Revenue Code section 6050W. Merchant card and third party network payers, as payment settlement entities (PSE), must report the proceeds of payment card and third party network transactions made to taxpayers on Form 1099-K.
Form 1099-LTC
Long-term Care and Accelerated Death Benefits
Form 1099-MISC
Statement showing miscellaneous income (such as rents, royalties, fishing boat proceeds, non-employee compensation, medical and healthcare payments, substitute payments in lieu of dividends or interest, crop insurance proceeds, gross proceeds paid to an attorney, excess golden parachute payments, and other miscellaneous income)
Form 1099-OID
Statement showing Original Issue Discount
Form 1099-R
Statement showing Distributions from Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etc
Proceeds From Real Estate Transactions
Foreign Tax Credit (Individual, Estate or Trust)
Form 1120S Schedule K-1
Shareholder’s Share of Income , Deductions, Credits, etc. Used by S corporations to report the taxpayers’ share of the corporation’s income (reduced by any tax the corporation paid on the income), as well as any deductions, credits, etc.
Form 13614-C
Intake/Interview & Quality Review Sheet
Employee Business Expenses
Unreimbursed Employee Business Expenses
Multiple Support Declaration, allows taxpayers to identify other eligible individuals who paid over 10% of the support of another person.
Underpayment of Estimated Tax by Individual, Estates and Trusts. While completion of the Form 2210 is out of scope, volunteers need to caution taxpayers they will receive a notice of an estimated tax penalty if it is applicable.
Child and Dependent Care Expenses
Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative
Moving Expenses
Social Security and Medicare Tax on Unreported Tip Income, is used to report unreported tip income.
Request for Copy or Transcript of Tax Form
Substitute for Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, or Form 1099-R, Distributions from Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRA’s, Insurance Contracts, Etc., used by taxpayers who have been unable to obtain (or have received incorrect) wage or distribution statements.
Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.
Investment Interest Expense Deduction
Additional Taxes on Qualified Plans (including IRAs) and Other Tax Favored Accounts
Residential Energy Efficient Property Credit
Exemption From Withholding on Compensation for Independent Personal Services of a Nonresident Alien Individual
Information Regarding Request for Refund of Social Security Tax
Release/Revocation of Release of Claim to Exemption for Child by Custodial Parent. This form allows a taxpayer who is a custodial parent (and who was married to his or her child’s noncustodial parent) to release his or her claim on the child’s exemption.
Injured Spouse Claim and Allocation, allows taxpayers to request relief from a spouse’s past due federal debts, including back child support and past due taxes.
Claim for Refund and Request for Abatement
Form 8453-OL
Income tax declaration used for e-filing
Passive Activity Loss Limitations
Nondeductible IRAs, reports nondeductible contributions to traditional IRAs and/or distributions taken from certain IRAs. Part I explains in detail when this form is used.
Closer Connection Exception Statement for Aliens
Statement for Exempt Individuals and Individuals with a Medical Condition
Request for Innocent Spouse Relief. This form explains various forms of relief and who may qualify.
Education Credits, may be used instead of Form 2106, Employee Business Expenses, if education expenses were the only business expenses.
IRS e-file Signature Authorization
Credit for Qualified Retirement Savings Contributions
Direct Deposit of Refund to More Than One Account
Information on Qualifying Children Who Are Not Dependents (For Child Tax Credit)
Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets. This form is new in 2010 and used to report capital gains or losses.
Filing Assistance Program, helps taxpayers determine whether they are required to file a federal income tax return.
Installment Agreement Request, used to request a monthly installment plan for taxes owed.
Reduction of Tax Attributes Due to Discharge of Indebtedness
Form RRB-1099
Payments by the Railroad Retirement Board
Form RRB-1099-R
Annuities or Pensions by the Railroad Retirement Board
Application for a Social Security Card.
Form SSA-1099
Social Security Benefit Statement
Wages and Tax Statement, issued by employers to report their employees’ earned income for the year. Generally, employers should issue Form W-2 to every employee and a copy to the Social Security Administration.
Form W-2c
Corrected Wage and Tax Statement, used to correct information issued on a W-2.
Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate is completed by the employee and used by an employer to determine how much to withhold from an employee’s paycheck for federal income tax purposes.
Form W-4P
Withholding Certificate for Pension or Annuity Payments. The form allows taxpayers to tell payers the correct amount of federal income tax to withhold from payments.
Form W-4V
Voluntary Withholding Request, filed by taxpayers (or estates) who are recipients of social security benefits and want to request withholding from their payments from the Social Security Administration.
Earned Income Credit Advance Payment Certificate, used by taxpayers who have a qualifying child, may be eligible for the earned income credit, and choose to get advance EIC payments.
Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number.
Form W-8BEN
Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding
Green Card Test
The determination that an individual has been issued a “green card” by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), generally making that person a lawful, permanent resident of the United States
This is all income received in the form of money, goods, property, and services that is not exempt from tax.
Gross Income Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying relative as a dependent. Example: “Did the potential dependent have a gross income in excess of the personal exemption amount during the tax year?”
Head of Household Filing Status
This filing status is generally for unmarried taxpayers who paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home for a qualified dependent relative during the tax year.
High Taxed Income
Passive income that is taxed by a foreign government at a rate higher than the highest U.S. income tax rate, and may be classified as “general category income,” making it eligible for the foreign tax credit.
Schedule D requires entries for the stock purchase and sale date. Taxpayers must provide the date the stock was acquired and Form 1099-B will indicate the date the stock was sold. These two dates will determine the holding period.
Taxes on income, both earned (for example, salaries, wages, tips, commissions) and unearned (for example, interest and dividends). Income taxes can be levied both on individuals (personal income tax) and businesses (business and corporate income taxes).
People who are in an independent trade, business, or profession in which they offer their services to the general public are generally independent contractors. The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done. The earnings of a person who is working as an independent contractor are subject to self-employment tax.
Identity Protection PIN
There is a new field next to spouse’s occupation at the bottom of Form 1040 labeled Identity Protection PIN. This is designed to help prevent refunds from being issued to an identity thief. It the taxpayer has been a victim of identity theft, verify the special PIN (6 digit IPPIN) is correct using CP01A Notice or see Form 1040 Instructions for more information.
Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA)
A tax-sheltered retirement savings plan set up by the taxpayer.
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)
Income a person receives from certain financial accounts or from lending money to someone else.
Injured Spouse Relief
A provision of tax law that allows a taxpayer to get back his or her share of a joint overpayment when the overpayment was used to pay one spouse’s past-due federal tax, state income tax, child support, spousal support, or federal non-tax debt, such as a student loan.
A provision of tax law that allows a taxpayer to be relieved of responsibility for paying tax, interest, and penalties if the taxpayer’s spouse (or former spouse) improperly reported items or omitted items on a joint tax return.
Intake and Interview sheet
Form 13614-C used to conduct the initial interview and screen the taxpayer.
Investment Income
Investment Income includes taxable interest and dividends, tax-exempt interest, capital gain net income, net income from rents and royalties not derived from a trade or business, and net income from passive activities
Individual Retirement Arrangement – A tax-sheltered savings plan set up by the taxpayer, generally for retirement income.
Itemized deductions allow taxpayers to reduce their taxable income based on specific personal expenses. If the total itemized deductions are greater than the standard deduction, it will result in a lower taxable income and lower tax.
ITIN
Individual taxpayer identification number, issued by the IRS to individuals who are not eligible for a social security number.
Joint Return Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child or qualifying relative as a dependent. Generally, a married person cannot be claimed as a dependent if he or she files a joint return.
Letter of Determination
Document from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sent to discharged service members who qualify for severance pay subject to medical disability, which is nontaxable.
Lifetime Learning Credit
One of two tax credits available to offset costs of higher education by reducing the amount of income tax. The Lifetime Learning credit is a nonrefundable credit of up to $2,000 for qualified education expenses for students enrolled in eligible educational institutions. It is available to students for all years of postsecondary education and for courses to acquire or improve job skills.
A lump-sum distribution is the distribution or payment within one tax year of an employee’s entire balance from all qualified pension, stock bonus, or profit-sharing plans that the employer maintains.
A taxpayer’s “main” home is where they live most of the time. It does not have to be a traditional house; for example, it may be a houseboat, mobile home, cooperative apartment, or condominium, but it must have cooking, sleeping, and bathroom facilities.
Making Work Pay Tax Credit
A refundable tax credit of up to $400 for working individuals ($800 for Married Filing Jointly) calculated at a rate of 6.2 percent of earned income and phased out for taxpayers with a modified Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) in excess of $75,000 ($150,000 for Married Filing Jointly). Claimed on Schedule M (Form 1040A or 1040).
MACRS
Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System, a method for calculating a taxpayer’s depreciation deduction that uses the property’s placed-in-service date, recovery period, and depreciable basis.
Filing status for taxpayers who are married to each other or live together in a common law marriage and combine their income and deductions on the same tax return. The status also applies to taxpayers who are separated but not divorced and to taxpayers whose spouse died during the tax year and has not remarried, as long as one tax return is used for both individuals.
Filing status for taxpayers who are married to each other or live together in a common law marriage and report their own incomes and deductions on separate returns.
Medical Severance Pay
A type of includable military income given to service members who have been separated from the service for medical reasons
Member of Household or Relationship Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying relative as a dependent: Was the person related to the taxpayer in any of the following ways: Son, daughter, foster child, or a descendant of any of them; brother, sister, or a son or daughter of either of them; father, mother, or an ancestor or sibling of either of them; stepbrother, stepsister, stepfather, stepmother, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law? Any other person (other than the taxpayer’s spouse) who lived with the taxpayer all year as a member of the taxpayer’s household?
Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI)
The adjusted gross income with certain modifications.
Mortgage Interest Credit
Taxpayers who hold qualified mortgage credit certificates (MCCs) under a qualified state or local government program may claim a nonrefundable credit for mortgage interest paid.
Mortgage Insurance Premiums
Qualified mortgage insurance is provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Housing Administration, the Rural Housing Service, and private mortgage insurance (PMI) companies. Taxpayers can treat qualified mortgage insurance premiums paid or accrued during the tax year as home mortgage interest. PMI is deductible on line 13 of Schedule A.
Multiple Support Agreements
If one person has not provided over half the support, go to step 8 to determine if multiple support exists. Multiple support means that two or more people together, who could claim the person as a dependent except for the support test, provide more than half the dependent’s support. However, only one taxpayer can claim the exemption for a dependent with multiple support. In this situation, the individuals who provide more than 10% of the person’s total support (step 9), and who meet the other tests for a qualifying relative, can agree that one of them will take the person’s exemption.
A mutual fund is a regulated investment company generally created by pooling funds of investors, which allows investors to take advantage of a diversity of investments and professional management. Owners of mutual funds may receive both Form 1099-DIV and Form 1099-B. Form.
Nonbusiness energy property credit
Taxpayers may be able to claim a nonbusiness energy property credit for certain energy efficient property or improvements.
Nondeductible Traditional IRA Contributions
Traditional IRA contributions that taxpayers may not deduct from their total income because the taxpayers do not meet the requirements; also includes remaining contributions from a partial IRA deduction.
Nonrecourse Debt
Nonrecourse debt is satisfied by the surrender of the secured property regardless of the fair market value (FMV) at the time of surrender and the borrower is not personally liable for the debt. If property subject to nonrecourse debt is abandoned, foreclosed upon, subject of a short sale, or repossessed by the lender, the circumstances will be treated as a sale of the property by the taxpayer.
Nonrefundable Credit
A nonrefundable credit can only reduce the tax liability to zero. Any excess credit is not refunded to the taxpayer.
Nonresident Alien
A residency status of an individual who does not meet the Green Card Test or the Substantial Presence Test,
Nontaxable Income
Any income exempt from federal income tax. Although some types of nontaxable income are reported on the return, it is not added into the amount of income subject to tax.
Traditional IRA contributions that taxpayers may not deduct from their adjusted gross income because the taxpayers do not meet the requirements; also includes remaining contributions from a partial IRA deduction.
OHA
Overseas housing allowance, a type of excludable military income.
Ordinary Dividends
Corporate distributions paid out of the earnings and profits of the corporation.
Paid Preparers
Paid preparers are legally liable under federal law for the returns they prepare; volunteers are not.
Passive Activity
When a taxpayer receives income mainly from the use of property rather than for services. Passive activity means the taxpayer is not involved in making significant rental or business management decisions (versus active participation). Because rental activities are generally considered passive activities, rental losses may not fully deductible.
Taxable income that comes from passive activity, such as dividends, interest, royalties, rents, and annuities.
In 2011, social security tax is withheld from an employee’s wages at the rate of 4.2% (down from 6.2%) up to the social security wage limit of $106,800.
Permanent change of station for a military service member.
A series of definitely determinable payments made to an employee or survivor (the beneficiary of a deceased employee’s pension) after the employee retires from work.
Period of Stay
Amount of time a taxpayer stays in a foreign country, which is one of the factors used to determine whether the taxpayer is eligible for the foreign earned income exclusion. To meet the period of stay requirement, the taxpayer must meet either the Bona Fide Residency test or the Physical Presence test.
Personal Exemption
An exemption that allows taxpayers to claim themselves as exemptions on their tax return. Also included in this category is the taxpayer’s spouse, when filing a joint return.
Physical Presence Test
To meet the physical presence test for the foreign earned income exclusion, a taxpayer must be physically present in a foreign country 330 full days during a period of twelve consecutive months.
Taxes on property, especially real estate. It can also be levied on boats, automobiles (often paid along with license fees), recreational vehicles, and business inventories.
Publication 3
Armed Forces Tax Guide
Publication 17
Tax Guides for Individuals
Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad
Publication 463
Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses
U.S. Tax Guides for Aliens
Residential Rental Property
Basis of Assets
Recordkeeping for Individuals
Pension and Annuity Income
The IRS Collection Process
Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retirement Benefits
Passive Activity and At-Risk Rules
General Rules for Pensions and Annuities
How to Depreciate Property
Practice Before the IRS and Power of Attorney
Tax Benefits for Education
Innocent Spouse Relief, addresses how one spouse may request relief from past taxes due solely based on the other spouse’s debt.
Qualified Charitable Contributions (QCD)
A QCD is a distribution from an IRA made to an organization eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions. If all requirements are met, this will exclude any part of the distribution that would otherwise be taxable.
Qualified Principal Residence Indebtedness
Qualified principal residence indebtedness is any debt incurred in acquiring, constructing, or substantially improving a principal residence and which is secured by the principal residence. Qualified principal residence indebtedness also includes any debt secured by the principal residence resulting from the refinancing of debt incurred to acquire, construct, or substantially improve a principal residence but only to the extent the amount of the debt does not exceed the amount of the refinanced debt.
Qualified Tuition Program
A program set up to allow taxpayers to either prepay, or contribute to an account established for paying a student’s qualified expenses at an eligible educational institution. The program must meet certain requirements set by the state. Also known as a 529 program.
Qualifying Child
To be identified as a qualifying child, a person must meet certain basic tests. In addition there may be other requirements to claim various tax benefits for that qualifying child.
Qualifying Child of More than One Person Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child or qualifying relative as a dependent: Is the person the qualified child of any other person?
Qualified Medical Expenses
For HSA, MSA, FSA, and HRA purposes, a medicine or drug will be a qualified medical expense only if the medicine or drug: requires a prescription, is available without a prescription (an over-the-counter medicine or drug) and you get a prescription for it, or is insulin.
Qualifying Relative
To be identified as a qualifying relative, a person must meet seven tests: Member of household or relationship test, Qualifying child of another taxpayer test, Citizen or resident test, Gross income test, Support test, Joint return test, and Dependent taxpayer test.
Qualifying Widow(er) With Dependent Child
Filing status is for widow or widower with one or more dependent children.
Railroad Retirement Benefits (RRBs)
Benefits paid to railroad retirees covered by the Railroad Retirement Act. The RRA has two components. Tier 1 is the equivalent of social security benefits and Tier 2 is like an employer’s pension plan.
Recourse Debt
Recourse debt holds the borrower personally liable for any amount not satisfied by the surrender of secured property. If a lender forecloses on property subject to a recourse debt and cancels the portion of the debt in excess of the fair market value (FMV) of the property, the canceled portion of the debt will be treated as ordinary income from cancellation of indebtedness and will be required to be included in gross income unless the cancellation of indebtedness qualifies for one of the exceptions or exclusions from gross income under some provision of the Internal Revenue Code.
Refundable Credit
Occurs when the amount of a credit is greater than the tax owed. Taxpayers not only can have their tax reduced to zero; they can also receive a “refund” of excess credit.
Regular Method
Most common method for computing self-employment tax. Under the regular method, the net self-employment income entered on Schedule SE is the sum of net self-employment earnings from the taxpayer’s Schedules C, C-EZ, and F. (Taxpayers should consult a professional tax preparer or a military legal assistance officer if they use a different method or require Schedule F.
Relationship Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child as a dependent: Was the person the taxpayer’s son, daughter, stepchild, eligible foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or a descendant of any of them (i.e., the taxpayer’s grandchild, niece, or nephew)?
Someone related to the taxpayer by blood, marriage, or adoption, including the following:
Child, grandchild, great grandchild
Stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister
Brother, sister
Half-brother, half sister
Parent, grandparent, or other direct ancestor (but not foster parent)
Stepmother or stepfather
Brother or sister of one’s father or mother
Son or daughter of one’s brother or sister
Father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law.
Rental Expenses
Ordinary and necessary expenses attributable to the production of rental income and maintenance of the rental property, such as advertising, cleaning and repairs, insurance premiums, and property management fees.
Rental Income
Payments received by a taxpayer from tenants who rent the taxpayer’s property, including regular and advanced rent, payments for breaking a lease, expenses paid by the tenant, and the fair market value of property or services received in lieu of monetary rental payments.
The amount that must be distributed each year from a retirement plan or IRA.
Residence Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child as a dependent: Did the potential dependent live with the taxpayer as a member of the taxpayer’s household for more than half of the year?
Resident Alien
An individual is considered to be a U.S. resident alien if he or she meets either the Green Card Test or the Substantial Presence Test.
Taxpayers may qualify for an energy credit for qualified solar electric property costs, qualified solar water heating property costs, qualified small wind energy property costs, and qualified geothermal heat pump property costs. This credit is claimed on Part II of Form 5695. This information is out of scope for the VITA/TCE programs and is included for your awareness only.
Retirement Savings Contributions Credit
The retirement savings contributions credit is a nonrefundable credit a qualifying taxpayer may claim if they made a contribution to a qualified plan.
Retirement Tax Act (RTTA)
Tier I Railroad Retirement Tax is the railroad retirement equivalent of social security wages and benefit amounts.
Generally, a rollover is a tax-free distribution to the taxpayer from one retirement account (traditional IRA or employer’s pension plan) that rolls over into a similar retirement account within 60 days.
Sale of Main Home
Only a gain from the sale of a taxpayer’s main home may be excluded from the taxpayer’s income; a gain from a sale of a home that is not the taxpayer’s main home will generally have to be reported as income.
Self-employment Income
Earned income from a trade, business, farming or profession that is not paid by an employer. For example, hair stylists and lawncare workers who work for themselves (and not for someone else) are considered self-employed.
Self-employment (SE) tax is social security and Medicare taxes collected primarily from individuals who work for themselves, similar to the social security and Medicare taxes withheld from the pay of most wage earners.
Single Filing Status
Filing status that applies to a taxpayer who (1) has never married, or (2) is legally separated or divorced.
Simplified Method
This method is used to calculate the tax-free portion of each pension or annuity payment.
Payments made under Title II of the Social Security Act. They include old-age, survivors, disability insurance, and some workers’ compensation benefits.
Special separation benefits, a type of military severance payment that affects the amount of VA compensation paid.
An amount, provided by law and based on filing status, age, blindness, and dependency that taxpayers can deduct from their adjusted gross income before tax is determined.
Standard Mileage Method
One of two methods for calculating business automobile expenses. For the standard mileage method, the taxpayer multiplies the business miles by the mileage rate for that tax year. (The other method is the actual expense method).
Statutory employee
If workers are independent contractors, such workers may nevertheless be treated as employees by statute (a statutory employee) for certain employment tax purposes.
Stock dividends
Stock dividends merely increase the taxpayer’s number of shares in the company and generally are not taxable.
A stock split is a method used by corporations to lower the market price of stock. A two-for-one stock split will decrease the basis per share by half. The original basis of $200 for 100 shares becomes $200 for 200 shares.
Student Loan Interest
The interest paid during the year on a loan for qualified higher education expenses that were for the taxpayer, the taxpayer’s spouse, or a person who was the taxpayer’s dependent when the loan was obtained.
The criteria that an individual without a green card must meet in order to be considered a resident alien; the criteria relate to specific numbers of days physically present in the United States.
Support Test
One of the tests for identifying a qualifying child or a qualifying relative as a dependent: Did the taxpayer provide over half of the potential dependent’s total support for the year?
Temporary additional duty for military service members. (See TDY)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (previously known as AFDC), a state benefit also known as welfare.
A dollar-for-dollar reduction in the tax. Can be deducted directly from taxes owed.
An amount (often a personal or business expense) that reduces income subject to tax.
Tax Forgiveness
For U.S. military personnel who die while serving in a combat zone or as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while so serving, any unpaid tax liability is waived and any forgiven tax liability that has already been paid is refunded.
The country in which the taxpayer is permanently or indefinitely engaged to work as an employee or self-employed individual, regardless of where the taxpayer maintains his or her family home. For taxpayers who work abroad, but do not have a regular place of business because of the nature of the work, their tax home is the place where they regularly live.
Tax Liability (or total tax bill)
The amount of tax after nonrefundable credits have been subtracted. Taxpayers meet (pay) their federal income tax liability through withholding, estimated tax payments, and payments made with the income tax return.
Any income subject to federal income tax.
Tax-exempt Interest
Interest that is exempt from federal income tax such as bonds issued by state and political subdivisions (county or city), District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions and political subdivisions.
Tax Counseling for the Elderly
TDY
Temporary duty for military service members. (See TAD.)
Temporary Work Location
A work location is considered temporary if the service member’s employment is realistically expected to last (and in fact does last) for one year or less. Service members assigned to temporary work locations can deduct travel expenses.
Third-Party Designee
Person authorized by a taxpayer to discuss the taxpayer’s return with the IRS, give the IRS information missing from the return, request copies of notices or transcripts related to the return, and respond to certain IRS notices. The taxpayer designates third party by checking the Yes box and entering the person’s name, phone number, and personal identification number (PIN) in the “Third party designee” section of the return.
TIN see ITIN
Taxpayer Identification Number, same as Individual Taxpayer Identification Number
Tip Income
Money and goods received for services performed by food servers, baggage handlers, hairdressers, and others. Tips go beyond the stated amount of the bill and are given voluntarily.
An individual retirement arrangement that is not a Roth IRA or a SIMPLE IRA.
Expenses service members incur when traveling to locations within their city or general area that is their tax home or post of duty (versus travel expenses).
Expenses service members incur when traveling away from their tax home or post of duty (versus transportation expenses).
Thrift Savings Account, a retirement savings and investment plan that has been available to civilian employees of the federal government since 1987, and was made available to U.S. service personnel in 2002.
Qualified higher education expenses for which taxpayers can deduct up to $4,000 in qualified tuition and related expenses paid during the tax year. The amount of the deduction is determined by filing status, modified AGI (MAGI), and other factors. Form 8917, Tuition and Fees Deduction, will help compute the MAGI for this deduction.
U.S. Citizen or Resident Test
See Citizen or Resident Test
Unearned Income
Income other than pay for work performed. Interest and dividends from savings or investments are common types of unearned income.
Unemployment compensation generally includes any amount received under an unemployment compensation law of the United States or of a state. In most cases, it is taxable. Unemployment income is not considered earned income for the purposes of calculating EITC.
Any income produced by investments, such as interest on savings, dividends on stocks, or rental income.
VA Disability Compensation
VA disability compensation is a monetary benefit paid to veterans who are disabled because of injury or disease incurred or aggravated during active military service.
Wash sale
A wash sale occurs when a taxpayer sells or otherwise disposes of stock or securities (including a contract or option to acquire or sell stock or securities) at a loss and, within 30 days before or after the sale or disposition, the taxpayer buys, acquires, or enters into a contract or option to acquire substantially identical stock or securities.
Withholding Allowance
Claimed by an employee on Form W-4. An employer uses the number of allowances claimed, together with income earned and marital status, to determine how much income tax to withhold from wages.
Income tax is withheld from the pay of most employees. Income tax may also be withheld from gambling winnings, pensions/annuities, unemployment compensation, and certain federal payments, such as social security. In some cases income tax may be withheld on other types of income such as interest or dividend income.
Worldwide Income
U.S. citizens and U.S. resident aliens are required to report worldwide income on a U.S. tax return regardless of where they live and even if the income is taxed by the country in which it was earned. Filing requirements are the same as for U.S. citizens and U.S. resident aliens living in the United States and apply whether income is from within or outside the U.S.
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Boundary Oak School History
1280 – Roche Court, the current home of Boundary Oak School was built.
1918 – Boundary Oak School was founded by Miss Napier, on a site at Waterlooville.
1921 – The school moved to Widley, it’s first real home. Here it occupied a Georgian House call Portsdown Lodge and 9 acres of ground, which had previously been in the possession of Jane Austen’s brother, Sir Francis Austen.
The Boundary Oak Name – The property lay on the Parish Boundary of Portsmouth and around its perimeter there was a line of oak trees. One of these fine old trees was a staging–post in the annual Portsmouth ‘beating of the bounds’. It was from this tree that the school took its name.
1930’s – The school thrived under the Headship of D. de o’E.D Miller who owned the school for over twenty years.
1940 – Canadians were billeted at Roche Court who then moved out on D-Day.
1947 – Southwick Estates purchased Roche Court and left for refugees during the War.
1955 – Following the death of D. de o’E.D Miller, the school was left in the care of Vicar of Christ Church for a short time before being sold to David Foster.
1960 – The 9 acre site at Widley was sold for residential development, where the evidence of the school is still retained in the street names – Oak Tree Close, Boundary Crescent and The Dell.
1961 – The school made its third move to Roche Court, with over double the space and a larger, even more historic House.
1961 – David Foster converted the school into an Educational Trust and thus the Governing body came into existence.
1963 – The Swimming Pool was built.
1967 – Howard Limon took over from David Foster as Headmaster
1971 – The School was built
1977 – The Jubilee Block was built
1976 – The last of the Oak trees at the original site was felled due to disease.
1980 – The Music Block was built
1981 – The Tennis Courts were developed
1987 – The Nursery was introduced to the school
1988 – The classroom block at Widley was demolished and moved to the present site, becoming the Widley Block.
1989 – The Lodge was renovated and made fit for habitation
1991 – Pupil numbers were at a high of 214
1992 – The admittance of girls to the Reception Class was introduced
1996 – Pupil numbers reached 223 and the boarding house was opened.
2014 – Boundary Oak School was purchased by Quo Vadis Education
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a funny thing happened on the way to decorum
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New music from that pesky Arcade Fire
October 22, 2013 October 22, 2013 ErinLeave a comment
Arcade Fire, ‘Afterlife’
Woot! They have a new album, titled ‘Reflektor’, out next Monday/Tuesday. For all you who were convinced they’d officially gone too mainstream with ‘Suburbs’, may I commend you to the album ‘Scratch My Back’, in which Peter Gabriel covers ‘My Body is a Cage’; also to ‘And I’ll Scratch Yours’, in which AF cover Gabriel’s ‘Games Without Frontiers’. A little bit of collaboration – keepin’ things real.
Or, even more excitingly, check out AF’s scoring Spike Jonze’s upcoming film ‘Her’, the plot of which sounds not unlike that recent episode of Broken Mirror, but with Joaquin Phoenix acting suitably and characteristically melancholy.*
My only hope is that they haven’t left the pipe organ of ‘Neon Bible’ behind forever.
* His big puppy eyes! So, so sad all the time!
Getting used to Cambridge
October 19, 2013 ErinLeave a comment
I was running along the Cam this morning and passed one of my favourite buildings in Cambridge (so far): the Museum of Technology. On a palely-lit, slightly misty autumn day like today, it was in its element. The dark brick of the compact building and its smokestack always puts me in mind of Blake’s ‘dark satanic mills’ or an L. S. Lowry* painting – though this building has rather more prosaic origins as a sewage pumping plant, not a mill. I’ve yet to visit the museum but tomorrow there is a special exhibition of letter- and printing presses which I’m very excited about attending. The museum is a bit out of the way for tourists visiting Cambridge, despite the attempts by the city to make its river walkway attractive. If I’m honest that is part of the reason why I like it – it doesn’t feel the need to prove itself. Just a bit of industrial/trade history and voila! automatically interesting, if possibly not for everyone.
And so, I suppose, goes my finding of places in Cambridge that make it feel more like a home. I like out-of-the-way buildings with good stories – that this one is a museum is an added bonus. So far the tea and coffee shops have proved perfectly acceptable, though I’ve yet to find one that works well as a second home in which I can get lots of academic work done. The student short-cuts through Kings and Trinity College, over the river to the University Library or the Divinity Faculty are already seeing plenty of me, as are the cobblestones in front of Peterhouse, where I’m attached as a trainee clergywoman – or more accurately, as ‘Dean’s Vicar’ – for the first two years of my three-year training. Those colleges still feel like another world to me; one that I feel I should be reading about in Evelyn Waugh et al rather than actually inhabiting myself.
Westcott House, as a place, breathes. You can feel it beginning to inhale early in the morning with the bell that rings to tell the highly dedicated** that the chapel is open for silent meditation, then later for morning prayer. There’s a rush that follows and flows through to the early afternoon. It sounds like telephone rings and classes and lectures and tutorials. I’m not sure when the exhalation begins though I suspect it’s probably in full swing by 3pm as the children begin trickle back from school, and then all of us ordinands from wherever we’ve spent the day. Evening prayer, and supper, and then back to the books or out to placement responsibilities or what have you else, all grounding down into a quiet pause before another breath is taken.
It has been easy to observe the rhythm of Westcott’s life and less easy to graft myself into it. The newness of things, so many things at once and so many people at once, still overwhelms me. I have to escape sometimes. I go for a run along the river, go out cycling and get deliberately lost on all the ridiculous one-way streets, or take my notebook and find a place to sit and write before the weather gets too cold for me to do so outside. Part of me hopes that practicing my writing around the town will somehow endear it to me. I can’t say that Cambridge, or Westcott, feel very dear to me yet.
I like them both, and the people whom I’ve met within them, very much. My lessons have so far been challenging and my inner ravenous student has begun devising plans within plans for research and further learning, so the university environment seems to be doing its job. But what I have felt little of, thus far, us is the deeply happy appreciation for life here, in this place. It’s that settled appreciation of uniqueness, or the sort of echo of something very true, a fierce pull towards something although it’s imperfect or maybe because it’s imperfect. That feeling, or that constellation of feelings, have been largely absent since I moved here.
And yet for some odd reason buildings like the Museum of Technology have the ability to conjure this/these feeling(s) up in me. Maybe it’s because buildings ask things of us that we don’t quite know how to give. Perhaps we don’t even realise that that they are asking. But again and again, new place after new place, it is the architecture of that place that allows me to live into it as a home, to wait more patiently for the love for new rhythms of life, new friends, new adventures and new challenges to appear. So I’m very thankful for buildings like that – they allow me a space away from any bitterness or sadness about things that I’ve lost and help me to be a bit more human.
* Not to be confused with the also excellent Lois Lowry, YA author.
** I am über-dedicated. To my duvet.
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Trainspotting‘s Playlist: A Compilation of Subcultural Struggles
Karina M. Totah
How independent do I want to be if the cost of being pure independent is marginalized … And if the only way to intervene is to be assimilated, perhaps I should allow myself to be assimilated, if that’s the only way to work. Because you’ve got to deal with them, and that’s the line that the Underground has to take that you stake your claim, artistically, which you try to do with as great a degree of independence as possible. But once you move out of the office, then you have got to deal with Thatcher’s real world, because otherwise no one’s going to hear your records, no one’s going to buy your fanzine, and your dream is to be like a little blip and you don’t want that to happen.
~ Dave Haslam, renowned DJ & owner of 1980s British independent record company Play Hard1
Although Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald and John Hodge — Trainspotting‘s production team — were not members of the Underground themselves, they attempted to represent the “Underbelly”2 — as Claire Monk aptly labels it — of the British heritage image by recreating the experience of Britain’s youth subculture. As opposed to the classic characteristics and methods of minority cinema in Britain, strategies which focused on exclusion from and rebellion against mainstream society such as those seen in Black British film, Trainspotting‘s producers embraced Haslam’s integrative approach of striving for artistic integrity while accepting the realities of success in an increasingly consumer-driven British society. Further, the creators of Trainspotting seemingly assumed a role similar to that of Haslam; in recognizing the need for a two-pronged approach to the subcultural realm, they took on the dual role of filmmakers as well as DJs. The movie became more than just something to be watched; with a highly emphasized sonic element, layers upon layers of sound and songs that served as more than “aural wallpaper,”3 Trainspotting was a sensory phenomenon and explosion.
The balanced, well-informed and hybrid approach of Trainspotting through the medium of sound mirrored the social circumstances of the youth subcultural world. The constant states of oscillation within such a realm, from drug addiction to child-adult transition to post-Thatcher acclimatization, branded it as one of flux. The physical body, pop culture, genre categorization, moral judgment, individualism — all of these continually moved back and forth from extreme to extreme, reconfiguring themselves constantly in and around contemporary youth culture as the youth themselves struggled with them. In creating a movie of this experience, visual focus would not suffice; the movie producers, the characters of the film and the receiving audience needed an avenue along which to represent and understand the elements in flux. The crucial element of Trainspotting, its sound, enabled the linking of the cinema world with the world it attempted to recreate and represent. Each character in the movie, whether through drugs, Sean Connery, or violence has — as Renton comments — “That what he got off on: his own sensory addiction.”4 The moviemakers offer the audience the same opportunity to “get off,” as well, through their own sensory addiction — in Trainspotting, the senses are attracted to, obsessed with and tantalized by sound.
Choose text,
Drawing on the language of Trainspotting‘s original text, a novel by Irvine Welsh published in 1993, the movie adapted the distinctive phonetic Scottish dialect with which the novel is written. Often difficult to understand upon first reading, novel reviewer Jane Mendelsohn characterized the experience of the language as, “alienating at first, exhilarating once you get the hang of it, and finally poetic in its complications.”5 Indeed, acclimatization to the language requires a reading out-loud of the typographical rendering in the mind’s ear: “Ah wished tae fuck that ah wis in one ay they squads instead ay wi this auld cunt.”6 The vernacular contains strong rhythms and poetic slang, contributing to its vocalization-prone style.7 A highly sonant book, even on the written page, Trainspotting the novel sets up an already audible framework for the filmmakers.
Choose a verse,
Welsh wrote in the style of James Kelman, a Scottish writer and winner of the Booker Prize; his language was quick and episodic utilizing profane language and free verse, as Harlan Kennedy put it.8 The many variances and jumps in the language, and its often poetry-like structure on the page, parallels the frozen frames, montage sequences and “fantastical visual punctuation”9 of the movie. Welsh willingly recognized the potential for an “unfaithful representation” of the text in the film adaptation; however, he considered the text to be dynamic and felt “the exciting part of it” was to note how, “it’s going to change as it moves into a different medium.”10 The looseness, loudness and inherent rhythms of the original language ease the tension of text-film adaptation and accentuate the aural cinematic product.
Choose a dialect,
The distinctive Scottish dialect signifies a stress on heritage. However, talk regarding Scotland in the movie (and novel) actively condemns and insults the national heritage. Tommy takes his mates for a walk through a classic Scottish landscape; Renton reacts by calling the Scots the, “lowest of the fucking low.”11 Renton literally and metaphorically abandons symbolic Scottish geography and heritage through the course of Trainspotting. The film rejects the context of Scottish nationalistic/glorification films from within which it arises — Braveheart and Rob Roy. Trainspotting‘s producers took, as Harlan Kennedy of Film Comment phrases it, “the leftover stock footage [and] handed [it] back to the Scottish Tourist board.”12 Dialect is the film’s primary vehicle and simultaneous undertone to indicate heritage. Although Renton addresses Scotland directly only on one occasion, the distinctiveness of the argot and the difficulty in understanding the characters’ speech continually reminds us of nationalistic differences and tensions. In addition, Renton’s back-and-forth to London further emphasizes this element.
Choose a big fucking noise,
Despite its Scottish character, Trainspotting achieved transnational success. As reviewer Robert Morace indicates, the arresting opening sequence juxtaposes Renton’s Scot diatribe with Iggy Pop’s American drawl13; establishing the inter- and intranational dynamics of the movie. The sequence also demonstrates the most pervasive quality of the film — the many layers of diegetic sound, or sound that exists within the film’s narrative space. Sound in the backdrop of Trainspotting, unlike the “sounds of society” typical in British realist film — people talking, traffic passing by, machines working, dogs barking — are absent; instead, a “rushing, wind noise”14 replaces the noises of surrounding society and its members. Suggestive both of a type of surreal silence and constant motion, the wind noise plays an essential role in the film’s kinetic, fast-paced energy. Only heard in full effect when all the film’s other sounds disappear, the rushing sound comes directly preceding a realization. It appears as Renton strolls along before toppling over impending with diarrhea; after reading his girlfriend Diane’s letter, hearing his doorbell buzz and understanding his friend Begbie’s arrival; and as he knocks on his friend Tommy’s door, confronting him AIDS-ridden. The sound of movement replaces silent thought while also propelling the narrative forward.
Choose material objects,
The “whooshing” sound denies the film of silence, highlighting its on-going rapid pace in addition to serving as a reminder of the noise ever-present in the world of overstimulated youth. Welsh, in writing his novel, acknowledged the condition of the youth, club-going culture who inhabited an overly-arousing environment of soundbites, music videos, advertisements, and computer graphics. Accordingly, Welsh felt the importance of writing in a style “to keep the pages turning, to keep the action moving, just like a DJ.”15 The constant noise necessary to drive the story forward correlates with youth’s lowered sensitivity to common din; yet Trainspotting chooses to deliberately amplify the sounds of objects in the everyday, material world. The exaggerated reverberations of cans opening, bags of chips ripping, trains whistling, bottles hitting tables, lights flickering, flies buzzing, drinks being slurped, doors locking and bolting (a double camera shot for emphasis), and water faucets dripping create a soundscape of increased volume and awareness of material objects. The film emphasizes material goods in order to explain, open, fill and cut scenes; the almost comical multiplication of their relative sonority shows the importance of such commodities in consumer culture. Further, the amplification of these sounds contributes to the disparity between the silence of society and the heightened sounds in Trainspotting‘s world. Here, sound in its contextual exaggeration represents the reduced focus of the rest of society in Trainspotting; Renton and his mates resign themselves to societal poverty and unemployment as norms and, in a sense, render society trivial. Society is not a relevant part of Renton’s existence; it fades into the background exerting no influence, soundless. Further, the separation from society, demonstrated through relative volume, also emphasizes the characters’ extreme individualism and self-containment relative to their environment. The exaggeration of material objects’ noise serves a two-fold purpose: it highlights consumerism and the associated individualism of a capitalist, as well as separate youth culture.
Human bodily functions,
Trainspotting, often equated by critics — such as Derek Paget and Christine Harold — to a pulse-taking,16 engages in the jointly tactile and auditory action by measuring the limits of human corporeality. This film, which Boyle “wanted … to pulse,” is about “being a transgressor” (868); Trainspotting intentionally reconfigures boundaries. Commentator Christina Harold argues that, in directly confronting the physical body and its changing nature, Trainspotting defines the body’s exchange of fluids as its mode of communication (867). Renton focuses on body excrement and the three associated buckets for detoxification; in the toilet scene, he must search and later immerse himself in his own feces; Spud has an “accident” on the sheets which later splatters around the kitchen; Renton uses a spoon and syringe to inject heroin into his veins. In each instance, Harold observes, the body incorporates things into itself (865). Harold quotes cultural theorist Elizabeth Grosz, who proposes: “The body image is extremely fluid and dynamic; its borders, edges and contours are ‘osmotic’ — they have remarkable power of incorporating and expelling outside and inside in an ongoing interchange”(865). In Trainspotting, the dynamic body pushes its boundaries in very vocal manners: Renton relieves himself accompanied by many sighs and groans; Renton separates and bangs the buckets on the ground loudly; Spud realizes he has soiled himself because of the rumbling of a plane; and when Renton injects himself with heroin, the camera shot from inside the syringe includes an intense suctioning sound. Reconfiguring boundaries of the physical body mirrors an engagement and response with socially constructed boundaries (864). Characters in Trainspotting use their bodies as a “fertile ground” (866) for desire, criticism and resistance. Through a focus on the interchanges of the body and its fluids vis-à-vis heroin and feces, Trainspotting draws a fundamental parallel to the dynamic relationship of an individual with society; moreover, it sets up the potential for dialogue with society.
Singing voices,
On two occasions in the narrative Spud sings. These instances contain the only melodic voice from a character within the story. Spud’s interview — post-amphetamine consumption — may appear to be a very-rapid paced monologue; however, upon closer listening to the rhythms, word pronunciations, repetitions, sentence structure, wording and cut-offs in his speech, Spud seems to freestyle rap. Spud vocalizes in high and low intonations, rhymes words such as “pleasure” and “leisure,” and cuts off in mid-word while gesturing in a motion that mimics spinning a record. In a quasi-rapper, quasi-DJ role, Spud takes on the role of sole musical artist in the movie. Following Tommy’s funeral, the sound of Spud singing “Two Little Boys” against complete silence links the two scenes. As Murray Smith points out, at this moment Begbie’s outbursts, Sick Boy’s selfish tauntings, and Renton’s voice-overs are lacking17; even the rushing noise is absent. Here, the movie slows down; it pauses. As fitting for after a funeral, the period provides time for contemplation and the mood shifts to an overtly sentimental one. Further, according to Murray Smith, the song suggests that adult allegiances destroy childhood friendships.18 Spud’s musical talent, as well as its time and place significance within the story, represents the coming-of-age struggle of Trainspotting‘s characters. As they fluctuate between youth and adulthood, they must reconcile two different realities. Spud’s rap indicates the pervasive pop cultural musical influence and its penetration into the behavior and lifestyle of the youth; and yet, Spud’s traditional song solidifies sentiments of childhood transition and loss.
and voiceovers,
The most dominating voice of Trainspotting does not sing; rather, Renton speaks his voice over all other events in the film. Director Boyle explained: “I realized how good a film like Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas is, in the way it uses voice-over so effectively. I started off thinking it’s a substitute for the visual, but actually you need to visualize a lot more because you need to create a lot of material to allow the voice-over to have its time.”19 The desire for this specific type of aural element dominates the visual organization; further, Renton’s voice controls the interpretation of visual sequences through narration and commentary. Trainspotting novel reviewer Robert Morace argues that Renton’s voice-over is intended as a method to replace the book’s internal monologue with Renton as the central character20; therefore, as Jane Mendolsohn explains, it locates itself a step back from the situation or crisis.21 In this removed position, Renton can still remain part of the narrative structure, but by addressing “You” — the audience — the youth — he declares his self-awareness. The voice-over interplays and intermixes with the narrative and dialogue, asserts it presence and yet absence, as Karen Lury calls it,22 and offers no chronological certainty.23 Renton’s ambiguous involvement by way of his voice-over demonstrates the ambivalence of youth. Voice-over, with its readily adaptable and transformative quality, becomes a “cross-diegetic,”24 equally indeterminate, force of the film.
Renton’s voice over, which may whisper to the audience, foreshadow Begbie’s experience with a transsexual or directly name the song that plays while shooting up (“Final Hit” by Leftfield), allows him to exist on several different levels within and outside of the narrative. At its core, however, the voice-over stresses and reflects Renton’s extreme individualism. The voice-over, adapted for the purpose of focusing on Renton centrally, simultaneously reveals his preoccupation with himself. Still a child, Renton focuses on the events and situation within which he finds himself. However, as the movie goes on and with Diane’s influence, Renton gradually begins to question his character, his progression and his music/drug-oriented world. In the final voice-over, Renton states: “The truth is that I’m a bad person, but that’s going to change, I’m going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I’m cleaning up and I’m moving on, going straight and choosing life.”25 Renton directly addresses the implications of his choices and the pressure to conform but empowers himself through his ability to choose … or does he still mock choice and consumerism as he did in his opening voice-over? The voice-over effectively mirrors the ambiguity of introspection. As part of a post-Thatcher youth culture, Renton, according to Monk, individualizes and capitalizes26; his self-centered tendencies foster a sort of introspection. Renton childishly chooses himself above his mates, yet commits to change, exudes an adult ambition, and perhaps, even embraces consumerism. The audience witnesses the ambivalent and contradictory combination by way of Renton’s direct voice.
Stage One: echoing
Echoes fill Trainspotting, ameliorating the effects of the camera’s many long shots. Beyond the diegetic level of echoes, the movie, just as the book, resounds with Welsh’s “inter-echoing vignettes.”27 On one level, the monologues and distinct scenes correlate with and mimic each other to form a comprehensive, interrelated film sequence. Concurrently, scenes from within the movie also echo scenes from other movies: the opening sequence recalls the beginning of the Beatles’ movie “Hard Day’s Night”28; Sarah Street makes a connection between the subtitles of Tommy and Spud in the club to those of Clockwork Orange and its invented language29 Murray Smith calls the walk across the road in London by the four mates a restaging of the 60s Abbey Road cover30; the drug film quality reminds of others in the drug culture genre; and, the lists characteristic of the film imitate Tarantino. Indeed, the producer readily admits that, “We tried to steal some ideas. From films like Clockwork Orange or Alfie. I think that was the last period when Britain actually made films about contemporary subjects that were exciting and impactful.”31 In attempting to make a broad-ranging, effective contemporary film, the moviemakers invoked images and qualities of other genres and times and created a hybrid product. The production team recreated and targeted a contemporary subculture not narrowly defined and contained within its own time; by reaching out to other traditions of pop culture, Trainspotting resounded both inter- and intra-film.
For this you will need: one ambient music you will not leave
The moviemakers reached out to a different level of sound utilization through external sources for the sake of cinematic and, simultaneous, sonic enrichment. The inclusion of ambient music as a non-diegetic feature facilitated the transformation of Trainspotting into a surrealist film, in addition to its already hyper-realistic quality. Brian Eno’s “Deep Blue Day,” quintessential ambient music, satiates the senses in Renton’s underwater scene. K.J. Donnelly, a writer for “Popular Music,” recognizes Eno’s music and his pioneering work in merging “sonic environmental awareness with functional aspects of film soundtrack music”32; it ideally suits Trainspotting both in its parallel to dance clubs’ chill-out rooms in and its image-friendly quality.33 The amorphousness of ambient music’s role and its aural effectiveness render it especially fitting for displaying the euphoric effects of heroin and enabling, as Harlan Kennedy visualizes, “the dull prose of realism move[ing] to one side; the false resonances of ethical or mystical perspective move[ing] to the other. And we are left with a gleaming through path into subversion’s mischiefs and surrealism’s higher sorcery.”34 Ambient music in Trainspotting easily enables the visualization of the preceding image of pathways: Renton swims gracefully through blue water with a light above him in a dream-like, magical scene and the overall surreal quality of the cinematic presentation guides a social commentary on realism by the simple fact of its oppositional quality. Renton’s dive accompanied by Eno’s mood music transforms the movie from real to surreal and, as Derek Paget argues, soothingly reminds of underwater peace and tranquility as opposed to surface ugliness.35
One surreal color palate
The alternative reality or the dreamlike illusions, which ambient music provides, helps bring to light other fantastical elements of Trainspotting; specifically, the use of color. The deliberate, greatly contrasted color schemes throughout the cinematography subconsciously contribute to the audience’s impression of heroin use. Mother Superior’s, the epicenter of heroin in the Trainspotting world, contains completely green and yellow rooms while others are shot in red lighting with red carpet and purple walls. The four mates, whenever sitting together and usually in a row, each wear different bright colored shirts (at the bar, at the club, and during the drug deal negotiation). Renton shoots up upon a backdrop of two side-by-side windows; one is a vivid green, the other a bright yellow. Boyle aimed for a color scheme that was “more Mediterranean, exotic – not psychedelic, but deliberately seductive.”36 The extremely artificial lighting nonetheless heightens the sensual experience of the film; the deep hues of cool and warm colors titillate the senses subtly, just as the ambient music does. Color and ambient music, both purposefully surreal in Trainspotting, demonstrate the possibility of transcendence of realism by members of the subculture.
Britpop: ten tins of
Pop music during the ’80s and ’90s became ubiquitous both in television and film. Producer Macdonald tapped into this trend — as evident in a statement to Screen International: “British youth culture is fashionable at the moment, and the rise of ‘Britpop’ has been phenomenal. We want the film to tap into the same audiences.”37 Britpop was Trainspotting‘s main vehicle to integrate youth subculture into popular culture. Youth in the 1990s cultural moment yearned for self-definition and struggled as they were being misread by an “older generation in Britain [that] allowed itself to be heritaged half to death.”38 The Trainspotters, quite distinct from the Janespotters — terms coined by reviewer Derek Paget because, ironically, Trainspotting and Sense & Sensibility were released on the same day — participated in rave culture. These subculture staples offered a “moment-event,”39 as Chris Stanley names it, of alternative formation of desire and identity. The fusion of Trainspotting and rave/pop culture through the Britpop enabled Trainspotting‘s audience the opportunity to indulge themselves in the music of their desires and identities. Andrew O’Hagan of Sight & Sound went so far as to say that Trainspotting was, “Gauranteed to win with young audiences keen on disaffection and anarchy and good music;”40 yet O’Hagan also felt that the combination of drug culture with Britpop was, “disturbing… to see the lives of this troop of addicts and psychos blasted about in pop promo fashion.”41 Other critics extended a similar sentiment; Will Self called Trainspotting an “extended pop video” and an example of “recent drug pornography”42 and Michiko Kakutani felt Boyle made a film in MTV’s image which, “offers bourgeois audience a voyeuristic peep at an alien subculture and lets them go home feeling smug with it.”43
The mixed criticism regarding the pop/rave culture crossover and merger arose from the important space, or foreground, which Britpop occupied in the film. By its obvious and loud musical accompaniment, Britpop matched the narrative precisely and contributed to its exhilarating character. Murray Smith notes that Pulp’s “Mile-End” realistically represented the slum-like squalor of Begbie’s presence through its bittersweet melody;44Underworld’s “Dark & Long,” with its compulsive and relentless groove, captured the heaves of nausea and Renton’s convulsive state of struggle in withdrawal45; and Sleeper’s “Atomic” bound together the three sex scenes. In addition, the inclusion of the dance song “Think About the Way” by Ice Mc also further tapped into Britain’s dance-club culture. These songs, adapted and edited for the film, achieved non-diegetic and diegetic status. Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film’s ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience’s emotional response.46 However, the fluctuating volume and alternating cutting and fading enabled the music to continually assert itself. Britpop commented on the film by becoming part of the culture within it — it plays on the radio in Diane’s house in the morning — but also by retaining the symbolism of pop and consumer culture. The changing state of Britpop’s incorporation into Trainspotting represents its permeation into subculture and pop culture — ironically, two which become the same. The same rave/pop duality present in the audience itself facilitated Trainspotting‘s recognition, appreciation and consequent commercial success. BFI reviewer Murray Smith even proposed that the “continuous flow of pop music on the soundtrack and the various permutations of the gang in locomotion, the film seems like a pop film in which the gang have taken on the role of pop group.”47 It is as if the characters are the pop stars, too. Trainspotting and Britpop tied together and interchanged subculture with commercial culture.
’70s punk, eight tins of, for consumption cold
Murray Smith asserts that the propelling rhythm, balanced harmony and electronic flavor of Britpop made it ideal for chasing sequences48; the first notable Britpop song in Trainspotting, Blur’s “Sing,” was used for a subsequent repetition of the opening scene later in the movie. The parallel of Blur’s Britpop and Iggy Pop’s 1970s punk indicates the interrelation of both types of music in Trainspotting. Cross-generational implications accurately fit the 1980s setting of the movie; by framing the film in the 70s original heroin/drug culture and its later reincarnation in early and mid-90s Britpop, Trainspotting targets broad youth culture. As Macdonald describes it:
The music was deliberately centered around Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie, but from there it took off into contemporary culture… The music allows us to travel in time, which is why the arc of music was from washed-up punk, to the King of Punk — Iggy Pop — right the way through dance music and a quick trip to London’s dance culture, right the way through Brit Pop, with Pulp and Blur.49
Crucial to its contextualization, the “arc of music” stood as part of the producers’ foremost objectives. The original creator of Trainspotting, Welsh, cites Reed and Pop as his influences more than any writer.50 Tommy even mentions Iggy Pop directly on two occasions. By referring to Pop’s concert in the recent past and bringing Pop’s revival (and disassociation from drug culture) into Trainspotting‘s context, the possibility of overcoming heroin addiction increases. Tommy’s apartment contains a poster of Iggy Pop on the wall — the only decoration amidst the colorful palate of design. Yet, ironically, Tommy is the one who dies of the addiction. Seventies punk music in Trainspotting signifies the constant back-and-forth between addiction and withdrawal, as well as a push-and-pull with many time periods.
With a scope wider than only the contemporary culture of its release, Trainspotting deejays a “coming-of-age story”51 for any youth. It does not moralize or document, it presents. Screenwriter Hodge, aware of the implications of a drug/pop culture movie match-up, stated that the production team was careful and, “didn’t want to glamorize or attract people to drug use;”52 however, director Boyle addressed the issue that, “We’re still stuck in the 70s in terms of attitudes to drugs… There’s still stigma attached to it.”53 The production team balanced these two time period tensions by conflating several decades of youth culture via music. In Trainspotting, the collage sequence of London strongly reminds of past “Swinging London” montages that included Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, royalty and all the streets made famous by Monopoly — a cross-generational reference within British cinema tradition and a genre integration. Trainspotting continually oscillates between integration with society and withdrawal from it — just as heroin addiction — and just as youth.
Marketing campaign, effective, one large tub of
The soundtrack of Trainspotting, a compilation of well-known ambient, Britpop and 70s punk music — all cross-diegetically incorporated — came to assume an aural role beyond the movie itself. The music’s tremendous appeal on its own, in addition to the fact that — as Jeff Smith remarks — soundtracks are generally considered “safe bet” samplers,54 launched the movie beyond its own cinematic limits. The Trainspotting soundtrack, following in the footsteps of Saturday Night Fever‘s soundtrack, which sold 20 million copies and cemented the youth market as the target audience,55 was marketed as a package “brand,” as Karen Lury succinctly named it.56 EMI released the soundtrack, but paired with its common competitor, PolyGram, in order to expand the marketing of the CD; Polygram employed a design consultant, Stylorouge, in order to further the pop/rock image of the soundtrack. Beyond the CD soundtrack and the second, additional soundtrack released a year following, the movie was aggressively marketed. Justin Wyatt, in his Sight & Sound “M is for Marketing” article, begins to list the elements of the campaign: the poster of Trainspotting‘s five main characters in a bold popstar “glamour” pose57 who appear horizontally or vertically, as if it present on the spine of a book or CD58; a mantra and scandalous ad-slogan “Choose a life. Choose a…”59; a videocassette that features a music video in direct conjunction with the feature presentation; DVDs; copies of the screenplay; and a reprinting of Welsh’s novel featuring the poster on the cover. This “synergy,” or phenomenon of successful film and music cross-promotion, served as an integrative strategy: even though the movie was artistically unique in its cross-diegetic, -generational, and -genre use of music, the moviemakers accepted and embraced the effective marketing methods of their own contemporary context. Beyond embracing it, they went beyond to revolutionize Britain’s marketing methods and increase the movie’s transnational appeal. According to Paul Swann piece regarding cultural policy and export, Trainspotting reached out past generation, nation and class and targeted an age demographic above all else60; it did so with the infallible tool of its soundtrack.
Flux, Integration of, one bottle
The multi-pronged approach of Trainspotting‘s production team allowed the oscillation and ambiguity within the movie to freely exist. That which increasingly perturbed Trainspotting‘s critics — that the movie did not moralize and, especially, did not condemn drugs — reflects the subculture/mainstream integration of the film and its subsequent tension. Trainspotting refused to hold tightly to the reins of traditional pressures regarding drug attitudes and cinematic tendencies; sound, in a sense its “loudest” mode of expression, exemplified the use of an alternative form of movie focus — one which gave away to a new kind of sensory experience — while its amorphous nature allowed the fluctuations of the culture it represented to take their own course. Trainspotting represents youth and, therefore, the associated confusion, rebellion, resignation and marginalization. In order to link the sentiments of the British youth culture that gravitated towards a rave subculture to the greater youth struggle, Trainspotting tightly weaved sound and music into its fundamentals in order to expand its applicability and appeal. The production team, like DJ Haslam, did not distinguish between their “office” — or the movie-making — and “Thatcher’s real world”; they setup a joint workshop where artistic goals were defined by mainstream feasibility and effectiveness. However, they did not relinquish their cinematic integrity to consumer culture; through the increased importance of sound’s role within the movie, they recognized a need to enable the majority of youth to interact with the movie on their own level — through music and the sensory joy its offers…mimicking raves themselves. Trainspotting became part of the culture and with time, took in its own cult status.
Trainspotting accurately displays an understanding on the interplay of factors and influences within youth culture. The movie recreates the cultural experience by incorporating itself into the sensations of such a world. Each sound served a distinct purpose. Trainspotting appeals to a cult-prone youth via pop, rock and punk music, precisely the foundations of subculture formation in British culture. Trainspotting taps into the technologically advanced, under-sensitized world through an amplification, exaggeration, and competition of sounds. The movie expands its context through the incorporation of cross-generational pop, punk and rave music. However, the movie does not aim to exactly mirror the youth world; it reaches beyond social realist drama by the inclusion of surrealist sonic and cinematographic elements. Indeed, Boyle enumerates: “We just didn’t want to go into that usual drug world where things are so appalling you can’t even watch it. It just wears you down. We wanted the film to have vibrancy — a humour, an outrageousness, we wanted it to be larger than life really.”61 The film’s makers wanted the movie to transcend and simultaneously magnify reality — just as its target audience strove to do. They used layers of sound to create surrealism, hyper-realism, comedy, drama, and a music-video quality. Trainspotting plays with every formality and category of cinema structure while it plays its music; this “negation of fixity,”62 as critic Sarah Street calls it, constructs a pathway along which to play with notions of extremes. The aural elements offer an understanding of and inclusion within the reconciliation process of individualism and society, choice and conformity, childhood and adulthood, past and present.
Created, mixed and layered with precision as any electronic piece of music that is spinned, Trainspotting‘s musical and audible quality originated in Welsh’s text. The production team, in adapting it into a film, said that, “Welsh had this total belief in house and club culture. He let us do what we wanted. He saw it like it was being remixed for an Ibiza special or something.”63 Welsh, in a sense, considered his text a piece of music to be remixed, sampled, edited and, subsequently, played in the huge dance clubs characteristic of the party island Ibiza. In addition the commercial success of the soundtrack, the movie itself is a euphoric “night out” — an enjoyable experience for its viewers. It opens pounding away at Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” during a scene that later repeats in true context — the movie begins, it seems, “en medias res”. In the first five minutes, the movie flashes between five different scenes. Initially and forcefully submerged in the middle of action, the first scene sets a foreground for a movie of constant propulsion and locomotion. Trainspotting proceeds forward along with kineticism, full of energy and lust for its life, utilizing a customized playlist of sounds: songs which are played together, sounds played against each other, and aural surrealisms integrated as part of a hyper-realist sound scheme. The sensory orgasm of the movie lies in the ways in which the sounds combine, overlap, echo each other, speak over one another, refer back to each other, compete, alter their volumes and keep the movie moving forward headfirst. The Trainspotting experience, a hotspot for youth expression and relation, distinguished itself from its subculture contemporaries by taking advantage of the prominence of sound and music in youth culture. Trainspotting’s crucial musical inclusion resulted from the brilliance of editor Masahiro Hirakubo who mixed, cut and synchronized the movie’s sound to maximize its effect and correlation with the narrative events. The intricate sound integration of the film allows music to compress time and, therefore, accelerate the speed of the film. Instances such as Atomic’s “Blondie” parallels the three sex scenes and traverses spatial and narrative boundaries as in Renton’s impossible leap landing corresponding with the last chord of the song; together, these super-real aural effects offer the possibility of transcendence.64
Renton and his mates do not rebel but transcend in a unique way. Claire Monk argues that Trainspotting, as opposed to movies such as The Full Monty and Brassed Off, accepts male disempowerment, poverty, joblessness and social exclusion as a given state.65 Renton often parodies famous Thatcher quotes through his “Choose life” diatribes and comments regarding the non-existence of society. The lifestyle of Trainspotting, critics argue, represents a detached subculture of British youth who do not attempt to change the status quo. Rather, British youth adapt within the environment and mark their own paths,66 ones of music, drugs and cults. Trainspotting, though, does not condemn the social condition; the movie embraces the mindset of a reactor. Reviewer Martin Stollery notes that Renton is not proactive; he is a “poacher”67 who copes with, responds to, and takes advantage of the situations within which he finds himself. Renton transcends, it seems, within the physical — although not psychological — boundaries of his world.
Sound, the primary vehicle of integrating the subculture, controls the many fluxes of the society because of its inherent and apparent plasticity within Trainspotting. Boyle does not categorize, label and codify Trainspotting‘s sound; rather, he creates with careful precision strata of sound that, within themselves — they fluidly, intertextually and amorphously — parallel and, paradoxically, capture the ambiguity of the youth mindset, lifestyle and attitude. Therefore, Trainspotting releases youth from the constraints of right and wrong and the pressures to organize and control; the distinctive aural character, just as the main character, embraces the struggle for identity, whatever choices that may include.
For background information and extended research, I have relied on:
Hart, Matthew. “Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland.” Rev. of Glue, by Irvine Welsh.Postmodern Culture 12.2 (2002) (in order to contextualize Welsh’s work in society)
McCarron, Kevin. “Tattoos and Heroin: A Literary Approach.” Body & Society 5.2-3 (1999): 305-315. (regarding the duality of the body and mind, specifically the possibility of transcendence of the body)
Taylor, Charles. Rev. of Trainspotting, dir. Danny Boyle. Salon.com. 16 Feb 2003 (to explain the rock-video character of Trainspotting)
Haslam qtd. in Steve Redhead, The End-of-the-Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000(Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 1990) 72. [↩]
Claire Monk, “Men in the 90s,” in Robert Murphy, ed British Cinema of the 90s, (London: British Film Institute, 2000) 274. [↩]
Murray Smith, Trainspotting (London: British Film Institute, 2002) 65. [↩]
John Hodge, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Miramax, 1996) 27. [↩]
Jane Mendelsohn, “Needles and Sins,” New Republic 2 Sep 1996: 35. [↩]
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, 1st American ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996) 234. [↩]
Robert A Morace, Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Reader’s Guide (New York: Continuum, 2001) 25. [↩]
Harlan Kennedy, “Kiltspotting: Highland Reels,” Film Comment 32.4 (1996): 32. [↩]
Kennedy 32. [↩]
Welsh qtd. in Derek Paget, “Speaking Out: The Transformations of Trainspotting,” in Deborah Cartmell & Imelda Whelehan, eds Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (London: Routledge, 1999) 130. [↩]
Hodge 46. [↩]
Morace 18. [↩]
Smith 72. [↩]
Welsh qtd. in Morace 40. [↩]
Paget 130 & Christine L. Harold, “The Rhetorical Function of the Abject Body: Transgressive Corporeality in Trainspotting,” Jac: a Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 866. Further references to C. Harold in this section will be made by page number. [↩]
Boyle qtd. in Angus Finney, The State of European Cinema (New York: Cassell, 1996) 179. [↩]
Mendelsohn 32. [↩]
Karen Lury, “Here and Then: Space, Place and Nostalgia in British Youth Cinema of the 1990s,” in Robert Murphy, ed. British Cinema of the 90s (London: British Film Institute, 2000) 105. [↩]
Martin Stollery, Trainspotting: director, Danny Boyle (London: York Press, 2001) 30. [↩]
Hodge 106. [↩]
Monk 282. [↩]
Sarah Street, European Cinema: An Introduction (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2000) 189. [↩]
Street 189. [↩]
Macdonald qtd. in O’Hagan 10. [↩]
K.J. Donnelly, “Tracking British Television: Pop Music As Stock Soundtrack to the Small Screen,” Popular Music 21.3 (2002): 337. [↩]
Donnelly 337. [↩]
Paget 139. [↩]
Boyle qtd. in Andrew O. Thompson, “Trains, Veins and Heroin Deals,” American Cinematographer 77.8(1996): 81. [↩]
Macdonald qtd. in Finney 181. [↩]
Chris Stanley, “Not Drowning but Waving: Urban Narratives of Dissent in the Wild Zone,” in Steve Redhead, ed. The Clubculture Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997) 36. [↩]
O’Hagan 7. [↩]
Self qtd. in Morace 83. [↩]
Kakutani qtd. in Morace 84. [↩]
Fred Karlin, Listening to Movies: The Film Lover’s Guide to Film Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1994) 12. [↩]
Smith 215. [↩]
Hodge qtd. in Finney 176. [↩]
Boyle qtd. in O’Hagan 10. [↩]
Jeff Smith, The Sounds of Commerce (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) 209. [↩]
Karlin 228. [↩]
Lury 100. [↩]
Justin Wyatt, “M is for Marketing,” Sight and Sound 7.6 (1997): 39. [↩]
Wyatt 39. [↩]
Paul Swann, “The British Culture Industries and the Mythology of the American Market: Cultural Policy and Cultural Exports in the 1940s and 1990s,” Cinema Journal 39.4 (2000): 39. [↩]
Macdonald qtd. in Morace 79. [↩]
Stollery 24. [↩]
— Karina M. Totah
Karina M. Totah is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in international relations and minoring in English. She hopes to work in economic development and human rights post-graduation. She credits University of Pennsylvania professor Jim English for opening her eyes "to the wealth and depth of British cinema."
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Falcon and Winter Soldier Limited TV Series in Development
by Taylor Williams
A new television series teaming the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Falcon and the Winter Soldier is in development for Disney's streaming service, which is set to launch in 2019.
According to Variety, the limited series will be penned by Empire screenwriter Malcolm Spellman, becoming the first of Marvel's planned limited series on Disney's streaming platform to tap a writer. The Falcon and Winter Soldier series is now the third limited series reportedly in development for Disney Play, following earlier announcements of a Loki and Scarlet Witch solo series. Marvel and Disney declined to comment on the report.
While Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen are expected to reprise their roles as Loki and Scarlet Witch in their respective series, it was not reported whether Anthony Mackie (Falcon) and Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) will suit up again for the Falcon and Winter Soldier series. The limited series will be produced by Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige, unlike other Marvel television offerings.
Sebastian Stan has portrayed the role of James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes in six films to date within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, his first appearance occurring in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. Anthony Mackie has portrayed Sam Wilson in five films to date, debuting in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Both actors are slated to appear in 2019's yet-titled fourth Avengers film.
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5 hours ago, biloxifalcon said:
Marvel's TV shows are spotty as heck. "Agents of SHIELD" is interesting but a generally poorly produced show, IMO. Of course, "Inhumans" was a crap-fest. I think "Cloak & Dagger" has the chance to be exellent. Hopefully, these new shows are more the quality of the Netflix shows. I took a while to start watching "Daredevil" season 3 and so far, it's the best thing that Marvel has done. If they put $2 per episode in the Disney shows like they do "AOS" and did for "Inhumans", it's going to damage the MCEU brand greatly.
Interestingly, "The Gifted" and "Legion" are fantastic, so Fox is doing better with its TV shows than it is with the mutants on the big screen.
Seriously, "Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse" looks like it's going to be the best Spiderman movie by far. And maybe the best cinematic superhero film.
Carter 14,740
Finally got around to finishing Iron Fist season 2. Not upset in the least it got canceled.
Would be nice to see some of these Defenders roles make some (quality) cameos in the future though. The tease from Misty that she didn’t like what she saw when she checked in on Luke and that Colleen or Danny might be the only ones who can get through to him was neat. The last few scenes of the finale were pretty poorly done though.
Gonna get started on Daredevil season 3 now.
1 hour ago, JayOzOne said:
That one is gonna be a Spider-Man comic nerd’s wet dream lol... it does look good though. I’ll probably take the kids to see it, I got them all into Marvel stuff now.
On 11/5/2018 at 2:24 PM, JayOzOne said:
These new shows are on the Disney streaming service, so I'm thinking since Disney owns Marvel, and the involvement of Kevin Feige (production) that these shows should be way better. If they are not then they won't have that streaming revenue they are looking for.
Daredevil is so much better than Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist... soooo much better.
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26 minutes ago, Carter said:
Season 3 was the best season of a Marvel show, period and I'm likely going to watch it again soon. The prison fight scene was the highlight for me; almost as good as the hallway fight from the first season. Season 1 was second best, IMO. With that said, Bushmaster, from "Luke Cage" season 2, is my favorite Marvel TV villain.
9 hours ago, JayOzOne said:
Yeah Daredevil season 3 has easily been one of the best seasons of any show I’ve ever seen. I wasn’t sure where they would take it after the events of The Defenders but they knocked this one waaaay out of the park. I still have a few more episodes left but it has been outstanding so far.
That whole prison sequence was crazy. I was so tense just watching it. The way they have made him beatable in season 3 but he manages to keep going is pretty awesome.
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So much porn on my Twitter feed I totally missed the news of Stan Lee dying. RIP
Stan Lee MCU cameos:
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Marvel was a partner on "Big Hero 6". Not in the MCEU but he had a cameo in it, as well.
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He also had a cameo in the 1st Deadpool movie. It was during the stripclub scene.
I don't think he made an appearance in Deadpool 2.
24 minutes ago, DawnOfThemBirds said:
Yeah, he was the DJ in the strip club, right?
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Gheto_Po_Folk!
Netflix cancels Daredevil after three seasons
Following in Luke Cage and Iron Fist’s footsteps
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18118968/daredevil-canceled-marvel-netflix-disney-luke-cage-iron-fist
Wow. I had a feeling that was coming but it's still a shock. News about the upcoming Defenders shows is why I first got Netflix. Can't imagine Disney picking up an R-rated series on its platform, either.
I'm wondering now if the Punisher season 2 is in the can or if they're done.
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3 minutes ago, JayOzOne said:
Disney is forcing this. Pretty sure of it. I agree I can’t see Disney being ok with an R rating DD. If they produce their own series it’ll be PG-13 at best.
Disney has said Hulu, which they will own 60% of will be getting the more adult program, while Disney+ stays kid friendly.
My theory is that Disney is going to go to Comcast and ATT and try to have Hulu be their base service while allowing them and others to have premium services on top. ATT has already said their new streaming service is going to be 3 tiered. Maybe tier 1 is Hulu, tier 2 is HBO Now and tier 3 is an HBO+DC+Crunchyroll combo.
Stan Lee was my dude, all day and every day. I can't put into words how much I was impacted by seeing the Black Panther in the pages of the Avengers when I was a little boy. I thought I was in a small company until the Black Panther movie wound up being almost a religious experience for millions of others. Someone recently posted an editorial that Lee wrote in 1968 that is sadly as applicable today as it was back then. This makes me love and miss that guy even more.
And then, I saw something else that was published in the fan pages about a year later that was just as bold.
RIP, Stan. Excelsior!
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This is one of the 2 to 3 reasons I started, and kept reading comics over the years. They were about way more that just "cartoons".
PS - I'd love to see Marvel give the Silver Surfer his props in a movie, that dude was bad assed! The Fox movies didn't do that character justice.
This movie is going be good. I'm expecting it to be one of Marvel's best.
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Marvel is now looking to make a Shang Chi movie. In the '70s, I was a bigger fan of Shang Chi than I was of Iron Fist. Let's see if they handle this right.
‘Shang-Chi’ Marvel’s First Asian Film Superhero Franchise; Dave Callaham Scripting, Search On For Director Of Asian Descent
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios is fast-tracking Shang-Chi to be its first superhero movie tentpole franchise with an Asian protagonist. The studio has set Chinese-American scribe Dave Callaham to write the screenplay, and Deadline hears Marvel is already looking at a number of Asian and Asian-American directors who want to do something as potentially monumental as was accomplished in Marvel’s first viable Best Picture candidate, Black Panther. That film tied into African and African American cultures and the sensibilities of its nearly all-black cast, with a black director in Ryan Coogler and writer in Joe Robert Cole. The goal here is to do a similar thing: introduce a new hero who blends Asian and Asian American themes, crafted by Asian and Asian American filmmakers.
After Marvel Studios’ unparalleled decade of success following Iron Man, many have wondered how Kevin Feige’s next iterations of superhero franchises will distinguish themselves. Clearly an important theme will be ethnic diversity and inclusion, in front of and behind the camera.
Callaham has strong credentials in the superhero and franchise-building realms and his own experiences as a Chinese-American will inform the Shang-Chi movie mythology, sources said. His recent work includes co-writing with Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns the upcoming DC Warner Bros sequel Wonder Woman 1984, and he is writing Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2. He also wrote initial drafts of Zombieland 2, which begins production in January, and created and produced Amazon’s recent action comedy series Jean-Claude Van Johnson, starring Jean- Claude Van Damme. Callaham also created the Expendablesfranchise as well as the story for the Legendary’s Godzillareboot.
He’s got two comedies at Netflix: Callaham wrote the Black List-ed dark comedy caper script Jackpot, which Will Gluck will direct; and he wrote and is producing with Channing Tatum, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, and Archer’s Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, the animated comedy America: The Motion Picture. Thompson is directing.
Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition #15 in December 1973, hatched by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin. The script will modernize the hero to avoid stereotypes that many comic characters of that era were saddled with. The comic launched around the time that Enter the Dragon became a global sensation and martial arts films raged. In the comics, Shang-Chi is the son of China-based globalist who raised and educated his progeny in his reclusive China compound, closed off to the outside world. The son trained in the martial arts and developed unsurpassed skills. He is eventually introduced to the outside world to do his father’s bidding, and then has to come to grips with the fact his revered father might not be the humanitarian he has claimed to be and is closer to what others call him: The Devil’s Doctor. He also might be centuries old. The deceit makes them bitter enemies.
Marvel Studios has worked with a stable of talented filmmakers from diverse backgrounds including Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, directing next year’s Captain Marvel with Brie Larson; Coogler, directing the Black Panther sequel; Taika Waititi, who directed Thor: Ragnarok; Chloé Zhao, who will direct The Eternals; and Cate Shortland, who will direct a stand-alone film for Marvel staple Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson.
Callaham is represented by UTA, Kaplan Perrone Entertainment, and Gretchen Rush & Dan Fox at Hanson, Jacobson.
https://deadline.com/2018/12/shang-chi-marvel-studios-first-asian-film-superhero-dave-callaham-kevin-feige-black-panther-1202512660/
Completely forgot about Shang Chi! This should be awesome!
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Robot tutor ARTIE boosts learning in the classroom
Robin Zebrowski, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
by Mallory Locklear
Technology is taking on an ever-growing role in the classroom. Computers, mobile devices, and apps are becoming more and more prevalent as are teaching aids like virtual assistants and robots. As of now, virtual assistants are winning out over robots, largely because they’re much cheaper. But one researcher is working on a robotic tutor that might make itself indispensable because of its ability to read a student’s emotional state.
Luis-Eduardo Imbernón Cuadrado, a domain manager at the information technology consulting company Sopra Steria, and his colleagues in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain created a robotic educational platform called Affective Robot Tutor Integrated Environment, or ARTIE.
Robots: Learning companions for our children
The social robot teacher
by Meeri Kim / February 9, 2018
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by Wafa Johal / June 29, 2017
This platform is designed to incorporate any sort of educational software meant for primary school children and assist the student through the tasks they’re working on in the software. It takes into account the students’ classroom profile, like their motivation to work and their competency (information provided by their teachers for now), and provides pedagogical support as the student needs it. However, ARTIE offers something special – it uses the students’ computer interactions to try and read their emotional state and help steer them through the task in a more effective way.
Gauging emotional states
“In this first phase, we wanted to make a simplified prototype, that will be improved in future phases, that would detect emotional states,” says Imbernón Cuadrado. And those states, which aren’t pure emotions but instead more general cognitive-affective states, are detected through keyboard and mouse interactions, including the number and length of pauses in mouse movement and how quickly and often the student presses keyboard keys.
The researchers linked these measures to students’ emotional states in an initial experiment in which 20 students’ computer use was observed while their teacher guided them through a computer program. These measures are now used in the prototype to determine the students’ cognitive-affective state – whether they are concentrating on the task, are distracted, or if they are completely inactive. If students become distracted or inactive, ARTIE is designed to jump in and steer them back on course.
The robot tutor at work
So far, ARTIE has been tested out on two students through a robot prototype named MONICA and both kids were big fans of the robot. Both said they preferred working with a robot than working alone, that they liked MONICA specifically, and that they would want a robot in the classroom. They also said that they felt more relaxed working with MONICA than they did when a teacher supervised them.
However, neither student wanted a robot to replace their teacher. And the students’ good reviews of MONICA were expressed even though neither found it particularly helpful when it came to assisting them with their task. Both students gave low marks on MONICA’s ability to help them with the work.
“In this first phase, our prototype was not as accurate as we wanted,” says Imbernón Cuadrado, “but the result was good anyway and we are happy with the reaction to it.”
“ARTIE is a framework to support teachers, not to replace them.”
Imbernón Cuadrado is now working on the software, improving its accuracy, and introducing more cognitive-affective states including sadness, frustration, and anger. For this purpose, he’s working to incorporate more inputs such as video images for facial expression analysis, microphones, and wearables like bluetooth bracelets. He hopes to have a final version completed within five years. “Meanwhile, I will provide beta versions to test the response,” he says.
What Imbernón Cuadrado wants to make clear is that ARTIE is a framework to support teachers, not to replace them.
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*Cover Reveal* Surviving Ice by K.A. Tucker
Posted on May 8, 2015 by kmarvin317
We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Cover Reveal for K.A. Tucker’s SURVIVING ICE!! SURVIVING ICE is a New Adult Romantic Suspense novel, and the fourth novel in K.A. Tucker’s Burying Water Series, published by Atria books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster. SURVIVING ICE is set to be released October 13, 2015!
Ivy Lee, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have finally found it working in her uncle’s tattoo shop in San Francisco. But all that changes when a robbery turns deadly, compelling her to pack up her things yet again.
When they need the best, they call him. That’s why Sebastian Riker is back in California, cleaning up the mess made after a tattoo shop owner with a penchant for blackmail got himself shot. But it’s impossible to get the answers he needs from a dead body, leaving him to look elsewhere. Namely, to the twenty-something-year-old niece who believes this was a random attack. Who needs to keep believing that until Sebastian finds what he’s searching for.
Ivy has one foot out of San Francisco when a chance encounter with a stranger stalls her departure. She’s always been drawn to intense men, so it’s no wonder that she now finds a reason to stay after all, quickly intoxicated by his dark smile, his intimidating strength, and his quiet control.
That is, until Ivy discovers that their encounter was no accident—and that their attraction could be her undoing.
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The top-selling, beloved indie author of Ten Tiny Breaths returns with a new romance about a young woman who loses her memory—and the man who knows that the only way to protect her is to stay away.
Left for dead in the fields of rural Oregon, a young woman defies all odds and survives—but she awakens with no idea who she is, or what happened to her. Refusing to answer to “Jane Doe” for another day, the woman renames herself “Water” for the tiny, hidden marking on her body—the only clue to her past. Taken in by old Ginny Fitzgerald, a crotchety but kind lady living on a nearby horse farm, Water slowly begins building a new life. But as she attempts to piece together the fleeting slivers of her memory, more questions emerge: Who is the next-door neighbor, quietly toiling under the hood of his Barracuda? Why won’t Ginny let him step foot on her property? And why does Water feel she recognizes him?
Twenty-four-year-old Jesse Welles doesn’t know how long it will be before Water gets her memory back. For her sake, Jesse hopes the answer is never. He knows that she’ll stay so much safer—and happier—that way. And that’s why, as hard as it is, he needs to keep his distance. Because getting too close could flood her with realities better left buried.
The trouble is, water always seems to find its way to the surface.
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Luke Boone doesn’t know exactly what his uncle Rust is involved in but he wants in on it—the cars, the money, the women. And it looks like he’s finally getting his wish. When Rust hands him the managerial keys to the garage, they come with a second set—one that opens up the door to tons of cash and opportunity. Though it’s not exactly legal, Luke’s never been one to worry about that sort of thing. Especially when it puts him behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 and onto the radar of gorgeous socialite named Rain.
Clara Bertelli is at the top of her game—at only twenty-six years old, she’s one of the most successful undercover officers in the Washington, DC, major crime unit, and she’s just been handed a case that could catapult her career and expose one of the West coast’s most notorious car theft rings. But, in order to do it, she’ll need to go deep undercover as Rain Martines. Her target? The twenty-four-year-old nephew of a key player who appears ready to follow in his uncle’s footsteps.
As Clara drifts deeper into the luxurious lifestyle of Rain, and further into the arms of her very attractive and charming target, the lines between right and wrong start to blur, making her wonder if she’ll be able to leave it all behind. Or if she’ll even want to.
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Armed with two years’ worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude.
Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled. No one was supposed to get hurt. But then that American tourist showed up. He couldn’t let her die, but he also couldn’t risk being identified at the scene—so, he ran. Back to his everyday life of running his family’s pub. Only, everyday life is getting more and more complicated, thanks to his brother, Aengus, and his criminal associations. When the American girl tracks River down, he quickly realizes how much he likes her, how wrong she is for him. And how dangerous it is to have her around. Chasing her off would be the smart move.
Maybe it’s because he saved her life, or maybe it’s because he’s completely different from everything she’s left behind, but Amber finds herself chasing after River Delaney. Amber isn’t the kind of girl to chase after anyone.
And River isn’t the kind of guy she’d want to catch.
Born in small-town Ontario, K.A. Tucker published her first book at the age of six with the help of her elementary school librarian and a box of crayons. She currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls, and an exhausting brood of four-legged creatures.
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All is fair in love and auto maintenance.
Beau Winston is the nicest, most accommodating guy in the world. Usually.
Handsome as the devil and twice as charismatic, Beau lives a charmed life as everyone’s favorite Winston Brother. But since his twin decided to leave town, and his other brother hired a stunning human-porcupine hybrid as a replacement mechanic for their auto shop, Beau Winston’s charmed life has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Shelly Sullivan is not nice and is never accommodating. Ever.
She mumbles to herself, but won’t respond when asked a question. She glares at everyone, especially babies. She won’t shake hands with or touch another person, but has no problems cuddling with a dog. And her damn parrot speaks only in curse words.
Beau wants her gone. He wants her out of his auto shop, out of Tennessee, and out of his life.
The only problem is, learning why this porcupine wears her coat of spikes opens a Pandora’s box of complexity—exquisite, tempting, heartbreaking complexity—and Beau Winston soon discovers being nice and accommodating might mean losing what matters most.
Cipher-Naught
Cipher-Naught LLC
Pittlover08 , 04/30/2019
Amazing as ever
All I can say is I started this novel at 8pm yesterday evening. It is currently 2:30am and I could NOT stop reading. It has been a pleasure to sacrifice my beloved sleep to finish Beau and Shelly’s story.
Laurie_Oh_TLG , 07/30/2017
Oh. My. Heart -- Beard in Mind
This book. This book has left me with a torrent of emotion and once again, in complete awe of its author. Penny Reid has crafted a story is so unexpectedly powerful with characters who feel every bit real. I can't remember a book calling to my heart as deeply as Beard in Mind has. There were moments so familiar that I felt my lip quivering and tears building because I knew exactly what the characters were feeling.
At its very gorgeous heart, Beard in Mind is a love story between two people that are so completely different that words like "oil and water" or "match and flame" come to mind. And at first blush, Beau Winston and Shelly Sullivan are more the fiery, bad idea kind of match than a romantic one. BUT the power of this book lies in how they do become a pair, through understanding and a willingness to see more than what they each show the outside world.
If you have read the Knitting in the City series (If you have NOT read those books, please do it. They are amazing), you have met Shelly Sullivan in the first two books of the series. Outwardly, she is a beautiful woman with a blunt-force personality, those who meet her usually come away with perceptions of her that aren't so pleasant and write her off. But there is so much more to Shelly and getting to meet her through both Beau's eye and being inside her unquiet mind is one of the many joys of Beard in Mind. Shelly is fierce and determined to retrain her mind so that she can manage her OCD. Just know that depiction here is NOT the term appropriated for those who like order, it is a real and unflinching view of the struggle between a person's logical mind and their brain. It's in those moments that my affection for all of the Shelly's of the world grew exponentially. I felt that anxiety in the scenes where she didn't believe she could resist her compulsions. My heart broke just as hers did. I felt like I was there fighting back the need to go to her in comfort. That doesn't just happen. It is all from the need of Penny Reid to get the story right. Let me just tell you, she succeeds brilliantly.
Beau Winston is a charmer, but he only uses his charm for good, definitely not evil. Always affable, he impossible not to love and you absolutely do. The goodness of this man is soul-deep and it isn't that he saw Shelly as a project, but that he saw something in her that called to his own heart. I loved bearing witness as he unlocked each box that lead to the gift of this woman. But even more, his infinite patience and ability to stand back made me adore him all the more.
Together though, Shelly and Beau may have been oil and water, but were the right blend of each. In any given moment they are funny, combative or downright sexy. But ultimately it is in the depth of how much they love and value each other that brings this story all the way home for me.
In each their own way, the Winston kids suffered at the hands of their father and while his shadow still attempts to cast itself on them, it is the enduring strength of their mother Bethany that is woven into each of these seven people in a multitude of ways -- How much she loved of the arts, particularly the written word, her wit and humor, her absolute grace and most of all, her unconditional love for each one of her children. While her absence is felt, the best tribute to her is that each of the siblings know that they only have to reach across the supper table to find some level of comfort.
Bridging two series with so many moving parts is definitely not for the feint of heart. But Penny Reid manages like the boss (evil overlord) that she is. It's probably reason 1,000,002 why I am so in awe of her.
Beard in Mind is a clear the decks read, because once you start, putting it down will be impossible.
But it will be totally worth it.
Laurie's Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️➕➕➕➕➕➕➕
Inside_My_Library_Mind , 01/29/2019
I loved Beau’s story so much! He was a fave character from previous books and I was so excited to get to his story. Him and Shelly had so much chemistry on page and I was having so much fun following them along. On top of that, there’s a FANTASTIC representation of OCD in here that is nuanced and not romanticized and I loved it!
More Books by Penny Reid
Truth or Beard
The Hooker and the Hermit
Grin and Beard It
Dr. Strange Beard
Beard with Me
Beard Necessities
Beard Science
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Meningococcemia: rare but life-threatening
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Inês Medeiros1,
Ana Reis Melo2,
Vera Baptista1,
Augusto Ribeiro3
1Pediatrics, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal
2Pediatrics, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal
3Pediatric Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal
Correspondence to Dr Inês Medeiros, inesdemedeiros{at}hotmail.com
paediatric intensive care
vaccination/immunisation
A previously healthy 5-month old girl, presented at the emergency department with high fever (40°C), vomiting and nasal congestion. She had no abnormalities on physical exam and was discharged home with diagnosis of a probable viral infection, after excluding urinary infection.
Ten hours later, the infant was readmitted with purpuric lesions and prostration (figure 1), rapidly presenting with labial cyanosis, capillary refill of 6 s, tachycardia, hypotension and anuria (cold shock). The patient was empirically treated with ceftriaxone and vancomycin, started inotropic and ventilator support, having been transferred to a hospital with a paediatric intensive care unit with a refractory shock, purpuric rash and disseminated intravascular coagulation (figure 2).
Petechiae and purpuric lesions only on the thoracoabdominal region.
Purpura fulminans with necrosis of extremities.
Blood workout revealed leucopenia (2.600/mm3) with neutropenia (2.00/mm3), C reactive protein 89 mg/L, urea nitrogen 30 mg/dL, creatinine 0.8 mg/dL and a metabolic acidosis (pH 7.176, pCO229.3 mm Hg, HCO3 10.6 mmol/L, lactates 5 mmol/L). Volume expansion and transfusion of multiple blood components were needed and inotropic support was adjusted to epinephrine, norepinephrine and milrinone. In the first 24 hours, she presented with renal insufficiency with anasarca and continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration (CVVH) was initiated.
The child progressively started to improve, maintaining CVVH for 7 days, and ventilatory and inotropic support for 10 days. Thoracic and abdominal cutaneous haemorrhagic lesions improved, but haemorrhagic lesions of the extremities evolved to necrosis with need of hands and feet amputation. Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B was isolated on blood cultures. Currently, at the age of 7 months, the infant is still in the surgery ward for skin grafting. She has an unremarkable neurological exam, with normal cerebral MRI.
N. meningitidis is a Gram-negative bacteria that can be highly pathogenic in humans, the only host. Since 2008, the European incidence rate of meningococcal disease is 0.68/100 000, with the highest cases among children younger than 5 years.1 Concerning invasive disease, serogroup B is the most common, followed by serogroup C. In these cases, early antibiotics, aggressive initial shock approach and precocious referral to intensive care are potential factors with impact on reducing its mortality.2 3
The Portuguese immunisation programme only covers the serogroup C but vaccine for serogroup B (MenB), although expensive, is available for purchase.
Meningococcal infection, although rare, has high mortality and severe morbidity in children, heightening the importance of preventing this invasive disease.
Nowadays serogroup B is the main meningococcal disease-causing agent, so immunisation with the MenB conjugate vaccine should be recommended and included in national infant immunisation programmes.
Early and correct intervention with antibiotics and supportive care can be life-saving in fulminant meningococcaemia.
Gabutti G,
Stefanati A,
Kuhdari P
. Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis infections: case distribution by age and relevance of carriage. J Prev Med Hyg 2015;56:E116–E120.
Huang HR,
Chen HL,
Chu SM
. Clinical spectrum of meningococcal infection in infants younger than six months of age. Chang Gung Med J 2006;29:107–13.
Villena R,
González J
. [Meningococcal invasive disease caused by serogroup B in two Chilean children vaccinated against ACWY serogroups]. Rev Chilena Infectol 2016;33:700–2.doi:10.4067/S0716-10182016000600015
Contributors IM wrote the manuscript and reviewed the literature. ARM reviewed the literature. VB corrected the manuscript. AR corrected the final revision of the manuscript.
Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.
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Final Android 7.1 Developer Preview is now going out, Nexus 9 is getting it too
Credits: Gsmarena
Today Google is releasing the second (and last) Developer Preview build for Android 7.1. The first one went out last month to the Huawei Nexus 6P, LG Nexus 5X, and the Pixel C. This time around, the HTC Nexus 9 is joining those three devices in receiving the beta software.
The factory images are already up for grabs from Google’s special website, if you know how to deal with those. If not, the easy way is to join the Android Beta Program and then just wait for an over-the-air update to this preview build. That should arrive within a week. The build number is NPF26F for all devices except the Pixel C, which has NPF26H.
This is Android 7.1.1 Nougat we’re talking about here, and the final release of this version will be out in December. It will make its way to Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL, but also to “the full lineup of supported devices”, which according to the company’s initial report in October includes the Pixel C, Nexus 5X, 6P, 6, 9, Nexus Player, and certain Android One handsets.
Android 7.1.1 isn’t going to come with huge updates, as its versioning strongly implies (and also the fact that it’s still called Nougat). It does bring with it support for image keyboards, circular launcher icons, enhanced wallpaper metadata, some new APIs for calling apps, and app shortcuts (which give you options when you long-press on an app in your launcher).
Red Hat Developer Toolset 6 released
Credits: Zdnet
On the one hand, businesses want the most stable operating systems. That’s why Red Hathas Red Hat Enterpise Linux (RHEL). On the other, developers want the newest and fastest development tools. That’s why Red Hat also puts out the community Fedora Linuxdistribution. But what if you want both? Red Hat has you covered with Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.
Toolset, along with Red Hat Software Collections 2.3, provides the latest and greatest software tools for RHEL programmers.
Red Hat Developer Toolset helps to streamline application development by giving developers access to the latest, stable open source C and C++ compilers and complementary development and performance profiling tools. It’s available to members of the Red Hat Developer Program. Staring in April 2016, this program also includes a free RHEL developer subscription.
The Toolset enables developers to compile applications once and deploy across multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available across multiple architectures with the following Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions: RHEL on x86 systems (Intel and AMD); RHEL for Power; RHEL for z Systems; and RHEL Server for ARM Developer Preview.
Here’s what you’ll get in the latest Red Hat Software Collection:
The MySQL 5.7 and Redis 3.2 open source databases
Perl 5.24 and PHP 7.0, both dynamic open source languages (Perl 5.24 and PHP 7.0)
Git 2.9, the latest stable version of the open source software version control system
Thermostat 1.6, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) monitoring tool
Eclipse Neon (4.6.1), the latest stable version of the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) — Eclipse Neon is also now available as its own software collection and is no longer a part of Red Hat Developer Toolset
In addition, many collections have been updated, including:
Ruby 2.3
MongoDB 3.2
The Red Hat Developer Toolset has been updated to include:
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 6.2.1
The GNU Project Debugger (GDB) 7.12
A number of updates to toolchain components and performance tools
binutils (2.27)
elfutils (0.167)
Valgrind (3.12)
Dyninst (9.2.0)
strace (4.12)
SystemTap (3.0)
Both are available now to customers with select active RHEL subscriptions, as well as through the Red Hat Developer Program. Many of the most popular programmers are also available as Docker containers and Docker-formatted images. These containerized programs are available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Red Hat is delivering all this programmer goodness because, as Jim Totton, Red Hat’s vice president of the Platforms Business Unit, put it: “To help achieve the benefits promised by modern applications, development methods should include newer, innovative tools, but not at the cost of enterprise IT stability.”
New Analysis: The Most Hackable Programming Language Is Hands-Down PHP
Credits: Motherboard.vice
Based on code analyses and scans of 50,000 different applications written within the past 18 months, cloud security firm Veracode has compiled a list of the most and least secure programming languages. Software engineers won’t find it especially surprising, with PHP, venue for many a popular and ready-made hack, blowing away the competition.
The report looked as a subset of the most pervasive programming languages/language families used today, including PHP, Java, Microsoft Classic ASP, .NET, iOS, Android, C and C++, JavaScript, ColdFusion, Ruby, and COBOL. Some 86 percent of analyzed programs written in PHP came with at least one cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability; 56 revealed at least one SQL injection bug; and 73 percent had encryption issues. Of applications written in the ColdFusion language, which serves a web scripting role similar to PHP and is already fairly notorious in its vulnerabilities, 62 percent revealed an SQL injection bug.
Scripting/web development languages were generally worse off than their more traditional counterparts, such as Java and C++. 21 percent of Java apps were found to have SQL injection vulnerabilities, while 29 percent of applications written within Microsoft’s .NET framework, which serves to unify several different foundational languages in one execution environment (like Java), had the SQL vulnerability.
Of course, different languages are used for different things and in many respects comparing PHP to Java or C++ is apples and oranges. The prior is used to glue the internet together, essentially, while the latter are used more so to develop compiled/executable software. PHP runs within a web browser, while Java (etc.) runs the web browser itself.
But that’s only part of it. In terms of basic design, some languages are just better security-wise.
“It is noteworthy that web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting are substantially more prevalent in applications written in web scripting languages such as Classic ASP, ColdFusion and PHP, compared to .NET and Java applications,” the report explains. “This is very likely due to differences in the feature sets of each language. There are fewer security APIs built into Classic ASP, PHP and ColdFusion than have been provided for .NET and Java.”
Java, in particular, has what’s known as automated garbage collection. This just means that the language itself (or its execution environment, the Java Virtual Machine) will prevent a program from doing untoward things with a system’s memory. “By removing the need (and ability) for developers to directly allocate memory, languages such as Java and the .NET language family avoid (almost) entirely vulnerabilities dealing with memory allocation, most notably buffer overflows,” the Veracode report explains.
Part of the problem also has to do with who is using these various languages and what they’re level of experience is. Don’t believe the hype: A web development crash course is not going to teach the same stuff as years of computer science education (really).
“.NET and Java programs are typically used by computer science graduates who learned those languages in school,” Chris Wysopal, Veracode’s CTO, told Information Week. “A lot of the scripting languages like ColdFusion and ASP came out of the Web dev world, where you’re designing websites and starting to learn coding, [and] to make sites more interactive.”
Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP: Programming is boring
Credits: Siliconrepublic
A snazzy spot
We meet in Etsy’s pretty snazzy Dublin office, with Lerdorf working as an engineer for the company for a few years now after his role as adviser started reaching a bit beyond the title.
“Etsy grew large enough to afford me,” he jokes, but really his history at Yahoo – where he spent seven years – with Etsy’s creators meant he’s had his fingers in the company pie since very early on.
He notes that computer science purists love the art of coding, “if the algorithm is cool, if the integration is pretty, they’re happy,” he says. “For me, it’s all about the end product, not how I got there.”
Programming is a process towards creating a good online service, much like flying is a process to get him from San Francisco to Dublin. “I hate flying,” he says, “but I’m here.”
So how did he get here, into a Dublin office that seems remarkably, well, American? Born in Greenland, Lerdorf left for Denmark at just three years of age.
From there he moved to Toronto at 13, attending the University of Waterloo before spending three years in Brazil, a sojourn into North Carolina and his current residency in San Francisco.
He calls himself “the only Latino Eskimo in California,” a title he claims on the back of ticking a box on an official form when he entered the state many years ago.
All in all, Lerdorf has resided in many a home, learning many a language, but it’s his computer tongue that is most notable. PHP is a programming language that dragged the internet world across the laborious desert of C and helped form what today is a wildly intuitive online community.
The ’90s, eh?
Back in the mid-90s, Lerdorf was pretty underwhelmed at the options available to web design. C and Perl were far too time-consuming for what the internet was itching to become: fast, responsive and immensely editable.
When the web began hitting the mainstream, companies were in a frenzy, they wanted to embrace it and their best idea, at first, was to put their documentation up online.
“With this they went to their technical writers and got them to put stuff out there,” he says, only for the process to kickstart a low point in programming, with technical writers becoming web designers by default.
“They went to Microsoft Word, saved documents as HTML, then put them online via FTP. Fine,” he says, “until companies wanted these documents, or other pages, to be more dynamic.”
Dynamism, on the clock
The problem that faced Lerdorf was something many had noticed. He wanted to find a way to produce things like different iterations of a company contact page that worked at different times. Often just minor tweaks, like phone numbers alternates, required recoding an entire page. A ton of C or Mod CGI, primarily.
Lerdorf needed a solution. Working in CGI (not the special effects), he created some libraries and gradually created PHP, which is part of the backend of up to 80pc of all websites nowadays.
PHP 7 was released at the end of last year, far removed from the original, “but some of the original code would still work” he enthuses. Some say the improvements in PHP 7 are actually quite remarkable, reports of 100pc speed increases, for example, have surfaced. But compatibility was the key driver.
“One of the things we wanted to do is make sure we didn’t create a Python 2 to Python 3-type of issue. If you have decently written PHP 5 code it should work perfectly in 7,” he says, citing Dmitry Stogov, Xinchen Hui and Nikita Popov as the key drivers of the new language.
PHP: we are hugely reliant on it
The likes of Facebook, CurrencyFair, Wikipedia, Tumblr, Mailchimp, Flickr, Yahoo and Etsy are just some of the plethora of major online websites that rely largely on PHP. The latter two are companies Lerdorf is quick to comment on.
“I worked with Yahoo for seven years, but it can get demoralising when you work in an ad-centric web company. You are essentially fighting your users. You try to push advertising onto them, they try to avoid it.”
I tell him that he has just described the vast majority of the online world and he stops me: “I know, it’s very hard, but at Etsy I’m happy. We are providing a hell of a lot more to our customers than we are extracting. And we’re not tricking customers either.”
Crafty thinking
With around 800 employees overall, and 46 in Dublin, Lerdorf tells me any new engineer starting in Etsy (of which there will be more, soon) must produce some new package on their first day.
Not a place to drag your heels, but then again he doesn’t expect to work with any two-bit programmers. And he’s quick to point out PHP isn’t the be-all and end-all. “Like the spoken word, different languages are created in different areas, there will never be one.” So Python, Ruby or whatever, have at it.
There is one requirement he puts on future colleagues, though, and it’s something we’ve heard a few people discuss in recent years: an understanding of C.
Despite its laborious nature, C underpins pretty much everything online, with Lerdorf “a little sceptical” of any programmer without an understanding of it.
But then he has to run off to catch a dreaded flight, a bit more process before the next end project, so. His flying visit, which took in a PHP meet-up in Dublin, is over.
Programming Languages for Social Networks – Which One to Choose?
Credits: Iamwire
We can hardly imagine our life without social networking websites like Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, etc. Such websites have become much more than news portals or tools linking people from all over world – they are now sources of income not only for their owners, but also for businesses that use these networks to build their online presence.
With many businesses being interested in running their own social networking websites, development of such websites is gaining traction right now. There are many programming languages that can be used to develop social networks. We are going to discuss the most popular ones that are often chosen for websites development.
This programming language is very popular among social network developers: it is recognized as a very powerful tool enabling to make dynamic and interactive web pages. According to estimates by W3Techs, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known. Besides, PHP is made use of in most out-of-the-box social networking software.
Major social networks like Facebook and Pinterest use PHP. Facebook started off as a PHP website. Now Facebook uses HACK, its custom-tailored dialect of PHP. The Russian social networking giant, Vkontakte, also developed its own version of PHP – KPHP – to improve performance of the website. KPHP is believed to be much productive that HACK.
Websites written on PHP often face hacker attacks: many people know this language, and some of them turned to the “dark side of the Force” and started stealing valuable data that can be used by their bosses or sold to someone else. One more problem is the direct correlation between growth of a PHP website and a number of servers required to run it.
Notwithstanding this fact PHP remains a programming language that makes it possible to develop a social networking website in a very quick manner. Besides, a cost of such projects is not very high if compared to other languages.
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Java is often chosen by those developers who plan to create high-traffic websites which need room to grow. And the main reason for that is that websites built using this language outperform others in terms of speed. Another advantage of Java is that it is platform-independent due to availability of the Java Virtual Machine. Java does not requires a compiler to become readable on any platform – the Machine interprets compiled Java binary code for a computer’s processor.
One more factor making Java so attractive for social network developers is its great development ecosystem. This programming language also has a big community of developers and, consequently, can boast excellent documentation as well as support coming along with it. Java makes both sever-side and client-side programming possible. If you plan to develop a complex website (e.g. a social network) that will be reliable enough Java is the best choice in this case.
But there are some factors that should be considered before launching a Java project, and a high cost of such a project is the first one to take into account. A team of Java programmers costs much more than any other programming language team. Other factors are high server and client requirements and complex infrastructure that must be developed and supported.
So if you plan to develop a small social network or a community think twice before choosing Java for this purpose.
A high level language designed to be fast to write and fast to run, Perl was developed around three decades ago, but it became useful for web programming in the late/mid 1990-s when developers started to use it to create dynamic web pages. This language has been losing ground since PHP was designed as a language for web development.
However, those who think that Perl is not used any more for websites development are mistaken. Though there are many websites written on other languages, Perl is still made use of. A number of well-known websites were built using this programming language: Craigslist, IMDb, Amazon, and more.
Perl can boast a large and friendly community. That is why it is easy to find good code examples or get answers you need using online forums or discuss best practices with other Perl developers. This language is still live – a new version of Perl (Perl 6) was released last year.
But will Perl work for a social network? Those who love this language will give a positive answer. Indeed, Perl can be used for anything. However, you will need many man-hours to create a web framework that will work properly. Development of a complex social networking website in pure Perl will not only take much time, but also result in significant expenses.
Python is known as an easy, flexible and powerful general purpose programming language that is good for web development. This programming language is used by such online properties as Pinterest, Reddit, Youtube and Disqus, to name a few.
However, Python can handle only the back-end part of a social network. You will have to do the front-end part in different languages (e.g. HTML) since Python does not support them. There are many frameworks that can be used to make websites in Python. Developers can create their frameworks, as well.
That sounds promising, isn’t it? But is Python a good choice for custom social networks? Social networking websites have many users and many instances of all their pages run simultaneously, thus representing high-load environments. Generally recognized as an interpreted language, Python needs more time to process requests than compiled languages need. So compiled languages are preferable when it comes to social pages.
One more problem is that Python is not supported by many cheap web hosts, while PHP is supported by nearly all web hosts. A cost of Python projects is relatively high, while this language is believed to be a little bit outdated irrespective regular releases of new versions.
Though it is not a programming language, this framework is worth being included in this list. It has become very popular given support provided by Microsoft, its developer.
Some of the biggest social networking websites were created using it. Myspace is one of these websites.
Social giants like Facebook would choose .NET for their websites if they were developed today. This platform has many advantages. For instance, there are many developers working with this .Net. You can be sure that a website developed using .NET will have solid and quick performance.
This framework continues to develop, and it has a large community which provides solid support to all its members and it is very friendly to newcomers.
But there are some cons, as well. One of them is that open source databases and messaging platforms that are commonly used by websites like Twitter often have little or even no support for Windows. .Net is also often associated with its early versions which lagged behind PHP to a great extent. If you plan to continue developing you social networking website you may face great expenses as a .NET project becomes more expensive per server.
All in all, there are many programming languages that can be used to develop a social networking website. A number of factors will impact the choice of a language: a complexity of the project, future development plans, a budget of a project, etc. The first step you need to take is to discuss your idea with a company having experience in social network development.
Top 5 PHP Frameworks – Laravel Is The Best And Top Trending
Credits: Hostreview
It is hard to recommend a specific framework in general. The decision of framework depends particularly on your preferences (and skills) as a developer and on how precisely you are attempting to finish.
Today internet has bunches of websites, each second developer makes another site and it is easy to build a website however with PHP frameworks. A few sorts of frameworks available in the market and all are famous frameworks yet Laravel is the best framework for components and for other numerous reasons.
Top PHP Frameworks which are most liked by PHP Developers:
1. Zend Framework is a decent establishment for everything and can be used additionally as only a library of different functions. It is likewise the nearest thing to be an “official” PHP framework so there are a great deal of developers who know how to utilize it. It is, in any case, not a framework you would use to model something rapidly.
2. Codeigniter is a free PHP framework by EllisLab. Codeigniter’s elements resemble no PHP version conflict, perfect with standard hosting, very nearly zero installation, easy error handling, easy security, encryption steps and rich inherent libraries and helper. It accompanies clear documentation.
I’ve mentioned on here before that Codeigniter was the primary framework I ever utilized and helped me at long last understand the idea of Object Oriented programming. It’s absolutely well known, and has been around a similar amount of time as Cake.
3. A decent example is CakePHP, which is an extremely famous framework. Genuinely simple to learn. It has a great deal of sensible defaults and naming conventions that make your life much simpler, however which you can override.
Cake, in the event that I review effectively, was one of the principal PHP frameworks around back when spaghetti code was standard. The thought behind Cake was to make creating applications quick (ie, “convention over configuration”) by cutting down on how much code the developer expected to compose. Less time working means additional time money.
I was pretty skeptical about the viability of the CakePHP project since some of the core developers have left in 2009 to form the Lithium Framework. However it got particular boost with the development release of CakePHP 2.0 which will address a number of issues developers had with the original CakePHP. Overall, this should be an interesting framework to watch.
4. Yii framework is used to build multi tenant, secure and effective caching applications. Yii is quick, steady, secure, high performing and gives MVC design pattern, rich featured caching scheme, role-based access and authentication, DAO (Database Access Objects), Ajax-enabled widgets and lots more.
Yii is a superior PHP Framework best to developing Web 2.0 applications. It comes with rich elements: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, platform, testing, open source, high performing, object oriented, database access object, simple form validation, support for web services and some more. Yii Framework is perfect and ideal for developing social networking websites reduces development time significantly.
5. The Laravel framework will stay at the top, because of the huge interest from developers and customers worldwide (By 2016 overview). Laravel is growing so quickly in the PHP group in view of its unlimited quality and excessively included code base structure and its effective yet otherworldly ORM i.e Eloquent.
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The advantages of utilizing Laravel framework can be outlined as follows:
Solid ORM features builds its similarity and simplicity of use with database relations
Laravel outsourcing makes the arrangement of creating programming that display high extensibility through ease of maintenance. It has the arrangement of developing application software through serious usage of organizer structure and direct its working according to the carefulness of developer.
Laravel’s Blade templating Engine builds proficiency of code composing process. In addition, the code that has been composed compiles at a quick pace and the resulting outputs are cached. In this way, it gets to be complete to include modules and extra elements without disturbing the center architectural software framework.
Laravel’s Artisan bundle gives much ease in the usage of CLI tools like migration and tasks
Scope of reverse routing and detailed documentation
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Integration with Mail Services
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Fixing the Most Common Technical Vulnerabilities
Configuration Error and Exception Handling
Automation Testing Work
URL Routing Configuration
Separation “Business Logic Code” from “Presentation Code”
Message Queue System (Delayed Delivery) Configuration
Scheduling Tasks Configuration and Management
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RIT launches Video Game Design XSeries program with edX Top-ranked game design university offers flexible online studies exploring video game design industry
Credits: Rit
RIT is launching a Video Game Design XSeries program with edX, the leading nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. XSeries programs are designed to provide learners with a rich understanding of an area of study through a series of offerings grouped under one subject. XSeries programs also include an opportunity to earn an XSeries verified certificate to demonstrate competency and knowledge in a specific field.
Enrollment for the five offerings in the Video Game Design XSeries program is now open. The first offering begins Oct. 31.
The series will teach learners about the skills they would need to become a successful video game designer and explore what job opportunities they could pursue in the industry. Offerings are taught by faculty in RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media.
“You’ll learn how game history influences design, how designers and programmers think, the various roles within the video game design discipline and how all the pieces come together,” said Stephen Jacobs, professor of interactive games and media at RIT and an instructor in the XSeries. “We want to help people develop a deeper understanding of the field, the discipline and explore the related career paths as well.”
The XSeries consists of five, five-week offerings:
Video Game Design History (starts Oct. 31)
Video Game Design and Balance (starts Jan. 2, 2017)
Video Game Asset Creation and Process (starts March 6, 2017)
Video Game Design: Teamwork & Collaboration (starts July 24, 2017)
Gameplay Programming for Video Game Designers (starts Sept. 11, 2017)
Within each offering, learners will have access to several videos from the instructors each week, readings, discussion boards with other participants and multiple-choice quizzes. Each weekly unit takes about three hours to complete.
The series will explore everything from how to create simple elements of running game code to how different industry roles collaborate to produce, market and ship a video game.
The first offering will explore the history of the video game design industry, with insights from the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) at The Strong National Museum of Play, the largest and most comprehensive public assemblage of video games and related materials in the world.
“Just as writers learn their craft by reading and studying great works of the past, video game designers need to know how game design has developed and evolved over the years,” said Jon-Paul C. Dyson, director of ICHEG and vice president for exhibits at The Strong, who is co-instructor for the Video Game Design History offering. “Participants will have a unique learning opportunity in this course to see prototypes, designer notes, rare games and other iconic artifacts from The Strong’s unparalleled collection that showcase the history of game design.”
RIT’s game design and development graduate and undergraduate programs have been ranked among the Princeton Review’s list of top schools for video game design for more than five years. Graduates of RIT’s game design and development programs have gone on to work at some of the industry’s top employers, including Amazon Games, Apple, Bungie Studios, Blizzard Entertainment, EA Games, Epic Games, Google, Konami Gaming Inc., Microsoft, Rockstar Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Valve Corporation and Walt Disney Interactive.
RIT’s game design and development program is housed within the School of Interactive Games and Media, in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The RIT XSeries is made possible with help from RIT’s Innovative Learning Institute.
“As a world-renowned leader in the field of video game design, RIT is an ideal partner to offer this XSeries program to the edX global community of more than 9 million learners,” said Anant Agarwal, edX CEO and MIT professor. “We are proud to work with RIT to launch this program that provides learners with a rich understanding of the history and design of video games and teaches the skills and competencies necessary to excel in this exciting, fast-growing industry.”
System opens up high-performance programming to nonexperts
Credits: Eurekalert
Dynamic programming is a technique that can yield relatively efficient solutions to computational problems in economics, genomic analysis, and other fields. But adapting it to computer chips with multiple “cores,” or processing units, requires a level of programming expertise that few economists and biologists have.
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Stony Brook University aim to change that, with a new system that allows users to describe what they want their programs to do in very general terms. It then automatically produces versions of those programs that are optimized to run on multicore chips. It also guarantees that the new versions will yield exactly the same results that the single-core versions would, albeit much faster.
In experiments, the researchers used the system to “parallelize” several algorithms that used dynamic programming, splitting them up so that they would run on multicore chips. The resulting programs were between three and 11 times as fast as those produced by earlier techniques for automatic parallelization, and they were generally as efficient as those that were hand-parallelized by computer scientists.
The researchers presented their new system last week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity.
Dynamic programming offers exponential speedups on a certain class of problems because it stores and reuses the results of computations, rather than recomputing them every time they’re required.
“But you need more memory, because you store the results of intermediate computations,” says Shachar Itzhaky, first author on the new paper and a postdoc in the group of Armando Solar-Lezama, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. “When you come to implement it, you realize that you don’t get as much speedup as you thought you would, because the memory is slow. When you store and fetch, of course, it’s still faster than redoing the computation, but it’s not as fast as it could have been.”
Outsourcing complexity
Computer scientists avoid this problem by reordering computations so that those requiring a particular stored value are executed in sequence, minimizing the number of times that the value has to be recalled from memory. That’s relatively easy to do with a single-core computer, but with multicore computers, when multiple cores are sharing data stored at multiple locations, memory management become much more complex. A hand-optimized, parallel version of a dynamic-programming algorithm is typically 10 times as long as the single-core version, and the individual lines of code are more complex, to boot.
The CSAIL researchers’ new system — dubbed Bellmania, after Richard Bellman, the applied mathematician who pioneered dynamic programming — adopts a parallelization strategy called recursive divide-and-conquer. Suppose that the task of a parallel algorithm is to perform a sequence of computations on a grid of numbers, known as a matrix. Its first task might be to divide the grid into four parts, each to be processed separately.
But then it might divide each of those four parts into four parts, and each of those into another four parts, and so on. Because this approach — recursion — involves breaking a problem into smaller subproblems, it naturally lends itself to parallelization.
Joining Itzhaky on the new paper are Solar-Lezama; Charles Leiserson, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Rohit Singh and Kuat Yessenov, who were MIT both graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science when the work was done; Yongquan Lu, an MIT undergraduate who participated in the project through MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program; and Rezaul Chowdhury, an assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook, who was formerly a research affiliate in Leiserson’s group.
Leiserson’s group specializes in divide-and-conquer parallelization techniques; Solar-Lezama’s specializes in program synthesis, or automatically generating code from high-level specifications. With Bellmania, the user simply has to describe the first step of the process — the division of the matrix and the procedures to be applied to the resulting segments. Bellmania then determines how to continue subdividing the problem so as to use memory efficiently.
Rapid search
At each level of recursion — with each successively smaller subdivision of the matrix — a program generated by Bellmania will typically perform some operation on some segment of the matrix and farm the rest out to subroutines, which can be performed in parallel. Each of those subroutines, in turn, will perform some operation on some segment of the data and farm the rest out to further subroutines, and so on.
Bellmania determines how much data should be processed at each level and which subroutines should handle the rest. “The goal is to arrange the memory accesses such that when you read a cell [of the matrix], you do as much computation as you can with it, so that you will not have to read it again later,” Itzhaky says.
Finding the optimal division of tasks requires canvassing a wide range of possibilities. Solar-Lezama’s group has developed a suite of tools to make that type of search more efficient; even so, Bellmania takes about 15 minutes to parallelize a typical dynamic-programming algorithm. That’s still much faster than a human programmer could perform the same task, however. And the result is guaranteed to be correct; hand-optimized code is so complex that it’s easy for errors to creep in.
ELEVEN TIPS FOR BEGINNER GAME DEVELOPERS
Credits: Gamefromscratch
A conversation just happened on /r/gamedev with the confusing title “What don’t new game developers know that they don’t know?”. Essentially it was a question asking what important advice new developers don’t know (for lack of experience) but should. My answer seems to have been extremely well received and the question is quite good, so I figure I would replicate the answer here for those of you that don’t frequent reddit.
So essentially what follows is my advice I would give my beginner self if I owned a time machine.
most people fail and fail hard. Perseverance is probably the most underrated but required skill of a successful game developer.
learning tasks in parallel is rarely productive. While I know you want to learn everything now… don’t. Learn one task/language/skill to a base level of competency before moving on to the next. It’s hard because everything is shiny and new, but it’s critical. Trying to learn too many things at once results in learning nothing at all.
when you are 90% done, you’re actually 50% done. Maybe… if you are lucky.
there is no ego in programming, or at least there shouldn’t be. A plumber or carpenter come into a job with a toolbox full of tools, and don’t limit themselves to a number three hex drive because “it’s cool”. They use the best tool for the job and sometimes that tool is a horrific hack and that’s ok too. Programmers… have often failed to learn this lesson. People invest themselves in “their language” and this frankly, is stupid. Working in C++, Java, Haskell, F#, Go, Rust or whatever other language doesn’t make you cool, just as working in GameMaker, Lua, JavaScript doesn’t make you uncool. Only exception, PHP. %#@k PHP. Moral of the story… use the right language or tool for the job. Sometimes that means performance, sometimes that means maintainability, sometimes that means quickness, sometimes that means designer friendly and sometimes it means using the tool the rest of your team is using. Be pragmatic, always be pragmatic. I personally would never hire a programmer who claimed there was a “best” language. If you have been programming for several years and don’t have several languages in your arsenal, you are probably doing it wrong.
if it feels wrong, it probably is. If you encounter such a code smell, even if you can’t fix it, comment on it and move on.
even if you work alone, comments are good. But comments for the sake of comments is worse than no comments at all. Take the time to write legible code, take the time to smartly comment what you’ve written. Six months or six years down the road, you will thank yourself.
version control or at least automatic backups. Do it. Now.
premature ejac…. er, optimization is the root of all evil. Yes, you need to be mindful of performance on a macro level, but don’t sweat the micro level until you have to. If you are just starting out, but your primary concern is performance, you are doing it wrong.
learn how to use a debugger. Early. It will be an invaluable skill and will help you understand how your code works better than any other single task you can perform. Also learn how to use a profiler and code linter, these will give you great insights into your code as well, but you can do this later. If you have learned the basics of a programming language but haven’t groked debugging yet, stop everything and dedicate yourself to that task. For a somewhat generic debugging tutorial start here. Seriously, learn it, now.
if you have access to a peer, TAKE IT. Peer reviewed coding, while at first annoying, is invaluable. Even if there is a large skill mismatch between the two people. Even just having someone go through your code and ask “why did you do this?” forces you to explain it… and often you realize… hey… why did I do that? Many programmers are solitary creatures, so the idea of peer code reviews or paired programming is anathema. Or people can be very shy about showing their code… it’s worth it to get over it. Of course not everyone has access to another programmer to use as a sounding board and not being in person makes it a lot harder and a lot less useful.
books are great, as is a gigantic collection of links to great articles on the web. That said unfortunately, you can’t just buy a book and learn via osmosis… you actually have to read the thing. More to the point, if you are following a tutorial or video, DO THE WORK. You will learn it a great deal more, develop muscle memory of sorts, if you actually do it. This means typing out the code and getting it to run, instead of just loading the project and pressing play. Trust me, you learn a lot more actually recreating the project.
IIT-Kharagpur creates software to help disabled persons
Credits: Newindianexpress
A couple of software developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur will soon revolutionise the way in which the disabled persons can cope up with day-to-day activities. Buying vegetables from the market or composing poetry will just be a touch on the smartdevice away.
Softwares ‘Akash Baani’ and ‘Sanyog’ may help persons with disabilities, including those affected with cerebral, to express their feelings by touching icons on the screen, which will then create sentences, and further translate into voice messages.
A workshop was recently held in Kolkata to train NGOs on how these software can be used to help the disabled become more self-dependent. Professor Anupam Basu, the brainchild behind these software, while speaking to Express said, “In ‘Sanyog’, for creating a sentence like ‘I want to watch TV’, a user has to select an icon of himself, a TV and that of an eye, which will then form the sentence which will be then turn into a voice message from text to speech.
For buying vegetables, the user may select the vegetable he/she wants to buy and the quantity. The sentences will be blurted out to the shopkeeper.” Speaking about ‘Akash Baani’, Prof Basu says, “A large number of icons will be present in the software.
Each icon will have a message with it. Whenever a user selects an icon, the stored message will be spoken.” While ‘Akash Bani’ costs Rs 1,000, Sanyog’s is on the higher end priced Rs 8,000. When asked about those who can’t touch small icons on the smart devices, Prof Basu explained about an access switch that is more like a big red flat joystick with which the user may browse with whatever part of body that works — may browse the icons and select them,” Professor Basu said.
The software that have been put on display in Rashtrapati Bhavan are being used in the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy and Action for Ability Development and Inclusion in the national capital. It has taken 2 years to develop ‘Akash Baani’ and 4 years to develop ‘Sanyog’.
“The technologies are being transferred to Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), under the IT department of West Bengal government,” Professor Basu said, adding that support from the state government and local NGOs are needed for expand the reach of these software into the rural areas.
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A New Serie A and La Liga Season – and What to Expect
In the last post that featured something about the Italian Serie A on this blog, we made mention of how the announcement of the 2017/2018 Serie A schedule came a little later than fans were expecting – actually, it came a week later than was scheduled.
With the league set to kick off in just a few days from now, all that is water under the bridge now for fans of Italian football. The anticipation is at its peak and fans can wait to see the regulars take to the pitch while they anticipate the performances of the various new signings.
Speaking of new signings, AC Milan’s summer shopping spree is no longer a secret. Juventus let one of their best defenders – Leonardo Bonucci – go as they renamed their stadium and handed Paulo Dybala the No. 10 jersey. Then they kicked off their campaign by losing the Supercoppa Italiana to SS Lazio, a side they had previously beaten 10 consecutive times.
Maybe that’s a sign of things to come this Serie A season. And while we’ll get to how it can shape the way events will play out this season, let’s quickly touch on the Spanish La Liga.
The biggest news out of Spanish football this summer has to be the “disintegration” of the MSN Gang. That’s not to relegate Real Madrid’s UEFA Super Cup win to the bottom of the list. But hey, it’ll be hard to find any football story in the world that beats the sale of Neymar to French giants, PSG, for a fee more than double the price Manchester United paid for the now-second most-expensive football player, Paul Pogba.
While Costa is still holding out for a reunion with Diego Simeone and Atletico Madrid, the penalty king moved from Valencia and there was the signing of a certain Brazilian from the Chinese Super League. May sound quiet compared to all the buzz in the Premier League, but it’s about to get noisy in Spanish cities this coming weekend.
So, what can you expect from these two leagues as a football fan?
The Race For the Top 2
Unlike in the Premier League where as many as 6 clubs are being touted as title contenders, the same cannot be said about both the Serie A and the La Liga. You probably know this too, right?
In Italy, It’s been Juventus, and then every other Italian football club. Clubs like AS Roma and Napoli came close last season but none so close as to rattling the Old Lady. As mentioned earlier, clubs can look at Juve’s loss to Lazio in the Supercoppa and see something to be positive about.
The league champs start their campaign against Calgliari.
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But then again, it’ll basically be Juventus and any other interested clubs vying for the top spot in the Serie A this new season.
Moving over to the Spanish La Liga, for the umpteenth time, it’ll be a two-way race between Real Madrid and Barcelona – although we’re secretly hoping that a break from the norm will occur this year. This leaves clubs like Atletico Madrid, Villarreal and Sevilla scrambling for either the remaining Champions League spots or a place in the Europa League.
Barcelona will start life without Neymar when they take on Real Betis in the season opener.
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Names to Look Out For
In both leagues, we can expect to see magic from both football gods – Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – and a living legend like Gigi Buffon. But what other names should you look out for this new season?
In Italy, you can as well watch out for the entire AC Milan team and the side coached by Simeone Inzaghi, SS Lazio. With the way the former has performed in the UEFA Europa qualifiers so far and the Supercoppa Italiana win by the latter, these are two teams full of talent you should watch out for.
In Spain, while you keep an eye on Antonio Griezzman and 36-year old Aritz Aduriz, keep the other on Zidane’s crop of youngsters, namely Lucas Vasquez and Marco Asensio – who has so far scored five goals in five debuts.
You can as well expect to see amazing goals week in, week out as these two leagues progress over time. For those not sure what the opening day schedule looks like, here’s it:
Juventus Turin VS Cagliari Calcio
Hellas Verona VS SSC Napoli
US Sassuolo VS Genoa FC
Udinese Calcio VS AC Chievo Verona
Lazio Roma VS Spal 2013
Inter Milan VS ACF Fiorentina
Sampdoria Genoa VS Benevento Calcio
Bologna FC VS Turin FC
Atalanta Bergamasca VS AS Roma
FC Crotone VS AC Milan
Athletic Bilbao Getafe
Barcelona vs. Real Betis
Celta Vigo vs. Real Sociedad
Deportivo vs. Real Madrid
Girona vs. Atletico Madrid
Leganes vs. Alaves
Levante vs. Villarreal
Malaga vs. Eibar
Sevilla vs. Espanyol
Valencia vs. Las Palmas
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The Intercontinental Cup Begins. How Will This Season Play Out?
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Seattle Seahawks & NFL News
Matt Hasselbeck out of a job; Jake Locker could start for Titans
By Nick Eaton on March 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM
The Tennessee Titans on Monday released quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, the former Seahawks star who led Seattle to the NFC Championship and Super Bowl XL in 2005.
QB Matt Hasselbeck lifts the NFC Championship trophy after the Seahawks beat the Panthers 34-14 on Jan. 22, 2006, in Seattle. (Harry How/Getty Images)
That could open up the starting job again for his backup, former Washington QB Jake Locker, though the Titans are also reportedly looking at Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was released last week by the Buffalo Bills, and has also met with the Cincinnati Bengals, according to The Tennessean.
Hasselbeck spent the past two seasons with the Titans after the Seahawks moved on in 2011. He led Tennessee to a 9-7 season in 2011 and, after the Titans named Locker their starter in 2012, Hasselbeck went 2-3 when Locker went out with an injury mid-season.
“I want to thank Matt for his contributions to our team over the last two years,” Titans general manager Ruston Webster said in a team announcement. “He was an important part of the transition process – he was a pro at every turn and he provided an example to the rest of the team. I know that we are a better team for his being here and we wish him the best.”
Over his 14 years in the NFL, 10 of which were in Seattle, Hasselbeck has had 34,517 passing yards with a career 60.4 completion percentage. He’s thrown for 201 touchdowns and 147 interceptions, and has an overall passer rating of 82.2.
Hasselbeck, 37, is a three-time Pro Bowler, having represented the Seahawks in 2003, 2005 and 2007. He holds Seahawks team records for total passing yards (29,579), completion percentage (60.2), games with 300-plus passing yards (19), and most passing yards in a single season (3,966 in 2007), among others.
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Tor Project Launches World-wide Search for New Executive Director
by wseltzer | July 07, 2015
The Tor Project is pleased to open a world-wide search for our new Executive Director. We have engaged The Wentworth Company to help us with the search process, and invite the broader Tor community and friends to share the job posting (reproduced below) among your networks. Please contact Judy Tabak, contact information below, for more information or to be considered for the job.
The Tor Project, one of the world’s strongest advocates for privacy and anonymous, open communications is currently seeking an experienced Executive Director to take the helm. The new Executive Director will spearhead key initiatives to make the organization even more robust in its work to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying anonymity and privacy technologies, advancing their scientific and popular understanding, and encouraging their use.
The position provides the high-profile opportunity to assume the voice and face of Tor to the world, and particularly to the global community of Internet organizations dedicated to maintaining a stable, secure and private Internet. In this position, the successful candidate will be able to exercise their deep leadership experience to manage a virtual team of culturally diverse volunteer developers. The candidate will have the opportunity to draw support from their stature in the wider community of Internet privacy foundations and activist organizations to advance external development initiatives.
Founded in 2006, this 501(c)(3) research NGO provides free software that enables anonymous Internet communication world-wide. Tor’s mission is to return control over Internet security and privacy to users. Tor’s members, users, and sponsors include governmental and nongovernmental organizations, the US Navy, Indymedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, journalists and media organizations, corporations and law enforcement organizations.
The original Tor design paper won the Usenix Security "Test of Time" award in 2014. The Tor Project won the EFF's Pioneer Award in 2013, and the Free Software Foundation's Award for Projects of Social benefit in 2010.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will dive head first into the activities of advocacy for the Internet privacy movement. They will enjoy exercising their strong network of connections in fundraising efforts. They will take satisfaction in establishing a highly collaborative and productive culture in a volunteer-driven, virtual organization and will appreciate the opportunity to build consensus among diverse cultural groups as they all work toward the common mission and goal. The successful candidate will have a passion for the ideals behind Internet privacy and welcome the opportunity to make strides for the cause to establish anonymous Internet communications.
The successful candidate will welcome the opportunity to create an organizational culture that builds conditions and infrastructures vital for Tor’s continued success and relevance to the cause. This is a chance to be known for leadership agility at the helm of an organization on the forefront of the drive to enable free, private, non-censored Internet communication for people everywhere.
The Compensation
As leader of the Tor team, the successful candidate receives a highly competitive compensation package.
If you know someone who might be interested, please contact, or ask them to contact:
Judy Tabak
The Wentworth Company
479 West Sixth Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
JudyTabak@wentco.com
Wentworth ReqID: 67528129
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Professionalisation. T'was a
Professionalisation. T'was a long time coming. Goodbye grassroots.
In reply to Professionalisation. T'was a by Anonymous (not verified)
Well, I think we need to
Well, I think we need to keep Tor's community side too. We rely on people all around the world to help with advocacy and education, to help with operating bridges and relays, to help with finding and fixing problems in the software in the Tor ecosystem, to help with making the software more usable, and so on.
But at the same time, I'd love to have some help in interacting with all the people and groups who are excited to work with us to have a bigger impact in the world. I look forward to having more great people in the Tor community.
Grassroots organizations
Grassroots organizations were Taylorized way before 2015, brah. Grassroots is about funding sources, not organizational structure. The intent of grassroots is to be dependent on a large group of citizenry for funding rather than a single or few patrons so that you can represent those citizenry and not be beholden to the interests of those few patrons.
Though I'm an experienced
Though I'm an experienced engineering leader with love for Tor and no fear of public speaking, I'm too passionate about Internet privacy to respond to Ms. Tabak without her PGP public key.
wseltzer
wseltzer said:
In reply to Though I'm an experienced by Anonymous (not verified)
Please feel free to send
Please feel free to send encrypted communications to wseltzer@torproject.org to be conveyed securely to Wentworth.
fingerprint: 4263 006A 4506 740F AD87 1430 BAEB A2D7 456C AD51
In reply to Please feel free to send by wseltzer
I've sent an encrypted email
I've sent an encrypted email using hushmail using this information. Looking forward to a response.
Quite the irony...
This is easy to fulfill.
This is easy to fulfill. Just ask Silent Circle or a pro-privacy organization or one of the DefCon guys to fill that role. Easy!
To repeat something from
To repeat something from another thread: from the perspective of one Tor user:
I suggest that the ideal candidate [for Exec Director of Tor Project] would be:
o known personally to at least some core Tor developers,
o known by reputation to many Tor users,
o possess an impeccable record of pro-democracy, pro-human rights, pro-privacy advocacy,
o possess proven executive skills, because growth is unavoidable but must be carefully controlled to avoid fragmentation (something our enemies will seek to promote, so watch out),
o a strong technical background, especially in software development, would very desirable but possibly not as important as the above desiderata; however, I think that candidates must clearly appreciate that in the end the people who are truly *essential* for the success of the Project are the developers, not the executives, media reps, or lobbyists (if any),
o lack of "baggage" which could be used by our enemies to harm the Project, such as substantial previous employment for USG, especially USIC agencies or contractors,
o lack of visible inclination to move on to another job after only a few years.
Afterthought:
o demonstrated ability to maintain friendly relations with leaders of teams and allied projects
I had hoped to see more public discussion of where the Project is or ought to be heading. FWIW here are a few more thoughts from the perspective of one Tor user:
o clearly, the Project will grow in budget, employees, user base, and visibility; it will be critical to manage this growth to avoid undesirable consequences of rapid growth,
o I was going to suggest "modularize" along functional lines, but its seems the Project was already thinking the same thing (to judge from the recent news about reorganizing into functional teams), so that's good (unless we are all wrong about the virtues of modularization),
o one advantage of functional teams is that if one bit really takes off and proves useful to many other projects and needs to itself grow rapidly, possibly it could be forked into a separate but closely related project,
o I also suggest continually revisiting the question of how much (if anything) to invest in lobbying of key governments (US, EU, Iceland) and media relations; in the past I advocated more of this as the budget grows and it seems that here too others were already thinking along similar lines,
o smaller, nimbler, more geographically diverse organizations could possibly help defend against USG threats abusing recently passed for forthcoming anti-anonymity/privacy/security legislation, but could lead to many organizations competing for the same small pool of donor funds--- the best I can suggest is to point out that some NGOs garnered generous gifts which they used to form stable endowment funds,
o I hope the next Executive Director will take seriously the possibility that the US Congress will actually outlaw Tor (although at present most observers seem to think this is unlikely, I fear it could happen in a late night vote when only a few members are present, or be tacked on to some other bill without any members noticing), and will have in place a workable plan to move the project on an emergency basis to a less unsafe refuge from dictatorships than the USA,
o to the extent possible, I hope the next Executive Director will attempt to foster the convergent evolution of Tor, Tails, Whonix, Qubes, Tor-ramdisk, LEAP, and other privacy-enhancing projects; that is, even when the code base diverges, everyone should try to incorporate the most useful/powerful functional abilities, in particular the best encryption,
o one particular thing I'd like to see more of, precisely because it so obviously terrifies our enemies (so it must be a good direction to go in, yes?), is steganography,
o another thing I want to see ASAP is the best anti-stylometry we can find (does it not help that Roger's wife wrote a leading candidate for the first deployable anti-stylometry software?); this is a hard problem worthy of a team, or perhaps Tor helping to set up a separate project, ideally not relying too heavily on funding from hostile agencies like IARPA or DARPA,
o I also worry that in practice security-aware journalists/activists are relying too much on AES (for example in Tails options for encrypting essential data USBs) and would like to see the Project moving to encourage development and standardization of alternatives; ECC (with a good PRNG) is one obvious choice, but possibly modern lattice systems are worth serious exploration; one suggestion is not to wait for the USG but to get together (cautiously) with big bad industry leaders (Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft etc) to sponsor another crypto contest like the one which lead to choosing Rijndael for AES standard.
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Isn't Tor's previous
Isn't Tor's previous employer the US Navy?
Is Bruce Schneier available?
I think John Kiriakou would
I think John Kiriakou would be a good fit. As a CIA whistleblower who was imprisoned for two and half years for exposing CIA torture, he's got both a track record for human rights activism and an innate understanding of the dangers of whistleblowing.
He'd be a great advocate for everything that Tor works towads.
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I don't know this guy. But
I don't know this guy. But the given description about him suits the position. We need such people. Who are willing to go an extra mile and put out the dark corners of the government, working forthis role
Hi there would you mind
Hi there would you mind sharing which blog platform you're working with?
I'm going to start my own blog in the near future but I'm having a difficult time choosing between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and
Drupal. The reason I ask is because your layout seems different then most blogs
and I'm looking for something unique.
kernelcorn said:
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We are using Drupal.
I think it s good to
I think it s good to approach this vacancy as a business opportunity.
And by the way the vacancy talks about attitude and not specific about technical insight..
At the end of the day it s about creating a healthy profitable company with high standard privacy values away from the hacker scene..
And I do apologize but I am not Bruce Schneier or John Kiriakou.. but I am a woman and a whistleblower.. maybe that gives me some credits..
You need a charismatic,
You need a charismatic, inter-culture experienced fundraiser who, even though being a head, prefers teamwork and is able to establish the important links to investors with a passion for internet privacy (mostly found in Europe), integrity and sustainability. This is more important than a technical background erc. Or you should backup the leading team with such a person.
no work site
no work site https://torproject.org
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The site is working fine for
The site is working fine for me. It's possible that your ISP is blocking access to that website.
Dingledine? Applebaum?
> At the end of the day it s
> At the end of the day it s about creating a healthy profitable company with high standard privacy values away from the hacker scene..
Tor Project is a non-profit organization, not a for-profit company. And that's how things should be, in my view.
> Dingledine? Applebaum?
Roger D, currently the acting director, stated very clearly that he does not want to be the next permanent director. Jacob A is already working at Tor and has stellar qualifications, but I guess he too would prefer to continue to focus on technical issues rather than leadership.
I tend to agree with the poster who said that proven ability at leadership, teamwork, and enabling developers is more important than technical ability. The good news is that while these qualities are hard to find, they are probably less rare than extraordinary coding ability.
And the winner is Julian
And the winner is Julian Asange.
> Dingledine? (The acting
> Dingledine?
(The acting Exec Dir.) Clearly stated elsewhere in this blog he does not want the job permanently.
> Applebaum?
Already works with Tor, outstanding credentials, but his coding skills are probably too valuable to funnel him into a leadership role, unless that's something he really wants to pursue.
> Assange
Same problem as Snowden: the leader needs to be able to travel freely and meet with developers, etc. Naming Assange might give Comey conniptions (hurrah!), but given the need to combat companies like Hacking Team and Gamma using political/legal and well as technical strategies, I tend to feel the Project should save its "controversial stances" for issues which matter most to political dissidents (freedom/life or prison/death).
What about Andrew
What about Andrew Auernheimer?
I wish I had more
I wish I had more fundraising experience. I'm a security researcher at a large info-sec consultancy so I feel I could easily do the job but getting money seems like a whole different ball game.
I would suggest Anbarasan N,
I would suggest Anbarasan N, CEO Applesoft - Technologist and RTI activist
Another random name: Chris
Another random name: Chris Soghoian.
I would also suggest Moxie Marlinspike or Dan Kamminsky, but they are probably in the same category as Jacob Appelbaum: they would make a bigger contribution to privacy through their code than through their management.
Tor is no longer safe...so
Tor is no longer safe...so perhaps we need at whole new project and platform?
Does he/she have to be
Does he/she have to be American? Some clever Aussies that would fit the bill...and England, etc
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The candidates do not have
The candidates do not have to be American. In fact, they can be from non-five-eye countries as well! :)
Namaste, Would Joshua
Would Joshua Tauberer be a candidate?
imu.
In reply to Namaste, Would Joshua by Anonymous (not verified)
Namaste, Joshua Tauberer is
Joshua Tauberer is currently employeed and Tor project probably needs someone who is a leader and knows about privacy. Just a privacy activist might not cut it.
ed snowden
SNOWDEN, PERIOD!
SNOWDEN!
I think that we are all
I think that we are all going to move to mars soon. I wonder if they will have tor on mars.
Edward Snowden should do it!
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Roll up your sleeves and get in there': Russell Brand's hands-off parenting style sparks backlash online
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Russell Brand. Image via Getty Images.
Russell Brand may fancy himself a progressive comedian, but when it comes to parenting his views are seriously out of date.
The 43-year-old Brit revealed during an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine that he has yet to spend an entire day in charge of his two children.
The father of two-year-old Mabel and six-month old Peggy opened up about how his wife, Laura Gallacher, is largely in charge of childrearing.
“No, she wouldn’t go away for 24 hours, Laura. She respects and cares for their safety too much… Um, I’ve done like a night,” he said. “But they’re asleep by then.”
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Brand’s primary focus seems not at all plugged-in to his children’s day-to-day routine.
Brand and wife Laura Gallacher in 2017. Image via Getty Images.
“Yes, I’m very focused on the mystical connotations of Mabel’s beauty and grace,” he shared. “Not so good on the nappies and making sure they eat food.”
Despite not being in-tune with his children’s schedules, Brand insists he’s not at all taking a backseat to his wife.
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“I would hate for you to leave with the impression that I sort of sat watching television, peering over the armchair at what’s going on. I’m not,” Brand told the magazine. “Yesterday, like, I drove Mabel to the playschool and I drop her at the playschool. But I’m sensitive and awake and aware, so I have to dial a lot of shit down to go through normal life.”
The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star’s comments have rubbed his audience the wrong way, setting off a firestorm of backlash from fans online.
Russell Brand pitching himself as some New Age, all new, mature and sensitive dad – and then saying he’s too sensitive to do any actual parenting is the most Russell Brand thing I’ve ever read in my life pic.twitter.com/T0KSObnWXo
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 20, 2019
Many are calling Brand “sexist” for passing-off the nitty gritty of parenting to his wife, while claiming he’s “not willing to fight any of the battles.”
Russell Brand embodies brocialism. Wants credit for being all woke and sensitive while still expecting the women in his life to do the actual work.
— what will grow crooked you can't make straight (@portraitinflesh) January 20, 2019
In an interview with TODAY, Patrick Coleman, an editor at Fatherly, said Brand’s style of parenting is reminiscent of antiquated gender roles.
“[It’s] very traditional, very 1950s-style,” Coleman said. “There are still couples who do that. It makes me a little sad because he’s missing out on some wonderful times for bonding.”
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One fan seems unsure whether or not Brand’s feelings are all that uncommon.
“Is Russell Brand the sexist monster everyone is making him out to be? Or just another imperfect, damaged human who doesn’t know the ‘right’ thing to say,” she tweeted. “I know plenty of dads like him, and far worse, but no one interviews them.”
Brand’s hands-off approach has even prompted advice from Josh Bellis, the president of the National At-Home Dad Network.
“Roll up your sleeves and get in there. None of us know what we’re doing but we, like our children, learn and grow along the way,” Bellis said. “Get out of your comfort zone. The payback is huge and the process is humbling.”
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Callum Petch at BFI London Film Festival 2018: Day 6
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Spy Gone North, Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records, and Styx.
Note: elements of this article also ran on Set the Tape (link).
One’s workload at a film festival is technically only as large and unweildy or small and manageable as they choose to make it. You don’t HAVE to shotgun three press screenings a day, and also put in for public screening tickets in the evening, and also write reviews for absolutely everything that come to (on average so far) at least 800 words in a process taking upwards of an hour per film that you don’t have… OK, written out like that, it makes me sound like a crazed workaholic masochist, but, as I repeatedly state at every opportunity in every conversation (like I’m a Bioware character), I live a jobless Northern existence so this is not something I get to do outside of the London Film Festival. Therefore, you had better believe that I am going to cram in as much potential coverage as my eyeballs, fingertips, and terrible body can handle! But it also means that I am already falling behind with my coverage, since I’m trying to socialise more this year (and my Set the Tape bosses wanting these pieces as stand-alone reviews requires I spend longer on each entry than I typically would have). This is all my long-winded way of saying that my coverage of Day 6 in actuality begins with the evening of Day 5 and my first public screening of the Festival, Styx (Grade: C).
Styx is a procedural shipwreck drama. By that I mean it is a no-frills nuts-and-bolts disaster movie focussed on every last agonising step of trying to rescue people trapped at sea. For comparisons, you could say it’s in the vein of Gravity or, more accurately since it lacks Gravity‘s spectacle, All is Lost, the J. C. Chandor movie of similar-ish set-up. We’re off the coast of Gibraltar and emergency doctor Reike (Susanne Wolff) has taken the weekend off to go sailing on her small yacht for a little-known island near South Africa when a storm hits. Reike and the boat survive well enough but in the aftermath she spots a ship that wasn’t so lucky and, what’s worse, it’s a refugee ship filled with children who are desperate and dying. Reike contacts the Coastguard who tell her to stay back whilst they plan a rescue, although the hours start ticking away and rescue seems to be in no hurry to get there.
You can probably already tell where this is going. Writer-director Wolfgang Fischer utilises this constrained step-by-step set-up and structure, shorn of Gravity‘s catharsis and (thankfully) pop psychology – no dead relatives on Reike’s mind, the children dying in front of her eyes along with her properly-aligned moral compass are already motivation enough – to make a blindingly unsubtle point about the current refugee crisis. How governments, authority figures, and corporations turn a blind eye to refugees’ plight and how those in a position to witness the trouble first-hand are caught between a rock and a hard place. How those in charge’s negligence and deliberate disinterest in the lives of refugees negates the efforts of people like Reike, leaving the trauma and risk on her shoulders. Fischer makes sure the refugee boat is in shot at basically all times in order to prevent the viewer from ignoring its existence like the authorities do; a technically impressive feat given that the at-sea portions (which make up almost all of the film) were done for-real at-sea, as Fischer was proud to point out before and after the screening.
The tactile, physical, in-the-moment sensation does provide its intended power. Taking in even one desperate child trying in a blind panic to reach Reike’s ship is a gruelling challenge, his scars and injuries drawing audible gasps from my fellow audience members. Susanne Wolff also gives a very physical, turbulent performance that had better open more doors for her going forward cos she can absolutely carry a film on her shoulders. But, fatally, there’s very little to Styx. Fischer lays out his entire deck of cards within about 25 minutes of this 80-odd film and plays them all by just over the halfway mark. Once Reike rescues one of the children, the film gets stuck in a drawn-out rut and can’t go anywhere meaningful until the last few minutes. This is intentional, because the whole thematic point of the movie is how Reike is incapable of doing anything (too many people get on her small boat and they’ll all die) and the authorities won’t do anything so you’re supposed to get frustrated, but it weirdly doesn’t translate to a dramatically satisfying or interesting film. Fischer doesn’t find enough variations to spin the material off in, so once the kid enters the picture, Styx becomes caught looping between the same two conversations over and over and over and over again.
That’s not even counting the filler padding this thing out. We open with a long completely irrelevant sequence of two monkeys chasing each other around Gibraltar, which Fischer claims is symbolic but wouldn’t expand further on that point, whilst the pre-storm sailing is quite honestly dull. Again, intentionally so, but good filmmaking it does not make. Styx also makes the baffling decision to import over the dialogue problems of Gravity, using the vast majority of its conversations spell out events and themes anybody actually paying attention to the movie will already have gotten and the result is tin-eared and mildly insulting. (The ending, especially, suffers majorly from this.) Styx is well-intentioned, technically impressive and infrequently powerful, but it feels more like a great short mercilessly stretched out well beyond its limits, ultimately ending up as a chore to watch for all the wrong reasons.
As for the reason why I had to push Styx coverage to a day later, I flung myself out of bed on barely 6 hours of sleep in order to catch Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Grade: B-), the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen. Normally when I pick films to view down here at LFF, I discriminate based on two factors: is it coming out within the next two months, and will it play near me? Buster Scruggs fails both of those two questions mightily, it opens on November 2nd and is a Netflix Original so I don’t have to travel anywhere to see it, but the idea of watching an all-new Coen Brothers film on anything less than the biggest cinema screen available is heathen talk to me. So, there I rocked up at 8:30 in the goddamned AM for my latest fix.
My resultant exhaustion can only partly be blamed on the lack of sleep. When Buster Scruggs was first announced, it was done so as a “Limited Anthology Series” comprised of six different stories told across six episodes, but at some point down the line it instead got reworked into a film that runs just over two hours. The Coens emphatically denied the notion that Buster Scruggs was supposed to be a television series after the film played the New York Film Festival earlier in the month, but the finished product I feel betrays such a narrative. This really does feel like a television series that was chopped down to fit a not-unreasonable running time, although it only becomes fully apparent as we get deeper into the collection, the most developed stories being saved for the back-half. Binging all six of these at once is very much akin to binging a Netflix series, despite thankfully being A LOT shorter than even two episodes of most Netflix shows, and whilst some maniacs have the temperament for such a task, I found myself checking my watch numerous times which is a foreign action for a Coen Brothers film.
Perhaps it’s better to treat the shorts like one would a television series, watch one and then take a break before returning later to digest another episode, but I have a feeling Buster Scruggs would still fall victim to the typical wobbling quality of most anthology films. The opener follows the titular Buster Scruggs (Tim Blake Robinson), a singing cowboy in the vein of Roy Rogers who parades his merry way across a farcical version of the Wild West as, effectively, Bugs Bunny. The second shuttles a wannabe bank robber (James Franco) through a humiliating conga-line of indignities as a sort of microcosm for the vast majority of the Coens’ filmography. The third focuses on an impresario (Liam Neeson) and his armless, legless “meal ticket” (Harry Melling) that gives the segment its name as the latter performs dramatic readings to dwindling audiences, in an effective gothic short film.
The fourth sees a prospector (Tom Waits) mining for gold in a plain untouched by humans and ends up being a better adaptation of The Lombax than the actual Lombax movie. The fifth, longest and most developed takes us to the Oregon Trail as a young woman (Zoe Kazan) is forced to commit to her useless brother’s latest hare-brained scheme due to lack of better options once he contracts cholera and dies. Lastly, five travellers – a mouthy trapper (Chelcie Ross), a judgemental religious fundamentalist (Tyne Daly), a Frenchman (Saul Rubinek), and a pair of bounty hunters (Jonjo O’Neill and Brendan Gleeson) – share a ride on a stagecoach that doesn’t stop in a segment which honestly feels like the prologue to a Hammer horror movie. Besides being Western-set and all of them deliberately ending unsatisfactorily (a certain subset of audience members are about to get rapid-fire No Country for Old Men flashbacks viewing this), what predominately connects the six shorts that all differ wildly in length and tone is the theme of the violent cruelty of the Old West. That your life can and will end at any minute in any way for any reason and if your fellow man doesn’t do you in, this period of history being an especially fertile breeding ground for the worst of human behaviour, then the uncaring merciless random bastardry of the universe will probably take care of that for them.
Even in the more serious or tonally adventurous shorts, Buster Scruggs is largely six different takes on the prevailing philosophy the Coens put forward with their underappreciated A Serious Man from 2009 (my personal favourite Coen film). It’s just a shame that the combined issues of a wavering level of quality in the shorts – the first and fourth ones are superb, the sixth feels like it ends just as it’s getting good, the fifth’s too long, and the second and third are a bit undercooked – and shotgunning them all together makes experiencing Buster Scruggs in its supposed intended form a bit of a slog. There’s a lot of fun here, and low-tier Coen Brothers is still leagues above the best works of a good 80% of other directors, but I just can’t fathom why this HAD to be a movie. In certain respects it’s a retread of material the Brothers have covered better before, in other respects their experiments can feel half-cocked. But sometimes, it hits just right and that magic makes itself known with a vengeance. A grand bar-filled singalong celebrating the gruesome murder of a patron, a thrilling hopeless-seeming shootout with a Comanche war party, the surprisingly delightful Tom Waits performance that causes the fourth segment to soar so high, literal gallows humour. Buster Scruggs really does satisfy, but reorient your expectations going in, and maybe ignore the intended viewing method too.
Second on my sleep-deprived watchlist for the day was South Korean spy drama, The Spy Gone North (Grade: B). The latest by Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo), Spy is loosely based on the real-life story of Park Chae-seo, here rechristened as Park Seok-young (Hwang Jung-min). Codenamed “Black Venus,” he was recruited by the South Korean intelligence division in the 90s to serve as an undercover operative in North Korea. Intelligence indicated that the North had the capacity to create nuclear weapons and Park’s mission was to infiltrate the country and get close to the nuclear centre in the locked-down city of Pyongyang in order to verify the rumours. But because this is based on real events, although the film cops to having fictionalised aspects of the narrative, doing so took a years-long process involving the creation of shell companies, airtight covers, and plenty of close hobnobbing with top North Korean officials, in particular one Ri Myung-woon (Lee Sung-min) whom Park effectively became partners with on a massive unrelated project revolving around utilising the closed-off North as a potential shooting location in adverts for South-based companies which had the potential to thaw the frozen relations between the two countries.
Much like real spy work – from what I’ve heard in films and memoirs like these, I am very obviously not a spy myself – The Spy Gone North stars slow and unfocussed as Park and his superior (Cho Jin-woong) put together a believable cover business that will necessitate Park travel to North Korea on a regular basis. But it snaps into greater focus in its second half, after Park’s first meeting with Kim Jong-Il (Gi Ju-bong), where the relationship between Park and Ri is brought to the foreground as the film’s emotional centre and Park’s mission is forcibly switched into helping influence the upcoming South Korean elections, as the ruling party becomes petrified about the rise of a Communist challenger. Jong-bin and co-screenwriter Kwon Sung-hwi eventually reveal their intentions to be a condemnation of intelligence agencies altogether, whose existences are nothing more than an extension of tyrannical governments that serve only those in power rather than the people who need protecting. North Korea is more blatant about it, the opulence of Kim Jong-Il’s palace and litany of personal guards who serve him blindly with a mixture of loyalty and fear contrasting with the dead children lining the streets, but the South turns out to be not much better, gladly colluding with anyone that can keep the conservative party in power and burning agents out of spite.
The film mixes day-to-day busywork required for successful undercover operations – Park’s first job is to intentionally discredit his name and character by becoming a deadbeat drunkard who pisses away his friends’ money to throw North Korean vetters off his scent, and much of the film’s first half is devoted to the many lengths everyone has to go to pull a believable business out of thin air – with old-fashioned spy drama tropes. Bugging hotel rooms, wild goose chases designed to test loyalties, cryptic conversations where maybe Park’s been found out or maybe he hasn’t or maybe he has but the other person is intentionally turning a blind eye. All are executed with enough skill and tension for The Spy Gone North to work as a traditional spy thriller. But the real strengths of the film lie in the dramatization of a fascinating stretch of underdiscussed history, Hwang Jung-min’s double turn as Park (the cover persona Park cooks up is practically a second character entirely in aspects like temperament and mannerisms), and its pointed criticisms of the artificial nature of the conflict between North and South Korea. Not to say that both countries don’t have ideological differences or legitimate grievances, but late-film reveals call out the self-serving reasons the countries have for keeping the conflict going and how they are purpose designed to empower the few at the expense of the many. It’s definitely too long and could stand to benefit from some tidying up, but The Spy Gone North is a solid, engaging spy drama well worth a watch.
Ending the day on an inarguable high note, meanwhile, was the world premiere of Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records (Grade: B+), Pulse Films and director Nicolas Jack Davies’ documentary about the groundbreaking British record label that brought Ska and Reggae into the mainstream before folding out-of-the-blue in the mid-70s due to bankruptcy. In reality, this briskly-paced 95 minute documentary is three different stories in one, by necessity, for the story of Trojan Records is also the story of Ska, a genre grown out of Jamaican soundsystem culture trying capture the spirit of old American Jazz 45s from the 50s but with their own spin on it, and the story of Ska (plus its eventual evolution into Reggae) is the story of first-generation Jamaican immigrants moving to England once Jamaica received its sovereignty in 1962, bringing their culture with them and having to face the brunt of our country’s racism. Being degraded in the streets and in political office, having establishment radio refuse to play their music because it is “too violent,” but developing a kinship with White working class counterculture skinheads – “back when it was in fashion, not in fascism” as Don Letts differentiates – and eventually crossing over to the mainstream by “sugaring the pill” of their music in various ways (mainly pertaining to string sections).
All three stories are told extremely well. Davies pulls together interviews from the architects responsible for the music (or at least those who are still alive) and the record label executives who funded and cashed in on the movement to provide both sides of the story – tellingly, those making the music were all Black and speak about the culture and social consciousness behind the music, whilst those selling the music were mostly White and largely talk about it in terms of commerciality and “niche” markets – plus those who were influenced or positively affected by exposure to this radical Black music, like Pauline Black and Neville Staple. The legendary Bunny Lee talks about how “music is like water, it has no colour and anyone can enjoy it,” a quote which bookends the film and is illustrated by Desmond Dekker relating the Jamaica-specific backstory behind the descriptor “rudeboy” (along with the tragic aftermath of the debut of his song about rudeboys) and then cutting to a White English Ska fan relating the English-specific way that term translated over here. Music crossing boundaries but still being sincerely appreciated, just with different interpretations.
Somewhat ingeniously, Rudeboy rarely presents the talking head narration as straightforward talking head interviews. Instead, and perhaps as a cover for the relatively small pool of interviewees and available archive footage, Davies and cinematographer Jonas Mortensen stage vibe-based reconstructions of the events and moods talked about to back the interviews to. Nothing as trashy as a CBS Reality docudrama, thankfully, but more like a stylish music video, all hazy vibes and soft-focus and visual representations of a person or moment in time. The feel of the music and genre, running segments of songs acapella before cutting in to the full backing, always ensuring that the name and artist of the 45 currently playing on the soundtrack is given a prominent view… It really adds to the experience of the documentary without subtracting from it by going overboard with the visuals or the style. They’re here to supplement the story rather than tell it; the music and the interviews doing a great enough job on their own.
Rudeboy does short-change the collapse of the label in its story, mostly glossing over what lead to Trojan’s eventual closer, which perhaps was a deliberate choice to keep this a celebration of Black Jamaican and Black British culture rather than fixating on the failure. I respect that, but I only bring it up because the rest of the documentary is so comprehensive and insightful and entertaining that Rudeboy’s rush towards the end sticks out for its comparative thinness. The only real mistake this superb documentary makes at all. Otherwise, the film is excellent, a necessary insight into an underappreciated musical movement, and a loving tribute to a cornerstone of Black British culture.
Tomorrow: Andrea Riseborough gets her second lead turn of the Festival with Nancy, Morgan Neville plays his second documentary of this Festival, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and the legendary Mamoru Hosada returns with Mirai.
Callum Petch is in a state of flux.
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Barbados, T&T remain unbeaten
Barbados and hosts Trinidad and Tobago maintained their unbeaten streaks in the CWI Under-17 Championship with contrasting wins.
Playing at the Brian Lara Stadium, Barbados comfortably defeated Guyana by seven wickets while T&T snatched a thrilling nail-biter over Leeward Islands, winning by six runs at Gilbert Park.
In the other match at the National Cricket Centre, Jamaica bounced back from their opening round defeat to Leeward Islands to topple Windward Islands by four wickets.
Barbados top the standings with nine points with T&T just behind in second on 8.9. Leewards are third on 4.7 points.
Confident from their opening round win over the Windwards, Barbados were clinical in their performance to sustain their winning trend.
Winning the toss and opting to bowl first, they reduced Guyana to 141 for nine off their 50 overs with Matthew Nandu top-scoring with an unbeaten 71 and captain Sheldon Charles scoring 21.
The pair posted an opening stand of 44 before Nandu, who struck seven fours off 160 deliveries, added a further 52 for the eighth wicket with Chetram Balgobin (19).
Fast bowler Johann Layne claimed four for 33 while off-spinner Tariq O’Neale supported with two for 24.
In reply, Barbados got a top-score of 38 not out from Hakeem Perryman and 35 from Jaden Leacock, while Kevin Wickham chipped in with 26, as they reached their target off 36 overs.
Perryman, who faced 79 deliveries and struck four fours, anchored two key partnerships which formed the bedrock of his side’s win. First, he put on 42 for the second wicket with Leacock and then added a further 58 in an unbroken fourth wicket stand with Wickham.
T&T, meanwhile, found themselves bundled out for 91 in the 36th over with fast bowler Akadianto Willett (4-9) and Jaden Carmichael (4-18) destroying the innings with four wickets apiece.
Opener Kyle Roopchand top-scored with 29 but was just one of two batsmen in double figures before he was seventh out.
In reply, the Leewards slumped to 19 for four in the seventh over before recovering to reach 64 for five in the 22nd over. However, with just 28 runs required for victory, the Leewards lost their last five wickets for 21 runs.
Fast bowler Sion Hackett snatched four for 20 and Isaiah Gomez, three for 13, to win the match for T&T as only Carlon Bowen-Tuckett with 27, showed any meaningful resistance for Leewards.
In another low-scoring match at the National Cricket Centre, Jamaica demolished Windward Islands for 81 in the 28th over courtesy of Jahieem Bartley’s five-wicket haul, before chasing down the modest target off 24.4 overs, with Nicholas Lewin stroking an unbeaten 31.
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The Beatle In Shoulder Pads
The fifth Beatle walked strong among the masses,
Wearing swooshes and all black camo.
He bounced to the music and smiled real wide,
Welcomed the decision makers to the show.
See, the kid is strong, sure and ripe.
Not afraid to tell all to smoke exactly what's in their pipe.
Talk they do, experts and hacks.
How he's this, and can't do that. Waaack.
They'll mention his antics, his hustle, the mess.
No strength or safety in his game, all finesse.
But he's a rockstar, it can't be denied.
Beat 'Bama, won the Heisman and barely broke stride.
Yeah he drinks, dates models and flaunts what he's got.
You would too if you were him, your own Johnny on the spot.
Now he's Broadway bound, could be the first overall pick.
May 8 will arrive before they can spell "lickity split."
And so the suits with whistles flew down to small College Station,
To watch the Beatle move and throw, broadcast to the nation.
They came from all parts of this great NFL land,
And throw he did, all according to plan.
Coaches, GMs, friends and fans.
Even a President watched in awe from the stands.
Our hero stood tall, but not that high.
We all knew he could ball and basically fly.
A bomber, celebrity and life champion all in one.
Whitlock called him Kardashian with skills, so fun.
Is he Tebow? Vick? Deion? He's none.
He's Johnny Football.
Coming to a stadium near you,
So brightly this fall.
Tags: Alabama, Broadway, Deion Sanders, Johnny Football, Johnny Manziel, Michael Vick, New York City, NFL Draft, Nike, Texas A&M, The Beatles, Tim Tebow
Big East Memories And March’s Opening Weekend Madness
LOS ANGELES — At age 20, I went to Madison Square Garden in New York City for the first time. It was March of 2001, and being in charge of the college basketball show at Syracuse University’s student television station had its perks. Such, I made the executive decision to cover the Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament, for which our Orangemen were a 3-seed. To say I was out of my element was an understatement, as this was the first event of this magnitude I had covered.
Rich Kiss, UUTV’s sports director, came with me, and he and I had three of the most fun days I can remember as a college student. That our Orangemen (we were still the Orangemen back then) won two games, and narrowly missed reaching the league championship by a single point in the third, was only icing on the cake of the experience. We took the train over from New Jersey into the World Trade Center, walked over to 34th and 8th with our camera equipment, picked up our credentials and felt like we belonged. I remember we grabbed every media guide and quote packet we could get our hands on in the press area, ate from the $5 donation buffet (Boston Globe hoops historian Bob Ryan took the last piece of cheesecake) and when some real reporter asked us if we were using the phone on our table we bewilderingly said no, as if who were we to even have phones. But we were somebodies covering the event; the names on our passes told us so.
We walked among the stars of this Broadway show even if we were barely understudies. I got a little journo-hero struck when we saw Bill Rhoden of the New York Times, and Dick Weiss of the Daily News, two basketball writing legends, but for the duration of this tournament we were all colleagues and it felt as such. In the locker room interviewing players, in the press room talking to coaches, high above the MSG floor in the media section as I called all of my friends from the working telephones; we we there. After one of the games, we even did our standups on the court. Like pros. At The Garden. Basketball Mecca.
The next year, our Orangemen weren’t very good but Rich and I returned; we lost the first game to Villanova and the three things I remember most are: a) that we basically called it on the train ride over, since like I said, we weren’t very good; b) saying if we somehow lost tonight we were going to head to Atlantic City the next day (we did); and c) The Scene. The Scene was unlike anything I’ve been around, not like the high school, college or pro games I attended growing up. There was a buzz as soon as you walked through The Garden doors or made your way up the steps from the subway. It made the hair on your arms stand up. The clapping and chanting. The team regalia. School cheerleaders lining the entrance. Vendors screaming out deals for programs, t-shirts and refreshments. Everyone talking hoops at every turn. Even the back pages of the Daily News and New York Post were smathered with Big East Tournament headlines.
And the basketball. Oh the basketball. Other conferences have high-flyers, run-and-gun offenses and the visual eye candy to attract those with less-than keen eyes for superior hardwood mastery. And that’s what the Big East was, the best hoops the nation had to offer, and it was on display night-in and night-out across the northeast. From Providence to South Orange, out to Syracuse, back to Storrs and everywhere in between; college basketball at its absolute pinnacle. Marquee coaches, superstar players and the most rabid fans. Those qualities and more were on full display in the latest 30-for-30: Requiem For The Big East, which documented the league’s creation in 1979 and ultimate demise in 2013.
It was a fantastic two hours of television that featured commentary about the Big East’s rise and fall from legendary coaches Jim Boeheim, John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca, writers who covered the league Michael Wilbon and Charlie Pierce, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and players Ed Pinckney (Villanova), Chris Mullin (St. John’s), and Patrick Ewing (Georgetown), among others.
The documentary touched on the seminal moments of the conference, from Georgetown ending Syracuse’s 57-game home winning streak to close out Manley Field House, to the recruitment of Ewing, who hailed from Jamaica through Boston, New York City’s Mullin and Pearl Washington, the league’s toughness, Big Monday, and everything Dave Gavitt went through to get the league off the ground and to the heights it reached by teaming up with ESPN for broadcast rights. It was a fantastic trip down memory lane.
One of the elements I found the most interesting was one of Gavitt’s initial reasons for wanting to create the Big East was to keep the best players from the northeast – including New York City – in the area. Gavitt watched Big Apple schoolboy legend Lew Alcindor leave the east coast for UCLA in the 1960s and knew something had to be done. And it worked, as the league’s top eastern players stayed at home and played in the new power conference. Always fighting for national respect, the Big East received validation when Georgetown reached the 1982 NCAA Championship, and then just three years later placed three teams in the Final Four.
Other thoughts: I loved hearing Pinckney and Mullin talk about playing pickup hoops at parks across New York City, starting in Harlem and working their way down. That’s the thing about city ball, if you can play, the color of your skin doesn’t matter, and Mullin was one of the best around. … I never knew Boeheim got his Bob Knight on with a heated chair throw in the press conference after the 1984 Big East title game. … Thompson told Ewing to block every shot in the 1985 title game, which resulted in five goaltending calls off the bat. Also, Ewing still hasn’t gotten over losing the game to Villanova, saying, “in my heart the best team did not win that night.” … Pierce saying capitalism ruined the Big East, while Wilbon blames “dumb and greedy presidents.” … The doc was voiced by “Breaking Bad” villain Giancarlo Esposito, aka Gus Fring.
I first wrote my world famous “Tips For Enjoying March Madness” column for the Journal Tribune way back in 2006 – the 2009 version won me a Maine Press Association award. A lot has happened since then and most of it hasn’t been great for my bracket in 2014. Speaking of, how’s yours looking? Did you call North Dakota St. or Stephen F. Austin? What about Dayton? Mercer is in Macon, Georgia if you still haven’t figured that out yet. These first 48 games were some of the best basketball of the year, with perhaps the most exciting game of the first two rounds being #8 Kentucky/#1 Wichita St., which made the worst #11 Dayton’s upset win over #3 Syracuse.
Seriously, the last month of basketball being played in the 315 has been downright atrocious. (rant alert) Forget that we lost to a six-win Boston College team AT HOME, but also to Georgia Tech and N.C. State to end the season, losses happen, I’ve played sports my entire life, even when you’re better than your opponent you’re not always going to win. It just happens. Fine. But your effort in those losses is something you CAN control. Your shot selection. Your aggressiveness. Your rebounding. All within the realm of things you can have a direct outcome of. And where has it been the last month? Very good question. Bottom line, Syracuse didn’t deserve a 3-seed in this year’s tournament and it didn’t deserve to reach the Sweet 16. Obviously, I’m not over the loss yet and probably won’t be until Opening Day at Fenway next month. When you start the season 25-0 you expect a more satisfying ending than losing to Dayton two hours from your campus. What a frustrating end to what should have been a joyous season. And that’s the other thing, I didn’t have that much fun watching this team play. Every possession was a struggle. Every shot was spent praying it went in. Nothing was automatic. When we got a big lead, we quickly surrendered it. We played down to the level of our competition. We scored 47 points! To Dayton! For the game! Oregon nearly had that at the half against BYU. Did the season turn when Boeheim got tossed late in the game against Duke? Is someone really going to make that moment when it all went to crap? Did I just do it? I just hope Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant come back next year. Neither are ready for the pros and I think this tournament confirmed that.
[exhale] On to next year.
Here’s what else caught my eye after the most amazing four days of college basketball I can remember (it was a 48-game blur, so forgive specifics):
– These kids are terrible shooters; most but not all of them. Doug McDermott had a great first game against Lousianna-Lafayette going 12-for-23 and 30 points, but then not so much against Baylor (15 points). Meanwhile, Wichita St.’s Cleanthony Early couldn’t miss Sunday against Kentucky, going 12-for-17 and 31 points. It’s too bad both couldn’t make it out of the first weekend.
– Hard to tell which team is playing the best right now. After the first round I would’ve said Wichita St. and Syracuse, and then both lost in Round 2. Now, I might say Kentucky, Baylor, Arizona, Florida, Virginia and UConn are leading the field, so who knows what their fates hold in the Sweet 16.
– Player I want taking the game-winning shot on the final possession: UConn’s Shabazz Napier; dude is fearless.
– Got to explain what a backdoor lob was this weekend, which was pretty hilarious in between the 13-year old giggles. I even used two glasses of water and a dipping container of ketchup to visually illustrate. Coach Norman Dale would’ve been proud.
– Baylor’s hunting uniforms need to join the NBA’s sleeve jerseys and take a long walk off a short pier. Not a good look for anyone.
– I participate in an NCAA Tournament individual scoring fantasy league each year and I felt really good about my squad after the draft, especially after I missed out on the championship last year by a measly 7 points (thanks a lot, Georgetown). However, after the opening weekend I’m down to only four players remaining and I have about a good a shot at a title as Dayton, which is a long one. Seriously, I can’t believe Oklahoma AND Creighton both went down. Those two losses cost me at least another 75 points. Just so long as I don’t come in last.
– Speaking of, did any of these potential top NBA Draft picks (Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, Marcus Smart, etc.) have good games or do anything noteworthy? And who is this year’s Harold Arceneaux? He’s yet to reveal himself.
– Anyone else really sick of that Buffalo Wild Wings old man in the hat? We get it, the game is on, we’re probably already in our seats. Stop yelling at us.
– My original Final Four was Florida, Virginia, Creighton and Louisville. Revamped Final Four: Florida, Virginia, Baylor and Louisville. Sticking with my Louisville championship pick as well, although that may change at halftime of Friday’s Kentucky game; stay tuned and happy madness!
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Tags: 30 for 30, Arizona, Big East, Creighton, Florida, Georgetown, Hoosiers, Kentucky, Louisville, Madison Square Garden, March Madness, NBA, NCAA Tournament, New York City, Orangemen, St. John's, Sweet 16, Syracuse, UCLA, UConn, Villanova, Wichita St.
32 NFL Draft Predictions
LOS ANGELES — The annual National Football League college entry draft is on Thursday in New York City and Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck will be selected first overall by the Indianapolis Colts. These are the facts of the case. It’s been assumed Luck would be the first name commissioner Roger Goodell speaks since about October of last year; right around the time it became undoubtedly obvious Peyton Manning’s surgically repaired neck wasn’t going to allow him to signal call in 2011 and the Colts were in for a historically bad season. Then, last month, the Redskins mortgaged their future to trade up to the No. 2 hole for the right to select Baylor quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III.
After these two 22-year olds are chosen what will happen with the next 30 picks is anybody’s guess. It’s what makes the NFL Draft my favorite sporting event of the year. (click here and here for my running diaries of the 2010 and 2011 NFL Drafts) The Awkward interviews, outrageous suits, head shaking over bad picks and Jets fans booing are only the tip of the football iceberg for what’s to come over the course of the 5-hour extravaganza. With that, and because everyone seems to do the same NFL Draft columns each year (“Biggest Busts,” “Best Late-Round Picks,” etc.), I decided to offer up some Round 1 Predictions. I’m shooting for a 12.5% success rate, or roughly the exact percentage of 2011 First Rounders to make the Pro Bowl last season (Cam Newton, Von Miller, Patrick Peterson and A.J. Green).
Baylor's Robert Griffin III is one of the few athletes remaining still rocking the braids. Oh, and he's good at football.
1.) Someone is going to compare Robert Griffin III to Cam Newton, Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, Troy Smith and other African-American running quarterbacks who came before him.
2.) NFL Network analyst Michael Irvin is going to a) say something so ridiculous I’ll wish I had a “Mute Irvin” button my remote, and b) look ridiculous doing it.
3.) Some team will pull a Vikings and completely whiff on turning in their draft card causing a chain reaction of quick picks.
4.) One of the draftees will spend his entire bonus check, which he hasn’t received yet, on a bracelet, watch, earrings or all of the above.
5.) Commissioner Roger Goodell will get lots of hugs from the draftees and all of them will be awkward.
Andrew Luck knows that no one rocks a neck beard on the set of "Mad Men." He's also really good at football.
6.) At least three of the draftees will look like “Mad Men” extras and Andrew Luck will definitely be one of them.
7.) New Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will be mentioned so often we’ll think it’s The Decision: Part 2.
8.) There will be less Pro Bowlers drafted in the First Round than last year.
9.) Neither Luck nor Alabama running back Trent Richardson will win Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2012.
10.) NFL Network host Rich Eisen will say “Radio City Music Hall” roughly 57 times during the 5-hour broadcast.
11.) Colts Owner Jim Irsay will be interviewed looking like he just spent the night with Roger Sterling.
Brandon Weeden is looking to dispell the notion that 28-year olds can't play quarterback in the NFL.
Little known fact: most quarterbacks in the NFL are at least 28-years old.
12.) Oklahoma St. quarterback Brandon Weeden will be this year’s Andy Dalton.
13.) The Patriots will trade UP in this year’s draft rather than their traditional downward movement.
14.) Now that Al Davis is no longer with us, the Raiders will make a rational selection based on team needs… who am I kidding.
15.) Someone will get picked that none of “experts” had in their Top 50.
16.) An analyst will totally kill the mood of the broadcast by bringing up last year’s lockout.
17.) There will be roughly 2-3 commercials that will get played over and over and over again making me literally hate those companies.
18.) At least two of the draftees will be wearing bow ties.
19.) Syracuse defensive end Chandler Jones will get drafted.
JaMarcus Russell enjoys many of life's pleasures, including eating and shopping at the mall with friends.
Playing in the National Football League is not on that list.
20.) We will see video of JaMarcus Russell doing SOMEthing (playing football well won’t be it, either.)
21.) Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill will get drafted far too high and spark comparisons to Jaguars QB Blaine Gabbert.
22.) In three years, teams are going to wish they drafted linebackers Courtney Upshaw (Alabama) and Luke Kuechly (Boston College) higher.
23.) The Colts will try and trade up into the end of the First Round to draft Luck’s favorite target of the last few seasons: Stanford tight end Coby Fleener.
24.) Someone will talk about the Madden video game curse.
25.) A team that didn’t make the playoffs last year, is going to complete a trade so terrible it’ll seem make the Falcons 5-pick swap with Cleveland last year look like a steal.
In case you didn't know, NFL Network Draft Analyst Mike Mayock spends a lot of time watching tape of players that might potentially be drafted. He'll remind you of this often.
26.) NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock will say the phrase “when I looked at the tape” no less than 487 times.
27.) During a crowd shot there will be someone wearing a jersey so dated I’ll have to rewind and watch it at least 3 times to figure out who it is and/or laugh.
28.) At least 7 players who played in this year’s BCS National Championship game (LSU vs. Alabama) will get drafted.
29.) Someone will trip either walking out to shake hands with the Commissioner or heading to a network interview.
30.) Despite the networks vowing not to show draftees on the phone before they’re selected, somehow we’ll know who’s going where before Goodell says a name.
31.) The point will be hammered home in full force that Nike is the new maker of NFL uniforms.
32.) At least one of the draftees girlfriends will become a Twitter star before the night is over, kind of like Jets backup quarterback Greg McElroy’s sister did a year ago.
Tags: Alabama, Andrew Luck, Colts, Mad Men, Mike Mayock, New York City, NFL Draft, Nike, Patriots, Peyton Manning, Raiders, Robert Griffin III, Syracuse, Twitter
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What does the Bible say about creativity? The very first verse of Scripture actually describes a creative act as "God created the heavens and the earth." Additionally, from Genesis, the Bible says, "God created man in his own image." This could be interpreted as we are creators just as God created us. We create relationships, art, homes, cities, nations and many more things including inventions even yet to be known! The creative spirit is certainly favored by God and our fellow man. Learn more from the collection of Bible verses about creativity below! Bible Scripture Verse Art
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To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands. ... Bible Scripture Verse Art
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Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Christian Canvas Art
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Scripture Wall Art also has the freshest and most sought-after designs out there. Many companies try to illegally copy our designs. We always catch them and require them to stop. Sometimes they even say they are selling our products. Simply stated, they lie. We are that only company that sells our products. We do not wholesale to anyone and we have not licensed our designs to anybody. This ensures you the best product that will never look like what everyone else sells. Yes, we could design our wall arts to be faster to make by using boring fonts. Yes we could make them smaller to save money. Yes we could use cheaper materials. NO NO and NO is what we say. We design our products to be beautiful as the primary goal. We make them all in the size that years of customer feedback has told us is the most preferred size for our customers. And we use the best materials because we think you are worth it. Bible Scripture Verse Art
A good piece of biblical art can help us see the truth of a passage as well as give us “fresh eyes” for familiar passages. The artist becomes our companion who points out details of a passage that we might have passed over in haste. Biblical art from other cultures or time periods can be especially help us gain a fuller understanding of a passage that we are used to seeing through our own “cultural lenses.” Scripture engagement through art assists in our spiritual development by letting us share in the wealth of insights God has already given to others. Christian Canvas Art
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Christian Art and Gifts
“You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. Christian Art and Gifts
“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do.” ...
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.
It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds. Christian Canvas Art
"The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods. "But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him? "Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God: the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars, and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.read more. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
This verse is a reminder for me that all I need is Christ. When I feel helpless or weak, I don’t primarily need a practical solution or answer. I need God’s grace. God’s grace is sufficient. It is all I need. His strength shines brightly when I am weak and depending on Him. I don’t need my life to be in perfect order or all to be going well in the world around me. All I need is Christ. Christian Art and Gifts
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Scripture Wall Art also has the freshest and most sought-after designs out there. Many companies try to illegally copy our designs. We always catch them and require them to stop. Sometimes they even say they are selling our products. Simply stated, they lie. We are that only company that sells our products. We do not wholesale to anyone and we have not licensed our designs to anybody. This ensures you the best product that will never look like what everyone else sells. Yes, we could design our wall arts to be faster to make by using boring fonts. Yes we could make them smaller to save money. Yes we could use cheaper materials. NO NO and NO is what we say. We design our products to be beautiful as the primary goal. We make them all in the size that years of customer feedback has told us is the most preferred size for our customers. And we use the best materials because we think you are worth it. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... Christian Canvas Art
I’ve been working on expanding my printables library and I’ve added some scripture and hymn wall art! These Bible verses (and one hymn) to print are simple and are available in download for an 8×10 or 5×7 frame. My original intent was that they be Bible verse decor for walls, but as I developed them I couldn’t help thinking that they would also look great on a desk or on top of a mantel – so download and use them wherever you think best! Christian Art and Gifts
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
"The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods. "But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him? "Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. Christian Canvas Art
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ... Christian Art and Gifts
From the very first verse of Scripture, God reveals himself as the Creator, an Artist. Everything within the universe is a magnificent element of the Great Artist’s masterpiece. As works of art created in God’s own image (Gen 1:27), people are endowed with the ability to create as well. We can choose to join the Master Artist by being artists ourselves. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Our extensive experience ensures you of the highest quality product. As in most industries, when they start to mature the low price competitors come in to make quick money with inferior products. The Vinyl Wall Decal industry has been no different. Just in the past few years, we have seen a flood of inferior products coming in from overseas. While these products are usually cheap, they aren’t usually even functional. These products come without necessities like pre-installed transfer tape making it almost impossible for you to actually install the product. One company we know of doesn’t even “weed” their products making them useless for most customers. Of course, trying to fight with a Chinese company for a $5 refund is seldom worth the time so most users just end up frustrated and disappointed. Christian Art and Gifts
"Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. "She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. "I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.read more.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ... Bible Scripture Verse Art
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Atheist Richard Dawkins Stirs Outrage: ‘Light Pedophilia’ Didn’t Cause Me ‘Lasting Damage’
By Heather Clark on September 15, 2013 6 Comments
CANTERBURY — A prominent atheist has stirred international outage following his comments regarding children who are victims of ‘light pedophilia.’
Richard Dawkins, known for his book The God Delusion, was recently featured in an interview in The Times, during which he spoke of his own sexual abuse as a child, which he said had no long-lasting affect upon his life.
“One day – I must have been about 11 – there was a master in the gallery with me. He pulled me onto his knee and put his hand inside my shorts. He did no more than have a little feel, but it was extremely disagreeable … as well as embarrassing,” he told the publication. “As soon as I could wriggle off his lap, I ran to tell my friends, many of whom had had the same experience with him. I don’t think he did any of us any lasting damage, but some years later he killed himself.”
However, when Dawkins shared his thoughts about degrees of pedophilia, the changing times and not treating all types of inappropriate touching alike, readers expressed shock and disappointment.
“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours,””Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”
“[T]he most notorious cases of pedophilia involve rape and even murder, and because we attach the label ‘pedophilia’ to the same things when they’re just mild touching up, we must beware of lumping all pedophiles into the same bracket,” Dawkins opined.
On Tuesday, Dawkins took to Twitter in an attempt to clarify his remarks.
“‘Mild touching up’ is bad,” he wrote. “Raping [an] 8-year-old wife to death is worse. Worse? That’s putting it mildly. Quantitative judgment vs. black/white.”
“Is anyone seriously denying that raping an 8-year-old to death is worse than putting a hand inside a child’s clothes?” he wrote again later. “Are you that absolute?”
On Thursday, Dawkins also penned an article explaining his words.
“To excuse pedophiliac assaults in general, or to make light of the horrific experiences of others, was a thousand miles from my intention,” he wrote. “I cannot know for certain that my companions’ experiences with the same teacher were are brief as mine, and theirs may have been recurrent where mine was not.”
“If I am wrong about any particular individual; if any of my companions really was traumatized by the abuse long after it happened; if, perhaps it happened many times and amounted to more than the single disagreeable but brief fondling that I endured, I apologize,” Dawkins said.
However, a number of child protection groups remain outraged at Dawkins’ comments. Peter Watt of the National Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said that the atheist’s remarks slighted others who have suffered from the memories of their abuse.
“Mr. Dawkins seems to think that because a crime was committed a long time ago we should judge it in a different way,” he told Religion News Service. “But we know that the victims of sexual abuse suffer the same effects whether it was 50 years ago or yesterday.”
Atheist Richard Dawkins Stirs Outrage: ‘Light Pedophilia’ Didn’t Cause Me ‘Lasting Damage’ added by Heather Clark on September 15, 2013
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Troye Sivan Is The First Face Of Issue 108
Clash 108: Troye Sivan
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Freedom. It’s a concept that we like to believe we’re all entitled to, but often the restraints of society prevent us from really allowing ourselves to be what we want to be. Individual and creative freedom is the lifeblood of the summer edition of Clash, and in this issue we praise the inspiring artists that assert their own unique essence through inventive and distinctive means of expression.
The first of this issue’s four cover stars is the liberated pop luminary, Troye Sivan.
Having abandoned the rulebook in pursuit of an authentic representation of himself, Troye Sivan has explored and embraced the stigmas that once confined him to truly appreciate a future with restrictions. Ahead of the release of his second album, ‘Bloom’, we caught up with Troye in LA to dig deeper into his identity-shaping odyssey.
“Coming out for me didn’t end when I came out to my family and friends; it’s a journey that I’m still on,” he tells us. “And it’s so much more than my sexuality. It’s an experience that everyone goes through where you’re fully realising the person that you are.”
Also featuring in this inspirational issue is the Spice Girls, Kris Wu, Buddy, Gaika, Bad Gyal, Yungen, Ravyn Lenae, Peter Buck, and much more. Other covers to follow…
Clash 108 is available to buy online now ahead of its release next week - get the magazine HERE.
Clash 108 with Troye Sivan
Interview: Alim Kheraj
Photography: Scott West
Fashion: Sean Knight
Creative Direction: Rob Meyers
Troye Sivan wears dress by Calvin Klein 205w39nyc and jeans by Levi’s.
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GCU Women’s Club Volleyball Finishes First in Home Tournament
By: Taylor Browne/GCU Staff
In their first home tournament of the fall season, the Grand Canyon University Women’s Club Volleyball team put together an impressive run, hosting and defeating a number of local state teams, and taking the championship match at the Lopes Performance Center on the GCU campus.
“It was a great opportunity for all the in-state college club teams to get together in one gym, get a ton of touches, and compete,” Lopes Head Coach Kris Naber said. “I think everyone left feeling that Grand Canyon hosted the tournament well, and it was a great day to play volleyball.”
The back-to-back defending Mountain West Volleyball Conference champions began the tournament with early victories, delivering dominant performances against Arizona State University (2-1 (27-25, 20-25, 15-11)), Northern Arizona University (2-0 (25-19, 25-17)), before taking the championship with a 2-1 win over University of Arizona, 25-21, 20-25, 17-15.
Last year, the Lopes lost to both U of A and ASU, but didn’t drop a match this time.
“I am so proud of them,” said Naber. “Our junior college competition throughout the fall really prepared our team for competing against teams like ASU and U of A. For this team to come together and to be able to not drop a match is amazing.”
It was all about ball control and coming through with big plays that brought GCU success.
“We found ourselves down, we found ourselves up, and it really comes down to playing consistent volleyball, said Naber. “We came through with big plays when we needed to, and we really focused on our side of the net.”
As the fall season comes to a close, Naber has plenty of reasons to be excited for the direction of the program.
“It was a good close to the fall season for all the teams,” said Naber. “The girls are excited because teams will be made for the spring, and when they come into practice next season, they will be practicing with their team and competing with their team.”
Request more information on how you can be a part of the future of GCU Women’s Club Volleyball. Follow all GCU Club Sports on Twitter and Instagram.
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Green Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History
General Sir William Green, 1st Baronet, of Marass (1725-1811)
1) (Marass, co. Kent, bart., extinct 1825). Per chev. vert and ar. in chief two castles of the second, in base another, surrounded by a fortification ppr. over all a chev. or, charged with three torteaux. Crest—Out of a mural crown gu. a horse’s head ar. maned or.
2) (Milnrow, co. York, bart., extinct 1831). Or, three leopards pass. ppr. on a chief sa. a demi griffin segreant betw. two cinquefoils erm. holding a key also ppr. Crest—A griffin’s head erased sa. langued gu. doubly collared or, betw. the collars a cinquefoil, as in the arms, holding in the beak a key or. Motto—Aequam servare mentem.
3) (Sampford, co. Essex, bart., extinct 1676). Per fess sa. and ar. a lion ramp. counterchanged.
4) (Leventhorp, co. York; granted as a quartering to Charles Chadwick, of Healey Hall). Ar. on a bend vert three fleurs-de-lis or.
5) (Araunah Green, Esq., of Chiddingly, co. Sussex, who, upon his marriage, changed his patronymic, Verral, for the name of Green). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, vert three stags trippant, two and one, betw. two crosses crosslet in chief and one in base or, for Green; 2nd and 3rd, gu. a fesse compony or and az. betw. three mullets, two in chief and one in base ar., for Verral. Crests—1st, Green: In front of a spear erect ppr. therefrom pendent a buglehorn sa. stringed gu. a stag statant or; 2nd, Verral: A mount vert, thereon an antelope erm. horned or, the dexter forefoot resting on a hurt charged with a cross crosslet gu.
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6) (Poulton Hall, co. Chester). Az. three bucks trippant erminois, on a chief or, three crescents sa. Crest—A demi buck springing per fesse or and az. charged with two crescents counterchanged.
7) (John George Green, Esq., of Buckden, grandnephew of the late Dr. John Green, Bishop of Lincoln, descended from an old and respectable Yorkshire family). Az. three stags trippant or.
8) Ar. on a fesse wavy gu. betw. two torteaux in chief, each charged with a bull’s head couped of the field, and in base a ship in full sail ppr. a griffin pass. betw. two escallops or. Crest—On a mount vert a squirrel sejant ppr. holding an escallop az.
9) (Abingdon, co. Berks, and London). Az. a pheon betw. three bucks trippant or. Crest—A stag's head erased and attired or, charged on the neck with a pheon sa. underneath which are three guttees de sang.
10) (Great Kingshill, co. Buckingham; granted 13 Dec. 1768). Az.a chev. engr. ar. guttee de sang fimbriated or, in base an estoile of the second, on a chief embattled gold, two leopards’ heads vert. Crest—Out of a mural crown ar. a demi lion ramp. purp. in the dexter paw a slip of laurel vert.
11) (Boys’ Hall, co. Essex, and co. Oxford; confirmed by Camden). Az. three bucks trippant (another, courant) or.
12) (Bristol, and Barnet, co. Herts). Az. three bucks trippant or, a crescent for diff. Crest—A buck's head erased erm. attired or.
13) (Samford, co. Essex). Gu. a lion ramp. ar. crowned or, a bordure engr. of the third.
14) (co. Essex). Per fesse sa. and ar. a lion ramp. counterchanged, a bordure engr. gu.
15) (co. Essex). Ar. on a cross engr. gu. an annulet or. Crest—A lion sejant per pale or and sa.
16) (Gurlingham). Ar. a buglehorn betw. three griffins’ heads erased sa.
17) (Dunsby, Spelding, co. Lincoln, and Great Caddesden, co. Herts). Az. three bucks trippant or. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet a buck’s head all ppr.
18) (cos. Hertford and Nottingham, and Awkeley Hall, co. York). Ar. on a fesse az. betw. three pellets, each charged with a lion’s head erased of the first, a griffin pass. betw. two escallops or. Crest—A woodpecker picking a staff couped, raguled, and erect, all ppr.
19) (co. Kent). Gu. a cross crosslet erm. a bordure gobonated ar. and sa.
20) (co. Leicester, and Drayton, co. Northampton). Ar. a cross engr. gu.
21) (London and Norwich). Az. a chev. embattled betw. three bucks or. Crest—A buck's head erased or, attired ar. murally gorged and chained of the last.
22) (Milton-Chevsdon, co. Somerset; granted 1529). Ar. a fret az. charged with nine bezants, on a chief sa. a stag trippant or, betw. two mullets of the last pierced gu. Crest—A cubit arm erect, vested vert, cuffed or, holding in the hand a bunch of holly ppr. fructed gu.
23) (co. Norfolk). Az. a chev. betw. three bucks trippant or.
24) (co. Norfolk, and Wilby). Per pale az. and gu. a chev. betw. three bucks trippant or. Crest—A stag’s head erased az. attired or.
25) (Knapton, co. Norfolk). Az. a fret engr. ar. betw. three bucks pass. or. Crest—A dragon without wings pass. per fesse or and vert.
26) (co. Norfolk). Ar. on a cross engr. gu. five crescents of the field.
27) (co. Northampton). Az. three bucks pass, or (another, ppr.).
28) (co. Northumberland). Az. three bucks pass. ar.
29) (co. Oxford, 1605). Az. three bucks or, a mullet for diff. Crest—A buck’s head or, charged on the neck with a mullet sa.
30) (Newby, co. York). Ar. a chev. betw. three fleurs-de-lis sa.
31) (Stock Newton). Same Arms. Crest—A demi greyhound.
32) (co. Suffolk). Vert a chev. or, betw. three bezants.
33) (co. Suffolk). Or, a cross engr. gu.
34) (Wykin, co. Warwick, and Rolleston, co. Leicester). Az. three bucks trippant, within a bordure or, quartering Pell, Fortrey, Jocelyn, Bardolf, &c. Crest—Out of park pales, in a circular form, a stag’s head ppr. attired or.
General Sir Charles Green, 1st Baronet, of Milnrow (1749-1831)
35) (Stanleche, co. Wilts, and co. York). Ar. on a cross engr. gu. five crescents or, a chief az. charged with three bezants. Crest—A griffin's head erased, quarterly, or and sa. in the beak a trefoil slipped of the last.
36) (Horsforth Green, co. York). Ar. on a chev. bettv. three fleurs-de-lis sa. as many escallops of the field.
37) (granted by Le Neve, 1725). Gu. on a lion ramp, within a bordure engr. ar. a boar’s head couped sa. Crest—A rose gu. barbed vert, seeded or, environed by two laurel branches of the second.
38) Ar. three griffins’ heads erased sa.
39) Gu. a demi lion ramp. ar. crowned or.
40) Ar. fretty sa. on a canton of the second a buck pass. or.
41) Az. a fesse betw. three catharine wheels ar.
42) Chequy or and ar. (another, or and az.) within a bordure gu.
43) Ar. a fesse dancettee betw. three leopards’ faces sa.
44) (Thundercliffe Grange, Sheffield; granted by Richard St. George, 6 Oct. 1612, to Thos. Green, of Cawthorn, co. York, father of James Green, of Thundercliffe). (Bancke, co. York, 1666). Az. three demi lions ramp. erased erminois. Crest—Out of a mural crown gu. a demi lion ramp. erminois.
45) (Little Sandford, co. Essex). Gu. a lion ramp. per fesse ar. and erm. crowned or.
46) Ar. three bars az. on a bend gu. as many bezants.
47) Per chev. az. and gu. three bucks in full course or.
48) (Poulton Hall, co. Chester). Az. three stags trippant or, on a chief of the last three crescents sa. Crest—A demi stag per fesse or and az. charged with two crescents counterchanged. Motto—Virtus semper viridis.
49) (Alkley, co. Nottingham). Ar. on a fesse az. betw. three pellets, each charged with a lion's head erased of the field, a griffin pass. betw. two escallops or. Crest—A woodpecker, with his beak against the trunk of a tree ppr.
50) (Lichfield). Az. three stags trippant or, quartering, ar. a cross wavy sa. in the dexter chief quarter an eagle displ. of the last, for Webb, and, or, a torteau betw. four saltires hummetee gu., for Jevon. Crest—A stag's head erased or.
51) (confirmed by Camden, Clarenceux, to Sir William Greene, co. Oxford, 1603;. Az. three stags trippant or, a mallet for diff. Crest—A buck's head couped or, charged with a mullet for diff.
52) (quartered by Verney, of Compton, co. Warwick. Har. MS. 1167). Az. three stags trippant within a border or.
53) Chequy or and az. a bordure gu.
54) (Navestock, co. Essex). Az. a stag trippant or. Crest—A stag's head or.
55) (Mitcham, co. Surrey; granted Jan. 1663). Per pale az. and sa. three bucks trippant or.
56) (Slyne, co. Lancaster, temp. James I., an ancient family now represented by Thomas Greene, of Slyne, near Lancaster, and of Whittington Hall, Burton, co. Westmoreland, Esq., M.P.). Vert on a fesse invecked or, betw. in chief two pheons ar. and in base a buglehorn ar. stringed gu. three fleurs-de-lis of the last. Crest—A atag ppr. gorged with a collar invecked vert, a shield suspended therefrom or, charged with a rose gu.
57) (Alderman of Chester, 1602). Gu. a lion ramp. per fesse ar. and sa. crowned or, langued az. charged on the shoulder with a trefoil vert.
58) (Greene’s Norton, co. Northampton). Az. three bucks trippant or.
59) (New England; descended from John Greene, a descendant of the Greenes, of co. Northampton, who emigrated to New England in 1635; was a companion of Roger Williams, and a party to the Providence Purchase from the Indians; his descendant, Gardiner Greene, Esq., of Boston, m. Elizabeth Clarke Copley, sister of Lord Lyndhurst). Same Arms Crest—A buck’s head or.
Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet, of Wakefield MP (1831-1923)
60) (Kilmanahan Castle, near Clonmel, Ireland). Az. three bucks trippant or. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet a buck's head or. Motto—Nec timeo nec sperno.
61) (Kilranalagh, co. Wicklow). Az. three bucks trippant or. Crest—A buck’s head or. Motto—Nec timeo nec spemo.
62) (Wexford; Reg. Ulster’s Office). Vert three stags trippant or.
63) (Kilmainham; Reg. Ulster’s Office). Ar. on a chev. az. betw. three pomeis, each charged with a stag trippant or, a horse’s bit betw. two stirrups of the last.
64) (Greeneville, co. Kilkenny). Az. three stags trippant or. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a stag’s head or. Motto—Nec timeo nec sperno.
65) (Milton Clifton, co. Somerset; John Greene, temp. James I., son of Bartholomew Greene, grandson of Mathew Greene, and great-grandson of William Greene, all of same place. Visit. Somerset, 1623). Ar. on a fret az. five bezants a chief sa. charged with a buck statant betw. two mullets or, pierced gu. Crest—An arm erect habited vert, holding in the hand a branch of holly ppr. fructed gu.
Origin, Meaning, Family History and Green Coat of Arms and Family Crest
Meaning, Origin, Etymology
peasants dances around a maypole
The surname Green is one of the most common and widespread of English surnames, it was used as a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing the color green (Old English grene) or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green. In North America this name has no doubt come from other European languages, notably German Grun (see Gruen), Jewish (American), Americanized form of German Grun or Yiddish Grin, Ashkenazic ornamental names meaning ‘green’ or a short form of any of the numerous compounds with this element. Irish translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from glas ‘gray’, ‘green’ ‘blue’. Since very early times the word green has meant, young, fresh, immature or callow. Often a villager would be called ‘green’ because of something that they had done during their youth, the nickname would stick and in time it became the family name.
Greene, Green, Grene, Grean
Early Marriage Records for Green
Whittington Hall
Ellen Green married Thomas Fox May 24, 1650 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Green married Elizabeth Wheeler July 13, 1659 in Malden, Massachusetts
James Green married Elizabeth Anthony August 3, 1665 in Warwick, Rhode Island
John Green married Dorothy Benjamin August 24, 1673 in Richmond Co., Virginia
Dorcas Green married John Eaton November 26, 1674 in Reading, Massachusetts
Philitia Green married Abraham Hooper March 3, 1687 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sarah Green married Nathaniel Keene November 2, 1688 in York Co., Maine
Benjamin Green married Susannah Holden January 25, 1689 in Warwick, Rhode Island
Elizabeth Green married John Lynde August 25, 1691 in Maiden, Massachusetts
Priscilla Green marrried Samuel Grice July 14, 1691 in Boston, Massachusetts
John Green married Bethlah Messenger January 17, 1692 in Boston, Massachusetts
Richard Green married Hannah Sherrar June 1, 1692 in Boston, Massachusetts
Hannah Green married Nathaniel Henchman January 11, 1693 in Boston, Massachusetts
Lydia Green married Thomas Hatherly August 1, 1693 in Boston, Massachusetts
Anna Green married Nataniel Hinchman 1694 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Esther Green married Samuel Moody April 4, 1695 in Boston, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Green married Peter King October 29, 1697 in New York
Jabez Green married Mary Barton March 17, 1697 in Warwick, Rhode Island
Nicholas Green married Rebecca Clay March 22, 1697 in Boston, Massachusetts
John Green married Mary Green February 23, 1698 in Malden, Massachusetts
Joseph Green married Mary Beck July 30, 1698 in Boston, Massachusetts
Rebecca Green married Thomas Hayne January 9, 1699 in Boston, Massachusetts
Tobias Green married Mary Gent November 17, 1699 in Boston, Massachusetts
Popularity & Geographic Distribution
The last name Green ranks 622nd in popularity worldwide as of the 2014 Census and approximately 868,440 people carry the Green surname worldwide. The name ranks particularly high in the following six states: Texas, California, Florida, New York, Georgia, and Maryland. It ranks highest in the following countries: United States (531,821), England (143,400), Australia (39,545), Canada (32,261), South Africa (23,965) and Nigeria (17,359).
Early Bearers of Surname
Sir Frank W. Green, 1st Baronet of Belsize Park (1835–1902)
Sir Thomas de Green (c.1461-1506), Lord of Greens Norton, received Boughton, Greens Norton, and large monetary grants through his inheritance upon the death of his father in 1462; Dr. John Green, the Bishop of Lincoln
Geoffrey de Grene, who appears in the 1188 Pipe Rolls for Kent.
Deonisia ate Grene, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Warin de la Grene, ibid.
Robert de la Grene, Close Rolls, 3 Edward I.
Petnis del Grene, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Adam del Grene, 1379: ibid.
Willelmus del Grene, 1379: ibid.
Roger del ('of the') Grene in Roxburghshire rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, II, p. 206)
Master John Grene, chancellor of Moray, 1463 (OPS., II, p. 838)
Richard de la Grene of the county of Norfolk in the year 1200
William Grene in the Hundred Rolls of Yorkshire in 1230; Robert Othegreen, and Henry on the Green, both of Worcestershire, in 1274
History, Genealogy & Ancestry
GREEN OF DUNSBYE
Green, Charles, Esq. of Dunsby, Co. Lincoln, b. 1810; m. 1838 Mary, dau. and eventual co-heiress of Henry Everard, Esq. of Croyland and Spalding, Co. Lincoln (vide Everard of Fulney House) and has issue, 1) Rev. John Henry, M.A., of Elbworth, co. Leicester, b. 1839; m. 1868, Catherine Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. James R. Peake, M.A., of Whitechurch, Salop, and has issue a dau. 2) Charles Martin, of Richmond Surrey, b. 1841; m. 1870, Emily Frances, eldest dau. of Thomas Charlton, of West Bank House, Wrotham. Kent by Frances Maria, eldest dau. of Demetrius Grevis James, of Ightham Court, Kent, Esq., High Sheriff 1833 (vide Grevis, James) and has issue a dau. 3) Everard b. 1844.
LINEAGE~ This family was certainly settled at Dunsbye, near Bourn, Co. Lincoln, in the reign of Henry VIII, as appears by the parish registers, as also by the wills which are now at Lincoln, the earliest of which is that of Richard Grene, Esq. of Dunesby, dated 15 Dec. 1542. The first however of hte family who appears to be of much importance is John Greene of Dunsby, Gent., living in the reign of Charles I who by his wife Mary had issue, 1) John of whom hereafter. 2) Richard of Long Hedges, Dunsbye, Gent., m. 1686, Anne., dau. of Richard Quincey, Esq. of Rippingale, co. Lincoln, and d. 1702, leaving issue besides others a) Richard (Rev), M.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Rector of Little Custerton, Rutland; m. 1723, Judith, dau. of Rev. Humphrey Hyde, Rector of Dowsby, Co. Lincoln, grandson of Sir John Trollope of Casewick, Co. Lincoln. b) John of Bourn b. 1695. John Greene, Esq. of Dunsbye, eldest son, s. his father. He was b. 1650 and m. 1681, Mary eldest dau. of John Toller, Esq. of Billingborough Hall, by Mary his wife, foundress of Billingborough School (1671); d. 1693, buried within the altar rails of Dunsby church. Under his name the Rector of that time has written in the parish register the following line from Horace: "Multis itle bonis biebilis occidit nuill flebilior quam mihi." John Green, his son; b. 1683, succeeded him, and m. 1706, Mary, only dau. of Martin Johnston, Esq. of Spalding, Barrister-at-Law, by Mary his wife, dau. of John Lynne, Esq. of Southwick Hall, Co. Northampton, whose great grandfather, George Lynne, m. Martha, grand dau. of Sir George Threkmorton, Knt., whose wife, Katharine, dau. of Nicholas, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, the poet, was aunt to Queen Katharine Parr. He d. 1709, and was buried in Spalding Church, and was s. by his only child, John Green, Esq. (18th in descent from Edward III. through his mother), of Spalding. F.R.S., "an eminent physician," m. Jane, eldest dau. of Maurice Johnson, "the Antiquary" of Ayscough-Fee, Spalding, by Elizabeth his wife, dau. and heiress of William Ambler, Esq. of Kirton-in-Holland, by Mary his wife, dau. of Sir Anthony Oldfield, Bart., and Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Sir Edward Gresham, Knt. (vide Johnson of Ayscough-Fee Halt). Dr. Green d. 1756, and was s. by his only surviving child, Charles Green, Esq. of Spalding, b. 1738 m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Dinham, of Spalding, M.D., and d. 1824, leaving with other issue, Charles Martin Dinham Green, Esq. of the Manor House, Spalding, Capt.-Commandant of the Volunteers of his day, b. 1763; m. 1799, Mary, dau. and sole heiress of Robert Holditch, Esq. D.L. of Spalding, Co. Lincoln, by Elizabeth Peach, his wife, grand niece and co-heiress of Thomas Peach, Esq. of Dingley, Co. Northampton, and by her had issue, 1) Robert Holdich b. 1805; d. unm. 1835. 2) Charles his successor 3) Martin Johnson, B.D. (Rev), late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and Junior Proctor of that University, now Rector of Winterbourne-Abbas-cum-Steepleton, Dorset, b. 1813; m. 1848, Elizabeth Laura Catharine, dau. of Rev. Thomas Holdich, M.A., Rector of Maidwell, Co. Northampton vide Holdich-Hungerford), and has issue, a) Martin Holdich, B.A. Trin. Coll. Oxon, b. 1849; b) John Maydwell b. 1854 d. 1873 c) Charles Edward b. 1856 d. 1861 d) Laura-Georgiana e) Jane Elizabeth f) Edith Mary g) Anne Cecilia. 4) Elizabeth Peach m. Rev. R. Youldon, M.A. 5) Mary Anne, m. John Wright of Louth, J.P. 6) Harriet d. 1817 7) Georgina m. William Hungerford Holdich, Esq. 8) Emily d. 1808. Mr. Green d. 13 Sept. 1837, and was buried in Spalding Church when he was s. by his eldest son, the present owner.
Arms~ Az., three bucks trippant or. Crest~ Out of a ducal coronet a buck's head, ppr. Motto~ Da gloriar
Sir Walter Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, of Nether Hall (1869-1947)
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EMMOT-GREEN OF EMMOTT
Green-Emmott George-Emmott, Esq. of Emmott Hall, co. Lancaster, J.P., b. 1 March 1813; m. 10 March 1840, Louisa-Mary-Sheridan, dau. of the later John Macpherson, Esq. by Marianne Collete; his wife, 2nd dau. of John Addison, Esq. and has issue, 1) Charles-Richard-Emmott b. 16 Jan. 1847. 2) Marian-Caroline-Emmott m. 4 Oct. 1900 to John Cowper, Esq. 3) Georgina-Emmott d. 8 Sept. 1848 4) Louisa-Emmeline-Emmott d. 20 Oct. 1847 5) Gertrude-Emmott.
LINEAGE~ Of this family, established in England since the Conquest the first of whom any record exists is Robert De Emot, who held lands at Emmot for Edward II as appears by inquisition. His descendant the representative of the Emmotts, in the middle of the 17th century, was William Emmott, Esq. of Emmott, who d. in Aug. 1683. By Mary, his wife (who d. 1677) he left four sons and one daughter, viz. William of Emmott d. 13 May 1720, aged 51, s.p.; John, of Emmott, who d. 21 Oct 1746. aged 82 ; Thomas. d. in 1660 aged 29 ; Christopher, of London, merchant, d. unm 24 Feb 1745, aged 71 ; and Mary. m. to Mr. Wainhouse. This Lady, Mary Emmott, wife of Mr. Wainhouse, d. 10 Jan. 1722, aged 50, leaving a son, Richard Wainhouse, who assumed, as heir to his uncles, the name and arms of Emmott Hie death occurred 14 March. 1761, in the 60th year of his age. He left (with a dau., who m. Alexander Rosa, Esq ) a son, Richard Emmott, Esq. of Emmott, co. Lancaster, and Goldings, Herts, who entailed the former estate of his nieces. Of these ladies, tho eldest is Caroline, wife of Edward Parkins, Esq. of Chosfield Lodge, Herts ; and the 2nd was Harriet Susanna Ross, who m. 13 April, 1811, George Green, Esq. of Upper Harley Street, London, and had issue, George-Emmott, now of Emmott Hall Charles-Alexander, lieut home artillery, killed in the late war in India Edward Alfred, of the Bengal native infantry. Augustus- William, in holy orders. Walter Emmott. Harriet Susanna, m. to the 2nd son of John De’fer of Upper Harley Street Caroline -Fanny, in. Edward Fulcher, capt 87th foot Gertrude-Ellen-Emmott, m. to Saml. Brandram, Esq., barrister, and d. Sept 1859. Frederica-Emily, m. to Charles Barwell, col. Mrs. Green, the co-heiress of Emmott, d. 10 Aug. 1839, and Mr. Green d. 22 Oct 1849.
GREEN OF GREENVILLE
Thomas Greene 1794-1872, MP for Lancaster
Green, John, Esq. of Greenville, co. Kilkenny, M.P., b. in 1815, formerly lieut. 7th dragoon guards.
Lineage~ Godfrey Green, Gont., of Kilmanahan, co. Wexford, whose will is dated 19 May 1682, obtained a grant under the Act of Settlement in 1678 for use of his children, m. Frances dau. of Robert Cox, and by her (who d. before 1676) had issue, 1) John of whom presently 2) Godfrey of Moorestown, co. Tipperary, d. intestate administration 8 May 1680, m. the sister of Phanuel Cooks, of Ballygubben, co. Tipperary and had issue a) Godfrey of Moorestown b) Frances m. to _ Cooksey, Esq. c) Lydia 3) Mary 4) Frances. John Green, Esq. of Abbey, co. Limerick, whose will is dated 28 July 1745, m. Catherine dau of Capt. Anthony Horsey, of Kilcomer, and had issue, 1) Godfrey of whom presently 2) George of Abbey, co. Limerick, Esq., who will bears date 3 March 1759. The elder son, Godfrey Green, Esq. of Kilerony, co. Kilkenny, b. 1677; m. (marriage articles dated 6 Oct. 1710) Abigail, daughter of Chichester Phillips, Esq. and d. intestate (administration granted to his son John Green 9 May 1737) leaving issue, 1) John of whom presently 2) Godfrey of Dublin, who will is dated 10 May 1765 and proved 23 June 1768 3) William-Nassau 4) Robert 5) Abigail. The eldest son, John Green, Esq. of Greenbille, m. 1737 Frances dau. of Joseph Nicholson, Esq. and widow of - Reynett and by her had issue. 1) John his heir 2) Joseph 3) Thomas, in holy orders 4) Godfrey of Dublin whose will bears date 10 Nov. 1795 and proved 1 May 1798. 5) Catherine m. to Joseph Deane, Esq. 6) Lydia m. to John Hobson. The eldest son, John Green, Esq. of Greenville, whose will is dated 20 April 1803, and proved 23 Nov. 1803, m. 1st Mirauda, dau. of Samuel Boyce, Esq. and widow of Christopher Musgrave, Esq. and had issue, 1) John of whom presently 2) Godfrey m. Margaret dau. and co-heir of Rev. Mr. Poulter, Rector of Dunkett, co. Kilkenny, and had issue, a) Joseph b. 29 Oct. 1808 d. April 1837 b) John b. 1 June 1813; m. 27 Jan. 1848, Charlotte dau. of Samuel Perry, of Manchester and has issue two sons and one dau., John-Joseph b. Oct. 1848; Godfrey b. March 1852; and Charlotte-Letitia. c) Mirauda d) Eliza-Letitia e) Mary-Anne f) Letiita d. May 1858. 3) Margaret. He m. 2ndly Letitia dau. of Nuttal Green and widow of William Green of Kilmanahan and had issue. 1) Joseph of Lakefield m. Jane dau. of William Newport, Esq. and had issue a) John-Simon b) William-Newport c) Joseph d) George-Nuttall-Reginald e) Sarah m. John Waring f) Priscilla. The eldest son, John Green Esq. of Greenville m. Anne only child of John Grogan, Esq. of Johnstown by his wife Anne dau of Chidley Coots, Esq. and had with a dau. Anne-Coots wife of Powel Haughton of Kilmarnock, co. Wexford, Esq. the only son the present John Green of Greenville.
GREEN OF PAVENHAM
Nether Hall
Green Thomas-Abbott, Esq. of Pavenham Bury Co. Bedford, J.P. high sheriff 1818 b. 30 April 1808; m. 27 May 1834, Mary the dau. of John Green Esq. of London and has issue 1) Francis-William 2) Henry-Hylton 3) Robert-Gambler 4) Fanny-Constantia 5) Annie-Margaret.
Lineage~ This family claims descent from the Greens of Greene Norton, co. Northampton. John Green, Esq. of Bedford, son of Jordan Green, Esq. of Bedford, m. Ann, dau. of John Abbott, Esq. of Olney, co. Bucks, and was father of Thomas-Abbott Green, Esq. of Marchment House who m. Elizabeth, dau. of __ Lampert, Esq. of Woburn, Beds and wa father of Henry Green, Esq. of Eyewood, Co. Hereford who in 1805 m. Anne dau. of William Hylton, Esq., descended from the Hyltone of Hylton Castle co. Durham and had 1) Thomas-Abbott now of Pavenham 2) Henry in holy orders, M.A. Vicar of Hambleton m. Margaret dau. of Robert Lindell, Esq. of Furfield, Bedfordshire 3) Francis-Edward, E.I. Co.'s service, Madras. 4) Anne-Eliza m. to William Stuart, Esq. of Prince Edwards Island 5) Rosalind m. to the Rev. John Foster, M.A. Rector of Ferearth, Essex.
Early American Immigration and New World Settlers
Green Settlers in United States in the 17th, 18th, 19th Century
Henry Green, who arrived in Maryland in 1634 [1]
Ellin Green, aged 32, who arrived in New England in 1635 [1]
Percivall Green, aged 32, who landed in America in 1635 [1]
Samuel Green, who arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635 [1]
Olivier Green, who landed in Virginia in 1640 [1]
Jane Green, who landed in Virginia in 1703 [1]
Phillis Green, who arrived in Virginia in 1705 [1]
Lawrence Green, who arrived in Virginia in 1714 [1]
Sarah Green, who landed in Virginia in 1717 [1]
Patrick Green, who landed in Rutland, Massachusetts in 1741 [1]
Joachim Green, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1801 [1]
Sally Green, who landed in New York, NY in 1811 [1]
Mary Green, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1812 [1]
Mathew Green, aged 22, who landed in New York in 1812 [1]
James Chls Green, who landed in New York, NY in 1816 [1]
Green Settlers in Canada in the 18th, 19th Century
Gardiner Greene Esq. of Boston (1753-1832)
Benjamin Green, who arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1749-1752
Ann Green, who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1750
Cuff Green, who landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1778
Mr. Charles Green U.E. who settled in Canada c. 1784 [2]
Mr. John Green U.E. who settled in Marysburgh [Prince Edward County], Ontario c. 1784
Henry Green, who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1810
Reginald Green, aged 31, who landed in Canada in 1815
Rose Green, aged 24, who landed in Canada in 1823
Abigail Green, aged 25, who arrived in Canada in 1823
Anne Green, aged 23, who landed in Canada in 1823
Green Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
James Green, English convict from Middlesex, who was transported aboard the "Almorah" on April 1817, settling in New South Wales, Australia [3]
John Green, English convict from London, who was transported aboard the "Agamemnon" on April 22, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia [4]
John Green, English convict from Middlesex, who was transported aboard the "Agamemnon" on April 22, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia [4]
William Green, English convict from Lancaster, who was transported aboard the "Agamemnon" on April 22, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia [4]
Solomon Green, English convict from Dorset, who was transported aboard the "Albion" on May 17, 1823, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia [5]
Green Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
Henry Green, who landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840
Isaac Green, who landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840
James Green, who landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840
James Green, who landed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1840
Andrew Green, who landed in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1840
Ǣquam servare mentem. To preserve an equal mind.
Nec timeo, nec sperno. I neither fear nor despise.
Semper viridis. Always flourishing .
Virescit vulnere virtus. Her virtue flourishes by her wound.
Virtus semper viridis. Virtue is evor.
Martha Jane Greene
GREEN, .... 1725 [? 1625], by Le Neve Burke’s Armory.
GREENE, Edward, of Welby, Norfolk, gift 10 Aug. 1562. (Harvey’s Grants), Add. MS. 16,940, fo. 61; Grants II., 562.
GREENE,, Edward, of Shenley, Herts, arms and crest 18 July 1571, by Cooke. Harl. ]ISS. 1359, fo. 24, and 1422, fo. 50” ; Add. MS. 14,295, fo. 51” ; Q’s Coll. Oxf. jIS. 146, fo. 467 (coat as Thomas below).
GREENE„ George, of Awkley, Yorks, 22 Oct. 1564, by Flower. Add. ]IS. 14,295, fo. 72” ; called Tho® by Guii., p. 367, and Harl. MS. 6140, fo. 69.
GREENE„ Sir Richard, Knt., clerk of the check to the Hon. band of gent, pensioners, by R. St. George, Clar., not blazoned or tricked. Add. ^IS. 14,295, fo. 58.
GREENE„ (or Greve), Thomas, of Rotherham, Yorks, by letters patent in French 8 March, 13 H. VIII., 152[l-2], by Wriothesley, Gart., and Wall, Norr. Stowe MS. 706, fo. 10 ; see Edward above ; Harl. MS. 1433, fo. 18”.
GRENE, Thomas, of Knapton, Norfolk, gift .... (Harvey’s Grants), Add. MS. 16,940, fo. 52.
GREENE, William, of Essex, gent., descended out of Yorks, confirmed 17 July 1494, 9 Hen. YII., by J. Richmond Clar. Stowe MS. 676, fo. 5 ; Misc. Gen. et Her., 2 S., vol. v., p. 360 (plate) ; Harl. MS. 1507, fo. 6” (copy of grant, Brit. Mus.) ; llarl. MS. 1422, fo. 113” ; Add. ^IS. 14,295, fo. 77 ; Stowe ]IS. 692, fo. 47” ; copy of grant, Q’s Coll. Oxf. MSS. 37, fo. 6, and 38, fo. 16, and 146, fo. 29.
GREENE„ Sir William, of Oxfordshire, confirmed Feb. 1605-6, by Camden, Clar. Harl. MS, 6095, fo. 20 ; Guil., p. 157, adds father of Sir Michael ; Harl. MS. 5887, fo. 22”.
GREENE„ William, of Mitcham, Surrey, fined for Alderm. and Sheriff of London. 6 Jan. 1663-4, by Bysshe, Clar. Harl. MS. 1470, fo. 66 ; (copy of grant, Brit. Mus.) Harl. MS. 1105, fo. 17 ; Bysshe’s Grants, fo. 4, Her. Coll. ; Surrey Arch. Soc., iii., 350 ; Guil., p. 386.
GREEN, Sir Benjamin, Knt., 2nd s. of Richard, of Abingdon, Berks., s. and h. of Richard, also of Abingdon, Berks., and sometime of JIarlborongh, Wilts., 16 Dec. 1709, Vol. V, fol. 395 ; Add. MS. 14,830, fol. 33.
GREEN, Sir Beryn, Knt., late Sheriff, now Alderman, Wanl of Qucenhithe, Loudon, second s. of Richard, s. of Richard, &c., 1709.
GREEN„ John, of Great King's Hill, Bucks., and Oundle, co. Northampton, 13 Dec. 1768, Vol. XI, fol. 338. (Berry.)
GREEN„ John, s. of John, of Bentley, co. York, and Loudon. Escutcheon of pretence, for Fisher, 17 . . ., Vol. XIV, fol. 332.
GREEN„ Maj.-Gen. William (s. of Farbridge Green), of co. Durham, 17 . . ., Vol. XVI, fol. 145.
GREEN, late Kent, . . . ., of Ponlton Laucelyu, co. Chester, 179 . ., Vol. XVIII, fol. 164.
GREEN„ late Kent, . . . ., 182 . ., Vol. XXXVII, fol. 417.
GREEN,, late CoAVAX, Thomas, of London, 17 . . ., Vol. XX, fol. 327.
GREEN, Col , Governor of Grenada, of London, 180 . ., Vol. XXII, fol. 81.
GREEN„ . . . ., of Stanway, co. Essex, 180 . ., Vol. XXIH. fol. 262.
GREEN to WILKINSON, Joseph (minor), of Loudon. Quarterly Arms, 1805, Vol. XXIII, fol. 265.
GREEN„ to Armytage, Joseph, of co. York, 180 . ., Vol. XXIV, fol. 400.
GREEN, . . . ., pat. by Le Neve, 1725 {see Berry).
GREEN„ John (and Elizabeth Gray, only dan. of William [Green], and wife of John Gray), of London ; Ledstone, co. York ; and Linton Abbey, co. Nottingham. Gray Arms, 180 . ., Vol. XXV, fols. 284 and 285.
GREEN TO COTTON, -widow of Green, of Bellaport, Shropsh., and Dallnirv and Etnall Hall, co. Derby, 182 . ., Vol. XXXII, fol. 14.
GREEN, Edward Humphrys, of Hinton Hall, co. Camb., 182 . ., Vol. XXXVI, fol. 145.
GREEN„ Edward Henry, of Hinton Hall, co. Camb., 1885, Vol. LXIII, fol. 75.
GREENE-de Freville, Edward Henry, of Hinton Hall, co. Camb., 188 . ., Vol. LXIII, fol. 153.
GREEN, late Verral, Arauuah, of Ringmcr and Chiddiugley, co. Sussex, 183 . ., Vol. XLI, fol. 87.
GREEN, A., of Launceston, Tasmania. 1890,* Vol. LXV^ fol. 331.
GREEN„ Sir Edward, Bart., of Wakefield, co. York, 1886,* Vol. LXIII, fol. 190.
GREEN„ Everard, of Heralds' Coll., London, 1894,* Vol. LXVIII, fol. 20. (Crisp, IV, p. 45.)
GREEN„ Alderraau Samuel, of Bickley, Bromley, co. Kent, 1897, Vol. LXX, fol. 48.
GREEN-EMMOTT, Walter Egertou John, of Emmott Hall, C'olue, co. Laue., 1897, Vol. LXIX, fol. 323.
Anne Catherine Hoof Green (1720-1775)
Charles Green (1793—1841) astonished the world by flying from Vauxhall Gardens, London, to Weilberg, Germany (480 miles), in just under 18 hours (1836). In all, he made 527 ascents, including one which exceeded 27,000 feet in height.
George Green (1793—1841) is widely regarded as the father of modern physics in Great Britain. He was the first to attempt to apply mathematical formulae to electricity and magnetism. ‘Green’s Theorem’ is named after his work.
Baron William Wyndham Grenville (1759—1834), as Prime Minister, abolished Britain’s overseas slave trade on his last day in office.
American Revolution: politician George Grenville (1712—70) initiated the tax acts which caused the colonies to revolt.
David Green (1886—1973) is better known by his pseudonym, David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman and first Premier of his country.
Edward W. Green committed the first bank robbery in American history, in 1863. He was caught within 24 hours.
Hetty Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916), nicknamed the "Witch of Wall Street", was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Known for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune as a financier when other major financiers were men
American Revolution Veterans
There were over 4,000 men that served in the American Revolution. Below you will find just a few of these men.
Andrew Green enlisted in South Carolina with the rank of Matross
Bradbury Green enlisted in New Hampshire with the rank of Fife
Caleb Green enlisted in New York with the rank of Corporal
Ezra Green enlisted in Connecticut with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant
John Green enlisted in Virginia with the rank of Captain
Obadiah Green enlisted in Connecticut with the rank of Private
Robert Green enlisted in Maryland with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant
Thomas Green enlisted in Massachusetts with the rank of Captain
Civil War Veterans
There were over 15,000 men that served in the Civil War. Below you will find just a few of these men.
Almond S. Green, 8th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Berryman Green, 5th Consolidated Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate, Virginia
Charles W. Green, 35th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Davis Green, 44th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, Confederate, Tennessee
Emanuel Green, 6th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
George Green, 19th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate, Mississippi
Hinton Green, 54th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
James A. Green, Hanleiter's Company, Georgia Light Artillery (Jo Thompson Artillery), Confederate, Georgia
Nicholas F. Green, 81st Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Reuben H. Green, 55th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate, North Carolina
Samuel G. Green, 47th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Militia), Union, Massachusetts
William Green, 16th Independent Battery, ohio Light Artillery, Union, Ohio
Green Coat of Arms Meaning
See glossary for symbol meaning.
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Empowering Generations of Confident Students
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For over 25 years, the College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts has provided a world-class education to students within our community and around the world.
Building on the vision of our late founder Scott MacAulay, the College now enters into a new era of excellence. We have already raised initial funding of $2,700,000 and designed a modern facility that will provide new opportunities for enhanced learning, culture, and community.
The new Performing Arts Education Centre is equipped to facilitate the growing needs of students, faculty, and programming. Each space is carefully designed to invite hard work, inspire dedication and provide opportunity to o er more programming — and to more students — than ever before.
We invite you, our neighbors, to join us in a combined e ort of public, private and corporate partnership to make this project a reality. Let’s work together and empower generations to come. Let’s work together and build the Performing Arts and Education Centre.
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Unforeseen – Friday, July 30th
Unforeseen Pays Tribute to some of the Best Rock ’n Roll Musicians!
On Friday, August 30th, the “Unforeseen” concert experience will land on the main stage at the Celtic Performing Arts Centre at The College of Piping in Summerside. This event will showcase the greatest rock ‘n roll hit songs from yesteryear and will include songs from: Elvis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, CCR, Elton John, Billy Joel and many more.
“Unforeseen” is a high energy, unique and unforgettable experience featuring blind pianist Shelby Murray, who audiences adore. The band is a select group of premiere musicians, who are associated with the acclaimed acts known as Glamour Puss, 1755 and Dutch Mason. The musician’s talents have been endorsed by Gordon Lightfoot and recognized by the iconic rock group, AC/DC & other notable folks.
This is a performance where you will know the words to the songs and will be humming the melodies as you leave the theatre with a smile on your face! The new state-of-the-art Celtic Performing Arts Centre at The College of Piping lends itself well to all types of music and there isn’t a bad seat in the house. If you haven’t been into the new venue, this is the time to visit Summerside and experience this show and get lost in the music!
The Celtic Performing Arts Centre is located at 619 Water Street East in Summerside. Tickets are available through Ticketpro.ca or by calling the Box Office at 902-436-5377. Curtain time is at 7:30pm on August 30th and doors will open at 7pm.
The Lumber Jills – Aug 24th
Celebrated ‘Old Time’ Fiddlers – The Lumber Jills – Coming to Summerside!
Where will you be on Saturday, August 24th, 2019? If you said at The Celtic Performing Arts Centre at The College of Piping in Summerside, then you will be in for a spectacular evening of fiddling and dancing that will have you tapping your toes and clapping your hands in time to the beat of The Lumber Jills!
A celebrated touring cast of ‘Old Time’ Fiddlers, pianists and step dancers from Moncton, NB, The Lumber Jills – Amélie de Arcos, Janelle Melanson, Martha Pitre and Machaela Osowski, honour the vintage style of fiddling that was once very prominent across their home province. Since 2014 they have represented their genre and The New Brunswick Old Time Fiddle Company, under the direction of Stacey Read. Having toured Northern Ireland, The HebCelt Festival in Scotland, Schots and Zilleghem Folk Festivals in Belgium and in June 2019 The National Celtic Festival of Australia; they’ve also appeared closer to home at The Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Lunenburg Folk Festival and Festival of Small Halls.
Showing their technical strokes; the show is a presentation of beloved tunes, discovered melodies, flying bows and feet; and tender sweet waltzes, harkening back to another time. Their debut self-titled album was released in May 2019 and has received a wonderful response and much praise!
The College of Piping’s new state-of-the-art Celtic Performing Arts Centre lends itself well to all types of music and there isn’t a bad seat in the house. If you haven’t attended a show in this amazing venue, now would be the time to visit.
The Lumber Jills will take the stage at 7:30pm and doors to the venue will open at 7pm. The Celtic Performing Arts Centre is located at The College of Piping – 619 Water Street East in Summerside. Tickets can be purchased online at Ticketpro.ca or through the Box Office at 902-436-5377.
Dave Gunning – Sept 13th
Dave Gunning is best defined as a master craftsman. Over the course of 23 years and 11 earlier albums, the Nova Scotian folk singer/songwriter has diligently sharpened his skills, developing into a poetic storyteller and emotionally convincing singer with few equals.
The fruits of those labours are now vividly on display in his latest collection of songs, Up Against The Sky. The relaxed and intimate feel of the record reflects its method of creation. “I focused a lot on tones and the vibe, rather than strategic parts on this one. Many of these tunes were sung and played at the same time, and that prevented me from being able to go back and edit, forcing a little more honesty.”
The sessions in Dave’s home studio were co-produced by Gunning and Jamie Robinson. Gunning contributed the bulk of the instrumentation, including all the bass parts and even drums on every song but one. Musical guests include his close musical comrade J.P. Cormier on fiddle on “Celebrate The Crop,” and Andrew Alcorn on horns on “In The Time I Was Away”, while the Atlantic String Machine added subtle yet atmospheric strings on four tracks.
Along with richly-deserved peer respect, Dave Gunning has earned a shelf full of music industry honours. That tally currently stands at eight East Coast Music Awards and two Canadian Folk Music Awards, plus a 2012 Juno Award nomination in the Roots & Traditional Solo Album of the Year category for his album … a tribute to John Allan Cameron, a compelling homage to another of Dave’s Maritime musical heroes.
His songwriting skill has also been internationally recognized, with tunes scoring victories and high placings in major international songwriting competitions. As a fervent hockey fan, Dave was also thrilled to win the CBC’s hotly-contested Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest in 2014 with “A Game Goin’ On”, a co-write with David Francey. Gunning has also remained in demand as a producer working with many artists.
The College of Piping is thrilled to be welcoming Dave to the stage of the Celtic Performing Arts Centre on September 13th. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketpro.ca or the box office at 902-436-5377. For more information, visit our website www.collegeofpiping.com or our Facebook page – Celtic Performing Arts Centre.
Emergency Animal Response Team Present:
Heather Rankin – September 28
The Emergency Animal Response Team (EART) is proud to present an evening with one of Atlantic Canada’s most well-known and favourite entertainers, multiple Juno and ECMA award winner Heather Rankin. Heather will be performing a benefit concert for us on September 28th, 2019 in the Celtic Performing Arts Centre at The College of Piping. Along with the concert, there will be a Silent Auction and raffles, including a draw for 2 round trip tickets to any regular WestJet destination. Proceeds from the evening will go towards the operation of EART’s emergency and disaster animal rescue and shelter operations across the Maritimes. Come out and enjoy a fantastic evening of entertainment and meet the volunteers behind this amazing organization. For more information, visit their website: www.emergencyanimalresponseteam.com or like them on Facebook at Emergency Animal Response Team.
Highland Storm – Summer 2019
Highland Storm courtesy of Lee Dodson, Skygate Videography Inc.
This exhilarating evening of Celtic music and dance will captivate audiences with a stunning display of Highland and step dancers and breathtaking sounds of pipes and drums. Combined with haunting melodies of beautiful traditional songs and the consuming fire of the fiddle, you WILL be moved by this authentic experience. Prepare to sit tight and hold on. There’s a Storm coming!
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Doris Lee – Fisherman’s Wife
© Estate of Doris Lee. Photograph by R. H. Hensleigh and Tim Thayer.
Fisherman's Wife, 1945
Born 1905, Aledo, lllinois; died 1983, Clearwater, Florida
22 ½ x 28 ½ inches
Gift of George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth through The Cranbrook Foundation
CAM 1945.27
Doris Lee was a popular American artist from the 1930s to the 1950s. Although she is sometimes considered a folk artist because of her seemingly naive style, Lee studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute, in Paris with various artists—including Cubist André Lhote—and at the California School of Fine Arts. Early in her career, her paintings were Regionalist in style and subject but in the 1940s her style shifted to flattened, simplified forms.
Fisherman’s Wife appears deceptively simple at first glance, but closer scrutiny reveals a refined use of shape and pattern with bright, harmonious colors. The smiling wife on her porch welcomes the viewer, as well as her husband, into the painting with its lush garden and whimsical animals. Lee painted Fisherman’s Wife in Michigan, probably while a visiting artist at Michigan State College (now University). It reflects her memories of Key West, Florida, where she had a winter studio.
Mary Beth Kreiner
Category(s): Paintings
Decade(s): 1940s
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40,000 people join the Cuba 50 celebrations
Cuba50 presented a real feast of celebration. All styles of Cuban music and dance were on offer, with dance classes as well: salsa, son, rumba, jazz, charanga, trova and timba – London danced to Cuban rhythms for a whole week.
Special guest at the Barbican events was Dr Aleida Guevara who spoke to almost 2000 concert goers each night. Aleida thanked the UK for hosting the celebrations of 50 years of the Cuban Revolution. To huge cheers from the ecstatic crowds Aleida looked forward to the next 50 years of the Cuban Revolution. She spoke of her father Che Guevara and how he saw Culture as integral to the development of human kind.
CSC Director Rob Miller, introduced the concerts calling the Cuban people ‘proud and determined in the face of aggression'. On the breadth of Cuban talent appearing in the Cuba50 festival he said that ‘Cuba was overflowing with artistic talent which was nurtured by Cuba from the young to the old'.
Throughout both days the Barbican was decked out in Cuban flags and Cuba50 logos were beamed around the venue. The foyers thronged with thousands of revellers enjoying the free stage music and dance as well as dance and percussion classes. There were even Havana Club workshops showing how to make the perfect Cuban cocktail.
The Trade Unions were well represented and Dave Prentis, Unison General Secretary, spoke at one of a number of special receptions held through the weekend‘I bring greetings to the Cuban people for the 50th anniversary of their Revolution not only on behalf of Unison but on behalf of the whole Trade Union movement'.
Cuba Solidarity stalls did a roaring trade in 50th anniversary T Shirts, Cuban flags, books and CDs and thousands of specially produced Cuba50 festival programmes and free CD were sold. Throughout the weekend the Barbican played music from the new CSC anniversary CD ‘Cuba – 50 years of revolutionary rhythms'.
Cuba50 is the biggest celebration of 50 years of the Revolution outside Cuba itself. It is made up of over 200 events large and small across the UK in 2009 from music to visual arts, dance, poetry, discussion, sports, film and performance. Be inspired and celebrate the diversity and inventiveness of Cuban culture at events around the UK throughout this year. There is something for everyone. http://www.cuba50.org
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About FEI
How to Live Your Mission Statement
FEI Daily | 05/20/2019
by Olivia Berkman
These are the four lessons the Kielburger brothers have learned from the biggest names in business.
Co-founder of the WE Organization Craig Kielburger
“When it comes to hiring the best talent, recruiting them to join your company, retaining them and engaging them, make sure that you are waving a flag of what you care about,” says Craig Kielburger.
Millennials and Gen Z-ers joining the workforce expect the leaders of their organizations to honor their mission statements and for those statements to focus on social impact. Though they may be easy to forget as we go through our days of meetings, emails, and crises, a strong mission statement can serve as an important reminder to stay inspired and think about the big picture.
At FEI’s 2019 Financial Leadership Summit, New York Times Best-Selling Author and Co-founder of the WE Organization Craig Kielburger shared the lessons he and his brother Marc have learned from leaders like Oprah Winfrey, Desmond Tutu, and Richard Branson that will inspire you to revisit your mission statement and make a difference at your own organization.
Always know what your customers want
The new generations of employees are seeking companies and mentors who share their passion for making a difference. Understanding this has been one of billionaire Richard Branson’s secrets to success. Branson explained to Kielburger that the key to staying current is knowing what your customers and, equally importantly, employees want most. “It’s that purpose in their lives, it’s the brands they wear, the items they purchase, and the jobs they go to.”
Measure the impact
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu once told Kielburger, “The newspaper, that’s God’s to-do list, delivered right to your front door every morning.” At the time, Kielburger was actively avoiding the news. Tutu’s message served as a reminder to Kielburger that, though the challenges we face individually, as an organization, and even as a world can feel overwhelming, we can make the choice to reinterpret problems as opportunities.
After giving away nearly a billion dollars, philanthropist and eBay founder Jeff Skoll realized that there were very few ways for him to measure the impact of his efforts. Skoll’s solution was to create a film company, producing movies like Green Book, The Help, and Lincoln, to broaden his reach, inspire and engage, and measure the impact of his spending.
Kielburger described a time that he approached Skoll with a problem, and “honestly, just hoped he would write a check and solve the problem.” But, like Desmond Tutu, Skoll explained to Kielburger, “Where you see a problem, you should see an asset.”
Looking at the problem as an opportunity led Kielburger to wonder, “Why is it that, in the for-profit world, there’s an amazing amount of rigor: the penny-pinching, the tracking of every single dollar. But in the non-profit world, we still operate with this belief that you drop a coin in a cup and it goes somewhere somehow to help some person at some point?” As a result, the Kielburgers began looking at different accounting systems and teamed up with Microsoft to build an innovative inventory management system.
“At the end of the day, what you do is actually so incredibly important,” Kielburger told the audience. “There’s a lot of inspiration, there are a lot fancy speeches, there are a lot of moments on Oprah where people high-five and say ‘let’s build schools!’ But, at the end of the day, it’s about the measurements.”
Give back as a team
Kielburger encourages leaders to inject their organization’s mission into team building activities. “We live in an era where companies try to build team spirit by having one of those fancy consultants come in and maybe you fall and catch each other.” Kielburger urged the audience to save their money. “Instead, have them lift a roof together. Give back in a really inspiring way as a team. That builds team spirit. That gets people tweeting like crazy and hashtagging and putting it up on LinkedIn and saying ‘this is a great place where I want to work.’”
Data is power
Kielburger and his brother began working with Oprah Winfrey as teenagers. They quickly learned that Winfrey was an extraordinarily efficient and data-driven CEO. “She challenged us, asking for a complete census of the entire village where we just built a school and wanted to know how many kids were not in school. And then, she said ‘I want you to fix it.’”
As all senior-level financial executives know, accurate data is key to performing the calculations necessary to carry out your mission statement.
Kielburger encounters countless young people looking to make a difference. Many, he says, have goals like Doctors Without Borders. “It really should be called logistics without borders,” he says. “Where are the financial analysts without borders? Where are the actuaries without borders? I realize it doesn’t roll off the tongue as well but, in reality, those are the people. The financial controllers are the quiet heroes who enable all we do around the world.”
“If someone wants to change the world,” he says, “go get a business degree. Go get a finance degree. Go get an accounting degree. Because if you want to change the world, that’s how you actually do it.”
To attract and retain the next generation of employees and to feel more fulfilled in your role, revisit your organization’s mission statement. If the mission statement isn’t inspiring, doesn’t reflect the organization’s core values, or doesn’t serve the greater good, consider suggesting a re-brand. Kielburger told the audience, “It’s about inspiring employees, not asking them to hang their values like their coats on the side at the office but instead telling them ‘this is a great place to make a difference.’”
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Audi Car Dealers Described as sporty, progressive and sophisticated, the Audi A3 is a luxury hatchback with premium sound system offerings and an array of top notch options that place it well ahead of lesser priced competitors. The Audi A3 was also named the 2008 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and has been awarded a Ten Best Engines award for the third consecutive year. Models Audi A3 2.0 T, Audi A3 3.2 S line Back to Top Audi A4 S4 RS 4 A focused combination of luxury and sport praised for nimble handling and fantastic performance, the Audi A4 is one of the leading cars in its class. All A4 and S4 models are outfitted with 6 speed manual, multitronic or Tiptronic automatic transmission RS 4 models feature 6 speed only. Available as a sedan, the hatchback style Avant or as the convertible cabriolet, these models are also celebrated for their versatility. Models Audi A4 2.0 T, Audi A4 3.2, Audi S4 4.2, Audi RS 4 4.2 Back to Top Audi A5 S5 The Audi A5, a sleek mid size coup, is popular for its high end performance and spacious interior. The A5 boasts 265 horsepower at 6500 rpm, a V6 gasoline direct injection, front mounted, longitudinal engine and is available as either Tiptronic or 6 speed. The S5 is one step above the A5 with a V8 engine and 354 horsepower at 6800 rpm. Models Audi A5 3.2, Audi S5 4.2 Back to Top Audi A6 With 255 hp and 243 lb ft of peak torque, the 3.2 V6 with FSI Direct Injection found in the A6 sedan is a model of effective, yet efficient power. Almost entirely constructed of aluminum, the extremely compact and remarkably light 4.2 V8 packs quite a punch 335 hp and 310 lb ft of peak torque. Back to Top Audi A8 S8 A muscular, award winning 4.2 V8 engine, quattro all wheel drive, and a six speed Tiptronic automatic are just the beginning. Comparable to any car in the full size luxury sedan class, the Audi A8 is an impressive automobile that offers tenacious grip with legendary quattro all wheel drive, impeccable road manners, and 0 60 mph 0 100 km h in less than six seconds. Models Audi A8, Audi A8L W12, Audi S8 Sedan Back to Top Audi R8 A double winner at the 2008 New York Auto Show, the Audi R8 is a sleek and sexy masterpiece that takes no prisoners. Excellent balance, refinement and control blend seamlessly with the mid mounted 420 horsepower V8 engine and aluminum construction to offer astonishing precision. Back to Top Audi TT Audi TT Coupe and Roadster are highly recommended for anyone interested in the perfect combination of performance, sophistication and feel of a European sports car. The fully redesigned models feature distinctive design, available all wheel drive, manual transmission and extensive use of aluminum in the body for reduced curb weight. Models Audi TT 2.0 T, Audi TT 2.0 T Premium, Audi TT 3.2 Back to Top Audi Q5 Building on the foundation of the Audi Q7, the stylish Audi Q5 blends the multi purpose performance of an SUV with versatile options and the leisurely interior style of a sports sedan. Quattro all wheel drive, a 3.2 FSI engine and agile running gear make this model ideal for both on and off road driving. Back to Top Audi Q7 Offering a seamless blend of refined styling, power and advanced technology, the Audi Q7 is a remarkable vehicle that boasts the best qualities of an SUV and unforgettable Audi performance, safety, design, and versatility. Audi AQ 7 models are equipped with FSI fuel injection technology, Tiptronic automatic transmission and quattro all wheel drive. Models Audi Q7 3.6, Audi Q7 3.6 Premium, Q7 4.2 Premium
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The TSA: A Perfect Symbol of the Federal Government’s Waste and Incompetence
Posted in Big Government, Government stupidity, TSA, Waste, tagged Big Government, Government stupidity, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, Waste on November 27, 2015| 10 Comments »
The Transportation Security Administration has become infamous over the years for things that it doesn’t allow on planes.
Consider these examples of the Keystone Cops in action.
o Confiscating a plastic hammer from a mentally retarded man.
o Detaining a woman for carrying breast milk.
o Hassling a woman for the unexplained red flag of having sequentially numbered checks.
o Demanding that a handicapped 4-year old boy walk through a metal detector without his leg braces.
o Putting an 8-year old cub scout on the no-fly list.
o Stopping a teenager from flying because her purse had an image of a gun.
o Seizing raygun belt buckles and Kitty Cat keychains.
Though, to be fair, other governments are similarly brainless.
I was quite amused by this bit of news from Ireland.
When passing through security at the airport, a Minion fart gun…was seized from a young toddler and taken away. The security officers claimed it was a ‘threat’ and took the toy gun away from the child.
Just in case you think a “fart gun” is too realistic and that a potential terrorist might grab it from the child and use it to take over the plane, here’s a picture to put your mind at ease.
And let’s not forget that airport bureaucrats all over the planet are on guard against criminal toiletries. I’ve had obviously dangerous toothpaste and deodorant confiscated not only in the United States, but also at airports in seemingly sensible places such as Australia and Cayman.
But let’s be fair. The TSA gets a lot of attention for things it doesn’t allow on planes, so perhaps it is time to give the bureaucrats some attention for the things it does allow.
Unfortunately, as reported by Politico, the TSA apparently is better at blocking fake weapons rather than real weapons.
…news that the Transportation Security Administration failed to detect 67 of 70 mock weapons in a secret test shook the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees it, and led to renewed calls for the TSA to clean up its act. …Rep. John Mica, a Florida Republican who used to chair the transportation committee, said the 95 percent failure rate is evidence of a sweeping conceptual failure. …“They’re spending billions of dollars on a huge screening bureaucracy,” he added. …the TSA also cannot publicly point to many significant attacks thwarted at airport gates, leading experts to insist that its protocols should be considered largely ineffective. Rafi Sela, president of international transportation security consultancy AR Challenges, said the agency’s nearly $8 billion budget is largely being misspent on a misguided model.
Great, we’re flushing $8 billion down the toilet on a system that does a bad job based on a bad methodology.
Heck, the bureaucrats can’t even stop the wrong people from getting through security.
A man with a stolen boarding pass got through airport security in Salt Lake City and checked in at a gate for a flight to California… Salata, who is on the sex offender registry in Utah, grabbed a boarding pass that a woman accidently left at a check-in kiosk and used it to get through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, said Craig Vargo, chief of airport police.
He was only stopped because the woman obtained another boarding pass.
Salata was detained when the woman who had left the pass checked in using a replacement ticket that had been uploaded to her phone.
The TSA tried to rationalize this goof by stating that at least he wasn’t able to smuggle any guns or bombs past security.
TSA spokeswoman Lori Dankers said an agent made a mistake in identifying Salata, but the man was properly screened to determine if he was carrying anything dangerous.
Gee, how reassuring.
Now that we’ve mocked the TSA for stopping harmless items and allowing potentially dangerous items (or people), let’s contemplate some actual solutions.
In previous columns, I’ve argued that it’s time to put the private sector in charge, citing the good work of Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz. And as Steve Chapman has explained, there were lots of benefits to the pre-TSA system.
Let’s now add to that list.
We’ll start with some passages from Jeff Jacoby’s column in the Boston Globe.
He starts by beating up on the TSA.
Fourteen years after the creation of the TSA, there is still no indication that the agency has ever caught a terrorist, or foiled a 9/11-type plot in the offing. Conversely, there are reams of reports documenting the inability of TSA screeners to spot hidden guns, knives, bomb components, and other dangerous contraband as they pass through airport checkpoints. It’s doubtful that anyone is still capable of being surprised by a fresh confirmation of the TSA’s incompetence… The Transportation Security Administration, which annually costs taxpayers more than $7 billion, should never have been created. The responsibility for airport security should never have been federalized, let alone entrusted to a bloated, inflexible workforce.
He then points out that there’s a better approach.
The airlines themselves should bear the chief responsibility for protecting planes and passengers at airports. After all, they have powerful financial incentives to ensure that flights are free of danger, while at the same time minimizing the indignities to which customers are subjected. Their bottom line would be at stake. The TSA feels no such spur. Effective defense against airline terrorism doesn’t require patting down grandmothers or confiscating eyedrops. It requires sophisticated counterterror intelligence (which is what stopped the 2006 liquid bomb plot), and it calls for passengers to be vigilant (which is what ultimately foiled the underwear and shoe bombers). The TSA supplies neither.
A column by Adam Summers in the Orange County Register reaches the same conclusion.
He starts with the indictment of the current system.
TSA’s performance has steadily declined. A 2002 USA Today report revealed that undercover agents got bombs and weapons through security about a quarter of the time. By 2007, the failure rate had increased to 75 percent. Since then, the TSA has increased the number of screeners from 30,000 to 46,000 and spent $550 million on new screening equipment and agent training, yet somehow it continues to get worse. …The TSA has also perpetuated – and even expanded – failed and unproven programs, such as the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, which seeks to weed out evildoers by looking for certain behavioral cues among passengers. The GAO…recommended shuttering the program. Nonetheless, the agency has spent roughly $1 billion on SPOT since 2007 and is defiantly moving forward to “enhance” the program.
And then points to a sensible solution.
The TSA has proven to be abusive, unaccountable and totally ineffective. To restore some sense of competency and accountability, the agency should simply be abolished, and security should be made the responsibility of private airlines and airports, which have a strong incentive to prevent their customers from being killed. Competition among private providers would also lead to adoption of the most efficient and effective security measures while still respecting travelers’ rights.
Wow, what a shocking conclusion. The private sector is more competent than the government. Knock me over with a feather!
Let’s close with some humor (though the joke is on us). The column by Adam Summers mentioned TSA’s SPOT program, which even the Government Accountability Office has recognized as a wasteful failure.
Well, the folks at Reason have a very amusing video on the characteristics that might lead SPOT bureaucrats to identify you as a potential terrorist.
P.S. Check out this amazing picto-graph if you want more information about the failures of the TSA.
P.P.S. For more TSA humor, see this, this, this, this, this, and this.
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Sible Hedingham, Halstead, Essex (For Sale) Guide Price £800,000
Stunning former 16th century Grade II listed Coaching Inn offering impeccably presented accommodation combining period detailing with modern finishes. Partly walled South and West facing gardens, substantial outbuilding and ample parking. In all about 0.5 acres sts.
Contact David Burr Castle Hedingham on 01787 463404 or email hedingham@davidburr.co.uk
Impressive former Coaching Inn
Impeccably presented throughout
Stunning En Masse designer kitchen with Gaggenau, Miele and Liebherr appliances
Delightful period detailing and modern finishes throughout
Four reception rooms
Master suite, four further bedrooms and two further bathrooms
Delightful partly walled South & West facing grounds
Annexe potential subject to planning
Substantial detached outbuilding
In all about 0.5 acres subject to survey
Lamb House is a simply outstanding Grade II listed village property believed to have originally been a 16th Century coaching inn. The property has been exceptionally well cared for by the current owners and this is clearly evident upon any visit. It provides stunning family accommodation of a versatile nature on the periphery of this well sought after North Essex village.
The property is entered via an attractive panelled and glazed door leading a split level entrance hall which has oak parquet flooring. From here all the principal areas of the house can be accessed. The drawing room is situated to the Southerly aspect of the house and is a delightful room with a dual aspect having a striking red brick fireplace with oak lintel above and a wood burner set upon a mandarin stone hearth. The room benefits from a heavily timbered ceiling, oak parquet flooring and French doors leading to a South and West facing terrace making it ideal for large scale family entertaining.
The charming dining room is located in the centre of the property and has attractive oak frame work on display to the ceilings, oak parquet flooring and a substantial inglenook fireplace with mandarin stone hearth. This room has a triple aspect to the front elevation, two of which are a bay style and gives views toward the Colne Valley.
The exceptionally well appointed kitchen/breakfast room forms the heart of the house having oak parquet flooring throughout and has been designed in a modern style which blends perfectly with the period features. The units are made and designed by 'En Masse' with dark work surfaces, 'Gaggenau' cooking appliances with an induction hob set within the impressive and substantial island unit which has a breakfast bar. There is an integrated 'Liebherr' fridge/freezer and 'Miele' dishwasher. An attractive minimalist fireplace with inset wood burning stove on a mandarin stone plinth creates a focal point for the snug area and an impressive pantry with marble cold shelf and adjacent shelving complete the kitchen.
A well appointed cloakroom is accessed via an oak ledge and board door and has a rectangular wash hand basin with storage unit beneath, matching w.c and solid oak flooring. A square arch leads to a useful cloaks area and boot storage.
A games room boasts red brick flooring, beams to the walls and ceiling and benefits from a large glazed opening with a door on the Southerly aspect directly accessing the entertaining terrace.
There are a second set of stairs rising to the first floor from this room. Adjacent to this is a large and well appointed utility room with a range of floor standing units with a sink, brick flooring and a door leads to a plant room.
The accommodation on the first floor is equally delightful and charming with the principal bedroom situated to the Southerly elevation of the property. This stunning room has a dual aspect enabling it to take advantage of the views to the grounds and beyond. A solid oak door leads to a lavishly appointed en-suite shower room with tiled floor and an oak vanity unit with sink above. An etched glass door leads to an adjoining cloakroom.
Stairs rise from the principal suite to the second floor whcih provides extensive dressing and storage space.
There are four further bedrooms on the first floor which are accessed via an attractive split level landing displaying fine period features throughout and benefiting from ample storage.
There is a lavishly appointed family bathroom with heavy oak framing, solid oak flooring, an oval free standing bath on a raised plinth, a rectangular wash hand basin and w.c. To the Westerly elevation of the property is a fully tiled shower room with Velux roof light and matching suite.
There is potentially a sixth bedroom which is currently used as a study. Such is the arrangement of the house that it could readily provide annexe accommodation if required as one of the bedrooms and shower rooms are accessed by a separate staircase giving access to the games room which could be used as a reception room and the utility room would provide a kitchen.
It would be fair to say that Lamb House is a stunning village property offering accommodation that combines huge depth of character and versatility in a prominent location on the periphery of this well served North Essex village within walking distance of the amenities.
The property is approached via a gravel drive and five bar gate leading to an extensive area of parking which is flanked by well stocked raised sleeper beds adjacent to which is a stable block/workshop with slate roof and boarded elevations with a post and rail compound.
The South and West facing rear gardens are an absolute delight being partly walled on the North and Westerly elevation giving a high degree of privacy and seclusion.
There is an impressive 'Gabriel Ash' greenhouse which is situated against the South facing garden wall.
A charming winding brick path is bordered by neatly manicured lawns which access an extensive split level paved entertaining terrace which benefits from a South and Westerly aspect enabling it to take advantage of the all day sun. This is flanked by densely stocked herbaceous borders boasting a variety of shrubs and perennials providing year round colour and interest.
A dwarf mellow red brick wall leads to a further expanse of lawn which is screened by mature hedging, densely stocked herbaceous borders and a large eucalyptus tree providing a focal point. There are a variety of fruit trees and an ornamental pond adding further interest.
The grounds at Lamb House are delightful and a credit to the owners. There is further gated access that leads to Swan Street if required and there was planning permission in place to erect a garage and a new front wall but this has now lapsed. In all about 0.5 acres sts.
DRAWING ROOM 21' 5" x 14' 9" (6.55m x 4.50m)
DINING ROOM 14' 9" x 14' 7" (4.50m x 4.45m)
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 26' 6" x 9' 10" (8.10m x 3.00m)
UTILITY ROOM 16' 8" x 8' 10" (5.10m x 2.70m)
PANTRY 9' 6" x 9' 0" (2.90m x 2.75m)
PLANT ROOM 4' 11" x 4' 3" (1.50m x 1.30m)
GAMES ROOM 16' 8" x 10' 9" (5.10m x 3.30m)
CLOAKROOM 11' 5" x 3' 11" (3.50m x 1.20m)
PRINICPAL SUITE 15' 1" x 14' 9" (4.60m x 4.50m)
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM 10' 4" x 5' 8" (3.15m x 1.75m)
CLOAKROOM 5' 8" x 2' 9" (1.75m x 0.85m)
BEDROOM 2 13' 5" x 9' 10" (4.10m x 3.00m)
BEDROOM 3 11' 1" x 10' 9" (3.40m x 3.30m)
STUDY/BEDROOM 6 10' 9" x 7' 4" (3.30m x 2.25m)
FAMILY BATHROOM 10' 9" x 9' 6" (3.30m x 2.90m)
FAMILY SHOWER ROOM 8' 2" x 5' 8" (2.50m x 1.75m)
DRESSING ROOM 15' 8" x 8' 6" (4.80m x 2.60m)
STABLE 13' 1" x 11' 1" (4.00m x 3.40m)
WORKSHOP/STORE 13' 1" x 10' 5" (4.00m x 3.20m)
TACK ROOM/STORE 13' 1" x 6' 6" (4.00m x 2.00m)
Contact David Burr Castle Hedingham
Phone us on 01787 463404 or email hedingham@davidburr.co.uk
Tendring, Essex
Stour Street, Cavendish
Newmans Green, Sudbury, Suffolk
Other properties for sale by David Burr Castle Hedingham
A spectacular barn conversion offering unrivalled living space with huge versatility to suit a wide range of lifestyles. Impressive range of outbuildings to include a detached annexe, triple car port, double garage, party barn and workshop. Delightful gardens with stunning farmland views. In all about 1.25 acres(sts).
An outstanding former rectory displaying superb 'Arts & Crafts' features set within beautifully manicured and landscaped formal gardens offering impeccably presented accommodation throughout. Substantial detached studio/office building with adjoining cart lodge. In all about 1.5 acres sts. No onward chain.
Gestingthorpe, Halstead, Essex
A substantial detached house in a popular village enjoying a secluded location offering exceptionally versatile family accommodation with stylish and modern finishes throughout. Extensive landscaped grounds, ample parking and double garage.
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Deafdigest » Mid-Week
DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – March 15, 2019
— deaf person involved with property management
DeafDigest editor met a deaf person who owns
a property management company, and operates
it on a full time 24/7 basis. Been in that
business for years, providing the family
with comfortable income. If someone says
a deaf person cannot own a property
management company, then that person is wrong!
— the CI and the deaf community leader
A leader of a deaf community decided to go for a
CI as he felt it would help him to hear better.
As a result, he was ostracized by the deaf community
despite his popularity and his effectiveness as
a leader. What happened? It created a copycat
“me, too” CI’s among others in the Deaf
Community. And slowly, the leader won back his
popularity and respect!
— Elvis Presley required a 3-way interpreting
World famous rocker Elvis Presley died in 1977.
There was a story of an Elvis Presley requiring
a three-way interpreting in a court session,
something to do with him getting into a fight
at a shop. He seemed to be deaf but functioned
as a hearing person, yet still requiring
3-way interpreting. It was not the legendary
Elvis but a young Irishman with the same name.
The judge ordered the case to go to trial.
Deaf jobs – latest update
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
03/10/19 Blue and Gold editions & sub options at:
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Porsche Everyday Dedeporsches Blog
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Tag Archives: Patrick Dempsey
Porsche 919 Hybrid and 911 RSR are coming to the “ring” FIA World Endurance Championship WEC, Nürburgring Test Drives
Press Release 21/07/2015
Stuttgart. On Monday and Tuesday next week (27-28 July) Porsche will prepare for the fourth round of the FIA World Championship (WEC). Following its victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Porsche 919 Hybrid will be driven for the first time on the Nürburgring. In action on the renowned German racetrack will be one of the innovative prototypes which, by combining a two-litre four-cylinder turbocharged engine with brake and exhaust heat recovery systems recuperations, produces a combined power of about 1000bhp.
On Monday Timo Bernhard (34, Germany) and Romain Dumas (37, France) will share the testing duties at the wheel of the Le Mans prototype, for Tuesday Dumas and Marc Lieb (35, Germany) are scheduled to be in the car. The main focus of the test sessions is on preparations for the six-hour race at the Nürburgring on 30 August, as well as generally for the second half of the season with races in Austin (USA), Fuji (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Sakhir (Bahrain).
The Nürburgring-based Porsche Team Manthey will also use the testing opportunity at the “ring”. The team will test the GTE-Pro-class 911 RSR. Furthermore the Dempsey Proton Racing team, with race driver and actor Patrick Dempsey (49, USA) at the wheel, will also be testing the RSR. In Le Mans Dempsey, alongside Porsche factory driver Patrick Long (33, USA) and Marco Seefried (39, Germany), finished the race in second place in the GTE-AM class, which was the best result of his career so far.
The test days at the Nürburgring, which will also be attended by many other WEC teams apart from Porsche, are of a lot of interest for fans as well as journalists.
On both days spectators will be allowed free access to the T3 grandstand. On Tuesday members of the press are welcome in the paddock, but must apply in advance for accreditation. Patrick Dempsey, Timo Bernhard and Andreas Seidl, Director Race Operations LMP1 for Porsche, will take part in the WEC press conference on Tuesday, at 12:00 in the business lounge (segment 1) next to the grandstand.
“After the overwhelming one-two result in Le Mans we are very exited to finally be able to present the Porsche 919 on the racetrack in front or our home fans,” explained Fritz Enzinger, Head of Department, LMP1. “Our main goal obviously will be to thoroughly prepare for the six-hour race at the Nürburgring. This season’s last European round once more promises a fascinating race with the likelihood of a very close finish. From now on we are concentrating on winning the world championship and we are doing this thanks to a lot of support from our fans.”
Communication Porsche AG
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Posted by dedeporsche on July 21, 2015 in 24 Hours of Le Mans, 911 RSR, Dempsey Racing-Proton, DIRECTOR RACE OPERATIONS LMP1 FOR PORSCHE, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, LMP1, Manthey Porsche, Marc Lieb, Motorsport in Germany, Nurburgring, Patrick Dempsey, Porsche 919 Hybrid, Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard, WEC
Tags: 919 Hybrid, Auto racing, Head of Porsche Motorsport, LMP1, Manthey Porsche, Marc Lieb, Motorsport in Germany, Nurburgring, Patrick Dempsey, Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard
Porsche opens pop-up store with Sound Lab in New York hot spot
Unique brand experience with brand stories, virtual test drive and design competition
Unusual presentation in the sound lab: Visitors can take a virtual ride and become acquainted with the (real!) icon 911 in the city, in the mountains or on the racetrack.
Stuttgart/New York. With the theme “The Sound of Porsche: Stories of the Brand” Porsche has created a completely new, interactive brand experience with its first stop in New York City for three weeks. The sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart has opened an exclusive pop-up store in the style of a modern music store in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District and invites visitors to discover Porsche and its fascinating sports cars in various ways. The store opening was celebrated on 15 September 2014 – moderated by fashion icon Angela Simmons and with guests including Porsche works drivers Brendon Hartley and Patrick Long, as well as actor and racing driver Patrick Dempsey, who has been a firm part of the Porsche motorsport family since 2013 with his team Dempsey Racing.
The Sound of Porsche: The German sports car manufacturer has created a completely new interactive brand experience with an exclusive temporary pop-up store in the style of a modern music store in New York’s trendy Meatpacking District.
“The new marketing format enables us to connect with young and young-at-heart visitors in an appealing way. We are helping these people to better understand the brand through unusual stories”, says Bernhard Maier, Member of the Executive Board for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG, explaining the idea behind this temporary happening.
This interactive brand experience enables visitors to explore the technical top performance and stylish design of Porsche in depth. Bernhard Maier: “It is an innovative way of telling and experiencing the story of our
Stories of the Brand: Downtown Manhattan visitors of the music store can discover the story of the Porsche brand and its fascinating sports cars in various ways.
Detlev von Platen, CEO of Porsche North America, is also convinced by the unusual way of presenting the brand: “The pop-up store supplements existing marketing activities in a new way. It will further increase awareness for our brand in close cooperation with the local Porsche centres.”
Communications space: in the design corner friends of the brand can sketch what they associate with the Sound of Porsche. The works of art can be uploaded to social networks via #soundofporsche.
The event space is divided into three areas and comprises a Sound Lab, Media Stations and a Design Corner. The Sound Lab is all about the cult car Porsche 911*. The 911 is a prime example of design, innovation, quality and perfection, and the film “From Draft to Drift – The Porsche 911” conveys this particularly clearly to visitors.
In addition, visitors can take a virtual ride and become acquainted with the 911 through sound and visualisation. They can choose between the sound backdrop of a city, a rural setting in a drive through the mountains or a race on the Nürburgring racetrack.
The Media Stations allow visitors to experience 16 specially produced stories all about the brand. The visual highlights include the contributions “Electrifying Performance” and “One of Us” with Porsche racing drivers Mark Webber and Patrick Dempsey.
For young and young-at-heart fans:
The media stations allow 16 specially produced stories all about Porsche; participants among others are actor and racing driver Patrick Dempsey (left) as well as Guy Newmark – The Million-Mile Porsche 356 Daily Driver.
Further contributions of interest to Porsche enthusiasts include “Porsche Exclusive – The Most Personal Car” and “A Porsche goes to Hollywood” with cartoon film star Sally Carrera.
First stop New York (until October 5): The Sound of Porsche will later also be shown in London and Shanghai.
Last but not least the Design Corner features a communications space where visitors can sketch what they associate with the Sound of Porsche. The works of art can be uploaded to social networks via #soundofporsche. The visitor with the best design will win a trip to Stuttgart.
Porsche is cooperating with two partners for the Sound of Porsche. The Sound Lab is equipped by Bose and the entire furnishings are supplied by Walter Knoll.
The Sound of Porsche (446 West 14th Street) is open to the general public every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time from 16 September to 5 October. New York is the first stop for The Sound of Porsche. The brand presentation will later also be shown in London and Shanghai.
* Porsche model range 911: combined fuel consumption 12.4 – 8.2 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 289 – 194 g/km; efficiency class: G, F
Posted by dedeporsche on October 21, 2014 in Dempsey Racing, Guy Newmark - The Million-Mile Porsche 356 Daily Driver, Patrick Dempsey, Porsche Design, Porsche Design of New York, Porsche Motorsport, The Sound of Porsche
Tags: Autos & Vehicles, Guy Newmark - The Million-Mile Porsche 356 Daily Driver, Patrick Dempsey, Porsche, Porsche Motorsport, The Sound of Porsche
Porsche keen to repeat last year’s GT victory, Sports Car World Championship WEC, rd 3, Le Mans 24 Hours/France
Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche Team Manthey: Marco Holzer, Frederic Makowiecki, Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche Team Manthey: Patrick Pilet, Joerg Bergmeister, Nick Tandy
Stuttgart. It was a debut made to order: At its first ever outing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year, the Porsche 911 RSR brought home a double victory. At the 82nd edition of the world’s most famous long distance race, contested on the Circuit des 24 Heures on 14/15 June, Porsche Team Manthey will again field a pair of 911 RSR in the GTE-Pro class. Taking up the challenge alongside the factory squad, Porsche customer teams from Europe and America again contest the GTE-Am class, which Porsche also won last year. The classic event in provincial France, where Porsche is chronicled as the most successful manufacturer with 16 overall victories, is regarded as the highlight of the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC).
First contested in 1923, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the toughest automobile race in the world and represents the greatest challenge motorsport has to offer. What makes this classic so unique is also the 13.65 kilometre “Circuit des 24 Heures”, one of the oldest and fastest race tracks in the world with 38 corners and the legendary five-kilometre long Mulsanne straight. Almost 75 percent of a lap is driven at full throttle.
Porsche drivers
Double points are awarded for round three of the Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC at Le Mans. Tackling the GTE-Pro class in the number 91 Porsche 911 RSR are Porsche factory pilots Joerg Bergmeister (Germany), Patrick Pilet (France) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain). Sharing the #92 cockpit are their works driver colleagues Marco Holzer (Germany), Frédéric Makowiecki (France) and last year’s winner Richard Lietz (Austria). Customer teams take on the GTE-Am class with a pair of 911 RSR: For the Dempsey Racing-Proton outfit, Patrick Dempsey (USA) and Joe Foster (USA) join forces with Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA). Christian Ried (Germany), Porsche junior Klaus Bachler (Austria) and Khaled Al Qubaisi (Abu Dhabi) compete for Proton Competition. The customer squads IMSA Performance Matmut and Prospeed Competition each bring two Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in last year’s spec to the start. IMSA Performance Matmut has contracted an all-French driver line-up with Erik Maris, Jean Marc Merlin and Eric Hélary as well as Raymond Narac, Nicolas Armindo and David Hallyday. Taking on the challenge for Prospeed Competition are Cooper MacNeil (USA), Bret Curtis (USA) and Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands) as well as Frenchmen Francois Perrodo and Emmanuel Collard.
The Porsche 911 RSR
The Porsche 911 RSR which Porsche has campaigned in the Sports Car World Endurance Championship since 2013 is based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car. At its race debut last year the 470 hp winning racer from Weissach scored a brilliant double victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For 2014, the 911 RSR received improvements in many areas. In addition to winning the WEC season opener at Silverstone, this racer has also clinched victories at the long distance classics at Daytona and Sebring. Through the balance of performance ruling, the 911 RSR for Le Mans must now weigh 25 kilograms more than last year’s contender, with the restrictors reduced from 29.6 to 29.3 millimetres.
Free practice on the Circuit des 24 Heures is held on Wednesday, 11 June, from 16.00 to 20.00 hrs, followed by the first qualifying session from 22.00 hrs to midnight. Two more qualifying sessions follow on Thursday, 12 June, from 19.00 to 21.00 hrs and from 22.00 hrs to midnight. The start flag for the 24 hour pursuit drops on Saturday, 14 June, at 15.00 hours. The 56-strong field is sent on its way by ex-Formula 1 World Champion Fernando Alonso.
Eurosport International and Eurosport 2 alternately broadcast the complete race live. The last two hours of free practice as well as the three qualifying sessions and the warm-up are also televised live. Also aired during the week are various programmes highlighting the world’s most famous long distance race with news, interviews, portraits and background reports. Detailed TV information is available on http://www.eurosport.com.
Quotes before the race
Hartmut Kristen, Head of Porsche Motorsport:
“Le Mans is the highlight of the year. For our teams and drivers this race represents an exceptional challenge – and we’re feeling highly motivated and very well prepared. After our double victory at the season-opener in Silverstone, our car now has to carry 25 extra kilograms of ballast and the diameter of the two restrictors is now 0.3 millimetres smaller than last year’s. When considering the additional changes made, as against 2013, at one or the other competitor one has to question to what extent is the Balance of Performance actually balanced. We feel it is a matter of utmost urgency in the spirit of the sport to find a regulation for the classification of vehicles where you don’t have to fear being punished for a good performance, like what happened to us after Silverstone. Nevertheless, we’ll work extremely hard to do a good job at Le Mans – just like last year.”
Joerg Bergmeister (#91):
“I’ve raced at Le Mans since 2002 and it’s a fantastic feeling to be back again this year. It’s the season highlight for me. This race has a very special atmosphere and it’s always incredibly demanding. More than anything I enjoy the extremely fast corners, they’re the most fun. Last year we came second behind our teammates and I wouldn’t mind at all if we switch positions this year.”
Patrick Pilet (#91):
“Le Mans is a very special race, especially for me as a Frenchman. It’s always an incredible feeling to go racing on such an extreme circuit in front of so many fans. Aside from the Indy 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans is the greatest race on Earth. We are well prepared and our 911 RSR is a strong contender, especially on the long straights. It would be fantastic if we could turn this into a win. We were so close last year.”
Nick Tandy (#91):
“Ever since I began racing for Porsche at Le Mans in 2010 it has been my goal to secure a podium spot here. You only get this chance once a year and I’ll do everything within my power to make it happen. For a race driver, Le Mans is a magical place. Even when you arrive in the paddock you get a sense of the great history. And the Circuit des 24 Heures is something very special with its unique combination of race track and normal country roads. It’s an honour for me to drive again for Porsche at Le Mans this year.”
Marco Holzer (#92):
“At my first race in Le Mans in 2010 we managed to achieve a podium finish with third place. When I think back to the cheering crowds at the award ceremony it still sends shivers down my spine. I’d very much like to experience this feeling again and our chances don’t look too bad. We have a great car and a strong team behind us. But in Le Mans you can’t afford to make one mistake. You have to be totally focussed otherwise you can forget it.”
Frédéric Makowiecki (#92):
“As a Frenchman you simply have to race at Le Mans. And you want to win. Your family is watching at the track, your friends are there supporting you. This makes it hugely motivating to achieve everything you’ve set out to do. As a child I dreamed of Porsche. I launched my racing career with Porsche. If I could now win Le Mans with Porsche, well that would just be the best thing in the world. But first we have to face 24 gruelling hours where pretty much anything can happen.”
Richard Lietz (#92):
“I have many wonderful memories of Le Mans, especially my wins in 2007, 2010 and 2013. It’s the greatest race in the world. I love it. If I couldn’t be here as a driver, I’d buy a ticket and watch the race as a spectator. Earlier, only victory in Le Mans counted. Since 2013, it has become part of the Sports Car World Endurance Championship which means that if you can’t win then you have to make sure you bring home as many points as possible. The connection between Porsche and Le Mans is pure racing fascination. Getting the chance to compete at Le Mans for Porsche, the most successful manufacturer in the history of this race, is motivation enough. You automatically do your absolute best to win.”
Patrick Long (#77):
“Le Mans is always a huge challenge. Everyone wants to win, regardless of the category they’re contesting. I’m really looking forward to racing with Patrick Dempsey and Joe Foster and helping the whole team to fulfil their dreams at Le Mans. Last year we narrowly missed out on a podium spot. This time we’re determined to make it.”
Posted by dedeporsche on June 6, 2014 in Autos & Vehicles, Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Dempsey Racing-Proton, Frédéric Makowiecki (FR), Hartmut Kristen Head of Porsche Motorsport, Head of Porsche Motorsport, Joerg Bergmeister, Le Mans, Le Mans 24 Hours, Marco Holzer, Motorsport in Germany, Neel Jani (Switzerland), Nick Tandy (GB), Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Patrick Pilet, Porsche, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Richard Lietz, Stuttgart, World Endurance Championship (WEC)
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Patrick Dempsey contests races again with Porsche in 2014-15, Successful partnership to be continued
Successful partnership to be continued
Patrick Dempsey contests races again with Porsche in 2014-15
Stuttgart . Patrick Dempsey and his Dempsey Racing team will continue to live their passion in 2014-15 with Porsche. The U.S. actor and race car driver, who thrills fans all over the world in his role as “McDreamy” in the medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”, will continue his team’s race program with Porsche during the next two years in an expanded and formalized promotional and brand cooperation relationship.
“We are looking forward to the new season and to many more successful years partnering Porsche,” said Dempsey, who matched his career-best result with a second-place GT Challenge (GTC) class finish with teammates Andy Lally and Joe Foster in Saturday’s Petit Le Mans – the season and series finale of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) at the storied Road Atlanta race track. “Every race season brings along a number of interesting challenges. The partnership with Porsche this year was the absolute highlight and the main reason for the success we enjoy.”
In his first season with Porsche, Patrick Dempsey shared the cockpit of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR at the world-famous Le Mans 24 Hours with Foster and Porsche works driver Patrick Long to yield a strong fourth place in the GTE-Am class.
In ALMS GTC in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, Dempsey and Lally also earned podium finishes of second at Laguna Seca and third at Circuit of The Americas, in addition to Saturday’s runner-up result at Petit.
“It was an honor for me and my team to contest Petit Le Mans for the first time with Porsche and to represent this great brand on the victory podium,” Dempsey said. “This is an ideal follow-up to our successful joint appearance at Le Mans last June. To match our season and career-best race result with Porsche was a great conclusion to the season.”
“We look forward to a second exciting season with Patrick Dempsey and Dempsey Racing and to continuing our successful partnership,” says Jens Walther, President of Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA).
“Patrick is a passionate race driver who embodies the professionalism and amiability that makes the Porsche motorsport family what it is.”
SOURCE: Porsche AG Press
Posted by dedeporsche on October 20, 2013 in Andy Lally (USA), Autos & Vehicles, California, Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Dempsey Racing-Proton, Head of Porsche Motorsport, McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey, Porsche, Stuttgart, Track Events
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Porsche 911 RSR triumphs with double victory in Le Mans, Sports Car WEC, rd 3, Le Mans 24 Hours/France
Stuttgart . At the Le Mans 24 Hours, Porsche has further extended its record with class wins number 99 and 100 and opened a new chapter in the history of the world’s most famous long distance race. On the Circuit des 24 Heures, the new Porsche 911 RSR fielded by Porsche AG Team Manthey with Porsche works drivers Romain Dumas (France), Marc Lieb (Germany) and Richard Lietz (Austria) won the fiercely competitive GTE-Pro class against strong opposition from Aston Martin, Chevrolet, Ferrari and Viper.
In the second 911 RSR, their works driver colleagues Joerg Bergmeister (Germany), Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Patrick Pilet (France) made the double victory for the race car from Weissach perfect.
In the GTE-Am class, the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR run by the customer team IMSA Performance Matmut clinched victory with Frenchmen Raymond Narac, Jean-Karl-Vernay and Christophe Bourret.
The 81st running of the long distance classic took place in changeable weather with constant showers and under the most difficult conditions. All the greater was the relief after the maiden win of the new Porsche 911 RSR.
At the finish line, the Porsche AG Team Manthey squad stood united at the pit wall to give their heroes the glorious reception they deserved.
Amidst them stood Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Porsche AG, CEO Matthias Müller as well as Board Members Wolfgang Hatz (Research and Development) and Bernhard Maier (Sales and Marketing) who had witnessed most of the race firsthand round-the-clock in the Porsche pits.
Already in the hour after the start, the 911 RSR made up positions at just its third outing in the sports car World Endurance Championship WEC, which yielded double points at Le Mans as the third round.
With fast lap times and utmost reliability, the 911 with the starting number 92 in particular fought for victory right from the start.
The pit stops were predominantly just routine: Refuel, tyres, driver change – then back out on the track.
Both works-run Porsche completed the entire distance without the slightest technical problem, apart from a rear light that had to be replaced on the number 91 Porsche 911 RSR after being nudged by a competitor.
The second racer fielded by Porsche AG Team Manthey was thrown back in the field shortly after the start when the safety car was deployed right in front of Joerg Bergmeister which cost the Porsche factory pilot almost two minutes.
While some competitors struggled on the difficult and partly wet circuit, the 911 RSR made it safely through the night without any problems and underlined the intention to clinch its maiden victory with consistently fast lap times.
Even when torrential rain fell a good hour before the finish and its pursuers launched a final attack, Richard Lietz remained unfazed at the wheel of the number 91 car. In the final race hours, the number 91 vehicle also gained ground and slipped into second place ahead of the Aston Martin and Ferrari. The Porsche works drivers did not let this superb double victory slip out of their hands.
In the GTE-Am class, three Porsche 911 GT3 RSR at times ran at the front. At the flag, Raymond Narac, Christophe Bourret and Jean-Karl Vernay, who receives support from Porsche in his Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup campaign this season, brought home the victory.
Especially for Jean-Karl Vernay, the winner of the 2012 International Cup Scholarship, a dream came true.
Porsche race driver Patrick Dempsey, one of an all-American driver trio helming the Dempsey Del Piero-Proton 911 GT3 RSR with Porsche works driver Patrick Long and Joe Foster, also held the lead at times.
However, after he was blamelessly shunted off the circuit by a sports prototype he had to bury his dream of winning his first Le Mans outing with Porsche.
The Le Mans race was overshadowed by the death of Denmark’s Allan Simonsen. In the fourth race lap, the Aston Martin pilot crashed into the barriers in the fast Tertre Rouge corner and died from his serious injuries shortly afterwards in the Circuit des 24 Heures Medical Centre.
Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Porsche AG:
“With the 99th and 100th class win and the double victory of the new 911 RSR, this Le Mans 24 hour race was a magnificent success for Porsche. I very much congratulate all those who have contributed. Our joy, however, is also mixed with sadness and shock at the death of Allan Simonsen. We have not only lost a passionate racer, but also a good friend of the Porsche motorsport family. He contested his first Le Mans 24 Hours in 2007 with a Porsche. With our works driver Marc Lieb in 2005, he contested two races of the Le Mans Endurance Series in a Porsche as well. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his family as well as the Aston Martin squad and his teammates at this difficult time.”
Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Executive Board at Porsche AG:
“Those were very gripping 24 hours and a race with action we’ve all certainly experienced rarely. It was exciting from the first to the last minute. In the end luck was on our side. Aston Martin was a tremendous opponent. At this time our thoughts should be with the fatally injured Allan Simonsen. For motorsport and for Aston Martin it is a great tragedy. Nevertheless, Porsche has once again shown that it is the manufacturer to beat in GT racing. This makes us optimistic for 2014.”
Wolfgang Hatz, Board Member Research and Development at Porsche AG:
“I am incredibly proud of what the entire team has done here. A double victory in the Pro class and even a win thanks to our customer team, you can’t ask for more than that.”
“In the 50th anniversary of the 911 and 15 years since the last time a works team competed here Le Mans it’s the best result you can imagine. And I don’t just mean the performance of our Pro teams. Our customer squads have performed brilliantly. We couldn’t have done better. The race was thrilling for the spectators and it was nerve wracking but the result after all that was well worth it.”
Olaf Manthey, team principal of Porsche AG Team Manthey:
“I’m still speechless about our success. After the penultimate safety car phase I was not feeling particularly optimistic. I still can’t believe this victory. In 1999 I was with Porsche for the first time in Le Mans and we won then too. Now I returned after 15 years and did it again. Dear God, however, has written a screenplay that almost ruined by nerves.”
Marc Lieb (#92):
“It’s a fairytale. To win Le Mans at our first attempt with a new RSR is something we never expected in our wildest dreams. I’m incredibly proud of my teammates and the entire crew that turned the 911 RSR into a winning car at Le Mans in such a short time.”
“Even in my last stint when everything came to a head for us I didn’t feel any great pressure. But right from the start I had the death of a colleague in my head, and the battle for tenths of seconds and positions became secondary. I believe there wouldn’t be many drivers who could really concentrate, I’ve never experienced so many safety car phases in Le Mans. We were lucky with the rain today but we needed luck too under such difficult conditions. As far as our performance and the car goes we are delighted and proud, but our thoughts are somewhere else.”
Romain Dumas (#92):
“This race was packed with suspense and emotion right from the start. It began with Allan Simonsen’s tragic accident, and in the end we were lucky with the rain which helped us considerably. However, we had a lot of frustration with the safety car at the beginning. This success is of course great for Porsche and the 50th anniversary of the 911.”
“I had very mixed feelings after Allan’s fatal accident. First and second place is obviously a dream result which we had not anticipated before the race considering the superiority of Aston Martin. We had a fabulous car, but also a bit of bad luck. But we were always up with the play, second place is a very good consolation.”
“It is a day to be proud and happy, but also sad. Due to the circumstances we’ll all need a couple of weeks to let it sink in. Right now we are all thinking of Allan and that’s why this success is not exactly the wonderful moment it was actually supposed to be for me. We came here with a new car, we worked incredibly hard together and fought together with Porsche for this result.”
Timo Bernhard (#91):
“It was a very moving, difficult race with constantly changing weather conditions. We had hoped for a podium result, so the double victory is just fantastic especially for me since this was my last race with the 911 RSR. From the outset we were really fast, but lost two minutes early on through the safety car and we spent the rest of the race trying to catch up. In the end we all had that necessary luck and I congratulate my teammates on their victory. That was a truly great day for the entire team.”
Jean-Karl Vernay (#76):
“Porsche supports me this season in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. Here in Le Mans I wanted to prove that they were right putting their trust in me. I think I succeeded. I had a great weekend.”
“I wanted so much to climb the podium with Patrick and Joe. Even a victory would have been possible. The car was so unbelievably good, but it wasn’t our race. Today is a great day for Porsche. Double victory in Le Mans with the new 911 RSR – it’s almost impossible to believe. My congratulations to all those in Weissach who contributed to it.”
Patrick Dempsey (#76):
“Patrick Long did a fantastic job. He drove so well, so fast. I’m pleased to have him in the team. He is so incredibly inspiring. Porsche gave us a very good car. We were so close to the podium. It is an unbelievable experience to be in Le Mans with Porsche. I’m very proud to have been a part of this great project.”
Round four of the sports car World Endurance Championship takes place on 1 September in Sao Paulo/Brazil.
GTE-Pro class
1. Dumas/Lieb/Lietz (F/D/A), Porsche 911 RSR, 315 laps
2. Bergmeister/Bernhard/Pilet (D/D/F), Porsche 911 RSR, 315
3. Dumbreck/Mücke/Turner (GB/D/GB), Aston Martin, 314
4. Magnussen/Garcia/Taylor (DK/E/USA), Chevrolet Corvette, 312
5. Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander (MC/J/SF), Ferrari 458 Italia, 312
6. Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli (I/I/I), Ferrari 458 Italia, 311
GTE-Am class
1. Narrac/Bourret/Vernay (F/F/F), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 306 laps
2. Perazzini/Case/O’Young (I/I/CDN), Ferrari 458 Italia, 305
3. Gerber/Griffin/Cioci (ZA/IRL/I), Ferrari 458 Italia, 305
4. Dempsey/Long/Foster (USA/USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 305
7. Henzler/Gibon/Milesi (D/F/F), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 300
8. Ried/Roda/Ruberti (D/I/I), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 300
9. Collard/Perrod/Crubile (F/F/F), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 298
Please note: Photo material from the Le Mans 24 Hours and the sports car World Endurance Championship WEC is available for accredited journalists from the Porsche Press Database under the internet address http://presse.porsche.de. On this website you can also activate the Porsche Motorsport SMS Info Service to receive the latest news and information from race tracks around the world via text messages. On the internet address http://presse.porsche.de/motorsport journalists have access to the new digital Porsche Motorsport Media Guide 2013.
SOURCE: Porsche AG Communication Porsche AG
Porsche 911 RSR make up positions after start, Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC, rd 3, Le Mans 24 Hours/France (dedeporsche.com)
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Posted by dedeporsche on June 23, 2013 in 24 Hours of Le Mans, 50 years anniversary of Porsche 911, Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Dempsey Racing-Proton, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Hartmut Kristen Head of Porsche Motorsport, Head of Porsche Motorsport, IMSA Performance Matmut, Joerg Bergmeister, Le Mans 24 Hours, Manthey Porsche, Marc Lieb, Matthias Müller CEO of Dr. Ing hc F. Porsche AG, Matthias Müller President of the Executive Board at Porsche AG, McDreamy, Olaf Manthey, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Patrick Pilet, Porsche, Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Porsche AG’s Research and Development Center in Weissach, Porsche head of motorsport Hartmut Kristen, Porsche Motorsport, Richard Lietz, Romain Dumas, Stuttgart, Timo Bernhard, Track Events, WEC, Wolf Henzler, World Endurance Championship, Zuffenhausen
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Porsche 911 RSR sets the second fastest lap time in warm-up, Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC, rd 3, Le Mans 24 Hours/France
Porsche. The Porsche AG Team Manthey squad has concluded the preparations for the start of the Le Mans 24 Hours on Saturday morning with the second fastest lap time in the GTE-Pro class.
It was posted by the Porsche 911 RSR with the starting number 92 shared by Porsche works drivers Romain Dumas (France), Marc Lieb (Germany) and Richard Lietz (Austria).
The #91 Porsche 911 RSR with their works driver colleagues Joerg Bergmeister (Germany), Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Patrick Pilet (France) scored the fourth quickest time.
In the GTE-Am class, Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA) achieved the top time. He shares the cockpit of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR fielded by the Dempsey Del Piero-Proton squad with Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Joe Foster (both USA).
The Le Mans 24 Hours takes off today at 15.00 hours. Eurosport International and Eurosport 2 alternately broadcast the entire race live. On the internet the race can be viewed live on http://www.fiawec.com.
Quotes after the warm-up
Timo Bernhard (# 91): “We have checked the car again and everything is fine. Our times in each sector were good. I’m pleased that it will soon get going. We’re feeling confident for the race.”
Richard Lietz (# 92): “We practiced driver changes and went out with a full tank to find the braking points and to see how the car handles. We didn’t make any changes to the set-up. The warm-up is a great chance for drivers and teams to refocus again on the race.”
Romain Dumas (# 92): “The warm-up was the first time this weekend that I drove on a dry track, so it was important for me. The car felt good. We are all very confident for the race.”
Patrick Long (#77): “I used the warm-up to try out the medium tyres for the first time and that made a big difference. Unfortunately we were on the wrong tyres in qualifying but that’s the past. Patrick didn’t get a chance to drive because of the red flag. But that’s not so bad, he knows what to do. We have a good car for the race and we’re feeling very optimistic.”
Result warm-up
1. Vilander/Kobayashi/Beretta (SF/J/MC), Ferrari 458 Italia, 3:58.796 min.
2. Dumas/Lieb/Lietz (F/D/D), Porsche 911 RSR, 3:58.796
3. Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli (I/I/I), Ferrari 458 Italia, 3:59.935
4. Bergmeister/Bernhard/Pilet (D/D/F), Porsche 911 RSR, 4:00.593
5. Bertolini/Al Faisal/Qubaisi (I/KSA/UAE), Ferrari 458 Italia, 4:03.317
1. Long/Dempsey/Foster (USA/USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 3:58.358 min.
2. Nygaard/Simonsen/Poulsen (DK/DK/DK), Aston Martin, 4:01.401
3. Henzler/Milesi/Gibon (D/F/F), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 4:03.312
5. Ried/Roda/Ruberti (D/I/I), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 4:03.658
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Posted by dedeporsche on June 22, 2013 in 24 Hours of Le Mans, 50 years anniversary of Porsche 911, Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Dempsey Racing-Proton, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Hartmut Kristen Head of Porsche Motorsport, Head of Porsche Motorsport, Joerg Bergmeister, Le Mans, Le Mans 24 Hours, Manthey Porsche, Marc Lieb, McDreamy, Motorsport News, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Patrick Pilet, Porsche, Porsche 911, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Porsche head of motorsport Hartmut Kristen, Porsche Motorsport, Richard Lietz, Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard, Track Events
Tags: Ferrari 458 Italia, GTE, Marc Lieb, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Pilet, Porsche, porsche 911 gt3, porsche 911 rsr, Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard
VIDEO: New member of the Porsche motorsport family, Patrick Dempsey plays star role in Porsche films
Stuttgart. Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey (“Grey’s Anatomy”) plays himself in the new motorsport film from Porsche. At the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR the avid race driver contests the 24 Hours of Le Mans this coming weekend for the Dempsey Del Piero-Proton team.
Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Patrick Dempsey
The first of a series of films featuring Dempsey is available on Porsche’s Facebook page and on the Porsche YouTube channel.
“It’s nice to say that you are in the Porsche family,”
says Dempsey. “It’s an incredible family, a talented family with a lot of depth when it comes to technology, engineering and design.
It fills me with pride to now be a part of this family.”
The first movie is entitled “Porsche Motorsport: Growing the family with Patrick Dempsey” and was filmed at the American Le Mans Series race on the street circuit in Long Beach (USA).
In the GTC class, Dempsey contests the entire season of the U.S. race series with his teammates Andy Lally and Joe Foster in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup fielded by the Dempsey Del Piero Racing squad.
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dempsey and Foster join forces with Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA).
SOURCE: Communication Porsche AG – Patrick Dempsey and Porsche Motorsport
Posted by dedeporsche on June 20, 2013 in Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Le Mans 24 Hours, Motorsport News, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Porsche, Track Events
Tags: American Le Mans Series, andy lally, Andy Lally (USA), Dempsey, Dempsey Del Piero-Proton, Le Mans 24 Hours, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Porsche, Porsche 911, porsche 911 gt3
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Percy Abram, PhD, explains how to build a bi-racial identity in children, even when they don't "look" bi-racial
Parenting and Family Advice | Building a bi-racial identity in children
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Advice on how to build a strong bi-racial identity when you don't look bi-racial
One of the challenges of raising bi-racial children is that phenotypically they may favor one parent or the other. In the case of my son who has physical characteristics that look like me, but does not have the same pigmentation, it is hard for him sometimes for him to know and understand and identify with being a young black kid, which is in fact what he is. What we do is we ensure that he is very closely in the presence of and is constantly talking to members of my family who favor me, but don't necessarily favor him. And helping him to understand that his grandfather and great-grandfather being dark-skinned in Texas, what their experiences were like. And that their mother's side of the family, who comes from a German background in Kansas, had very different experiences. But all of those experiences together help make up who he is. And that for him should be a source of pride and nothing to be ashamed of.
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This page is an adaptation of a document prepared by Chuck Neufeld for CMCs 50th Anniversary – July 27-29, 2007.
Previously written historic accounts, especially those penned by former Pastor David Ewert, were consulted and are extensively quoted in this rendition of CMCs history. The document on which this page was based was affirmed for publication at the 7/17/07 CMC Church Board Meeting.
For 50 years CMC has been a caring and nurturing congregation. For 50 years its effort has been to listen to Christ’s call and to act in response to that call. Sometimes that response has required courageous, even prophetic action. Other times it has allowed for a relaxed and calm response. God has been with us throughout! Read on and discover the story of CMC.
Visions – Realities – Dreams
Birthed in urban change and ferment, Community Mennonite Church of Markham, Illinois, has sought for fifty years to follow Christ in word and deed: to be a refuge, a place of reconciliation, a door of hope for all who would enter.
A group began to gather.
In response to the missional efforts of the Central District Conference, Mennonites and other persons who had moved out of Chicago to the south suburbs organized as an Anabaptist Christian communityof faith. The congregation wisely chose to build on Kedzie Avenue, a major north/south thoroughfare, thereby providing visibility and easy access — location, location, location! Being located where we are has indeed determined much of who we are.
Under the visionary and caring leadership of Ron Krehbiel (1957-1961), CMC’s first pastor, the congregation accepted the challenge of being racially integrated. As social change swept through Markham and the surrounding communities, CMC leadership responded to the call of God expressed by the Apostle Paul,
“For Jesus Christ has brought us peace by making the two one people and has broken down the wall that separated and kept us enemies… Consequently, we are no longer strangers, but fellow members of God’s family.” (Eph. 2:14, 19)
Today we claim, as God’s mandate to us, the responsibility of being an inter-racial Anabaptist Christian alternative in the south suburbs. Besides seeking to be an inclusive congregation, many other strands define our life together.
Serving the community
One of these “defining strands” was initiated by our second pastor, Larry Voth (1961 – 1973). Under his leadership the congregation began the first of many programs designed to serve the community:
Community Mennonite Early Learning Center — 1964
Markham Youth Committee — 1969
Sheltered Care Workshop
Southwest Community Services — l97l
Hope Community Services — 1979
Chicago Mennonite Learning Center
CMC members participated in starting
and staffing this school. — 1979
Brementowne Manor
Senior Citizens Apartments — 1980
Independence House — 1982
Faith Housing Rehab — 1986
MVS, a long-time partner
Most of the above mentioned programs involved Mennonite Voluntary Service staff. Without MVS skills and commitment, many of these projects could not have begun or would have faltered in their inception. Nearly two hundred MVSers have come for a year or two and served the community. Some have stayed to become a part of us. Many of these programs continue as vital resources to our community to this day.
Lay leadership blossomed
Yet another strand that gained increasing importance during Ed Springer’s pastorate (1973-1976) was the development of small group life. For a period of time this became a congregational priority. These groups took various forms: task force, study and prayer, fellowship, etc.
Also, lay leadership blossomed at this time, so that when Ed Springer left, the congregation functioned without paid staff for a period of time. On August 28, 1977 the congregation voted to establish a lay leadership team, initially made up of three people: Orell Mitchell, Minister of Worship; Dave Ewert, Assistant Minister of Worship; David Suter, Minister of Stewardship. Over the next years others joined the team and positions were assigned as needs were identified.
Over time we discovered that significant needs were being left unmet. We also discovered the frailty of our life as an inter-racial congregation. The team, now with additional persons serving, remained in place when CMC called Menno & Margaretha Ediger to serve as co-pastors in 1978. The team continued as their coworkers. Although CMC returned to paid staff, the principle of lay involvement is still reflected in our worship and work to this day.
Peace & Justice a major emphasis
Peace and justice emerged as a dominant theme under the leadership of co-pastors Menno and Margaretha Ediger (1978-1984). Also, Margaretha helped form a group for the visually impaired called New Vision. In 1983 the congregation elected to become an official Sanctuary church for Central American refugees. Under the leadership of Paul Weaver (now Neufeld Weaver) an active peace education ministry evolved with sponsorship of classes, seminars, and special celebrations. George Thomas was added to the “Peace Ministry” staff through MVS and worked along-side Paul.
Other CMC peace and justice activities include: Phil Jackson traveled to Haiti with CPT on a peace mission. Ivorie Lowe served in Lesotho with Peace Corps. Keith Wilson traveled to Congo with the MC-USA delegation working on global connections.
Becoming what we are:
Reconciling and inclusive
Under the pastoral leadership of David Ewert (l985-96)
CMC focused increasingly on realizing the implications
of what it means to identify one’s self as a reconciling and
inclusive congregation. That focus led to the call of Les Tolbert (1989-1992) to
share pastoral leadership as paid staff, thereby giving more concrete expression to what we had claimed in principle. A renewed emphasis on prayer and outreach emerged during Pastor Tolbert’s time. Brent Foster (1994-1997) joined Pastor David Ewert in pastoral leadership following Les Tolbert’s term. For three years Pastor Foster participated in living out CMC’s commitment to being a “place of refuge.”
When David Ewert retired from pastoral leadership in 1996, Chuck & Bonnie Neufeld (1996 – present) were called to join the pastoral team under Brent Foster’s leadership. When Brent Foster moved back to Peoria, Illinois in 1997, Chuck & Bonnie continued their ministry as co-pastors.
Hold the course
Given CMC’s clearly stated vision for racial reconciliation, Pastors Chuck & Bonnie encouraged the congregation to “hold the course” on staffing; i.e., to make sure the pastoral team reflects the racial make-up of the congregation and surrounding community. Recent years give evidence of CMC’s increased resolve on this matter. CMC has not only declared itself committed to racial/ethnic diversity, but also to the hard work of anti-racism. Quoting from CMC’s website:
“As participants in God’s kingdom and agents of Christ’s reconciliation, we don’t only celebrate diversity, we see it as part of our mission to actively resist racism where we find it, to dismantle it where we can, and to name the dynamics of white power and privilege as they occur.”
One of the gifts of CMC is its “safe space” and it is into this space that we bring our brokenness. And so we have, and so we do — to the altar and to each other. One of the realities of living out the glorious vision of ”Unity in Diversity — Where Christ is Lord” is that no one gets exactly what he or she wants; at times not even what he or she needs! CMC has lived through painful times; times when both whites and blacks left the church over race-related problems. We lament every loss, black and white, young and old. The truth is that we have hurt each other, knowingly and unknowingly.
Still, as painful a journey as ours has at times been, it has also been filled with amazing grace and joy. Forgiveness has been extended and received — from God and from each other. When we recently were looking through the church archives, we were shocked to learn that the original Title Deed to CMC’s property legally excluded all but whites from ever owning, leasing or even occupying the church building. In a subsequent worship service, congregational members were invited to the altar to smudge that same document with ashes and oil as we confessed our sin and received forgiveness from each other. Thanks be to God for the leading of the Holy Spirit in this matter. The truth is that the intended power of that “old” document was harnessed, indeed bound, in the very first years of CMC’s existence when the congregation declared the doors of CMC open to all who would enter.
Being an inclusive, cross-cultural, inter-racial, anti-racism witness is not easy, but we continue to believe that that’s precisely what God has called us to. We are comforted to know that the same God who calls us to such work will be with us to the end.
Hospitality & Nurture
Out of CMC’s ongoing commitment to inter-racial staffing, Pastor Horace McMillon (2000-2005) joined the pastoral team in 2000 and served together with Chuck & Bonnie until 2005, at which time he moved to Jackson, Mississippi where he is now the pastor of the Open Door Mennonite Church. During Pastor Horace’s five years, CMC built on its many years of generous hospitality and nurture. From the very beginning, times of fellowship have characterized us as a congregation. “Food and fun” continue to hold us together through good times and bad. Praise God for this gift of grace.
Building on a strong foundation
Pastors Chuck & Bonnie are deeply committed to building on the many years of CMC’s faithful witness. Their eleven years of pastoral ministry since returning to Markham in 1996 has been characterized by a strong desire for congregational health and vitality. Whether ministries relate to children, youth, or adults, they are the result of longing for Christ’s Kingdom to be more established within and among us. Much work remains to be done.
Responding to ongoing needs
Open relationships with CMC’s surrounding community have resulted in many children and youth finding their way to CMC. Increased needs for ministry have compounded our desire for bolstering pastoral leadership. With great joy and anticipation we have now (Jan. 31, 2007) asked Cyneatha Millsaps to join CMC’s pastoral team. We are equally excited about her husband Steve’s gifts, especially as they relate to the vision we have for ministry focused on youth.
Not only does their presence relate to CMC’s commitment to multi-racial staffing, it also answers many of our needs for additional resourcing related to the increased needs we’ve identified in our congregation and community. Both are amazingly skilled in the precise areas of our most acute needs. We look forward to Cyneatha & Steve Millsaps moving to Markham just as soon as details can be worked out.
Visions—Realities—Dreams
The visions given, the realities faced and the dreams still in formation are all gifts from a loving and gracious Creator God. May God’s creative nature, Christ’s redeeming grace, and the Holy Spirit’s power continue to guide us into ways everlasting.
As Vincent Harding recently commented about CMC:
“I [am] moved by the description of your ‘steady and increasing resolve’ as a congregation to realize your best possibilities. Please continue with your ‘steady and increasing resolve.’ The best is yet to come.” — Email from Vincent Harding to Pastor Chuck Neufeld, June 25, 2007
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For the past few years, director Nicolas Winding Refn has kept a fairly low profile in order to put together Too Old To Die Young, his limited series project for Amazon that will see the divisive Danish filmmaker transition to smaller screens. Refn’s dreamlike, aesthetic-first approach to genre filmmaking has drawn as many fans as it has detractors in recent years, but it’s also established him as one of the more immediately distinctive modern directors working today.
Now the visionary mind behind Drive and The Neon Demon has offered the first substantial look at the series, following Miles Teller as Martin, a corrupt police officer whose shooting of a woman leads him into the path of Los Angeles cartel affiliates and various other heavies. But in typical Refn fashion, there’s a whole lot more going on here, from the sumptuous visuals to the Cliff Martinez score to the implication that samurai stuff may somehow be involved in all of it.
Too Old To Die Young will co-star John Hawkes, Jena Malone, William Baldwin, and Cristina Rodlo. The 10-episode limited series will premiere on Amazon beginning June 14th. In the meantime, take a look at the typically hyper-stylized first trailer.
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Tories and Lib Dems defeat Government on settlement rights for Gurkhas
Following exchanges over the issue at PMQs earlier, a vote has just taken place during an Opposition Day debate initiated by the Liberal Democrats in which the Government was defeated on settlement rights for Gurkhas.
MPs voted by 267 to 246 in favour of a motion that the government should extend an equal right of residence to all Gurkhas.
Conservatives and Lib Dem joined forces along with, I imagine, a number of Labour rebels (28 according to sources around the murmurs around the Commons). In advance of this afternoon's vote, shadow immigration minister Damian Green said:
“We are supporting the Gurkhas today because we believe the Government is being ungenerous and unfair. A Conservative Government would give all Gurkhas and their immediate dependents the right to settle here, and we hope the Government listens and acts immediately on this matter.”
Paul Waugh notes that David Cameron and Nick Clegg made a joint appearance outside the Commons in the wake of the vote, which is the culmination of a long campaign, highlighted here last week.
5.45pm update:
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Joanna Lumley, campaigning for Gurkhas, says she is "ashamed" of Labour
The actress was responding to Labour's bureaucratic plan for the settlement of Gurkha soldiers in Britain. Ms Lumley says that Labour's criteria for settlement will be impossible to meet for "ordinary Gurkhas". Watch the video in full. Well worth it.
Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green MP commented:
“The Government is trying to evade the effects of a very clear court judgement. This is an insult to the Gurkhas. We have said all along that the Government should not try to challenge the courts and they would have done better to listen.”
> Click here for the website of the Gurkha Justice Campaign.
Boris tells Panorama that he wants tax revenue from London's 500,000 irregular migrants
Tonight's Panorama programme will reveal that the number of illegal immigrants in London and the UK are well above previous estimates. The latest estimate is that in 2007 there were between 524,000 to 947,000 illegal immigrants in the UK (central estimate 725,000). Previous estimates of illegal immigrants in the UK in 2001 were 310,000 – 570,000 (central estimate 430,000). Boris Johnson will tell the programme that, in the absence of a credible deportation regime, he is open to the regularisation of these illegal immigrants so that they pay taxes (not something they currently do) in order to pay for their use of public services (something they do currently do).
ConservativeHome has been provided this verbatim preview of an exchange between Mayor Boris Johnson and the Panorama interviewer:
"Panorama – ‘Why do you support the idea of an earned amnesty?’
Mayor - 'We are not at that stage yet. What we have is a report by the LSE, that shows there are 500,000 people who are irregular migrants in London, from people breaking the law all sorts of people who are waiting for their papers to come through and there is a huge issue in dealing with that, because we are not sending them back because of the failure of Government policies, irregular migrants are not being sent back, only a maximum of 12,000 a year.’
Panorama – ‘Why?’
Mayor – ‘Failure of the Government. If you go on on this rate it will take 60 years to clear the backlog.'
Panorama – ‘60 years?’
Mayor – ‘It's extremely expensive to deport migrants, let me be clear I am in favour of sending them back but we must be realistic. We need to do two things simultaneously if we are serious, first we need to tighten the borders, we need to be much more robust because we don’t know who is here, it's crazy. Secondly we need a frank debate about what to do with the half a million who are not able to join the economy legally but are not allowed to make contribution to society and make case for earned amnesty, if they have been here for a long time and it looks like and if they can make a contribution they should be given the chance to regualrise their status.'"
March 09, 2009 at 04:32 in Boris Johnson (Mayor), Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (90)
Immigration could be top issue at European Elections
Last Friday's Telegraph reported that immigration was becoming voters' top issue. This morning's Times warns of "hordes of unemployed workers heading west" unless radical action is taken to bail out recession-struck Eastern European nations. But although the "rich" EU nations will struggle to afford any bailout this week's Economist uses its cover feature to warn that "western Europe cannot afford not to pay it." It warns of catastrophic implications for EU banks and the wider economy if the East is allowed to fail.
The same issue of The Economist carries an article examing the pressures facing Germany as it moves towards a reluctant acceptance that "the collective" will have to help. The article is illustrated with a photograph of Angela Merkel digging into her handbag.
Both UKIP and the BNP will undoubtedly seize on these issues as June's European Elections approach.
UKIP's political credibility was damaged last night, however, after Robin Page accused his former party's leadership of falling in love with "the high life of gravy and status". Writing for The Telegraph Mr Page said: "The party created to fight centralised government, sleaze and corruption has become a parody of itself, a mirror image of the body it professes to loathe." UKIP is dismissing the attack as sour grapes after the former presenter of BBCtv's One Man And His Dog was prevented from standing as a UKIP candidate in East Anglia.
March 02, 2009 at 08:38 in BNP, Europe, Immigration and asylum, UKIP | Permalink | Comments (56)
Damian Green: "I regard anyone born in Britain as British"
There's been some excitement across the blogosphere today at this passage in The Daily Mail:
"Although the figures from the Government's Office for National Statistics show an increase in numbers of foreign born people they still fail to record the true impact of immigration because they record their children as British rather than second or third generation immigrants."
Daniel Finkelstein asks "Does the Daily Mail think I'm British?"
Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green MP does. He's just issued this statement to ConHome:
"I regard anyone born in Britain as British, unless they choose to take another nationality. Whenever I speak to a large meeting I ask how many in the audience have at least one parent born outside the UK. Generally speaking, the younger the audience, the higher the percentage."
February 26, 2009 at 18:08 in Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (119)
The Tories raise concerns about the number of immigrants working in Britain (but don't mind if they're from elsewhere in the EU)
The Conservatives have unveiled figures which show that the number of foreign workers in Britain has virtually doubled under the Labour Government - from 2 million in 1997 to 3.8 million today - and the story is the splash in today's Daily Mail and Daily Express.
This figure is based on House of Commons Library research commissioned by shadow work and pensions minister, James Clappison, and means that 13% of those working in Britain were born abroad. Furthermore, two thirds of them come from outside the EU, equivalent to 9% of the total workforce.
Mr Clappison said that the figures were "yet more evidence that Labour have failed to bring migration from outside the EU under control, despite repeated promises to do so".
Shadow immigration minister Damian Green added:
"There cannot be anyone left in this country who believes Gordon Brown's pledge of British jobs for British workers. This shows the continuing failure of the Government's immigration policy. A Conservative Government would introduce an annual limit on work permits for people from outside the EU. That's the only way you can get some control into the system."
However, there was no comment forthcoming from a Conservative spokesman on a new MigrationWatch study also published today, which shows that there are up to four times the number of EU workers employed in the UK as British-born workers employed in the other 26 countries of the EU.
According to its research, 286,000 UK nationals are working elsewhere in the European Union, whilst 1,172,000 of those born elsewhere in the EU are now working in the UK.
I gather that the party opted not to comment on this study on the basis that it has no intention of trying to change the EU rules on free movement of labour.
February 18, 2009 at 08:02 in Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (85)
British jobs for Italian workers today but there'll be Italian jobs for British workers tomorrow
Eighteen months ago Gordon Brown promised British jobs for British workers - a slogan we learnt had also been used by the BNP. Yesterday that phrase was used in anger against him as British workers saw 400 largely Italian employees of an Italian contractor recruited to build an extension to the Lindsay Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire. The Sun identifies fourteen wildcat strikes in support of action taken by Lindsay's British workers.
Billy Bones (a great name that could have come from the 1970s) - a pipefitter at the Lindsey refinery and union official - told the FT: “I would not be surprised if by Monday afternoon the whole construction industry nationwide is out. We’ve got our backs against the wall. This has been brewing for years. We have the skills to do the jobs but are not getting them.”
Yesterday in Davos, David Cameron was quick to criticise Gordon Brown for using the British workers phrase:
"There are legitimate questions to be asked of this company. If it is disqualifying British workers from applying for jobs, then that is illegal. But the Prime Minister should never have used that slogan. On the one hand he lectures everyone about globalisation and on the other he borrows this slogan from the BNP. He has been taking people for fools and has been found out."
Labour's double failure to (1) control immigration from outside the EU and (2) to reskill British workers during better times means that there are no easy solutions to this crisis. EU law protects the right of nationals from member states to work here. Over at CentreRight, Peter Whittle believes that we should strongly support the protestors. It's a temptation but one we should resist. Conservatives should not tolerate illegal strikes and, more strategically, we should argue for the long-term benefits of open markets even when they conflict with immediate British interests. That will often be a very tough argument to make but there will be many other times when UK workers - not least in the financial services sector - benefit from our free access to other markets.
The bigger message we need to get across - at a time when Barack Obama is making protectionist noises - is that a retreat from free trade is the surest way to turn today's recession into tomorrow's depression. Some Tory talk of buying locally is close to a form of economic isolationism.
January 31, 2009 at 08:45 in Economic Policy, Immigration and asylum, Strikes and unions | Permalink | Comments (109)
"Multiracial Britain is a success but immigration is too high"
That is how I would sum up the message which David Cameron delivered when asked about the thorny issue of immigration by Jeff Randall on Sky News last night.
The Tory leader has not exactly gone out of his way to raise the matter during his leadership, after the party courted criticism for making it too prominent an issue at the last general election.
However, he denied the suggestion that he had avoided discussing it and said the following:
“I think that immigration is too high, I think it needs to be limited and I think the numbers need to come down... I don’t think in any way I’ve shied away from this policy, but I wanted to make sure the Conservative Party would be listened to and heard as a bunch of reasonable people making a reasonable point. The problem in the past is whenever we’ve talked about this issue people questioned our motives – why are they doing that?”
“I think it was very important to make it clear that we believe in a multiracial Britain. We believe it’s a success. We think immigration has been good for Britain in the past. We think immigration will continue, but not any immigration, not all immigration, it needs to be controlled."
"Controlled Immigration" was of course the fifth of Michael Howard's five two-word phrases which he said summed up the major planks of Conservative policy in advance of the 2005 general election.
January 27, 2009 at 07:26 in Immigration and asylum, Race and multiculturalism | Permalink | Comments (204)
Damian Green tipped for the shadow cabinet
The Sunday Telegraph's Melissa Kite has a bad track record when it comes to Tory reshuffles but her latest speculation has a ring of truth about it. Quoting an unnamed "senior Tory source" she says that Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green is "an absolute cert for promotion." I hope so. He has done a good job with the immigration portfolio. He's loyal. He works very hard. Is good on TV. And is liked by his colleagues.
January 10, 2009 at 22:56 in Frontbench, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (17)
Lessons from the Damian Green affair for Tory strategy
A senior member of the shadow cabinet has told ConservativeHome that the Damian Green affair had important lessons for the next steps of Tory strategy.
He said that the Speaker, Metropolitan Police and Home Secretary all had had big questions to answer over how Damian Green had been subject to such a heavy-handed operation but that the Conservatives had "played the whole affair wrong":
"The public doesn't care much about the rights of MPs. They should care more but we can't change that overnight. They do care that the Government has lost control of our borders and about illegal immigrants. We should have made made the immigration issue the story. We should have gone on to the TV screens with a 'We tried to tell you about the Government's immigration disaster and they tried to arrest us...' message."
Polling analysed by Anthony Wells found that 45% of Britons saw the Damian Green arrest and its fallout as a “typical Westminster argument that bears no relation to the lives of ordinary people.” "In this context," continued Anthony, "the Conservative drop in support doesn’t seem particularly surprising - they’ve switched from attacking the government over huge levels of debt and mishandling the economy, to battering away over an issue which apparently has barely any salience with the general public."
My shadow cabinet source said that the Tory leadership's continued reluctance to talk about immigration combined with the powerful movement within the Conservative Party that worries about infringements of liberty dictated the tactical path that was chosen:
"What happened to Damian Green was unacceptable and authoritarian but it would have been much better politics to have seen this as an issue of immigration and then moved more quickly back to the dominant economic narrative."
There are lessons in the weeks and months ahead for the Conservative Party. The Party has too many messages at the moment. It needs to have the discipline to pick a few key themes and focus upon them relentlessly. My shadow cabinet source said those three messages should be:
The scale of public debt - personalised for every person in Britain;
The scale of Labour incompetence - these people can't run anything;
The scale of Labour deceit - big tax rises are coming;
December 19, 2008 at 08:44 in Conservative strategy, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (52)
IDS warns that failed asylum seekers are being forced into prostitution
In one of its most controversial reports the Centre for Social Justice will today call for failed asylum seekers to receive support or be allowed to work.
The think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith and directed by Philippa Stroud argues that current rules are forcing failed asylum seekers underground, including into prostitution.
Speaking on this morning's Today programme the former Tory leader said that compassion and effectiveness were not alternatives. By treating asylum seekers badly Mr Duncan Smith said the system was failing everyone. Only one-in-five failed asylum seekers to the UK return voluntarily to their home countries compared to four-in-five in nations like Sweden. The cost of a forced return is £11,000; ten times greater than a voluntary return.
IDS issued this statement:
"The British government is using forced destitution as a means of encouraging people to leave voluntarily. It is a failed policy. UK policy is still driven by the thesis, clearly falsified, that we can encourage people to leave by being nasty. The result is that we rely heavily on forcible return, which is both very costly and time-consuming, and engages only a small proportion of those whose claims are refused. This system gives refused asylum seekers good reason to abscond and little reason to engage with officialdom."
The report issued by the CSJ calls for comprehensive changes to Britain's asylum seekers including much more investment in early processing and appeal of cases. It is a very persuasive read.
December 15, 2008 at 09:00 in Compassionate conservatism, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (53)
The "judicial intimidation" of Damian Green
Lots of posts last night so I thought I'd try and summarise what we know in one post:
What happened? Damian Green was arrested yesterday and his Kent and House of Commons offices searched by nine counter-intelligence officers. Mr Green spent nine hours in custody but has not been charged. He was apparently under investigation for handling four leaks of Home Office information on matters relating to the Government's record on immigration.
Why? The authorities may have wanted to frighten Mr Green. They may have wanted to frighten all civil servants and MPs and stop the increasing regularity of leaks from Whitehall.
Mr Green has the Tory leadership's support: David Cameron is standing by Mr Green and is "very angry" at what some Tories are describing as "Stalinesque" behaviour by the authorities. "Stalinesque" might be thought to imply suspicion of Gordon Brown's involvement but his office were very quick to deny involvement. As Greg Hands has noted, however, it was a typical Brownian denial - not absolving him comprehensively from involvement.
When did ministers know? This is now one of the most important questions. Even if Brown didn't know when did the Home Secretary know? Given that Boris Johnson and others received prior warnings - but were unable to act - it seems very unlikely that a Home Office Minister (who did have the power to stop the police and may have even had to sanction what happened) did not have prior knowledge. Such is the reputation of this Government, few are likely to believe ministers' denials anyway. If Jacqui Smith did know she should resign.
Why were counter-terrorism powers used? This seems to be yet another example of their misuse. As David Davis told Today, this had nothing to do with terrorism and comes close to "judicial intimidation".
MPs will be outraged at the police searching one of their colleague's offices: There is something worryingly undemocratic about the police entering an MP's Commons office and undertaking a search. There is probably no coincidence in the fact that parliament wasn't sitting yesterday. As Iain Dale noted in a superb post, if MPs had been sitting many might have "physically barred" the police's way.
Many, many MPs receive leaks: As the BBC's Norman Smith told Today listeners at about 6.30am if every MP who had been passed confidential information was arrested the Commons would be half-empty. Jim Naughtie himself noted that Brown made his early reputation by receiving numerous leaked documents from inside Whitehall. There's extraordinary hypocrisy here - not least from a Government that couldn't/ wouldn't keep its own Pre-Budget Report secret over last weekend.
This is another PR disaster for the Government: It's not just the BBC that is incredulous. The Daily Mail leads with the story and as the beneficiary of some of the leaks is going to be very sympathetic to Mr Green. There are few areas of Labour's record that exhibit more incompetence that its record on immigration. The public are unlikely to have sympathy with attempts to hide, for example, the fact that 5,000 illegal workers were cleared for security details. That story is reportedly one of Damian Green's leaks and a very clear example of whistleblowing in the public interest.
Britain is not Zimbabwe: Yesterday's events were deeply worrying but Britain is not Zimbabwe and we must be careful about suggesting otherwise. To do so risks insulting the suffering of women like Memory. As Robert H Halfon has previously blogged: We must not trivialise real evil.
November 28, 2008 at 07:41 in Civil liberties, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (145)
When did ministers know?
Newsnight reports that Boris Johnson was told of the police's intention to arrest Damian Green and objected.
That must mean the Home Secretary was also told and did nothing to stop the heavy-handed policy sting. Unlike Boris, Jacqui Smith had the power to stop the sting.
Ben Brogan blogs that Brown knew nothing of this. The Tory use of the term "Stalinesque" to describe today's events might suggest they think otherwise.
November 27, 2008 at 23:24 in Civil liberties, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (23)
ConservativeHome's view: Damian Green was acting in public interest
The above story - click here - detailing the breakdown in security that has stemmed from Labour's failure to control our borders is one very good reason why Damian Green was certainly acting in the public interest when he received information of a confidential nature from within Whitehall. Much is still unconfirmed but this - ConHome is being told - is one of the stories resulting from Damian Green's source(s).
There is also something extraordinarily over-the-top in how nine counter-intelligence officers were involved in today's operation against Damian Green.
And why today when Parliament has gone into temporary recess before the Queen's Speech? Did the Government want to avoid awkward parliamentary questions?
11pm: Alistair Burt MP has left this (verified) comment:
"This man is my friend whom I have known for over thirty years. A more conscientious and public spirited politician you could not hope to find. I hope the Goverment has good lawyers to defend itself in due course, because Damian's friends will take them to the cleaners if he does not. When we think about the deception and deceit which has characterised this Government, the arrest of an Opposition politician just takes the biscuit. A step too far. We now have to remove not just a useless Government, but a dangerous one. And you can quote me."
Cameron "supportive" of Damian Green and angry at "Stalinesque" treatment of him
Damian Green was arrested in Kent. Taken into London to be interviewed by Met.
DG is saying his actions in exposing the Government's record on immigration were manifestly in public interest.
He denies any wrongdoing and stands by his actions.
The authorities' actions are being described by Tory sources as "Stalinesque" citing the fact that nine couter-terrorism police officers were involved in interviewing DG and searching his Kent home and Commons offices.
It is being said that it is "inconceivable" that Government itself weren't involved in authorising today's behaviour by police.
David Cameron said to be fully supportive of Damian Green and angry at today's events.
Dominic Grieve: Labour's left it too late to get a grip on immigration
Writing for the Evening Standard today, Dominic Grieve strongly criticises Labour's approach to immigration since 1997, noting the problems it has created. He argues that if Labour has now finally come to a more realistic view, it is only through finally heeding Conservative arguments they have been ignoring for years. Labour has no credibility remaining on the issue.
It is notable that prior to joining the Shadow Cabinet this summer, Dominic Grieve worked as hard or harder than any Conservative MP (notably with Christina Dykes) to build a stronger relationship between the Conservatives and ethnic minority groups. His strong words on this issue therefore carry particular credibility.
Labour's record of failure: "Net immigration has quadrupled under Labour, fuelled both by the lack of transitional controls on new EU member states and a failure to control economic migration from outside the EU. Britain is on course to have the largest population in the EU, with the Office for National Statistics predicting that half of this surge will come from immigration... A YouGov poll last year found that the public regarded the failure to control immigration as Tony Blair's greatest failure in office."
Immigration makes only the most marginal contribution to GDP per head: "The Government has consistently overstated the economic advantages by emphasising only the contribution of newcomers to overall GDP, when, as the Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs points out, it is the impact on GDP per person that counts, and immigration has had only the most marginal impact on that measure."
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October 20, 2008 at 11:42 in Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (32)
Labour adopt another Tory policy
The 4pm news bulletin on BBC Radio Five Live reported Immigration Minister Phil Woolas' suggestion that the number of people coming into Britain needed to be limited given Britain's difficult economic circumstances. The newsreader went on to say that the Tories said that Labour were copying Tory policy. It is beyond question that Labour is copying Tory policy. Damian Green and David Davis were proposing limits on immigration from outside the EU nearly two years ago. It would have been more accurate if the BBC had simply said: The Conservatives proposed such a limit on immigration two years ago.
PS We won't hold our breath waiting for Labour to implement any limit.
Tory split in London Assembly over illegal immigrant amnesty
The Guardian reports a motion that passed through the London Assembly today with a 12-5 majority. Four of the eleven Tory Assembly Members voted in favour of the motion backing the idea of London-wide amnesty for illegal immigrants. The remaining votes in favour came from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Greens.
Four Conservatives AM voted against: the group leader Roger Evans, Tony Arbour, Gareth Bacon and Richard Tracey. The deputy mayor Richard Barnes formally abstained and two other Conservatives are reported to have left the chamber prior to the vote.
The proposal to call for an amnesty from central government was adopted by Boris Johnson during his campaign to be Mayor, in a departure from national party policy. More recently it was advocated by the Mayor's new head of policy.
14 October update: The original Guardian story - which appears to have been edited - reported some Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and Green members voting in favour, with four Tories voting against and three abstaining or leaving the chamber. No official record is kept by the London Assembly to confirm this, but we are told (see comments) that in fact rather than voting in favour, the remaining four Tories who did not vote against, abstain or leave the chamber, were not present to vote in the first place.
October 09, 2008 at 17:25 in Boris Johnson (Mayor), Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (47)
Boris' new head of policy calls for amnesty for illegal immigrants
Anthony Browne, the outgoing director of Policy Exchange, has written for today's Independent - backing what he admits is a "politically dynamite" case for an amnesty for illegal immigrants. Mr Browne is about to join the Mayor of London's office, as head of policy. Boris Johnson himself backed an amnesty during the mayoral race - a position that puts him at odds with David Cameron.
In his piece for The Independent Mr Browne notes estimates that there are 400,000 illegal immigrants in the UK; largely in the south east of England. There are, he writes, three options to deal with this problem:
Mass deportation: Mr Browne dismisses this as very expensive and unrealistic; "No country that sees itself as civilised wants to send immigration officials into schools, yanking distraught children away from their distressed classmates."
Accept the status quo: But this prevents a huge number of people from becoming fully participating members of society.
An amnesty: Mr Browne believes that this is the best option and will benefit the long-term productivity of the UK economy. He calls for an "earned amnesty" for those who have been resident in the UK for a short number of years and haven't been found guilty of any criminal offences.
The most common objection to an amnesty is that it will only encourage further illegal immigration. Spain, for example, has granted six amnesties. The first amnesty twenty years ago granted residency to 44,000 people. The most recent and sixth amnesty - in 2005 - involved 700,000 immigrants. Anthony Browne says this can be avoided by doing much more to protect Britain's borders.
> There is an extended profile of Policy Exchange in The Guardian, including an interview with its new Director, Neil O'Brien.
September 26, 2008 at 06:49 in Boris Johnson (Mayor), Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (54)
Strong policy on immigration could deliver political realignment for Conservatives
A few weeks ago we set out how the Conservative Party might achieve something bigger than victory at the next General Election; realignment.
A new YouGov poll this morning shows that a strong policy on immigration could help deliver this change in long-term political allegiance:
"81% of Labour voters want to see a substantial reduction in current immigration numbers. Of those, 36% think that Balanced Migration is about the right level, but the other 45% think even that is too high.
83% of Liberal Democrats want to see much lower immigration. Of these, 43% support Balanced Migration, while 40% believe the limit should be even lower.
89% of Conservatives want a sharp reduction in immigration. Of these, 23% support Balanced Migration, while 66% want even tougher limits.
Among BME respondents, 75% wanted much lower immigration, of whom 36% supported Balanced Migration and 39% wanted even tougher limits.
The poll also showed that 33%of the electorate were more likely to vote Conservative if David Cameron were to adopt Balanced Migration as a policy; only 5% would be less likely to support him – a net gain of 28%."
The poll was carried out for MigrationWatch; readers' campaigning organisation of the year.
The survey coincides with a call by a cross-party group, marshalled by MigrationWatch, for a policy of "balanced migration". Such a policy would mean that the number of people given permission to settle permanently in Britain (not including temporary migrant workers) would equal the number of citizens emigrating.
The group includes Frank Field MP, Nicholas Soames MP, Lord Carey and Lord Ahmed. According to the Daily Mail the policy "would produce a UK population of around 65million by 2050 - compared to projections of 78.6million under Government policies."
September 08, 2008 at 08:25 in Immigration and asylum, Opinion polls, Realignment | Permalink | Comments (48)
Lord Stevens' border protection report launched
David Cameron, Dominic Grieve and Damian Green joined former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens at City Airport today to look around the airport and launch his report on border protection. In February last year the Conservatives announced their intention to create a Border Protection Service and this report looked into how this might be done. Click here to download it.
It recommends that a proper Border Police Force should bring together the four principal existing border services - including parts of the police and Revenue and Customs, as well as the Border and Immigration Agency, UK Visas and the security section of the Department of Transport - under a single, "uniformed and unified" unit of 30000 officers and civilian staff. The force will have the power to stop (through armed intervention if necessary), search, detain and prosecute those smugglers, terrorists, traffickers and illegal immigrants who currently slip through the net.
The Labour Government did introduce a pale imitation of this proposal but it didn't include the police or have the extra powers required to enforce border security. Passport inspectors got new uniforms though.
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July 01, 2008 at 13:50 in Immigration and asylum, Law and order | Permalink | Comments (11)
Stephen Crabb MP questions Jacqui Smith's openness to deporting gay Iranian asylum seekers
Conservative MP Stephen Crabb, Chairman of the Conservative Party's Human Rights Commission, has criticised the Home Secretary for arguing that Iran is safe for "discreet" homosexuals:
"Most fair-minded people will be appalled at the Home Secretary's statement. The Iranian regime has a dreadful track-record when it comes to the treatment of homosexuals and other minority groups and is more than willing to use torture and the death sentence to punish offenders.
Asking minorities to live their lives discreetly is to give in to the tyrants and bullies who sustain their positions through fear and coerced conformity. It demonstrates both an unelevated view of the importance of human rights and cowardice in championing our own system of values."
In this morning's Independent the Home Secretary is quoted as saying that asylum seekers to the UK can be deported if they live discreet lives. The trouble is - if they don't - they can be hanged, as in the photo on the right. An estimated 4,000 Iranians have been executed over the last twenty years.
The treatment of gay men in Iraq came to prominence earlier this year when Mehdi Kazemi was threatened with deportation to Tehran - even after his boyfriend had been executed. Conor Burns wrote about it at the time for CentreRight.com.
This Labour Government is often 'tough' when it shouldn't be - as here - and 'soft' when it shouldn't be - illegal immigration more generally. Without commenting on individual cases it would be good to see Dominic Grieve taking up this general issue.
June 23, 2008 at 15:43 in Foreign affairs, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (29)
Grayling targets English language skills of unemployed minorities
In a speech today Chris Grayling, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will lay much of the blame for Britain's large pool of unemployed, unskilled labour on Gordon Brown's immigration policies:
"I think Gordon Brown has used the influx of migrant workers as a way of ducking the issue of welfare reform, and as a result, has left millions of people stranded in poverty who could and should have been helped back to work over the last decade. After all his rhetoric on poverty, he has failed to deliver the sea change he has promised. And immigration has provided him with a safety net for the economic impact of that failure."
Mr Grayling will also target the high proportion of UK ethnic minorities who are out of work. "Speaking English," reports The Telegraph, "will be an "essential" requirement, with job centres and voluntary groups offering language lessons to those whose prospects are hampered by an inability to communicate."
Young people will be required to attend employment 'boot camps' after three months on benefits. Mr Grayling will speak to the Centre for Policy Studies later today and is expected to say: "There is no excuse for a young, able-bodied person to be outside the labour force."
These latest announcements follow a series of other welfare reform proposals in January. Savings from reducing welfare dependency will be ploughed into eliminating the couple penalty in the benefits system - a penalty that discourages poorer parents from living together.
May 27, 2008 at 08:46 in Family and relationships, Immigration and asylum, Welfare reform | Permalink | Comments (47)
Cameron condemns Ed Balls' "crazy" attack on faith schools
Just interviewed by Adam Boulton for his Sunday Live programme, Tory leader David Cameron attacked Ed Balls' confrontation with faith schools as "crazy". Some of the best schools in the country were faith schools, he said, and under the Conservatives they could expand if parents wished.
Mr Cameron also told Sky viewers that he supported tighter classification of cannabis. He admitted that he was wrong to support the relaxation of classification when he was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. The potency of cannabis as used today and its mental health side-effects had, he said, persuaded him to support a tougher approach.
Mr Cameron said he did not agree with Boris Johnson on an amnesty for illegal immigrants. The danger, he said, was that one anmesty only encouraged more immigration and further amnesties.
He declined to pick a candidate for the US Presidential race but heaped praise on John McCain as an inspiring man who was on the right side of the free trade debate.
The Conservative leader said that he was encouraged by the latest opinion poll putting the Conservatives 11% ahead of Labour but that there was "not an ounce of complacency" within the Tory team about the outcome of the next General Election. Voters were weary of a great new dawn after jumping into Blair's arms in 1997. The Conservatives need to show that they had the right response to Britain's two great challenges: economic uncertainty and social breakdown.
PS Why on earth did Sky bother to ask the public for questions to put to Mr Cameron? 55 questions were left on the Boulton & Co blog but only one of those questions was asked by our reckoning.
April 06, 2008 at 12:38 in Drugs, Education, Immigration and asylum | Permalink | Comments (11)
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The headline above comes from a leader in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph.
I know where the SunTel is coming from but let's never forget that Maggie was as much a tactical genius as a conviction politician...
She wasn't averse to putting politics first: She accepted Callaghan's pay deals with the public sector that delayed fiscal retrenchment until 1979.
She picked the timing of battles: Arthur Scargill sought confrontation with her in her first term but she knew she wasn't ready to win and gave the NUM what it wanted. She delayed confrontation until 1984/85 when she could win.
She left some things largely untouched: Think of the NHS, the BBC and the welfare state.
May 02, 2009 at 19:54 in Conservative strategy, Thatcher & Thatcherism | Permalink | Comments (38)
What Would Maggie Do?
Inspired by the Christian campaign, What Would Jesus Do? the Republicans in America already have What Would Reagan Do? What Would Maggie Do? is a favourite media template at the moment.
The Daily Mail uses the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's election to urge David Cameron to emulate the Iron Lady. Last Saturday Matthew Parris suggested that Mr Cameron should follow Mrs Thatcher's example in opposition and not be too specific about his plans for government.
Of course there are lots of things Margaret Thatcher can teach us. Some of the parallels between 1979 and now are huge but there are also big differences between her times and ours. Here are a few that should be keeping Tory strategists awake at night...
Austerity began under Callaghan. Margaret Thatcher inherited a situation where - because of the IMF - the government had already begun some austerity measures. Alistair Darling's Budget showed that our current government is still in denial.
The civil service is a much less effective machine. It has been politicised in numerous ways. Francis Maude will need to think radically about new forms of delivery mechanism to ensure the Cameron agenda is enacted. Making the situation potentially much more tricky David Cameron also has a frontbench team that is much, much less experienced than the Thatcher team.
We've had a thirty year transfer of powers to the EU. Dan Hannan says four-fifths of UK laws are made in Brussels. Westminster is not nearly as powerful as it was in 1979.
Public trust in politicians is much lower now than in 1979. Their promises are much less likely to believed. This had led many Cameroons to believe in the politics of small (and supposedly therefore more believable) promises. What does it mean for today when only big reforms can save the public finances?
The media moves fives time as fast. Mrs Thatcher could appear on the BBC 6'o'clock News and be seen by twice as many Britons as she would reach today. She could write an article for The Daily Telegraph and it would be discussed for days. Nothing lasts as long today. Cameron has to work harder to reach as many people and the media is likely to get bored quickly. He won't have a honeymoon in power although Labour could be in desperate straits. It won't be long before journalists (and, of course, thousands of bloggers) are writing their 'David Cameron has had his worst week since coming to power' stories.
Look out for a five pronged affirmation of "new Toryism"
When The Times described David Cameron's Conservative team as "women-free" I called it "unfair". CCHQ went ballistic - seeing it as a dangerous attack on the modernisation agenda. Team Cameron believes that the Tory leader couldn't have worked much harder to promote women into the shadow cabinet, into the House of Lords, into winnable Westminster seats and into the European Parliament. Rules for selection of MEP candidates were actually changed so that women won higher rankings on regional lists even if they secured fewer votes from grassroots members*.
David Cameron wrote for The Times yesterday, setting out the progress that he's made in increasing representation of women.
In tomorrow's Times a huge number of Tory women - led by our adopted candidates - have written a letter defending David Cameron's record on female selection.
A member of the shadow cabinet told me to look out for five things in the next few months that Team Cameron would be emphasing to show that "new Toryism" is still alive and kicking - despite the "age of austerity":
Further promotion of women and ethnic minority Conservatives.
Outreach to gay rights groups (yesterday we learnt this).
More emphasis on environmental policies. At Spring Forum in Cheltenham Greg Clark MP promised to make Britain the "Saudi Arabia of renewable energy."
Loud trumpeting of the fact that the NHS and international development are the top two Tory spending priorities.
More initiatives on social justice with a greater role for Iain Duncan Smith.
* Most women in top MEP slots received fewer votes than male rivals
April 30, 2009 at 22:06 in Candidates, Compassionate conservatism, Conservative strategy, Environment, Health | Permalink | Comments (141)
Let's hope there's a secret plan
A year ago the Conservative Spring Forum was in Gateshead. I urged the Tory leader to give a speech that levelled with the British people:
"It's time for David Cameron to tell the British people that Britain is going in the wrong direction. He needs to say that we're living beyond our means. We're spending too much and borrowing too much. We have surrendered our streets to yobbery and incivility. Britain's schools are failing the poorest members of society. He needs to promise a government that will put things right and he should tell the British people that it won't be easy or painless. We need to forget the focus groups and the polling for just one minute and tell the truth about a nation that is in trouble. Mr Cameron might be surprised at voters' reaction. Our hunch is that the first politician to tell the British people 'how it really is' will form a bond with many millions of them."
From reports it appears that David Cameron will deliver something close to that speech today, in Cheltenham.
With the considerable exception of the party's opposition to Darling's autumn stimulus (although even that was backed by considerable private polling) the Tories have been very unwilling to get ahead of public opinion on the recession. And let's be clear: This tactic has been an enormous political success. A second YouGov poll put the Tories 18% ahead last night. The collapse of Labour means that it's as certain as anything in politics that David Cameron will be Prime Minister. Political success doesn't mean success for the country, of course. New Labour were an enormous political success but did not succeed as a government.
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April 26, 2009 at 08:45 in Conservative strategy, ConservativeHome Editorials, Tax and spending | Permalink | Comments (41)
Hague throws rhetorical kitchen sink at the "decomposing political muckheap" that is Labour's frontbench
William Hague once promised that New Labour would first be greeted with fascination, then admiration, then disillusionment and finally contempt.
Speaking to Tory candidates in Cheltenham (right) he made the strongest and most negative attack on Labour of the Cameron era.
He described Labour as the "disgustingly grubbiest" of all administrations of the modern era. He said that Labour had been "narrow partisan and factional" rather than statesmanlike. The Conservatives now have a solemn duty to remove "these people" from office, he continued. We must "spare no effort to get rid of this government."
The Shadow Foreign Secretary said as he sat opposite the Labour benches on Budget day that they looked and sounded as though they were bereft of ideas. Disraeli once compared the government of his day to exhausted volcanoes but, said Hague, Labour ministers looked like a "decomposing political muckheap."
Tory activists have long wanted the leadership to be much more negative about Labour but Tory strategists were anxious not to get ahead of the public mood. William Hague - who will not have acted without the agreement of Andy Coulson and George Osborne - has decided that the public mood is now at that famous contempt phase.
April 25, 2009 at 16:39 in Conservative strategy | Permalink | Comments (40)
How the Conservative machine plans to win power for David Cameron
Peter Oborne writes today that a Tory victory is far from certain. He does not believe that there is yet a groundswell of support for David Cameron in the way there was for Tony Blair in the mid-1990s. He also thinks that the views of many Tories on, for example, fox hunting and the NHS - as expounded this week by Edward Garnier MP and Dan Hannan MEP - could yet frighten voters.
But The Telegraph suggests that current polling in marginal seats - where the party leads by 14% - points to a big Conservative victory. The marginal seats data is part of a major Telegraph feature that profiles key elements of the Tory plan to ensure that victory IS delivered:
Framing the election as a choice between David Cameron and Gordon Brown: CCHQ is very confident that David Cameron is a huge political asset for the party. "The election will be all about David v Gordon [Brown], Cameron will be plastered over everything we do," a source tells The Telegraph: "Not since the focus on Margaret Thatcher will you see a Conservative campaign so focused on one person."
A focus on middle-of-the-road swing voters: Citing the decision to return Ken Clarke to the frontbench and to accept Labour's 45p tax band The Telegraph quotes a strategist as saying "there is no point in focussing on immigration, Europe and other traditional right-wing areas as it will no longer attract voters as they are already on side. But it might put some voters off."
A focus on the three big issues of healthcare, education and the economy.
Different campaigns for different seats: As already revealed by ConservativeHome the party is not just focusing on geographical clusters of marginal seats but also on "seaside towns" and "new towns", for example. Each cluster receives a different style of literature and a different messages are emphasised.
A capacity for immediate rebuttal: "In Coleshill in the West Midlands, a rapid response unit has been established with its own printing facility. It is able to immediately print "rebuttal" leaflets which can be delivered within hours. This was trialled with devastating effect when the Lib Dems attempted a dirty trick in last year's Henley by-election. If Labour airs a damaging political broadcast, the Conservatives should be able to have a leaflet rebutting the claims on doormats before breakfast the following morning."
The Conservative's "electoral board" meets once a week to discuss tactics. Chaired by George Osborne, the board also includes Andy Coulson; Stephen Gilbert, the chief of Lord Ashcroft's polling and seats operation; and Ed Llewellyn, David Cameron's chief-of-staff.
April 11, 2009 at 05:18 in CCHQ, Conservative strategy | Permalink | Comments (39)
The medicine manifesto
Last Wednesday I asked for ideas for unpopular policies that (a) Britain needed and (b) might, through their authenticity, cause a paradoxical increase in popularity. I've repeated my three unpopular policy suggestions in the list below and have added seven ideas from the comments threads to produce what I've dubbed 'The medicine manifesto'. Swallow the manifesto for five years and it should make Britain healthier...
Illness 1: Britain’s worst debt crisis.
Medicine: Years of public spending restraint including a few years of real cuts in the size of the state.
Illness 2: Hostility towards wealth creation.
Medicine: Opposition to populist measures like higher taxation of the rich that will ultimately damage the economy’s potential to create jobs.
Illness 3: Global terrorism.
Medicine: An increased commitment to Afghanistan so that the Taliban do not have the opportunity to harbour a new generation of al-Qaeda terrorist camps.
Illness 4: A human rights culture that defies common sense.
Medicine: Withdrawal from the ECHR.
Illness 5: A lack of economically-useful skills amongst the British population.
Medicine: Ending the 50% target for the proportion of the population going to university and pouring the savings into high quality apprenticeships and other forms of vocational education.
Illness 6: A police service that has lost the respect of middle England.
Medicine: Wholescale police reform and the direct election of police chiefs.
Illness 7: The lights are about to go out.
Medicine: The construction of twenty new nuclear power stations, in co-operation with France if necessary.
Illness 8: An expensive benefits and tax credit system that has introduced complexity but reduced incentives to work.
Medicine: Abolition of the tax credit system and all savings ploughed into higher income tax thresholds.
Illness 9: The growth of lifestyle illnesses including obesity.
Medicine: The NHS should charge people who call on medical help because of lifestyle choices. The charge does not need to represent 100% of the cost of treatment. In some cases the charge would be token.
Illness 10: A generation that doesn’t know anything about British history, can’t cook and doesn’t know what an APR is.
Medicine: Compulsory home economics, history and financial literacy education for all schoolchildren.
How much should George Osborne reveal on tax and spending plans?
All the details are on today's ConservativeHome frontpage but there is some confusion about yesterday's seemingly get-tough message from George Osborne on public sector pay. The FT leads its morning edition with the story - headlining 'Tories take risk over pay and pensions' - but The Times says that advisers to Mr Osborne "backtracked" from the idea of a confrontation with the unions. The Daily Mail, in a leader praising Vince Cable, accuses the Shadow Chancellor of "muttering" about public spending control but lacking a clear plan.
It's the biggest question facing the Tories this side of the election: How much should be said about post-election plans on tax and spending? We asked Tory members for advice for the party leadership. On a forced question we asked members to choose between three options:
Maximum openness: "Closer to the election the Conservative Party should give voters a very honest and open indication of the changes to tax and spending that will be necessary to restore order to the public finances."
Medium openness: "The Conservatives should avoid specifics but lay out the general principles for recovery in the public finances, saying that spending will be brought under control and taxes increased if necessary."
Minimum openness: "The Conservative Party should say that the economic situation is grim and we cannot write a budget until we have seen the books."
The results confirm that it's not an easy choice...!
April 07, 2009 at 08:54 in Conservative strategy, Tax and spending | Permalink | Comments (46)
"I want to be forgotten as party chairman... The really successful party chairmen are the ones you don't really remember": Eric Pickles talks to ConservativeHome two months into his new role
It's a couple of months now since Eric Pickles took up the role of Conservative Party Chairman, and by all accounts he is loving the job - rather like the child who has finally been allowed to take the controls of the train set. Yet there is only one thing on which he is focusing - winning the general election - and when I met him in his office at CCHQ to talk about how he is settling into the new job, he refused to be distracted from that aim.
"What I'm trying to bring to this job and to the building is a focus on the election; if it ain't about the election, we've got to think about it in 18 months’ time," he asserts. "Nothing matters to me more than these elections in June and the one that will follow at some time. And that's what I'm here to do. There are some people placed as party chairman to be great reformers of the party. My job is to make sure this place is working happily, contentedly, but focused on those elections."
Party employees tell me that they have been impressed with his approach to the job, not least the little ways in which he shows his appreciation for what they do. Personalised notes arrive when someone is deemed to merit special praise and I gather that he also sends birthday cards to all CCHQ staff.
"Part of my job... is to encourage folk," he says. " I'm here to bring the best out of people, I'm not here to throw my weight around. You can either stand at this door and shout at people or you can wander up to their desk and just encourage. I want to ensure that everyone feels part of a big team. They're not doing it for the money, they're working as part of a cause they feel committed to. I think that has to be recognised."
He does a full tour of CCHQ once a week in order to get that chance to speak one-to-one with employees and one of his first decisions in the job was to reinstate a weekly staff meeting.
"It's about showing people what we're doing, why we're doing it and how we're going to be doing it. I hope that's made a difference, and I'm told folks appreciate that."
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March 24, 2009 at 06:45 in CCHQ, Conservative strategy, Party conferences, Party democracy and membership | Permalink | Comments (23)
Have we reached the point where the Conservatives can win a working Commons majority?
The Daily Telegraph's Philip Johnston is one of my favourite columnists and his well-researched, analytical pieces are always well worth reading.
In today's Telegraph, he turns his attention to whether or not David Cameron has taken the Conservative Party to a position in which it will win enough seats to form a majority government after the next election.
He draws widely on comparisons between recent YouGov polls and similar surveys undertaken during the 1990s:
"In a poll early in 1995, Mr Blair ranked as the most highly esteemed leader of any opposition party since records began, with 68 per cent approval ratings. More than 55 per cent thought he would make the best prime minister. Compare those figures with the findings of the latest YouGov poll... Mr Cameron is seen as the best prime minister by 33 per cent, compared with 36 per cent who don't know (though 43 per cent choose him in a head to head with Gordon Brown).
"When voters are asked which party can best run the economy, about one third think the Tories can. And while this is a greater proportion than have confidence in Labour's economic acumen, this is, let us remember, in the midst of possibly the worst economic crisis since the 1930s."
Going on to point out the various ways in which the electoral system is loaded against the Conservatives - over-representation for Labour in Wales and the inner cities, lower turnouts in Labour areas etc - he repeats the stark electoral arithmetic which will face the Conservatives at the next election.
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March 16, 2009 at 09:00 in Conservative strategy | Permalink | Comments (61)
"We will be the most unpopular government in memory by the end of our first six months."
That quote comes from a "senior Cameroon" according to Matthew d'Ancona in The Sunday Telegraph.
The Spectator's Editor sees Friday's apology from David Cameron as an attempt to wipe the slate clean; not just a clever tactical attempt to put Gordon Brown in the spotlight for his failure to say 'sorry'. He writes:
"As the self-styled "heir to Blair", Cameron initially branded himself as a Blairite with a blue rosette: he would be "post-Blair", rather than "anti-Blair", completing the New Labour revolution in public services rather than turning back the clock. He would reclaim for the Tory Party the centre ground that Blair had commanded for more than a decade and that Brown had vacated. He would spend less than New Labour – but still spend prodigiously. Though he would have objected strenuously to being described as such, Cameron Mark One was in many respects a "consensus" politician. Well, no longer. In Birmingham on Friday, the man who will probably be prime minister in little more than a year disowned the very same consensus, apologised for his part in it, and urged the voters to brace themselves for tough decisions. By saying sorry, he wiped the slate clean. And in politics, there is nothing more thrilling, or more alarming, than a newly-cleaned slate."
What will Mr Cameron write on to this clean slate? An end to certain public spending pledges? Overall cuts in public spending? Tax rises? A new regulatory regime? Time will tell.
'The Left must rescue Cameron from the Tory Right'
That's Jenni Russell's message in her column for The Guardian. She accepts that the Conservatives are almost certain to be Britain's next government and she encourages the Left to engage with David Cameron and avoid him (a) failing or/and (b) coming under the influence of the dreadful Tory right:
"The dominance of the progressive wing of the party can't be taken for granted. It is a fragile thing, and if it is to succeed it needs constructive criticism. I asked two insiders how many people in the party were fully behind this new Toryism. "Ten," said one, "but it's an important ten." Another said grimly: "Twenty-two - the shadow cabinet." Standing behind the more socially responsible Conservatives are plenty of gin-drinking, Mail-reading Tories nostalgic for the harshness of Thatcherism. They would cheer, along with the left, if this experiment failed."
The Cameroons tend to be dazzled by wooing from the Left: I do worry that the Cameroons are too flattered by the Guardian and other left-wing organisations that show them interest. It's true that the Conservative project needs to be broadly based but there's too much fascination with unsatisfactory ideas like Red Toryism and nudging. Old fashioned ideas like Margaret Thatcher's housewife economics may not be so sexy but they are the ones that will get our country out of Labour's economic mess.
Will the Left cool on Cameron if he pursues his social agenda? The most genuine (and important) thing about Project Cameron is its interest in social renewal. It will be interesting to see how the Left's view of a Cameron government evolves if it stays true to its poverty-fighting agenda of emphasising marriage, faith-based charities, welfare reform, school choice and harm avoidance approaches to drug addiction.
The Right lacks coherence: Jenni Russell's caricature of the Tory Right is ridiculous but the Right is now very hard to define. There is no great unifying force behind it if it exists at all anymore. There is certainly no accepted definition of Thatcherism. The Tory Right is split on Europe, foreign policy and confused on economics. It has no leader although David Davis, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Fallon, Liam Fox, John Hayes, Edward Leigh, Owen Paterson, John Redwood and John Whittingdale all represent important strands.
The ten who get it: And who are the "ten" who are fully behind the undefined "new Toryism"? I am only sure of six...
David Cameron, of course.
George Osborne, more socially liberal and more hawkish than DC but the tactical brain of the whole project.
Steve Hilton, the strategic brain responsible for the decontamination project, for the emphasis on green issues and social responsibility.
Edward Llewellyn, Cameron's Chief of Staff, gatekeeper and hugely influential in the evolution towards 'realpolitik' in foreign policy.
Oliver Letwin, responsible for putting together the overall policy programme of the next government and intellectually its Gandalf.
Michael Gove, hugely trusted by David Cameron and responsible for the education brief that is intended to be the most radical of his government....
There are others, of course, who are hugely influential - Lord Ashcroft, Andy Coulson, Andrew MacKay are stand outs - but the above six would be my candidates for being fully behind the "new Toryism" and who are at the centre of power.
March 03, 2009 at 09:02 in Compassionate conservatism, Conservative strategy, Team Cameron, The Conservative Right | Permalink | Comments (117)
Should the Conservative Opposition do more opposing?
Iain Dale wrote a short but exasperated blog post late last night in which he expressed his frustration at the Conservatives' failure to oppose the Government on two measures yesterday: the part-privatisation of the Post Office and the blocking of the release of Cabinet minutes discussing the decision to go to war in Iraq.
On the latter issue, I am on the record as writing here just last month that Cabinet minutes are best kept private if we seriously want a return to Cabinet government, so I wholeheartedly back Jack Straw on that one; on the Post Office my instinct too is that the Conservatives are right to back the Government.
But do you agree? Should the attitude of being a mature opposition, supporting the Government when it is doing the right thing, be scrapped in favour of bashing Labour whenever it might be politically expedient to do so?
Or should the party always put the country first, supporting Labour on certain issues, even if it means foregoing the possibility of inflicting an embarrassing defeat or two on the Government?
February 25, 2009 at 08:52 in Conservative strategy | Permalink | Comments (68)
Senior Tories ponder "generous outreach" to Liberal Democrats in event of Tory win
Senior Tories are debating the extent of outreach that should be made to the Liberal Democrats in the event of the Conservatives becoming the governing party at the next General Election.
Tory strategists are hopeful that the next election will see the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party significantly reduced in size but they also believe that the Conservatives have a long-term interest in ensuring that Britain's third party looks as much to the Conservative Party as to the Labour Party as a future natural coalition partner.
I understand that a group of shadow ministers believe that one of Tony Blair's bigger strategic mistakes was to row back on co-operation with the Liberal Democrats when he won such a large Commons majority in 1997. These shadow ministers believe that - contrary to Labour's 'under-delivery' to the LibDems - the Conservatives should deliver more in practical co-operation in government than they promise in opposition.
The discussion is not of ministerial positions - although there might be some significant appointments to policy reviews - but of working groups on issues of shared interest. Action on civil liberties and on green issues are on the table.
PS Congratulations to Nick Clegg this morning. His wife has given birth to the couple's third child, a son.
2pm: Peter Hoskin at Coffee House sees merit in the plan: "As for the Tories and their wider strategy, shacking up with the Lib Dems makes a whole load of sense. Not only would it isolate Labour, but it meets calls for bipartisanship-in-government to deal with the economic crisis."
Tuesday, 7.30am: LibDemVoice responds to this post.
February 23, 2009 at 08:55 in Conservative strategy, LibDem-Tory relations | Permalink | Comments (94)
Is David Cameron a secret radical?
Most Tory members think David Cameron is too cautious. In this week's leader (not yet online), The Spectator offers three arguments for believing that the Tory leader might be more radical than some believe:
On localism: "The ending of Whitehall capping powers and the introduction of local referendums to enable residents to overturn bad budgets would be a very desirable transference of financial control from the mandarin to the man in the street. The removal of disincentives to build houses, the devolution of planning power, the plans to plough the fruits of local businesses back into the community, the proposed statutory presumption enabling town halls to act in the best interests of their voters, even if no specific legislation supports their actions: all these measures, if matched by serious political will, would be significant steps towards the growth of a genuine localist culture." [I worry, however, that only controlling instincts have been on show in opposition].
On schools: "The Spectator has pressed, and will continue to press, for more grammar schools. But the Conservatives’ plan to adopt the Swedish model of independent schools, enabling parents, voluntary groups and businesses to establish their own educational establishments funded by vouchers, is a truly radical blueprint which we support wholeheartedly. The Swedish experiment has shown how the liberalisation of public services can triumph where top-down, centralised bureaucracies and targets have failed." Definitely. Michael Gove is the most oustanding member of Mr Cameron's team.
On marriage and the family: "On the family, Mr Cameron is much more radical than his recent predecessors, daring to state explicitly what is empirically obvious: that the family is the fundamental building-block of any social order and requires unambiguous support from government. On the Broken Society, he has faced down those in his party nervous of speaking the truth about welfare dependency, addiction, dysfunctional families and forgotten communities." Mr Cameron says he's a "marriage nut" and ConHome welcomes that but we've yet to see policies that are up to the job of addressing the scale of the problem.
The area where radicalism is most going to be required is, of course, on the economy. When will the Tory leadership tell us how it will restore order to Gordon Brown's terrible fiscal position? A serious programme to control spending will almost certainly necessitate radical reform of the state.
The defections have started
The Sunday Telegraph has the story of Labour's welfare guru, David Freud, and his journey towards becoming a Tory peer.
Fraser Nelson writes (my emphasis):
"This gives several deeply encouraging signals. First, Cameron is willing to identify genuine experts: he is serious about reform. The appointment of May had, I confess, led me to question this. Next, Cameron is getting serious defections. I hear that more are in the pipeline. And most importantly. Cameron is mature enought to identify and bolster the best ideas of this exhausted Labour Government. Welfare reform and City Academies are great ideas, and if you let the momentum slack then you lose years on the reform agenda. The Blairites did have excellent ideas for government, and Brown hasn't managed to destroy them all. As I say in my News of the World column tomorrow, all they need now is Lord Adonis. He was, after all, a LibDem once. Surely he could go for a hat trick?"
2pm, 15th February: Statement from David Cameron:
“One of the biggest challenges facing the next Government will be that of mass unemployment and how we can get Britain back to work. David Freud is a hugely impressive figure who has done more than anyone else to highlight how we can do just that and I am delighted that he has agreed to join my frontbench team.”
February 14, 2009 at 21:59 in Conservative strategy, Welfare reform | Permalink | Comments (58)
Tories consider '21st Century Domesday Book' that would define Labour for a generation
The Winter of Discontent and images of rubbish uncollected and unburied dead were used by the Thatcher governments to define the economic and social failure of the 1970s Labour Party.
ConservativeHome understands that Tory strategists are considering a bold attempt to find a 21st Century equivalent that would define the Labour Party for another generation.
Under consideration is the compilation of a Domesday Book analysis of Labour's legacy. It would be one of the first acts of an incoming Conservative government. New Cabinet ministers would be ordered to prepare an audit of their portfolios. Four to six weeks later a Domesday statement of the extent of public borrowing, the weakness of the nation's energy infrastructure, the weakness of family structure and so on would be published. As well as serving as a statement of challenges it would then be hung around the neck of the Labour Party.
4pm: Other blogs on this story:
James Forsyth: The Tories are right to be thinking about how to buy time once they are in government
Iain Martin: Tories consider a "Labour Domesday Book" if they win the general election
January 30, 2009 at 08:29 in Conservative strategy | Permalink | Comments (52)
David Cameron to set out the four aims of "Progressive Conservatism"
David Cameron is making a speech to Demos this afternoon in which he will set out the four aims of "Progressive Conservatism" as:
a fair society
a green environment
safety for citizens
The Evening Standard characterises the speech as being designed to show the party's desire to "use Conservative policies to achieve traditionally Left-leaning ends such as the abolition of child poverty and increased social mobility", thereby attempting to appeal to Labour and Lib Dem-inclined voters.
Tim is going to be attending the speech, so check back here later for full coverage and analysis of what David Cameron has to say.
Update: Tim has posted here.
David Cameron claims similarity between the Tory and Obama messages
This from conservatives.com:
"David Cameron praised Barack Obama for setting out “a different agenda” and for putting the emphasis on responsibility ahead of his inauguration. In a radio interview on 5 Live, David stressed, “He’s not saying, ‘I will make all the changes myself’; he’s not saying ‘I’m a top-down politician who can just pull the levers and change the world.’ He’s saying we are all in this together and we have all got to bring this change about.”
David welcomed Obama’s message that change comes when everyone plays their part – and stressed, “What I find so convincing about his speeches and about what I think he will say today is this emphasis on responsibility.”
David said today would be an “emotional” day, with America having gone from segregation to a black President in a few decades. “The most emotional thing I found was when you watched those people in America talking about how they took pictures of their parents into the polling stations - that really brought home to me just what it means to people to see this happen.”"
Earlier today Ben Brogan noted that Team Obama will have observed Brown's falling poll ratings. America's 44th President will know that they may have a year of Brown in Downing Street but the strong likelihood is that the vast majority of his presidency will overlap with David Cameron as UK PM.
> Full text of Obama's Inaugural Address
Update: David Cameron issued this statement to the Wall Street Journal: ""Responsibility is the most defining value of my politics. So for me the most important phrase in the speech was this: "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility". This passage was important because he wasn't saying that he can change the world single-handedly, he was saying that it is only if we all do our bit that we can get the change we want. Before he'd even moved into the White House he'd already achieved something that only the greatest Presidents achieve: inspiring people to have faith in their capacity to make a difference in the world."
Cameron and Osborne are close to a winning economic message (and a project for government)
On Coffee House yesterday Fraser Nelson was marvelling at the size of Barack’s. Much bigger than Gordon’s. Even Angela Merkel now has one. So, too, does Stephen Harper. Almost every politician of left and right is keen to show off the size of their fiscal stimulus.
Standing aside from the herd is Britain’s Conservative Party. I think bravely and correctly.
The stance is producing charges of being the do-nothing party from Labour. The do-nothing attack is clearly ridiculous. David Cameron and George Osborne supported the biggest bank bailout in British history. They have endorsed reductions in interest rates to levels never seen before in this country. They are advocating £50bn of guarantees for bank lending. There is nothing passive about the Tory economic policy but, crucially, the party hasn’t thrown away all sense of prudence in the rush to do something… the rush to do anything.
In five years’ time – perhaps sooner – economists and others will be examining the fiscal measures now being rushed into effect by Washington, London and Berlin. My prediction is that we will be reflecting on an orgy of wasteful spending. We’ll be reflecting on job creation programmes that created no lasting employment and infrastructure spending that produced bridges to nowhere. Japan is littered with infrastructural white elephants from its failed 1990s fiscal stimulus. The white elephants of this decade’s fiscal stimuli are more likely to have a sickly green hue. Fiscal stimuli cannot be fast AND effective. Well planned spending programmes won’t impact the economy for some time. Immediately impactful spending programmes cannot be well planned.
The Conservatives, of course, need a message now. Brown is trying to frame the political choice before the British people as the choice between the do-what-it-takes Labour Party and the do-nothing Conservatives. That’s not a fair choice. The real choice is between a Labour Party careless with the British people’s money – think Millennium Dome, NHS supercomputer, tax credits fiasco, gold mis-selling and a pointless £12bn VAT cut – and a government that will treat every taxpayer pound with great respect. This choice needs to be communicated with some anger. The scale of Labour waste is breathtaking.
Just as David Cameron gives too many speeches, The Sunday Times' David Smith is right to point out that George Osborne sends out too many press releases. Rather than commenting on every economic development the Tories need one big economic message and I think that David Cameron and George Osborne are almost there (and they've been right to take their time). ‘We will spend your money wisely’ isn’t just an election-winning position. It’s the beginning of a great work; the restoration of sanity to the public finances.
January 12, 2009 at 08:56 in Conservative strategy, Economic Policy, Tax and spending | Permalink | Comments (40)
David Cameron's New Year message
Just released by CCHQ and published in full below. In his message the Conservative leader promises that he won't drop his green, social justice and international responsibility agendas but will "step up the pace" on them. He accuses Labour of losing its moral compass and of being "corrupted by power". Boris' message is also pasted at the end of the post.
“In my New Year message three years ago, I said that I wanted the modern Conservative Party to be a voice for change, optimism and hope. What was true in the good times is even truer now that times are tough, and getting tougher. People are looking to us for hope in these dark days, and we must be ready to offer it: hard-edged hope, built on a clear-sighted analysis of what has gone wrong and how we can put it right.
That provides this Party with three important tasks for 2009. First, we must show that we have learned the lessons of Labour’s Debt Crisis and will never let it happen again. Second, we must offer constructive and positive ideas to help keep people in work and in their homes, and make sure the recession is as short, shallow and painless as possible. But third and perhaps most important of all, we must set out our positive vision of change: to describe the new economy and the new society that we want to build once the recession is over and the recovery underway.
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December 30, 2008 at 11:21 in Boris Johnson (Mayor), Compassionate conservatism, Conservative strategy, Environment, The big picture | Permalink | Comments (36)
Shadow cabinet to retain outside interests after all
It was being suggested at the beginning of November that David Cameron intended putting an end to members of the Shadow Cabinet retaining lucrative outside interests.
However, the FT is now reporting that he has been forced to backtrack amid a potential rebellion from within the ranks.
It cites one anonymous shadow cabinet member as blaming the previous report on "kite-flying" by the well-paid strategist Steve Hilton:
“Even if no one quit, this would have created real unhappiness and why sour things now? You’d get people calling on the party to pay their tax bills for next year and asking why Andy Coulson [Mr Cameron’s press chief] is paid so much more than them."
Shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, was typically robust in his defence of senior shadow ministers retaining outside interests:
“Better to be part-time wise than full-time ignorant.”
I am sympathetic to the view that a blanket ban on all outside jobs would be wrong and that there is only a problem if any outside interests are adversely affecting an individual's ability to carry out his front bench duties.
However, in order to be taken as a serious government-in-waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.
Such an attitude at this juncture is unacceptable.
December 23, 2008 at 07:22 in Conservative strategy, David Cameron, Frontbench, Government-in-waiting? | Permalink | Comments (61)
Forget the talk of an early election
This morning's YouGov poll, published in the Daily Telegraph, is surely the final nail in the coffin of any speculation about Gordon Brown calling a snap general election early in the New Year.
After the Prime Minister bottled calling an election in the autumn of 2007, I have always taken the view that it would be a long Parliament with a general election not taking place until 2010.
I was further convinced of this when Alistair Darling predicted in the pre-Budget report that the economy would begin growing again in the third quarter of next year: most experts view this as a very optimistic forecast, but he made it nonetheless. As such, calling an election before next autumn would surely enable the Conservatives and the media to make the charge that Brown was cutting and running in advance of a longer than predicted recession. "What do you know that you're not telling us?" we would be entitled to ask.
All the same, with a seeming "Brown bounce" in the polls, there has been almost fevered speculation around Westminster over the last fortnight about the idea of Brown going to the country in the late winter or spring of 2009. But I would venture that this bounce has now come to an end.
Whilst it is always unwise to look at any one poll in isolation, a trend is beginning to emerge as far as the recent YouGov polls are concerned, with increasing Tory leads of 4%, 6% and now 7% being recorded over the last month.
And assuming that this trend continues as the economic news gets worse, I am more convinced than ever that the election is a long way off - a view shared by two political editors writing in this morning's papers.
Andrew Porter writes in the Telegraph:
"The Tories have talked themselves onto an election war footing, but if Mr Brown would not countenance one when a Telegraph poll put him 11 points head in September last year a seven point deficit is hardly the stuff that will embolden him."
Meanwhile, Andrew Grice - presumably writing before the figures of the latest poll emerged - states in the Independent:
"While it might boost Mr Brown's prospects to hold an election in mid-recession, he knows that calling one might boomerang. It could look like an attempt to exploit the downturn to extend his mandate, a dangerous act when people feel little real affection for any party... So talk of a snap February 2009 poll is wide of the mark... he knows the bounce will probably end soon. That is why he is unlikely to call an election in 2009."
Of course, it is right that CCHQ should be prepared to fight an election whenever it is called, but I think that those charged with running the campaign should now be able to enjoy a rather more relaxed Christmas.
December 20, 2008 at 08:59 in Conservative strategy, Gordon Brown, Opinion polls | Permalink | Comments (32)
Gordon Brown will grant David Cameron access to the civil service in the New Year
In my earlier post about Gordon Brown's performance at his press conference on CentreRight, I also mentioned that the Prime Minister failed to answer Ben Brogan's question about whether or not he would honour Tony Blair's previous promise to give David Cameron and the shadow cabinet access to the civil service as of the New Year.
This has always been offered by convention to the Opposition, in order that they can discuss with Whitehall departments what they would hope to be doing if elected into office.
Ben Brogan has now got his response:
"Barely two hours later and the fax machine in Mr Cameron's office has whirred out a letter from the Prime Minister confirming that yes indeed, those meetings can go ahead as agreed by Tony Blair in 2006. So from January 1st, Conservative front benchers will be free to open talks with senior officials about implementing the Conservative manifesto in 2010, assuming it ever comes to that."
Quite right too. Any attempt to renege on the previously agreed arrangement would have been an outrageously partisan act.
December 19, 2008 at 16:23 in Conservative strategy, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Government-in-waiting? | Permalink | Comments (10)
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“… Andrew Kreig, author of Presidential Puppetry … makes a case that the JFK assassination fundamentally changed American politics. Presidents from LBJ through Obama have understood that they serve at the pleasure of the CIA. … Every recent presidential candidate (both parties) has been pre-vetted, trained and promoted by the CIA. …”
By Josh Mitteldorf
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There are people who have devoted their careers to untangling the history of the JFK assassination, and for this I am grateful. But I came to the AARC conference in Bethesda this weekend hoping to get a broad sense of who was behind the plot, and how heirs to power in the wake of JFK continue to corrupt America to this day. In this, I was disappointed.
Fifty years on, there is agreement only on the outline of a narrative: JFK was shot by several gunmen hiding on the ground in Dealey Plaza. Oswald had been pre-selected as scapegoat. CIA and LBJ were prime movers in the plot, but they could not have gotten away with what they did if JFK had not stood up to powerful military and financial interests and provoked their ire. Most readers of this site have long realized that the Warren Commission report was a whitewash, and that JFK was assassinated by a conspiracy of government insiders.
I was surprised that about half the presentations yesterday (and those planned today and tomorrow) were directed toward debunking (yet again) the official “lone assassin” theory. Another segment of the conference was devoted to tussles with the National Archive over release of documents. In addition, there were hours spent describing the forensic sleuth-work used to decode CIA documents that have come into public view, and to sort out the many pseudonyms used by the few key players. I’m grateful that there are dedicated people who do this work, but details at this level are interesting only to afficionados.
Old Men, First-hand Accounts
Ernst Titovets, now a medical researcher at University of Minsk, reminisced about Lee Harvey Oswald, pal of his youth during two years when Oswald lived abroad in the USSR. He told us that Oswald was voluble, idealistic, a pacifist and admirer of President Kennedy. He described Oswald’s political vision as combining the socialist economy of Soviet Russia with the freedom and democracy of the USA. He was convinced a better world was coming, as both systems would soon implode from their own excesses.
In the day’s high point, we heard a first-hand confirmation of CIA primacy in the plot. Antonio Veciana, now 86 years old and infirm, was a Cuban exile and anti-Castro activist, recruited by CIA personnel. (He spoke through a translator yesterday, though his English is not so bad.) He had heard through his handlers of the assassination plot in 1963, which at the time he thought to be justified by JFK’s softness on Castro. A few years later, he came to a more sympathetic view of JFK, and regretted not having spoken up when he could. But he has waited until this year to bare his history and speak out. (He spoke glowingly of JFK’s American University address.)
Central to Veciana’s narrative and several other accounts during the day was a story of the Cuba connection, and the reason that Earl Warren was coerced into lending his reputation and credibility to an absurd cover-up. In addition to the “lone nut” story, scapegoating Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA had prepared another false account for selective, internal use. Oswald was sent by CIA agent David Atlee Phillips (aka Maurice Bishop) to Mexico City to get a Cuban visa. As pre-arranged, the visa request was denied. But the trip to Mexico and a (disputed) visit to the Cuban Embassy were used to fabricate a story
that Oswald was an agent of Castro
that JFK and RFK had plotted to kill Castro
that Castro had envoyed assassins to take out JFK pre-emptively
Three times, LBJ approached Earl Waren to head the investigation, and three times he declined. Finally, Warren was convinced that if the American people knew “the truth”, they would demand a full-blown invasion of Cuba, risking war with the Soviet Union. Warren thought he was lying to save the world from nuclear holocaust. Or so the story goes.
Threads to the Present
Andrew Kreig, author of Presidential Puppetry and occasional OEN contributor, makes a case that the JFK assassination fundamentally changed American politics. Presidents from LBJ through Obama have understood that they serve at the pleasure of the CIA, and demands placed on them have been increasingly audacious and destructive. Kreig goes further to assert that every recent presidential candidate (both parties) has been pre-vetted, trained and promoted by the CIA.
This speaks to the importance of correcting the record, and of the timeliness of a new investigation to tell us who were the heirs to power in the wake of the Coup of 1963, and how they connect forward to the people leading our country today. It also helps explain why the National Archives has never complied with the 1992 order from Congress to de-classify all records related to the case; why the assassination has become a taboo topic in the MSM; and why so many people who certainly know better pretend that JFK’s assassination was an isolated tragedy.
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Ruth Klamper
The Navy has its first female applicants for its most elite special warfare roles. Two women have enlisted in the Special Warfare Combatant-Crewman (SWCC) program and SEAL officer program, in hopes of joining the Navy’s special operations teams.
The identity of the candidates and their progress cannot be revealed, due to operational security concerns, as public attention in the training pipeline could affect a candidate’s safety and career.
These candidates signify a momentous milestone for the Navy, which has previously allowed women into every career field except the SEALs and SWCC communities.
In January 2016, the Defense Department issued a mandate for the Pentagon to open all ground combat and special operations jobs to women. These candidates are the first female applicants in the 18 months since that historic change took effect.
Although these women have already made history, they still face a long road ahead of them, which includes some of the most daunting attrition rates in any military training process.
“Naval Special Warfare relies on assessing, selecting and training the best and most fully qualified candidates in order to deliver the world’s premier maritime special operations force,” says Lieutenant Commander Mark Walton, United States Navy Public Affairs and Media Officer for Naval Special Warfare Command. “Our validated occupational standards are the product of more than 50 years of performance specific to NSW. Any changes would be a disservice to the exceptional candidates willing to test and perform within the established standards. Our validated, gender-neutral occupational standards will apply to all Naval Special Warfare candidates.”
Eight SEAL and seven SWCC classes have graduated since March 2016, according to a Naval Special Warfare Center briefing last month for the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. All classes were entirely male.
Aspiring SEALs and SWCC candidates also go through intensive screening evaluations and training courses. “There is currently one female enlisted candidate who is in the training pipeline for Special Warfare Combatant Crewman (SWCC),” says LCDR Walton. “The accession pipeline includes several screening evaluations and months of standard Navy training (USNA, OCS, NROTC, Recruit training at Great Lakes, IL) before their arrival at Basic Underwater Demolition School training.”
“This summer a female midshipman will train with other future officers in a course of instruction that is a prerequisite for officers who want to attend SEAL training,” says Walton. “SEAL Officer Assessment & Selection (SOAS) is part of the accession pipeline to become a SEAL and the performance of attendees this summer will be a factor for evaluation at the September SEAL Officer Selection Panel.”
Each year approximately 1,000 SEAL candidates commence training. Although training success rates vary per class, usually about 200-250 SEAL candidates succeed each year. As for SWCC candidates, roughly 240 begin training every year with only 120 or so candidates successfully completing the intensive course each year.
Still, Walton wants to avoid needless speculation about when the first woman will enter an elite Navy force.
“It would be premature to speculate as to when we will see the first woman SEAL or SWCC graduate. Managing expectations is an important part of the deliberate assessment and selection process; it may take months and potentially years,” Walton states.
While it’s too early to predict the outcome of these women’s training, it’s becoming increasingly clear that these candidates are paving the way for future generations of women to be represented in special operational communities.
The candidates should be allowed the opportunity to succeed in their training pipelines on their own merit, away from the attention or scrutiny of the media and public. It is for that reason that The Coronado Times is committed to respecting the safety and operational policies the armed forces has in place and will not go to great lengths to identify these women.
A graduate of Florida Southern College, Ruth has worked for ABC, CBS, and FOX affiliates, as well as the Home Shopping Network. She has traveled the world on mission trips and looks forward to planning her next adventure abroad.Have news to share? Send tips, story ideas or letters to the editor to: manager@coronadotimes.com
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Undergraduate students from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Hansraj College bag plum job offers
In Mumbai, however, placements for undergraduate students in Xaviers, Sydneham college do not seem to be attracting such hefty pay packages.
Mahima Puri
Updated: Jan 17, 2012, 06.05 AM IST
While students at most premier management institutions are nervously gripping the edge of the placements seat, six undergraduate students at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi, have walked away with offers from Deutsche Bank with a salary package of Rs 16.5 lakh per annum.
But the SRCC offer is tempered with a stiff dose of reality: the offers are half of what the bank had given out to students of the college last year, and none of the postings are abroad.
The Rs 16.5-lakh salary package is the highest at SRCC so far. “This includes a fixed salary of Rs 10.5 lakh, a joining bonus of Rs 3 lakh and a performance bonus of Rs 3 lakh per annum,” says CS Sharma, professor in charge of placements at SRCC. The bank has offered jobs to three students each in global markets and corporate finance.
Over the past two years, the bank had offered jobs to two students from SRCC, with an annual salary package of Rs 39 lakh in 2011 and Rs 32 lakh in the year before. The jobs came with training in London and posting at a global location.
The bank did not comment on its hiring plans from undergraduate colleges. SRCC appears to have scored over other colleges due to its high cut-off and a legacy for quality education.
In June 2011, the ‘first list’ cut-off for science students at SRCC, was at 100%. “Employers are more likely to believe that even the average students from SRCC would be better than those at colleges with a lower cut-off,” explains NS Rajan, partner & global leader — people and organisation at Ernst & Young.
Chinmaya Golecha, a 20-year-old student of BCom from SRCC, is among those who have received offers from Deutsche this year. “We were hoping the bank will come up with offers similar to the past two years, but that did not happen. The bright side is, there are six people likely to get hired this year, instead of only one,” he said. The second highest offer in terms of salary package has come from Citibank for two students, at Rs 10.5 lakh per annum. Citibank had hired only one student from SRCC last year.
SRCC has placed about 160 students so far. Among other recruiters at SRCC are McKinsey & Co, Bain & Co, Deloitte India and KPMG. The consulting firms have offered annual packages between Rs 2.2 lakh and Rs 8 lakh. KPMG alone has hired 24 students from the college. The placement process is expected to continue till April.
Apart from SRCC, the bank had also made presentations to students from Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) and St Stephen’s College in Delhi, but no offers are said to have been made so far at these colleges. While St Stephen’s College did not disclose details regarding job offers, LSR is hopeful Deutsche Bank will make offers in the next few days.
At Hansraj College, at least 75 students have received offers from companies such as Google India, Ernst & Young, Deloitte India, Milestone Interactive and Verity Knowledge Solutions.
Another 25-30 offers are in the process of getting finalised, says Devender Kundalia, one of the placement coordinators.
The annual salary packages being offered so far range between Rs 2.4 lakh and Rs 5.6 lakh. Jesus & Mary College too has placed 30 to 40 students so far, with a salary package of up to Rs 4.5 lakh per annum.
In Mumbai, however, placements for undergraduate students do not seem to be attracting such hefty pay packages.
While St Xavier’s College did not comment on its placement process, Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics said it has placed about 40 students so far. List of recruiters at Sydenham include Google India, Ernst & Young and Protiviti.
JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are also likely to participate in placements at the campus in the coming days, said Jharna Kalra, placement coordinator at the institute. Ms Kalra did not disclose any details regarding salary packages being offered this year, but said Ernst & Young had offered about Rs 3 lakh per annum at the college last year. This was the highest package at the college during the previous placement season.
The huge disparity between what undergraduate students are getting in Delhi vis-à-vis in Mumbai is perhaps due to employers’ belief that the best lot of students are at SRCC. “Companies hire from one college based on factors that include, whether this institute serves as a one-stop shop for the employer’s talent needs, is there an acknowledged pedigree and do the competitors hire from the same institute?” explains Rajan of E&Y.
During last year’s placements at SRCC, Shrey Gupta bagged the highest pay package in Delhi University, at Rs 39 lakh. He bettered the record of his senior, Adit Mathur, who received a Rs 32-lakh pay package from the same bank, which was the highest salary in 2010. While Gupta preferred to work in India, Mathur took up the offer.
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The modern drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), first appeared as a military device in World War II. Primitive by today’s standards, these unmanned flying machines conducted aerial reconnaissance taking still-shot photos behind enemy lines. Controlling them even from short distances wasn’t easy and avoiding enemy artillery was even harder. The cost, complexity and relatively limited use kept drone technology mostly within government and military hands through the 1950s and 1960s. As satellite communications matured in the 1970s and 1980s, controlling drones over longer distances allowed their use to expand. Commercial access of satellites and, eventually, long-distance wireless, made the use of drones more practical for law enforcement and scientific research use. Drone costs were still high, in the tens of thousands of dollars, but the value and reduced risk of injury to human life made the investment well worth the costs.
Over the last five years, two fundamental changes brought the use of drones to small businesses and consumers by a factor of 10. The first was a 2016 change in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations that allowed just about anyone to get a license to operate a drone. Prior to that, a commercial operator needed the equivalent of a pilot’s license, hardly something that most people were willing or able to get.
Major telecoms will use a connected web of drones to create temporary wireless communication networks in remote or disaster-struck areas
The second change was the drop in the cost of drones. Today we have more types, sizes and styles at relatively low cost, making them available to just about anyone. There are multi-rotor drones which are easy to maneuver and can easily carry small cameras for short periods of time. There are fixed-wing drones which can travel high and far but are less maneuverable. There are also single-rotor helicopter drones which can take off and land in tight spaces. Some of these cost less than $500 and fly hundreds of feet into the air. Add inexpensive HD video cameras and they can serve the needs of local news stations, non-profit relief agencies or anyone else who wants to “be” somewhere that they can’t get to in person.
The expanded availability has just started to trigger a wave of new businesses to support drones. Similar to what happened with affordable computers in the 1980s and 1990s, and then again with mobile phones, the businesses range from services to add-on products. Want a unique perspective captured on your special day? Photographers and videographers are using drones at weddings and other events to get unique pictures and videos. Want to learn how to fly a drone? Take a half day class at Fred’s Flying Academy. Did you crash your drone and now need it repaired? Just go to Joe’s Drone Repair shop and he’ll make it good as new for a fraction of the price of replacing it. Want to add some style to your drone? Visit Debbie’s Drone Designs where you can have someone paint your own logo and name on your flying machine. Want to pay for the one-time use of someone’s idle drone so you can deliver a last-minute gift? Just use your mobile app to request Rent-A-Drone - kind of an Uber for drones.
While these new business ideas will provide opportunities, how big companies will use drone technology to improve or expand their existing businesses is a big question.
Major telecoms will use a connected web of drones to create temporary wireless communication networks in remote or disaster-struck areas. This is already being tested as a less expensive and faster way to deploy high speed internet. It could be a short-term or permanent solution and certainly could be an alternative where expensive traditional infrastructure isn’t practical.
Probably the most publicized idea for using drones is package delivery. Amazon is leading the way by testing home delivery of packages up to 50 pounds from one of their growing network of warehouses. There are plenty of legal and regulatory hurdles to overcome but it seems likely to be just a matter of time before we have Amazon Prime Air.
Another idea is to use drones to gather data to supplement analytics and research businesses. Adding data that can be more easily gathered from the air with existing analytics services is sector that bears watching. Watching people, traffic patterns, and animal migrations quietly and inexpensively provides additional data points for businesses and their customers. Privacy advocates will certainly raise concerns, but drone data capture is no more or less invasive than the hundreds of surveillance cameras lining our city streets today.
Futurists say that 80 percent of the jobs that will be available in 2025 haven’t yet been introduced into our market. While expanding quickly, the drone industry is really just getting started. Military and government use will continue and the growing number of business and consumer uses is sure to cloud the sky with small flying machines in the coming years.
Drones don’t need sleep, just power and occasional maintenance, which makes them a great solution for many things that are better done from the air. Who knows? Maybe our future will be filled with shared, self-driving cars that are constantly in use and don’t need parking lots. That will leave a lot of open space that can be reused for short landing areas so drones can pick up and deliver packages, refuel and get serviced. Think about this – we may see drone-charging ports installed right next to electric car-charging stations.
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Competitive or threatening scenarios. 31 Freud wrote that a number of individuals
reported that they experience the first signs of delight in their genitals
during fighting or wrestling with playmates. Erections of human members are
Often in association with aggressive or awful dream situations. It’s been
Stressed that member-exhibition can have a purely competitive job, and that the
contraction of the muscular tissue of the human member, causing the erection,
may happen without sexual arousal, as an expression of aggression. 32
Many scholars point out that the erect member may symbolize dominance and
power. Bronze Age people of Scandinavia and northern Italy equated phallic
power with the power of the spear, the sword and the ax as is clear from their
petroglyphs. Other military things, notably clubs, can carry comparable
phallic symbolism. The club of Legba, the phallic god of African Dahomey,
was many times carved as a phallus and was regarded as an offensive weapon.33
The giant prehistoric body cut in the chalk downs near Cerne Abbas in England
is ithyphalic and carries, like Heracles, a club. 34 Supernatural power is regularly
29. Wolfgang Wickler, “Socio-Sexual Signs,” in Morris, PrimaleEthology, pp. 1 I I, 116; Burkert, http://partnerpost.net/2016/05/im-nathalie-and-my-first-ever-time-going-really-nude/
and History. p. 45 (quote); H. Detley et al., “Studies in Social and Sexual Behavior of the Squirrel Monkey
(Saimiri Scireus),” Folia Primarologica I (1963): 49, 62.
30. H. Hooton, “The Value of Primate Studies in Anthropology,” Human Biology 26 (1954): 179-88.
31. Wickler, “Socio-Sexual Signals,” p. 128. Paul D. MacLean, “Awesome Findings Relevant to the Evolution of
Psycho-Sexual Functions of the Brain,”Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 135 (1962): 296 wrote: “One sees
combative behavior even in the nursing babe, that will angrily fight the breast if no milk is forthcoming, and at
the same time develop penile erections.”
32. S. Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. Trans. by A. A. Brill (New York, 1948). p. 68; Ernest
Hartman. The Biology of Dreaming (Springfield, Mass., l967), p. 189; idem, Sleep and Dreaming (Boston.
1970). p. 209; Vanggaard. Phallos, p. 74.
33. Vanggaard, Phallos. p. 14; A. B. Ellis, Ewe-Speakin,g Peoples, pp. 41-42. Also see E.R.E.. S.V.
“Phallism.”
34. Rawsom, Simple Eroric Art. p. 73. The idea that the phallus symbolizes power is still common among
some primitive tribes. In British New Guinea when the harpoon maker selects a. tree which appears fit for the
making of a harpoon shaft he presses his erect phallus against the trunk of the tree so the harpoon shaft might
be straight, strong and perfect (See Landman, Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea, p. 120).
Journal of Sport History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter, 1985)
conceptualized by the Apaches as phallic in origin. In addition the Apaches
equate arrow and phallus within their regular conversation. 35
There exists a big phallus symbolism that according to some authorities
even contains sceptre, mace, etc. The Egyptian king of the gods Amon-Re is
depicted in the temple at Karnak with an extremely large erect phallus3(j Osiris, the
protector of Egypt, was represented on statuary with the phallus exposed and
erect. The exaggerated sexual organs of the early Roman, Greek and Egyptian
phallic deities are in agreement with the importance attached to sexual virility
and power. The Greek herms shared a message of power and protection.
Even the herms that Hipparchos, son of Pisistratos set up in 530 B.C. between
the village and market place, “while showing moral epigrams, marked the
territory of the tyrant.” In ancient Scandinavia the statue of god Frey or Frico
was equipped with a big phallus. In the National Museum of Copenhagen
There’s a wooden picture of a phallic god from the Celtic Iron Age.37
The phallic sign was also a gesture against the evil eye and ailment. In some
cases the exhibition of the phallus as a means of fighting the effects of the evil
eye took a realistic feature, as in the baring of the sexual organs, and there can be
little doubt that among some cultures, and on special occasions nudity is
practiced with this particular objective in view. 38 Amulets of phallic nature were, and
still stay in some parts of the world, the most common for the prevention of
Disorder and the protection from death in conflict, evil spirits, evil eye and other
supernatural catastrophes. They have been made and worn throughout Europe, as well
as in India, China and Japan as supernatural energizers.39
35. L. Bryce Bayer, “Stone as a Symbol in Apache Folklore, ” in Fantasy and Symbol: Studies in Anthropology Interpretation ed. R. H. Hook (London-Fresh York, 1979). pp. 223-25.
36. Wickler, “Socio-Sexual Signals,” 129-3 I, f. 17. For http://nudenudist.com/tube/now-onto-my-first-nudist-nexperience-which-happened-just-this-past-weekend/ on the phallic symbolism in Egypt and Italy, see
Elworthy, Evil Eye, pp. 153-55.
37. Scott, Phallic Worship, p. 55; Burke & Construction and History, p. 40 (quote); Vanggaard, Phallos, pp.
84-85: E.R.E., S.V. “Phallism.”
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Hallowed Ground: Arkansas's Historic Places in the Civil War
Hallowed Ground: Arkansass Historic Places in the Civil War
Learning from Statewide Historic Places
Map of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Written by Emily Pennel, Education Outreach Coordinator for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program
Rewritten and Redesigned by Shelle Stormoe 2016
1000 La Harpe Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 Phone (501) 324-9880
Fax (501) 324-9184 TDD (501) 324-9811
Arkansaspreservation.com
Email: educationoutreach@arkansaspreservation.org
An Agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage
Instructional Guidelines 3
Civil War Resources 4
Lesson Plan Procedures 5
A Short Summary of the Civil War in Arkansas 6
Arkansas Civil War Summary Timeline Activity 10
The Battle of Prairie Grove and Prairie Grove Battlefield 11
Caldonia Borden Brandenburg Remembers Prairie Grove 14
Analyzing Caldonia Bordens Experience of the Battle of Prairie Grove 16
The Battle of Helena 17
A Union Soldier Writes Home From Arkansas 19
Analyzing A Union Soldiers Letter from Arkansas 21
Action at Dardanelle 22
A Slave Talks about Soldiers Freeing the Slaves in Yell County, Arkansas 23
Analyzing A Slave Talks about Freeing the Slaves in Yell County 25
Instructional Guidelines
The purpose of this lesson plan is to introduce students to how the American Civil War impacted in-
dividuals and communities in Arkansas economically and socially by an examination of primary
sources related to Civil War battles or skirmishes in the state.
Curriculum Frameworks
Arkansas History Grade 7
H.7.AH.7-8.3 Analyze the historical significance of selected Civil War battles, events, and people on
various regions of Arkansas .
Arkansas History Grades 9-12
Era3.3.AH.9-12.2 Research social, economic, and political effects of the Civil War on citizens in vari-
ous regions from multiple perspectives (e.g., cause and effect of resource scarcity, civil unrest,
changes in Southern way of life, lack of government, shifts in leadership and power, dual
governments) .
Era5.2.8.2 Explain ways economic decisions affected individuals, businesses and society during the
course of the Civil War and over time.
Students will learn about how major battles in Arkansas impacted individuals economically and
socially, utilizing perspectives from both sides of the conflict.
Students will read and analyze primary sources related to major Civil War battles in Arkansas.
Civil War Resources
1. Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Website
https://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/
This website offers a timeline of the war in Arkansas, activities for kids, links to other Arkansas Civil War
lesson plans, podcasts, photographs, and many other resources teachers can use in the classroom.
2. Documenting the American South: The Southern Homefront
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html
This website offers several primary sources related to the southern experience during the Civil War, including
letters and diaries.
3. The National Archives
http://docsteach.org/home/civilwar
The National Archives includes lesson plans and original documents that can help enhance Civil War learn-
ing in your classroom.
4. The Library of Congress Lesson Plans on the Civil War
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-war/lessonplans.html
Includes a number of lesson plans related to the Civil War.
5. PBS Documentary Ken Burnss The Civil War
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/classroom/overview/
This site includes links to the award-winning documentary miniseries The Civil War directed by Ken Burns, as
well as related lesson plans.
6. Teaching with Historic Places by the National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/teachingwithhistoricplaces/lessons-by-period.htm#Mid_19th_Century
This website offers lesson plans about a variety of historic battlefield sites around the United States, including
the battle of Prairie Grove in Arkansas.
7. The Civil War Trust Curriculum
http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/curriculum/
The Civil War Trust offers curriculums for all grade levels and for gifted and talented students.
8. A Nation Divided: Arkansas and the Civil War
https://www.butlercenter.org/civilwararkansas/educational-resources.html
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies offers a variety of lesson plans related to the Civil War in Arkansas.
Lesson Plan Procedures
1. Ask students to read A Short Summary of the Civil War in Arkansas.
2. As individuals or in groups, have students fill out the Arkansas Civil War Summary Timeline
3. Have students read The Battle of Prairie Grove and Prairie Grove Battlefield.
4. Have students examine the photographs that go along with The Battle of Prairie Grove and
Prairie Grove Battlefield
5. Have students read Caldonia Borden Brandenburg Remembers Prairie Grove.
6. Ask students to fill out Analyzing Caldonia Bordens Experience of the Battle of Prairie Grove
and discuss the results.
7. Ask students to read the short introduction to the Battle of Helena.
8. Ask students to review the photographs that go along with the Battle of Helena reading.
9. Ask students to read the A Union Soldier Writes Home From Arkansas.
10. Ask students to fill out Analyzing A Union Soldier Writes Home From Arkansas and discuss
the results.
11. Ask students to read Action at Dardanelle and to review the photograph of the steamship
used to transport Union soldiers to the battle.
12. Ask students to read A Slave Talks about Soldiers Freeing the Slaves in Yell County,
13. Ask students to fill out Analyzing A Slave Talks about Soldiers Freeing the Slave in Yell
County, Arkansas and discuss the results.
A Short Summary of the Civil War in Arkansas *
The Civil War caused massive devastation in the rural, frontier state of Arkansas. It is estimated that
over 7,000 Arkansas Confederate soldiers, 1,700 white Arkansas Union soldiers, hundreds of Arkan-
sas African-American soldiers, and thousands of Arkansas citizens died during this crisis. What
caused this war, and what role did Arkansas play in this greatest crisis in American history?
One of the immediate causes of the Civil War was the conflict over whether or not Americas new
Western territories, including New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and parts of California, would become
slave states or free states. The Southern slave states wanted slavery to expand. The Northern free
states did not want slavery to expand, in part because they did not want to compete with unpaid la-
bor.
Another conflict that led to the Civil War was Southern resentment of taxes they had to pay on
Northern-produced goods such as paper and buttons. Southern states also resented paying taxes to
the federal government for improvements such as roads and canals, which were needed more in the
industrial North than in the rural South.
When Abraham Lincoln, whose political party was against slavery, was elected President of the Unit-
ed States in 1860, seven Southern states seceded. They left the United States of America and
formed their own country: the Confederate States of America. Arkansas was asked to become part
of the Confederate nation. Arkansas was not sure whether or not to join the Confederacy. At first,
Arkansas lawmakers voted not to secede. However, after the Civil War began in 1861 at Ft. Sumter,
South Carolina, the lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to leave the United States and join the Con-
federacy.
Thousands of young Arkansas men joined the Confederate army and left home wearing homemade
clothes and carrying hunting rifles and shotguns. These volunteer soldiers marched to Little Rock or
other larger cities, where they were placed into regiments. Because Arkansas had a small popula-
tion and was located on the Western edge of the Confederacy, Confederate leaders did not think
much fighting would occur in Arkansas. The Confederate government considered Arkansas valuable
mainly as a source of soldiers to send East to fight. Some Arkansas soldiers were sent as far away
as Virginia for battle.
However, fighting did begin in Arkansas almost immediately. The first battles in Arkansas occurred
after Confederate generals attacked Missouri to try and bring it into the Confederacy. Union General
Samuel Curtis pushed Confederate troops out of Missouri and into northern Arkansas to Pea Ridge.
Confederate General Earl van Dorn led his troops, including 800 Cherokee soldiers, to attack the
Union soldiers at Pea Ridge on March 7-8, 1862. The battle of Pea Ridge was fierce: about 1,400
Union and 2,000 Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded.
After the Battle of Pea Ridge, the largest battle in Arkansas, most of the Confederate soldiers left
Arkansas and went to Mississippi to join other Rebel troops. Union General Curtis then marched his
men into Helena and occupied the city, liberating thousands of slaves along the way.
With thousands of Union soldiers and freed slaves crowded into the small town of Helena, disease and hun-
ger became very common. Union troops got food and supplies by stealing from homes, fields, smokehouses
and root cellars in the countryside. Some soldiers began calling Helena Hell-in-Arkansas because of the
terrible conditions. Throughout the war, disease was common due to unsanitary conditions wherever large
numbers of soldiers camped.
In fall of 1862 Confederate General Thomas Hindman was sent to command Arkansas. Hindman
started conscripting soldiers: forcing young men to join the army. Many men were scared of con-
scription and began running away to hide. Hindman decided to attack Springfield, Missouri, in an-
other attempt to bring Missouri into the Confederacy. Even though some of his men didnt have
shoes or guns, Hindman started marching his army to Missouri. Union troops met the Confederates
at Prairie Grove on December 7, and a violent battle was fought. The Union won the Battle of Prairie
Grove at a great human cost: 1,261 Union and 1,317 Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded.
In December, Hindman decided to move from the area and left behind 4,000 sick and wounded sol-
diers. The starving, exhausted men slowly walked to Little Rock through freezing rain and snow.
Near the end of 1862, the Union decided to overtake the Confederate river town of Vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi, which would give the Union control of the Mississippi River. If the Union could control the
Mississippi River, they would be able to move boats and men straight through the Confederacy. Un-
ion General John McClernand decided to attack the Confederate troops at the Arkansas Post before
attacking Vicksburg. Arkansas Post was attacked on January 10-11, 1863. Only 140 Confederates
were killed or wounded, but 4,800 were captured and sent to prisoner of war camps. Union casual-
ties totaled 1,100. After Vicksburg fell to the Union on July 4, Arkansas was cut off from the rest of
the Confederacy and food and supplies became even more scarce.
The Union victories at Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove and Arkansas Post ensured that Missouri would re-
main in the Union throughout the war. These defeats had another important impact: they plunged
northern Arkansas into chaos. Many Confederate and Union soldiers began deserting their armies.
If a deserter was caught, he could be executed for treason. Deserters had to stay in hiding and live
by stealing food and supplies. Sheriffs and judges left their posts. Schools, courts, and jails stopped
functioning. Many citizens took advantage of the unstable situation and began to commit crimes
against their own neighbors. Women and children whose men were off fighting were at the mercy of
thieves and murderers. Thousands of citizens fled the countryside out of fear, or banded together to
protect themselves from guerilla attacks.
About a year after the Union occupied Helena, Confederate General Theophilus Holmes tried to re-
capture the city. His troops attacked Helena on July 4, 1863. Because the Union troops were behind
fortifications, they only lost 239 men. However, 1,636 Confederates died, were captured or wound-
ed at the Battle of Helena. The Union victory at Helena led to the Union invasion of Little Rock.
General Frederick Steele led 12,000 Union soldiers in a march from Helena to Little Rock. On Sep-
tember 10, 1863, the Union troops captured Little Rock. The Confederate leaders fled Little Rock
and set up their government in Washington, Arkansas. Little Rock was the fourth of eleven Confed-
erate capitals to fall to the Union. During the struggle over Little Rock, 137 Union and about 60 Con-
federate soldiers died. Many other Confederate soldiers became disheartened watching their capital
fall and deserted. The Union also captured Pine Bluff and Fort Smith with minor casualties on both
sides. Fayetteville was a Union outpost for most of the war.
The last major campaign in Arkansas was when General Steele marched South from Little Rock to
participate in a planned invasion of Texas. Steeles campaign was called the Camden Expedition
and was part of the larger Red River Campaign, which lasted from March 23 to May 2, 1864. Con-
federate troops clashed with the Union troops in several places: Marks Mills, Prairie DAne, Jen-
kins Ferry, Elkins Ferry and Poison Spring. The battle of Poison Spring is significant because al-
most 200 African-American soldiers of the First Kansas Colored Infantry were killed or wounded.
After the Confederates won the battle they took the remaining white Union soldiers prisoner, but
killed many of the black soldiers. Steeles campaign was not successful, and he marched his men
back to Little Rock. Although this campaign had no effect on the war as a whole, at least 260 Union
and 904 Confederate soldiers died on these battlefields.
Throughout the war, support for the Union steadily grew in Arkansas. Thousands of white Arkan-
sans from northern Arkansas joined the Union army or went to live in Union-occupied towns. Many
people from mountainous north Arkansas did not want to fight in support of slavery, because there
werent many slaves in that part of the state. Thousands of black Arkansans also joined the Union
army in colored regiments. In 1864 a Unionist state government was established in Little Rock. By
the end of the Civil War about one-third of Arkansas soldiers were fighting for the Union.
The war was over for Arkansas in June of 1865, when General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered all
Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River. The Civil War bankrupted Arkansas and caused
the death of approximately one-eighth of the adult male population. Another one-eighth of th...
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Thursday arraigned 38 members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in various courts in Abuja.
Ten members of the sect were brought before a magistrate court in Wuse Zone 2. Twenty eight others were arraigned at a Magistrate court in Wuse Zone 6.
The defendants, who could not understand English, with the help of an interpreter, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.
The charges border on criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, assault and others.
Following this, the counsel to the defendants, I.A Ishaq, moved a motion praying that his clients be released on bail.
Mr Ishaq also drew the courts attention to the fact that nine of the defendants are minors.
Prior to this, the judge, Raphael Joshua, ordered that the minors be “remanded in a decent facility outside the police cell”.
The judge then adjourned the case to July 18 to rule on the bail application.
The police had on Tuesday said two of its officers were shot by suspected members of the Shiite IMN.
This, the force said led to the arrest of 40 protesters.
The Shiites are demanding the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been detained by the government since December 2015.
Over 340 Shiites were reportedly killed by the army in December 2015 after the army accused the Islamic sect of blocking their path. No army officer has been arraigned.
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EMSEA fabricated bespoke parts for this icon of British Aviation
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DAMS (formerly Driot-Arnoux Motorsport, currently Driot Associés Motor Sport) is an auto racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsport. DAMS was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula One driver René Arnoux.[5] It is headquartered near Le Mans, only 2 km from the Bugatti Circuit.
Jean-Paul Driot
René Arnoux
Ruaudin, France
Team principal(s)
Francois Sicard
Former series
Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Formula 3000
Formula Renault V6 Eurocup
FIA GT Championship
FIA Sportscar Championship
A1 Grand Prix
Formula BMW Europe
GP2 Asia Series
Formula Le Mans
Porsche Supercup
Current drivers
Sébastien Buemi[1]
Oliver Rowland[2]
Sérgio Sette Câmara[3]
Nicholas Latifi[4]
Teams'
A1 Grand Prix:
2005–06 (as A1 Team France)
GP2 Asia Series:
2008–09, 2011
Formula Le Mans Cup:
Auto GP:
GP2 Series:
Formula Renault 3.5 Series:
Formula E:
2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Drivers'
International Formula 3000:
1990: Érik Comas
1993: Olivier Panis
1994: Jean-Christophe Boullion
Formula Renault V6 Eurocup:
2003: José María López
2008–09: Kamui Kobayashi
2011: Romain Grosjean
2012: Davide Valsecchi
2014: Jolyon Palmer
2013: Kevin Magnussen
2014: Carlos Sainz, Jr.
2015-16: Sebastien Buemi
http://www.dams.fr/en/
Notable DAMS drivers include Érik Comas, Allan McNish, Olivier Panis, Jean-Christophe Boullion, Sébastien Bourdais, Kazuki Nakajima, Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen, Jolyon Palmer and Pierre Gasly.
The year after its foundation, DAMS joined the International Formula 3000 Championship. They stayed in F3000 until 2001. DAMS were one of many French teams that were part of the Elf young driver sponsorship program.
Aside from F3000, DAMS planned to join the F1 World Championship in 1996, with a car (the GD-01) developed by Reynard, but lack of funds prevented the team from advancing.[5]
DAMS enter in sports car racing since 1997 until 2002 where it helped the Michel Vaillant movie, preparing and racing cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Formula 3000/GP2 Series/FIA Formula 2 ChampionshipEdit
Right from its inception, the French team entered the FIA International Formula 3000 Championship, which they won in 1990 with Érik Comas, 1992 with Olivier Panis and 1994 with Jean-Christophe Boullion.
In 13 years, 1989 to 2001, DAMS won 4 team titles, 3 drivers titles, 21 wins, 19 pole positions and 19 fastest laps, making DAMS one of the most successful Formula 3000 teams with Super Nova Racing and Arden International.
The team competed in the GP2 Series since its beginning in 2005,[6] winning races with drivers José María López and Nicolas Lapierre.
Jérôme d'Ambrosio driving for DAMS at the Turkish round of the 2009 GP2 Series.
DAMS was associated with the Toyota Drivers Program (TDP) from 2006 to 2009, and ran their drivers in the GP2 Series. In 2006, it was Franck Perera and then Kazuki Nakajima in 2007, who finished 5th in the GP2 championship and raced in the last Formula One Grand Prix of the season with Williams. Following this he won a full-time race seat with the team for 2008 and was retained for the 2009 season. In 2008, TDP driver Kamui Kobayashi replaced Nakajima at DAMS GP2 and became the Toyota Racing test driver.[7] Kobayashi stayed on in 2009, and was partnered by Jérôme d'Ambrosio for these two years. Neither driver was able to put together a consistent run of form in the main GP2 Series championships, but Kobayashi did win the 2008–09 Asian championship with the team.
Romain Grosjean won the championship with the team in 2011.
D'Ambrosio remained with the team for 2010, and was paired with Ho-Pin Tung, who replaced the Sauber-bound Kobayashi. As part of an agreement with the Renault Formula One team, both were nominated as Renault F1 test drivers, and the DAMS GP2 cars were liveried in an identical yellow-and-black scheme to the Renault R30 chassis.[8] D'Ambrosio won the sprint race at Monaco, but his form thereafter was disappointing[citation needed] and he was rested for one of the rounds in favour of Romain Grosjean, another driver with Renault F1 links. Grosjean later got the opportunity to move into the team full-time when Tung, yet to score a point after 12 races, sustained a broken vertebra in a racing accident. D'Ambrosio, Grosjean and Tung finished 12th, 14th and 28th respectively in the drivers' championship, whilst DAMS finished sixth position in the teams' championship. Grosjean remained with the team for 2011, with Norwegian rookie Pål Varhaug replacing D'Ambrosio, who graduated to F1 with the Virgin Racing team. DAMS retained its links with Renault, although these were somewhat diluted by the F1 team's new sponsorship deal with Lotus Cars, which also backed the rival ART team in GP2. Grosjean dominated the year, winning both the Asian and main series championships. DAMS also won the Asian teams' title, but Varhaug's failure to score points in the main series saw the team beaten to the championship by Addax.
For the 2012 season, Grosjean moved to the Lotus (formerly Renault) Formula One team, and Varhaug switched to the Auto GP World Series; they were replaced by series veteran Davide Valsecchi and reigning British F3 champion Felipe Nasr. Valsecchi began the season strongly, winning an unprecedented three races in a row in Bahrain, and later prevailed over closest rival Luiz Razia to win the championship, whilst Nasr finished on the podium four times to finish tenth in the championship, the second-highest rookie behind James Calado. Between them, Valsecchi and Nasr scored enough points to win DAMS's first GP2 Teams' Championship, six points ahead of ART, competing under the Lotus GP banner.
The team wrapped up both the 2014 Drivers' and Teams' Championships, with Jolyon Palmer winning the former. DAMS went into the 2015 season with Red Bull Junior Team driver Pierre Gasly and 2014 GP3 champion Alex Lynn as their driver lineup. The team struggled in the Bahrain feature race with Gasly being involved in a fourth lap collision with Arthur Pic, Raffaele Marciello and Norman Nato and Lynn falling down the order after driving into the back of Alexander Rossi and damaging his front wing. Both drivers finished outside the points in the following day's sprint race. The team had an improved weekend in Barcelona, with Lynn taking his first GP2 victory in the sprint race and Gasly joining him on the podium in third.
A1 Grand Prix, Formula Renault and Formula EEdit
The e.dams Formula E car on show at Battersea Park Street Circuit, June 2015
In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, DAMS took part in the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, which they won that same year with Argentinian José María López. In 2005 the team entered the World Series by Renault.[9] Since 2005, DAMS joined the GP2 Series but also the A1 Grand Prix where it serviced three teams.
Driot is one of the owners of the A1 Team France.[10][11] DAMS also managed A1 Team Switzerland,[12] A1 Team Mexico[13] and later A1 Team South Africa[14] in the A1 Grand Prix championships. With A1 Team France, DAMS was the first winner of the series winning 13 of the 22 races including in the 2005–06 season.
For the 2007–08 season, A1 Team France and South Africa collaborated closely to finalize the car like it was previously done with A1 Team Switzerland.[15]
The team joined the new Formula E championship in 2014 under the name e.DAMS, with collaboration from Alain Prost.[16] Sébastien Buemi was runner-up in the inaugural season and champion in 2015-16, having claimed 8 wins and 13 podiums in 23 races. Nicolas Prost finished sixth and third respectively, claiming three wins. In the 2016–17 season, the team clinched their third straight constructors' title but Buemi lost the title to Lucas di Grassi at the final round in Montreal. Buemi also had to miss the New York City rounds due to commitments in the World Endurance Championship and was replaced by Pierre Gasly.
The following season saw the team's final season with Renault in Formula E fail to see any of their drivers win a single race in the championship. Their highest finish was 2nd for Buemi in Marrakesh. The team could only finish fifth in the constructors' championship. At the end of the season, Nicolas Prost left the team.
For the 2018–19 season, the team switched to Nissan and originally hired Alexander Albon to partner Buemi, however on 26 November 2018 Albon was released from his contract with the team to instead drive in the 2019 Formula One season with the Toro Rosso team. Four days later, the team signed Oliver Rowland, who raced for the team in the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
In 2018, the team fielded Nicholas Latifi and Alexander Albon in the FIA Formula 2 Championship.[17] The team secured third place in the constructors' championship and took 5 wins during the season (4 for Albon and 1 for Latifi).
For the 2019 season, the team hired Sérgio Sette Câmara to replace Albon.
Sports car racingEdit
A Panoz Esperante GTR-1 campaigned by DAMS in the 1997 FIA GT Championship season
Starting from 1997, Driot's team diversified into sports car racing, entering the FIA GT Championship in partnership with Panoz. Splitting up in the following year, DAMS ran a Lola B98/10 with a Judd engine in the SportsRacing World Cup, winning four races, as well as participating in the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2000 and 2001, DAMS associated themselves with General Motors, preparing the works Cadillac Northstar LMP prototypes for the American Le Mans Series, FIA Sportscar Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but failed to get any competitive results.
DAMS (running the Bob Berridge Racing Lola) helped the Michel Vaillant movie crew in the 2002, 24 Hours of Le Mans entering with a Lola B98/10-Judd as Vaillante and a Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan as Leader.[18]
They then switched their effort to an FIA GT return. In 2003, they tried entering two Nissan 350Z, but once again funds prevented the French team from developing the Japanese car. In 2004, they teamed with Lamborghini and entered two Murciélago R-GT cars in the final rounds of the FIA GT Championship.
Current series resultsEdit
Formula EEdit
2014–15 Spark-Renault SRT 01E M BEI PUT PDE BUE MIA LBH MCO BER MSC LON
Nicolas Prost 12† 4 7 2 1 14 6 10 8 7 10
Sébastien Buemi Ret 3 1 Ret 13 4 1 2 9 1 5
2015–16 Spark-Renault Z.E.15 M BEI PUT PDE BUE MEX LBH PAR BER LON
Nicolas Prost Ret 10 5 5 3 11 4 4 1 1
Sébastien Buemi 1 12 1 2 2 16 3 1 5 Ret
2016–17 Spark-Renault Z.E.16 M HKG MRK BUE MEX MCO PAR BER NYC MTL
Nicolas Prost 4 4 4 5 9 5 5 8 8 6 6 Ret
Sébastien Buemi 1 1 1 13 1 1 DSQ 1 DSQ 11
Pierre Gasly 7 4
2017–18 Spark-Renault Z.E. 17 M HKG MRK SCL MEX PDE RME PAR BER ZUR NYC
Nicolas Prost 9 8 13 10 Ret 15 14 16 14 Ret 10 11
Sébastien Buemi 11 10 2 3 3 Ret 6 5 4 5 3 4
2018–19 Spark-Nissan IM01 M ADR MRK SCL MEX HKG SYX RME PAR MCO BER BRN NYC
4th*
Oliver Rowland 7 15 Ret 20† Ret 2 6 12 2 8 Ret 14 6
Sébastien Buemi 6 8 Ret 21† Ret 8 5 15 5 2 3 1 3
* Season still in progress.
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.
FIA Formula 2 ChampionshipEdit
Dallara-Mecachrome
Oliver Rowland 22 2 1 1 191 3rd 3rd
Nicholas Latifi 22 1 0 2 178 5th
Alexander Albon 24 4 3 0 212 3rd 3rd
Nicholas Latifi 24 1 0 2 91 9th
Nicholas Latifi 2 1 0 0 35 2nd* 1st*
Sérgio Sette Câmara 2 0 0 0 27 3rd*
*Season still in progress.
Former series resultsEdit
Formula 3000Edit
International Formula 3000 Championship Results[19]
Fast laps
Lola-Mugen
Érik Comas 9 2 2 3 39 2nd 1st
Éric Bernard 10 1 3 3 25 3rd
Érik Comas 11 4 3 2 51 1st 1st
Allan McNish 11 2 1 1 26 4th
Laurent Aïello 9 0 1 0 4 15th 8th
Allan McNish 8 0 0 0 2 16th
Lola-Cosworth
Jean-Marc Gounon 10 1 0 0 19 6th 5th
Frédéric Gosparini 7 0 0 0 0 NC
Jérôme Policand 9 0 0 0 0 NC
Éric Hélary 1 0 0 0 0 NC
Reynard-Cosworth
Olivier Panis 9 3 2 2 32 1st 1st
Franck Lagorce 8 2 1 1 21 4th
Jean-Christophe Boullion 8 3 0 1 36 1st 1st
Guillaume Gomez 8 0 1 0 12 7th
Tarso Marques 7 1 2 2 15 5th 4th
Guillaume Gomez 7 0 1 2 8 8th
Lola-Zytek Judd
Laurent Rédon 9 0 0 0 7 8th 8th
Jean-Philippe Belloc 10 0 0 0 0 NC
Jamie Davies 9 1 1 1 22 4th 5th
Grégoire de Galzain 6 0 0 0 0 NC
Jamie Davies 12 0 0 0 8 10th 9th
Lola-Zytek
Franck Montagny 10 0 0 0 6 10th 10th
David Terrien 6 0 0 0 0 NC
Kristian Kolby 6 0 0 0 2 23rd
Sébastien Bourdais 12 1 1 1 26 4th 4th
Derek Hill 12 0 0 0 0 NC
D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
FIA GT ChampionshipEdit
FIA GT Championship results[20]
GT1 Panoz Esperante GTR-1
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
Franck Lagorce
Éric Bernard 9 0 0 0 0 NC
Éric Bernard
David Brabham
Johnny O'Connell
Christophe Tinseau
Franck Lagorce 10 0 0 0 17 5th
T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
24 Hours of Le MansEdit
24 Hours of Le Mans results[21]
GT1 52 M Panoz Esperante GTR-1
Jean-Christophe Boullion no no 149
(DNF) 28th 13th
Panoz Motorsports Inc.
Johnny O'Connell no no 236
LMP 25 P Lola B98/10
Judd GV4 4.0L V10
Franck Montagny
David Terrien no no 77
LMP900 3 P Cadillac Northstar LMP
Cadillac Northstar 4.0L Turbo V8
Emmanuel Collard
Franck Montagny no no 300 19th 9th
Marc Goossens
Kristian Kolby no no 4
LMP900 6 M Cadillac Northstar LMP
Wayne Taylor
Max Angelelli
Christophe Tinseau no no 270 15th 5th
Marc Goossens no no 56
LMP900 10 M Lola B98/10
(Vaillante Camera Car)
Bob Berridge Racing
Philippe Gache
Emanuele Clerico
Michel Neugarten no no 150
(NC) 27th 12th
LMP900 22 M Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S
Élan 6L8 6.0L V8
(Leader Camera Car)
Jérôme Policand
Marc Duez
Perry McCarthy no no 98
(DNF) 42nd 18th
American Le Mans SeriesEdit
American Le Mans Series results[22]
LMP Lola B98/10-Judd
Jean-Marc Gounon
Franck Montagny 4 0 0 0 26 14th
LMP Cadillac Northstar LMP-Cadillac Northstar
Éric Bernard 1 0 0 0 87 7th
Marc Goossens 1 0 0 0
FIA Sportscar ChampionshipEdit
FIA Sportscar Championship results[23]
SR Lola B98/10-Judd GV4 4.0L V10
Christophe Tinseau 10 3 5 3 80 3rd
SR Cadillac Northstar LMP-Cadillac Northstar
Formula Renault V6 EurocupEdit
Formula Renault V6 Eurocup results[24]
Tatuus-Renault V4Y RS
José María López 18 5 8 7 505 1st 2nd
Davide di Benedetto 1 0 0 0 14 9th†
Christian Murchison 7 0 0 0 69 10th
Mike den Tandt 3 0 0 0 62 11th
Adam Khan 6 0 0 0 4 22nd
Neel Jani 19 4 8 239 4th 3rd
Bruce Lorgère-Roux 15 0 0 72 14th
José María López 4 0 1 2 27th
† Davide di Benedetto drive only the last round for DAMS. He drive also for Guidare Formula this season and is final 9th place take both team results.
GP2 SeriesEdit
José María López 23 1 0 0 3 36 9th 7th
Fairuz Fauzy 23 0 0 0 0 0 24th
Franck Perera 21 0 0 0 1 8 17th 12th
Ferdinando Monfardini 21 0 0 0 0 6 21st
Kazuki Nakajima 21 0 1 3 5 44 5th 5th
Nicolas Lapierre 21 2 1 2 2 23 12th
Jérôme d'Ambrosio 20 0 0 0 2 21 11th 8th
Kamui Kobayashi 20 1 0 2 1 10 16th
Jérôme d'Ambrosio 20 0 0 0 3 29 9th 6th
Romain Grosjean 8 0 0 0 2 14 14th
Ho-Pin Tung 14 0 0 0 0 0 28th
Romain Grosjean 18 5 1 6 10 89 1st 2nd
Pål Varhaug 18 0 0 0 0 0 23rd
Davide Valsecchi 24 4 2 5 10 247 1st 1st
Felipe Nasr 24 0 0 0 4 95 10th
Marcus Ericsson 22 1 2 4 5 121 6th 4th
Stéphane Richelmi 22 0 1 0 1 103 8th
Jolyon Palmer 22 4 3 6 12 276 1st 1st
Stéphane Richelmi 22 1 1 0 2 73 9th
Pierre Gasly 21 0 3 1 4 110 8th 4th
Alex Lynn 21 2 2 1 4 110 6th
Alex Lynn 22 3 0 0 5 124 6th 5th
Nicholas Latifi 22 0 0 0 1 23 16th
† Tung also competed in 2 races for Racing Engineering in 2010.
A1 Grand PrixEdit
A1 Grand Prix Results[25]
A1 Team France 22 13 3 5 172 1st
A1 Team Switzerland 22 1 2 0 121 2nd
A1 Team Mexico 22 1 1 0 59 10th
A1 Team France 22 0 0 0 67 4th
A1 Team South Africa 22 1 1 1 24 14th
A1 Team France 20 1 2 1 118 4th
A1 Team South Africa 20 2 4 2 96 5th
Formula Renault 3.5 SeriesEdit
World Series by Renault results[26]
F/laps
Dallara-Renault
Alx Danielsson 9 0 0 0 1 32 15th 11th
Pastor Maldonado 8 0 0 0 0 4 25th
Ferdinando Monfardini 2 0 0 0 0 1 28th
Alex Lloyd 1 0 0 0 0 0 40th
Nicolas Prost 2 0 0 0 0 0 41st
Raffaele Giammaria 4 0 0 0 0 0 43rd
Dallara-Zytek
Arthur Pic 17 1 2 2 2 102 8th 9th
Lucas Foresti 17 0 0 0 0 8 23rd
Kevin Magnussen 17 5 8 4 13 274 1st 1st
Norman Nato 17 0 1 0 0 33 13th
Carlos Sainz, Jr. 17 7 7 6 7 227 1st 1st
Norman Nato 17 2 1 1 2 89 7th
Nyck de Vries 17 1 1 1 6 160 3rd 2nd
Dean Stoneman 17 0 0 0 4 130 6th
Santino Ferrucci 16 0 0 0 1 34 12th 5th
Jake Hughes 16 1 1 2 3 69 9th
Kevin Jörg 16 0 0 0 0 13 17th
Dan Ticktum 5 0 0 1 1 36 11th 6th
Tatiana Calderón 15 0 0 0 0 7 18th
Santino Ferrucci 6 0 0 0 0 3 19th
Bruno Baptista 15 0 0 0 0 1 20th
Matthieu Vaxivière 4 0 0 0 0 0 22nd
TimelineEdit
Formula E 2014–2019
FIA Formula 2 Championship 2017–2019
Formula Renault 3.5 Series 2005, 2012–2015
International Formula 3000 1989–2001
FIA GT Championship 1997–1998
24 Hours of Le Mans 1997–2002
American Le Mans Series 1999–2000
FIA Sportscar Championship 1999–2000
Formula Renault V6 Eurocup 2003–2004
A1 Grand Prix 2005–2009
Formula BMW Europe 2008–2010
GP2 Asia Series 2008–2011
Formula Le Mans 2009–2010
Auto GP 2010–2011
Porsche Supercup 2013
GP2 Series 2005–2016
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^ "Nissan e.dams confirms driver lineup for Formula E championship". 30 November 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ Allen, Peter (14 December 2018). "Sergio Sette Camara completes DAMS move for 2019 F2 campaign". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ Klein, Jamie (11 December 2018). "Latifi stays with DAMS for third F2 season". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ a b Team history Archived 13 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine dams.fr
^ DAMS presentation at gp2series.com gp2series.com
^ DAMS signs Kobayashi for 2008 season automobilsport.com (23 November 2007)
^ English, Steven (1 February 2010). "Renault's d'Ambrosio, Tung join DAMS". autosport.com. Haymarket Publishing. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
^ Renault World Series claims 30 cars grandprix.com
^ Driot, directeur principal Archived 8 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine france.a1gp.com
^ A1 Team France information Archived 31 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine a1podium.com
^ A1 Team Switzerland information Archived 31 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine a1podium.com
^ A1 Team Mexico information Archived 31 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine a1podium.com
^ "Team France and RSA to continue to work together". GPUpdate.net. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
^ Alain Prost joins with DAMS to field Formula E squad - Racer, 24 October 2013
^ Gruz, David (14 April 2018). "DAMS confirms Latifi for 2018, Albon for Bahrain only". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
^ Preliminary practice Lola Cars notes Archived 12 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine motorsport.com, 2002-05-07
^ GP2 and Formula 3000 entry list and complete results speedsportmag.com
^ FIA GT complete results Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine wsrp.ic.cz
^ 24h of Le Mans complete results Archived 22 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine wsrp.ic.cz
^ ALMS complete results Archived 19 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine wsrp.ic.cz
^ FIA Sportscar complete results Archived 21 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine wsrp.ic.cz
^ FRV6 Eurocup complete results speedsportmag.com
^ A1GP complete Archived 26 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine resultsresults.a1gp.com
^ WSbR complete results speedsportmag.com
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Tim McGraw, Faith Hill announce star-studded 'Nashville Rising' flood benefit show
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/ACMA2010/Getty ImagesTim McGraw and Faith Hill are joining the efforts to help those struck by Nashville’s flooding in a big way. The married megastars announced this morning via press release that they’re organizing an all-star benefit concert to take place on June 22 in Nashville.
The “Nashville Rising” show will feature performances from McGraw and Hill, along with a who’s who of country talent — Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Miley Cyrus, and many more. Proceeds will go toward the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee‘s flood relief work. Tickets ($25-$75) go on sale this Friday, May 14.
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Captain Mark Duffy, Winchman Ciaran Smith and Winch Operator Paul Ormsby were part of the crew that crashed on March 14. Pic: File
Divers will search for missing Rescue 116 crew today as weather improves
Graham McGrath
Diving crews are expected to search for the missing Rescue 116 crew while weather conditions are good.
Rough seas and bad weather have so far hampered the attempts of rescue crews to locate missing crew members Mark Duffy, Paul Ormsby and Ciaran Smith.
The expectancy is that they are still trapped in the fuselage of the helicopter which is 40 meters below sea level.
Rescue crews are expected to ramp up their search for the missing Rescue 116 crew as weather conditions have improved. Pic: Rollingnews.ie
It has been established that the helicopter is also upside down under the water off Blackrock Island, Co. Mayo.
There will be a 13-man team deployed from the Naval Service to find the remains of the three crew members.
A number of tents will be erected at Blacksod in Mayo in anticipation that the crew members will be brought to shore according to the Irish Mirror.
It’s thought that their helicopter crashed into the side of Blackrock Island. Pic: Rollingnews.ie
The rescue helicopter is thought to have crashed into the western side of Blackrock Island where it was attempting to land to refuel.
The Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) confirmed that the helicopter did not come into contact with the lighthouse on the island which had recently been upgraded.
Captain Dara Fitzpatrick was already found after crash. Pic: Miki Barlok
Chief inspector of the AAIU said: ‘The priority has always been the recovery of the crew members, the recorder, and then possibly the wreckage.’
‘Please God, if we’re successful in recovering the three crew members, we will focus our attention on the recorder.’
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Happy Birthday Dad, Ooh Er MRS & time to back Mr Farage. Listen HERE
In covering Sosandar (SOS), my prime concern is not to hurt the feelings of Britain’s top share blogger, thirsty Paul Scott, who filled his boots at the 17p IPO. Mr Scott repeatedly argued, normally via 3AM thirsty tweet rants, that my tipping the shares was holding them back and so when I advised readers to bank 100% gains at 34p (and did so myself as well) he argued this was awful advice but thought it good for the share price which he saw at 65p+. The stock is off again at 22p to sell so should we be thinking of horrifying thirsty Paul and buying back in?
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First up, it is important to note that the risk reward trade off has changed somewhat. At IPO the company had £7 million cash and a market cap of £16 million so you were paying - 16 months ago - just £9 million for the business. By my sums cash is now c£4 million and the market cap £25 million. Has the value of the underlying business really gone up by almost 150% in 16 months? I am not sure that it has and so the risk/reward trade-off is just less attractive than it was. Secondly there are an awful lot of shareholders out there who may feel royally shafted. Shares in this company were pumped up to the high 40s by a combination of Scott’s ludicrous price targets and back of a four pack long-term forecasts and by a ramptastic broker note from Shore Cap. To be fair, I suppose that comrade Somerville of this parish could also be accused of excessive optimism. Folks buying in the secondary were promptly shafted by a 32p, £3 million, fund raise in October 2018. Now even those who took part in that placing will be feeling sore.
Read Steve Moore HERE: K3 Capital – from in January “confidence in outlook for the full year” to…
Natch, Sosandar said it wanted the cash to accelerate its growth. The grim reality is that without that fund raise, ceteris paribus, the company would by now have little more than a Bernie in the bank and would NOT be funded to profitability or indeed to Christmas. That was most certainly not what we were promised at the IPO nor was it in the broker forecasts made at the time. I sense that many shareholders would now look to sell into any strength or might just take it on the chin and sell at a loss now, feeling there are better investments elsewhere. I have always stated that the birds who run this business are a class act and I note how Nigel Somerville (who unlike the Thirsty one) has been wise enough to top slice, met them at UK Investor and came away impressed and convinced that trading was strong. But surely we can all accept that the retail climate is grim in a way none of us could have predicted (well I did) back in November 2017 at IPO. As such, the risks to forecasts have got to be on the downside.
A double whammy for Purplebricks as two sinners repenteth: the writing is on the wall say Nigel Somerville & Tom Winnifrith HERE
In H1 of this year Sosandar spunked c£2 million. My guess is that the FY loss will be at least £3.5 million. For the current year, just started, I struggle to see the company making a profit although it might just do so in a small way in the year to March 31 2021. But that - given the macro headwinds - is not a given. Nor is it a given that there will not be another fundraise. And thus I am afraid that I will not be buying back in. At sub 15p I might be tempted but we are not there…yet.
I still don't understand why GVC's CEO and Chair dumped so many shares says Chris Bailey HERE
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Richard Corcoran calls for removal of charter school head
Ryan Nicol
A bill allowing Florida drivers to be pulled over for texting while driving emerged from its final committee Thursday after the House State Affairs Committee approved the measure.
Currently, texting while driving is only a secondary offense, meaning drivers can only be cited for the violation if pulled over for some other reason. The new legislation (HB 107) would make texting behind the wheel a primary offense.
A similar bill died in the Senate last year after earning overwhelming approval in the House.
Reps. Emily Slosberg, a Boca Raton Democrat, and Jackie Toledo, a Tampa Republican, are reviving the effort in the House this year.
“We’ve all seen it; we’ve all done it,” Toledo said of texting while driving. “This could be the most important piece of legislation that we vote on this year. This legislation is about saving lives and making our roads safe.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 3,450 people were killed as a result of distracted driving in 2016. One study pegged Florida as the second-most dangerous state for distracted driving in the nation.
Multiple parents spoke out Thursday morning in support of the bill. The legislation has also earned support from the Florida Police Chiefs Association.
“The Florida Police Chiefs Association stands in strong support of HB 107, revisions to the Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Law. In fact, this is our top legislative priority for 2019,” said Amy Mercer, the group’s executive director.
“Making texting while driving a primary offense will help law enforcement better protect the public we serve. We applaud Reps. Toledo and Slosberg for sponsoring this bill, and we especially applaud House leadership for moving this important legislation forward.”
Keyna Cory, a coordinator at the Florida Don’t Text and Drive Coalition, also praised the advancement of the bill.
“It is humbling to have such strong support from the members of the Florida Legislature on legislation to help ban distracted driving,” Cory said.
“Support is growing for these life-saving bills, and we encourage the Legislature to keep the momentum going.”
The legislation also requires officers to record the race and ethnicity of the driver whenever an officer pulls them over. Lawmakers say that provision is aimed at ensuring law enforcement does not use its new authority as a pretext to pull over minorities. The data will be reported to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and will then be forwarded to the Governor and leaders in the House and Senate.
A companion bill in the Senate (SB 76) has already passed three of its four planned committees.
The House version has already been approved by the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee and was originally scheduled to be heard by the Appropriations Committee. That stop before Appropriations has since been removed.
In this article:2019 legislative session, Amy Mercer, Emily Slosberg, Florida House, Florida Police Chiefs Association, HB 107, Jackie Toledo, texting while driving
Written By Ryan Nicol
Ryan Nicol covers news out of South Florida for Florida Politics. Ryan is a native Floridian who attended undergrad at Nova Southeastern University before moving on to law school at Florida State. After graduating with a law degree he moved into the news industry, working in TV News as a writer and producer, along with some freelance writing work. If you'd like to contact him, send an email to ryan.t.nicol@gmail.com.
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Twitter Warns 336 Million Users to Change Their Passwords After Leaving Them Vulnerable to Hackers
Jonathan Vanian
Twitter warned its users on Thursday to change their passwords after it discovered that it had mistakenly stored them internally prior to fortifying them through a security technique, leaving the passwords vulnerable to hackers.
Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, wrote in a blog post that users should also consider changing their passwords on other services if the passwords they used there were the same as on Twitter. The company also disclosed the password flaw in a regulatory filing on Thursday, indicating that the bug was serious enough to warrant more formal disclosure than a corporate blog post. Twitter has about 336 million users, according to its latest letter to shareholders.
Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey followed Agrawal’s post by tweeting that company has “no indication of breach or misuse.” He added that the company warned users because “it’s important for us to be open about this internal defect.”
The software bug said to be responsible for the problem appears to be related to how the company secures user passwords through a security technique called hashing, Agrawal explained. Through the hashing technique, Twitter converts passwords into random assortments of numbers so that when users log in, Twitter can validate passwords without actually having to read them.
Because of the software bug, however, user passwords were written into an unspecified “internal log” before they could be converted into a series of numbers. As a result, user passwords were left vulnerable, although Twitter said no one appears to have improperly accessed the log.
We recently discovered a bug where account passwords were being written to an internal log before completing a masking/hashing process. We’ve fixed, see no indication of breach or misuse, and believe it’s important for us to be open about this internal defect. https://t.co/BJezo7Gk00
— jack (@jack) May 3, 2018
Agrawal said that Twitter discovered the error without the help of outside security researchers, removed the passwords from the internal log, and is “implementing plans” to prevent future errors.
It’s unclear when Twitter found out about the problem or how long the passwords were left unsecured. Fortune contacted Twitter for more details and will update this story if it responds.
Ironically, Twitter’s password mishap was announced on the corporate holiday known as World Password Day, created by Intel security researchers and celebrated on the first Thursday in May as a way to promote good password and cyber security hygiene.
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Agrawal initially said via a Tweet that the company “didn’t have to” share the information to the public, but chose to because “it’s the right thing to do.” However, he then backtracked on his statement and said that he “felt strongly that we should.” “My mistake,” Agrawal added.
Dorsey then commended him for “admitting our mistakes quickly, learning, and moving on.”
Openly admitting our mistakes quickly, learning, and moving on. I love my teammates. https://t.co/pn9sgUf1Op
I should not have said we didn’t have to share. I have felt strongly that we should. My mistake. https://t.co/Cqbs1KiUWd
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 3, 2018
We are sharing this information to help people make an informed decision about their account security. We didn’t have to, but believe it’s the right thing to do. https://t.co/yVKOqnlITA
“We are very sorry this happened,” Agrawal wrote in his blog post. “We recognize and appreciate the trust you place in us, and are committed to earning that trust every day.”
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Not to be confused with OpenGL.
For the cryptographic library initially known as OpenCL, see Botan (programming library).
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL specifies programming languages (based on C99 and C++11) for programming these devices and application programming interfaces (APIs) to control the platform and execute programs on the compute devices. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism.
OpenCL API
Original author(s)
Khronos Group
August 28, 2009; 9 years ago (2009-08-28)
2.2-10[1] / February 5, 2019; 5 months ago (2019-02-05)
C with C++ bindings
Android (vendor dependent),[2] FreeBSD,[3] Linux, macOS, Windows
ARMv7, ARMv8,[4] Cell, IA-32, POWER, x86-64
Heterogeneous computing API
OpenCL specification license
www.khronos.org/opencl/
OpenCL C/C++
Imperative (procedural), structured, object-oriented (C++ only)
OpenCL C++ 1.0 revision V2.2-10[5]
OpenCL C 2.0 revision V2.2-10[6]
/ February 5, 2019; 5 months ago (2019-02-05)
Typing discipline
Static, weak, manifest, nominal
Implementation language
Implementation specific
Filename extensions
www.khronos.org/opencl
Major implementations
AMD, Apple, freeocl, Gallium Compute, IBM, Intel Beignet, Intel SDK, Nvidia, pocl
C99, CUDA, C++14
OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. Conformant implementations are available from Altera, AMD, Apple (OpenCL along with OpenGL is deprecated for Apple hardware, in favor of Metal 2[7]), ARM, Creative, IBM, Imagination, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Vivante, Xilinx, and ZiiLABS.[8][9]
OpenCL views a computing system as consisting of a number of compute devices, which might be central processing units (CPUs) or "accelerators" such as graphics processing units (GPUs), attached to a host processor (a CPU). It defines a C-like language for writing programs. Functions executed on an OpenCL device are called "kernels".[10]:17 A single compute device typically consists of several compute units, which in turn comprise multiple processing elements (PEs). A single kernel execution can run on all or many of the PEs in parallel. How a compute device is subdivided into compute units and PEs is up to the vendor; a compute unit can be thought of as a "core", but the notion of core is hard to define across all the types of devices supported by OpenCL (or even within the category of "CPUs"),[11]:49–50 and the number of compute units may not correspond to the number of cores claimed in vendors' marketing literature (which may actually be counting SIMD lanes).[12]
In addition to its C-like programming language, OpenCL defines an application programming interface (API) that allows programs running on the host to launch kernels on the compute devices and manage device memory, which is (at least conceptually) separate from host memory. Programs in the OpenCL language are intended to be compiled at run-time, so that OpenCL-using applications are portable between implementations for various host devices.[13] The OpenCL standard defines host APIs for C and C++; third-party APIs exist for other programming languages and platforms such as Python,[14] Java, Perl[15] and .NET.[11]:15 An implementation of the OpenCL standard consists of a library that implements the API for C and C++, and an OpenCL C compiler for the compute device(s) targeted.
In order to open the OpenCL programming model to other languages or to protect the kernel source from inspection, the Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR)[16] can be used as a target-independent way to ship kernels between a front-end compiler and the OpenCL back-end.
More recently Khronos Group has ratified SYCL,[17] a higher-level programming model for OpenCL as single-source DSEL based on pure C++11 to improve programming productivity.
Memory hierarchyEdit
OpenCL defines a four-level memory hierarchy for the compute device:[13]
global memory: shared by all processing elements, but has high access latency (__global);
read-only memory: smaller, low latency, writable by the host CPU but not the compute devices (__constant);
local memory: shared by a group of processing elements (__local);
per-element private memory (registers; __private).
Not every device needs to implement each level of this hierarchy in hardware. Consistency between the various levels in the hierarchy is relaxed, and only enforced by explicit synchronization constructs, notably barriers.
Devices may or may not share memory with the host CPU.[13] The host API provides handles on device memory buffers and functions to transfer data back and forth between host and devices.
OpenCL C languageEdit
The programming language that is used to write compute kernels is called OpenCL C and is based on C99,[18] but adapted to fit the device model in OpenCL. Memory buffers reside in specific levels of the memory hierarchy, and pointers are annotated with the region qualifiers __global, __local, __constant, and __private, reflecting this. Instead of a device program having a main function, OpenCL C functions are marked __kernel to signal that they are entry points into the program to be called from the host program. Function pointers, bit fields and variable-length arrays are omitted, and recursion is forbidden.[19] The C standard library is replaced by a custom set of standard functions, geared toward math programming.
OpenCL C is extended to facilitate use of parallelism with vector types and operations, synchronization, and functions to work with work-items and work-groups.[19] In particular, besides scalar types such as float and double, which behave similarly to the corresponding types in C, OpenCL provides fixed-length vector types such as float4 (4-vector of single-precision floats); such vector types are available in lengths two, three, four, eight and sixteen for various base types.[18]:§ 6.1.2 Vectorized operations on these types are intended to map onto SIMD instructions sets, e.g., SSE or VMX, when running OpenCL programs on CPUs.[13] Other specialized types include 2-d and 3-d image types.[18]:10–11
Example: matrix-vector multiplicationEdit
Each invocation (work-item) of the kernel takes a row of the green matrix (A in the code), multiplies this row with the red vector (x) and places the result in an entry of the blue vector (y). The number of columns n is passed to the kernel as ncols; the number of rows is implicit in the number of work-items produced by the host program.
The following is a matrix-vector multiplication algorithm in OpenCL C.
// Multiplies A*x, leaving the result in y.
// A is a row-major matrix, meaning the (i,j) element is at A[i*ncols+j].
__kernel void matvec(__global const float *A, __global const float *x,
uint ncols, __global float *y)
size_t i = get_global_id(0); // Global id, used as the row index
__global float const *a = &A[i*ncols]; // Pointer to the i'th row
float sum = 0.f; // Accumulator for dot product
for (size_t j = 0; j < ncols; j++) {
sum += a[j] * x[j];
y[i] = sum;
The kernel function matvec computes, in each invocation, the dot product of a single row of a matrix A and a vector x:
y i = a i , : ⋅ x = ∑ j a i , j x j {\displaystyle y_{i}=a_{i,:}\cdot x=\sum _{j}a_{i,j}x_{j}}
To extend this into a full matrix-vector multiplication, the OpenCL runtime maps the kernel over the rows of the matrix. On the host side, the clEnqueueNDRangeKernel function does this; it takes as arguments the kernel to execute, its arguments, and a number of work-items, corresponding to the number of rows in the matrix A.
Example: computing the FFTEdit
This example will load a fast Fourier transform (FFT) implementation and execute it. The implementation is shown below.[20] The code asks the OpenCL library for the first available graphics card, creates memory buffers for reading and writing (from the perspective of the graphics card), JIT-compiles the FFT-kernel and then finally asynchronously runs the kernel. The result from the transform is not read in this example.
#include "CL/opencl.h"
#define NUM_ENTRIES 1024
int main() // (int argc, const char* argv[])
// CONSTANTS
// The source code of the kernel is represented as a string
// located inside file: "fft1D_1024_kernel_src.cl". For the details see the next listing.
const char *KernelSource =
#include "fft1D_1024_kernel_src.cl"
// Looking up the available GPUs
const cl_uint num = 1;
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU, 0, NULL, (cl_uint*)&num);
cl_device_id devices[1];
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU, num, devices, NULL);
// create a compute context with GPU device
cl_context context = clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU, NULL, NULL, NULL);
// create a command queue
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT, 1, devices, NULL);
cl_command_queue queue = clCreateCommandQueue(context, devices[0], 0, NULL);
// allocate the buffer memory objects
cl_mem memobjs[] = { clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_READ_ONLY | CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, sizeof(float) * 2 * NUM_ENTRIES, NULL, NULL),
clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_READ_WRITE, sizeof(float) * 2 * NUM_ENTRIES, NULL, NULL) };
// cl_mem memobjs[0] = // FIXED, SEE ABOVE
// create the compute program
// const char* fft1D_1024_kernel_src[1] = { };
cl_program program = clCreateProgramWithSource(context, 1, (const char **)& KernelSource, NULL, NULL);
// build the compute program executable
clBuildProgram(program, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
// create the compute kernel
cl_kernel kernel = clCreateKernel(program, "fft1D_1024", NULL);
// set the args values
size_t local_work_size[1] = { 256 };
clSetKernelArg(kernel, 0, sizeof(cl_mem), (void *)&memobjs[0]);
clSetKernelArg(kernel, 2, sizeof(float)*(local_work_size[0] + 1) * 16, NULL);
// create N-D range object with work-item dimensions and execute kernel
size_t global_work_size[1] = { 256 };
global_work_size[0] = NUM_ENTRIES;
local_work_size[0] = 64; //Nvidia: 192 or 256
clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(queue, kernel, 1, NULL, global_work_size, local_work_size, 0, NULL, NULL);
The actual calculation inside file "fft1D_1024_kernel_src.cl" (based on Fitting FFT onto the G80 Architecture):[21]
R"(
// This kernel computes FFT of length 1024. The 1024 length FFT is decomposed into
// calls to a radix 16 function, another radix 16 function and then a radix 4 function
__kernel void fft1D_1024 (__global float2 *in, __global float2 *out,
__local float *sMemx, __local float *sMemy) {
int tid = get_local_id(0);
int blockIdx = get_group_id(0) * 1024 + tid;
float2 data[16];
// starting index of data to/from global memory
in = in + blockIdx; out = out + blockIdx;
globalLoads(data, in, 64); // coalesced global reads
fftRadix16Pass(data); // in-place radix-16 pass
twiddleFactorMul(data, tid, 1024, 0);
// local shuffle using local memory
localShuffle(data, sMemx, sMemy, tid, (((tid & 15) * 65) + (tid >> 4)));
fftRadix16Pass(data); // in-place radix-16 pass
twiddleFactorMul(data, tid, 64, 4); // twiddle factor multiplication
localShuffle(data, sMemx, sMemy, tid, (((tid >> 4) * 64) + (tid & 15)));
// four radix-4 function calls
fftRadix4Pass(data); // radix-4 function number 1
fftRadix4Pass(data + 4); // radix-4 function number 2
fftRadix4Pass(data + 12); // radix-4 function number 4
// coalesced global writes
globalStores(data, out, 64);
A full, open source implementation of an OpenCL FFT can be found on Apple's website.[22]
OpenCL was initially developed by Apple Inc., which holds trademark rights, and refined into an initial proposal in collaboration with technical teams at AMD, IBM, Qualcomm, Intel, and Nvidia. Apple submitted this initial proposal to the Khronos Group. On June 16, 2008, the Khronos Compute Working Group was formed[23] with representatives from CPU, GPU, embedded-processor, and software companies. This group worked for five months to finish the technical details of the specification for OpenCL 1.0 by November 18, 2008.[24] This technical specification was reviewed by the Khronos members and approved for public release on December 8, 2008.[25]
OpenCL 1.0Edit
OpenCL 1.0 released with Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28, 2009. According to an Apple press release:[26]
Snow Leopard further extends support for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications. OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard.
AMD decided to support OpenCL instead of the now deprecated Close to Metal in its Stream framework.[27][28] RapidMind announced their adoption of OpenCL underneath their development platform to support GPUs from multiple vendors with one interface.[29] On December 9, 2008, Nvidia announced its intention to add full support for the OpenCL 1.0 specification to its GPU Computing Toolkit.[30] On October 30, 2009, IBM released its first OpenCL implementation as a part of the XL compilers.[31]
OpenCL 1.1 was ratified by the Khronos Group on June 14, 2010[32] and adds significant functionality for enhanced parallel programming flexibility, functionality, and performance including:
New data types including 3-component vectors and additional image formats;
Handling commands from multiple host threads and processing buffers across multiple devices;
Operations on regions of a buffer including read, write and copy of 1D, 2D, or 3D rectangular regions;
Enhanced use of events to drive and control command execution;
Additional OpenCL built-in C functions such as integer clamp, shuffle, and asynchronous strided copies;
Improved OpenGL interoperability through efficient sharing of images and buffers by linking OpenCL and OpenGL events.
On November 15, 2011, the Khronos Group announced the OpenCL 1.2 specification,[33] which added significant functionality over the previous versions in terms of performance and features for parallel programming. Most notable features include:
Device partitioning: the ability to partition a device into sub-devices so that work assignments can be allocated to individual compute units. This is useful for reserving areas of the device to reduce latency for time-critical tasks.
Separate compilation and linking of objects: the functionality to compile OpenCL into external libraries for inclusion into other programs.
Enhanced image support: 1.2 adds support for 1D images and 1D/2D image arrays. Furthermore, the OpenGL sharing extensions now allow for OpenGL 1D textures and 1D/2D texture arrays to be used to create OpenCL images.
Built-in kernels: custom devices that contain specific unique functionality are now integrated more closely into the OpenCL framework. Kernels can be called to use specialised or non-programmable aspects of underlying hardware. Examples include video encoding/decoding and digital signal processors.
DirectX functionality: DX9 media surface sharing allows for efficient sharing between OpenCL and DX9 or DXVA media surfaces. Equally, for DX11, seamless sharing between OpenCL and DX11 surfaces is enabled.
The ability to force IEEE 754 compliance for single precision floating point math: OpenCL by default allows the single precision versions of the division, reciprocal, and square root operation to be less accurate than the correctly rounded values that IEEE 754 requires.[34] If the programmer passes the "-cl-fp32-correctly-rounded-divide-sqrt" command line argument to the compiler, these three operations will be computed to IEEE 754 requirements if the OpenCL implementation supports this, and will fail to compile if the OpenCL implementation does not support computing these operations to their correctly-rounded values as defined by the IEEE 754 specification.[34] This ability is supplemented by the ability to query the OpenCL implementation to determine if it can perform these operations to IEEE 754 accuracy.[34]
On November 18, 2013, the Khronos Group announced the ratification and public release of the finalized OpenCL 2.0 specification.[35] Updates and additions to OpenCL 2.0 include:
Shared virtual memory
Nested parallelism
Generic address space
C11 atomics
Android installable client driver extension
The ratification and release of the OpenCL 2.1 provisional specification was announced on March 3, 2015 at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. It was released on November 16, 2015.[36] It introduced the OpenCL C++ kernel language, based on a subset of C++14, while maintaining support for the preexisting OpenCL C kernel language. Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1 share SPIR-V as an intermediate representation allowing high-level language front-ends to share a common compilation target. Updates to the OpenCL API include:
Additional subgroup functionality
Copying of kernel objects and states
Low-latency device timer queries
Ingestion of SPIR-V code by runtime
Execution priority hints for queues
Zero-sized dispatches from host
AMD, ARM, Intel, HPC, and YetiWare have declared support for OpenCL 2.1.[37][38]
OpenCL 2.2 brings the OpenCL C++ kernel language into the core specification for significantly enhanced parallel programming productivity.[39][40][41] It was released on May 16, 2017.[42] Maintenance Update released in May 2018 with bugfixes.[43]
The OpenCL C++ kernel language is a static subset of the C++14 standard and includes classes, templates, lambda expressions, function overloads and many other constructs for generic and meta-programming.
Uses the new Khronos SPIR-V 1.1 intermediate language which fully supports the OpenCL C++ kernel language.
OpenCL library functions can now use the C++ language to provide increased safety and reduced undefined behavior while accessing features such as atomics, iterators, images, samplers, pipes, and device queue built-in types and address spaces.
Pipe storage is a new device-side type in OpenCL 2.2 that is useful for FPGA implementations by making connectivity size and type known at compile time, enabling efficient device-scope communication between kernels.
OpenCL 2.2 also includes features for enhanced optimization of generated code: applications can provide the value of specialization constant at SPIR-V compilation time, a new query can detect non-trivial constructors and destructors of program scope global objects, and user callbacks can be set at program release time.
Runs on any OpenCL 2.0-capable hardware (only driver update required)
FutureEdit
The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) held by the Khronos Group.
When releasing OpenCL version 2.2, the Khronos Group announced that OpenCL would be merging into Vulkan in the future.[44] OpenCL Next will come in 2019 with new System of Features.[45]
ImplementationsEdit
OpenCL consists of a set of headers and a shared object that is loaded at runtime. An installable client driver (ICD) must be installed on the platform for every class of vendor for which the runtime would need to support. That is, for example, in order to support Nvidia devices on a Linux platform, the Nvidia ICD would need to be installed such that the OpenCL runtime (the ICD loader) would be able to locate the ICD for the vendor and redirect the calls appropriately. The standard OpenCL header is used by the consumer application; calls to each function are then proxied by the OpenCL runtime to the appropriate driver using the ICD. Each vendor must implement each OpenCL call in their driver.[46]
The Apple,[47] Nvidia,[48] RapidMind[49] and Gallium3D[50] implementations of OpenCL are all based on the LLVM Compiler technology and use the Clang compiler as its frontend.
MESA Gallium Compute
An implementation of OpenCL (actual 1.1 incomplete, mostly done AMD Radeon GCN) for a number of platforms is maintained as part of the Gallium Compute Project,[51] which builds on the work of the Mesa project to support multiple platforms. Formerly this was known as CLOVER.,[52] actual development: mostly support for running incomplete framework with actual LLVM and CLANG, some new features like fp16 in 17.3,[53] Target complete OpenCL 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 for AMD and Nvidia. New Basic Development is done by Red Hat with SPIR-V also for Clover.[54][55]
An implementation by Intel for its Ivy Bridge + hardware was released in 2013.[56] This software from Intel's China Team, has attracted criticism from developers at AMD and Red Hat,[57] as well as Michael Larabel of Phoronix.[58] Actual Version 1.3.2 support OpenCL 1.2 complete (Ivy Bridge and higher) and OpenCL 2.0 optional for Skylake and newer.[59][60] support for Android has been added to Beignet.,[61] actual development targets: only support for 1.2 and 2.0, road to OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 is gone to NEO.
An implementation by Intel for Gen. 8 Broadwell + Gen. 9 hardware released in 2018.[62] This driver replaces Beignet implementation for supported platforms. NEO provides OpenCL 2.1 support on Core platforms and OpenCL 1.2 on Atom platforms.[63]
ROCm
Created as part of AMD's GPUOpen, ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) is an open source Linux project built on OpenCL 1.2 with language support for 2.0. The system is compatible with all modern AMD CPUs and APUs (GFX 8+), as well as Intel Gen7.5+ CPUs (only with PCI 3.0).[64][65] With version 1.9 support is in some points extended experimental to Hardware with PCIe 2.0 and without atomics. An overview of actual work is done on XDC2018.[66][67] Actual ROCm Version 2.0 supports Full OpenCL 2.0, but some errors and limitations are on the todo list.[68][69]
POCL
A portable implementation supporting CPUs and some GPUs (via CUDA and HSA). Building on Clang and LLVM.[70] With version 1.0 OpenCL 1.2 was nearly fully implemented along with some 2.x features.[71] Actual is Version 1.2 with LLVM/CLANG 6.0, 7.0 and Full OpenCL 1.2 support with all closed tickets in Milestone 1.2.[71][72] OpenCL 2.0 is nearly full implemented.[73]
A Port of Mesa Clover for ARM with full support of OpenCL 1.2,[74][75] no actual development for 2.0.
FreeOCL
A CPU focused implementation of OpenCL 1.2 that implements an external compiler to create a more reliable platform,[76] no actual development.
MOCL
An OpenCL implementation based on POCL by the NUDT researchers for Matrix-2000 was released in 2018. The Matrix-2000 architecture is designed to replace the Intel Xeon Phi accelerators of the TianHe-2 supercomputer. This programming framework is built on top of LLVM v5.0 and reuses some code pieces from POCL as well. To unlock the hardware potential, the device runtime uses a push-based task dispatching strategy and the performance of the kernel atomics is improved significantly. This framework has been deployed on the TH-2A system and is readily available to the public.[77] Some of the software will next ported to improve POCL.[71]
Khronos Conformance Test Suite (CTS)
CTS is for all developers and all actual OpenCL levels free (since 2017) available.[78]
Timeline of vendor implementationsEdit
December 10, 2008: AMD and Nvidia held the first public OpenCL demonstration, a 75-minute presentation at Siggraph Asia 2008. AMD showed a CPU-accelerated OpenCL demo explaining the scalability of OpenCL on one or more cores while Nvidia showed a GPU-accelerated demo.[79][80]
March 16, 2009: at the 4th Multicore Expo, Imagination Technologies announced the PowerVR SGX543MP, the first GPU of this company to feature OpenCL support.[81]
March 26, 2009: at GDC 2009, AMD and Havok demonstrated the first working implementation for OpenCL accelerating Havok Cloth on AMD Radeon HD 4000 series GPU.[82]
April 20, 2009: Nvidia announced the release of its OpenCL driver and SDK to developers participating in its OpenCL Early Access Program.[83]
August 5, 2009: AMD unveiled the first development tools for its OpenCL platform as part of its ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program.[84]
August 28, 2009: Apple released Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which contains a full implementation of OpenCL.[85]
September 28, 2009: Nvidia released its own OpenCL drivers and SDK implementation.
October 13, 2009: AMD released the fourth beta of the ATI Stream SDK 2.0, which provides a complete OpenCL implementation on both R700/R800 GPUs and SSE3 capable CPUs. The SDK is available for both Linux and Windows.[86]
November 26, 2009: Nvidia released drivers for OpenCL 1.0 (rev 48).
October 27, 2009: S3 released their first product supporting native OpenCL 1.0 – the Chrome 5400E embedded graphics processor.[87]
December 10, 2009: VIA released their first product supporting OpenCL 1.0 – ChromotionHD 2.0 video processor included in VN1000 chipset.[88]
December 21, 2009: AMD released the production version of the ATI Stream SDK 2.0,[89] which provides OpenCL 1.0 support for R800 GPUs and beta support for R700 GPUs.
June 1, 2010: ZiiLABS released details of their first OpenCL implementation for the ZMS processor for handheld, embedded and digital home products.[90]
June 30, 2010: IBM released a fully conformant version of OpenCL 1.0.[4]
September 13, 2010: Intel released details of their first OpenCL implementation for the Sandy Bridge chip architecture. Sandy Bridge will integrate Intel's newest graphics chip technology directly onto the central processing unit.[91]
November 15, 2010: Wolfram Research released Mathematica 8 with OpenCLLink package.
March 3, 2011: Khronos Group announces the formation of the WebCL working group to explore defining a JavaScript binding to OpenCL. This creates the potential to harness GPU and multi-core CPU parallel processing from a Web browser.[92][93]
March 31, 2011: IBM released a fully conformant version of OpenCL 1.1.[4][94]
April 25, 2011: IBM released OpenCL Common Runtime v0.1 for Linux on x86 Architecture.[95]
May 4, 2011: Nokia Research releases an open source WebCL extension for the Firefox web browser, providing a JavaScript binding to OpenCL.[96]
July 1, 2011: Samsung Electronics releases an open source prototype implementation of WebCL for WebKit, providing a JavaScript binding to OpenCL.[97]
August 8, 2011: AMD released the OpenCL-driven AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.5, replacing the ATI Stream SDK as technology and concept.[98]
December 12, 2011: AMD released AMD APP SDK v2.6[99] which contains a preview of OpenCL 1.2.
February 27, 2012: The Portland Group released the PGI OpenCL compiler for multi-core ARM CPUs.[100]
April 17, 2012: Khronos released a WebCL working draft.[101]
May 6, 2013: Altera released the Altera SDK for OpenCL, version 13.0.[102] It is conformant to OpenCL 1.0.[103]
November 18, 2013: Khronos announced that the specification for OpenCL 2.0 had been finalized.[104]
March 19, 2014: Khronos releases the WebCL 1.0 specification[105][106]
August 29, 2014: Intel releases HD Graphics 5300 driver that supports OpenCL 2.0.[107]
September 25, 2014: AMD releases Catalyst 14.41 RC1, which includes an OpenCL 2.0 driver.[108]
January 14, 2015: Xilinx Inc. announces SDAccel development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, achieves Khronos Conformance[109]
April 13, 2015: Nvidia releases WHQL driver v350.12, which includes OpenCL 1.2 support for GPUs based on Kepler or later architectures.[110] Driver 340+ support OpenCL 1.1 for Tesla and Fermi.
August 26, 2015: AMD released AMD APP SDK v3.0[111] which contains full support of OpenCL 2.0 and sample coding.
April 18, 2016: Khronos announced that the specification for OpenCL 2.2 had been provisionally finalized.[40]
November 3, 2016 Intel support for Gen7+ of OpenCL 2.1 in SDK 2016 r3[113]
February 17, 2017: Nvidia begins evaluation support of OpenCL 2.0 with driver 378.66.[114][115][116]
May 16, 2017: Khronos announced that the specification for OpenCL 2.2 had been finalized with Spir-V1.2.[117]
May 14, 2018: Khronos announced Maintenance Update for OpenCL 2.2 with Bugfix and unified headers.[43]
DevicesEdit
As of 2016 OpenCL runs on Graphics processing units, CPUs with SIMD instructions, FPGAs, Movidius Myriad 2, Adapteva epiphany and DSPs.
Conformant productsEdit
The Khronos Group maintains an extended list of OpenCL-conformant products.[4]
Synopsis of OpenCL conformant products[4]
AMD SDKs (supports OpenCL CPU and accelerated processing unit Devices), (GPU: Terascale 1: OpenCL 1.1, Terascale 2: 1.2, GCN 1: 1.2+, GCN 2+: 2.0+)
X86 + SSE2 (or higher) compatible CPUs 64-bit & 32-bit,[118] Linux 2.6 PC, Windows Vista/7/8.x/10 PC AMD Fusion E-350, E-240, C-50, C-30 with HD 6310/HD 6250 AMD Radeon/Mobility HD 6800, HD 5x00 series GPU, iGPU HD 6310/HD 6250, HD 7xxx, HD 8xxx, R2xx, R3xx, RX 4xx, RX 5xx, Vega Series AMD FirePro Vx800 series GPU and later, Radeon Pro
Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2013[119] (supports Intel Core processors and Intel HD Graphics 4000/2500) actual 2017 R2 with OpenCL 2.1 (Gen7+), SDK 2019 in Beta,[120]
Intel CPUs with SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2 or AVX support.[121][122] Microsoft Windows, Linux Intel Core i7, i5, i3; 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/5/3, 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors with Intel HD Graphics 4000/2500 and newer Intel Core 2 Solo, Duo Quad, Extreme and newer Intel Xeon 7x00,5x00,3x00 (Core based) and newer
IBM Servers with OpenCL Development Kit for Linux on Power running on Power VSX[123][124]
IBM Power 775 (PERCS), 750 IBM BladeCenter PS70x Express IBM BladeCenter JS2x, JS43 IBM BladeCenter QS22
IBM OpenCL Common Runtime (OCR)
X86 + SSE2 (or higher) compatible CPUs 64-bit & 32-bit;[126] Linux 2.6 PC AMD Fusion, Nvidia Ion and Intel Core i7, i5, i3; 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/5/3 AMD Radeon, Nvidia GeForce and Intel Core 2 Solo, Duo, Quad, Extreme ATI FirePro, Nvidia Quadro and Intel Xeon 7x00,5x00,3x00 (Core based)
Nvidia OpenCL Driver and Tools,[127] Chips: Tesla, Fermi : OpenCL 1.1(Driver 340+), Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing: OpenCL 1.2 (Driver 370+), OpenCL 2.0 beta (378.66)
Nvidia Tesla C/D/S Nvidia GeForce GTS/GT/GTX, Nvidia Ion Nvidia Quadro FX/NVX/Plex, Quadro, Quadro K, Quadro M, Quadro P, Quadro with Volta, Quadro RTX with Turing
All standard-conformant implementations can be queried using one of the clinfo tools (there are multiple tools with the same name and similar feature set).[128][129][130]
Version supportEdit
Products and their version of OpenCL support include:[131]
OpenCL 2.2 supportEdit
None yet: Khronos Test Suite ready, with Driver Update all Hardware with 2.0 and 2.1 support possible
Intel NEO Compute: Work in Progress for actual products[132]
(2018+) Support backported to Intel 5th and 6th gen processors (Broadwell, Skylake)
(2017+) Intel 7th and 8th gen processors (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake (Desktop) or Cannon Lake (mobile))
Khronos: with Driver Update all Hardware with 2.0 support possible
(2011+) AMD GCN GPU's (HD 7700+/HD 8000/Rx 200/Rx 300/Rx 400/Rx 500-Series), some GCN 1st Gen only 1.2 with some Extensions
(2013+) AMD GCN APU's (Jaguar, Steamroller, Puma, Excavator & Zen-based)
(2014+) Intel 5th & 6th gen processors (Broadwell, Skylake)
(2015+) Qualcomm Adreno 5xx series
(2017+) ARM Mali (Bifrost) G51 and G71 in Android 7.1 and Linux
(2018+) ARM Mali (Bifrost) G31, G52, G72 and G76
(2017+) incomplete Evaluation support: Nvidia Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta and Turing GPU's (GeForce 600, 700, 800, 900 & 10-series, Quadro K-, M- & P-series, Tesla K-, M- & P-series) with Driver Version 378.66+
(2011+) for some AMD GCN 1st Gen some OpenCL 2.0 Features not possible today, but many more Extensions than Terascale
(2009+) AMD TeraScale 2 & 3 GPU's (RV8xx, RV9xx in HD 5000, 6000 & 7000 Series)
(2011+) AMD TeraScale APU's (K10, Bobcat & Piledriver-based)
(2012+) Nvidia Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta and Turing GPU's (GeForce 600, 700, 800, 900 & 10-series, Quadro K-, M- & P-series, Tesla K-, M- & P-series)
(2012+) Intel 3rd & 4th gen processors (Ivy Bridge, Haswell)
(2013+) ARM Mali Midgard 3rd gen (T760)
(2015+) ARM Mali Midgard 4th gen (T8xx)
(2008+) some AMD TeraScale 1 GPU's (RV7xx in HD4000-series)
(2008+) Nvidia Tesla, Fermi GPU's (GeForce 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500-series, Quadro-series or Tesla-series with Tesla or Fermi GPU)
(2012+) ARM Mali Midgard 1st and 2nd gen (T-6xx, T720)
mostly updated to 1.1 and 1.2 after first Driver for 1.0 only
Portability, performance and alternativesEdit
A key feature of OpenCL is portability, via its abstracted memory and execution model, and the programmer is not able to directly use hardware-specific technologies such as inline Parallel Thread Execution (PTX) for Nvidia GPUs unless they are willing to give up direct portability on other platforms. It is possible to run any OpenCL kernel on any conformant implementation.
However, performance of the kernel is not necessarily portable across platforms. Existing implementations have been shown to be competitive when kernel code is properly tuned, though, and auto-tuning has been suggested as a solution to the performance portability problem,[133] yielding "acceptable levels of performance" in experimental linear algebra kernels.[134] Portability of an entire application containing multiple kernels with differing behaviors was also studied, and shows that portability only required limited tradeoffs.[135]
A study at Delft University from 2011 that compared CUDA programs and their straightforward translation into OpenCL C found CUDA to outperform OpenCL by at most 30% on the Nvidia implementation. The researchers noted that their comparison could be made fairer by applying manual optimizations to the OpenCL programs, in which case there was "no reason for OpenCL to obtain worse performance than CUDA". The performance differences could mostly be attributed to differences in the programming model (especially the memory model) and to NVIDIA's compiler optimizations for CUDA compared to those for OpenCL.[133]
Another study at D-Wave Systems Inc. found that "The OpenCL kernel’s performance is between about 13% and 63% slower, and the end-to-end time is between about 16% and 67% slower" than CUDA's performance.[136]
The fact that OpenCL allows workloads to be shared by CPU and GPU, executing the same programs, means that programmers can exploit both by dividing work among the devices.[137] This leads to the problem of deciding how to partition the work, because the relative speeds of operations differ among the devices. Machine learning has been suggested to solve this problem: Grewe and O'Boyle describe a system of support vector machines trained on compile-time features of program that can decide the device partitioning problem statically, without actually running the programs to measure their performance.[138]
Project Coriander: Conversion CUDA to OpenCL 1.2 with CUDA-on-CL[139][140][141]
Advanced Simulation Library
AMD FireStream
BrookGPU
C++ AMP
Close to Metal
DirectCompute
Larrabee
Lib Sh
List of OpenCL applications
OpenACC
OpenHMPP
OpenMP
SequenceL
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Dilip Shanghvi, promoters to make open offer to buy 26% Suzlon stake
Dilip Shanghvi- controlled entities along with promoters of Suzlon will make an open offer worth Rs 2,837 crore to acquire 26% stake in the wind turbine maker.PTI | December 17, 2015, 14:27 IST
NEW DELHI | Dec 16: Billionaire Dilip Shanghvi- controlled entities along with promoters of Suzlon will make an open offer worth Rs 2,837 crore to acquire 26 per cent stake in the wind turbine maker.
The offer, that would begin on December 28 and close on January 8, 2016, comes after Shanghvi decided to acquire 23 per cent stake in Suzlon with an equity investment of Rs 1,800 crore. The deal was announced earlier this year.
Shanghvi-controlled entities along with Tulsi Tanti and other promoters of Suzlon would make the open offer to the shareholders for purchasing more than 157.64 crore shares, according to a filing to the BSE.
"... with the acquirers, to the public shareholders of Suzlon Energy Ltd for acquisition of upto 157,64,38,113 equity shares of face value of Rs 2 each at a price of Rs 18 per fully paid up equity share," Suzlon has informed BSE today.
IndusInd Bank Ltd is the manager to the open offer.
According to the sources, there was an understanding between Tanti and Shanghvi that the former would have absolute control over the company and latter's shareholding will remain below Tanti's holding.
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Kayamkulam Kochunni review: Inspiring acts of Kerala's own Robin Hood
Litty Simon October 15, 2018 10:27 AM IST
Rosshan Andrrews' films stand for 'inspiring and entertaining.' The biggest highlights of his films are probably the well-delineated characters that go beyond entertainment alone. For, he knows how to infuse the right amount of melodrama for the masses. That's how his Kayalamkulam Kochunni develops.
Thangal is a martial arts trainer. But above that he is a man of vision and principles. While he is of the notion that Keshavan is his true disciple, he finds the best in Kochunni. “It will pain me if my disciple turns out to be wrongdoer,” is what Thangal tells Kochunni before mentoring him. “A true spirit, you are born to win," is how later Thangal himself describes Kochunni.
'Kayamkulam Kochunni' has a rich cast including Mohanlal as Ithikkara Pakki.
To put it short, the movie Kayalamkulam Kochunni is about this best disciple of his.
Nivin Pauly has delivered his career best character with Kochunni. It is a demanding role and he, with utmost care, manages to do justice to it. Sunny Wayne as Keshavan delivers an impressive performance right from the beginning till the end. This movie will definitely leave a mark as the character infuses a disciple's discipline and a man's shrewdness. Yet another impressive performance is by veteran actor Babu Antony who earn applauds with his effortless and commanding screen presence as Thangal. Priya Anand, Shine Tom Chacko, Manikandan, Sudheer Karamana, Sudev Nair, Jude Anthony Joseph have also done a decent job.
The British invasion, their efforts to nab Ithikkara Pakki and the caste system that prevailed during the period have been portrayed with finesse.
Talking about the cast, one cannot miss mentioning Mohanlal who wins everyone's heart as Ithikkara Pakki. His energy, actions, dialogues seemed to be a booster to Kochunni and the audience gets a chance to thoroughly enjoy his appearance. The interval scene where he makes his grand entry is probably the best scene in the movie.
With a focus on family audiences, Rosshan Andrrews has convincingly crafted the impressive script of Sanjay and Bobby. BGM deserves special mention, for there are places which seemed a bit dramatic but gets shadowed by the music. Although the movie fails to bring in a big transformation of the character from mere Kochunni to Kayalamkulam Kochunni, the art department and tight editing make one root for the fast-paced drama.
Kayamkulam Kochunni has been shaped up as the costliest ever movie in the history of Malayalam cinema. Just like the undying spirit of Kerala's own Robinhood, the movie Kayamkulam Kochunni too will be one major landmark in Malayalam cinema.
Rosshan Andrrews
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Turning the adjective 'anonymous' into 'Mr Anonymous' [closed]
As a teacher, I often receive anonymous homework, essays and even tests. In Portuguese, 'anonymous' can be a noun so it wouldn't be unheard of for a Portuguese teacher to say something like this (literal translation)...
'can you believe I had two anonymous in my last test?'
Obviously such a construction is not grammatical in English.
However, could the word be transformed into a proper name? Could I say something like...
'I had a Mr Anonymous in my last test?'
And if it's possible, would it still work in...
'I had two Mr Anonymous in my last test'?
word-usage
Sara CostaSara Costa
closed as primarily opinion-based by Edwin Ashworth, Hank, Canis Lupus, NVZ, Mitch Mar 13 '17 at 16:19
What's the benefit to the student of doing work anonymously? – Dan Bron Feb 26 '17 at 11:54
@DanBron I imagine Sara is referring to students who forget to write their names on assignments, they hand in essays/papers w/o writing who they are. P.S Anyone who forgets to write their name on a test paper should be marked Fail, regardless how well it was done. In real life, under real examination conditions, an unsigned/unnamed exam paper is not marked. – Mari-Lou A Feb 26 '17 at 12:07
@Mari-LouA Ah, yes, that makes much more sense! Thank you. – Dan Bron Feb 26 '17 at 12:12
@Centaurus: I'm referring to European Portuguese. Eg. One student forgot to write his name. After I've marked all other works, I'll know who the nameless work belongs to so, when I'm handing it back to the students, I call all their names and when I get to the last one I'll call "Anónimo!" and the student will sheepishly say "Ah, did I forget to write my name?" – Sara Costa Feb 26 '17 at 12:19
if you have mixed classes, say, "anonymous kids/students". To inject humour, you could have a short class discussion about the comic heroes X-men, and ask if the X stands for anonymous OLD:1.2. Denoting an unknown or unspecified person or thing. Then announce that you have discovered two X-kids. Explain these nameless heroes sacrifice their scores for the greater good of humanity. – Mari-Lou A Feb 26 '17 at 14:32
Terry Pratchett played with this idea extensively in his Discworld novels. He used the idea of a 'Metasyntactic variable' (his own nomenclature I believe but open to correction). I suspect it also arose from his early onset Alzheimers. The flexibility of English makes it particularly suited to this kind of usage.
Imagine you do not know, or have forgotten, someone's name, or the name of a thing. A meaningful sentence can still be constructed. 'I met what's-his-name yesterday.' 'what's-his-name' is the metasyntactic variable standing in for the unknown name. One of Terry's favourite was the contraction 'wossname' which could be either what's-his-name, what's-her-name, or what's-its'-name. A very metasyntactic variable. The L-Space reference here or Google Terry Pratchett wossname.
Who or what the person / object is can be made clear from context but still leave sufficient ambiguity for puns (of which Terry was a master) and humor.
Clearly this is a device for humor in Terry's work, but as with so much of his writting, containing a self deprecating acknowledgement of his own struggle and those with a like condition.
Returning directly to your question, yes.
The use of a metasyntactic stand-in such as Mr Anonymous would be perfectly acceptable but it should be understood as a humorous construction.
Because of the Greek etymology the plural of anonymous is anonymous'. In English this is an awkward construction as is the pronunciation with the double s at the end.
If you had two un-named papers you could go down the route of, 'Mr Anonymous A' and 'Mr Anonymous B'. Or use another Pratchettism and use 'Mr Anonymous' and 'Mr Insert-Name-Here'.
As an academic at a community college I am in complete agreement with @Mari-LouA. No name, no mark. I do however appreciate @Sara Costa's situation.
It may be worth considering however (after appropriate discussion with management) that handing out the odd F to unnamed paper submitters, particularly persistant ones, will:
Provide a valuable life lesson they are unlikely to soon forget
Motivate other students not to make the same mistake
And yes I am that academic. Cruel but fair.
pHredpHred
Good answer. In re metasyntactic variable, no, Pratchett didn't invent it, though he used it correctly. I can't find an established etymology, but the first hit I found for the term metasyntactic variable was in an Emacs manual from 1990 where it's used unselfconsciously and without definition, so clearly it was well-established by that point. The earliest use of metasyntactic alone I could find in Google Books was from an ALGOL Bulletin, but I would be surprised indeed if it isn't a lot older than that. – Dan Bron Feb 26 '17 at 15:29
Ok, I found a much earlier use of the full term metasyntactic variable than the 1990 Emacs manual. The term is defined and used in the 1974 book The MDL Programming Language. The term is defined on p. 4, as "something to be replaced, in actual use, by something else" (as in foo or your wossname). Further, on p. 44, it says "the convention that a metasyntactic variable can..", meaning the term had history even then. – Dan Bron Feb 26 '17 at 15:37
Thanks @Dan Bron. I've seen it used in computer science myself & have wondered if it was one of Terry's imaginative retaskings or maybe a fanboy acknowledgement. Either way I am now quite unable to read it without a chuckle. – pHred Feb 26 '17 at 15:43
Have edited my answer to expressly make clear why I don't feel anonymous' plural works. – pHred Feb 26 '17 at 15:56
In case you're interested, I have kicked-off an investigation into the origins of the term "metasyntactic variable" here: english.stackexchange.com/questions/375614/… – Dan Bron Feb 26 '17 at 17:14
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Do Our Fights Over Pope Francis Have to be This Dumb?
Published in America Magazine on September 25, 2017
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Pope Francis likes to stir things up, to create debate. In this, he reminds me of nothing more than another frequently misunderstood popular figure, one Jesus of Nazareth. Just imagine Twitter’s reaction to the bit about giving back to Caesar what is owed to Caesar. Half would have denounced Jesus as a stooge of the Romans and the other half as a dangerous fanatic bent on anti-Roman war. Pharisees and Sadducees could not “process” Jesus because they tried to fit him in their political categories, while he was about something else. If the pope says “Who am I to judge?,” it is imperative that I try to use that as a culture war weapon, lest I accidentally start to ask myself how much I am judging my neighbor and what I should do about it.
It is fine to have debate within the church. I just wish the debate were a little less—what’s the theological term of art again?—oh, yes: a little less dumb.
Take the latest episode in the never-gonna-die controversy around “Amoris Laetitia.” A group of Catholics has published a letter of “filial correction” asking—politely, pretty please, no offense—the pope to stop being such a heretic.
Nevermind the merits of this issue: Whose bright idea was it to include among the signatories of a document lecturing about heresy the infamous Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the breakaway traditionalist group the Society of St. Pius X? What response is any faithful Catholic, even one sympathetic to the letter’s argument, supposed to give to a letter lecturing the pope about Catholicism signed by someone whose career and vocation is dedicated to undermining communion with the See of Peter, other than peals of laughter?
After lecturing the pope in Latin (of course), the letter includes appendices denouncing “Modernism” and Protestantism (of course), in which the authors feel it necessary to remind the pope that among Catholic doctrines is the proposition that “Jesus Christ is true God and true man.” Imagine the levels of self-righteous passive aggression it takes to write a public letter about how you are sadly forced to remind the pope of Rome that Catholics believe Jesus is divine. It is like contemplating infinity.
Not that the “other side” (because everything must be boiled down to two sides, because everything is dumb) did much better with its response. I will take this article from the National Catholic Reporter as representative. Nobody needs to worry about this filial correction, we are helpfully informed, not because it is wrong, but because the signatories are not theologians and are ill-represented among academics and bishops. I now await the condemnation of St. Catherine of Siena for her gall to rebuke the pope despite her lack of theological credentials and ecclesiastical support and will revisit my view of the Inquisition’s condemnation of Joan of Arc. Come to think of it, that fellow Jesus of Nazareth did not have a doctorate and did not have many friends among the religious authorities of the day.
I am not being acidly sarcastic for its own sake. There is a serious theological point, which I will make despite my distinct lack of theological degrees, which is that nothing could be further from the spirit of the Christian faith than the idea that faith and morals are accessible only to the learned and or that the best way to divine them is to tally up the views of the powerful. Then there is a serious prudential point: These repeated appeals to authority seem almost purposefully designed to validate the pope’s critics’ point that the pro-Francis wing of the church cannot respond to their arguments on the merits, and so they must resort to a combination of mumbo-jumbo and appeals to authority to silence critics.
Stepping back, what is the problem? We are not just shouting at each other on social media—we are sneering at each other. The failure is not one of communication; it is one of charity. People believe what they believe for reasons that are sincere, profound and complex. The pope wants us to debate. I say: Do it better.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, who lives in Paris, is a contributing writer to America, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and a columnist at TheWeek.com.
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[Drama 2012] Bridal Mask 각시탈
By ecs707a, April 20, 2012 in k-dramas & movies
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Fan Level: Hardcore
Joo Won "I Want To Wear More Masks."
After taking off the Bridal Mask, Joo Won would like to wear more masks.
“If the interviewer does not mind, can I have some snacks while doing this interview?” In order to attend this interview, with the sound of his footsteps going “da da da”, Joo Won came running in, hands full of various tidbits. “When I am tired, eating snacks will lift me up.” thus said Joo Won, the “Snack King” who is always eating tidbits. How more interesting can this get? This Bridal Mask who is eating snacks and laughing “haha” at the same time.
Today, Joo Won is one of those young actors who are attracting the most attention in Korea. In Baker King Kim Tak Gu, he received attention together with Yoon Shi Yoon, then he acted with Uhm Tae Woong in the movie “ Special Investigation Unit”, followed by filming the drama “Bridal Mask, establishing his own presence.
“Recently, I felt like I have become an idol” Joo Won said. His popularity has monopolized fans ranging from a 3 year old to an elder who can remember the days of the Japanese occupation. Not only this, in the national variety show 2N1D, Joo Won is also interpreting his own role. More than his acting skills, the thing that leaves the audience with a deep impression in their memories is that Joo Won is an actor who knows how to let himself go because of the drama.
In Bridal Mask, Joo Won went from an unrestrained Lee Kangto to become a pure and innocent man who was passionately in love with Mok Dan(Jin Se Yeon). He also had to act out many action scenes. In the drama, he used suppression and bitterness to replace his old image of being an obedient man, and he perfectly portrayed the Lee Kangto who bore the sufferings of that era.
“Actually when I took the script of Bridal Mask, I already started to feel the pressure. It was a 10 billion mega production and also a very famous manhwa, and there were many emotional and action scenes, so I was very worried whether as a main actor, would I be able to act well.
In reality, Lee Kangto was a very complex character. Before he wore the mask, he was a betrayer of his own nation. After that, he had to hide his identity, be it in front of the independence fighters or the Japanese. The viewers enjoyed watching it but to the one acting, it was actually a headache.
“The moment I took over the mask from hyung, it was the beginning of my troubles. Although it was just acting, in reality I was also confused. At the police station, on the outside I was Sato Hiroshi but inside I was Lee Kangto. Not only this, I also had to hide the truth from Mok Dan. So more than acting, I was very tired mentally. After the show ended, I still felt confused and my head hurt.”
Even Park Ki Woong who acted alongside with him said “You are the great con-artist at acting.” Joo Won had totally become Lee Kangto. Because of this, the audience got duped as well, found it interesting and tried to understand the character in the drama.
“This is the first production that caused suffering on me physically. Joo Won revealed that “I am a person who alone, can deliver 250 rounds of musical performances. So I was fully confident of my physical stamina when I started. But this time, Bridal Mask was really exhausting, probably because it required one person to show so many different faces, that’s why it was so. “Even though it was like this, Joo Won’s style is the type who does not like to take health supplements.
When he hits the limit, the things that give Joo Won strength are his sense of responsibility and his relationship with people. “I strive to be an actor who is full of vitality.” Joo Won places a lot of emphasis on his interpersonal relationship with the actors and the staff on the set. In order to create a relaxed filming atmosphere, Joo Won candidly opened up and worked hard to get along and work with people around him.
Now that he has taken off the mask, Joo Won spoke of the next challenge that he wants to take. “I want confirm the diverse personalities that’s hidden deep within myself.” Influenced by the main actor in the play “Jekyll and Hyde” who had multiple personalities, Joo Won candidly revealed that he wants to see how many more masks he has within himself.
“After acting in Bridal Mask, I heard for the first time that I am sexy. It’s the first time I discovered that I had a sexy side to me. Perhaps there are still many faces hidden inside me. So I will like to take the challenge.”
Chinese translation: 由米35 on baidu
English translation: mrdimples@soompi
Source: bntnews
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Se Yeon’s Interview part 2 (Taken from this video interview, she talked a lot more about BM in part 1)
Transcribed & Summarized by Jessi15 @ Soompi
Se Yeon is filming for an advertisement. “I came here to take photoshoot for a magazine.”
She is not ‘Mok Dan’ here. She is showing her classy appeal. “It is weird to see my different side.” Jin Se Yeon is beautiful without make-up. She is showing her different side with heavy make-up.“It’s interesting to do make-up and hair like this.”
The photographer starts taking photos of Se Yeon. She shows her sexy appeal and very charms. The video starts to show SY in various commercial advertisements. She was in many TV advertisements. She became queen of TV advertisements until she became Cinderella.
A way she made her debut:
“I was casted on the street. I filmed TV advertisements
To become an actress:
“I was auditioning for a role in TV advertisements, dramas and movies. I naturally broaden my works.
“I am glad to be called beautiful. Thank you.” Here she smiled and waved to the audience.
Sense of Inferiority:
“I felt inferior about my cheeks.” Then she continued apologetically “Today’s concept was cool and chic. However I sometimes doesn’t look cool because of my cheeks (she was patting lightly her cheeks) so I’m sad.”
A charming point:
“My smile.”
Different sides:
“I might look as if I am quiet and matured. However I act cute like girls my age do so when people got to know me better, people say that I have lively side.”
How do you manage your skin and body?
“When I am filming a drama, I would naturally loose weight without noticing it. I don’t get to sleep a lot. I easily get hungry. So I have to move even though I am sleepy and hungry when filming. So I just loose weight . For my skin, I’m sad… I have to wear make=up until dawn so I would get hives. I just cleanse my face leaving no make-up.”
A new actress Jin Se Yeon.
A year after her debut, she was casted as a main role in “My Daughter the Flower”.
“I was just happy about The Daughter The Flower. The title of the drama is The Daughter the Flower. I got the role of Flower so I was happy.”
Something you gained?
“I played the main character for the first time. So I felt like I’m one step closer to acting. There were many professional actors and actresses so I have learned a lot from them. The drama gave me reason to become a good actress.”
A role you want to play?
“I always play roles that are older than my age. Next I want to play a University student role that has an ingenuous beauty. I would like to play an optimistic person.”
20 years old Jin Se Yeon is lively and girlish.
Matured look?
“I could have played the roles because I have matured look. So I don’t mind looking matured.”
Free Times:
“I usually stay home. I often watch movies.”
The last film you have watched?
“I watched the Dark Knight Rises at the theatre recently. I really like it” Here she gave it a thumb up. Then the video showed her on the date she went to the admission at Chungang University. Se Yeon said “I feel good and excited. I am not a University student. I would attend lectures. I want to get to know Luna and Min Ho. I want to be close with friends.”
University life:
Se Yeon said regretfully: “I couldn’t attend classes at the University because I had to shoot ‘My Daughter the Flower’ and ‘The Bridal Mask’ so I’m sad. She then talked about her relationship with Luna f(x).
“Because we couldn’t meet often, we couldn’t be close friends. Chungang University students send messages so I sometimes got in touch with her.”
What would you like to do before you graduate?
“I want to go to MT before graduation” and then she giggled:
“A blind date?”
Relationship?
“I never had a boyfriend. I don’t know why” Here she giggled again.
Future plans:
“I hope to be on TV after the drama. I will work hard. I want to be this kind of an actress that could gain people’s trust. I want people to have positive thoughts when I am on a drama or a movie.”
Se Yeon became a dreamgirl for Korean men. Jin Se Yeon is the most wanted girlfriend among the actresses. As she walked around in the studio and got to see her own pictures , she is beaming “I am happy. He (the photographer) shoots great pictures. I love this hair and make-up. I really liked today’s shooting.”
“I want to be remembered as this kind of actress. I want to become an actress that could gain people’s trust. I want people to have positive thoughts when I am on a drama or a movie."
“The Bridal Mask ends in a month. I will do my best filming the ‘Bridal Mask’. I hope to be on TV after the drama. I will work hard.”
Drawing to the conclusion, to the audience Se Yeon said:
“To viewers, I am Jin Se Yeon. The Bridal Mask will be fun so please watch it. I will try to show more of my different sides. Bye.”
The screen shows this notation ‘Actress Jin Se Yeon has dreams. We hope you to become a dependable actress’ whilst music of Goodbye Day playing on the background.
Thanks for transcribing @Jessi15.
my4ever77 said:
Celebrity Topic – Joo Won’s Drama Travelogue
Part 3 – Towards Bigger Dreams
Playing the role of an antagonist left a deep impression and the beautiful and tragic love he played has made him the young “STAR”. He is recognized for his innate ability at acting both good and evil. Joo Won even obtained the title of “The New Generation Capable Actor” in the Rising Star, he is making cautious pace, ready to take off after completing his run-up.
30th May 2012 to 6th Sep 2012 – “Bridal Mask” It was blistering hot but very happy
Since 2010, I have acted in one drama each year. Although each piece of work is very memorable, the one I love best is the recently ended “Bridal Mask”. I suffered a lot both physically and mentally, but this is also a drama that contributed to my growth. I played Lee Kangto who experienced much sadness when it came to his family. On the other hand, he also suffered pain when he had to go up against his friend Shunji because of fateful circumstances. Shunji was actually Kangto’s best and only friend in the world…even as we filmed; I would think ‘how did we reach such a stage?’ This question made my heart ached.
From a perspective of an observer, Kangto and Shunji could not avoid their tragic fate. These two closest friends faced the fate of having to kill one another’s family; they continuously deepened their mutual animosity. Just when one is being worn out on the inside and needed the support and comfort of a friend, they developed mutual distrust instead, deepening their hatred of each other. Their tragic fate makes one cry. When we did the actual filming, I carried the same sort of feelings in my heart; Park Ki Woong hyung who played Shunji felt the same way too. We could not help but asked “Why did we become like this?” we felt sorry for each other. In the final episode of Bridal Mask, I felt even more heartbroken. Because Kangto had to send off the woman who he deeply loves……it was heart wrenching.
Leading dual lives as Kangto was very difficult. Do I just trick the characters in the drama or do I also need to trick the entire audience? That fine line made me confused. In the beginning, it was the difficulty of drawing the emotions of trying to understand the past. In the middle and the latter half, it was psychological fatigue. Because I had to switch back and forth between good and evil, until the very last when things could no longer hold up and were going to be revealed, it was very strenuous.
In the final scene, holding the dead Mok Dan in his arms, Kangto burst into tears, crying loudly. When the viewers saw this scene, many cried along. But there were also reactions like “whether the emotions were over the top.” Ever since I was in high school, I started to feel that in acting, one should not care how he looks. This is my own philosophy on acting. If I always had to care about how the camera would capture me, whether I look good, then I would not be able to show sincere acting. I feel that only when I cast away all external things then I can show an acting that resonates with people and is sincere.
After the filming of ‘Baker King Kim Tak Gu’ ended, I received an invitation from my alma mater to give a lecture to my sunbaes. At that time, I told them these words “Cast away the external things”. This is most important to an actor; it is actor Joo Won’s philosophy.
From March this year, I started the frantic pace because of Bridal Mask filming. It was hot and we also met with typhoons. It was not just the actors but the staff also suffered a lot. It was also a long distance to the filming site. Travelling took a lot of time so it was hard physically. The weather was extremely hot and I still had to wear the uniform. Sometimes, I felt as if my neck was being strangled and had to ask for a short break before I could continue with the filming. Although it was like this, the most fortunate thing was the atmosphere on the set. Because I was working with good staff and actors, it gave me a long of strength. Because I had the sunbaes who loved me, I became encouraged. Because there were viewers who knew of our sweat and efforts, I could smile. It is so now and it will be so in the future, Bridal Mask is a production that made me very happy.
6th September 2012– Ahn-nyeong Hahsehyo! And another Ahn-nyeong Hahsehyo!
To date of all the characters you played, which is your favorite one? Bridal Mask’s Lee Kangto. It is a role that allowed an actor to display a wide range. I thought a lot during the filming. Kangto gave me a great leap forward. To play this role, I was vexed for a long time and I also did a lot of research. Bridal Mask was a process by which I became an actor. I have always acted characters that are older than my actual age. In the future, I would like to act a character that’s about the same age. I wish to take the challenge of funny and cute acting. Every time when I filmed a show, I would concentrate intensely in order to immerse myself in the character. When I hear the director “CUT, my emotional state would still continue for a while. Anyway, in order to completely step out of the character, Kangto, I will still need some time.
Now I wish to travel with my family and friends. Even if it’s somewhere near, it does not matter. I want to go travelling, to enjoy as much as I can, the little happiness of daily life. To share stories with others, to spend beautiful sunny days listening to music, if like this, even though it is with regrets, it’s time I have to bid Kangto a beautiful farewell. Then I would again prepare to meet the new character. I will give my utmost to become a true actor. I hope everybody will continue to give me attention and care. I will take the trust and care you have given me and melt it into my works, this is the type of actor Joo Won will be. A Joo Won, who people will anticipate even more tomorrow than today. Towards bigger dreams, Fighting!
Writer: Joo Won
Chinese translation: minidadalove on baidu
Source: Naver
Not sure if this appeared here. But I was just browsing tumblr and someone said it made her cry watching this. Man, I miss Mok Dan& Kangto, gosh I really still do.
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Gaksital: BLEEEEH!!!!
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mrdimples said:
mojobobo
said: @mrdimples, you think Yang Baek will be the one to take the shot for Kangto? As much as this drama is about Kangto, it's also about the country and I'm jsut worried the writer will choose to kill of Mok Dan and make Kangto a man who just fights for his country.
sunshine4ever said: mrdimples said:
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sunshine4ever said: Post reserved for Bridal Mask directory ---- WILL BE UPDATING-----UNDER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
Jin Se Yeon's Thoughts on Bridal Mask, cast, & Mok Dan part 1 (during BM)
Jin Se Yeon's Interview part 2 (during BM)
"5 Words Talk" Interview Translation & Video (after BM)
The Dual Life of Joowon (while filming BM)
"Gaksital" Joo Won the National Star - "My dream is to become that good an actor." (after BM)
I Love Sportswear. I am Boring and also not Handsome (after BM)
Joowon who transforms into a strong man, the hero in Bridal Mask (during BM)
“Rising Rapidly Like The LTE” Asia Today’s interview (after BM)
Joo Won & Park Ki Woong
How Is the Actual Relationship between Bridal Mask “Enemies” Joo Won and Park Ki Woong? (after BM)
Park Ki Woong: "I got to know Joo Won through Gaksital; he was an excellent partner" (after BM)
Gaksital Press Conference News (no subs)
BTS JW & JSY's Kissing Scence #3 Interview (English translation included)
(no subs)
Bridal Mask Interview of the four main leads (In English subs, Chinese & Vietnamese subs)
THIS IS AWESOME!! ^ ^ i pinned this on our first page. thanks dear!
manyearsago 4,800
While we are all focusing on reading articles and watching interviews of the 4 main characters of Bridal Mask after the drama ended, somehow I found an article of interview with Jung Eun Byul, a supporting actress who started playing her role of Jin Hong from ep 21. When I was reading the article, I was surprised to know she sang one of the tracks 안되나봐 in Bridal Mask OST. I quickly checked music.daum.net and BM in Wikipedia to confirm the info. Bingo!! She is the one but her stage name as a singer is 은유. Her singing is nice although she might have no more than 10 lines to say in BM.
Source of the article: http://news.kstyle.com/article.ksn?articleNo=1952166&categoryCode=IV
Below is translation.
Jung Eun Byul - From being a fan of Bridal Mask, it was lucky to have become Jin Hong
The 24-year-old Jung Eun Byul is yearning for acting, however, being a rookie actress, there is still so much to learn and so much to show. Instead of being greedy, actor/actress taking one step at a time has more reasons to be loved by the viewers.
Interview with Jung Eun Byul was done at Hap Chang Dong after BM had finished its airing. Jung played the role of Jin Hong. Although she only joined BM filming from the last one-third of the drama, she had already drawn lots of attention from viewers. Since she is a rookie actress, she is still not used to interviews but her passion towards acting is not less than any other veteran actors/actresses.
In a scene which she had to fight against Chae Hong Ju played by Han Chae Ah and the scene which the Dong Jin Death Squad went to rescue Bridal Mask from the torture room, Jin Hong’s role was vigorously active. Her filming schedule was only one month but it was very special to her.
“It was a very popular drama. I enjoyed watching it. When I knew I would be playing a role in it, I just couldn’t believe it. It was lucky for me. However, because I have to play with all the best actors and actresses, I think no matter what, I have to do my best to do well in my action scenes.”
In BM, there were lots of action scenes, there would be a trouble if viewers found out the scenes were done by stunt, so it was very difficult for Jung to merge with the scenes which the stunt had done. “I have lots of action scenes and also because it was a sensitive time about the problem on supporting actors, the requirement was even more strict. Although I cannot perform to the same level like a stunt can, I tried and did my best. Fortunately, I got recognition from people, I was happy.”
Other than being a beautiful and elite member whose role certainly attracted the curiosity of viewers, Jung also gained lots of attention from viewers as her ranking kept rising in the search engine of portal sites on her “kicking scene” and ”the fighting scene which she took control over Han Chae Ah within 3 seconds”.
“For 3 days, I found my name ranked in the search field. It was like a miracle to me. I was happy. I was proud in front of the filming staff and PD when these scenes were captured. They were all happy for me. Because of this, I found myself more passionate towards filming."
Actually Jung is engaged in singing activities with her stage name of “Eun-U”, she sang Mok Dan’s theme “Looks like it doesn’ work” in Bridal Mask OST. “When I was little, I liked singing and dancing. I was born in Konju but the chance when we moved to Seoul. I was scouted when I was 20. In order to make a debut as a singer, I changed different management agencies within 4 years, so I understand how hard life is, I keep my will very firm. Acting is something which I did not expect.”
Jung just vaguely thought it was just a co-incidence starting with acting. Others think she has potential to be an actress. “One day, my management agency received a script and I read it. When I did the script reading with others, I didn’t realise I shed tears already. By reading the lines, I immersed myself in the character. Guess I started my acting with these tears. I could feel the happiness which acting brought me.”
Jung started her first drama in SBS “First Marriage”, she played the role of Mibon, her acting was recognized, then she acted better in her next KBS2 drama “Birds of Thorns”. Jung started martial arts in order to film Bridal Mask, she is still practising it even now. She wants to become an actress like Ha Ji Won who played the role of Jang Chae Ok, a female detective in Joseon era, in the drama of Tamo.
“Shooting was my hobby when I was young. Now I have demonstrated my swordmanship, my kicking skill was also very popular after receiving special training before filming. From now on, I just learn the basics one by one in order to prepare myself to play and act well in any other role in future. I am prepared to play a role similar to Ha Ji Won in “Tamo””.
If you ask Jung about her future activity plan, she surely knows what to tell you. “I want to play a role who has experienced hardship, a reckless & rough type of tomboy. I want to get recognition as an actress rather than a singer. I would like to thank you Yoon Son Shik PD and Cha Yon Hun PD for giving me the chance to play a role in Bridal Mask. It was such an honour. I learnt a lot. Also, thank you for everyone of my first official fancafe. I hope I will have more activities in future and please give me your love and support.”
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i have found my way back to "BM" thread, and this is my peace offering to everyone. enjoy, fellow fans!
Entertainment Weekly interview with Park Ki Woong, credits to kbsworld
Jessi15 488
@Micheru, thanks dear for posting PKW's interview. Out of Shunji shadow, he sounds like a very nice and sincere young man. Looks like the main couples in BM have taken a shine to their partner LOL So HCA likes someone older but Shunji ah, don't worry. If JW can change his mind saying that age has no bearing in his choosing a g/f then HCA can change her mind too.
@manyearsago Welcome, I don't recall having met you here in this thread before. Thanks for contributing Jung Eun Byul's interview. I really like her character in BM and she was good doing the action scenes. The director and BM's production team made a good choice bringing her in with just few espisodes left of the broadcast.
mrdimples said: You know even up to today, when I imagine Kangto holding his Boon Yi dead in his arms, there's that awful chill in my heart. Ever since he discovered she was Boon Yi, he went to great lengths to protect her and saved her countless times.
And for the whipping scene, I was wondering why didn't he use less strength? I can only deduce that if he were to hit her less hard, Shunji might prolong the torture. I think Kangto was hoping that Shunji would quickly change his mind as soon as he laid the first stroke. If you compare how he whipped her to how Kangto himself was whipped by Koiso, you can see the difference. Koiso threw his entire weight with each stroke whereas Kangto just moved his arms. But of course, Mok Dan is a girl so even then it was terrible.
After it happened, he resolved that he would never hurt her again or cause her to be hurt even if it is in the name of protecting the cause. He had no qualms being tortured himself to save the cause though. So, he would do anything to save even a hair on her head. I really cannot imagine him going through all these and then she still died in the end. How cruel.
sunshine4ever said: mrdimples said: You know even up to today, when I imagine Kangto holding his Boon Yi dead in his arms, there's that awful chill in my heart. Ever since he discovered she was Boon Yi, he went to great lengths to protect her and saved her countless times.
Jessi15 said:
sorry long post ahead...
disclaimer: this message is written to try to see another perspective of Shunji..it does not support killing oneself in anyway to obtain salvation..it is just opened to help you understand SJ's death..and SJ's salvation begun before his death --- the moment he was remorseful of MD's death...[i am 100% against killing yourself based on my belief]
@mojobobo, okay, so I finally understood why I wanted to write an extension of why I think SJ did receive his salvation. I think it is because both you and I saw a different SJ that was why and I just felt like I understood why he had to die given his condition. I agree with you that your choices lead to your destiny and yes, Heaven or Hell is based on your choices, but I don't think SJ chose to go to hell at the end.
I watched parts of episode 2 again and I remembered you told me about SJ and his poor conditions of not being loved. You replied to me once and I don't remember exactly what you wrote; however, I agree with what you wrote because I realized now that the entire time SJ was being touched by people who were not his family members. I think these people were the ones that once came into SJ's lives and did something to him: Nanny, Esther, Kangto, and lastly Rie and maybe Tamao, but he only loved most his brother and his dad even when his dad seemed to have neglected him and his brother was too busy with his work. I think SJ was more naive than selfish to not take over his dad's business/group. Maybe he was like a sheltered character who was always given everything and never suffered like Kangto, MD, or Rie and that was why when he suffered the loss of his brother it caused him so much pain.
Also looking back I remembered when SJ went berserk when he saw Bridal Mask killed his brother I was lost and confused as to why he would behave that way. I remember one time you told me the reason why Kangto killed SJ's dad even though he knew he was SJ's dad was because KT thought that it was supposed to be that way. I now think that SJ was almost like KT in a sense that he thought that the only way for everything to end it has to be "an eye for an eye." So that was why he was so obsessively trying to chase after Bridal Mask. He wanted to kill BM because he thought that is what he should do to avenge for his lost brother. But as he continued he lost control and lost his senses as a Kimura Shunji from the past who was always so carefree and loved the world.
He lost his innocence and he lost his soul along the way of trying to chase after BM. I also think that the reasons why SJ liked the Korean people so much was because of Esther. In episode 2, Esther was a kind girl who helped his nanny. She even pleaded with the doctor to save/help SJ's nanny and played with him when he was injured by his dad. Because he liked her so much so whenever he saw Korean people they reminded him of her and that was why he chose to be a teacher to be near the Korean people while he was looking for her? (Not sure if he was looking for her either, but I am thinking he would rather be a teacher than a police who killed Korean people because he liked Esther and Esther was Korean). But it all changed when he saw Gaksital killed his brother. Because BM killed his brother and he witnessed how terrible his brother died, he wanted to run after BM and killed BM because he thought that BM deserved to die. So he hated Korean people because they reminded him of BM and vice versa. Additionally, Mokdan really adored and loved BM, so SJ became even more mad because he disliked BM for killing his brother and now BM even got in his way of being together with MD.
I watched parts of episode 17 between SJ & MD and at that time he was still thinking that he would be able to come back from being a teacher and lived his past life again. I think he was having false illusions that once he killed BM, he could still come back to being his old self. Yet he was not aware that he had become a monster to those around him because he killed with no mercy to those who got in the way of killing BM.
Okay, now towards the end of this drama SJ wanted to kill KT and he was warned by Rie in advance. I think this hurt him even more because he was warned before hand. His stubborn acts were what caused him pain. He wanted to kill KT because KT killed his dad and brother, but unfortunately he shot MD instead. His goal was to kill KT so that he can be with MD towards the end (he was not thinking clearly), but oops, he realized he killed the wrong person! Now I know it was mentioned by PKW (which could relate to what the scriptwriter and what she wanted her character to turn out) that SJ stopped loving MD along time ago, but I think that SJ really did love MD because she was one of those people that touched him once in his life. She was this kind girl that had pity on him and his nanny once. He liked her since young, but because she died so he was crying really hard. Scene of him trying to kill KT and blamed KT for her death when in reality he killed her. Then SJ was holding on to the pile of blood and was crying really hard.
And then when he came to his senses he did not blame anyone anymore towards the end. Rie called him and asked him if he wanted to go with her or try to avoid KT. Why didn't he try to avoid KT? That is because inside of him he felt that it was his fault that MD died and therefore it is "an eye for an eye." He was sorry for her death, thus he must die because he killed her. That was his mentality. I think that must have been in his mind. And he definitely did not want to kill KT because he was changed by MD's death. He was remorseful and he did not want to kill anymore. Plus he had already experienced fighting with KT and KT didn't want to kill him before in front of his yard in episode 27. So it wouldn't make sense to fight and kill KT. If he let KT kill him, it would scar KT for life because he had that kind of relationship with KT. Remember in ep. 25 or something KT would rather be captured by him.
Also why didn't he just kill himself before KT come? He could have killed himself before hand. Why wait until he finished his talks with KT and/or until KT came for him? He knew fully that KT was going to come for his life, so he waited and had the gun ready. He even gave KT the picture because he thought that that was supposed to belong to KT. For me, I felt like SJ's death was a way of saying "I am sorry, KT, for killing MD."
He saw MD's beautiful smile and how lovely she was before he killed her and that caused such great grief and sadness. I think while he was crying he was feeling sorry for his action. But like I said, it really is a maybe because I'm not sure what's inside SJ's mind. Also the fact that SJ was not the person that would come to KT and said he was sorry for what happened. Even when he said sorry to KT, I don't think KT would have accepted it because SJ killed so many people including MD. I think MD wouldn't have minded and I highly doubt that KT was coming after SJ for her death because both of us know that KT killed his dad first, right? I think KT was coming after SJ because of those hundred of lives that SJ brought his troops in for.
I am rather concerned about SJ receiving salvation because it seemed to me that MD was the only person SJ was remorseful for for killing her. KT reminded him again why he had to come for SJ and I think SJ realized it then that he killed lots of other lives.
It's sad, but I don't think SJ would be able to live and rebuild his life, mojobobo. It's because the circumstances didn't allow him to because of how the plot was built. If SJ ran away with Rie and lived the rest of his life freely or redone, it wouldn't make sense because he would be guilty for the rest of his life for killing MD and realizing how many people he killed. Remember that SJ was a very sensitive soul. I am sad to see his death and I learned to be compassionate towards people like SJ, but I realized that sometimes we can't be in control of how a person chose their paths. The only way we can do is to pray for them if they have lost their ways like SJ.
Anyway, don't know why I'm writing such a long message yet it might not make any sense. I just don't think SJ was a coward. I think he did die for what he believed was right even though it's nuts to kill oneself to repay for one's sins. (But that's how SJ was raised up at that time.) God will consider the circumstances and conditions, I'm sure, when he judges someone like SJ.
mojobobo said:
The picture is from here --> http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1909092713
In Episode 2, Shunji was still a carefree teacher. When Kenji and Kangto were fighting in the police station, Shunji ostensibly picked Kangto over Kenji and helped ensure that Kangto managed to escape. He even goes so far as to say that if Kangto was framed just because he was a Korean, no Korean would be loyal to the Japanese government. Here, he truly believed that everyone was equal and that Japan could lead Korea to prosperity.
It was also in this episode that he found out Mok Dan was Esther and she was still looking for the Young Master, but he didn't mind a bit. He was glad to have just found her again.
Ki Woong did say in his interview that at the moment just before Shunji pulled the trigger, he felt empty, like everything was a dream. I take that to mean that he had already given up on life. There was no way he could g back to being a teacher. And I think the gravity of his actions did hit him and he was remorseful but I think he pitied himself more than anything else too. He lost his family, he lost Mok Dan, he even lost Kangto, who was the sole person he held dear who was still alive. There didn't seem to be anything else he could hold on to so he chose to end it all instead of searching for new meaning. Contrast this with Kangto or even Rie, who had lost her source of power and was just a powerless Korean woman now. She didn't even allow Katsuyama to be by her side.
I take salvation to mean hope but Shunji had no more hope left. That's why I felt it was a pity, because if he chose hope, he would have gotten his salvation by finding new meaning in life. You are definitely entitled to your interpretation. This drama is so rich that we all can take away different meanings
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@mrdimples, thanks so much! I like the pics.
Here is a smashed-up picture. Gosh I am so tempted to put this at Battle of the Secret Lovers' thread.
credits to m217tw @ Baidu & cutieloverz @ JW & SY's thread
septmoon16 2,015
thanks for an amazing thread everyone. i found myself drawn back to kdramaland this year with so many fabulous shows, with Bridal Mask being the highlight.
the finale blew my mind while making the heart hurt in such a good way.
since i'm guilty of fast forwarding a LOT while watching, I went back this weekend to watch some key episodes and was so happy i did since there was so much i simply didn't catch the first time.
*SPOILERS BELOW*
i loved that the first time we see kangto and shunji together, shunji was the one in white and kangto in black. it makes their final scene together deeply poignant as shunji is dressed in the dark noblesman clothes, and kangto's is now garbed in the all white peasant clothes. its a gorgeous highlight to the difference in their roles and also the shift in idealogy. this led me to notice how many scenes are beautiful mirrored in the drama.
another perfect example of how intricately bridal mask was thought out was when the first gaksital was revealed as kang san, we see him take off the mask standing by this majestic tree. later when kang to decides to embrace gaksital identity, we get to see him place the mask on standing by the same tree. such a small moment, but so powerful when placed in context with one another.
how awesome (yet so damn rare) is it that bridal mask gifts us with such a rich complex villain as Shunji. coming right out of king 2 heart where the villain is the typical cartoon big bad, it was refreshing to mull through the nuances that made Shunji a compelling character. even close to the end, he clung to the hope that having esther will allow himself to go back to days gone by. and even after seeing him make so many terrible choices and do horrific things (the crazy intense torture scenes) i felt moved to believe him.the teeter toter of this conscious and his pride was so compelling. you WANT to see him redeem himself, while knowing that he is too far gone for it.
the real love story in bridal mask for me is definitely kang to and shunji's friendship. the bond, the support, and eventually the betrayal and mind games grounded the story. gawd how adorable is it that they have sleepovers?!
that is why i thought shunji's ending was perfect. in taking his own life, he saved his best friend from having to do so, a final merciful act of apology. after losing everything else, i think it would the taking of shunji's life that would finish kang to.
sunshine4ever said: @mrdimples, thanks so much! I like the pics.
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Arma 3 Server monetization
By Johny, January 29, 2015 in ARMA 3 - NEWS
meshcarver 12
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Thanks for the reply Kju.
I really wouldn't have the time to be policing my own situation like that though when I think about it. It'd be a constant struggle if it was happening on multiple fronts too wouldn't it?
Plus, it sounds like a nightmare just waiting to happen...
It seems exceedingly strange and perverse that the people who do all the work of creating content to appeal to the masses and help keep them interested in ARMA and in doing so bring in new blood too cannot be rewarded for their efforts, whilst people who take this work (legally or not, again if my understanding is correct!) can benefit hugely by charging others to actually play it..?!
If I ever found myself experiencing that kind of situation with NOVA ZONA I would be utterly disheartened and for sure would cease any further work on it.
In fact, as I've now read through this entire thread, I'm convinced it would be completely brainless of me to release anything I've spent time creating into the wild, and so by not doing so would be the first and most effective step I can take in stopping the "process" of others trying to cash in on my work before it starts- I admit I am really scared of seeing my much loved and hard fought for work (time and effort) in the hands of people who use it to benefit themselves financially.
That would finish me off- it's the worst thing I can envisage happening, even worse than losing all my work to a faulty PC or similar.
This is another subject maybe, but shouldn't this be the other way round too? I can't think why, if server owners can monetise their situation, that the actual contents creators and mod makers can't have the option to do the same?
It doesn't make sense to me.
I know I'll take a lot of flak for this maybe, but weighed against the possibilities I've made above I simply don't care- as those possibilities represent the WORST outcomes for me personally.
If I had an "officially structured" option to monetise my efforts too, like the server owners do, then I would personally find that to be a HUGE motivation to carry on and make it the best quality I possibly could- plus it would reward me more time to actually spend on the project anyway and thus BI would in this case find themselves with MORE content produced by me..!
As it stands, I just don't see the point of working on something, releasing it, and then seeing it make money for others whilst I'm left to police those possible situations myself, respond to requests of fixes and updates from the community and try to convince myself I made the right decsion by releasing it in the first place.
What a horrible situation that would be...
gossamersolid 148
If you have that point of view, then the best solution for you would be to not release anything.
Monetization for addons will kill any possible chance for getting 3rd party content on servers. It's hard enough as it is to get players to go through the process of downloading 3rd party addons (even if you provide tools to do so). Now you're asking for people who paid $60 for a game to pay $x for more content? This isn't how the OFP/ArmA community has ever worked and I'm hoping it stays that way.
Yes, exactly the point I'm trying to make. I mean come on man, WHERE is the motivation for mod makers in this situation..?
Also, do you think it's unreasonable to hold my point of view? I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts on this.
Here's another way to look at this: monetization for Server Owners has killed my enthusiasm to continue with this mod as a flip side to your point of view.
There has to be a middle ground in this mate- atm it is an exceedingly off putting situation for "some" content creators/mod makers I think.
Also it's probably worth me pointing out I would personally have no issues whatsoever with paying someone for their hard work if I was interested in using their mod/addon, no problem whatsoever as long as it was done all above board and "official".
Like it or not, it seems (I may be wrong) there is a business model involved here and as content creators and mod makers we are being associated with it, and as such should take an active role in its influence.
I appreciate your reply man, it's an interesting thread this one..! :)
PS, has there been an answer to this yet..?
So many holes in this...
After further thinking... let's say I make the coolest game mode/addon and I make it exclusive to my server, and charge a fee for people to access my server. What's the difference between that scenario, and just cutting out the middleman and charging a fee to download my mode/addon?
Actually,this guy is hitting all the points of issue:
Why does it make sense to give someone permission to monetize our mods or content when we're forbidden from doing the same thing ourselves? So we make something that we're not supposed to monetize, but then it's ok to donate it to someone and let them monetize it?
The only way to not be foolish and hypocritical is to mandate that anyone charging for access to their server can only use content that is completely free and available to the entire community. Otherwise, any single scrap of content that is being offered on a pay to play server is monetized content.
..and again, this is worth quoting and I'm in full agreement with his stance:
As someone who maintains a mod, and am continuing development, this change has me questioning if I want to continue. So now I have to keep track of which commercial interests have permission to use my mod? In the past it's been easy; no permission for A3L because of their moneymaking schemes, and all others have permission as long as altered versions don't show up in video or screenshots. Now I have to research which servers I feel might be skirting the line and then make a decision? Can I turn around and revoke my permission?
And I think it's absolute horseshit that mod makers can't ask for a portion of the proceeds that servers generate. A server uses your mods as a way to make their servers more attractive, and therefore more profitable, and you're not allowed to profit from your work increasing their value? Ridiculous! Your work is making them more valuable and you're not allowed to share in that at all.
I don't want to make a profit from my work, but at the same time I don't want to sit by while someone else profits from my time and effort. The fact that you're singling out that content can't be monetized is just a matter of twisting words. If a server uses my mod and people are paying for access, the server owners absolutely are making a profit from my work. Why should I spend time and effort for someone else to get paid?
I'll have to think it over, but I'm leaning towards ceasing public development of any content.
Edited February 17, 2015 by meshcarver
.kju 2771
Let's say I make the coolest game mode/addon and I make it exclusive to my server, and charge a fee for people to access my server.
What's the difference between that scenario, and just cutting out the middleman and charging a fee to download my mode/addon?
For mods this won't work as once people have to download the full mod, they have it and can do whatever they want effectively.
In addition if you were draft a license to allow only exclusive use on your server, you might get in conflict with BI (with server monetization).
In regards to MP missions/game modes, if you make a server side only component, you could make it effectively make it exclusive.
However to stop people from recreating your server side component/scrapping it, is quite hard to do.
In addition legally/Arma license-wise mission designers were always allowed/not forbidden to charge money for it, as you don't have to use
BI tools to create them strictly speaking. So far most people didn't see the incentive or successful outcome doing this - next to the general
consensus of this forum/most arma new sites not to tolerate that (mostly from their wrong understanding of BI licenses/EULA).
Why does it make sense to give someone permission to monetize our mods or content when we're forbidden from doing the same thing ourselves?
For example altruistic motives. Most people do modding for fun and not to earn money.
Not everyone has a problem with someone else earning money from partially your (free) work.
Look at the open source software scene for example - many projects explicitly allow commercial use;
To make more comprehensive products from it, or to provide people/firms reliable support services.
If you are strict with your position, you would had to disallow game server providers also to offer servers
with community made content (pre-installed/interface to auto install (PWS)).
As for "ourselves" aka allow modders to monetize their work:
Marek has announced 1.5 years ago that they are looking into it, and Steam/Valve recently started to make their system
usable by 3rd party publishers/developers.
Why is it not available yet? To name the most important ones coming to mind:
BI most certainly wont build their own platform for that
BI has not even finished Steam workshop integration and other components necessary for any such system
Valve/Steam did not provide support for such system so far
Legal and technical complexity involved
Big challenge to find the right model for Arma
The considerable resistance against the idea - at least in this forum as "everything has been fine in the last ten years"
and "money corrupts everything/everybody" (for more read this thread and that thread)
Now I have to research which servers I feel might be skirting the line and then make a decision?
You don't have to. You can also just not care what others are doing with your work.
It is up to you to make up your mind and define a license to clarify what you allow others and disallow.
Most people probably dont care at all as they make it just for themselves or their friends,
or only care about giving others enjoyment/etc or to get feedback.
What bothers me personally are these extremist or naive views - there is no perfect world, there is no one right approach.
Everything is about weighting arguments to come to the best compromise.
Edited February 17, 2015 by .kju [PvPscene]
Good post Kju.
There are valid points but it still doesn't alter present reality for my position personally.
As it is right now, I've decided I just can't release my map (in development) publicly as the thought of other people benefitting from all the hard work and sacrifices involved just sickens me and feels extremely unjust.
I could probably continue development but in its original form- for my own enjoyment and experince.
I think I should take some time out to decide what I'm going to do with what I have so far.
Right now though after finding out about this subject it feels like a stomach punch.
I hope there's a satisfactory conclusion to all this.
I think you are fooling yourself here. You, me, others may or may not like this very policy/license change here.
However what has changed to the situation before in your case? Nothing.
Server admins can benefit from your work only if you give them permission to do so.
If they just ignore your wishes, people can abuse the system as they could before and have done before.
The only real change so far is that A3L brought way more attention to this problem, and BI is trying to find
a reasonable policy to deal with it.
So again what has changed for your situation?
Variable 314
This is terrible news. Are there other mod makers that ceased their development because of this? BIS, what are you going to do in order to answer that?
das attorney 825
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@ .kju
You are saying conflicting things....
I create "DAS_ATTORNEYS_SUPER_MOD" and then give me exclusive rights to charge money for access to my own server. I don't want anyone else that uses my mod to be allowed to charge money (be it donations or otherwise) for access to their servers or for use of the mod.
Note that at this point (or indeed ever), I'm not charging people to use "DAS_ATTORNEYS_SUPER_MOD". I'm only charging them for access to my server - (hey that's fair, servers cost money don't you know, ask Life community).
As a server owner, I would then fully expect Bohemia Interactive to use whatever powers they have available to takedown any servers that want to charge money for access to their server, if they are using "DAS_ATTORNEYS_SUPER_MOD". Remember, I'm not charging $$$ for the mod, just to cover my server bills.
Yet you say:
No they can't. They CANNOT charge money for access to their servers. It's in my licence. I don't give a shit what they do with it offline. Online though, I expect that to be enforced by Bohemia as per their EULA. Read this quote from Johny:
Modder reports him to BI. BI takes away the monetization permission, but Badguy keeps on monetizing. At that point he is infringing on the BI rights and BI can act and stop him. Not because he is infringing on Modders copyrights, but because he infringes on BI copyrights.
So really, they're protecting me. I don't need to lift a damn finger as BI will do all that because it's THEIR rights that have been infringed.
Your next sentence then says:
So the message here is to get $$$ server access approved by Bohemia BEFORE releasing the mod. I see what you mean here, so you are saying I should seek permission to charge access to my Server from Bohemia, and then release "DAS_ATTORNEYS_SUPER_MOD". I would be quite silly to release the mod and then seek permission from Bohemia to monetise my server. They could say no (and then I would feel like a right fool)!! Thanks for the tip.
So, the procedure is as follows:
1 - Buy/rent server
2 - Release v0.1 mod (with no real content in it but with exclusive licence only for me to charge money for server access)
3 - Get permission from Bohemia to monetise server
4 - WAIT UNTIL I have written permission from Bohemia in my hands
4 - Release v0.2 mod (with full content, but same licence).
5 - Profit err pay server bills
I would then have the time to police the net myself and report unauthorised $$$ of my mod on other servers to Bohemia, who are then duty bound to enforce their EULA and stop the monetisation of "DAS_ATTORNEYS_SUPER_MOD". Wow that's nice of them to do that for free for me. I'm glad they don't mind paying for international copyright lawyers and translators and the like. That shit sounds expensive to me!
Can you see what a big stinking pile of poo this is?
Are we expected to become a community of server-owners only ever charging for "server bills"? lol
Will BI even choose to enforce their rights? (remember it's their rights broken as per Johnys quote above). They could just look at the projected cost to enforce a server-takedown in Russia or China and think "no way". I would imagine in this case I would receive an email from them saying:
"sorry Das Attorney, but we cannot enforce this breach of our licence for *reasons*. You are free to pursue the breach of your licence through the Russian legal system. Я желаю вам удачи!"
Easier to sweep under carpet and move on....
Sniperwolf572 754
whilst people who take this work (legally or not, again if my understanding is correct!) can benefit hugely by charging others to actually play it..?!
This is only partly correct assumption that might have been clouding the rest of your posts. Without your permission, they cannot legally benefit. For me to legally profit off of your work following steps are needed:
1. You have to give your permission to me (either blanket-permitted by your license or by agreement with you)
2. I have to be a part of this new BI server whitelist and comply to all other BI rules in it
3. I have to maintain compliance with them to stay on the whitelist
The servers who profit off of your addons without your permission are in the equal situation as the people who take or modify your work without any permission, resell it on turbosquid, etc.
Edited February 17, 2015 by Sniperwolf572
;2882172']I think you are fooling yourself here. You' date=' me, others may or may not like this very policy/license change here.
So again what has changed for your situation?[/quote']
What's changed everything for me is that I've only found out about all of this recently and have now taken the time to understand it enough to know that I really don't like it.
That's a big change for me.
It's as simple as that- it's a fishy situation, it's not right and I don't want to get the s#%^*}y end of the stick when the time comes to release years of work.
I know that there will be people who seek to benefit from others work and won't give a damn about BIs attempt to monetize servers, re; going through the proper applications steps etc.
Even worse in a twisted way is the new knowledge that IF I granted permission for monetized servers to use my work then that could bring them extra traffic $$$ and they will benefit from it, whereas there's nothing in place for the creator of said work to benefit from it..?! It's so backward it appears forward to me..!
And from what I've read BI seem powerless to fully enforce and follow through on thier proclamations of taking all neccesary action sadly- hopefully that part isn't correct but A3L is a case in point isn't it?
Again, I stand to be corrected as I honestly don't fully grasp all the nuances here, but if it was a great situation then there'd be no smoke without fire- and look at this thread.
I honestly don't think my position is unreasonable all things considered.
Kju, you also mentioned you don't like this policy change very much. Could you please explain why exactly, just so I know your stance mate? What's your main gripe with it?
Defunkt 402
The landscape is fundamentally shifting where IP is concerned. You're wasting your time hoping for a 'solution' from BIS, much larger players with vastly more resources and stronger motives have tried to stem the flow of copyrighted content and failed outright. Technology creates opportunities in the blink of an eye and can destroy them just as quickly; the ability to create and then control digital content isn't based on some fundamental law of nature, it's a fleeting phase barely 25 years old and likely to become a historical footnote within another 25. The only alternative would be to artificially perpetuate this technological moment in time by granting governments and corporations the ability to vet everything that we transmit and receive and that's just too draconian for any right-thinking person to advocate.
Services rather than content ownership happen to be where things are at right now and, like it or not, A3L provide a service people are (apparently) willing to pay for; maintaining servers, collating content and coding online experiences. Just ask musicians (the first artists forced to confront this sea change), touring and live performance (i.e. providing a service) are where they make their money now, their recordings are merely a promotional tool in this endeavour.
But there are still good reasons to mod and release content which is, however you license it, effectively bound to become part of the public domain. Primarily there's the pure joy of creation unconstrained by any parameters but the ones you put in place for yourself. Secondly it contributes to your portfolio whether you're trying to break into game development or advance yourself within it. I know meshcarver already works within the industry (though I don't know at what level) but I can't help but think that a game based on NOVA ZONA with a million downloads and 10,000 concurrent players would go a long way toward securing a design role in any major studio. Just ask Dean Hall.
mondkalb 931
So a few questions if you would (To every content maker following this thread)....
( A poll would be better)
Will you continue to release content and work on your existing projects ?
1) If not why Not ?
2) If yes
a) What EULA if any will you release with your content ?
b) Would you want / expect any economical gain other than donations ?
Speaking as a private addon-maker creating content in my free time:
actually two weeks ago I was looking to put in the finishing sprint of my current buildings pack, but then I did some digging into how my content is being used and quickly decided against a release.
I haven't followed the addon-landscape for a year or so, but I found out after a quick search how widespread it was that my content was being monetized. How it was being re-hashed in mod packs that you can only download under certain conditions that one must fulfill first. Let alone how ideas of mine are being re-used and entered into MANW. (I don't mind that: Imitation is the greatest compliment, but at least acknowledge me)
Now my first and foremost motivation for creating freely available content is that I am looking forward to using my content with friends I know and care about. Another big item is just the fun of creating it.
However, I was also always of the opinion that when I am done and happy with it, I should release publicly to allow other people to have fun with it, use it and expand their gaming experience with it. Terox definitely can vouch for this. :)
The agreement however was always to leave it exactly the way it is. Nobody should modify my content, charge directly or indirectly money to use it or use it for military purposes. Collecting donations to run a server that occasionally uses my content is ok IMO, but if you downright make a profit off it, I get annoyed. Especially since some of my content uses textures that aren't licensed for commercial use. I'm sure there is some twisted lawyering out there that can make me responsible for the damages. And that is nothing I want to do with, and the biggest reason I stopped my release.
So now I keep my content in a very tight circle of people that personally know. We play(ed) on a server that is owned by a single entity and didn't require donations. My content was distributed directly by me. Of course the content was then being shared further and further out of my control, but it never reached a frontpage release.
What sucks most is that I want to share the stuff I make, but it is just going to be abused horribly. That is something I "felt" that only stated happening in the past 2-3 years. Of course releasing content back then was just as "dangerous" as now, but now people are breaching the agreement more often and definitely more willingly.
To answer Terox' question in short:
No, I will not continue to release my content and work of my existing projects.
Because I cannot police it effectively anymore. The respect for content and their creators that existed at least until around 2009 is fading drastically. My releases relied on this respect.
My content is not securely licensed to be commercialized, and I am not sure how I will be liable if someone does end up commercializing it, even against my will. By just making it available I am surely making myself partly responsible for enabling violations of third-party licenses. (CG Textures in my case)
Jackal326 677
Sadly this isn't really a "new" situation. For as long as the internet has existed (well, longer in fact), there have always been individuals (read: C U Next Tuesdays) who wish to profit off of other peoples' hard work, its human nature. If you choose to keep your work in house, that is your decision - its not for me to try and persuade you or others. If you feel that strongly no words you read on the Internet from me will sway you.
All anyone should do is make one of three decisions:
1) Release the content with a strict license that prevents any monetisations and hope BI will uphold their end by taking action against anyone that violates the creed the license
2) Not release their work publicly and have toiled for hours/days/weeks/months/years (delete as appropriate) for nothing but their own amusement and self fulfilment.
3) Release publicly with a "F##k it!" mentality and let whatever happens happen.
None of these choices are ideal, personally I'd lean towards 1 or 3. Most of my fulfilment as a modder comes from knowing people are enjoying my work, which rules out option 2 (unless I released my stuff to a few select people within my squad and kept it an in house release which some of my stuff already is but that is another topic).
EDIT: When you have a BI Dev saying how difficult this is going to be to police, I think everyone has their answer. No more public releases of addons from anyone (until STEAM Marketplace comes along and every f##ker and their uncle can charge what they like for them, then so many cats will be out of the bag and we'll really see who "cares" about the community and who wants to make a quick buck)
Edited February 17, 2015 by Jackal326
kbbw123 113
This is a very dangerous post you posted here mate, I understand that you typed this as a privat addonmaker and not an bi dev but with these words you just confirmed what many people where afraid for naimly that BIS can't protect Modders when their private license is breached. Taking out of accoun how you posted it we can all see that you are a bis dev. Meaning that you probebly now more abou the topic from interm conversations than most of us comunity members. If even you are not able to make sure people dont make a profit of your work (not sure if you see the people doing the approve list often) then hiw are we the comunity members able to do that? This way there wont be anyone anymore who is not afraid of releasing him content for others and the comunity would brake appart. If you tell us you can, "go to the door next to you and tell the people there 'hey that server is using my content whitout allproval'" then how can we???
I mean yes my clan is approved bu we also say we dont wan profit we just wanna cover our cost that we have. You will never see that we. charge for other peeple's content yet we cant publish ot own mods now because of this.... Is their any solutio. Modders can take to do activly protect their content or not???
Soz for typo's on phone
EDIT: When you have a BI Dev saying how difficult this is going to be to police, I think everyone has their answer.
But why didn't you read into it that a BI Dev is acknowledging the difficulties of the policing and is first-hand knowing how problematic it will be? Wouldn't that be a second, valid interpretation?
(Acutally the BI Dev tags are a relic. I am a BISim-Person. :P)
Edit: The main-reason, the one that has the punching-weigh in me halting my release is that simply my content, that I personally create in my free time, is not 100% legally sound for monetisation. This is entirely a problem of mine and the way I choose to create my content.
If I use 100% self created textures, without the use of CG textures, or by acquiring a commercial license for CG textures' content, then I will be personally a lot more solid in defending my claims about my content, with official help from BI. :)
Perhaps oversimplified: It all boils down to the man in a glass house throwing stones!
Edited February 17, 2015 by Mondkalb
It is a very valid interpretation and I thought it went without saying. Apparently I was wrong :)
Hmm, then I fear my original interpretation of your statement was tainted by a subtle prejudgment I have made. Sad, sad times for me. :( Sorry!
No dramas, looking back my original reply was rather blunt and reads as very single minded which was not my intent. I just went off on a tangential rant as I often do.
torndeco 125
If it comes down to people concerned over if BIS would take people to court etc..
Have a look @ what Starve Together Did with regards to Dedicated Servers.
1)Dedicated Servers don't require to purchase a game.
2)Dedicated Servers require a player token.
Its generated by launching the game into console + typing a command for a unique token.
3)The token basicly links a player account with the game purchased to the server.
If BIS did a similar solution, they could start blacklisting Servers from Steam Browser / BattlEye that break the server Monetization Rules.
Just by banning the player token from being allowed to run a server.
Of course it may require changes to game EULA etc... but BIS could start to remove / ban servers etc...
Yes they will be prob pirated servers at some point etc, but it will atleast it will reduce the problem.
Still requires people to actively report Servers that are breaking the rules.
But it is still better than current scenario
Anyway its just an idea.
Edited February 17, 2015 by Torndeco
I really should have researched more before taking on a modding endevour for ARMA then...
If I knew back then that this area "was always like this" ie: abuse of the system has always been rampant and ineffectively dealt with, then I perhaps would have given it a second thought before starting or at least of going public with my project or even looked for a more suitable platform.
Perhaps I'm now taking this more seriously because it's what I do professionally (now getting on 17 years) and this particular project, NOVA ZONA is very very dear to my heart. It's not something I do lightly and when I decide to do a project like this I won't go about it half arsed which is why I also won't be half arsed about all these possible consequences we're discussing here gents.
Aside from that, each and every angle I look at this new development from it still sticks in my craw that some members of the community have an option open to them to monetise whereas another section of members do not, and what really sticks it in and breaks it off is they can benefit directly from hosting the others work if permitted to do so..! I mean, come on..!?
I should probably clarify (as I woke up a bear with sore head today)
Battleye ban or similar would be fine as punishment for bad servers, let the hackers into them as consequence for their actions.
However - @meshcarver - agreed: it rankles me why one section of community are allowed to make money at expense of others.
Bohemia:
acknowledge that the costs connected with hosting a server can be prohibitive and thus rules out a lot of gamers/squads from being able to afford one
Maybe BI should acknowledge that the cost of buying 3dsmax/maya/logic studio etc can be prohibitive and thus rules out a lot of modders from being able to afford to mod in the first place...
Plus that's bollocks that a squad can't afford a server. What like some grown men not being able to afford $10 a month each or so to host games? Yeah right....
You're upset that someone can charge for a service that contains your addon if you give them permission to do so? (Don't give them permission?) Just the same like you can ask BI to charge for your addons, and if they give you permission, you can do so?
I don't understand the reasoning.
Besides, the option to charge for your addons, as long as you don't use any BI tools to make them has always been there. Script-mods, missions, campaigns all fall under that category. There was even a commercial campaign-disc for OFP, of which the name escapes me right now.
Yes, there are no such tools for certain things, but hell, developing tools to mirror BI tools for addon makers is a less impossible option than making a game to exactly mirror Arma is for illegal server hosts. Especially considering people have already attempted to do so.
If you consider doing something illegally to be an option, then with that logic, everything is an option.
@ Sniperwolf- You're mincing words there and I just can't be arsed getting into a he said she said thing here. I don't have the time.
I'm pissed off that the OPTION is there for server hosters to legitimately make $$$ now, whereas it's not there for people who spend time making content. That right there has already divided the community into sections if you ask me.
I mean, how hard is that to understand..?
And yes, it would piss me off that even given my permission they can benefit but not myself or all the content creators themselves yes..! Of course it would, it's unbalanced in the extreme and I don't think it's unreasonable to think that.
Why would I create a metric shit tonne of content then give it away for free to a load of people who stand to make $$$ from showcasing it..? Why would I even consider such a ridiculous thing?
Could you or someone please tell me why I should consider spending my time to line someone elses pockets as that would really open my eyes.
I'm getting some zzz's now but look forwards to this tomorrow lol- it's saddening but interesting to read..!
BadHabitz 230
Joined: March 6, 2013
Do it because you enjoy the work and you'll enjoy the feedback (and most likely the adulation that goes with it). Don't concern yourself too much about what happens with your work once it's out in the open.
I thought about closing shop for good, but after a while it just felt like pouting, like I was just trying to show my middle finger to BI. I'm already operating under the APL-SA license, which carries restrictions. In the end, I know that unscrupulous parties are going to do whatever they're going to do, with or without my permission. You just have to ask yourself what you're really doing it for in the first place. Think about the 'innocent' guy or group that's browsing sites like Armaholic and they give your mod a twirl, and think it's the bomb. Think of the fun that they'll get out of it.
I'm co-developing a more expansive mod for my own crew, and some of those creations happen to make it into the PG Services mod (if they seem PMC appropriate). I recently added 18 new uniforms that would not have been made if it wasn't for that cross-pollination. Out of my interest of sharing, and thinking the community might enjoy it, I make the new content available. I know that PG stuff has crept into the modpacks of communities that I'd rather not share with, but that's the reality of putting stuff on the internet. "Taking your ball and going home" only punishes the good people you're developing for anyway. The shady individuals are going to make their money with or without you, so you might as well try to do right by the 'good' people.
terox 285
I'd just like to say thanks to Mondkalb for being the first person to respond to my question.
It would be very interesting to see how this effects the other content makers out there and how their approach has been affected by this.
Without their feedback, the opinions on how this will effect the community is just speculation.
I have been working on an admin addon tool, this is now on hold and if i do continue to work on it and release it, it will have a EULA that states something on the lines of non commercial, Donation only servers
I'm not a big content maker as far is addons is concerned and most of the stuff I do is based around servers, but hey its still content and that is my stance as of right now
Edited February 17, 2015 by Terox
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A hotly contested US congressional race has turned Sasquatch ugly after one candidate accused the other of being "a devotee of Bigfoot erotica".
The row began after the Democratic candidate in Virginia tweeted an image of the beast taken from the Instagram account of her Republican rival.
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Republican Denver Riggleman denies he was writing a book about Bigfoot sex.
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The image taken from Mr Riggleman's Instagram account is a black-and-white drawing of Bigfoot, with a black "censored" bar to hide his ****.
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A second tweet from Ms Cockburn referred to the book, and superimposed Mr Riggleman's face on the cryptid's shoulders.
Mr Riggleman says he has found his rival's attacks "hilarious".
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Keep your stinkin' government hands off my Medicare.
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Reminds me of this:
_(I)n both the Ohio and Nebraska primaries, back to back, McGovern was confronted for the first time with the politics of the rabbit-punch and the groin shot, and in both states he found himself dangerously vulnerable to this kind of thing. Dirty politics confused him. He was not ready for it….
This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.
“Christ, we can’t get a way calling him a pig-****,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”
“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”_
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A reminder that if you are an ordinary person, don't go into politics.
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OMG that is funny!!!!
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21 Ashlyn Holford 1 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Totals 25 13 80 .150 22 1 3 7 29 0 4 1 0 28.0
3 Hallie Richardson 1 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
5 Nikki Kraning 3 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0.0
8 Taylor Roberts 1 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.5
9 Julie de Blanck * 3 13 3 18 .556 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 13.5
11 Mia Cotton * 3 6 0 11 .545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
13 Jessica Gray * 3 17 3 30 .467 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 17.5
14 Mia McKensey * 3 8 2 15 .400 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 8.5
15 Stephanie Hardy * 3 0 0 3 .000 41 3 1 0 10 0 0 1 0 3.0
16 Kaitlyn Henderson 3 0 0 0 .000 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2.0
20 Amanda Mazurkiewicz 1 0 0 1 .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.5
21 Aysha Avery 3 0 0 0 .000 1 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0.0
22 Gabby Ghassedi 3 0 0 0 .000 2 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 2.0
23 Jenna Woodruff * 3 6 1 14 .357 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6.5
Arena: Shaw Athletic Center
Scorer: Lance Miller
Franklin Springs, GA 30639
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GypsySpark
GypsySpark is a collaboration between Jimmy and Talia Lumpkin, with Brenda Bledsoe. It came about from an album Jimmy made in 2015 called Gypsy Spark, inspired by a handmade Native American flute, given to him by Donald Porta. Jimmy knew nothing about the instrument but was fascinated by it's story and sound.
In 2018, after seeing Jimmy perform, Brenda purchased a copy of Gypsy Spark. Being a songwriter and lover of the native flute, she felt a bond to their music. And, after hearing Brenda's songs, the Lumpkin's felt the same. Jimmy produced a demo recording of her song 'Keepers' and shortly after, they began performing together.
Brenda's love for the native flute came about from her nature explorations of the 5-river delta waters that flow into Mobile Bay. She spent time touring the marshlands with her friend Jimbo Meador, who introduced her to the instrument. He shared his fascinating life stories, which inspired Brenda to write the song 'Dirty Water'.
The Gulf Coast has many places to hear live music and enjoy great food and ambience. GypsySpark brings something different to these venues, with an acoustic-centered sound that intertwines flute and guitar. It's a little nostalgic of 60's folk, but also something current and intangible. Elements of a wide-range of genres could be guessed at for inspiration.
GypsySpark has been playing together for over a year and they have hope for the future! Hope, as flint and steel strike with inspiration, and breath brings song to flame. They are excited about the progress of their music, and welcome advocates to help spread their message. Peaceful Earthlings will not go quietly into the night!
Their 2019 debut album, World Shakers, is available for download here on the Music page, and on most music sites, such as Spotify and Pandora. Pick up a CD when you hear them at a live show. This album is a compilation of songs meant to inspire people to make wise choices for the Earth, and all of life in its delicate balance. You will also hear tales of cheer and woe as they seek to transport you to other realms with their music.
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Lords of Winterfell, Princesses, Ladies,
Members of House Stark
Members of House Bolton
Living individuals
Members of House Lannister
Ruling ladies
Kings in the North
Who is Sansa Stark?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
"The Iron Throne"
"Greyjoy Rebellion"
"Robert's Rebellion"
"Wargs and the Sight"
"Northern Allegiances to House Stark"
"The Last Dragons"
Queen in the North
Lady of Winterfell
Princess (formerly)
Lady Regent of the North (formerly)
Sansa Lannister[1]
Alayne
Lady Stark
Lady Bolton
20 in Season 8[2]
House Stark (by birth)
House Targaryen (formerly, by pledge)
House Bolton (formerly, by marriage)
House Lannister (formerly, forcibly; by marriage)
{Ramsay Bolton} (Lord of Winterfell)
Jon Snow (King in the North)
{Eddard Stark}
{Catelyn Stark}
Tyrion Lannister (1st husband; unconsummated)
{Ramsay Bolton} (2nd husband)
{Robb Stark}
{Rickon Stark}
Jon Snow (paternal cousin raised as bastard half-brother)
"I did what I had to do to survive, my lady. But I am a Stark, I will always be a Stark."
―Sansa to Lyanna Mormont.[src]
Queen Sansa Stark is the eldest daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife, Lady Catelyn, sister of Robb, Arya, Bran, and Rickon Stark, and "half-sister" of Jon Snow.
Initially betrothed to Prince Joffrey Baratheon, the heir to the Iron Throne, Sansa becomes well versed in politics and court intrigue following the execution of her father, under the tutelage of Cersei Lannister, Margaery Tyrell and Petyr Baelish, suffering but learning from her traumatic experiences as a hostage of House Lannister in King's Landing and House Bolton at Winterfell. After escaping from the latter, with the help of her father's ward, Theon Greyjoy, and her sworn-sword, Brienne of Tarth, she reunites with Jon at Castle Black. Alongside him, Sansa retakes Winterfell from Ramsay Bolton, becoming the Lady of Winterfell, whilst Jon is declared King in the North.
Displeased at Jon abdicating in favour of House Targaryen, whose forces prove vital during the Great War, she finds enmity with Queen Daenerys, who refuses to accept Northern independence in her restoration. Following the Battle of King's Landing and the subsequent assassination of Daenerys, Sansa declares the North an independent kingdom and is later crowned Queen in the North.
A young Sansa being tutored by Septa Mordane.
Sansa Stark is the eldest daughter and second child of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark, the Warden of the North. Sansa was born and raised at Winterfell. She has an older brother, Robb, two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, a younger sister, Arya, and a "bastard half-brother" Jon Snow, with whom she had a distant relationship due to her mother's influence (which, like her mother, Sansa later regretted). Sansa enjoys proper "lady-like" pursuits and is good at sewing, embroidering, poetry, singing, dancing, literature, etiquette, history, and music. When she was young she dreamed of being a queen like Cersei Lannister, and that just like in the epic songs she would meet her knight in shining armor. She has inherited her mother's Tully coloring, and Lady Catelyn thought Sansa will be even more beautiful than she was when she was younger. She is often seen in contrast with her sister Arya, who has neither her looks nor her accomplishments in feminine activities and comportment.[3]
Sansa is given praise by Septa Mordane after exceeding in her sewing abilities, in contrast to her sister Arya, who finds this tedious and difficult.
Sansa and her family await the Baratheon entourage.
When her brothers find an orphaned litter of direwolf pups, Sansa adopts the gentlest one and names her Lady. King Robert Baratheon visits Winterfell to offer Sansa's father the position of Hand of the King. Robert also offers to betroth his son Joffrey to Sansa. Sansa, who is very taken with the handsome young prince, thinks this is a splendid notion. She longs for the excitement of the capital and begs her parents to agree to the match until they do so. Eddard takes the office of Hand and decides to take his daughters with him to the capital.[4]
Sansa with her direwolf, Lady.
At the Crossroads Inn beside the Kingsroad, Joffrey offers to walk Sansa along the riverbank after the disquieting experience of meeting Ser Ilyn Payne, the king's headsman. They find Arya practicing her swordsmanship with Mycah, a butcher's son, and Joffrey starts to hurt him for acting above his station and striking a girl of noble blood. Arya strikes Joffrey, and when the prince threatens her with his sword, Arya's direwolf, Nymeria, intervenes and bites Joffrey's arm. Arya and Mycah flee and Joffrey cries before snapping at Sansa to get him help. Sansa is taken before King Robert and his retainers and asked to corroborate Joffrey's claim, that he was the victim of an unprovoked attack. Arya tells her to tell the truth, but to Arya's fury, Sansa is worried about upsetting her betrothal with Joffrey, so she says that it happened too fast for her to know. Queen Cersei orders that Arya's direwolf Nymeria be executed for harming Joffrey, but when the direwolf cannot be found, she suggests that Sansa's own direwolf Lady be substituted for Nymeria. Sansa and Arya are horrified Lady will be killed and protest. Eddard, furious with Robert for agreeing to this, carries out the execution himself, to Sansa's anguish.[5]
Sansa dines in King's Landing.
Arriving in King's Landing, Sansa's enmity towards Arya and her father continues. Eddard fails to mollify Sansa by buying her a doll as she hasn't played with dolls for years. Eddard explains to Arya that Sansa could not defy Joffrey or go against his version of events if Sansa wished to maintain his goodwill in marriage.[6]
Sansa meets Littlefinger.
Septa Mordane shows Sansa the throne room of the Red Keep as part of a history lesson, Sansa realizes that her grandfather and uncle were killed there by the Mad King. Sansa is fearful that she will not be able to give Joffrey sons, only daughters like her friend Jeyne Poole's mother, but Mordane doesn't think this likely. At the Hand's tournament, Sansa witnesses Ser Gregor Clegane killing Ser Hugh of the Vale during a joust. Littlefinger tells Sansa about how Gregor burned the face of his brother, Sandor, when they were very young. Sandor is Joffrey's bodyguard and Littlefinger advises against repeating the story to Sandor.[7]
Sansa attends the Tourney and cheers for Ser Loras Tyrell.
Sansa is given a flower by Ser Loras Tyrell, the famous Knight of the Flowers, before his tilt with Ser Gregor Clegane. He gives the flower to Sansa, but he is looking at Lord Renly who is sitting behind her. She witnesses him defeating Gregor, and Gregor's subsequent furious attack on him, which is halted only by the intervention of Sandor. She joins the smallfolk in applauding Sandor's actions.[8]
Joffrey's gift to Sansa.
Sansa and Septa Mordane are embroidering, and Sansa speaks very rudely to her. Joffrey visits Sansa and gives her a present, a pendant identical to that of Cersei. He also apologizes for the incident on the Kingsroad and kisses her, winning back her favor, as well as expressing his fondness towards their marriage and Sansa's future as Queen. Unbeknownst to Sansa, this was done at the suggestion of Cersei, who had recently informed Joffrey that the North must be kept under their control through his marriage to Sansa. Sansa is later told by her father that he is sending her and Arya back to Winterfell, and her betrothal to Joffrey is to be broken. Sansa refuses to accept this. She tells them that she loves Joffrey, she will be his queen and give him beautiful blonde-haired children. Sansa says Joffrey will be a great king and a golden lion. When Arya points out that Joffrey isn't a lion, but a stag like his father, King Robert, Sansa angrily says Joffrey is nothing like Robert. This inadvertently leads Eddard to realize that Joffrey and his siblings are not King Robert's true children. Eddard tells Sansa and Arya that they are returning to Winterfell, over Sansa's furious protests.[9]
King Robert dies following a hunting accident and Eddard attempts to reveal the truth about Joffrey to prevent him taking the throne. Eddard is betrayed by Littlefinger, his guards are killed and he is arrested.[10] Eddard's retinue at the Red Keep is slaughtered by Lannister guardsmen led by Sandor. Mordane moves to confront the Lannister soldiers while telling Sansa to lock herself in their rooms. Sansa is taken into custody by Sandor and brought to Cersei.[11]
Sansa is humiliated by Joffrey in front of the Royal Court.
She pleads for her father's cause, insisting that a mistake has been made, and proclaims her own loyalty. Cersei says that she will believe Sansa is loyal on the condition that Sansa writes to Robb, asking him to bend the knee and swear fealty to Joffrey. The letter is unsuccessful and instead, Robb raises an army and marches south to relieve the Riverlands from the Lannister armies. Sansa again pleads for mercy and for her father's life, this time in front of the entire court, and Joffrey agrees to give Eddard mercy if he admits his wrongdoing and acknowledges Joffrey as the true king. Sansa says that she is sure he will.[11]
Sansa watches as her father is executed.
At his trial, Eddard Stark acknowledges his "crimes" and swears loyalty to King Joffrey Baratheon. To Sansa's utter shock and horror, Joffrey nevertheless orders Eddard's execution. Distraught, Sansa is screaming and forcibly restrained. Despite her increasingly hysterical pleas for mercy for her father, Ser Ilyn Payne nonetheless carries out the execution with the Starks' own family greatsword, Ice, prompting Sansa to faint in horror.[12]
Days later, Sansa is in court and watches as Joffrey orders the removal of the tongue of the singer Marillion, who has written a song unfavorable to the royal family. Joffrey then takes Sansa to the traitor's walkway, where the severed heads of executed criminals are mounted on spikes along the castle walls. He draws Sansa's attention to the severed heads of her father and Septa Mordane and forces her to look at them.
Joffrey forces Sansa to look upon the severed head of her father.
Sansa refuses to give Joffrey the satisfaction of seeing her upset and shows no emotional response. Joffrey tells her that executing Eddard was showing mercy, as he gave him a quick death, and he suggests that he will mount her brother Robb's head on the wall after defeating him. Sansa retorts that maybe Robb will take Joffrey's head instead. Furious, Joffrey has Ser Meryn Trant of the Kingsguard strike her. Joffrey tells Sansa that they are still to be married. Sansa contemplates pushing Joffrey off the walkway but is discreetly stopped by Sandor. After Joffrey and Meryn leave, Sandor gives her a cloth to attend to her cut lip and tells her that she will be needing it again.[13]
Sansa remains a captive.
Sansa remains a captive of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister in King's Landing. She has learned to feign loyalty to King Joffrey Baratheon to avoid further abuse from him. She attends Joffrey's name day tournament and convinces him to spare Ser Dontos Hollard when he attends drunk.[14]
Sansa is tormented by Joffrey.
Sansa is forced to sit through the Lannisters discussing killing her brother Robb Stark over dinner. She vents her frustration on her new handmaid Shae.[15] When Robb wins a crushing victory at the Battle of Oxcross, Joffrey responds by having Sansa stripped and beaten in front of the court. Tyrion Lannister intervenes and offers to end her engagement to Joffrey, but she retains her facade of loyalty, impressing the Imp.[16]
Sansa is almost raped.
Sansa attends the departure of Princess Myrcella Baratheon for Dorne. She stands up to Joffrey when he mocks his brother Tommen for crying. As the royal party returns to the Red Keep, Joffrey is struck by excrement thrown by the angry crowd. Joffrey causes a citywide riot by demanding that his guards kill all of the smallfolk present. In the chaos, Sansa is separated from the rest of the group and as she tries to flee to safety, is pursued by a group of men who nearly rape her. She is rescued by Sandor Clegane, just as Tyrion is in the process of browbeating Joffrey for losing her in the first place. Shae treats her injuries and Sansa confides she thought the rioters were going to kill her, observing how they hated her and wonders why they would hate a stranger so much. Shae replies it is because Sansa has more than they will ever have, that her horse eats better than their children. Sansa says she would have given them food if she had it and she too hates Joffrey more than anyone. Shae warns her not to say such things and to trust no-one.[17]
Cersei and Sansa chat following Sansa's first "flowering".
Sansa has a nightmare that she is being stabbed by her attackers from the riots. She wakes up to find her mattress bloodied by the onset of her first period. Shae tries to help Sansa conceal the evidence as it means she is ready to bear Joffrey's children. The Hound catches them and (reluctantly) informs the Queen. Cersei gives Sansa advice on motherhood, reassuring her that even if she never loves Joffrey, she will love her children with him. However, Cersei tells Sansa not to love anybody except for her children, "The more people you love, the weaker you are."[18]
Sansa during the Battle of the Blackwater.
Stannis Baratheon sails his fleet into the bay outside King's Landing, triggering the Battle of the Blackwater. Sansa is summoned to the throne room to say goodbye to Joffrey. He forces her to kiss his new sword and she subtly undermines his bravado. She then takes refuge in Maegor's Holdfast with Shae where Cersei is hosting the women of the court there. Cersei mocks Sansa's faith and reveals Ser Ilyn Payne is present to kill them all if the walls are breached. She drunkenly advises Sansa to use her sexuality as a weapon. Eventually, Cersei storms out, believing the battle lost. Sansa attempts to keep the morale of the women up with prayers and singing.
Later, Shae tells Sansa to return to her chambers and bar her door to keep her safe should Stannis breach the keep. Sansa finds Sandor waiting for her inside. He tells her that he is going north and offers to take her with him. She is reluctant to leave the potential safety of being rescued by Stannis but he warns her that all men are killers. Stannis's force is ultimately defeated by a host of House Lannister and House Tyrell reinforcements led by Tywin Lannister.[19]
Sansa attends court as Joffrey doles out rewards. Tywin is named Savior of the City and Hand of the King, Petyr Baelish is made Lord of Harrenhal and Loras Tyrell is allowed to name a favor from the king. He asks Joffrey to marry his sister Margaery. Joffrey asks Margaery if this is what she wants while Cersei looks at Sansa deviously.
Sansa revels in Margaery's engagement to Joffrey.
Joffrey says that he would be honored to return Margaery's love, but regrets that he is promised to Sansa. Cersei suggests Joffrey set Sansa aside because of her family's treachery. Joffrey accepts the betrothal. Joffrey states that he will adore her from this until his last day - the same endearment he once offered Sansa.[9] Sansa turns away, feigning sadness but allowing herself laughter once she has privacy.
Petyr warns Sansa of her lack of protection.
Her revelry is halted by Petyr consoling her; she pretends to be upset. Petyr crushes her hopes of freedom and warns her that her situation has worsened, as she will no longer have the token protection of becoming Joffrey's queen but will remain his captive. Petyr tells her that she reminds him of her mother and vows to help her return home. Sansa is reluctant to trust him and maintains her facade.[20]
Sansa debates the value of truth.
Sansa and Shae sit on the docks watching ships arrive and depart. Sansa wants to play a game making up stories about where the ships are headed, but Shae, in typical fashion, is uninterested. Sansa tells Shae that she enjoys the game because the truth is either "terrible or boring." Baelish arrives and tells Sansa of a new role that he has taken which will allow him to leave King's Landing, and offers to smuggle her out of the city. She is hesitant about the idea.[21]
Sansa confides in Margaery and Olenna Tyrell.
Sansa discusses the possibility of Littlefinger being in love with her, but Shae warns her that Baelish is manipulative and men usually want "one thing" from young ladies. Margaery and her grandmother Olenna Tyrell invite her to lunch in the gardens, where they ask her about Joffrey, after being escorted by her chambers by Loras Tyrell. Sansa is initially too fearful to speak the truth, but eventually breaks down, her eyes blazing, and angrily recounts how Joffrey had said he would show her father mercy, only to behead him in front of her, and how he then took her up to the wall and forced her to look at her father's head on a spike. Sansa nervously attempts to backtrack, but Olenna tells her that they will never betray her confidence. Sansa admits that Joffrey is a "monster".[22]
While the daughter and sister of traitors, Sansa is a very valuable hostage. If Robb Stark dies, she becomes "the key to the North" as the Lady of Winterfell, greatly increasing the power of whichever house she marries into. To prevent Littlefinger from gaining power, Varys suggests to Olenna that a Tyrell marry Sansa.
Margaery fills Sansa's head with Highgarden.
While she prays at the Red Keeps's godswood under guard, Margaery comes and talks to her, telling her that they should see Highgarden, the Tyrell home, together. Sansa replies that Cersei would never allow her to leave King's Landing. Margaery tells her that she could be wife to Loras Tyrell, Margaery's brother, and this idea pleases Sansa.[23]
In the castle gardens, Sansa and Margaery watch Margaery's brother Loras spar with his squire. Sansa confidently remarks on his fighting ability, and inquires when she and Loras will wed, as per the Tyrell plot to keep her out of the hands of Baelish and/or the Lannisters. Margaery replies that she will "plant the seed" of the idea after she and Joffrey are married. Sansa is skeptical Joffrey will let her go but Margaery is confident he will do it to please her, once she is his wife. However, Loras begins a sexual relationship with his squire, whom he tells of his engagement. Olyvar then passes that information on to his employer: Littlefinger. A short time later, Littlefinger meets with Sansa, offering her a place on his ship that will take him from the capital to the Vale of Arryn. Sansa practices lying for a change, and tells him that they should wait until after Joffrey's wedding, primarily because she fears for his safety if the plan fails. A master manipulator, Littlefinger is clearly suspicious of her motives, but doesn't press the matter for the moment. Instead, he says he is touched by her concern for his safety, and insists that she call him "Petyr."
The plan to wed Sansa to Loras fails when Cersei grows increasingly suspicious of the Tyrells and learns of the proposed marriage between Loras and Sansa through Petyr Baelish. This news prompts Tywin Lannister to arrange for Cersei to marry Loras and Tyrion to marry Sansa in order to curb the ambitions of House Tyrell and to bind two of the other great houses of the Seven Kingdoms closer to the Lannisters.[24]
Sansa fawns over Loras.
Still unaware of this plan, Loras and Sansa spend more time together in the following weeks, though Sansa is far more enthusiastic about their impending marriage than he is. Loras admits he's always wanted a big wedding with many guests, fancy food, and a good tournament, though he only seems to remember that there will be a bride when Sansa gives him an expectant look. One subject where they do find common ground is their shared hatred of King's Landing, with Loras declaring the capital to be "the most terrible place there is."
Sansa is told of her engagement to Tyrion.
Tyrion decides he might as well dash Sansa's hopes sooner rather than later. He goes to Sansa's chamber and asks for a private word, but Sansa declines to dismiss Shae. Tyrion gives Shae a carefully coded apology for not telling her in private before breaking the news to Sansa. As she watches Littlefinger's ship depart for the Vale of Arryn, Sansa is devastated to realize that both of her chances to leave King's Landing have gone, and she has no choice but to marry into the family that killed her father and is keeping her hostage.[25]
Sansa walks with Margaery Tyrell.
Margaery consoles her that Tyrion might be able to make her happy, given his skill as a lover. She concedes that there are worse Lannisters she could be wed to. Margaery informs Sansa of the variety of a woman's sexual interests, which baffles Sansa, asking if her mother taught her these things. Playing on Sansa's innocence, Margaery replies "Yes, sweet girl, my mother taught me".[26]
Tyrion speaks with Sansa before their wedding at the Great Sept of Baelor; though he knows the girl is not thrilled at the prospect of marrying him. Tyrion promises Sansa that he will not mistreat her, and Sansa agrees there are worse Lannisters she could be wed to.
Sansa is wed to Tyrion Lannister.
The ceremony is a grim affair; Joffrey smugly escorts Sansa to the altar in place of her father and petulantly removes the stool upon which Tyrion was to stand on to cloak Sansa in Lannister colors as part of the ceremony, eliciting snickers from the congregation (though the scowl of Lord Tywin quickly silences them). Tyrion in the face of humiliation asks Sansa to kneel and he places the cloak around her shoulders. The new High Septon begins the ceremony. Later as man and wife they have their reception dinner, which also proves a grim and miserable affair.
Sansa grimly sits at her wedding table.
Tyrion then spends the wedding feast becoming steadily drunker, annoying Sansa, who asks if he will pardon her from their table, which he does. Against Cersei's ineffectual protests, Joffrey follows Sansa and taunts her that she finally found a way to marry a Lannister and soon she will have a Lannister baby. Joffrey ponders that it doesn't really matter which Lannister gets her pregnant and asks if she would like it if he would pay her a visit later when his uncle passes out. Although Sansa doesn't answer him, Joffrey sees that she is not enthused by the prospect but he brushes it off and says Ser Meryn and Ser Boros will hold her down.
Joffrey then claps his hands and declares it is time for the bedding ceremony, which visibly horrifies Sansa. Tyrion says there will be no bedding ceremony but Joffrey brushes him off, prompting Tyrion to loudly slam a dagger into a table and threaten his nephew with castration if he doesn't stop. Joffrey seethes with outrage but Tywin defuses the situation by telling Joffrey that his uncle is clearly quite drunk. Taking the hint, Tyrion plays along and takes a visibly relieved Sansa out of the room before Joffrey can take it any further.[27]
Sansa begins to form a friendship with Tyrion, despite their circumstances.
Tyrion realizes how unhappy Sansa is with him and their marriage, and reassures her that they will not consummate it unless she wants to, even if that means never. The morning after the wedding, Shae is pleased to see that Sansa's bedsheets are unstained as it means that Sansa remains a virgin.[27] Sansa and her new husband actually get along rather well, sharing jokes and a common enemy in Joffrey. However, their cordial relationship suffers a crushing blow when Sansa receives news of the death of her mother and brother at the Red Wedding, an event orchestrated by Tyrion's father.[28]
Sansa remains distraught over the deaths of her mother and brother.
Sansa remains despondent over the deaths of her mother and brother. Despite encouragement from Shae and Tyrion, she refuses to eat, even declining her favourite lemon cakes. She tells Tyrion that she lies awake all night thinking of how Catelyn and Robb died, how Robb's body was desecrated, and how Catelyn's body was dumped into the river. Sansa excuses herself from the table, saying she is going to the godswood and reveals that she no longer prays; she is seeking solitude. While in the godswood, Sansa is watched by Jaime Lannister and Brienne, and later finds herself being followed by someone.
Sansa is given a diamond necklace by Dontos Hollard.
Her pursuer corners her, revealing himself to be Dontos Hollard, whose life she had saved earlier. Dontos expresses his gratitude to Sansa for speaking on his behalf while no one else would and offers her a necklace that had once belonged to his mother, saying it is the last heirloom of House Hollard. Sansa turns it down at first, not wanting to take something with such sentimental value but after urging from Dontos says she will wear it with pride.[29]
Sansa attends a breakfast held before the wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell. There, Joffrey is presented with a gift from Tywin Lannister; the second sword re-forged from Ice, the recently-destroyed ancestral sword of House Stark and which had been used spitefully to kill her father. Sansa shoots the sword a grim look of understanding when this occurs, and is shocked when the sword is turned on Tyrion's gift to Joffrey, a copy of The Lives of Four Kings. Joffrey names his new weapon Widow's Wail, commenting that he will be reminded of Ned Stark's beheading each time he uses it. Sansa looks on in obvious grief.
Olenna consoles Sansa during the wedding feast.
At the end of the wedding itself, Sansa comments bitterly that "we have a new queen." Tyrion encourages her to look on the bright side: at least she isn't Queen. Later, at the wedding feast, Olenna walks up to Sansa to offer her condolences over the Red Wedding and invites her to visit Highgarden sometime when things settle down. During the exchange, Olenna toys with Sansa's hair and Hollard's necklace in a grandmotherly fashion.
Sansa laments her brother's death after it is played out by Joffrey.
Meanwhile, Joffrey amuses himself with a farcical "reenactment" of the War of the Five Kings, with each king being played by a dwarf. The dwarf playing Robb Stark wears a wolf's head that is eventually knocked off by the dwarf playing Joffrey. Sansa again looks on in grief. When Tyrion makes a veiled reference to his nephew's cowardice during the Battle of Blackwater, a furious Joffrey pours wine over his uncle's head and orders him to be his cupbearer to humiliate him further. Joffrey drops his goblet on purpose and then kicks it under the table when Tyrion tries to pick it up. Sansa, seemingly feeling pity for Tyrion, picks up the goblet and hands it to him.
At Sansa's behest, she and Tyrion try to leave, but Joffrey calls them back and demands Tyrion bring him the cup again. Tyrion grudgingly obliges but unbeknownst to everyone, Olenna had slipped some poison into Joffrey's cup, a poison Olenna pilfered from inside a stone on the necklace Sansa was wearing. Later, as Joffrey lies dying from being poisoned, Dontos Hollard approaches Sansa and encourages her to leave in order to save her life, a suggestion Sansa takes to heart.[30]
Dontos escorts Sansa away from the Purple Wedding.
After the events of the Purple wedding, Sansa and Dontos make a quick escape and get on a boat, leaving the city. Dontos takes Sansa to a ship which turns out to belong to Petyr Baelish. Baelish has Dontos killed to guarantee his silence and destroys the necklace Sansa was wearing. Sansa screams and asks why he killed Dontos. Baelish simply states that Dontos was working solely for money and that now, she is safe.[31]
Littlefinger reveals his role in Joffrey's murder to Sansa while en route to the Eyrie.
Petyr visits Sansa in her cabin and Sansa deduces that he was involved in Joffrey's death. After he tries to deny it, he simply ends up telling her everything about the wedding. Sansa is confused because of everything that the Lannisters have done for him and tells him that she doesn't believe that he would risk his life just to confuse the Lannisters. In response, Baelish states that he would risk anything to get what he wants. She asks him what he wants and he vaguely says "everything".[32]
Sansa and Petyr are walking towards the Bloody Gate and Petyr educates Sansa on the Eyrie and its defenses. Sansa uses the disguise as Petyr's niece so no one knows who she is. When they enter the main hall, Sansa greets her aunt Lysa as Alayne, but Lysa interrupts her saying that she already knows who she is. However, Sansa cannot call Lysa 'Aunt' in front of anyone apart from Lysa, Petyr, and Sansa's cousin Robin, Lysa's son. Despite this, a joyful Robin offers Sansa a tour of the rest of the Eyrie.
Lysa asks Sansa about her virginity.
Later that night, an annoyed Sansa can't sleep due to Lysa's constant screaming from consummating her marriage to Petyr. The next day, Lysa brings Sansa lemon cakes and tells her that Petyr brought three crates from the capital for Sansa. She tells Sansa a story about Catelyn when she was young, getting fat off how much sweet food she had, which makes Sansa feel self-conscious. She stops, but Lysa tells her to carry on. Lysa abruptly turns antagonistic, accusing her of having sex with Petyr. Sansa panics and tries to assure Lysa that she is a virgin. Lysa disregards this, grabbing her hand and squeezing hard. Sansa starts crying while saying that all Petyr says that she is a stupid little girl, with stupid dreams, who never learns and is a terrible liar. Lysa puts on a polite face again and assures her that it is all alright and after Tyrion is executed she can marry her cousin Robin. Sansa is not sure what to make of this.[33]
Sansa constructs a snow castle in the Eyrie
Petyr Baelish kisses Sansa Stark.
After settling into the Eyrie, albeit with discomfort, Sansa wanders into the courtyards alone, as the snow falls around the Vale. The snow, reminding her of home, prompts her to build a snow castle resembling Winterfell. She has a short-lived friendly conversation with Robin before she snaps at him for ruining her snow castle. This results in a heated confrontation between the cousins, which ends in Robin running back inside, crying after Sansa slaps him. Petyr presents himself shortly afterward, and Sansa questions him as to why he really had Joffrey killed. She allows herself to smile slightly when he claims that he did it for Catelyn, the only woman he ever loved. Sansa is shocked when he kisses her on the lips, which Lysa witnesses. She summons Sansa to the High Hall, where she sits over the open Moon Door. Sansa begins to grow concerned when Lysa comments on how far the drop is to the ground. Lysa, enraged over Petyr's interest in Sansa, threatens to have her killed and nearly manages to push her out of the Moon Door to her death before Petyr intervenes. Sansa watches as he tells Lysa that he only ever loved Catelyn, before pushing her to her death.[34]
Sansa, as "Alayne", is called to testify before Lord Yohn Royce, Lady Anya Waynwood, and Ser Vance Corbray before Baelish can get to her, much to his chagrin. Sansa quickly reveals her true identity and relates the tale of her captivity and flight from King's Landing. She then proceeds to truthfully tell of Lysa's mental instability, jealousy, and death, changing only a few small details (she kissed Littlefinger on the cheek and Lysa threw herself through the Moon Door). Sansa breaks down in tears and the lords are convinced, but while none of them are looking, she gives Littlefinger a stony, almost triumphant gaze; this indicates she is finally playing the ruthless game of thrones.
Sansa presents her new wardrobe to Littlefinger.
Later, Baelish visits Sansa and asks why she lied on his behalf. Sansa explains that she has no idea what Royce and Waynwood would want from her if Littlefinger were eliminated, but she knows exactly what he wants. Later on, as Littlefinger and Robin prepare to depart on a tour of the Vale, Sansa accompanies them, appearing with noticeably darker reddish brown hair and garbed in a feathered black dress with a plunging neckline.[35]
Sansa watches Lord Robin practice his swordsmanship along with Littlefinger and Yohn Royce.
Sansa, still under the alias Alayne, attends a sword jousting session for Lord Robin at Runestone, along with Littlefinger and Yohn Royce, visibly unimpressed with Robin's sub-par skills at swordsmanship. Sansa notices that Littlefinger receives a raven message. Soon after, they leave Robin in the care of Lord Royce, for further training. On the carriage ride, Sansa questions Petyr as to why they are heading west when Lord Royce was told they would be traveling to the Fingers, unsure of his source of distrust. Petyr promises her that they are going somewhere far away, where Sansa will be safe from Queen Cersei.[36]
Brienne of Tarth pledges her service to Sansa.
On their journey, Sansa and Baelish stop for lunch at an inn, where she tries ale for the first time. Sansa can't see what all the fuss is about, although the entire episode is designed to catch Littlefinger off-guard so she can ask about the raven-message he received back at Runestone. Baelish doesn't answer the question beyond indicating that the old saying "dark wings, dark words" doesn't apply in this instance. Shortly thereafter, Brienne of Tarth appears unexpectedly and declares herself for Sansa. Baelish doubts that Sansa would want a sworn shield who let both of her previous masters die, even when Brienne reveals the true, somewhat unbelievable circumstances of Renly's death. Sansa seems inclined to agree with Littlefinger, pointing out that Brienne was present at Joffrey's wedding, to which the warrior replies that neither of them wanted to be there. Sansa rejects Brienne's offer of service and watches as she quickly defeats the guards and escapes.[37]
Baelish reveals his plan of marrying Sansa off to Ramsay.
Sansa and Baelish eventually arrive at the ruins of Moat Cailin, where Sansa learns that they are actually returning to Winterfell and Baelish's plan is to have her marry Ramsay Bolton, the recently legitimized son of Roose Bolton, the current Warden of the North. Sansa is initially reluctant to marry into yet another family that betrayed hers, but Baelish pacifies her by claiming it will be an opportunity for her to avenge her family.
They arrive at Winterfell, where Baelish introduces Sansa to the Boltons. Roose and Ramsay greet Sansa politely, and after a tense moment during which she is repulsed merely by looking at Roose, Sansa greets them with courtesy, while Myranda, Ramsay's secret mistress, eyes Sansa with jealousy. She is later brought back to her old room by a servant, who welcomes her home and tells her that "the North remembers." While walking through Winterfell's courtyard, Sansa unknowingly passes Theon Greyjoy, who had been her father's ward she and her siblings grew up with at Winterfell. Theon hides his face from her as she passes.[38]
Sansa visits the tomb of Lyanna Stark.
Settling into life at Winterfell, Sansa visits the Stark family crypts, re-lighting the votive candles and cleaning up the offerings left by visitors prior to Winterfell's fall. Littlefinger finds her regarding the statue of her long-dead aunt Lyanna Stark. Littlefinger, with minimal commentary, tells Sansa of the events at the tourney at Harrenhal, where Rhaegar unhorsed Ser Barristan Selmy, passed by his wife, and gave Lyanna a crown of flowers blue as frost, all to the shock of the crowd. He then tells Sansa that he's been recalled to King's Landing and that keeping Cersei waiting much longer would be unwise. Littlefinger explains parts of his master plan to Sansa: Stannis Baratheon will inevitably take the North, and when he does, he will need a Stark at Winterfell. Littlefinger is certain Stannis will declare Sansa the Wardeness of the North. Even if Stannis fails, Ramsay is already betrothed to Sansa, and thus Sansa, who has learned to manipulate from the very best, can take control of House Bolton from within.[39]
Sansa meets Myranda.
Sansa's maid brings a message to her. Consoling Sansa that she still has allies in the North, she tells Sansa to light a candle in the highest window of the Broken Tower if she's ever in trouble. As Sansa wanders around the castle, she runs into Myranda. Myranda puts on a friendly façade, talking to Sansa about her mother's demise. To help Sansa "remember" how things used to be while her family was still living in Winterfell, Myranda leads Sansa down to the kennels. In the kennels, Sansa finds Reek, formerly Theon Greyjoy, asleep in one of the cages. Awoken by Sansa's arrival, he just shakes his head when Sansa calls him Theon. He warns her that she shouldn't be down there. Seeing Reek in such a pitiable condition, Sansa angrily storms away.
Sansa dines with Lord Roose and Ramsay.
At dinner, Ramsay is initially well-behaved, toasting his wedding to Sansa, but is soon back to his old self as he forces Reek to apologize to Sansa for murdering Bran and Rickon. With much difficulty, Reek finally mutters an apology. Ramsay suggests that Reek be the one to give Sansa away at the wedding since he is the closest thing Sansa has to kin; Roose accepts this suggestion. Roose and Walda announce Walda's pregnancy, upsetting Ramsay, which in turn delights Sansa.[40]
On the night of her wedding, Myranda draws a bath for Sansa, during which she advises Sansa not to bore Ramsay, and tells her about the fates of Violet, Tansy, and a third unseen girl named Kyra, examples of girls who Ramsay murdered for sport. When Myranda mentions that both she and Ramsay killed Tansy by hunting her, Sansa becomes angry, asking Myranda how long she has been in love with Ramsay and if she really expected Ramsay to marry her. She coolly tells Myranda that she is a Stark of Winterfell and will not be intimidated so easily by her, and dismisses her to finish her bath herself, though she is visibly shaken by Myranda's story.
Sansa is wed to Ramsay.
Later, when Theon comes to fetch Sansa for the wedding, she refuses to hold Theon's arm. Theon pleads for her to do so, revealing that Ramsay will punish him if she doesn't. Sansa coldly asks if he thinks she cares what Ramsay does to him, and strides past him. Reek then gives Sansa away to Ramsay, and they wed in front of the Godswood, in a ceremony officiated by Roose and attended by many Northern lords. Sansa hesitantly takes Ramsay as her husband, her eyes down, unable to look him in the eye.
Sansa's marriage to Ramsay proves to be difficult from the first.
After returning to the bedroom, Ramsay first interrogates Sansa about her virginity and her marriage to Tyrion Lannister, then orders her to take her clothes off. Reek turns to leave but Ramsay tells him he must stay, taunting him “you grew up with her as a girl, now watch her become a woman." Annoyed by Sansa's hesitancy, Ramsay angrily rips open the back of her dress and pushes her face-down over the side of the bed. As he unbuckles his clothes, Sansa obediently remains still but begins crying softly. Reek is visibly distraught and begins silently crying himself, as Ramsay proceeds to rape her, and forcibly consummate their marriage.[41]
Over the next few days, Ramsay continues to rape Sansa every night, leaving bruises on her arms and body. She effectively becomes a prisoner of the Boltons, who keep her locked in her bedchamber. Reek brings her breakfast, and when she realizes he is there, she tries to talk to him and get him to help her. However, Reek reminds Sansa that she is Ramsay's wife now and merely tells her to do what he says or else he will hurt her. Sansa protests that Ramsay hurts her every night and finds it hard to believe that it could possibly get any worse but Reek warns her that it can. Sansa asks Reek what Ramsay did to break him to such an extent but when he tries to flee, Sansa grabs him by the wrist and angrily reminds him that he betrayed her family, making him apologize profusely. She tells Reek that he can still redeem himself by lighting a candle in the broken tower in order to signal the Starks' allies she was told about. Though Sansa addresses him as Theon throughout this conversation, Reek keeps repeating his name is Reek, forcing Sansa to grab him by the face and look him directly in the eye. She insists that his name is Theon Greyjoy, the only surviving son of Balon Greyjoy, and this initially seems to get through to Theon for a time.
During a walk on the battlements, Ramsay gloats that one day he will be the Warden of the North, with Sansa as his Wardeness. Sansa counters by telling him his position is still threatened by Roose and Walda's unborn son since this child will be trueborn while Ramsay is not, as Ramsay is bastard-born and was legitimized by King Tommen Baratheon, who Sansa asserts is another bastard.
Ramsay forces Sansa to look upon the corpse of the flayed old woman.
Sansa learns that her half-brother Jon Snow has recently been elected Lord Commander of the Night's Watch when Ramsay tells her that even bastards can rise high in the world, citing Jon's rise in the Night's Watch to Lord Commander. As they descend into the courtyard, Sansa pockets a corkscrew while Ramsay reveals that Reek reported the candle to him, and Ramsay responded by flaying Sansa's elderly maid. He forces Sansa to view her maid's corpse. She is then ordered back to her chambers.[42]
Theon reveals to Sansa that Bran and Rickon are indeed alive.
Sansa remains angry at Theon for his betrayal, as well his role in Bran and Rickon's murder. When Theon enters her chambers again to bring her latest meal, she demands an answer for his latest betrayal and coldly expresses approval when he tells her about the torture Ramsay put him through. Theon shamefully admits he deserved it as he did terrible things, specifically killing "those boys". Enraged by his reference seemingly to her brothers as "those boys" rather than Bran and Rickon, Sansa vehemently demands to know why they should be dead while he still breathes the air, forcing Theon to finally admit that they were not Bran and Rickon but two farm boys. Stunned by this admission, her anger towards Theon cools. However, when she asks if he knows where they might have gone to, he breaks down and leaves the room, fearful of what Ramsay will do if and when he finds out what he just told her. However, Sansa appears to be left with a sense of renewed hope by the revelation that she has more surviving family left.[43]
Sansa attempts to flee Winterfell.
Sansa attempts to escape during the battle between the Boltons and Stannis Baratheon by picking the lock on her door with the corkscrew and lighting the candle in the tower. However, Brienne and Podrick don't see the candle due to being distracted by Stannis's army. In the process of trying to escape, Sansa runs into Myranda and Theon, with the former aiming a bow at her. Myranda says that she has come to escort Sansa back to her chambers, and Theon initially begs Sansa to go with her. Though Sansa is visibly frightened, she stands her ground and refuses to go with Myranda, saying, "If I'm going to die, let it happen while there's still some of me left."
Theon and Sansa prepare to jump.
A bemused Myranda briefly lowers her arrow and admits Ramsay needs her alive in order to secure his hold on the North. But Myranda adds Ramsay doesn't need Sansa in one piece to do that, just the "parts" that he needs to produce his heir. Myranda maliciously nocks her arrow again and prepares to at least maim Sansa with it. Before she can release it, however, Theon grabs Myranda, making her fire and miss, and throws her off the battlement, killing her instantly on impact. Theon and Sansa then escape Winterfell by jumping off the side of Winterfell's walls, hoping to survive the long fall by landing in the deep snow.[44]
Sansa while on the run from the Boltons.
After escaping from Winterfell, Sansa and Theon flee into the Wolfswood, with the Bolton forces in hot pursuit. They cross a stream and briefly take shelter under an uprooted tree, where Theon hugs Sansa to keep her warm. Shortly after, however, they are found by the Bolton men and hounds. Theon urges Sansa to flee to the safety of her half-brother Jon Snow at Castle Black. but Sansa refuses to leave Theon behind to the Boltons. Brienne and Podrick appear just in time and fight off the soldiers, killing them all. Brienne once again offers her service to Sansa, who this time readily accepts, reciting her vows.[45]
Brienne tells Sansa of Arya's survival.
On the way to Castle Black, Brienne reveals to Sansa how she briefly met Arya near the Bloody Gate. Sansa is delighted to hear that her sister is still alive and well. Theon decides to part with the group and head to the Iron Islands. Sansa implores Theon to come with them as Jon will protect them from Ramsay but Theon refuses, fearing Jon will have him executed as Theon betrayed Robb, beheaded their master-at-arms Ser Rodrik, and killed those two boys. Sansa promises Theon she will tell Jon the truth about Bran and Rickon being alive, that Theon didn't kill them, and wants him to join the Night's Watch so all his crimes can be forgiven. Theon responds he still killed two farm boys and reminds Sansa of his crimes against House Stark, for which Jon will never forgive him. He reveals he does not want to be forgiven as he can never make up for his crimes against Sansa and Jon's family. When Sansa realizes that Theon cannot be convinced to come with them, she bids him farewell, and the two share a tender hug.[46]
Sansa reunites with Jon.
Sansa, Brienne, and Podrick arrive soon at Castle Black where they find Jon. At first, both "siblings" are too stunned to even speak when they see each other, but quickly share a loving embrace after their long and tragic separation. As Jon offers Sansa food, they reminisce about their happy childhood and how they both regret ever leaving Winterfell. Sansa apologizes to Jon for her dismissive treatment of him while growing up, to which Jon responds that she there is nothing to apologise for. When they resolve to stick together, Sansa says the only place they can go now is home. She then asks him to help her reclaim their home from the Boltons. However, Jon tells her that he is tired of fighting, that he had done nothing but fight since he left home, and that he was killed for it. Although Sansa appears to accept his choice, she tells him that she will reclaim Winterfell and the North, with or without his help.
Sansa hears Ramsay's threats in his letter to Jon.
As Sansa and Jon share a meal with Eddison Tollett, Tormund Giantsbane, Podrick, and Brienne, a messenger arrives from Winterfell with a letter from Ramsay. In the letter, Ramsay states that he has their brother prisoner at Winterfell and if Sansa is not returned, he will slaughter every Wildling under Jon's protection, let his men rape Sansa, and feed Jon and Rickon to his dogs. Ramsay signs the letter 'Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North,' prompting Sansa to reveal Ramsay killed his father.
She demands they fight to reclaim Winterfell.
When Tormund asks Sansa how many Ramsay has in his army and Sansa recalls 5,000, Jon asks Tormund how many he has who are able to fight. Tormund replies that they have only 2,000 men and women in shape to fight, not enough to match Ramsay's five thousand. Sansa tells Jon that the houses of the North will unite behind him as the son of the last true Warden of the North and they need to go back to Winterfell to save it and their brother. Jon agrees to take Ramsay down so they save Rickon and take back their home.[47]
Sansa refuses Littlefinger's offer.
Later, Sansa receives a letter from Petyr asking to meet in Mole's Town. Accompanied by Brienne, they meet in a ruined house, and Sansa angrily tells Baelish the details of her wedding night, asking if he knew the truth about Ramsay all along. Instead, Baelish changes the subject, informing Sansa he has rallied the Knights of the Vale to help her, along with news that her great-uncle Brynden has recaptured Riverrun. Sansa takes an alliance with the Blackfish into consideration, but refuses help from Baelish, warning him never to speak to her again. She says she has an army. Petyr responds it's her brother's army and adds, "Half-brother."
The war council is made aware of the Blackfish by Sansa.
At a war meeting at Castle Black, Sansa and Jon discuss which of the Northern houses they can rely on to support them. As the Karstarks and Umbers have already sided with House Bolton, Ser Davos suggests asking House Manderly. When Jon decides to rally the two dozen houses still loyal to the Starks, Sansa informs him they can add House Tully to the list, but lies about how she acquired the information. After the meeting, Sansa plans to send Brienne to Riverrun, as the Boltons could intercept any raven sent there. Brienne is worried about leaving her and while Brienne feels Jon is trustworthy, she is dubious about the other men. Sansa assures Brienne that Jon will keep her safe, he is her brother and she trusts him. Brienne counters by asking Sansa why she lied to Jon about meeting with Baelish. Before riding south, Sansa gives Jon a new cloak she had made for him styled after their father's.[48]
Sansa and Jon arrive at Bear Island and are summoned before Lyanna Mormont. Jon asks for the assistance of House Mormont in the upcoming battle for Winterfell to help them save their brother, as House Mormont has pledged themselves to House Stark. However, Lyanna tells him that he is a Snow and Sansa is a Bolton. Sansa says that she did what she had to do, but she didn't want it. When Sansa attempts to flatter Lyanna and Jon explains how he served under Lyanna's uncle Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, Lyanna wants them to get to the point. Ser Davos steps in and manages to convince Lyanna to pledge her allegiance, telling of the coming threat of the White Walkers, however, a mere sixty-two men are contributed.
House Stark attempts to recruit House Glover.
Sansa and Jon later travel to Deepwood Motte, to ask for the assistance of House Glover. They receive a frosty reception from Robett Glover, who has just reclaimed Deepwood Motte from the Ironborn. When Jon fails to bring him around. Sansa tells Robett that the Glovers are pledged to House Stark, and sworn to fight when called upon. Robett responds he pledged to House Stark and fought for Robb Stark but it cost the Glovers their home and many lives, due to Robb's lack of stability following his marriage to Talisa Maegyr. Sansa and Jon are only able to recruit a few Northern houses and only gain a few hundred men. Jon says they should strike Winterfell immediately before the coming storm and before Ramsay can gather more men. Sansa says they don't have enough men and wants to go to Castle Cerwyn to try and persuade Lord Cerwyn, however, Jon reflects on their lack of time. When Jon refuses to change his mind, Sansa writes a letter to an unknown party (but does not tell Jon) for reinforcements.[49]
Sansa at the parley with Ramsay Bolton.
Sansa and Jon meet with Ramsay Bolton on the day before battle. Ramsay tries to taunt Sansa, but she remains stoic. She asks Ramsay how do they know if he truly has their younger brother Rickon. Smalljon answers her question by throwing the decapitated head of Rickon's direwolf Shaggydog into their view. As Ramsay proceeds to tell the Starks what to do if they want to save Rickon, Sansa cuts him off by telling him that he is going to die the next day and rides off.
Sansa attempts to advise Jon.
After a meeting where Jon discusses battle plans with Tormund and Davos, Sansa admonishes Jon for attacking with too few men, saying that they need a larger force. Jon agrees they don't have enough men but responds this is the largest army they could possibly gather, saying they have pleaded with every house who would have them and the Blackfish can't help. Sansa warns Jon that Ramsay won't fall into Jon's trap, Ramsay is the one who lays traps, and Ramsay has been playing with people all his life. Jon responds he has faced worse than Ramsay Bolton, to which she replies, "You don't know him!" When Jon asks how do they get Rickon back, Sansa tells him will never get him back alive. Jon refuses to give up on their brother and Sansa tells Jon that Ramsay wants him to make a mistake. Jon asks Sansa what he should do differently but Sansa responds she doesn't know about battles and implores her brother not to do what Ramsay wants him to do. When they finish arguing, Sansa tells Jon that if Ramsay wins, she will die before she goes back to him. Jon vows to protect Sansa, to which she cynically replies that no one can keep anyone safe.
Sansa arrives to the Battle of the Bastards with Littlefinger and forces from House Arryn.
Sansa is not present during the premise of the "Battle of the Bastards", in which Rickon is killed by Ramsay. As the battle is nearing an end and all hope seems lost, a distant horn is heard sounding in the distance. Sansa and Petyr Baelish (to whom Sansa had sent the raven) arrive with the Knights of the Vale to help Jon and his army reclaim Winterfell. The Vale forces run down the advancing Bolton forces.
Sansa watches as Jon beats Ramsay.
After Winterfell is breached, Sansa enters the Winterfell courtyard and witnesses Jon defeat Ramsay in single combat, though Jon momentarily goes into a wild frenzy and begins to pummel Ramsay, he spares Ramsay out of respect for Sansa. With the Stark banners hanging in Winterfell once more, Sansa sees Rickon's dead body, concluding to ask Jon where Ramsay is. Sansa confronts a bloodied and bound Ramsay in the kennels. He tries to goad her by telling her how she will never be rid of him because he is "part of [her] now". Although Sansa does not deny his implication that she herself will always remember him, she calmly retorts that his house is about to become extinct and that all memory of Ramsay to the rest of the world will soon disappear, just before an ominous growl from one of his hounds reveals his impending doom. Ramsay responds that his dogs are loyal to him, but Sansa reminds her husband that he revealed he had been starving his dogs for seven days. The dogs approach Ramsay and he desperately attempts to order them to heel but after a brief moment of hesitation, one of the hounds bites him. As they begin to tear Ramsay apart while he screams, Sansa walks away with a small smile.[50]
With Winterfell firmly under Stark control, Sansa joins Jon on the ramparts as he watches an exiled Melisandre heading south. He tells her that he is having the Lord's chambers prepared for her. Although she protests that he should have it, Jon refuses, telling his sister he is not a Stark. Sansa tells Jon that he is a Stark to her, but he still refuses, telling Sansa that she deserves it as the Lady of Winterfell and because the Knights of the Vale came because of her, resulting in their victory. Jon asks her about Littlefinger and whether they can trust him, to which she insists that they cannot. Sansa apologizes for not telling him about the Knights of the Vale. While he understands why she didn't tell him about Baelish, Jon insists that they have to trust each other completely now that they have so many enemies. He kisses her on the forehead and when he turns to leave, Sansa calls him back. She smiles as she tells Jon that a white raven arrived from the Citadel, announcing the arrival of winter as their father had always predicted. Jon returns her smile.
Littlefinger tells Sansa of his wish to sit on the Iron Throne, with Sansa as his Queen.
Sansa is later found by Littlefinger in the Godswood. She tells him about how she had prayed in it every day as a little girl, always dreaming of being somewhere else. She then asks what he truly wants, and he tells her what his ultimate ambition is: himself sitting on the Iron Throne with Sansa at his side. He tries to kiss her but she rebukes him. As she walks away, he tells her that although he had officially aligned House Arryn with House Stark, reprisals would come from King's Landing. Sansa reminds Littlefinger he's declared for other houses before and this did not stop him from switching sides to ensure his own interests. Before she leaves, Littlefinger once again reminds her of Jon's illegitimate birth.
Sansa in the Great Hall while the Northern lords discuss the new situation in the North.
With the Stark victory, the remaining Northern lords joined by the Vale Lords arrive at Winterfell to discuss the new situation in the North. Some, such as Lord Yohn Royce, object to the wildlings' presence, but Tormund responds they were invited. The lords of both the North and the Vale claim that they need to return to their homes before the winter hits but Jon warns them that the war is not over - the true enemy "won't wait out the storm. He brings the storm." At this point, Lyanna Mormont stands up and chastises the assembled Northmen for refusing House Stark's call in their greatest hour of need.
Sansa glances at Littlefinger during Jon's ascension.
Lyanna proclaims House Mormont remembers and says, "The North remembers. We know no king but the King in the North whose name is Stark." She says that she doesn't care if Jon is a bastard son because he has Ned Stark's blood in his veins. With that, she acclaims Jon as the King in the North, as his "brother" Robb had been before him. Lyanna's speech is followed by a similar declaration from both Lord Wyman Manderly of White Harbor and Lord Glover of Deepwood Motte. The assembled Lords of the North and the Vale acclaim Jon Snow as the King in the North. Jon looks at Sansa, and she smiles back at him, but her smile fades when she glances at Littlefinger (the only other person not cheering), who gives her an unimpressed and knowing look.[51]
Sansa at a meeting at Winterfell.
Jon organizes the North's defense against the White Walkers. He asks Tormund and his people to man the Wall at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and Tormund agrees. When the issue of the lands and strongholds belonging to the Umbers and Karstarks arises, Sansa says these castles and lands should be given to new families who fought with House Stark against the Boltons. Jon disagrees, stating that the children of Houses Umber and Karstark cannot be held accountable for the past mistakes of their fathers and elder siblings and the children of these houses will retain their family lands and castles. Sansa disputes Jon's decision in front of Jon's bannermen. Ned Umber and Alys Karstark pledge fealty to House Stark.
In private, Jon tells Sansa that though she is his sister and can question his decisions, her publicly doing so in front of the Northern lords and ladies undermines his authority with them. Sansa tells Jon he is a good ruler but implores him not to repeat the past mistakes of Ned and Robb. After receiving a message from Cersei demanding that Jon bend the knee, Sansa warns Jon not to underestimate the new queen and recommends dealing with her before confronting the Night King. Sansa also remarks that she learned a lot from Cersei during her time at King's Landing.
Petyr questions Sansa's happiness.
She is later approached by Littlefinger to see if she is truly "safe" and "happy". Sansa confirms her safety in Winterfell, but Baelish continues to question her in regards to her happiness. Just as he is about to speak again, Sansa dismisses him. Brienne arrives and asks her why Petyr is still at Winterfell. Sansa explains that without his help, Winterfell would still be under Bolton control, and assures Brienne that she already knows what Littlefinger really wants.[52]
Sansa, Jon, and Davos review a message from Tyrion Lannister in which Tyrion asks for Jon to meet with Daenerys Targaryen on Dragonstone. Sansa questions the letter's legitimacy, worried that it was forged to lure Jon into a trap. Fortunately, he confirms the letter is genuine after reading a familiar line from his first meeting with Tyrion. Jon asks Sansa for her opinion. Sansa responds that Tyrion was not like the other Lannisters and he was kind to her. She still affirms that leaving for Dragonstone could possibly put her half-brother in danger, despite Tyrion's letter saying that Daenerys's faction only wishes to forge an alliance against Cersei, albeit also detailing the military forces that Daenerys has at her disposal. After examining the letter for himself, Davos says that three dragons would prove indispensable in their battle against the White Walkers.
At the following meeting with Jon's bannermen, despite Samwell Tarly's letter confirming a large supply of dragonglass on Dragonstone, Sansa maintains her opposition to Daenerys's request after hearing Jon's intent of accepting the invite to the island. She reminds Jon that their grandfather was also invited to see the Mad King at the cost of his own life. Sansa says Daenerys is in Westeros to reclaim the Seven Kingdoms and believes this mission is too great a risk for her brother to take. Jon considers Sansa's suspicions a possibility and knows it is a risk but believes Tyrion is a good man.
Sansa bids Jon farewell from the Winterfell battlements, wary of his alliance with Daenerys.
He asserts that forging a treaty with Daenerys is an opportunity they can't afford to miss due to the threat of the Walkers, and therefore a risk that he, as King, must take for the sake of saving the North as they need the dragonglass, dragonfire, and weapons to defend themselves against the White Walkers. Sansa, as well as Jon's bannermen, disagree with his decision. Sansa tries to convince Jon to stay by telling him to send an emissary to Dragonstone in his place, but Jon insists that he meet Daenerys monarch-to-monarch. He does not want to leave the North but is the only one there who has experienced the army of the dead, knows how bad their odds are, and he will never stop fighting for the North's survival. Jon gives Sansa control of the North while he is gone and Sansa accepts the responsibility. As Jon leaves, they bid each other farewell.[53]
Sansa is informed of the dangers of power.
With Jon at Dragonstone, Sansa and Petyr Baelish learn from Maester Wolkan that they have about 4,000 bushels of wheat. Sansa realizes that they don't have enough food for the coming winter. She advocates building granaries to stockpile for a famine. Sansa orders Yohn Royce to see that the armor made for their armies are outfitted with leather to keep warm. While walking, Baelish and Sansa talk about the threat of Cersei. Petyr urges her to fight every battle and to look for threats in every corner.
Sansa reunites with Bran.
They are interrupted by a guard who tells Sansa that she has received a visitor, who turns out to be her younger brother Bran, accompanied by Meera Reed. Following a tearful reunion, the two siblings retreat to the Godswood where Sansa tells Bran how she wishes Jon was there with them at Winterfell. Bran agrees, noting that he needs to speak to Jon. When Sansa points out that Bran is the rightful Lord of Winterfell since he is the last remaining trueborn son of Ned Stark, Bran refuses the position, stating that he is the three-eyed raven and thus can't be any sort of lord. Sansa remains as the Lady of Winterfell. Sansa is utterly confused with this prospect, leading Bran reveals he has visions, trying to explain the previous three-eyed raven's teachings, although this just makes Sansa even more baffled at Bran. Almost eerily and without emotion, Bran demonstrates his newly-acquired power to a skeptical Sansa by describing the night of her horrific marriage to Ramsay. This startles Sansa, who quickly excuses herself and she walks away in shock and tears.[54]
Sansa is informed of Arya's return.
Two guards inform Sansa that someone claiming to be her sister Arya is trying to gain access to Winterfell. They brush the girl off as an impostor, revealing she asked for Luwin and Rodrik Cassel. Sansa instantly realizes it must be Arya and knows where she has gone. Sansa finds Arya where she expected, in the crypts looking over their father Ned's grave. They are happy to see each other but so much has happened to both of them in the past few years that they are at first awkward, unsure of what to say. Arya asks if she has to call Sansa "Lady Stark" now, to which Sansa firmly insists "Yes" - and then laughs. They smile and hug, though still a bit unsure. Arya notes that Jon left her in charge and smiles when Sansa says that she hopes Jon will be back soon - he will be so happy to see Arya, remembering how happy Jon was to see her when they were reunited.
Sansa reunites with Arya.
The reunited sisters then look sadly on their father's grave statue. Arya says it doesn't really look like him. Sansa acknowledges that everyone who really knew his face is dead. Arya points out they're not. Arya tells Sansa that everyone says Sansa killed Joffrey. Sansa explains she actually didn't, though she wished she had. Arya remarks that he was always at the top of her "list". This confuses Sansa, and Arya explains that she'd been keeping a list of everyone she was going to kill - at which they both laugh. Finally, Sansa asks how Arya got back, but Arya only says her road wasn't a pleasant one. Sansa says her own road wasn't either. They hug again, earnestly and warmly. Sansa then informs Arya that Bran is home too.
Sansa watches as Bran and Arya reunite.
Sansa brings Arya to Bran in the Godswood, where he is lost in thought by the Weirwood heart tree. Arya hugs Bran, who remains somewhat detached even at the sight of Arya. Bran says he isn't surprised Arya is alive because he saw her at the Crossroads. Arya is confused, and Sansa explains that Bran is having "visions" now. Bran says he thought Arya was going to King's Landing, and when Sansa asks why Arya would head there of all places, he again startles them both by revealing Cersei is on Arya's list of names. Sansa asks Arya who else is on her list. Arya responds that most of these people, aside from Cersei, are dead already.
Sansa, Arya, and Bran are reunited.
Sansa and Arya remark on the Valyrian steel dagger in Bran's lap, and Bran explains that Littlefinger gave it to him. Arya is confused as to why a common cutthroat would have a rare, priceless blade of Valyrian steel. Bran matter-of-factly says that someone very wealthy wanted him dead, and gave it to the assassin. Sansa is mistrustful of Littlefinger and explains Littlefinger would never give anyone anything unless he was expecting something in return. Bran says that doesn't matter because he doesn't want it. Instead, Bran hands the blade to Arya and says she can have it because he feels it's "wasted on a cripple". Sansa looks down. Sansa, Bran, and Arya - three of the remaining Stark children - proceed back to Winterfell's castle courtyard together, with Arya pushing Bran in his wheelchair.
Sometime later, Sansa and Littlefinger watch on silently from the walkway above as Arya and Brienne. Brienne goes easy on her at first, but then Arya completely outmaneuvers Brienne using the Water Dance training she received from Syrio Forel, augmented by her training with the Faceless Men. Ultimately, they reach a stalemate, with each of them holding a blade at the others' throat. Arya takes her leave of Brienne, both mutually impressed, as Sansa looks down baffled at how her sister reached such a deadly skill level.[55]
Later, in the Winterfell throne room, Sansa oversees a meeting of the Northern lords. Complaining that the King in the North should stay in the North, Lord Robett Glover and Lord Yohn Royce of The Vale propose that she take power in the absence of her half-brother Jon Snow. However, Sansa insists Jon Snow is their true ruler who is doing what he believes is right for their people and that she is merely his regent. Following the meeting, Sansa confides her frustration in the Northern lords with Arya. Arya thinks that she should not let the lords get away with insulting her and suggests assassinating them. Sansa disagrees with Arya's idea to kill the troublesome lords, preferring a more diplomatic approach so as not to lose their support. Arya tells Sansa to admit that she is harbouring thoughts of permanently ruling Winterfell if Jon doesn't return. Disturbed and disheartened by Arya's suspicions of her, Sansa tells Arya that she has "work to do."[56]
Arya confronts Sansa about their father's death.
Later, Arya presents the letter that Sansa had written to their late brother Robb Stark urging him to come and bend the knee to King Joffrey Baratheon. Sansa replies that the Queen Mother Cersei Lannister forced her to do it under duress. Arya counters that she was not tortured and that she saw Sansa at Ned's execution; Sansa retorts that Arya did nothing to stop their father's execution either. Arya chastises Sansa for betraying their family but Sansa responds that they have only returned to Winterfell because of her, while Arya travelled the world in pursuit of her own agenda. Sansa adds that their half-brother Jon Snow was saved from defeat when Petyr Baelish and the Knights of the Vale came to their rescue and insists Arya would not have survived the torments she endured at the hands of Joffrey and Ramsay.
Sansa demands to know where Arya found the letter and chides her younger sister that Cersei would be pleased to see them fighting, but Arya is still bitter towards Sansa. She realizes that while Jon would understand the difficult circumstances Sansa was under when she wrote the letter, Sansa is afraid the Northern lords will discover it and turn on her, including Lyanna Mormont. Arya adds that Lyanna is younger than Sansa was when she wrote this letter but argues Lyanna wouldn't agree with Sansa's defense that she was a child at the time. While recognizing that Sansa wrote the letter out of fear, a bitter Arya says that she prefers to embrace anger over fear.
Later, Sansa asks Petyr Baelish about where Arya got the letter from, unaware that Baelish orchestrated the entire incident. Sansa tells Petyr that she is commanding 20,000 men who answer to Jon but not to her. Petyr tells Sansa that the men will trust her because she can rule. Sansa does not trust the loyalty of the Northern lords, citing their history of switching sides. She counters that the discovery of the letter will turn her liege lords and men against her. Sansa confides in Petyr about her strained relations with Arya. Petyr suggests that Sansa talk with Brienne of Tarth because she has sworn to protect both of Lady Catelyn Stark's daughters from harm. Trusting Baelish, Sansa accepts his advice.
Sansa sends Brienne to King's Landing.
The following morning, Maester Wolkan informs Sansa that they have received a letter from Queen Cersei. Sansa meets with Brienne, who advises her not to leave Winterfell. Instead, Sansa decides to send Brienne as her representative since she could reason with Jaime Lannister. Brienne warns that it is too dangerous for her to leave Sansa alone at Winterfell with Petyr. Sansa insists that her guards and men are loyal to her but Brienne warns that Petyr might be bribing them behind her back. Brienne offers to leave her squire Podrick Payne, whose swordsmanship has improved, but Sansa insists that she can take care of herself.
Sansa confronts Arya after finding the faces.
Sansa enters Arya's quarters and opens a leather case containing several "faces", including the late Walder Frey's face. Arya catches her sister pilfering through her personal effects. When Sansa tells Arya that her men are loyal to her, Arya mockingly retorts that they are not here. Arya tells Sansa that she obtained the faces from the Faceless Men of Braavos and admits she spent time training to be a Faceless Man. She forces Sansa to play the lying game and begins by asking if she thinks that Jon is the rightful King. Sansa demands that Arya tell her what the "faces" are.
Arya replies that when they were young they always aspired to be other people. Sansa wanted to be a queen while Arya herself wanted to be a knight. In the end, neither of them got what they wanted. Arya says that the faces allow her to become someone else and toys with the idea of assuming Sansa's face and status. Arya approaches Sansa with her dagger and muses at the prospect of becoming the Lady of Winterfell. However, Arya relents and leaves a disturbed Sansa alone with the dagger.[57]
Sansa and Petyr discuss Jon's decision to bend the knee to Daenerys. Sansa feels betrayed by Jon, and Petyr suggests that Sansa would make a better ruler than Jon. Sansa tells Petyr that Arya would turn against her if she tried to usurp Jon's power, and Petyr goads her, planting the idea that Arya wants to kill Sansa and take her place as Lady of Winterfell.[58]
However, still unsure of Petyr's intentions, Sansa visits Bran. From this, she learns of his Greensight powers, in which he proves Petyr's ultimate guilt in the War of the Five Kings. This proves everything Petyr has done to gain power: his murder of Jon Arryn, his attempt to kill Bran, his betrayal of Ned and his attempt to turn Arya and Sansa against each other.[59]
Sansa turns the tables on Petyr.
Sansa sits with Bran when Arya is brought into the Great Hall. Petyr watches as Sansa reads the charges of murder and treason, before Sansa addresses Petyr directly, revealing that the trial is actually for him. She accuses Petyr of murdering Lysa Arryn, convincing her to poison her husband Jon Arryn and send a letter to the Starks blaming the Lannister for the crime, and conspiring with Cersei and Joffrey to imprison and execute Eddard Stark.
Sansa presides over Petyr's execution.
Petyr denies the charges, but Bran reveals that he has seen Petyr's betrayal in his visions. Sansa is unfazed by Petyr's begging and thanks him for all his lessons, promising she will never forget them. Arya then slits Petyr's throat, and Sansa watches as he dies.
On the battlements, Sansa confides in Arya that she believed Petyr really did love her, and Arya assures her that she did the right thing. Arya concedes that she couldn't have survived what Sansa survived, but Sansa disagrees, claiming that Arya is the strongest person she knows. Arya and Sansa remember their father's words about looking out for one another, and each confides how much they miss him.[58]
Sansa cautiously eyes Daenerys.
Sansa stands on Winterfell's ramparts as the combined Stark and Targaryen forces march towards the castle, and stares in cautious awe as Drogon and Rhaegal fly overhead. She greets Jon as he arrives in the courtyard, and mentions that Arya is "lurking somewhere" when Jon notices her absence. He introduces her to Daenerys as the Lady of Winterfell, and the two women exchange a civil but tense greeting.
Sansa sits at the high table of Winterfell.
Later, in the castle's great hall, Sansa sits at the high table along with Jon, Daenerys, and Tyrion. Tyrion tries to calm those present who are displeased at Jon bending the knee to Daenerys; he says that they have assembled the largest army ever seen, but Sansa cooly undercuts him by asking how she is supposed to feed an army that size, as well as two full-grown dragons. When she sarcastically asks what dragons even eat, Daenerys replies, "Whatever they want."
Sansa later converses with Tyrion privately for the first time since they last saw each other at Joffrey's wedding; Tyrion calls the wedding "a miserable affair", though Sansa sardonically remarks, "It had its moments." She also calls Tyrion out for believing that Cersei will honor the pledge to send the Lannister forces north. She is disappointed in Tyrion, saying she used to think Tyrion was the cleverest man she ever met.
Sansa shows Jon the message that Robett Glover will be remaining in Deepwood Mott with his troops, as he never pledged to fight for a Targaryen. She expresses her disapproval of Jon giving up his crown to Daenerys. Jon replies titles don't matter in the face of the Night King and the army of the dead and they don't stand a chance against them without Daenerys's help. Although Sansa assures Jon that her faith in his judgement has not waivered, she bluntly asks him if he truly bent the knee to save the North, or because he loved Daenerys.[60]
When Jaime Lannister arrives at Winterfell, Sansa - now clad in armor - is once again seated at the high table with Jon and Daenerys. The two women harshly berate the Kingslayer for his past actions and question whether his loyalty to their cause is genuine. Only when Brienne of Tarth vouches for Jaime does Sansa trust him, and Daenerys allows his sword to be returned to him.
Sansa and Dany discuss Jon.
Later, Daenerys speaks privately with Sansa, addressing some of the thorny political issues involved in their alliance. She also openly confesses her love for Jon, waving aside Sansa's concern that Jon is being manipulated- if anything Daenerys claims that she came to love him. Although a greater understanding appears to develop between the two women, Sansa remains firm in her conviction that the Northerners will never truly accept an outsider as their ruler again, and bluntly asks Daenerys what her plans for the North are once the dead have been defeated.
Sansa shares a meal with Theon.
The awkward moment is interrupted by Maester Wolkan announcing the arrival of Theon Greyjoy and his men. In the great hall, Theon kneels to Daenerys and asks Sansa's permission to stand with the Starks against the army of the dead, at which Sansa strides forward and embraces him. The two are later seen having a meal in the courtyard while awaiting the call to arms.
Sansa is told to enter the crypts by Arya.
When the army of the dead and the army of Winterfell finally face each other across the battlefield, Sansa and Arya observe from the castle walls. When the initial charge of Dothraki screamers is easily repelled and the wights advance, Arya orders Sansa to go down into the crypts and hands her a dragonglass dagger. Sansa says she doesn't know how to use it, and Arya repeats the words that Jon said when he gave Arya Needle: "Stick 'em with the pointy end." Down in the crypts, Tyrion is restless about not being able to help, but Sansa firmly reminds him that they are all down there for a reason; they won't be any help on the battlefield, and doing nothing is the most heroic - if the most difficult - thing they can do.
Sansa and Tyrion make light of their failed marriage.
Impressed by her logic, Tyrion sardonically remarks that they should have stayed married. Sansa humorously acknowledges that he was the best relationship she ever had, but his loyalties to Daenaerys would mean that they could never remain together, which is taken as an offence to Daenerys by Missandei. As the army of the dead breaches Winterfell's walls, the Night King reanimates all that have fallen in the battle so far, and his spell extends to the many Stark bodies housed in Winterfell's crypts. In the crypts, the living scramble to escape and Sansa ends up hiding behind a large stone casket with Tyrion. The two look desperately into each other's eyes, and Sansa pulls out the dragonglass dagger given to her by Arya.
An unspoken understanding passes between her and Tyrion, who tearfully kisses her hand as if in farewell. Before she can act, however, Arya manages to slay the Night King in the godswood, causing the entire army and the remaining White Walkers to shatter and collapse. Sansa and the other survivors make their way out of the crypt to survey what remains.[61]
Sansa mourns Winterfell's fallen.
The surviviors of the battle later gather in front of Winterfell's walls to light the funeral pyres of all who gave their lives in defense of the living. Sansa tearfully places a pin bearing the House Stark direwolf onto Theon's body before lighting his pyre herself. During the celebration feast that follows, she makes her way to the table where the Hound is seated.
Sandor and Sansa discuss the tragedy in their lives.
The two discuss the many trials they've suffered since their last meeting, and Clegane reminds Sansa that she could have been spared many horrors if she'd left with him when he offered. While not downplaying her own tragedies, Sansa coolly responds that without those horrors, she would still be the "little bird" Cersei thought her to be - ignorant of the cruelty of the world and unable to fend for herself.
Sansa is informed of Jon's true parentage.
Sansa later attends a war council in preparation for the continued war against Cersei. She advises giving the armies time to rest before engaging in a new conflict, only to cause a tense moment with Daenerys who insists on attacking Cersei as soon as possible, cooly telling Sansa that it's time for the North to reciprocate. Along with Arya and Bran, Sansa then meets with Jon in the godswood. Jon is angry at his sisters for their treatment of Daenerys, explaining they'd all be dead without her. Sansa protests that Arya is the one who killed the Night King and Jon points out Daenerys's armies gave their lives to defend against the Army of the Dead. Sansa acknowledges this but doesn't think it's reason enough to automatically submit to Daenerys but Jon says he pledged the North to Daenerys. Arya tells Jon she respects his decision, it was the right thing to do, but it's also right for herself and Sansa to distrust his Queen. Jon wants them to get to know Daenerys but Arya doesn't want to either, Daenerys isn't one of them. Jon tells her they won't make many allies if they're only friends with the people she grew up with. Arya is fine with this because all she needs is their family, the four of them. Jon tells them he's not a Stark but Sansa and Arya both insist he is Ned's son and their brother. Pained, Jon reveals he needs to tell them something and swears them to secrecy. Sansa balks but Jon asks her to do it because they're family. When both sisters swear, Jon asks Bran to reveal his true parentage: the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, and the subsequent heir to the Iron Throne.
Later, Tyrion finds a shaken Sansa looking at Daenerys's dragons in the sky. She asks why Tyrion would choose to follow Daenerys. Tyrion replies that Daenerys loves Sansa's brother but Sansa says it doesn't mean she'll be a good queen. Tyrion notes Sansa's dislike of Daenerys but says that a good relationship between the North and the capital has been beneficial. Sansa doesn't think this will be a problem since Jon is Warden of the North and he loves the Queen. Tyrion realizes something is wrong and asks Sansa to look at him. He urges her to find common ground with Daenerys as Jon won't be spending much time in the North from now on. Sansa wonders what Tyrion is worried about as Daenerys seems to have everything she needs. When Tyrion urges Sansa not to provoke Daenerys, Sansa realizes he's afraid of her. She anxiously tells Tyrion she doesn't want Jon going south, the men in her family never do well there. Tyrion agrees but quips that Jon once told him he's not a Stark. This rattles Sansa, prompting Tyrion to ask if she's alright. He tries to convince her of Daenerys but Sansa is not receptive. As Tyrion leaves, Sansa has a change of heart and goes against her promise to Jon, telling Tyrion that there is somebody better for the Iron Throne.
Sansa later receives word of the ambush on the Targaryen fleet in which Rhaegal was killed while Missandei is captured. She tells Jaime that she wanted to see his sister executed but that it will likely not happen due to this setback.[62]
Sansa is crowned Queen in the North.
After the Battle of King's Landing, Sansa journeys to King's Landing where she takes command of the northern forces and stations them outside of King's Landing. She does this to ensure the safety of herself and the other lords and ladies inside Kings's Landing since she attends great council several weeks after the Daenerys's assassination by Jon, in the dragonpit of King's Landing. While Bran is elected as King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Sansa holds to her convictions and requests the North becoming an independent realm once more, to which Bran agrees. Jon is sentenced to rejoin the Night's Watch, and Arya intends to sail west of the Sunset Sea. After saying her goodbyes to her siblings, Sansa returns to Winterfell and is crowned Queen in the North.[63]
When she lived at Winterfell with her family, Sansa grew up as the eldest daughter of a Great House, trying to emulate her mother's example of a "proper lady" from the southern courts. Sansa's devotion to the traditional, refined "feminine virtues" caused friction between her and her blunt, tomboyish younger sister Arya, with whom she had a sibling rivalry. As a little girl, Sansa naively believed in the tales and epic romances in which every princess gets her honorable knight in shining armor to sweep her off her feet. Sansa was infatuated with the traditional romances about mythical figures like Jonquil, and historical figures like Duncan Targaryen. Her greatest goal in life was to be married to a heroic and handsome prince, sitting around with other noblewomen eating lemon cakes while gossiping about the goings-on at court.
Sansa's innocent, childhood infatuation with the ideals of princesses and knights made her tragically susceptible to the manipulations of the Lannisters. She held the blind belief that all queens and princes are kind and truthful, as if inherently a result of their titles, when Cersei just happened to be a woman who married a king to secure a marriage alliance, and Joffrey just happened to be her son. Without real cause, she blindly loved Joffrey with all her heart and trusted and admired Cersei, only for them to repay her love and trust by beheading her father before her very eyes.
Afterwards, Sansa has a harrowing experience as a prisoner of the Lannisters, a plaything for the psychopathic Joffrey to have publicly beaten by his guards for petty amusement. Her shock at the death of her father was only later deepened at the news of how her mother and brother Robb were horrifically killed at the Red Wedding and their corpses desecrated. She was visibly elated upon hearing that Arya, Bran, and Rickon were actually still alive, and though she took mostly after her mother and had a somewhat distant relationship with Jon, she loved him all the same. She was surprised to hear that Jon had become Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and Jon was the first person she turns to for shelter after escaping Winterfell, aware that he would protect her from Ramsay.
Sansa subsequently escapes King's Landing to the Vale with Littlefinger, and her experiences have clearly changed her personality. She had to learn from painful experience how to lie to survive at Joffrey's court, saying one thing but meaning another and manipulating people to her own ends as best she could. No longer under constant control by Joffrey and Cersei's guards, she is in her own way beginning to mature into her own power and influence as a political force.
The numerous tragedies she has suffered, and the crimes against herself and her family, have also darkened her personality turning her more ruthless, though not quite cruel. This shows when she refuses to take Theon's arm when he comes to escort her to the Godswood to marry Ramsay and coldly asks if he thinks she cares what Ramsay will do to him if she doesn't. She also later expresses approval of what Ramsay did to Theon, now Reek, and declares she would do the same. Once reclaiming Winterfell, Sansa feeds her abusive husband, Ramsay to his own hounds, even smiling as it happened.
However, despite all the suffering that she has been through, Sansa appears to have retained a certain degree of compassion that is also demonstrated in her multiple attempts at reaching out to Theon after Theon admits that he did not kill Bran and Rickon and they are alive. After Theon helps her escape from Winterfell, Sansa once again sees Theon as a surrogate brother and promises she will not let Jon execute him when Theon fears Jon will have him killed for his crimes. Sansa also becomes more compassionate and a loyal sister to Jon and apologizes for being "awful" when they were children. When she faces Myranda for the last time prior to her escape from Winterfell, Sansa was about to allow the psychopathic girl to shoot her so that she could die with as much of herself as was remaining. She has also become significantly more brave, courageous and is developing nerves of iron.
Sansa's sufferings have made her stronger and more mature, but also more war-like. Caring less for the traditional feminine virtues she used to praise as a child, Sansa moves against Ramsay in order to take back Winterfell and the North, and outright rejects his conditions for saving her brother Rickon, knowing full well he would never keep his word and instead tells him that he will die the next day. Her experiences with the Lannisters have enabled her to watch in grim satisfaction as Ramsay is torn apart and eaten by his own hounds. This contrasts her visible horror in Season 1 upon seeing the violence when she first arrived in King's Landing, where she is distressed at Gregor Clegane's violence against Ser Hugh and Loras Tyrell and faints when her father is abruptly beheaded in front of her. Sansa is also effective as Lady of Winterfell and Jon's regent, devoting her efforts to maintaining order and preparing the North for winter, for which she earns the respect of many Vale and Northern lords.
Due to the harrowing experiences of the Stark children, Sansa experiences a development in the relationships with her surviving siblings when they are reunited. Though she and Jon were the least close of the Stark children, they love one another as siblings[64] and their relationship as brother and sister becomes stronger when they are reunited. While Sansa will argue with Jon, she speaks to him as an equal, wants to see him safe, and Turner observes Sansa's relationship with Jon has restored Sansa's faith in men.[65] While Jon remains a protective older brother to Sansa and likewise wants her safe, he also recognizes Sansa's intelligence and her adeptness as a leader, placing the North in her charge as his regent. Sansa and Arya did not get along as children and though they love each other, experience a rocky start after their reunion in Season 7 due to their experiences. Nonetheless, they come to recognize new strengths in one another: Arya's skills as a combatant and Sansa's abilities as Lady of Winterfell. By the end of Season 7, their relationship grows stronger and they develop a new closeness as sisters. Sansa is relieved and happy to be reunited with Bran but is unsettled by the changes he has undergone as a result of becoming the Three-Eyed Raven. Regardless, she asks for Bran's help in using his powers to look into Littlefinger's past and upon learning the truth, decide to put Littlefinger on trial to answer for his crimes.
Season Three appearances
Valar Dohaeris Dark Wings, Dark Words Walk of Punishment And Now His Watch Is Ended Kissed by Fire
The Climb The Bear and the Maiden Fair Second Sons The Rains of Castamere Mhysa
Season Four appearances
Two Swords The Lion and the Rose Breaker of Chains Oathkeeper First of His Name
The Laws of Gods and Men Mockingbird The Mountain and the Viper The Watchers on the Wall The Children
Season Seven appearances
Dragonstone Stormborn The Queen's Justice The Spoils of War
Eastwatch Beyond the Wall The Dragon and the Wolf
Season Eight appearances
Winterfell A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms The Long Night
The Last of the Starks The Bells The Iron Throne
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Spoken by Sansa
Sansa Stark: "Do you think Joffrey will like me? What if he thinks I'm ugly?"
Catelyn Stark: "Then he is the stupidest prince that ever lived."
Sansa Stark: "He's so handsome."
— Sansa reveals her huge crush on Joffrey while talking with her mother.[src]
"There is no honor in tricks."
―Sansa Stark[src]
Sansa Stark: "Who cares about your stupid dancing teacher? I can't go! I'm supposed to marry Prince Joffrey! I love him! And I'm meant to be his queen and have his babies!"
Arya Stark: "Seven hells!"
— Sansa's initial naiveté[src]
Joffrey Baratheon: "I tell you what. I'm gonna give you a present. After I raise my armies and kill your traitor brother, I'm going to give you his head as well."
Sansa Stark: "Or maybe he'll give me yours."
— Sansa antagonizes Joffrey.[src]
Tyrion Lannister: "I apologize for my nephew's behavior. Tell me the truth. Do you want an end to this engagement?"
Sansa Stark: "I am loyal to King Joffrey, my one true love."
Tyrion Lannister: "(to himself) Lady Stark, you may survive us yet."
— Tyrion and Sansa, after Joffrey has Sansa publicly beaten at court.[src]
"The worst ones always live."
Sansa Stark: "I lie awake all night, staring at the canopy, thinking of how they died."
Tyrion Lannister: "I could get essence of nightshade to help you sleep."
Sansa Stark: "Do you know what they did to my brother? How they sewed his direwolf's head onto his body? And my mother? They say they cut her throat to the bone and threw her body in the river."
Tyrion Lannister: "What happened to your family was a terrible crime. I didn't know your brother; he seemed like a good man, but I didn't know him. Your mother, on the other hand, I admired her. She wanted to have me executed, but I admired her. She was a strong woman, and she was fierce when it came to protecting her children. Sansa, your mother would want you to carry on. You know it's true."
— Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister talk about the Red Wedding.[src]
Sansa Stark: "Will you pardon me, my lord? I'd like to visit the Godswood."
Tyrion Lannister: "Of course, of course. Prayer can be helpful, I hear."
Sansa Stark: "I don't pray anymore. It's the only place I can go where people don't talk to me."
— Exchange between Sansa and Tyrion.[src]
Theon Greyjoy: "Do what he says! Do what he says or he'll hurt you!"
Sansa Stark: "He already hurts me every night! All day I'm locked in this room and every night he comes! It can't be any worse!"
Theon Greyjoy: "It can. It can always be worse."
— Theon Greyjoy tells Sansa to obey her new husband.[src]
Ramsay Bolton: "I'm Lord Bolton's eldest son."
Sansa Stark: "But you're a bastard, a trueborn will always have the stronger claim."
Ramsay Bolton: "I've been naturalized by a royal decree from..."
Sansa Stark: "Tommen Baratheon? Another bastard."
— Sansa antagonizes Ramsay.[src]
"If it weren't for you, I'd still have a family. If I could do to you what Ramsay did right here, right now, I would."
―Sansa reprimands Theon for everything he has done.[src]
Sansa Stark: "Tell me why Bran and Rickon should be gone while you still breathe the air! [Grabs Theon by the face and shakes his head.] TELL ME TO MY FACE, THEON! TELL ME THAT THEY WEREN'T YOUR BROTHERS!"
Theon Greyjoy/Reek: "THEY WEREN'T BRAN AND RICKON! I couldn't find them. It was two farm boys. I killed them and burned them so no one would know."
— Sansa forces Theon to admit that he did not kill her brothers.[src]
"I know what Ramsay is. I know what he'll do to me. If I'm going to die, let it happen while there's still some of me left."
―Sansa to Myranda and Theon.[src]
"You're the son of the last true Warden of the North. Northern families are loyal, they'll fight for you if you ask. A monster has taken our home and our brother. We have to go back to Winterfell and save them both."
―Sansa to Jon Snow[src]
"Did you know about Ramsay? If you didn't know, you're an idiot. If you did know, you're my enemy."
―Sansa to Petyr Baelish[src]
Sansa Stark: "You said you would protect me."
Petyr Baelish: "And I will. You must believe me when I tell you that I will."
Sansa Stark: "I don't believe you anymore. I don't need you anymore. You can't protect me. You won't even be able to protect yourself if I tell Brienne to cut you down. And why shouldn't I?"
— Sansa turns the tables on Baelish.[src]
Petyr Baelish: "Do you want me to beg for my life? If that's what you want, I will. Whatever you ask that is in my power, I will do."
Sansa Stark: "What if I want you to die here and now?"
Petyr Baelish: "Then I will die."
Sansa Stark: "You freed me from the monsters who murdered my family and you gave me to other monsters who murdered my family. Go back to Moat Cailin. My brother and I will take back the North on our own. I never want to see you again."
— Sansa to Petyr Baelish[src]
"The Umbers gave Rickon to our enemies, they can hang."
―Sansa condemns House Umber for Smalljon's betrayal.[src]
"No one can protect me. No one can protect anyone."
Ramsay Bolton: "Now, if you want to save..."
Sansa Stark: "You're going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton. Sleep well."
— Sansa warns Ramsay of his impending doom.[src]
"Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear."
―Sansa to Ramsay just before he is devoured by his own hounds.[src]
Sansa Stark: "You have to be smarter than father. You need to be smarter than Robb. I loved them, I miss them, but they made stupid mistakes and they both lost their heads for it."
Jon Snow: "And how should I be smarter? By listening to you?"
Sansa Stark: "Would that be so terrible?"
— Sansa and Jon.[src]
"I'm a slow learner. It's true. But I learn."
Edmure Tully: "My lords and ladies. I suppose this is the most important moment of our lives. What we decide today will reverberate through the annals of history. I stand before you as one of the senior lords in the country, a veteran of two wars, and I'd like to think my experience has led to some small skill in statecraft and I understand that..."
Sansa Stark: "Uncle, please sit."
— Sansa, having had enough of Edmure Tully's attempt to become King, cuts him off mid-speech and respectfully but sternly asks him to sit back down.[src]
"I love you, little brother. I always will. You'll be a good king. But tens of thousands of Northmen fell in the Great War defending all of Westeros, and those who survived have seen too much and fought too hard ever to kneel again. The North will remain an independent kingdom as it was for thousands of years."
―Sansa secures Northern independence from her brother, the new King Bran[src]
Jon Snow: "The North is free thanks to you."
Sansa Stark: "But they lost their king."
Jon Snow: "Ned Stark's daughter will speak for them. She's the best they could ask for."
— Sansa and Jon say farewell[src]
Spoken about Sansa
Tyrion Lannister: "She won't rest until my head's on a spike!"
Jaime Lannister: "Not just yours. She's offering a knighthood to whomever finds Sansa Stark."
Tyrion Lannister: "Sansa couldn't have done this."
Jaime Lannister: "She had more reason than anyone in the Seven Kingdoms. Do you think it's a coincidence she disappeared the same night Joffrey died?"
Tyrion Lannister: "No, but...Sansa's not a killer. Not yet, anyway."
— Jaime and Tyrion discuss Sansa.[src]
Cersei Lannister: "You have no loyalty to Catelyn Stark?"
Jaime Lannister: "Catelyn Stark's dead."
Cersei Lannister: "So if I told you to leave the capital right now and find Sansa, if I told you to find that murderous little bitch and bring me her head, would you do it?"
— Cersei to Jaime about killing Sansa.[src]
"The first time I saw you, you were just a child. A girl from the North, come to the capital for the first time. Not a child any longer."
―Petyr Baelish to Sansa[src]
Petyr Baelish: "Tyrion never consummated the marriage. By the law of the land, she's no man's wife. Inspect her, if you must."
Roose Bolton: "I leave that to the brothel keeper. It's her name I need, not her virtue."
— Petyr and Roose Bolton[src]
Myranda: "I saw you staring at her."
Ramsay Bolton: "I'm going to marry her. That will involve looking at her from time to time."
— Exchange between Ramsay Bolton and Myranda.[src]
"You've known Sansa since she was a girl. Now watch her become a woman."
―Ramsay Bolton to Theon[src]
"Lady Sansa desires to take back her ancestral seat from the Boltons and assume her rightful position as Lady of Winterfell."
―Brienne of Tarth to Jaime Lannister[src]
"She's exactly like her mother..."
―Brynden Tully after reading Sansa's plea.[src]
Jon Snow: "Sansa thinks she's smarter than everyone."
Arya Stark: "She's the smartest person I've ever met."
Jon Snow: "Now you're defending her? You?"
Arya Stark: "I'm defending our family. So is she."
— Jon and Arya[src]
"Many underestimated you. Most of them are dead now."
―Tyrion to Sansa[src]
Paternal
Rickard Stark
Lyarra Stark
Brandon Stark
Catelyn Stark
née Tully
Lyanna Stark
Rhaegar
Talisa Stark
née Maegyr
Rickon Stark
"Jon Snow"
(Aegon
Targaryen)
Hoster Tully
Minisa Tully
née Whent
Brynden Tully
Catelyn Tully
Lysa Tully
Roslin Tully
née Frey
Robin Arryn
Sophie Turner has naturally baby blonde hair. So to get that Tully red, her hair had to be dyed for Sansa's auburn (reddish brown) hair. Kevin Alexander uses a mix of four different watercolor shades. Since Turner was only thirteen or fourteen when she started on the show, Alexander didn't want to use peroxide on her. The color lasts about ten days and needs to be touched up constantly.
After the filming of the episode in which Sansa's direwolf, Lady, is executed, Turner adopted the dog that played Lady, a Northern Inuit named Zunni. Series author George R. R. Martin confirmed this on his blog.
On the Season 6 Blu-Ray, Sansa narrates the Histories & Lore video "Northern Allegiances to House Stark", as well as on the Season 7 Blu-ray, she narrates Chapter 6 of Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms, "House Stark, The Kings of Winter" and Chapter 10, "The Last Dragons".
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Sansa enjoys conventional "ladylike" pursuits, with a keen interest in music, poetry, singing, literature, history, dancing and embroidery. She was taught to play the High harp by Lady Leonette. She has a romantic notion of handsome princes and knights fighting honorably for love and loyalty. She is sharply contrasted with her far less idealistic and tomboyish younger sister, Arya.
Unlike Arya, Sansa is very passive, always waiting for things to happen rather than take active actions. Only in very rare occasions she temporarily steps out of her passivity, like the time she intervened to save Ser Dontos.
Due to a time jump which was originally planned in the books but later dropped, Sansa is only 11 years old when the narrative begins. Author George R.R. Martin himself has said that he would have aged-up the younger characters had he initially known he would abandon the time-jump. Therefore, in the TV series' timeline, all of the younger characters including Sansa have been aged up two years from the books. Thus, Sansa is 13 years old in Season 1, and 14 years old in Season 2. Keeping in mind that in medieval times, the age of maturity was lower than it is today, this younger age in the books isn't quite as unusual as it sounds, but due to the abandoned time jump, this still causes some discrepancies. For example, in the books, Joffrey's torment of Sansa doesn't have quite the same inherent sexual tension to it because they're both two years younger. Sansa directly states that she is 13 years old in dialogue from the pilot episode of Season 1. On her wedding night with Tyrion Lannister, however, she says that she is 14 years old when she should be 15 years old since two years since the pilot episode have passed. It is possible that she either simply had not reached her nameday and turned exactly 15 yet, or that she was lying to try to shame Tyrion before he took her virginity (though as it turned out, Tyrion still refused to consummate the marriage, morally repulsed at being forced to marry such a young girl).
A subplot in the books which is only somewhat alluded to in the TV series is that in her desperation, Sansa starts latching onto the idea of Sandor Clegane as her protector from Joffrey or a potential source of an escape attempt.
In the books, Sansa is shown to be partially responsible for her father's arrest by revealing to Cersei his plan to have his daughters leave the capital city. Given that she is only a naive eleven-year-old, and that Eddard didn't give her any explanation for why he wanted to send her away from King's Landing, she assumed he was simply fighting with Cersei over some matter of state. Still enraptured with the idea of staying and marrying Joffrey, Sansa thought that if she told Cersei she would then smooth over whatever disagreement they had. The main fault is Eddard's, for foolishly revealing his cards to Cersei, and even more foolishly - putting his trust in Littlefinger and revealing his plan to him. Thus Littlefinger and Cersei knew what Eddard planned to do and had time to prepare counter-measures, regardless of what Sansa told Cersei.
Sansa technically gained the title of "princess" when her brother Robb was declared the new King in the North. While her brothers Bran and Rickon use the title of "prince" among the Northerners at Winterfell, Sansa's storyline involves her being held as a prisoner at King Joffrey's court in King's Landing. The Lannisters refuse to acknowledge the North's claims of independence so they don't refer to Sansa as "princess". Meanwhile, Sansa is in fear for her life and is subjected to frequent beatings at the hands of the Kingsguard at Joffrey's whim, so she doesn't refer to herself as "princess" for fear of angering her captors. Thus her title is rarely, if ever, invoked (unless Robb and Catelyn in the Northern camp are discussing her captivity).
Unlike in the show, Sansa does not befriend Shae and does not trust her. Shae does whatever Sansa tells her, but sometimes, she gives Sansa insolent looks. Sansa has no idea why Shae looks at her this way, for Sansa does not know Shae is her husband Tyrion's lover.
Following Sansa's escape from King's Landing, Littlefinger takes her first to his ancestral home at the Fingers. There he reveals Sansa part of the scheme to murder Joffrey. He does not reveal certain parts of it, like why was it necessary to involve her in the plot.
After being taken from the capital by Littlefinger, Sansa's hair is dyed black (as her auburn hair would reveal her identity to anyone who has ever met a Tully) and is given the alias of "Alayne Stone", Lord Petyr's bastard daughter who recently decided to seek him out after having been entrusted to the Faith of the Seven. In the series, she is introduced simply as "Alayne", a niece of Petyr, who makes only a vague attempt to hide her hair; she later dyes it of her own volition.
Sansa has no idea that Littlefinger was involved in her father's downfall but knows well that he is treacherous and cannot be trusted. She reminds herself he was never her friend: she remembers him smiling slyly and whispering in Cersei's ear; whenever she was in danger, Tyrion and the Hound were the ones who saved her, not him. She knows about his part in Jon Arryn's death (Lysa reveals that in her presence) and saw him killing two people - Ser Dontos and her aunt - the latter by his own hands.
In sharp contrast to the show, Sansa does not become full of confidence overnight following her aunt's death. Although she becomes slightly more involved in the political affairs, she generally remains timid, passive and obedient: she never questions Littlefinger's actions and plans; she has no idea about the current events out of the Vale and particularly in the North (except she learns her half-brother Jon has become the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch), that Edmure is held captive at the Twins, and that Riverrun is under siege; she does not even know who currently holds her home and does not bother to ask; she does not take any actions to help either her uncle or her great-uncle.
Sansa finds her cousin repulsive. After the incident with the snow castle, she thinks angrily that even Joffrey had more spine than Robert. Still, after Lysa's death, Sansa feels sorry for him and treats him patiently as she can. At one occasion, he demands "a hundred lemon cakes and five tales", Sansa's patience nearly runs out and she feels like giving him "a hundred spankings and five slaps", but restrains herself (unlike in the show). Robert initially declares he hates "Alayne" (unaware of her true identity), because of his ripped doll, but with time, grows to like her. Since he was so accustomed to sleeping in his mother Lysa's bed, Robert looks for other beds after his mother's death and likes Sansa's best. Sansa wouldn't have minded if he only slept, but since he tried to nuzzle at her breasts and wet the bed during his seizures - she asked Lothor Brune to lock his door.
Sansa keeps her true identity hidden whilst in the Vale. She shivers in fear when Nestor Royce inquires about Lysa, barely managing to lie that Marillion was the one who pushed Lysa to her death; she fears that Yohn Royce will recognize her (it is unclear if he does). During her time in the Vale Sansa becomes more astute in political affairs as the protégé of Littlefinger, recognizing that Littlefinger's awarding of the Gates of the Moon to Nestor Royce was utilized by Littlefinger as a means of gaining Royce's political allegiance, who would have to rely on Littlefinger's continued dominance in the Vale of Arryn to retain rule in the Gates of the Moon. She also deduces that during a parlay between Littlefinger and the most powerful Lords of the Vale, namely the Lord Declarants, Lyn Corbray is secretly under the hire of Littlefinger: declaring his hatred for Littlefinger publicly to encourage any plotters against Littlefinger to approach him whilst covertly reporting back to Littlefinger as his spy.
Unlike in the show, Littlefinger arranges a secret betrothal between Sansa and Harrold Hardyng, the heir to the Vale of Arryn, promising Sansa that on her wedding day they will reveal her true identity.
In the sample chapter "Alayne", Robert tells her she should marry him. Sansa, who does not have the heart to tell Robert her negative opinion of him, gently but firmly tells Robert it is out of the question: as the Lord of the Eyrie and Defender of the Vale, he must wed a highborn lady and father a son - not a bastard, otherwise his bannermen will claim that Littlefinger made him do that, and put her and "her father" to death. In the chapter, preparations are being made for a tourney, as suggested by Sansa to Littlefinger as a means of orchestrating a meeting between Sansa and Harrold Hardyng. Sansa recognizes during the chapter that Harrold is unpleasant character despite being outwardly attractive - appreciating the fact that although Tyrion Lannister was unattractive, he was kind to her. By the end of the chapter, she seduces Harrold during a dance.
Although Littlefinger does not intend to keep Sansa to himself, there are hints he lusts after her, perhaps because she resembles her mother: he occasionally gives her not-so-fatherly kisses, and once touched her left breast, while telling her "You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time. Even here. In your heart".
Sansa's season five story arc diverged significantly from that in the books. Littlefinger does not arrange for her to marry Ramsay Bolton, whom she never meets, and indeed she does not even leave the Vale. Instead, she is betrothed to Harrold Hardyng, Lord Robert (Robin) Arryn's unlikely heir, should the weak and sickly Lord Robert die prematurely, as Littlefinger expects (perhaps he intends to "help" Robert die). His plan is to wed Sansa to Harold, and for Sansa to reveal her identity to everyone present during the wedding, in order to gain the support of the knights in the Vale for winning her birthright back. Littlefinger says nothing about the Boltons or any military campaigns, since his plans will take several years to come to fruition - the marriage cannot take place before Robert dies, Sansa is widowed and Cersei is done, and there is no way to know in advance who will hold Winterfell and rule the North at that future point.
In The Winds of Winter, Sansa meets Harold. She finds him attractive but immediately reminds herself the bitter lesson she learned - not to judge people by their physical appearance. He initially speaks to her rudely, calling her "Littlefinger's bastard", nearly moving her to tears. Later he apologizes. Sansa treats him courteously but coldly, as Littlefinger instructed her - to charm Harrold but not to look too eager. To test his honesty, Sansa asks him about his bastard daughters, and he answers openly. Harrold asks to wear her favor in the tourney, but she refuses, claiming it is promised to another.
In the books, Sansa's storyline in season five is played out by her best friend Jeyne Poole, who is forced to masquerade as Arya Stark. Jeyne's story is almost identical to Sansa's season five storyline, although it is not Brienne who offers Jeyne her help if she needs it. Instead, it is Mance Rayder who infiltrates Winterfell as a bard to rescue her on the orders of Jon Snow, Sansa's half-brother. Also, Jeyne never tries to escape Winterfell on her own and does not attempt to force Theon into helping her as she is mentally in a much worse state than Sansa is in while Sansa is married to Ramsay in the show. In the books, while Jeyne is being tormented, Sansa is safe in the Vale, surrounded by friendly people like Myranda Royce and Mya Stone (the elder of Robert's bastards). Sansa has no idea what has become of Arya as of 'A Feast for Crows,' whereas in season six, Brienne reveals to Sansa that she saw Arya and Arya looked well.
Sansa does not make an appearance in the fifth novel A Dance with Dragons. She is mentioned several times by various characters: Theon remembers a time when he had thought that Eddard Stark might marry him to Sansa and claim him for a son, but realizes that had only been a child's fancy; Tyrion speaks about her with his dwarf companion; Cersei recalls that Petyr Baelish had offered to wed her, but was denied because he was much too lowborn; and Jon tells Stannis that Winterfell belongs to Sansa and thinks of Sansa alongside their other siblings while he decides what to do after receiving Ramsay Bolton's letter.
There is a fan theory that the book scene, in which Sansa builds a snow model of Winterfell (its analogous show scene in "Mockingbird") is a foreshadowing that she and Jon will restore both their home and House Stark. In view of the finale of season 6, it may actually happen in the books too.
According to the TV series official pronunciation guide developed for the cast and crew, "Sansa" is pronounced "SAHN-suh" (i.e. between "San-suh" and "Sohn-suh").
Sansa Stark not "Sansa Lannister"
Among the powerful noble families of the Seven Kingdoms, women will retain the use of their maiden name if their family is more powerful or ancient than their husband's family.
In Westeros, only members of noble Houses typically have surnames (i.e. "Eddard Stark" is actually "Eddard of House Stark" in full). The nobility of the Seven Kingdoms is formed of roughly five tiers, which in descending order are: the royal family that controls the Iron Throne, the Great Houses who rule entire regions, the major noble Houses, the lesser noble Houses, and the knightly Houses. The Targaryens were the royal family though they were recently supplanted by the Baratheons. Great Houses rule each of the formerly independent "Seven Kingdoms" - such as the Starks who rule the North, the Lannisters who rule the Westerlands, and the Tyrells who rule the Reach. Major Houses are those under the Great Houses, such as House Umber which serves the Starks, or House Redwyne which serves the Tyrells. Underneath them are the lesser noble Houses (i.e. House Poole), and below them are knightly Houses (i.e. House Clegane): the difference between the two is that lesser Lords still have the right to dispense justice on their lands while knights do not.
Typically, if a noblewoman marries above her station into a more powerful family, she will switch to publicly using that family name. For example, "Olenna Tyrell" was born Olenna Redwyne, but the Tyrells are the Redwyne's overlords so she switched to use of that name. A noblewoman who married below her station would defiantly continue to use the name of the more prestigious family she was born into.
Given that the Starks and Lannisters were both Great Houses of equal social rank and both former royal houses, it isn't automatically assumed that Sansa would switch to being known as "Sansa Lannister". The major factor is that Sansa was forced into a marriage to a similarly unwilling husband by her captors. Theirs also remains an unconsummated marriage. Such unconsummated marriages can be annulled (not automatically as Littlefinger says in the show, though), but since both Sansa and Tyrion are wanted for regicide and far away from each other - it will be very difficult, though not impossible, to annul their marriage. Moreover, the books do not specify the requirements for an annulment (whether both husband and wife must attend, who is authorized to perform the annulment, etc.), thus it is unknown how difficult it will be to annul the marriage.
Sansa believes that her marriage to Tyrion is valid, as she reminds Littlefinger on the fourth novel when he reveals his plans to marry her to Harrold Hardyng. It is unclear whether Sansa knows her marriage can be annulled; Littlefinger never brings up this option. He assures her it is not a problem, her intended marriage must wait until "Cersei is done and Sansa's safely widowed". In addition, she could get married as her diguise, Alayne Stone.
Sansa Stark on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
Jeyne Poole on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
Sansa Stark on Wikipedia
↑ In "Two Swords" Jaime replies "Sansa Stark is Sansa Lannister now" to Brienne's claim that she serves only Sansa Stark.
↑ Sansa directly stated that she was 13 in the Season 1 premiere (aged up from 11 in the first novel).
↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Stark - Sansa Stark entry
↑ "Lord Snow"
↑ 9.0 9.1 "A Golden Crown"
↑ "You Win or You Die"
↑ 11.0 11.1 "The Pointy End"
↑ "Baelor"
↑ "Fire and Blood"
↑ "What Is Dead May Never Die"
↑ "Garden of Bones"
↑ "A Man Without Honor"
↑ "Blackwater"
↑ "Valar Morghulis"
↑ "Valar Dohaeris"
↑ "Dark Wings, Dark Words"
↑ "And Now His Watch Is Ended"
↑ "Kissed by Fire"
↑ "The Climb"
↑ "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"
↑ 27.0 27.1 "Second Sons"
↑ "Mhysa"
↑ "Breaker of Chains"
↑ "Oathkeeper"
↑ "First of His Name"
↑ "The Mountain and the Viper"
↑ "High Sparrow"
↑ "Hardhome"
↑ "The Door"
↑ "The Broken Man"
↑ "Dragonstone"
↑ "The Spoils of War"
↑ "Eastwatch"
↑ "Beyond the Wall"
↑ 58.0 58.1 "The Dragon and the Wolf"
↑ http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season-7/episode-7/people/100/petyr-littlefinger-baelish
↑ "Winterfell"
↑ "The Long Night"
↑ "The Last of the Starks"
↑ "The Iron Throne"
↑ http://www.newsherald.com/zz/entertainment/20160519/game-of-thrones-not-even-kit-harington-knew-about-that-stark-reunion-at-first
↑ https://youtu.be/cxSddcCh36I?t=341
Lord: Sansa Stark Heir: Arya Stark
Seat: Winterfell Lands: The North
Title(s): King in the North · Lord of Winterfell
Under the Iron Throne: Lord Paramount of the North · Warden of the North
Ancestors: Brandon the Builder · Brandon the Breaker · Dorren Stark · Jon Stark · Rickard Stark · Rodrik Stark · Karlon Stark · Theon Stark · Osric Stark · Torrhen Stark · Cregan Stark · Brandon Snow
Current members: Bran the Broken · Jon Snow
Deceased members: Rickard Stark · Brandon Stark · Lyanna Stark · Eddard Stark · Robb Stark · Talisa Stark · Catelyn Stark · Rickon Stark · Benjen Stark
Household: {Maester Luwin} · {Ser Rodrik Cassel} · {Jory Cassel} · {Vayon Poole} · Jeyne Poole · {Septa Mordane} · {Old Nan} · {Hodor} · {Farlen} · {Mikken} · {Osha} · {Jojen Reed} · Maester Wolkan
Seat: Winterfell
The Dreadfort Lands: The North
Title(s): Red King (former) · Lord of the Dreadfort
Ancestors: Royce IV Bolton · Rogar Bolton
Current members: None, extinct
Deceased members: Domeric Bolton · Ramsay Bolton · Roose Bolton · Walda Bolton
Household: {Locke} · Steelshanks · {Myranda} · {Tansy} · {Violet} · {Master Torturer} · Maester Wolkan
Overlord: House Baratheon of King's Landing
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Was Made With A Staff of Only 40 Developers, Plus Outsourcers
And only three of those were programmers!
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One of the best games of last year, and one of the best games currently available on the Nintendo Switch – and owners of that platform know very well that there is no shortage of great games to play on that system – is Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the incredible follow up to the Wii exclusive JRPG that launched late last year.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a massive, full fledged, systems driven open world JRPG that came out just two years after Xenoblade Chronicles X came out on the Wii U- which is an incredibly impressive feat to begin with. But what makes it even more impressive is that apparently, the game was developed with a core staff of just forty developers- only three of them were programmers!
Speaking in an interview with Katsura Hashino:, the director of the Persona series, Monolith’s Tetsuya Takahashi said that between pre-production for Monolith’s upcoming new IP, and the development of Breath of the Wild, for which Monolith was heavily involved, the development studio was left with a shell staff to work on the game.
“Monolith Tokyo has a little less than 100 developers,” Takahashi-san said. “Of that group, between 50% to 60% was helping Nintendo with Zelda (Breath of the Wild). Of the remaining 40 to 50 people, several were part of R&D (Research & Development), and the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 staff was made of the remaining 40-plus members.”
It’s absolutely staggering that they managed this- Xenoblade 2 is a massive game, and it’s a really great game (in spite of some really obvious issues). The fact that it was developed with such minimal staffing demonstrates that Monolith is hugely talented- and that, once they are working on their own game with resources and budget, they could be a force to contend with. Meanwhile, I urge you to play Xenoblade 2– it’s an incredible game. It’s out now, only on Switch.
[Translation via Siliconera]
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HBCU Gameday Podcast: Three-On-Three with The RAC Boys
By HBCU Gameday
Three members of FAMU’s legendary RAC Boys give us the inside scoop on their 1998 season.
At HBCU Gameday we strive to do what others can’t, and on Monday night we pulled it off by going 3-on-3 with some of Florida A&M’s famed “RAC Boys.”
For those who don’t know the RAC (Run After Catch) Boys was the nick-name for FAMU’s receiving crew who went four-and-five deep and spanned several years and quarterbacks in head coach Billy Joe’s famed “Gulf Coast Offense. They play a prominent role in Wali Pitt’s upcoming film “The Mad Bomber and The RAC Boys.”
After months of watching them on film, the Gameday Crew got a chance to talk with three members of the crew: Jacquay Nunnally, Cainon Lamb and Demetrius Bendross. What followed was an hour-long conversation filled with memories, laughs and more.
Some of the highlights include:
6:33 Nunnally explaines how he almost ended up at Florida State
14:40 How the RAC Boys got their name
21:40 Breaking down the offense
25:30 How Bonner became The GUY
46:10 Favorite games of 1998
51:40 Rivalry vs. Southern and playing with the band
We hope you enjoy the podcast and be sure to check out the film “The Original Gulf Coast Offense: The Mad Bomber and The RAC Boys” on Roku and HBCUGameday.com.
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J. FACE
This is an outstanding movie on the GCO and the RAC boys. The I remember FAMU’S game against the Leathernecks, how the watered down the football field before the game. The head coach for Western Illinois admitted this was done to slow down the Rattlers. This was just the beginning of the “home cooking” for FAMU. This flavor of the GCO with Bonner at the helm was my favorite!
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Early detection of PML improves survival of multiple sclerosis patients
March 11, 2013 by Editor Health News
The drug natalizumab is effective for treating multiple sclerosis (MS), but it increases the risk of a rare but potentially fatal brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The study suggests that early detection of PML may help improve survival and disability levels.
The study examined 319 people with MS who were treated with natalizumab and diagnosed with PML. Because of the risk of PML, people taking natalizumab are monitored by their physicians for possible symptoms of the brain infection.
The study compared people who had symptoms of PML at the time of diagnosis to people who had no symptoms of the infection, but who were diagnosed with the disease by brain scans and tests in the spinal fluid for the virus that causes the infection. The level of disability for the people in the study was assessed before the PML diagnosis, at the time of diagnosis, and again six months and one year after the diagnosis.
A total of 21 people had no PML symptoms at the time of their diagnosis, while 298 people had symptoms. The preliminary data from the study suggest that people who have no symptoms at diagnosis may have improved survival and less disability than those who had developed symptoms prior to their diagnosis, according to study author Tuan Dong-Si, MD, a medical director with Biogen Idec in Weston, MA.
At the time of PML diagnosis, those people with no symptoms had an average score of 67 on the Karnofsky Performance Scale, which measures disability, while those people with symptoms had a score of 54. A Karnofsky score of 70 indicates that the individual may be able to care for him or herself, but may be unable to carry on normal activities or do active work. A Karnofsky score of 50 indicates that a person may require considerable assistance and frequent medical care. One year after PML diagnosis, the average Karnofsky score of those people with no symptoms at diagnosis was 70, compared to 47 for those with symptoms at diagnosis. Karnofsky scores of less than 50 indicate that the individual may be unable to care for him or herself and may require institutional care or the equivalent.
As of January 1, 2013, all of the 21 people (100 percent) with no symptoms at the time of PML diagnosis were living, compared to 77 percent of the people with symptoms at the time of diagnosis. “These results suggest that the consequences of PML infection can be mitigated by early detection of the disease,” said Dong-Si.
Natalizumab is generally prescribed for people who have not responded to or cannot tolerate other treatments for MS.
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Elaine Crombie: Janet’s Vagrant Love @ The Famous Spiegeltent, Adelaide 22/6/2019
by hifiway
on Jun 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019
During her Cabaret and Politics Talk Session in The Quartet Bar, Julia Zemiro posed these perennial chestnuts, “Do the Arts Matter?” and “Can the Arts Change Lives?” The resounding answer is yes, and Elaine Crombie’s cabaret performance of Janet’s Vagrant Love is the sort of show that does matter and can change lives.
Elaine Crombie is a Pitjantjatjar, Yunkunjtajarra, Warrimul and South Sea Islander woman with a stellar career in television, film and theatre. She also works for the Media and Entertainment Alliance (MEAA) as a First Nations organiser and has stories to tell that really matter.
The beauty of cabaret, though is that the message comes through songs, wisecracks as well as the stories. Elaine Crombie’s alter ego, the vagrant lover, Janet shares her bedroom with her silent masked side kick Ferg and regularly taunts the audience with ribald asides, “you’re all dressed, so I’ve got no idea why you have come to my bedroom.”
The truth is, the audience have come into her bedroom to listen to her bare her soul as she tells stories that are raw and real to the First Nations People of Australia. These are the stories of Indigenous lives taken too soon, of young indigenous girls being raped, of school teachers taunting indigenous kids with Captain Cook’s heroics and disdain for the First Nations people, of police violence towards young indigenous kids. But stories without passion don’t change lives, and this is where these unfortunately, now all too familiar Australian scenarios have a powerful transformative effect in the hands of a gifted performer like Crombie. First, she seduces you with sweet talk and wit and then explodes into a power of emotion channelled through her original songs.
Backed by Grayson (I think I got that right) on guitar and Michelle on the percussion sound box, her songs are haunting, soulful and evocative. Elaine Crombie has got one of those incredibly powerful yet clear voices where you get swept up in the emotion yet manage to hold onto every word she sings. And the lyrics matter. They are what this show is all about. Some of the most important things in life are said in bedrooms, and Janet, the Vagrant Lover’s bedroom is a place where lives get changed.
It is one thing knowing about police brutality, or rape, or aboriginal lives taken to soon, or insensitive teachers; its another thing when you are invited into the bedroom of someone who has lived all of that and in an unguarded moment makes you walk in those shoes with her.
Powerful stuff and so well done, because Crombie is as much a master of the quiet moment of introspection, reflection, the stillness and silence as she is of full throated emotion and rage.
Every now and then Crombie allows herself to drop her alter-ego, Janet, and be herself (this is done in a wickedly funny way). And when she switches from the fifteen year-old Janet recalling how she was raped by a respected family man to being herself, she tells the audience that she, Elaine Crombie, is the mother of two boys. As she says, “I never take lightly the fact that I am raising men”, and that point about raising good men hits home so hard because she uses juxtaposition so well.
“I look at my two black sons”, she says, “and I am scared. I am scared because “they” have set up a system where violence wins.” And this is the flip side. We have to change the system as well as be agents of change from within.
This is a show that needs to be seen. It sounds heavy and of course it is, but you don’t leave with a heavy heart, because Elaine Crombie is such a good entertainer.
Just before her beautiful, soulful finale she leaves us with this thought, “I believe in my culture. I believe in my ancestors.” The challenge is to connect with ancient truths while forging change for the better.
Julia Zemiro, the arts do matter and in the hands of special people like Elaine Crombie, they can change lives. Thank you for some really clever programming and a wonderful Cabaret Festival.
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Our one year-old great-niece is visiting.
Her delight in new discoveries like bumping down the stairs on her bottom, climbing up a pipeworks slide her father made for her and throwing a ball for the dog is contagious and for that I”m grateful.
Ambilaevous – clumsy; butter-fingered; having equally bad ability in both hands.
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Saturday’s smiles
Even more if they sing! 🎶 🙌 🎤 #fridayfunny #farmjokefriday #farmingkaraoke pic.twitter.com/4B9BTAwVqC
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. – William Gladstone who was born on this day in 1809.
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Saturday’s soapbox
Saturday’s soapbox is yours to use as you will – within the bounds of decency and absence of defamation. You’re welcome to look back or forward, discuss issues of the moment, to pontificate, ponder or point us to something of interest, to educate, elucidate or entertain, amuse, bemuse or simply muse, but not abuse.
My New Year’s resolutions are: 1. Stop making lists. B. Be more consistent. 7. Learn to count.
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December 29 in history
1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
1427 – Army of Ming Dynasty started withdrawing from Hanoi, put an end to the domination of Đại Việt.
1508 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attacked Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
1721 Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France, was born (d. 1764).
1800 Charles Goodyear, American inventor, was born (d. 1860).
1809 William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was born (d. 1898).
1835 The Treaty of New Echota was signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1876 The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster left 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1880 Tuhiata, or Tuhi, was hanged in Wellington for the murder of the artist Mary Dobie at Te Namu Bay, Opunake. Tuhi wrote to the Governor days before his execution asking that ‘my bad companions, your children, beer, rum and other spirits die with me’.
1890 United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota men, women, and children with 4 Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic,Nobel Prize laureate was born (d. 2013).
1911 Sun Yat-sen became the provisional President of the Republic of China.
1911 Mongolia gained independence from the Qing dynasty.
1930 Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduced the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1931 – The floating dock broke its moorings in Wellington harbour.
1936 Mary Tyler Moore, American actress was born.
1937 The Irish Free State was replaced by a new state called Irelandwith the adoption of a new constitution.
1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
1940 In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe firebombed the city, killing almost 200 civilians.
1941 – Birth of Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues).
1949 KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1953 Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, was born.
1972 An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashed on approach to Miami International Airport killing 101.
1975 A bomb exploded at La Guardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
1989 Václav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia – the first non-Communist to attain the post in more than four decades.
1996 Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
1997 – Hong Kong began to kill all the nation’s 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologised for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million.
2003 The last known speaker of Akkala Sami – died, rendering the language that was spoken in the Sami villages of A´kkel and Ču´kksuâl, in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia extinct.
2006 – UK settled its Anglo-American loan – post WWII loan debt.
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashed in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd killed at least 18 people and wounded 40 others.
2017 – 2017 Bronx apartment fire 12 people were killed when an apartment building in the Bronx, New York was accidentally set alight.
Sourced from NZ HIstory Online & Wikipedia.
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Not Good News: Giancarlo Stanton Traded To Yankees
Giancarlo Stanton - the 2017 National League MVP - is now* a member of the Yankees.
(*: Assuming he approves this deal and then passes a physical.)
New York has agreed to send Starlin Castro and two minor-league prospects (Jorge Guzman (rated as the MFY's #7 prospect by Baseball America) and Jose Devers) pretty much goddamn nothing to the Marlins.
The Yankees will pay $265 million of the $295 million owed to Stanton over the next ten seasons. Stanton signed a 13/325 mega-deal in November 2014. ... So think of this as New York signing a free agent Stanton to a 10/265 contract.
Stanton, who turned 28 about a month ago, led the majors last season in home runs (59), RBIs (132), and extra-base hits (91). He led the NL in slugging percentage (.631). His 59 dongs were the most by a player since 2001, when Barry Bonds blasted 73 and Sammy Sosa cranked 64.
Here's a lovely tweet from Jared Diamond: "Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Didi Gregorius combined for 169 home runs in 2017. ... The Red Sox hit 168."
The Daily News' Mike Mazzeo writes: "[S]o much for the Bombers being considered 'likeable'."
Oh, please. Fuck that. Every person possessing an IQ larger than his shoe size knows that the Yankees have never been fucking likeable. And just because a bunch of idiots start chanting in unison that these entitled pinstriped dushbags are now likeable does not make the claim remotely accurate.
Jack Chip said...
MLB awards zero championship rings for likeability.
FenFan said...
Every person possessing an IQ larger than his shoe size knows that the Yankees have never been fucking likeable.
...and just wait until Stanton is struggling like Judge did this past season and the boo birds come home to roost. Think he's ever heard boos from the home crowd in Miami? Oh, right, they average as many fans per game as the Lowell Spinners, so probably not.
The Omnipotent Q said...
An interesting stat: Judge and Stanton are 17 of 93 (.183) against pitchers on the Red Sox roster with one home run and 37 strikeouts.
hrstrat57 said...
How does this differ from the Joe Rudi deal shut down by the commish in the 70's?
Wonder how much money #2 MFY pocketed in this deal?
Really, this slides with no complaints?
As if we didn't hate them enuff already.
Let's build a club to beat these pricks.
Elias: "The only other team to lead the majors in HR and then add the individual HR leader for the following season was the 1920 Yankees, who acquired Babe Ruth from the Red Sox on December 26, 1919."
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Julie Buckles
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Paddling to Winter
Julie Buckles writes about her 1,700-mile canoe journey from Lake Superior to northern
Saskatchewan, and the winter she spent chasing caribou, snowshoeing,
hanging with the locals, and watching the northern lights.
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“The book is action-packed and lively, and the journey is incredible.”
– Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune
“There are so few women’s voices in the field that don’t try to conform to the model of male braggadocio and self importance. Buckles tells her tale simply and well with well observed telling detail and a great sense of proportion and what to reveal.”
—Garrett Conover, author of Snowwalker’s Companion
“In Paddling to Winter, Julie Buckles has crafted a careful, expert story that is equal parts adventure yarn and marriage manual. In a story that takes the reader from the shores of Lake Superior to far northern Canada, Buckles manages to recreate a thousand vivid details without drawing attention to any of them. This is an amazing book, sure to appeal avid paddlers, of course, but just as sure to appeal to anyone who has ever had trouble understanding the vows of matrimony.”
—Peter Geye, author of Wintering
“A wonderful read for anyone who has ever dreamed of finally walking out the door to embark on an adventure of such magnitude that the idea of returning is a matter of faith. With vivid prose and a forthright voice that doesn’t shy from human fallibility, Buckles tells the story of a newly married couple who take on a journey as stunning as it is dangerous.”
—Danielle Sosin, author of The Long-Shining Waters
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SC 13 G
SCHEDULE 13G
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Allot Communications Ltd.
(Name of Issuer)
(Title of Class of Securities)
MO854Q 10 5
(CUSIP Number)
(Date of Event Which Required Filing of this Statement)
Check the appropriate box to designate the rule pursuant to which this Schedule is filed:
o Rule 13d-1(b)
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x Rule 13d-1(d)
CUSIP No. MO854Q 10 5 13G Page 2 of 9 Pages
1 NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY).
YIGAL JACOBY
2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP
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(b) o
3 SEC USE ONLY
4 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
EACH REPORTING
PERSON WITH 5 SOLE VOTING POWER
6 SHARED VOTING POWER
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9 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
10 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (9) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES
11 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (9)
12 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
ODEM ROTEM HOLDINGS LTD.
ANAT JACOBY
10 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (9) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES(1)
(1) Excludes 1,875,989 ordinary shares beneficially owned by Yigal Jacoby either directly or through Odem-Rotem Holdings Ltd. Anat Jacoby is Yigal Jacobys spouse and by virtue of that relationship may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the shares that he owns. Anat Jacoby disclaims such beneficial ownership except to the extent of her pecuniary interest therein.
Item1 (a). Name of Issuer:
Item1 (b). Address of Issuers Principal Executive Offices:
22 Hanagar Street
Neve Neeman Industrial Zone B
Hod-Hasharon 45240
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
The foregoing entities and individuals are collectively referred to as the Reporting Persons in this Statement.
This statement is filed jointly on behalf of the Reporting Persons. In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k)(1) under the Exchange Act, each person filing this statement acknowledges that it is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the information concerning that person but is not responsible for the completeness or accuracy of the information concerning the other persons making the filing, unless such person knows or has reason to believe that such information is inaccurate.
Item 2(b). Address of Principal Business Office or, if none, Residence:
Yigal Jacoby, Chairman of the Board
9 Nordau
Rannana
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Please refer to Item 4 on each cover sheet for each Reporting Person.
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(a) o Broker or dealer registered under section 15 of the Act;
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(d) o Investment company registered under section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940;
(e) o An investment adviser in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E);
(f) o An employee benefit plan or endowment fund in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(F);
(g) o A parent holding company or control person in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(G) (Note: See Item 7);
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If this statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(c), check this box. o
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(a) Amount beneficially owned:
Consists of 14,094 ordinary shares held personally by Mr. Jacoby, and 1,500 ordinary shares held jointly with his wife, Anat Jacoby. Also consists of options held directly by Mr. Jacoby to purchase 236,712 shares and a right held by Mr. Jacoby to purchase 246,479 shares currently held by a trustee. Also consists of 895,410 shares held by Odem Rotem Holdings Ltd., a company wholly-owned and controlled by Mr. Jacoby, and an option to purchase 481,794 shares held by Odem Rotem Holdings.
(b) Percent of class: See Item 11 on each cover page for each Reporting Person.
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(i) Sole power to vote or to direct the vote: See Item 5 of cover page for each Reporting Person.
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(iii) Sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: See Item 7 of cover page for each Reporting Person.
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If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the date hereof the reporting person has ceased to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of securities, check the following o.
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Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.
See Item 2(a) above.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Item 10. Certification.
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
/s/ Yigal Jacoby
By: /s/ Yigal Jacoby
Name: Yigal Jacoby
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JOINT FILING AGREEMENT
In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, each of the persons named below agrees to the joint filing of a Statement on Schedule 13G (including amendments thereto) with respect to the ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.01 per share, of Allot Communications Ltd., an Israeli company, and further agrees that this Joint Filing Agreement be included as an exhibit to such filings provided that, as contemplated by Section 13d-1(k)(1)(ii), no person shall be responsible for the completeness or accuracy of the information concerning the other persons making the filing, unless such person knows or has reason to believe that such information is inaccurate.
In evidence thereof, the undersigned, being duly authorized, hereby execute this Agreement this February 14, 2007.
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IFFHS congratulate FIFA for their new president H.E. Gianni Infantino
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CRISTIANO RONALDO, TONI KROOS AND THE REAL MADRID CLUB HONORED IN MADRID
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Incidence and risk factors of retinopathy of prematurity in Goa, India: a report from tertiary care centre
Sarvesh Kossambe, Shilpa Joglekar, Annely D'lima, M. P. Silveira
Background: To report the incidence and risk factors leading to the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) from a tertiary care center in the western Indian state of Goa, India.
Methods: This was a prospective observational study carried out in a level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for a period of 18 months. Babies born at < 34 weeks’ gestation and having a birth weight of <1500gm were screened for ROP and laser photocoagulation was done for those who developed threshold ROP. Group differences between any ROP and threshold ROP were analysed using the chi-square test.
Results: Out of the 244 preterm neonates screened, 37 developed ROP (15.16%), and 14 out of them (5.73%) developed threshold ROP requiring laser photocoagulation. Very low birth weight, prematurity, apnea, anemia, sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, blood transfusions, exchange transfusions and days taken to reach full enteral feeds and regain birth weight were significantly associated with the development of ROP.
Conclusions: This is the first report of ROP from Goa where less than 1 in 5 babies developed ROP. This is similar to that reported across the rest of the country. Judicious oxygen use, ventilation strategies, transfusions guidelines, control of sepsis, early enteral feeds and adequate nutrition may help prevent the development of ROP in the future.
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Legion M Investors Attend Red Carpet Premiere for Tolkien in Los Angeles!
On Wednesday, May 8th, the Los Angeles premiere for Tolkien took place at the historic Regency Westwood Village Theatre, and we were honored to invite an enthusiastic crew of Legion M members and investors to attend the star-studded event!
Some photos from our members at the red (okay, green) carpet!
With a beautiful twilight Southern California setting as its backdrop, the evening began with the Legion getting exclusive access to the red carpet’s Fan VIP area, giving members a chance to snap photos with the stars of Tolkien, including Nicholas Hoult (J.R.R. Tolkien) and Lily Collins (Edith Bratt) as they entered the screening.
After the screening, the Legion were treated to a live Q&A with Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins and the director of Tolkien Dome Karukoski. What made the Q&A incredibly special was its moderator, the one and only George R.R. Martin. (No, he didn’t tell us how Game of Thrones will end)! Couldn’t make it to the Tolkien premiere? No worries! We captured the entire Q&A here on Facebook!
But the fun didn’t stop there! After the Q&A, the festivities continued at the Legion M- hosted Tolkien after party at Westwood’s Seventy7West for the Legion M after party. It was a great celebration for Legion M members to mix and mingle well into the night. Helheimr!
Check out a few testimonials from Legion M members and investors
who attended LA premiere of Tolkien!
I don’t know if I can do justice, with my words, to how amazing the whole experience was! Being at a Hollywood movie premiere has always been one of my bucket list items, and I can’t thank Legion M enough for making it happen! The fan VIP section was definitely the place to be when Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins arrived! They took the time to take photos, sign autographs, and speak to as many people as they could, before making it into the theater. I must admit, one of my biggest “fangurl” moments though, was when I saw Eric [Lam of Legion M] pull up in Marilyn [the Cadillac]! I screamed “OMG! She made it!!” and ran across the street to see the Legion M icon in the ‘steel’!!! My brother must have thought I lost my mind going all “fangurl” over a car!
Several Legion M members and I got together at the Chinese Theater to take a photo with Stan Lee’s hand/shoe prints! Thank you Legion M for the opportunity, and for bringing me so many new and wonderful friends!! <3 to all the new friends I made this week, and I can’t wait to see you all again soon!
— Stephanie Brown, Legion M investor
I was lucky enough to win a chance for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and join other Legion M members and fans at the Tolkien Hollywood red carpet premiere. As soon as my friends and I reached the theater, we could feel the movie magic in the air. Even the will-call area was abuzz with excitement, and you couldn’t walk two steps without getting handed some cool swag or freebie, including getting our after party tickets simply by flashing our Legion M pins. Membership definitely has its rewards!
As we walked in, we were treated to free concessions before we found our seats, and instead of previews, the cast and crew came up to the stage before the movie to give the audience a few words. I had the best seat in the house, sitting next to my Legion M friends, and getting to listen to a live Q&A after a wonderful show. Being in the same room with and seeing so many stars made this a night I will never forget. Rounding off the evening at the after party with more of the Legion M family was a perfect way to cap off the night.
— Carolina Romero, Legion M investor
On a wondrous evening in May of 2019, a ragtag group found themselves looking up at the majesty of the Fox Theater (now known as the Regency Westwood Village Theater) to embark on a journey. It may be coincidence, or simply happenstance, that in 1931 (when the Fox Theater originally opened), Tolkien himself was at Oxford having written a talk for a literary society entitled, “A Secret Vice” wherein he discussed his interest for invented languages. Tolkien’s fantastic world of elves, dwarves, hobbits and men would not emerge until 1937, but anyone who has read the tale knows … “In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit…”
I was thrilled to be among the fans and friends of Legion M, united by a quest which revealed many delightful clues to the origin story of “The Lord Of Rings.” Gathered in a fellowship of sorts, we bumped elbows with notable celebs, paparazzi and plain folk, many of us travelers from near and far, to bear witness to the story of the man whose passion was creating myths and legends in a way very few of us could ever imagine, let alone put to paper.
Thank you Legion M for a memorable #TolkienMovie Fan Premiere experience!
— Teri "Boots" Miller, Legion M investor
I had an epic experience attending the Tolkien premiere with Legion M. When I was about 7 or 8, my dad would read “The Hobbit” to us before bedtime, maybe a chapter or two at a time, and it was magical. In Junior High, I read “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy at least three times. Just as the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth flooded my world in those precious moments long ago, that same childlike excitement came over me as I, along with a theater full of like-minded fans, got to witness this great film that so beautifully provides us an artistic glimpse into the life and experiences that inspired the man behind the legends and the world that we have come to know very well and love.
I knew very few details about Mr. Tolkien, and was grateful to everyone who took part in the creation of the movie for providing such an entertaining way to help one understand the brilliance of the man behind the tales and also about the ones he loved who inspired him. I especially loved the Q&A after the film with Director Dome Karukoski, actors Lily Collins and Nicholas Hoult, and moderated by none other than the King of Dragons George R.R. Martin. It’s always neat to hear the perspectives of those involved in the making of a film you have seen. They were all delightful, and George R. R. Martin was quite impressive in my opinion as a moderator. He was funny and made sure to steer the conversations in a way that allowed all to participate, and he wanted it to go on longer than we had time for. It was great!
I am so grateful to my Legion M family for the invite and all that they have done to help us get involved in this film. Grateful to all involved and grateful to all the other members and fans that were there. Even Gandalf showed up ,and he explained to me that he arrived 3 hours early, precisely when he meant to. Onward and upward everyone!
— Tyson Blair, Legion M investor
Thank you Legion M! I had a blast at the Tolkien premiere and thought the movie as great! It was a lot of fun to hangout on the green (red) carpet and see the stars arrive. They all seemed to really enjoy interacting with the fans and taking photos. Being there and seeing how amazing all the Legion M staff were really made me proud to be an investor. I’m looking forward to many more events in the future and seeing Legion M become a huge success! Helheimr!
— Dieter Wagner, Legion M investor
It’s been exactly a week since attending the premier of Tolkien in Los Angeles, California as of this writing and I am still on cloud 9! From getting to see the celebrities up close to meeting the Legion M team in person at the invitation only after party; what surprises me most is how much I enjoyed the actual film being what stands out most when recalling the event. Well worth making the 6,000+ mile round trip journey from Alaska and getting back less than 24hrs until hosting the meetup in Anchorage!
I never thought I’d be attending an event in Hollywood, let alone have my name on an envelope from Fox Searchlight Pictures! That’s it, done. I can now die a happy fan... years from now. ;)
If ever there were money I had felt best spent, it’s surely become second to investing in Legion M.
— Erin Michael Wood, Legion M investor
What an excellent night for the premiere! Thank you Legion M... we had a great time!
— Henry Johnson, Legion M investor
Wish you were here... standing alongside as celebrities walk the ‘red’ carpet taking interviews amid the cheers of excited fans at this Hollywood Premiere for ‘Tolkien’. What a blast!
This film explores the early life of JRR Tolkien, author of the much-loved stories of Middle Earth. So, of course, there were also dwarves and elven folk; even Gandolf was in attendance!
I’ve loved Tolkien’s fantastic stories of Middle Earth but confess I hadn’t given much thought about the man himself.
‘Tolkien’ escorts you through a journey of JRR’s earlier life and sources of influence for the enduring stories he would craft. It’s compelling and moving; a visual feast. Artfully crafted; infused with surprisingly powerful imagery, which allows you to experience how Tolkien must have been influenced to write stories of Middle Earth. Stories rich with adventures, some great, some horrifying; stories of deeply committed friendships…fellowship; of love; of magic. By the end of this film-journey you may understand why Tolkien wrote the way he did.
I now believe many aspects of life in Middle Earth are reflections of Tolkien’s own life. I can’t help but wonder what Tolkien may have considered to be his ‘ring.’
— Vivianne Israel, Legion M investor
I recently had a great opportunity to attend an event from Fox Searchlight for the Tolkien movie premiere. Getting to be part of such an experience and given the opportunity to these types of adventures are one of the main reasons I am part of Legion M. The movie is such an inspiration to all types of artists and authors. The way the characters were covered to the filming of the period in time are simply amazing!
— Shao Lopez, Legion M investor
Being a child of the 80s, movies have always been a part of my life. I love them, I look forward to them and I went to them! When we moved to California, my husband Shao decided we should be a part of Legion M, and he’s had the opportunity to attend many events. I hadn’t yet, but when the red carpet premiere in LA was announced, I jumped at the chance! It was everything I had hoped for. The true magic was the movie itself. It was way more than I had hoped for. It gives us a glimpse into his life, a glimpse into why he wrote the way he did, and it was an amazing movie about fellowship. Just like the fellowship we feel at Legion M.
— Cindy Lopez, Legion M investor
How do you describe a night so amazing it makes you shake with excitement? To be honest, this was not my first red carpet event but it is by far my favorite. It was a little hard to figure out where to get our tickets in the being, but a very helpful and nice (though a little scary) man helped us out. Getting a chance to be in the fan VIP section was so much fun. We were surrounded by our fellow Legion, and the energy was electric. The wait for everyone to get down the carpet was so hard, but we had a comedian Gandalf right across the way as entertainment.
Many of the celebrities kind of rushed by but Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins made sure to greet as many fans as they could. What can I say about those two...? They are two of the sweetest, kindest people I could ask for. Lily personalized my unfiltered book, and Nicholas took a selfie with us and also signed some pics. Then we got to see an amazing movie!
I don’t know how the night could have been better except maybe if Jeff and the rest of the Legion M crew could have joined us at the carpet. I love the Legion. I am Legion M!
— Wendy Elliott, Legion M investor
We had a great time attending the Tolkien premiere at the Fox theater in Westwood! It is such a beautiful theater. We were so excited to be there and see the movie. To be honest, my husband and I don’t know too much about Tolkien, but the movie was so good that we want to learn more about him now! It was a very interesting and heartfelt story and kept us enthralled to the end.
Then we got to see the stars, director and George R.R. Martin talk after the movie and hear their experiences of the film and what Tolkien meant to them. It was a great night, and we are very happy and appreciative that we won tickets to the event thanks to Legion M! Legion M put on a great event for an awesome movie!
— Pam Elliott, Legion M investor
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Lorazepam is an orally available benzodiazepine used widely in the therapy of anxiety and insomnia. As with most benzodiazepines, lorazepam therapy has not been associated with serum aminotransferase or alkaline phosphatase elevations, and clinically apparent liver injury from lorazepam has not been reported and must be very rare, if it occurs at all.
Lorazepam (lor az' e pam) is a benzodiazepine that is widely used in the therapy of anxiety. Lorazepam is also used in parenteral form for therapy of status epilepticus and in preoperative sedation and management of nausea and vomiting. The antianxiety (anxiolytic) and soporific activity of the benzodiazepines is mediated by their ability to enhance gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) mediated inhibition of synaptic transmission through binding to the GABA A receptor. Lorazepam was approved in the United States in 1977, and currently more than 20 million prescriptions are filled yearly. Indications include management of anxiety disorders and short term relief of symptoms of anxiety. Lorazepam is available in tablets of 0.5, 1 and 2 mg in several generic forms and under the brand name Ativan. Parenteral formulations of lorazepam (2 and 4 mg per mL) are available for use in status epilepticus and for preoperative sedation and control of nausea and vomiting after cancer chemotherapy. The recommended oral dose for adults is 0.5 to 1 mg two to three times daily, increasing as needed to a maximum dose of 10 mg daily in divided doses. The most common side effects of lorazepam are dose related and include drowsiness, lethargy, ataxia, dysarthria and dizziness. Tolerance develops to these side effects, but tolerance may also develop to the effects on anxiety and insomnia.
Lorazepam, as with other benzodiazepines, is rarely associated with serum ALT elevations, and clinically apparent liver injury from lorazepam is extremely rare, if it occurs at all. There have been no case reports of symptomatic, acute liver injury from lorazepam. Cases of clinically apparent hepatitis have been reported with other benzodiazepines including alprazolam, chlordiazepoxide, clonazepam, diazepam, flurazepam and triazolam. The clinical pattern of acute liver injury from benzodiazepines is typically cholestatic and mild-to-moderate in severity with a latency of 1 to 6 months. Fever and rash are not common nor is autoantibody formation.
Lorazepam is metabolized by the liver to inactive metabolites and is considered the benzodiazepine best tolerated by patients with advanced liver disease. Liver injury from benzodiazepines is probably due to the toxic effects of a rarely produced intermediate metabolite.
The case reports of hepatic injury due to benzodiazepines were followed by prompt and complete recovery upon stopping the medication, without evidence of residual or chronic injury. No cases of acute liver failure or chronic liver injury due to lorazepam have been described. There is no information about cross reactivity with other benzodiazepines, but some degree of cross sensitivity may occur.
Drug Class: Sedatives and Hypnotics, Benzodiazepines
Lorazepam – Generic, Ativan®
Benzodiazepines, Antianxiety Agents
Lorazepam 846-49-1 C15-H10-Cl2-N2-O2
Zimmerman HJ. Benzodiazepines. Psychotropic and anticonvulsant agents. In, Zimmerman HJ. Hepatotoxicity: the adverse effects of drugs and other chemicals on the liver. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1999, pp. 491-3. (Expert review of benzodiazepines and liver injury published in 1999; mentions rare instances of cholestatic hepatitis have been reported due to alprazolam, chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, flurazepam, and triazolam, and hepatocellular injury with clorazepate and clotiazepam, but no reports of hepatic injury with lorazepam, oxazepam or temazepam).
Larrey D, Ripault MP. Benzodiazepines. Hepatotoxicity of psychotropic drugs and drugs of abuse. In, Kaplowitz N, DeLeve LD, eds. Drug-induced liver disease. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsever, 2013, pp. 455. (Review of liver injury due to psychotropic drugs; rare instances of acute liver injury [usually cholestatic] have been reported with alprazolam, clonazepam, chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, flurazepam, triazolam and bentaepam).
Mihic SJ, Mayfield J, Harris RA. Hypnotics and sedatives. In, Brunton LL, Hilal-Dandan R, Knollman BC, eds. Goodman & Gilman’s the pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2018, pp. 339-354. (Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics).
Davion T, Capron-Chivrac D, Andrejak M, Capron JP. [Hepatitis due to antiepileptic agents] Gastroenterol Clin Biol 1985; 9: 117-26. PubMed Citation (Review of hepatotoxicity of anticonvulsants; among benzodiazepines, cases of cholestatic hepatitis have been linked to chlordiazepoxide and diazepam, but liver injury from this class of drugs is exceptionally rare).
Lewis JH, Zimmerman HJ. Drug- and chemical-induced cholestasis. Clin Liver Dis 1999; 3: 433-64, vii. Erratum in: Clin Liver Dis 1999; 3: 917. PubMed Citation (Review of drug induced cholestatic syndromes, listing many causes including chlordiazepoxide and flurazepam; “Benzodiazepines may cause cholestatic injury, although this is rare”).
Sabaté M, Ibáñez L, Pérez E, Vidal X, Buti M, Xiol X, Mas A, et al. Risk of acute liver injury associated with the use of drugs: a multicentre population survey. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2007; 25: 1401-9. PubMed Citation (Among 126 cases of drug induced liver injury seen in Spain between 1993-2000, 20 were attributed to benzodiazepines including 5 for clorazepate, 5 alprazolam, 6 lorazepam and 4 diazepam, but compared to controls, the relative risk of injury was increased only for clorazepate [8.3 and frequency 3.4 per 100,000 person-year exposures]).
Chalasani N, Fontana RJ, Bonkovsky HL, Watkins PB, Davern T, Serrano J, Yang H, Rochon J; Drug Induced Liver Injury Network (DILIN). Causes, clinical features, and outcomes from a prospective study of drug-induced liver injury in the United States. Gastroenterology 2008; 135: 1924-34. PubMed Citation (Among 300 cases of drug induced liver disease in the US collected from 2004 to 2008, none were attributed to a benzodiazepine).
Björnsson E. Hepatotoxicity associated with antiepileptic drugs. Acta Neurol Scand 2008; 118: 281-90. PubMed Citation (Review of hepatotoxicity of all anticonvulsants focusing upon phenytoin, valproate, carbamazepine; “Furthermore, hepatoxicity has not been convincingly shown to be associated with the use of benzodiazepines”).
Reuben A, Koch DG, Lee WM; Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Drug-induced acute liver failure: results of a U.S. multicenter, prospective study. Hepatology 2010; 52: 2065-76. PubMed Citation (Among 1198 patients with acute liver failure enrolled in a US prospective study between 1998 and 2007, 133 were attributed to drug induced liver injury, but none were attributed to a benzodiazepine).
Björnsson ES, Bergmann OM, Björnsson HK, Kvaran RB, Olafsson S. Incidence, presentation and outcomes in patients with drug-induced liver injury in the general population of Iceland. Gastroenterology 2013; 144: 1419-25. PubMed Citation (In a population based study of drug induced liver injury from Iceland, 96 cases were identified over a 2 year period, but none were attributed to a benzodiazepine, despite the fact that millions of prescriptions are filled yearly).
Hernández N, Bessone F, Sánchez A, di Pace M, Brahm J, Zapata R, A Chirino R, et al. Profile of idiosyncratic drug induced liver injury in Latin America. An analysis of published reports. Ann Hepatol 2014; 13: 231-9. PubMed Citation (Systematic review of literature on drug induced liver injury in Latin American countries published from 1996 to 2012 identified 176 cases, none of which were attributed to a benzodiazepine).
Chalasani N, Bonkovsky HL, Fontana R, Lee W, Stolz A, Talwalkar J, Reddy KR, et al.; United States Drug Induced Liver Injury Network. Features and outcomes of 899 patients with drug-induced liver injury: The DILIN Prospective Study. Gastroenterology 2015; 148: 1340-1352.e7. PubMed Citation (Among 899 cases of drug induced liver injury enrolled in a US prospective study between 2004 and 2013, no cases were attributed to lorazepam or any other benzodiazepine).
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FC Barcelona Escola Celebrates New Leesburg Soccer Academy
2017-09-07 Kara Clark Rodriguez 0 Comments
It was with great fanfare Wednesday night that FCBescola opened its Northern Virginia soccer training academy at the Evergreen Sportsplex near Leesburg.
The grand opening celebration featured FC Barcelona club officials, the Sporting Global leadership team, and FC Barcelona legend Sergi Barjuan. The FC Barcelona soccer club partnered with Sporting Global to make the Northern Virginia-based training academy—its third in the United States—a reality.
Sporting Global CEO John Nash noted to the audience, which included many academy students and parents, that the academy has a top of the line facility, uniforms, and a training plan, but that’s far from the most important thing.
“Why we’re here is to help you raise great kids. Period. End of story,” he said in addressing the parents.
Nash noted that the goal of the academy is not so much to learn about how to be better at soccer, but “learning about life and positive values.”
Barjuan also encouraged the students to take advantage of their special opportunity.
“The academy has all the tools, but the most important is the desire to learn,” he said.
Also participating in the grand opening ceremony were Inaki Andreu, FCBescola’s coordinator of international projects; Georgia Pavlostathis, general manager of the Northern Virginia escola; and Juan Carlos Garcia Suarez, the technical director of the Northern Virginia escola.
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Ford Ka+ review
Although it may be called a Ka, the new Ford Ka+ is a very different proposition from the models that preceded it.
Instead of a funky-looking and diminutive three-door, you now get a larger, dumpy five-door that prioritises practicality and a cheap purchase price over fashionable looks.
Alan Taylor-Jones
If you’re after a new car for a budget price, the Ka+ is well worth a try
In other words, it is a rival for the likes of the Vauxhall Viva, Dacia Sandero and Skoda Citigo.
Underneath the skin is a version of the Fiesta platform that’s been massaged to prioritise passenger space to the detriment of boot space. Outwardly, it looks virtually identical to the Indian-market Ford Figo, but there are significant changes to make it more suitable for European markets, with the suspension, springs, dampers and tyres all being changed or tweaked.
It would seem Ford has learned from the criticism levelled at the initial run of Ecosport SUVs.
Under the bonnet is a 1.2-litre four-cylinder motor that puts out either 69 or 84bhp. To keep costs down and put some space between the Ka+ and Fiesta, there are no Ecoboost or diesel options. Even so, it showed plenty of promise when we drove it in Europe. Can it do the same on British roads?
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Jump inside the Ka+ and there’s no escaping the bargain basement feel. It doesn’t matter if you opt for entry-level Studio or plusher Zetec trim. The interior is a sea of hard, scratchy black plastic. While most of the controls are logically placed and feel solid enough, the heater dials are a little low and the electric mirror switch is a long stretch once you’re belted in.
There is no arguing with the space on offer, though. The Ka+ may be shorter than the Fiesta, but an increase in height and the reduction in boot space means that a six-footer can sit behind another six-footer without any issues. You wouldn’t want to spend hours back there, but generous head room and reasonable leg room for those in the back mean it shouldn't be too arduous in the rear.
Boot capacity may be down to 270 litres, but this should prove big enough for a weekly shop or a couple of small suitcases. The rear seatbacks fold down with a 60/40 split, revealing a decent load area that’s marred by a high step up from the boot floor. A variable boot floor would help, but it isn’t even an option.
On the equipment front, the entry-level Studio models get 15in steel wheels, electrically adjustable wing mirrors, front foglights, a smartphone dock, Bluetooth and USB connectivity as standard.
Opt for the range-topping Zetec model and you’ll find luxuries such as alloy wheels, day-running-lights, air conditioning, cruise control, a trip computer and Ford’s SYNC infotainment system complete with DAB radio and a 4.2in display.
Where the Ka+ really surprises is in the way it drives. Compared with the Indian-market Figo, the Ka+ gets shorter springs, beefier dampers, uprated bushes and stiffer crossmembers. While that would suggest it’s a stiff and uncomfortable thing, it proves anything but over a British B-road.
The first thing you notice is the ride. It’s no luxury saloon, but it smoothes over bumps better than many a more expensive car. The springs may be shorter, but they have a softness that’s lacking in many modern cars. This does allow significant amounts of body roll, but the dampers are well calibrated to prevent any float and wallow over large crests and compressions, even at speed.
The steering also pleases in the amount of weight it possesses. Unlike some rivals, there’s a meatiness to it that makes it far less prone to wandering at motorway speeds and even a bit of feel filtering up from the front tyres.
As good as the chassis is, it does highlight the shortcomings of the 1.2-litre engine. Even in top-spec guise, it’s a motor that needs thrashing mercilessly to make brisk progress - not an overly pleasant task due to the tortured screams it produces when you treat it that way.
To be fair, at more sedate speeds the engine is more than adequate. It’s smooth and quiet when pottering and has enough poke to make it feel sprightly away from the lights. We do wish there was a sixth gear, though; the engine is forced to spin surprisingly hard at motorway speeds.
While the Ka+ appeals to a very different portion of the market compared with the old car, it is, in many respects, far better. Equipment levels are reasonable, passenger space is very good considering the size of the car, and then there’s its sweet ride and handling - for this class at least.
Given that the Ka+ is one of the cheapest cars out there, the supple ride and entertaining handling proved to be a real surprise.
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Democracy is depressing
Interesting quote e-mailed to me by the Information Clearing House. It highlights the obvious pitfalls of living in a poll-driven society.
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.": -- Soren Kierkegaard - 1813-1855) Danish philosopher
Respect with reservations
These guys really do deserve respect and kudos for having the courage of their convictions. Good to see them getting some balanced coverage in the DomPost today. I don't have strong links with the various father's groups but Bruce, pictured here, and I have talked extensively over the years.
My problem with their politics (not Bruce's) is they're not extreme enough! They often don't see or understand the degree to which socialism has contributed to their position. The state displaced them. With no need of their wallet they became redundant to the mothers of their children.
So they often resort to saying, I want my rights in the system recognised. Men should have a Department of Men's Affairs, prostate screening should be free, we should be able to claim the DPB instead of the unemployment benefit so we aren't work-tested, we want paid parental leave too etc etc. Whereas I say, having rights in a system which provides all the wrong incentives isn't the answer.
This, published in The Press, explains why I don't entirely support their actions and ideas.
Worse hospital care for Maori
According to the NZ Herald,"Maori are more likely to suffer inadequate health care than Pakeha and other ethnic groups, a new study suggests......The study's authors say it suggests Maori were more likely to receive "sub-optimum care" in hospitals, but they were unable to explain the reasons."
So much for all the years of cultural safety and Treaty of Waitangi training. I am persuaded by observers who have put the discrepancy down to communication difficulties. Those dificulties are compounded by many medical staff not having english as their first language.
New blogger
It took me a weekend to get my blog up and running. My ? year-old boy often sits alongside me using our laptop. Asked what he was up to tonight he replied, "Making a blog."
Half an hour later, it was done - more questions than answers
Containing local government
One of our councillors is trying to persuade his colleagues the council housing should be sold. It is making a substantial loss. The Hutt News ran a piece about the issue. Interestingly mine was the only response. (Click on the image to enlarge.)
Road rage gets a handle
Road rage has been dignified with a scientific name; Intermittent Explosive Disorder or IED. According to the LA Daily News, The average IED sufferer will fly into a rage 43 times in their lifetime, racking up more than $1,300 in damage to others' personal property.
Notice the person who has IED is the sufferer, not the person who ends up the victim of it. I suppose it will hold up as a form of legal defence; The deceased D.I.E.D as the accidental result of I.E.D, M'lord. My client therefore pleads 'not guilty'. That's alright then. Mr IED, I sentence you to six months of taxpayer-funded anger management therapy.
Nice little earner for the shrinks. They get to invent the "condition" and then they get to treat it. The real victims look on in disbelief as the state once more turns the tables on them.
SUPERTREV!!!!
He must figure, "If Rodney Hide can reinvent himself, so can I".
Labour, but not as we know it
Here the World Socialist Website continues its assault on the PM;
The increasing social inequality illustrated by these processes has been developing since the market “reforms” instituted by the Labour government in the 1980s, which saw a sustained attack on jobs and wages and the privatisation of public assets. Throughout the 1980s, the real value of wages declined, while the share of national wealth accumulated by the propertied elite rapidly expanded.
This process was extended by the Nationals in the 1990s, and continues today under the Labour-led government of Helen Clark. Since Clark was elected in 1999, by falsely presenting Labour as a “centre-left” alternative to the right-wing monetarist economic agenda of the previous period, the wealthy have increased their net worth at a greater rate than at any time during the previous decade when the conservative National Party held office.
A man had three girlfriends, and didn't know which one to marry. But knowing the importance of choosing someone who would be good with money, he asked them all the same question: "If I gave you £5,000, how would you spend it?"
"I would spend it on furs and diamonds," said the first, "so I would always look glamorous for you."
"I would spend it on golf clubs and fine wine," said the second, "so you could always enjoy your favourite things."
"I would invest it in the stock market," said the third, "so we would never have to worry about money during our life together."
All the answers were so good that the man still couldn't decide, so he married the one with the big boobs.
Personal grievances up 28 percent
More from our friends at EPMU defending the rise in personal grievance claims from 340 in 2004 to 436 last year. What I want to know is how many of those cases were taken by people who had taken cases previously. I suspect some may make a habit of it.
EPMU says "Taxes a bargain"
New Zealanders might have to work an average 151 days to pay taxes, but they have the use of services like schools, hospitals, roads, parks and a police and justice system all year round, says the country’s largest union.
Let me run that through my reality checker. One massive state high school (roll 1800), a hospital that admits it cannot cope with the elective surgery demand, our local cop seconded to another community, a main highway into and out of Wellington that is to be avoided like the plague, the only access into our community constantly resealed as the contractors don't seem to know what they are doing, a local park which is increasingly littered with rubbish and bottles. A bargain?
Stop whingeing for heaven sakes
Here's another National MP in the wrong party (fast becoming the right party). Jackie Blue. Complaining about women having to wait for up to a year for a mammogram. Well no. They don't have to wait that long at all. They only have to wait for up to a year if they want someone else to pay for it. If they stuck their hand in their purse for the price of a new top or pair of shoes they could have one right away.
Not staying mum
Bring our boys home: Mothers say war was 'based on lies'
Tony Blair faces an unprecedented revolt from the wives and mothers of serving soldiers, who want British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
The organisers of Military Families Against the War, set up by the parents of dead armed forces personnel last year, say their movement is supported by hundreds of service families and that more than 100 families and veterans are actively involved.
But are they supported by their sons and daughters?
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" The sad decline of something so potentially powerful"
I like to plug some of our very good regional newspaper editors. The Taranaki Daily News is never afraid to call a spade a spade;
It is a pity Donna Awatere-Huata disappeared into the Dark Side, never likely to be rescued and rehabilitated, writes the Taranaki Daily News.
Go you good thing!
Oh the plebs are up in arms this morning! There is only one topic. That dratted, dreadful, Rodney Hide. Why isn't he doing what we pay him to do? Why is he wasting our taxpayer money?
Here is my response just relayed to the NewstalkZB audience.
Rodney Hide will be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars, possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars for the St John Ambulance service. Now, if he was in Parliament leading a campaign for increased taxpayer funding for St John's most people would be right behind him. Just as they want Marian Hobbs to spend her time campaigning for taxpayer funding for the Karori sanctuary.
Notice however, that Rodney is raising money given voluntarily whereas Marian wants to use money taken forcibly. Which is, for those listeners who cannot connect the dots, absolutely consistent with ACT's philosophy.
I have never enjoyed spending my money so much as I have keeping Rodney on that show. That's what I call entertainment!
Here comes the NDD
As of July 1, 2006, a National Dog Database will be established. ALL dog-owners will have their details and their dog's details recorded henceforth. The information about the dog will include its date of birth and its breed. The Dept of Internal Affairs have collaborated with the NZ kennel Asoociation to compile an approved list of dog breeds and colours that all registered dogs must comply with for NDD requirements. Mixed, mongrel or unknown breed types can no longer be accepted.
OK. I'll be fabricating a lot of details to satisfy these control freaks. Many dog-owners would have no idea when their dog was born or who or what its mummy and daddy were.
And colour? Here is a anticipated question and the appropriate answer;
"My dog has been registered as a 'Chocolate' coloured dog for the last few years, why can't you just leave my dog as this colour?"
To ensure all Councils around New Zealand have a consistent group of colours by which to register dogs, its important that all existing records are updated to reflect the legislative requirements as defined by the NZ Kennel Club and the Department of Internal Affairs.
If you would like your dog's colour considered for addition to the approved list, then you will need to sumit a request to the Department of Internal Affairs Governing group.
Information about how to do this will be available at registration time (around June 2006).
As for microchipping, This includes all dogs registered for the first time on or after 1 July 2006, all dogs classified as dangerous and menacing on or after 1 December 2003, and dogs that are impounded for a second time, prior to their release from the dog shelter.
The micro-chip number will be .... loaded onto the NDD with all the dog’s other details.
Is it beyond the realms of possibility that a microchipped dangerous dog could be mistakenly loaded against the wrong owner? What happens on the day that dog attacks somebody?
Well the chip didn't prevent the attack and now the wrong person is going to be held responsible. Of course, that person is going to deny the ownership. But will he be believed? You see bad dog owners are cunning types. For instance they turn up at the dogpound pretending to look for a dog to adopt when they are really only after their own mongrel. (This is why any genuine adopter now has to pay the release fee). We know how unreasonable and obstinate local govt bureacrats can be. It wouldn't surprise me to see a case dragged through the courts.
The chances of a gross injustice being perpetrated are not high but they are real. Which is why I am nervous about all forms of national database ID schemes.
No more Mum and Dad
This is ludicrous. Sure, a very small minority of children have same-sex parents. What they call them is up to their parents. The idea we should all henceforth be described as "parent" or "carer" for reasons of "sensitivity" is just stupid. In fact it is dishonest. The whole point of language, and the English language is particularly accommodating, is that words should convey as much accuracy, relevancy and information as possible. Having words available that are not to be used is quite a chilling thought.
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These ideas are contagious
If you've got a blood pressure problem don't read on.
Scottish Ministers have decided to make alcohol consumption the next big health issue for the Scots.
Sources have confirmed the plan will focus on reducing alcohol consumption among professionals who buy alcohol at supermarkets and drink at home without realising the harm they are doing to their health....Government advisers also want supermarkets to introduce separate alcohol-only aisles to make the purchase of wine, spirits and beer less easy.
Clash of cultures
A adolescent health expert says statements she made about Maori teen pregnancy and births have been cut from a TV3 programme.
"New Zealand has the third highest teenage pregnancy rate in the OECD, but Bagshaw said Pakeha rates were similar to those in Europe. The rate for Maori teenagers was much higher.
Young Maori women were also less likely to have abortions and the Maori teen birth rate was nearly five times higher than Europeans.
Bagshaw said Maori culture valued pregnancy and there was less stigma attached to young mothers."
With leaders like Tariana "I am intolerant of the excessive focus on controlling our fertility" Turia this isn't going to change.
The problem isn't Maori having babies young. Not so long ago most women had their babies younger than they do today.
The problem is having babies they cannot support. There is a simple matter of the order in which things are done. At a certain age an education or a job should be valued more highly. It used to be that finding a supportive life partner was a priority but that's long gone by the by.
If Maori want to value teen pregnancy and birth that is their prerogative but I am intolerant of the expectation that other cultures will fund that value.
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Hang your head in shame
I don't know why we Wellingtonians should be the sole sufferers of Chris Trotter's emissions. Anyone of you who ever let a logical thought override emotion, hang your head in shame. There is no place for both. Certainly not in the place Mr Trotter calls "The Left";
Ministry releases bad-news research
The Ministry of Social Development has just released research into youth justice - offending and custody trends. It says,
Good progress on Youth Justice following research
Ministry Deputy Chief Executive, Child Youth and Family Ray Smith said good progress has been achieved in the youth justice sector since the research was undertaken and since the establishment last year of the cross government Steering Group for Young People in Cells.
“We have already seen a reduction in the average length of remands in Police custody. For the month of September 2006 the average length of stay in police cells for a young person was 2.5 days. This compares with 4.4 days in 2005.
Now lets look at the report;
The trendline (the rather faint upward line) is what matters. The report says, If the current trends in offending and sentencing continue without the strengthening of community alternatives to custody and sentencing, as well as further development of CYF residential capacity, it is likely the length of remands and use of Police custody will only continue to increase.
Despite the Ministry's "good progress" spin (ambulance at the bottom of the cliff stuff) the report is actually full of bad news.
For instance;
While there was growth in the young person population, overall offending rates remained static over the same period. In fact, when considered on a per 10,000 of population basis, the ratio of apprehensions to population decreased by over 11%.
However, there were significant increases in violent offending. Apprehensions for violent offending rose by 36.4% over the previous 8 years and charges for violent offending increased by 57.6% between 2000 and 2005. This suggests it is the ferocity, not the frequency of offending which is changing. Therefore, it is predictable such increases in serious offending will amplify the number of custodial remands and sentences.
And the conclusion to this comprehensive 43 page report says;
This report establishes New Zealand has experienced a swell in the youth population and a disproportionate increase in violent offending among young people. Parallel to this, there have been significant changes in the sentencing patterns for young offenders with, a decrease in the use of Supervision with Activity and an increase in the use of Supervision with Residence. Combined, these factors have placed considerable strain on the limited custodial placements provided by CYF.
Although the increase in the youth population is at its peak in 2006, its effects will be palpable until around the year 2030.
There is no indication the increases in serious and violent youth crime will slow, anecdotal evidence suggests the 2006 statistics also show the same trend.
Unless a number of measures are developed it appears the pressure on CYF Residences will continue to increase which will result in ongoing and increasing use of Police cells for young offenders who need to be kept in custody.
Families Commission whoopsie 2
Here is what David Benson-Pope had to say about 'research' which the Families Commission has, according to Sue Bradford, "signed off" and "paid for".
The second issue I want to raise is in relation to the comments of Ms Collins about so-called research that, as such, was presented to the Social Services Committee by Mr Paul Blair from Rotorua. It is true that Mr Blair’s research—oh, sorry, Mr Blair’s work is probably a better description—was commissioned by the Families Commission. It is not true to suggest that the Families Commission had completed a full peer review of the work, or indeed had authorised its release. In fact, that work has not subsequently been released because the Families Commission found it—shall I say, charitably—“seriously wanting”. The fact of the matter is that that work covered a sample of, we believe, fewer than 15 people. Given that the cohort we are talking about, sole parents receiving a benefit, is around 90,000—it has reduced, but it is still too many, I know, but these are people who need that support—then 15 out of 90,000 is not what one, even in National Party circles, would describe as a very robust or credible basis for any research. I guess I am therefore not surprised to hear Ms Collins basing her specious arguments on that matter.
Not telling the truth about the DPB
The DomPost is doing a series called New Zealand By The Numbers drawing on the Census 2006 information. Today they show how people earn money. Care in interpreting this is needed. The question asked people to identify the ways in which they had earned income during the past 12 months. It is not a snapshot in time.
So although 92,172 people said they received money from an unemployment benefit during the previous year, at March 2006 only 44,549 were actually on an unemployment benefit. Likewise 70,551 people received money from a sickness benefit but at March 2006 there were only 46,072 people on a sickness benefit.
But this anomaly I don't understand. 93,090 people said they received money from the domestic purposes benefit yet at March 2006 there were 103,362 on that benefit.
That's nearly 10,000 people who either haven't filled in a form or aren't telling the truth. In fact, it's much higher than 10,000. Every year between 35,000 and 40,000 people move on and off the DPB so we should have seen a churning effect as with the unemployment and sickness benefits. The number should have been somewhere between 130,000 and 140,000.
Now why wouldn't you tell the government you were on the DPB?
The official Census 2006 net undercount, by the way, was 2 percent.
Families Commission whoopsie
Oh, this is funny. In January 2005 Paul Blair, Rotorua sole parent and beneficiaries advocate, forced a law change through an out-of-court settlement with the Ministry of Social Development.
He forced WINZ to allow sole parents who split (as opposed to shared) custody of their children to both effectively claim the DPB, and avoid work-testing. A far cry from what the DPB was intended for.
In the interim he applied for Families Commission research funding. It was granted and he went on to produce a report, 'Improving Work Life Balance for Domestic Purposes Beneficiaries Sole Parent Families'. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Anyway the report was signed off, peer-reviewed, ready for publication and PAID FOR when Mr Blair used an excerpt in a submission (no doubt opposing) the government's social security amendment bill.
David Benson Pope is understandably most unhappy and suddenly the report has been returned to the author as a 'final draft' for 'editing'.
This is worse for Benson-Pope than if I had applied for the Families Commission Blue Skies funding and used it to turn out the criticism I currently provide free of charge.
Lucky for the Minister I do not have Mr Blair's 'parasitic' tendencies.
Am I supposed to feel sympathy?
Reading the front page of the DomPost today I wonder how I am supposed to react to the news that the mother of slain Wanganui toddler was already expecting another baby. She is apparently full of rage against the Mob, hates them. Hates gangs. Not enough to say no to the dead child's Dad - who is presumably the father of the expected child - and still a Black Power member currently on remand for firearms charges. And here she is, clinging to a picture of her dead daughter, as well as him. Am I supposed to feel sympathy?
There is every likelihood I paid tax to fuel their shoddy lifestyle and now I've paid for them to parade it to the media.
Most boring live band
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland has branded the band's second comeback performance a complete "disaster.....It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig. But we're The Police so we are a little ahead of schedule."
I saw The Police on their original Synchronicity tour and they were a wash-out then. Boring and lifeless in 1984, it's hardly a surprise they are a "disaster" now.
All was not lost though. Bryan Adams opened for them at Mt Smart and completely upstaged the supposed stars. And unlike The Police, he has only gotten better with age.
On the subject of subsidies.....
Now the Greens want subsidised power for "families on tight budgets".
Questions;
How will the "basic block of power units at low cost" going to each household be decided? On occupants, number of rooms or house size?
If the allocation is uniform across households, those who will be most advantaged are the elderly, who already have the highest living standards amongst low income people while the least advantaged will be large and young families with low incomes and high outgoings. Is this the aim of such a scheme?
Won't high users of power like hospitals, schools and supermarkets etc end up paying more to subsidise "families on tight budgets", thereby pushing up other costs to consumers, including "families on tight budgets"?
Is this just another way for the Greens to punish business owners, those loathsome capitalists?
And, not that I agree with the scheme, but wasn't Working for Families about extra help for "families on tight budgets"?
When will the Greens learn that subsidy schemes create incentives, distortions and abuse,are a nightmare to administer and police, are inherently unfair and serve no useful purpose?
Stop the subdsidy, stupid
Two headlines which seem at odds;
Fathers responsible for fat children: Australia study
Single, obese mums breed chubby children
The key is probably father absence.
My comment is simply that without government subsidy there wouldn't be a single parent industry. The same is true of Australia. But it is implicit in the second article that more should be done for "under-resourced" single parent families. More redistributory social policy doubtless. It's seems obvious that reversing the subsidy policy would be far more effective than increasing it. Yet, as ideas go, it never even rates a mention.
‘Callous Corporate Criminals’
This is a superb post from Stephen Franks. Right on the money. (My own recidivism calculations are here);
What breathtaking hypocrisy from the politicians frothing to condemn Mercury and propose new criminal liabilities.
They were never at my side when I called for accountability from the politicians and officials who design and run the parole system.
The Mercury policy had to have extraordinary bad luck to hurt someone, no individual involved thought they were calculatingly allowing an innocent death, and this is the first known case of its kind.
Those responsible for parole know with certainty that the evil men they release will hurt and kill. They deliberately do not keep count, but simple extrapolation from remimprisonment figures suggests that as many as 10,000 victims of avoidable violent crimes per year pay the price of the callous theory and carelessness of the parole mandarins.
I hope the “corporate” bashers go ahead with their lawmaking plans. Then we’ll turn it on the public sector pharisees who cause the far worse mayhem.
Kyoto for beginners
Regular readers will know I don't post on environmental issues. That is because I know sod all about them. But as the election draws closer I am grudgingly giving in to spending a little more time reading about such matters. There can be no doubt green policies will be right up there. Personally I am in the camp that says let's focus on the problems we can do something tangible and constructive about now, but I seem to be in a minority.
This piece describes Kyoto as a scam. It's (surprise, surprise) readable, interesting, and a good beginner's guide to how the carbon credit trading operates.
US violent crime up
It is disappointing and frustrating to read that the US violent crime rate is up again for the second year running, after constant and significant drops from 1993.
Criminologists and law enforcement officials offer varying theories for the upswing, including an increase in the juvenile population, growing numbers of released prison inmates and the rise of serious gang problems in smaller jurisdictions.
Violent crime (recorded) in New Zealand is also climbing.
From 2004 to 2005 by 6.9% and to 2006 by 5%. Much higher than the US rises of respectively 1.3 and 2.3 percent.
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Most Korean SMEs fear they won’t last more than 6 mos under Japan embargo
Six out of 10 Korean mid and small-sized manufacturers fear they won’t last six months if Japan widens restrictions to shipments to Korea.
According to a survey done by Korea Federation of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (KBIZ) on 269 firms expected to be affected by Tokyo’s trade embargo, 59 percent said their business won’t be able to last more than six months if supplies from Japan are cut off.
Although 59.9 percent said the trade row would have a negative impact on the industry, most of them of 46.8 percent said they don’t have any countermeasures to address the situation. About 21.6 percent of the respondents said they would develop substitute materials, 18.2 percent would change suppliers and 12.3 percent would strengthen inventory level. KBIZ said the SMEs have remained helpless against the unexpected hardship.
The small firms believed it will take a long time to cut reliance on Japan for chip and display materials as it would not be easy to procure the products from local producers or other countries, with 42 percent of the respondents saying it would take more than a year to change suppliers. About 35 percent said it would take six months to one year and only 23.1 percent said they could address the problem within six months.
As for a multiple-answer question about the government possible support measures, 63.9 percent said they needed financial support to localize production of the materials, followed by 45.4 percent who said the government should improve import procedures to diversify import countries and 20.1 percent said they needed emergency subsidy to stabilize their management.
About 54 percent of the respondents said the government should address the conflict through diplomatic negotiations, while only 34.6 percent wanted a tougher measure such as filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
KBIZ said a delegation of SMEs will visit Japan to discuss strategies against the setback because the export restrictions would deal a severe blow to not only large businesses but also small ones.
Last week, Tokyo announced that it will curb Korea-bound shipments of three materials used for chip and display production, in what is widely seen as retaliation for the recent Korean court decisions on wartime labor reparations. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, and LG Display, the largest display maker, entirely rely on Japanese supplies.
It also warned it could remove Korea entirely from the white country list subject to fast-track preferential treatment for shipment approval on over 1,000 items.
By Ahn Byung-joon and Choi Mira
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Activist says Apple, other big companies should disclose labor policies
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 3:30 pm Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8 Comments
“An activist firm is asking more than 30 big-name companies from Tesla Inc. to Apple Inc. to disclose more information on employment practices that it warns may be anti-competitive,” Leslie Patton reports for Bloomberg.
“CtW Investment Group, which works with a coalition of union pension funds with more than $250 billion in assets, is sending letters to more than 30 companies seeking disclosure on their policies that it says can set workers up for reduced mobility, lower pay or even the inability to escape workplace harassment,” Patton reports. “The letters target non-compete agreements, no-poaching rules, mandatory arbitration or non-disclosure agreements, and ask directors to ultimately provide reports to shareholders on the practices.”
“CtW argues that requiring workers to solve conflicts through arbitration, instead of in a judicial court, could mean practices such as wage theft and discrimination aren’t detected or stopped,” Patton reports. “Such agreements have all come under harsher scrutiny in recent years amid the rise of the #MeToo movement and the sluggishness of wage growth. Last week, the Economic Policy Institute, whose board is chaired by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, released a proposed workplace reform agenda for Congress that includes banning forced arbitration, as well as almost all non-competes.”
MacDailyNews Take: We’ll be interested to see how Apple responds to CtW’s inquiry.
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Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe settle antitrust hiring case for $324 million – April 24, 2014
Apple, Google, other firms could pay ‘blindingly high’ $9 billion in anti-poaching suit – April 8, 2014
A whiff of settlement in Silicon Valley anti-poaching case – March 28, 2014
Steve Jobs wasn’t okay with Google hiring even former Apple engineers – March 27, 2014
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Steve Jobs threatened patent suit to enforce no-hire policy, according to court filing – January 23, 2013
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RamiusEng
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 3:44 pm
I have a grass roots campaign going that has the following platform: “Activists must kiss my ass!”
If you vote Democrat you are for making the rest of the world the U.S.A.’s sweat shop. That was what the original NAFTA and GATT were about. Democrats don’t want the scenery of from their back porch ruined by a car factory or power plant.
The day they learn how to economically do intercontinental transport of electricity; Adios U.S. power plants.
There is a world
The rest of the world? As in the WHOLE world?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What world do you actually live in? Your President is cutting you off from the rest of the world at your gonads!
Fuck me mate. Read a fucking book.
Do not stoop to labeling
Ramius, if you think that voting straight party-line is smart, then you are sadly misguided. Even you must realize that all Republicans are not the same. McCain was vastly different from Devin Nunes, for instance. By the same token, not all Democrats are the same. Attaching a simple label and letting that drive your behavior is a very poor way to vote. It is a sign of a weak or ossified mind.
There is a wide spectrum of people in this country from the far right to the far left. Within each of those political segments, people vary in terms of their political, social, economic, and religious preferences. No single label is sufficient to define a person.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 11:21 pm
True, but you speak into a vacuum of comprehension. Tribal boundaries, with their belief systems and shared fidelities, are stronger than reason, and always have been down through history. They shine right through the facade of American tolerance and expose it for the myth it always has been, divinely inspired though it might have seemed 250 years ago. It just has never worked properly. America is a land of upstart, ill-behaved schoolboys just itching for a chance to push people’s faces into the mud for fun and profit.
Macinfo
If the AFL-CIO thinks its a good idea, its probably bad for everyone else..
silverwarloc
I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be biased especially when it’s written by the CEO of AFL-CIO. I mean, come on, man.
Note: Do I really need to put a /sarc on that?
KenC
Interesting, but how many union workers are at Apple? The Store workers? You want to poach them, fine.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 12:57 pm
Reading comprehension fail.
Tags: anti-poaching, Apple, arbitration, collusion, CtW Investment Group, Economic Policy Institute, employment practices, forced arbitration, legal, non-compete, poaching, Richard Trumka, Tim Cook, union pension funds, wage growth
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Concert Review: “Weird Al Yankovic’s “Return of Mandatory Fun Tour”
August 9, 2016 by Jeremy Werner Leave a Comment
Date: August 8th, 2016
Venue: Starlight Theater
If there was ever music icon that demanded your undivided attention at a concert, it is Weird Al Yankovic. His performance is a full-sensory experience. Obviously it’s a visual and audible treat for those who show up in tin foil hats, polka pants, Amish attire, or whatever reference they can make to the musician’s 40-year career. But Weird Al incorporates more theatrics into one show than most bands do throughout an entire tour.
The concert begins via jumbotron, displaying crusty black and white propaganda video repeating the phrase, “Mandatory Fun”, the title of Weird Al’s last album. We then cut to Weird Al’s his tour bus where he appears singing “Tacky”. Shoving show extras out of his way and teasing the audience with what’s to come as he enters the Starlight seating area, he comically drifts to the stage through elaborate cheesy dance moves. It doesn’t take the comedy king of polka to bust out the accordion or the new songs that helped him land at #1 on the Billboard Top 40 last year.
Because each song parodies a song or specific style of a band, this is a concert requiring a costume change in between nearly every song during the two-hour show. In between songs like “Fat”, “White and Nerdy” and “Foil” are pieced together video clips highlighting the pop-culture relevance of Weird Al. Everything from his appearance in the “Naked Gun” movies to his vocal talents being utilized on contemporary cartoon favorites like “My Little Pony”. For fans old and new, the clips are a relentless sampling of his lengthy relevance and influence in society.
The seemingly one man show is joined on stage by his bandmates, who match his intensity, comedic timing and quirks. The madcap nature of Weird Al is matched by everyone, even the stage hands who have to awkwardly stand and hold a harmonica during “Ode to a Superhero” or the intentionally unenthusiastic cheerleaders during “Smells Like Nirvana”. The dedication to the surreal nature of it all reaches its peak during the encore. During “Yoda” the band stops playing their instruments and becomes a choir of cartoon sound effects and madcap a capella.
Every song played that night was a unique and unforgettable memory for fans, even the moments of parody medley. Weird Al spends a solid 15 minutes cramming in 10 shorted songs to better cram in his lengthy catalogue of memorable parodies to please every concertgoer. There are even a handful of songs that can be viewed as interactive, on the audiences end and Weird Al’s end. My review could have easily been a recap of every wonderfully joyous moment experienced in each song.
Having seen him live 15 years ago, it’s impressive to see the same energy, if not more. There are signs of age in that jester smile and silly grimace that he flashes, possibly worrying fans that he may be nearing the end of his rich career. I highly doubt the man who truly loves entertaining the nerdy masses is going to retire anytime soon. But on the off-chance he’s getting closer to hanging up the accordion, do yourself a favor and see him now, and often.
2.) Lame Claim to Fame
3.) Now That’s What I Call Polka!
4.) Perform This Way
5.) Dare to Be Stupid
6.) Fat
7.) First World Problems
8.) Foil
9.) Smells Like Nirvana
10.) Party in the CIA/ It’s All About the Pentiums/ Handy/ Bedrock Anthem/ Another One Rides the Bus/ Ode to a Superhero/ Gump/ Inactive/ eBay
11.) Canadian Idiot
12.) Wanna B Ur Lovr
13.) Eat It/ I Lost on Jeopardy/ I Love Rocky Road/ Like a Surgeon (Acoustic)
14.) White and Nerdy
15.) Word Crimes
16.) Amish Paradise
17.) We All Have Cellphones
18.) The Saga Begins
19.) Yoda
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Bilingual benefits reach beyond communication
by Association for Psychological Science
Speaking two languages can be handy when traveling abroad, applying for jobs, and working with international colleagues, but how does bilingualism influence the way we think? In the current issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Ellen Bialystok (York University), Fergus I.M. Craik (Rotman Research Institute), David W. Green (University College London), and Tamar H. Gollan (University of California, San Diego) review the latest research on bilingualism and ways in which knowing two languages can change brain function, even affecting brain areas not directly involved in communication.
Children learning two languages from birth achieve the same basic milestones (e.g., their first word) as monolinguals do, but they may use different strategies for language acquisition. Although bilinguals tend to have smaller vocabularies in each language than do children who know one language, bilinguals may have an advantage when it comes to certain nonverbal cognitive tasks. Bilinguals tend to perform better than monolinguals on exercises that require blocking out distractions and switching between two or more different tasks. The authors note that "when a bilingual speaks two languages regularly, speaking in just one of these languages requires use of the control network to limit interference from the other language and to ensure the continued dominance of the intended language." The bilingual advantage in attention and cognitive control may have important, long-term benefits. Preliminary evidence even suggests that their increased use of these systems may protect bilinguals against Alzheimer's.
The differences between monolinguals and bilinguals have important clinical implications. For example, vocabulary tests are commonly used in psychologists' offices and bilinguals' scores may not accurately reflect their language ability. According to the authors, "Bilinguals who score below average may be inaccurately diagnosed with impairment when none is present, or could be diagnosed as 'normal for a bilingual' even though impairment is in fact present and treatment is needed." Clinicians need to be aware of the potential to misinterpret bilinguals' test scores. Developing tests that specifically target bilingual populations may result in better outcomes for these patients.
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Participatory & Co-Design Collaborations between Psychiatric Youth patients, Clinical Staff and Street Artists
By Nabeel Peterson, Mesh Editorial Team
Community and public engagement (CPE) should, by definition, seek to include as many groups with diverse experiences and realities as possible. However there is currently a lack of representation of certain groups in CPE communities and activities. Which groups are excluded will differ in certain contexts; in the UK, this includes people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people on low incomes or disabled people. A group session at the 2018 Wellcome International Engagement Workshop explored this issue; symbolically, many of these excluded groups were not represented at the workshop, exemplifying how they are often left out of conversations about their inclusion.
Nabeel Peterson, a Wellcome Engagement Fellow, was one of the speakers leading this session. After growing increasingly frustrated with the positionality of beneficiaries of public engagement and other programmes, Nabeel sought to explore alternative inclusive and participatory models. His unconventional methods seek to firstly establish a team and allow the team to co-design processes. This, by default, defies replicability and scaling. Nabeel relies on and strives to include community-relevant and sensitive approaches that are context specific.
Nabeel led the South African component of a Wellcome funded, multi-country, mental health public engagement initiative titled Arting Health for Impact. The Botswanan component was led by Abraham Mamela and the Indian component by Sarah Iqbal. Nabeel presented this project to those in the inclusivity group session.
Image: Nabeel at the International Engagement Workshop | Minh Tan
Nabeel is interested in alternative models of running public engagement activities to involve as diverse an audience as possible. As a means of exploring inclusive and participatory approaches to CPE, Nabeel initiated a relationship with the Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, South Africa, and its resident NGO the Spring Foundation. His intention was to design the project as a team, across the various organisations. The focus was to further explore the decision-making, outcomes and impact of co-designed events, activities and processes that hold all participants on an egalitarian platform.
The project began with meetings with a range of organisations and individuals working on Mental Health. After securing their interest and the participation of clinical psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical nurses, clinical occupational therapists and clinic security he sought a similar approach to securing interested youth patients for inclusion. This process was guided by the clinical staff, while in-patients, out-patients and youth with learning disabilities were consulted. A key challenge was attempting to disperse and reduce power imbalance within the team. Excursions were organised which allowed participants to be immersed in each other’s worlds and the team visited both local street art exhibitions to gain an understanding of its potential as an engagement medium a science museum to understand more conventional engagement. This was followed by storytelling workshops, ahead of a participatory co-design process to design a mural and a public engagement event on the hospital premises.
Video: Arting Health for Impact | Nabeel Peterson
The team, including youth, clinical staff and artists co-designed the mural and its messaging, as well as all logistics concerning the event. The participants collectively decided on décor, refreshments, activities, invitation structure and took on specific responsibilities on the day. The event focused on mental health and managing mental health. The youth decided that it was necessary to avoid standard pedagogy and focus on management methods or techniques including yoga; a science museum exhibition; music; spoken word; meditation; mindfulness; flow arts; self-coping mechanisms; gardening and greater opportunity to talk openly to scientists researching mental health.
By providing youth with the opportunity and confidence to guide and lead these processes, their voices were central, elevated and amplified; their needs and wants were centre stage. The greatest success of the project was visible when compared with the hospital’s previous attempts at engagement. In prior events focused on destigmatisation and rehabilitation, the hospital managed to secure a maximum of 15 people per event. By allowing youth to direct their own processes and co-design the event they secured the attendance of approximately 400.
Additional successes include: the continual interest by the hospital and clinical executive committee. The hospital now allows staff a finite number of days per month for engagement practice, which never existed before, and allows young people onto the government facility. Sharing between Nabeel’s team and Occupational Therapists on arts methods was also a positive outcome as were the development of soft skills by youth and clinical staff. The output of a large public mural co-design by youth, scientists and artists can be seen from the outside of the hospital and will remain there for the long-term.
Nabeel credits the success of the project to a model which is focused on co-design, participation, inclusion and transparency.
Find out more about Arting Health for Impact here.
Nabeel Peterson, Mesh Editorial Team
2018 Wellcome International Engagement Workshop inclusion (mesh)
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17 kiến nghị Giao diện di động và các ứng dụng
12 kiến nghị Nội dung đa phương tiện và Commons
20 kiến nghị Notifications
4 kiến nghị Chương trình và sự kiện
2 kiến nghị Việc đọc
7 kiến nghị Tìm kiếm
6 kiến nghị Danh sách theo dõi
12 kiến nghị Wikidata
19 kiến nghị Wikisource
11 kiến nghị Wiktionary
7 kiến nghị
All phases of the survey begin and end at 18:00 UTC.
Đệ trình, thảo luận và sửa đổi các đề xuất: October 29 to November 11, 2018
Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals: November 13 to November 15, 2018
Vote on proposals: November 16 to November 30, 2018
Kết quả sẽ được đăng tải vào ngày: December 3, 2018
Khảo sát Nguyện vọng Cộng đồng là gì?(Biên dịch)
The Community Tech team is a Wikimedia Foundation team focused on the needs of active Wikimedia contributors for improved curation and moderation tools. The projects that we primarily work on are decided by the Wikimedia community, through the annual Community Wishlist Survey.
Once a year active Wikimedia contributors can submit proposals for features and fixes that you'd like our team to work on. After two weeks, you can vote on the ideas that you're most interested in. The top 10 wishes will be investigated and addressed by the Community Tech team. Some of the other top wishes may be addressed by other development teams.
This survey process was developed by Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team, who run a wishlist survey on German Wikipedia. The international wishlist process is supported by the Community Relations team.
This is our fourth annual Community Wishlist Survey. See where we are with last year's wishes.
What happened to the 2018 wishlist survey?
Every year we hold the survey at the end of the year but we work on the wishes during the next year and sometimes these wishes may even trail into the year after. It can be a cause of confusion to people when they hear we are working on wishes from the 2016 or 2017 Wishlist Survey when we are well into 2018. To eliminate this confusion and to make ourselves feel better about doing work that was meant for the current year, we decided to rename the survey to state the year during which we intend to work on the wishes instead of the year in which the survey is held.
What happens during the proposal phase?(Biên dịch)
Linh vật của nhóm Kỹ thuật Cộng đồng: một chú chó đội chiếc mũ ông già Noel.
The proposal phase is the first two weeks of the survey.
In the proposal phase, contributors from every project and language can submit proposals for features and fixes that you'd like to see in 2019. Proposals may be submitted in any language. If you submit a proposal in a language other than English, we will attempt to get it translated so everyone can read and vote on it more easily.
Proposals should be discrete, well-defined tasks that will directly benefit active Wikimedia contributors. Proposals should answer the following questions:
What is the problem that you want to solve?
Which users are affected? (editors, admins, Commons users, Wikipedia users, etc.)
How is this problem being addressed now?
What are the proposed solutions? (if there are any ideas)
Your proposal should be as specific as possible, especially in the problem statement. Don't just say that "(x feature) is out of date", "needs to be improved" or "has a lot of bugs". That's not enough information to figure out what needs to be done. A good proposal explains exactly what the problem is, and who's affected by it. It's okay if you don't have a specific solution to propose, or if you have a few possible solutions and you don't know which is best.
Submitting a proposal is just the beginning of the process. The two-week proposal phase is a time that the community can collaboratively work on a proposal that presents the idea in a way that's most likely to succeed in the voting phase. When a proposal is submitted, everyone is invited to comment on that proposal, and help to make it better — asking questions, and suggesting changes. Similar proposals can be combined; very broad proposals should be split up into more specific ideas. The goal is to create the best possible proposal for the voting phase.
The person who submits a proposal should expect to be active in that discussion, and help to make changes along the way. Because of that, we're going to limit proposals to three per account. If you post more than three proposals, we'll ask you to narrow it down to three. Bring your best ideas!
Similarly, only registered users can make proposals to ensure they can watchlist the discussion and respond to questions. Just as with voting, you should be an active editor on at least one Wikimedia project. If you do not meet this criteria, or you have hit your proposal limit but have more ideas, you can seek other users to adopt your proposals.
One more note: Proposals that call for removing or disabling a feature that a WMF product team has worked on are outside of Community Tech's possible scope. They won't be in the voting phase.
Can I resubmit a proposal from previous surveys?(Biên dịch)
Yes, you may submit some proposals that didn't get enough support votes in past years, and deserve a second try.
If you decide to copy a proposal from the old survey into the new survey, we expect you to "adopt" that proposal — meaning that you'll be actively participating in the discussion about that idea, and willing to make changes to the proposal in order to make it a stronger idea when it moves to the voting phase. As we said above, there's a limit of three proposals per person, and posting a proposal from last year counts.
It's helpful if you want to post a link to the previous discussion, but please don't copy over the votes and discussion from last year. If there are good points that people made in last year's discussions, include the suggestions or caveats in the new proposal.
What happens during the voting phase?(Biên dịch)
After the proposal phase, we take a break to review the proposals before the voting phase begins.
All active contributors can review and vote for the proposals that they want to support. You can vote for as many different proposals as you want. To ensure fair voting, only registered users can vote, and votes by very new accounts may be removed.
The only votes that are counted are Support votes. The final list of wishes will be ranked in order of the most Support votes. If you are the proposer, a support vote is automatically counted for your proposal.
However, lively discussion is encouraged during the voting phase. If you want to post an Oppose or Neutral vote with a comment, then feel free to do so. These discussions can help people to make up their mind about whether they want to vote for the proposals. The discussions also provide useful input to guide the work that will happen through the year.
A reasonable amount of canvassing is acceptable. You've got an opportunity to sell your idea to as many people as you can reach. Feel free to reach out to other people in your project, WikiProject or user group. Obviously, this shouldn't involve sockpuppets, or badgering people to vote or to change their vote. But a good-faith "get out the vote" campaign is absolutely okay.
What about smaller projects and user groups?(Biên dịch)
It's common that most of the proposals that end up in the top 10 are for the biggest projects — the big Wikipedias, and Commons. There are many smaller groups and projects that don't have enough "voting power" to boost their proposal into the top 10, but are doing important work for our movement.
Our team has a commitment to work on projects that help out smaller groups, including campaign and program organizers, GLAM participants, smaller projects like Wikisource and Wiktionary, and stewards and CheckUsers.
Having smaller projects' proposals in the Wishlist Survey is important — it helps our team and the Wikimedia Foundation broadly know what people in smaller groups need. So yes, please come and post your proposals, even if you don't think you'll get into the top 10!
Why are some proposals declined?(Biên dịch)
The Community Tech team may decline proposals which do not meet the following criteria:
The proposal should be about a technical change and not for a policy or social change
The proposal should be about the problem and not necessarily ask for a specific solution
The proposal should be a well-defined problem and not a mix and match of different unrelated issues
The amount of work in the proposal is appropriate for the Community Tech team to work on along with the other wishes in the top 10
The proposal is not already in another team's roadmap or has not been declined by other teams in the past
The proposal has not been declined by Community Tech in the past
The proposal should be within the team's scope
What if a lot of people vote to support a bad idea?(Biên dịch)
The Support-vote rankings create a prioritized backlog of wishes, and the Community Tech team is responsible for evaluating and addressing the top 10 wishes. To do that, we investigate all of the top wishes, and look at both the technical and social/policy risk factors.
The Oppose and Neutral votes are very helpful in raising potential downsides. For controversial wishes, we balance the voting with a more consensus-based review. As an example, this worked in the 2015 survey: The wish to "add a user watchlist" received a lot of votes but also some heartfelt Oppose votes. We listened to all sides, and made a decision on whether to pursue the project or not.
Why are we doing a new survey this year…(Biên dịch)
Every dog that wears a Santa hat works for Community Tech.
…instead of addressing every item below the top 10 from last year's survey?
The main reason why we're making the survey an annual event is that we want to include more people! More people know about the team and the survey now, and after a year where many of the top wishes were completed, we're expecting that people will be even more interested and excited about participating. We want to give everyone a chance to bring new ideas.
If there are wishes from last year's survey that you think deserve another shot, see “[[#resubmit|Translations:Community Wishlist Survey/section-resubmit/56/vi]]” above.
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Music for a Brutal, Contemporary Planet: A Selective Alice Cooper Retrospective
It is difficult to pinpoint any individual album in Alice Cooper’s massive, eclectic discography as “summative” or “trademark.” Certainly, his original band enjoyed an inspired and singular run from 1971 (Love It to Death) to 1973 (Billion Dollar Babies), and his first official solo album Welcome to My Nightmare announced a fully realized vision of conceptual horror rock, complete with a guest appearance by Vincent Price and accompanied by a lavish, theatrical tour production. However, Cooper the solo artist is perhaps best characterized by his entire oeuvre in all its shifting, diverse and ambivalent forms — this singer-songwriter is the progenitor of shock rock as vaudevillian grand guignol; he is a meta-reflective and identity-shifting social satirist, and he is an artist of far-reaching, sophisticated conceptual range who proudly inhabits (and often embodies) that which some might call “low art.”
Read the full article in Vague Visages.
New Review of Darkest Hours on The Horror Bookshelf
Rebecca Gransden’s Rusticles is a Moody Collection of Anti-Narrative Stories
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Angélica Choc with photo of Adolfo Ich; Photo: mimundo.org
29 September 2016, 11.10am EDT
International Solidarity with Women in the Fight for Land and the Environment in Latin America
HudBay MineralsBrazilGuatemalaHondurasMexicoPeru
Jen Moore Jennifer Moore worked as MiningWatch's first full-time Latin America Program Coordinator from 2010 to 2018.
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Over eighty organizations from Canada, the US, Europe and Guatemala, and 650 individuals, have signed onto a statement to express international solidarity with women defenders throughout Latin America and with all people who are defending their water, land, life and territory. These individuals, solidarity groups, and social and environmental justice organizations are deeply concerned about the rising number of attacks against land and environment defenders throughout Latin America, particularly at the hands of multinational extractive companies and related actors, often taking place with impunity. This statement makes mention of recent attacks and murders against women land and environment defenders in Guatemala, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico and Peru.
With specific connection to a formerly Canadian-owned project, on the weekend of September 16th, an attack occurred on the home of Indigenous Angélica Choc. Anglélica Choc is fighting for justice in Guatemala and Canada for the murder of her husband Adolfo Ich on September 27, 2009 at the hands of company security guards.
In Canada, Angelica Choc is one of the plaintiffs in a series of suits brought against HudBay Minerals that are proceeding in Ontario courts for negligence in connection with violence at the Fénix nickel mine project in El Estor, Guatemala between January 2007 and September 2009.
In Guatemala, Angélica and her family are also dealing with a gruelling process related to the criminal trial against Mynor Padilla, former military colonel and head of security for HudBay Minerals/CGN at their Fenix nickel mine project at the time of Adolfo's murder, that is now nearing its end. Earlier this year, the judge – claiming that she felt threatened - ordered a closed-door trial, and since then, no press or international or national observers have been allowed to attend. The trial has been riddled with procedural and substantive irregularities, as well as allegations by the plaintiffs of racism by the judge. The long and arduous proceedings have caused serious personal and economic hardship to Angelica, her family, supporters, and lawyers. The attack on September 16 is not the first that Angelica has faced since the criminal trial opened in Guatemala in March 2015.
The same weekend that Angelica Choc’s home was attacked, Goldman Environmental Prize winner Máxima Acuña was beaten and left in serious condition after an armed attack at her home in Cajamarca, Perú. Máxima has been under constant threat for her resistance to the Conga mine project owned by US-based Newmont Mining.
The solidarity statement also expresses indignation and deep worry at the murder in July of another Indigenous Lenca woman, Lesbia Janeth Urquia, who was part of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the organization that Goldman Prize winner Berta Cáceres led before her high-profile murder in March 2016. The statement further raises concern for Esperanza Salazar, the coordinator of Bios Iguana A.C., and a member of the Mexican Network of Mining Affected Peoples, who was recently forced to abandon her home and work in the state of Colima because of constant threats and intimidation. Members of the Indigenous Council in Defense of Territory in Zacualpan, Colima continue to be in danger. In Brazil, Nilce de Souza Magalhães, known as Nicinha, was murdered in January 2016 after continually denouncing human rights violations committed by the consortium responsible for the Jirau hydro-electric project. And in Guatemala, Aura Lolita Chavez, from the K’iche’ Peoples Council in Defense of Life, Mother Nature, Land and Territory, has continued to receive death threats and attacks.
The solidarity statement, will be delivered to Angélica and published today. It will also be shared along with a letter to Canadian authorities calling for Canada to be Open for Justice and for respect for Indigenous self-determination and community consent prior to any mining, or other such megaproject, being undertaken, funded or promoted in any way.
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News MiningWatch Canada Launches Legal Action Against Arbitrary Detention in Connection with Hudbay Minerals’ Operations in Peru 17.05.2017
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Marxes in the Sky - Gummo, 23 October 1892
Gummo (Milton) Marx
October 23, 1892, New York City
This interpretation uses the birthdate and place given in the Marx Brothers Encyclopedia. The chart was run with the sun on the ascendant, to avoid the problem of not having an exact birth time, and as a result I'm not making any conclusions about the ascendant. The planets and signs are:
Sun conjunct south node conjunct Uranus conjunct Mercury in Scorpio
Moon in Sagittarius
Mars in Aquarius
Jupiter in Aries
North node in Taurus
This chart shows an intense, tenacious personality with a warm heart and broad sense of humor, a concern for justice and fairness and a humanitarian bent.
The striking aspect of Gummo's chart is the stellium in Scorpio, with the sun, south node, Uranus and Mercury falling between 0 and 10 degrees. Having just the sun in Scorpio lends intensity; this pile-up increases it exponentially. This is a case of still waters running very, very deep. No matter how jovial and friendly he may have appeared -- and with the moon in Sagittarius, he probably had a winning smile and a constant (if perhaps lowbrow) sense of humor - - he had an affinity for secrets, both in terms of being able to cloak his own true thoughts, reactions, emotions, etc. and of perceiving other people's. No doubt he could carry on a non- threatening, even joking conversation with someone and come away knowing exactly knowing what the other person's motives were, where their weak spots were, and how to get to them -- traits that would have been invaluable as a talent agent.
All that Scorpio, especially with the south node in the act, would have made him hang on tenaciously to whatever he considered his possessions, which very likely included people and relationships. (The south node represents instinctive, knee-jerk behavior, what a person resorts to under pressure.) Since Scorpio is obsessed with life and death situations, he could have had a very tenuous time with health himself, and in fact was dangerously sickly as a boy. His ego, will, sense of purpose (sun) were absolutely tied up with how he thought and communicated (Mercury; like Zeppo and Harpo, he would have known things just by being in a situation); the presence of Uranus added a touch of changeability, quirkiness maybe, and a predisposition to reinventing himself periodically, and probably out of the blue.
The presence of Uranus in this line-up sounds a theme that is repeated with moon in Sagittarius and Mars in Aquarius: he was both willing and compelled to break from the pack and chart his own course. (He did, in fact, leave the act very early on, and was long gone by the time the Brothers opened on Broadway.)
His emotional nature and needs, as shown by the moon, follow the freedom-and-distance- loving theme that appears in most of the Marx Brothers' charts. "Don't fence me in" would be a natural refrain for Moon in Sagittarius, while all the Scorpio would expect other people to stay put. Moon in Sagittarius likes to run off and have adventure, whether it's mental or actual, and is also prone to puns and silly humor. (This plus the scatological predisposition of Scorpio would create a connoisseur of bathroom humor — which he would have been loathe to exhibit in front of a woman, with his Venus in Virgo.)
Since the moon position shows a person's experience of their mother, he may have been more tuned into her warm and fun side than were his brothers. (For a comparison of their relationships with their mother, click here.) She would have seemed adventurous, risk-taking, exciting, playful — not someone to rely on, but definitely someone to fear. This comes from the complication of Gummo's moon placement, an opposition (stressful aspect) to the Neptune/Pluto conjunction in Gemini. He could well have seen her as having supernatural powers, and definitely as wielding absolute power over him. (A fascinating aspect of this is that the power planet that challenges his moon, Pluto, is the ruler of his sun sign — the symbolism being that he was ruled by a deep, potentially terrifying, unyielding feminine power.) He probably had some open power struggles with Minnie. The Scorpio intensity gave him an edge his brothers didn't have, and other planets -- the joviality of moon in Sagittarius and Jupiter in Aries, and the "do-it-for-the-better-good" of Mars in Aquarius -- aided him in getting Minnie to release him from her career clutches. Her hold on him in other ways would have remained strong, though.
Jupiter in Aries made him naturally lucky; if he did gamble or take a risk, it paid off more often than not. He would have been predisposed to share his good fortune; with Mars in Aquarius, he would have put energy into friendships, done things for other people to help or better them, and possibly been active in humanitarian concerns. (Saturn in Libra would have attuned him to issues of fairness and justice; Mars in Aquarius would have made him acts on his beliefs.) The Jupiter and Mars placements combined describe a man ready, willing and able to lend friends money or call in favors for their benefit. It's no surprise that he agreed to ego into the service during WWI, at his mother's insistence, so that none of his older brothers would be drafted and break up the act.
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Amazing X-men 2 (Age of Apocalypse part 12)
Amazing X-men 2
Lettering by Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Colors by Kevin Somers/Digital Chameleon
Continuing from Issue 1 we are introduced to a new mutant character called Abyss. An evil mutant composed of some black ribbony substance. He has found a lonely human child that was hiding and was part of the evacuation group heading to Eurasia. Abyss grabs the child and absorbs him into the center of his ribbons.
We then cut to the main group of the story where we find that the cloaked figures from the previous issue are in fact this world's Brotherhood of Mutants and are a religious group of mutants that see Apocalypse as a god.
They had managed to take over the sentinels and set them on our Heros. A short battle ensues until the weather goddess, Storm shows up and uses her lightning to short out the sentinels electronics. Of course his causes the Brotherhood to hightail it out of the battle zone. As the group recovers from the attack we see Banshee flying over the area looking for where the Brotherhood ran off to.
He spots the transport that the Brotherhood used to arrive at the scene and discovers their lead the Madri dead and hanging upside down in the doorway. Curious as to what happen Banshee discovers Abyss the newest Horseman of the Apocalypse. Instead of fighting Banshee, Abyss tells him; I want Quicksilver and I have a human child here and will kill him if he doesn’t show up. Of course Banshee takes off to relay the message.
Upon his return to the X-men, Banshee discovers that all the humans are suffering from a psionic attack from Abyss. He quickly tells Quiksilver about Abyss and his demand to face him. Of course Quicksilver and Storm take off to face the monster.
Once at the transport they see that it is a trap for them and they spring the trap and fight Abyss. Quicksilver manages to defeat the Horseman and send him to some dimensional void that was part of Abyss’ power set.
The two X-men get the human child back to his parents and we see that the other x-men have fixed the Sentinels and are starting to load up the transports to get the rest of the humans out of America. Yeah happy ending.
That is until we cut to Apocalypse in downtown Manhattan where we see Karma being interrogated by two of Apocalypses cronies to learn the exact location of Magneto and his X-men. Apocalypse then enters the scene.
He reveals that he knows where the X-men are hiding and plans to attack them at the former home of Charles Xavier. Next issue Magneto vs Apocalypse.
The art. What can I say about it. Andy Kubert is part of a dynasty of comic Artists and I really cannot nit pick his style as he is one of the top artist ‘s I think of when it comes to x-men artists. He pretty much picked up the pencil for the X-men from Jim (Slow mo) Lee left Marvel.
The story was a little lacking and felt rushed with a resolution with Quicksilver and Abyss. We didn’t get much in the way of backstory between these characters as it was hinted that Abyss knew Quicksilver. Plus Fabian tacked on hint at a possible romance with Storm, just seemed a little forced. I did like how the end of the story sets up the next chapter in this run of comics.
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Home / News / Music Video / Bayside Take Unsuspecting Fans For a Drive in “I’ve Been Dead All Day” Video
Bayside Take Unsuspecting Fans For a Drive in “I’ve Been Dead All Day” Video
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Bayside’s Anthony Raneri and Nick Ghanbarian recently surprised fans when the pair offered fans an early listen to music from the band’s seventh album, Vacancy (Aug. 19, Hopeless Records). It wasn’t just a sneak peak of the new songs, but a car ride that included coffee, shakes and apparently 15 minutes of air drumming as seen in the band’s video for “I’ve Been Dead All Day”.
The band has been consistently clever in their use of video and interaction with fans and other bands. In 2014, Raneri and drummer Chris Guglielmo produced “All Things Warped,” a video series hosted by Raneri as he spoke with fellow Warped Tour performers while Guglielmo served as on site barber. More recently, Raneri has surprised fans with impromptu Facebook Live Q&A’s as well (facebook.com/Bayside). Bayside continue to share insights and tips from their Vacancy recording sessions as well, sharing the second clip on the collection last week:
Pre-orders for Vacancy are available now, with digital pre-orders offering an instant download of “Enemy Lines,” “Pretty Vacant” and “I’ve Been Dead All Day.” Physical pre-orders, vinyl, cd as well as various merch bundles can be found here.
Bayside’s North American tour kicks off on Aug. 11 in Ft. Lauderdale, with The Menzingers and Sorority Noise along as support for the five-week outing. Tickets are available now.
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Home › Mainstream Movies › Arbitrage(2012)
Arbitrage(2012)
By mostlycinema on January 2, 2013 • ( 0 )
Dir: Nicholas Jarecki
Robert Millar has it all, or does he?
When I was 23-year-old, pursuing an MBA at IMT Ghaziabad, one of India’s top business schools, Rajat Gupta came to campus for the convocation of our senior batch.As he led the procession of graduates I looked at his face. He was unbelievably handsome and wildly successful.He was the head of McKinsey and Co., the elite business consulting firm which would not hire from our campus in favor of the Harvard’s and Stanford’s of the world.He was what each one of us aspired to be, at the top of the corporate ladder, the hands down winner of the rat race (we did not see it in those terms yet), the top dog.And that hero has fallen, convicted of insider trading, sentenced to rigorous imprisonment.He was the embodiment of the great American dream, a bright young boy who lost his father at a young age and worked hard to achieve dazzling success.Today he is a just pitiful symbol of greed and poor judgement.
This film too is a case study of a man called Robert Miller played by the still dashing Richard Gere. He is a big shot in the financial world, a self-made billionaire with a beautiful family. He has a mistress, an art dealer from Paris whom he invested in as a payment for sexual favors dressed up as a relationship.We see him at work, a consummate dealmakers with the devils own charm.But he is in deep trouble.He is trying to sell his company to plug a big hole in his finances, which has been created as a result of his excessive greed.He will do anything to make the deal happen including falsifying the accounts.The funny thing is he believes he is playing by the rules which are two:1.There are no rules for the super rich and famous like him and 2: Don’t get caught.
Millers breaks his daughter’s heart and doesn’t know he has.
He applies the same rules to his private life.In the middle of the mega merger negotiations he is in need of emotional succor which he does not find anymore from his wife played by the magnificent Susan Sarandon.He decides to take his mistress out for a late night drive, falls asleep at the wheels and she dies in the accident.What follows is a cat and mouse game between him a wily detective played by Tim Roth.Miller approaches this situation with the same smartness he displays at the negotiating table.He holds his cards close to his chest and refuses to blink first.Meanwhile the merger is being expertly stalled by the buyer.In the most entertaining scene in the film Miller closes the deal, smiling through his anxiety, playing poker with the buyer.This scene lies at the heart of the film in the sense that it equates negotiation skills with gambling skills.The picture of Dick Fuld comes to mind who refused very good offers to buy Lehman Brothers only to run it into the ground and trigger the global financial crisis.His arrogance and refusal to play ball caused his downfall and ruined the life of millions.
The debutant director Nicholas Jarecki keeps us engaged in Millers fight to trump the odds and his ability to think smartly under duress and keep up the appearances of a man in control. But in a beautiful ending we find him standing alone, all dressed up but naked in his own eyes.This film is a skillfully constructed case study.The thing about case studies is that they are open to interpretation.They supply the facts constructed as a story and students must bring their own analysis and interpretation to the case.There is no right or wrong solution just good or poor judgement, as in life.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 a number of good films have been made including the second edition of Wall Street by Oliver Stone which adopted a more cautious tone rather the “Greed is good” line mouthed by Gordon Gekko,and documentaries like Insider Job.They all point to a seemingly irreversible culture of unlimited greed which gets rewarded with unlimited wealth and fame.The Occupy Wall Street movement which has been a global rallying cry to reform Wall Street and punish those responsible for acts of financial terrorism could not have asked for a film with a more subtle message.
So whats the price of the good life?
The film is constructed like a taut thriller where we cheer on the hero and become a part of his immoral mission but here the ending blindsides us.How you see the film will depend a lot on your unique circumstances but the director wants us to understand the value of family and love as the things we need to value the most in our journey through life.At one point Miller justifies his actions to his wife,”Everything I do is for us, for this family”.Derivatives becomes toxic junk when the underlying asset becomes valueless and in this case if family values are the underlying asset of life then a breakdown in the same family values can trigger a very profound crisis.
In one scene where Robert Miller is trying to buy his way out of trouble, he is told,”You serious? You think money’s gonna fix this?”
Miller replies,perplexed,”What else is there?”.
Plenty it turns out.
#Arbitrage is currently showing in Singapore.
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Categories: Mainstream Movies
Tags: adultery, Arbitrage, cheating, cinema, derivatives, family values, Finance, forex, Hollywood, Insider Job, Insider trading, lateita casta, merger, morals, Oliver Stone, OWS, Rajat Gupta, Susan sarandon, thriller, wall street, wall street greed, world cinema
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First Look – 2019 Mizuno JPX919 Irons
By Tony Covey
| August 29th 2018 | 58 Comments
First Look - @MizunoGolfNA JPX919 Tour, Forged, and Hot Metal Irons.
It can’t be easy for any brand to replace its most successful game-improvement iron ever, or a tour iron that won 3-majors in a 14-month span (including back to back US Opens), or even a middle of the market forged iron that’s the most versatile iron in its catalog. Trying to replace all three in a single release cycle is another thing entirely.
That’s the challenge Mizuno is facing with its JPX919 iron lineup.
Damn. Good luck with that.
One could easily build a case for letting the entire JPX900 lineup ride for another season, maybe two, but the golf equipment world brings with it certain business realities, and that means even a company like Mizuno needs to make new clubs – even when the old ones are enjoying one hell of a run.
JPX919: It Could Be Better
There’s a video floating around the interwebs that features Mizuno R&D Engineer turned Brand Manager for Golf, Chris Voshall, stepping the viewer through the clubs in his bag. There are certainly some surprises with Chris’s gear, but among the most eye-opening bits of wisdom is this:
“With every club that comes out… there’s something that could be better about it.”
Could.
He goes on to explain that, from an engineer’s perspective, there’s a lot you can do to make a club better, but from a golfer’s perspective some of those things may not actually matter. It’s a sentiment that’s been shared one way or another by others in the industry. As it relates to the new JPX919 family of irons it really boils down to this:
There is a list of design and engineering reasons why the JPX919 could be better, but it’s up to you as a golfer to determine if those things matter enough for you to replace what’s currently in your bag.
JPX919 could be better.
The JPX Design Evolution
Forgetting – as most at Mizuno would likely prefer – the JPX EZ irons, the modern JPX story is one of design evolution. While the JPX850 was, for all intents and purposes, a clean iron, the standard 850 was a bit ornamental. It’s bold-ish blue badge certainly didn’t look out of place next to other offerings in the game improvement category, but it was a bit more ornate than your typical Mizuno iron.
For the JPX900, Mizuno took a more refined approach, raising the sophistication level to nearly that of MP, and it wasn’t a stretch to think that some golfers, even some traditional Mizuno golfers, might prefer the JPX aesthetic. As we’ve discussed before, while MP plays to tradition, the JPX is designed to appeal to a modern, more aggressive golfer. You don’t have to be strong like Brooks, but there’s an edginess, both metaphorically and literally, to the line that doesn’t exist with MP.
With the JPX919, Mizuno is bringing elements of dynamism and simplicity to the design. The simplicity part is obvious enough. The irons are clean…cleaner still than JPX900, and there’s nothing that’s overly ornate or out of place. The dynamism part seeks to the use light and reflections to bring movement to an otherwise static object. Elements of the JPX design, like the radial pattern in the badge, appear to be in motion as light moves across the cavity. The linear etching in the badge transitions from thinner to thicker to symbolize the structures created by Mizuno’s patented Grain Flow Forging HD process where grains of 1025E mild carbon steel are more densely aligned behind the hitting area.
An aesthetic approach rooted in dynamism doesn’t bring any performance advantage, but it speaks to Mizuno’s desire to create clubs that blend premium performance with thoughtful design.
The performance element of the JPX919 story begins with engineers looking for opportunities for improvement. As is often the case, the answer boils down to mass distribution. How can we optimize weighting? How can we take it away from where it isn’t needed and relocate it in a way that will improve performance?
As we answer those questions, we’ll also touch on a couple of things you don’t see very often. The first is that with the three irons in the JPX lineup Mizuno will again be using three different materials; each selected to meet the specific demands of a JPX919 iron model.
JPX919 Tour
While the word gets thrown around far too often, the JPX900 Tour exits the market achieving near iconic status. Without any pay for play attached, it was in Brook’s Koepka’s bag for 3 Majors Championship victories in a 4-month span. In the modern era, how many clubs get put out to pasture having never lost a US Open? At a minimum, 919 Tour becomes the sequel to a modern classic that helped change perceptions on tour while helping Mizuno reach a different type of golfer.
It should go without saying that Mizuno hopes to continue its tour momentum with the 919.
The 919 is the first JPX series to leverage Mizuno’s enhanced Grain Flow Forged HD process, which as we’ve covered a few times now, limits the amount of excess material that spills out of the lower part of the mold during forging. The end result is a more tightly packed grain structure in the hitting area, which ultimately results in better feel.
From a materials standpoint, Tour is distinguished from the rest of the JPX900 lineup by the use 1025E Mild Carbon steel. It’s the same material used throughout Mizuno’s MP line. While Mizuno could have used 1025 Boron, there’s no practical performance reason to do so since nothing in the 919 Tour spec demands more distance. Any inclusion of Boron in the 919 Tour would have been strictly for marketing purposes.
The primary structural difference between the 919 and the previous generation is the addition of what Mizuno calls a Stability Frame. In simple terms, Stability Frame is a means to relocate mass where it isn’t needed, specifically the heel portion of the club, to areas where it’s more purposeful.
The challenge is particularly difficult in a compact iron where a healthy percentage of mass is already allocated to the hosel. Typical workarounds include shortening the hosel or increasing the blade length, but both have performance implications, and neither is likely to play well on tour.
Mizuno’s fix was to push the cavity deeper towards the hosel. In fact, the signature design feature of the entire JPX919 lineup is a cavity that extends beyond the typical hosel boundary. In early designs, Mizuno was a bit too aggressive and had to dial it back to maintain the structural integrity of the iron.
As you’d expect, Mizuno took some of that extra mass and used it to pull the center of gravity down for higher launch, while adding mass towards the toe helped shift the sweet spot closer to the true center of the clubface. The end result is a club that launches a bit higher and spins a bit less than the MP-18 Split Cavity and MMC.
Mizuno describes the JPX919 Tour as offering a refined shotmaker’s profile. It’s a description that encompasses the compact shape, a tour proven sole with a cambered leading edge, its relatively minimal offset, and a topline that’s been reduced by about 10%. Thus far, the new design has been exceptionally well-received by PGA Tour players, including Brooks Koepka.
Despite being a legitimate tour iron, the JPX919 Tour is not an unforgiving club. Mizuno uses a forgiveness metric called Sweet Area, which is the area of an ellipse representing the combined measured heel to toe and top to bottom MOI of an iron. The key point here is that the metric is born from measurements of actual parts and wasn’t created during the marketing department’s weekly meeting.
Under this metric, the 919 Tour is nearly as forgiving as the MP-18 MMC, a tick more forgiving than both the Callaway APEX CF16, Titleist AP3, and TaylorMade’s MP4. What’s notable is that 919 achieves this level of forgiveness, despite its compact tour profile, specifically, it’s shorter blade length.
Also new across the entire JPX919 lineup is what Mizuno calls a Pearl Brush finish. The flat satin on the 900, accentuated the 900’s clean lines, but it didn’t wear as well as Mizuno would have liked. The new finish offers chrome plating with a pearl (whitish) finish. It’s still zero glare, but it’s a touch brighter, it softens the strong lines in direct sunlight, and most importantly, it’s more durable.
JPX919 Tour Specs
Mizuno JPX919 Tour Specifications
Club No.
Club Length 39 38.5 38 37.5 37 36.5 36 35.5
Swing Weight D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D3
Loft 21 24 27 30 34 38 42 46
Lie 59.5 60 60.5 61 61.5 62 62.5 63
Bounce 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 6
Offset 0.13 0.126 0.122 0.118 0.114 0.11 0.106 0.102
Taking a look at the specifications, you may have noticed that while lofts are unchanged from the 900 series, Mizuno has increased shaft length by ¼”. We can quibble over whether or not that was necessary, but Mizuno felt it needed to get inline with where the rest of the industry is. You can expect the new lengths to be standard across all new Mizuno models moving forward.
The stock shaft in the 919 Tour is the TrueTemper Dynamic Gold 120. Note that Mizuno is using the real aftermarket taper tip version of the shaft with the heat transferred shaft labels. This isn’t the money-saving (for the OEM) parallel-tip, cigar band version found in some other lineups.
Also noteworthy; the stock grip is Golf Pride’s MCC +4 (Gray/Black). This is the first time this grip has been offered as stock in any lineup.
As with the last few iterations of Mizuno’s lineup, there are no upcharges for any iron shaft or grip in the Mizuno catalog.
Available for right-handed golfers only, retail Price for the JPX919 Tour is $1200 per set or $150 per iron.
JPX919 Forged
“If we were only allowed to make one iron, this is the one we would make. It checks all the boxes, it’s the most widely accepted of all our clubs. It blends with MMC, Fli-Hi, Hot Metal, Tour, anything…” – Chris Voshall, Brand Manager for Mizuno Golf
Dating back to the JPX850 Forged, the selling point for the iron occupying this slot in the Mizuno lineup has been balanced performance. It offers a competitive amount of ball speed, plenty of forgiveness, and the feel and feedback Mizuno players have come to appreciate, if not demand. It’s neither too big, nor too small for a healthy percentage of the market.
The JPX919 Forged continues that tradition, albeit with a bit more refinement.
Unlike the Tour model, the JPX919 Forged is constructed from Mizuno’s 1025 Boron. The material is 30% stronger than 1025E, and that allows Mizuno to make the face, thinner, hotter, and faster. You know the drill. While JPX919 Forged isn’t a distance iron per say, it can hold its own in a segment of the market that demands a bit of extra ball speed.
Like the 919 Tour, the Forged model features the new Stability Frame construction, and as with Tour, Mizuno leveraged that design to improve better optimize launch conditions.
The biggest improvement over the JPX900 Forged is found under the hood. A new Microslot milling technique effectively increased the size and depth of the undercut cavity hidden behind the cavity badge. The result is increased COR across the entire face, and a lower and deeper center of gravity in the long in mid irons. For those who love to talk CT measurements, the new design keeps the ball on the face an extra 18 microseconds, producing almost 1 MPH more ball speed.
Comparing the JPX919 Forged to others in its class, it’s significantly more forgiving than Apex CF16 and Epic. It’s a bit more forgiving than both P790 and Rogue Pro. Your best point of comparison is the Titleist AP1, which like JPX919 Forged, sits between Rogue and Rogue X under Mizuno’s forgiveness metric – and like the Tour model, the JPX919 has the shortest blade length of the competitive set, though it’s not significantly shorter than either Apex CF16 or P790.
It should be noted that the 919 is just a touch less forgiving than the previous model. It’s the consequences of a slightly shorter blade length.
For golfers who prefer the shape of a players iron – or at least like to get as close to compact as they safely can – and aren’t interested in compromising on forgiveness, JPX919 Forged hits the sweet spot.
Prefaced with the acknowledgement that I’ve yet to have an OEM show me data that suggests its product is inferior to its competitors’, in Mizuno’s testing (using 6-irons), the JPX919 Forged produced longer carry than the PING G700, Callaway Rogue (and Rogue Pro), and every M in the TaylorMade catalog, despite lofts that are 1°-3° weaker than all off the above. Interestingly, the 919 Forged produced a lower, more penetrating flight, but only M3 spun more (and the difference was marginal). With 919 Forged, Mizuno’s goal was to create a comparatively higher spinning iron that wasn’t too high spinning.
Un-Jacked Lofts
Invariably when golf companies talk about distance gains in irons, a quick review of the specs reveals that some measure of loft-jacking has played a role. To what I suspect will be the delight of many, Mizuno actually rolled back the lofts on the JPX919 Forged. Let me say that again, instead of making its irons stronger, because of the ball speed gains, Mizuno was able to make the lofts 1° weaker (relative to JPX900 Forged), maintain, if not increase distance, and improve playability – specifically as it relates to the JPX919 Forged’s ability to hold greens.
This, my friends, is a good thing.
919 Forged Specs
Mizuno JPX919 Forged Specifications
Club Length 38.5 38 37.5 37 36.5 36 35.5 35.25
Lie 60 60.5 61 61.5 62 62.5 63 63
Offset 0.161 0.152 0.142 0.132 0.122 0.112 0.102 0.093
The stock shaft for the Mizuno JPX919 Forged is the TrueTemper Dynamic Gold 105. Again, it’s 100% the same as the aftermarket version. The stock grip is Golf Pride’s MCC +4 (Blue/Black), and again, there are no upcharges for any shaft or grip in the Mizuno catalog.
Available for both right and left-handed golfers, retail price for the JPX919 Forged is $1300 per set or $162.50 per iron.
JPX919 Hot Metal
As I hinted at the beginning of this story, the JPX900 Hot Metal is Mizuno’s best-selling iron in the game-improvement category ever. It’s not a category where Mizuno is traditionally strong, but Hot Metal was a breakthrough iron of sorts for the brand, and Mizuno is certainly hoping that the JPX919 Hot Metal can build on that momentum.
Apart from it’s larger size, there are two major distinctions between the Hot Metal and the rest of the JPX919 family. The first is that it’s cast and not forged. That has to do with its footprint and its increased emphasis on speed. The second major difference is that instead of using 1025 steel as its core material, its constructed from Chromoly 4140M. Chromoly is stronger and more responsive than mild carbon (1025), it flows well in the casting processes, and because it’s softer than other traditional casting materials, it offers outstanding feel.
Long story short, the materials and the construction used are designed to maximize ball speed. What differentiates the Hot Metal from some others in the category is that Mizuno isn’t being reckless in pursuing speed gains. The goal was to design a fast iron that maintains a controllable landing angle, something Mizuno believes is deeply missing in the category.
Like the 919 Tour and 919 Forged, the 919 Hot Metal features Stability Frame construction. With Hot Metal, however, Mizuno has added 5 sound ribs to help dial-in sound frequencies to createa consistent feel throughout the set. What we’re really talking about is a design feature that seeks to replicate the feel of a grain flow forged iron in a cast design – to whatever extent that’s possible.
Big picture, the JPX919 Hot Metal is (as the name implies) a hot iron that still speaks to everything Mizuno is about.
To that end, the Stability Frame design allowed Mizuno to leverage a larger multi-thickness face to increase the COR area (the area of the face that maintains a COR above .800) significantly compared to not only the 900 Hot Metal, but also competitors like M4, AP1, G400, and Rogue.
While Hot Metal isn’t the absolute most forgiving iron on the mainstream market, Mizuno is content with it being the most forgiving iron in its lineup. PING’s G400 and G700 best the new Hot Metal for total MOI, but the new Mizuno offering is appreciably more forgiving than Rogue, Rogue X, M2, M4, and to a lesser extent AP1. As has become our recurring theme, Mizuno is offering greater forgiveness in a more compact profile.
Some will love that, but it’s also true that some will find that the smaller footprint doesn’t give them the same confidence they get from a larger iron design.
When considering irons in this category the question you should be asking is whether your goal is to maximize distance or shoot lower scores. I’m not saying the two are mutually exclusive, but I don’t think you’d find much correlation either. The reality is that many of the options in the game-improvement and super game-improvement categories are designed to impress on the launch monitor and on the driving range, but not necessarily on your scorecard.
Hot Metal Specs
Mizuno JPX919 HotMetal Specifications
Length 38.5 38 37.5 37 36.5 36 35.5 35.25
Bounce 0 0 0 1.5 2.5 3.5 5 6
The stock shafts for the JPX900 Hot Metal are the Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 105 (steel) and Project X LZ (graphite). Stock grip is the Golf Pride MCC +4 (Gray Black). Available for both right and left-handed golfers, retail price is $1000 per set or $125 per iron.
JPX919 Wedges
Also released as part of the 919 series is the JPX919 wedge.
While the JPX919 Gap Wedge is the set wedge for the 919 Hot Metal, the new wedge isn’t designed exclusively to pair with the Hot Metal. It blends well with the JPX919 Forged, and can hold its own as a standalone offering.
The key to that last bit is that the JPX919 wedge shares a good bit of its design with the S16. The shape of the gap wedge is actually a bit of a blend between the S18 and the JPX919 Pitching Wedge, while the Sand and Lob wedges were inspired by the S18. Like Mizuno T7 and S18 wedges, the JPX919 feature loft specific, milled grooves to help dial-in ideal launch and spin at each loft.
Mizuno describes the JPX919 sole grind as moderate. It’s a good middle of the road offering with some versatility. Sole widths widen with loft to improve playability.
The JPX919 wedge is cast from X30 soft steel. The material is similar to the 8620 steel used in competitor wedges, and while Mizuno purists may feel like they’re losing something in a cast wedge, I’d simply point out that the #1 wedge both on tour and at retail is cast, and nobody seems to be suffering for it.
JPX919 Wedge Specs
JPX919 Wedge Specifications
Loft 50 55 60
Swing Weight D3 D3 D3
Lie 63 63 63
Bounce 6 13 9
Offset 0.114 0.102 0.102
Retail Price for JPX919 wedges is $125 each. Stock shaft offerings are the same as the JPX Hot Metal; Nippon Modus 105 (steel), Project X LZ (graphite). Available for both right and left-handed golfers.
BONUS – S18 Blue Wedges
Finally, we have a line extension to the Mizuno S18 family. We’re not going rehash the technical details here. If you missed our story on the S18, you can find it here. We’re talking about the same wedge, with a new finish option.
The new Blue Ion finish is a bit glossier and a bit shinier than the Blue Ion used on the T7. It’s actually closer to what Mizuno used on the S5. Like Mizuno’s Black Ion (and unlike PVD) the blue finish is extremely durable and won’t rub or flake off after just a few rounds.
The S18 Blue Ion Wedge will be available for right-handed golfers only in all current S18 bounce and grind configurations. Retail price is $149.
Retail availability for the Mizuno JPX919 family begins September 10th, 2018.
To see more, visit the Mizuno JPX919 Gratuitous Picture Thread in the MyGolfSpy Forum
Tony Covey
Tony is the Editor of MyGolfSpy where his job is to bring fresh and innovative content to the site. In addition to his editorial responsibilities, he was instrumental in developing MyGolfSpy's data-driven testing methodologies and continues to sift through our data to find the insights that can help improve your game. Tony believes that golfers deserve to know what's real and what's not, and that means MyGolfSpy's equipment coverage must extend beyond the so-called facts as dictated by the same companies that created them. Most of all Tony believes in performance over hype and #PowerToThePlayer.
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Great review and comparison.
I just tried these at a golf expo and MY GOODNESS. They felt so clean. On center hits felt like the ball want even there, it just popped of the face. I loved them.
Warren Roberge
This review mentions that the 919 JPX tours are slightly more forgiving than the Titleist AP3’s. Is this correct? If that is the case than these 919 JPX Tours would be more forgiving than the AP2’s as well huh? If these statements are correct I’ll be trading in my AP2’s for these beautiful 919 JPX tours 🙂
Please confimn.
Tony, Aging 8 handicapper currently playing AP1’s with AMT Red R flex that I am struggling with lack of enough spin on 8,9,pw. Sounds like the new Hot Metals would be able to maximize spin ( SS 75 mph- 6 iron on Trackman).for me. Could you tell me if in fact this is true. As a former low handicapper this information would be helpful to me. Disappointed in 718 AP1’s. Thanks for your help! Dennis
How does the Mizuno tour & forges xompare to the Ping i210?
By the specs, I’d say the i210 sits between the Tour and the 919 Forged.
This is a great article and mygolfspy is something I trust. I do have a question on two things in this article.
Just curious is mygolfspy claiming the forgiveness of these irons or is Mizuno?
Is the article saying the 919 Tour are more forgiving than and are comparing them to Callaway APEX CF16, Titleist AP3, and TaylorMade’s MP4? Are we talking ApexPro Model and AP2 Model or the opens that were listed? Just trying to confirm.
Is the article saying that the 919 Forged are more forgiving and are comparing them to the TM P790, Rogue Pro, AP1 and between Rogue and Rogue X? All the Rogue models is kind of confusing? Again trying to confirm?
Thanks for the clarifications. Really enjoyed this article.
I used to own a set of Mizunos sold them as wrong shafts in them not Mizunos fault I was fitted and they said they would be perfect so far from reality wish I had them back and spent money reshafting them but maybe when saved enough go again well done Mizuno these new irons and wedges look amazing ?
omg omg omg omg
3i – 6i 919 Forged
7i – PW 919 Tour
KBS C-Taper 110
Golf Pride’s MCC +4
good luck everyone!!!
Those cavity badges on the Forged are u-g-l-y. They look like they were stuck on with tape.
Dywane Hall
Jpx 919 HOt metal, Stiff Graphite 2 degrees upright 1/2 longer Irons 6, 7, 8, 9, PW, AW S18 wedge Blue 56 and 60 degree
GT180 Driver 9.5 stiff, gt 180 fairway wood
Eric Jansen
JPX919 Forged / Standard Lofts
Shaft:
Standard TrueTemper Dynamic Gold Stiff Shafts
Grip:
Golf Pride’s MCC +4 (Blue/Black)
Without doubt,I’ve not read a more technically thorough and interesting review/ report on golf equipment about the new Mizuno 919 irons. The reality is that this review could be the best possible promotion/ advertising for Mizuno!
Mizuno doesn’t need to spend millions on sponsorship of golf pros as serious golfers around the world know that Mizuno produce, ”probably’ some of the best irons in the world.
I am currently playing Srixon Z565’s , I think a close rival to Mizuno!
I would love to try a set of JPX 919’s
5 to PW JPX 919 Forged with NS PRO 950 reg shafts and a 50 degree wedge
Great article and pictures. Since you are comparing the three models it would be good to see several pictures with the club heads together so we get a better view of the differences in size and look.
I feel like there is some unwritten rule against posting the sole of clubs in reviews, hardly ever see it. Just saw on another site a picture of the hot metal sole compared to the 900 version. Wish I had gotten fit for the 900s , sole of the 919 looks huge…
Definitely going to have to keep an eye on the prices of the 900 forged on eBay soon. The first set of irons I ever got that weren’t hand me downs were the old MX 17. Made me completely fall in love with the game. I’ve played irons from most of the OEM’s since, and although I really dig the Cobra’s in the bag now, a long overdue return to Mizuno is definitely in my future.
Terry Ainscough
I’ve just checked the price of the JPX919 HOT METAL here in the UK and it’s £840 compared to £549 for the JPX900 HOT METAL. Are they really 50% better as the price would suggest. Doubt it, but that won’t stop an awful lot of people buying them. I’ll have to wait for them to turn up on eBay also.
I’m not a fan of the 5 degree spacing between irons in the Hot Metals. That’s why I sold my G’s… leaves too much of a distance gap between irons.
I have played the JPX850 Forged w/Orochi shafts & the JPX900HM with the Project X, LZ shafts, a few times each on the course. Both of the shafts perform very well; every golfer who hits either, will have their own opinion. The age old question, is it the Indian or the Arrow?
Can someone explain why bounce is higher on the Tour model than on the Forged? I would think better player/less steep (Tour) would need/want less bounce. Are the soles wider/different on Tour vs. Forged? Can someone strighten me out on this. I’m a 7 and interested in the “Forged’, but I like a little forgiveness (bounce/camber) from the sole.
Are the Forged actually more expensive than the Tours? Weren’t the prices flipped for the 900 range?
Very disappointed with Project X LZ graphite shafts again being used in the new Hotmetal Irons, the steel shaft is better though.
Hope Mizuno is not so deaf to our requests for better graphite shafts similar to Pings Allta CB.
Is it because Nippon shafts are good in steel but Nippon graphite shafts are poor?
So we will prefer Orachi graphite shafts any day to Project X LZ graphite.
I am guessing in Japan this graphite shaft won’t work so they must be giving some different graphite shaft.
Hope MSG and Mr Tony Covey will be able to get the point across to Mizuno on the readers behalf.
Will be great if someone can help with graphite shafts options similar to Alta CB.
Only then will think of switching from Ping G400 graphite.
Eduardo Ceballos
Well, Mizuno is offering all the irons with any shaft without any upcharge.
Jonathan Sheets
Wow, is the JPX 919 tour really more forgiving than the Titleist AP3 (not the AP2)? Anecdotally the AP3 is pretty darn forgiving (much more so than the AP2) so that would be quite a feat in a 1pc forged iron.
The industry likes to use forgiveness as a catchall to be used as needed. I like Mizuno’s measurement because it takes MEASURED heel/toe and MEASURED top/bottom that it then converts into the area of an ellipse. As those measured MOI values increase, the area of that ellipse increases.
Some will tell you MOI is not that important – and that usually comes from companies with relatively low MOI, or they’ll tell you that their face technology preserves ball speed in ways that aren’t reflected in an MOI measurement. There’s varying degrees of truth to these assertions, but the reality is that with any given category, nearly everyone has some sort of face technology to preserve ball speed. When you jump categories it’s more difficult to compare. For example, the sweet area of the JPX900 Tour is larger than that of the Callaway Apex 2, but I would expect more consistent speed from the Apex as a result of the face tech.
Similarly, under the Sweet Area measurement, the AP3 is actually less forgiving than the AP2, but AP3 likely gets more help from face technology MOI is simply a baseline for discussion.
What Mizuno does consistently better than anyone else in golf is make comparably more forgiving irons with more compact shapes. PING makes more forgiving irons, but (for better or worse) it does so with larger head shapes. With few exceptions, most of the rest of what’s out there has a longer blade length and is less forgiving. That’s not to say everything else is bad – MOI is only one part of the performance story, but it’s pretty remarkable to see how some other brands tout exceptional forgiveness considering how many hot face designs suffer from hot spots.
Tony, how does the JPX forged compare too the Ping i200? Would you say that the JPX would be a more forgiving as a club? Would the head size be smaller or larger than the i200.
I’m very interested in the forgiveness comparisons you’ve used Tony. How does the forged version here compare with the Ping i210 in terms of forgiveness? Many thanks
Pretty remarkable that the 919 Tour is almost as forgiving as the MP18 MMC! And great insight into the comparisons of forgiveness to other OEMs. Appreciate the in-depth reply about the MOI. Interesting about the AP3 and AP2.
What would you say technically encompasses forgiveness? Just MOI? Or would you say both? It sounds like MOI is the most important and largest factor, with face technology helping a little bit. Is that right?
Love Mizuno irons, great coverage Tony, thanks!
Tony thanks for the detailed reply. Very interesting and great detail.
I am interested to know how Mizuno’s Sweet Area measurements differ from the Maltby Playability Factor calculations? Maltby measures a club head in many different ways and comes up with a result that the 919T is much harder to hit than the competitors you mentioned. What data is Mizuno extracting from their measurements that Maltby is not? I would love to know because I love the 919T, but after looking at Maltby I’m scared to death to buy it…
RickyBobby_PR
By far the best piece around the internet on this release. It does a great job explaining the story, the design, potential benefits and overall is far removed from the press release/OEM site info that many tend to use and provides that in depth writing that draws the attention of the reader.
As for the irons this is the first JPX release that has my attention and ponder mode. Mizuno nailed the looks for sure and in the forged head being able to use less loft to achieve more ball speed and better flight is awesome. Also love that Mizuno is using the aftermarket shafts and being the first to use the mcc +4 grips. Love what Mizuno is doing.
chemclub
Tony, I posted this in the forum but wanted to post here as well in case you read it.
A big round of applause for the pictures posted in this article.
I don’t know if sometimes MGS is only provided with pictures and can’t take their own, but the angles shown in this article were perfect.
A look at address, of the face, from behind, down the toe. Not all of these angles are often shown in a product announcement or first look, but I am hoping they become standard for MGS. I have a much better idea of how the product will look in hand.
Please continue the great work.
Bobtrumpet
Very nice coverage of the new line up. Thanks, Tony!
“Forgetting – as most at Mizuno would likely prefer – the JPX EZ irons … ”
Hey! I’m still playing these (the original 2013 version (yes, with the gun metal finish and the orange badges). They work well for me. I can understand the feeling about them, though. Still, I’m sure Mizuno engineers learned something positive from them (and not just what *not* to do!).
Beautifully written article (as always). Need to re read later with glass of my favorite. What I took away so far, Mizuno is just tremendous with their product offerings. There’s really something for everyone and you simply can’t go wrong with any of their products. I’m playing combo MP18 SC/MMC now and am too in love to change. I would try the new JPX line u questionably. Wouldn’t make a change from my MP’s now. If anything, hold out for MP 19’s. Well done here though.
This is one of those sets that I know I’ll make a special effort to go try at my next Roger Dunn visit. I know I’m probably not replacing my JPX 900 forged set with these, but it’ll be a great frame of reference for comparison. The thing I’m VERY excited about is bringing the blue ion to the S18s! Hopefully the polished finish isn’t a distraction from the wonderful matte blue used on the S5s… it’s time for a change out on the 56*, and this couldn’t be better timing 🙂
Marc Crowder
I currently play the 850 forged and really enjoy the performance I can get out of them. I was contemplating the 900’s but decided to wait. Know that the 919 is on its way I may have to take these out for a spin. I love the sleek look, only hope they feel as well as they look.
Count Tyrone Rugen
I guess that uneven and offset medallion gaps are the thing now. 1st Ping now Mizuno…
And lofts for 4-7 irons went down a degree over previous Hot Metal specs
BurkeAliciouS09
These are some great looking irons! I would love to try out the tour and forged models. They both look great!
As noted, when comparing the length specs to JPX 900 Hot Metal, the 919s do run a quarter inch longer until you hit PW and GW. Those two wedges are listed at the same length as previous model. So as I was recently fitted for the old model at 1/2 inch short, it would seem that with the new irons I would go 3/4 inch short, except for the two wedges which would stay at 1/2 short. Kinda unusual, yes?
Nice looking irons but they’re still jacking up the lofts compared to my MPs, less on the tour version but still 1*, 3* on the forged and a full 5* on the Hotmetal so the 7i is actually a 6(which should be 31* for the MP)+1*. Not to mention making them all longer shafts, for more distance? hmm.
golfer1
Making a +4 the stock grip on a game improvement iron is not the smartest idea imo… Obviously the no upcharge on other grips is nice, but the “I want it and I want it now” 20 handicapper fighting a slice will struggle with these… All three models look really good and the hot metal pro coming out later is going to be interesting too.
I’m not sure why you believe that. Once upon a time, the thinking was that if a grip was too small it would lead to hooks, while I too large grip would create a slice, but like many of golf’s old myths, this one has been largely debunked. Multiple OEMs have done testing on the subject, and have found that there’s absolutely nothing that shows a correlation between grips size and ball flight.
As a result, you’re seeing midsize become standard on many senior offerings as older golfers (many with arthritis) find they’re more comfortable. The data suggests that the grip that feels most comfortable is probably the one you should play.
Has your lab ever compared the plus grip with the traditional shaped MCC? I’d be interested to know if there are any differences that are obvious in terms of performance.
I agree 100%. I have degenerative Arthritis and would not be able to control a club nearly as well without my Winn Dri-Tec wrap oversize grips. I wear a size 20 ring and no glove companies make a glove that fits my hands. When ever anyone tries hitting one of my clubs the first thing they comment on are how great the grips feel. The grip just needs to give a secure and comfortable platform to control the club. I can get just as much control from the groves in my wraps as someone could with a full cord grip. I can shape the ball anyway I want. A smaller grip just makes my hands uncomfortable. The first thing my clubfitter did after talking about my game was measure my hands and help get me on the right grips.
HDTVMAN
Mizuno just keeps hitting home runs.
It amazes me how often companies screw up a good product, especially golf companies. Glad to see for the most part mizuno kept a good thing going. Disappointed about the longer shaft, especially because if I remember right mizuno measures shafts before the grip unlike most other iron companies. Also thought the stock grip was an interesting choice. Can’t wait to test out these irons!
I love my MP18-SC irons. More than likely will not get another set for a while… but my heart sank when I saw how gorgeous these irons turned out. Mizuno is such a force to be reckoned with. I’m looking forward to seeing them used on the tour more.
Same with me! I got MP-18 blades and SC combo. These to me are much better looking than the 900 tours and forged because of the finish and not having the blue 900. Can’t determine between the MP-18 and 919 lines because ones classic and the other has a touch of modern with more tech. Wish money wasn’t an issue. I’d get both!
Exactly the same for me. The MP18SC are the best irons I’ve ever have. But those Tour look very good.
Kudos to Mizuno.
jlukes
The Higher launch and less spin in the 919 Tours than the 900’s isn’t something I need, but will obviously help a lot of golfers who want to game them.
What I think is the best news is the more durable finish. I will be posting some pics in the 900 Tour review thread to update the wear of my 900 Tours to show how, while the bag chatter is acceptable, the finish itself wears awkwardly – specifically near the power frame cavity area.
I personally like the look of the 919 tour and forged more than the 900. The finish with these are cassier, more sophisticated-looking to me. They did a nice job of bringing classic and modern together this time I think. Beautiful looking.
I didn’t like the new design at first glance but it’s growing on me.
Very impressive to roll back lofts in this day and age.
“The reality is that many of the options in the game-improvement and super game-improvement categories are designed to impress on the launch monitor and on the driving range, but not necessarily on your scorecard.”
This is a very interesting statement in this excellent article. Can you expand upon this?
Burnsie
I agree with this if a player has a good, overall swing. Game improvement irons help with distance, but they can be inconsistent with which distances they go, yardage gaps between clubs can be inconsistent, and GI irons have less spin because of the design and typically have stronger lofts so stopping power on the greens can be less effective and not hold the greens as much. GI irons can be a good option if a player has too much spin with their irons, getting a better decent angle to hold greens more. The big kickers for me is workability and feel. Yes you can work GI irons to an extent but it takes more effort and you lack the feel. The feel provides feedback that can teach you to be a better ball striker and learn quicker. I’ve had a good stroke and could always get down the course but my distance gaps with each club and between clubs we’re too large, not allowing me to score. Wasn’t holding greens and distance would be sometimes 20-25 yard differences with the same club. I got fitted and blended blades and a little bit more forgiving forged players iron and have seen my scores drop because I’m hitting much more GIR.
In addition to my previous comment: if the player doesn’t have much speed GI would be the route to go. If the player has good speed, bad swing/bad ball striker, go GI. If you are making an effort to to getting better, practicing swing mechanics, are getting better with the GI’s, have good speed, better ball striking, and learning to shape shots, players irons will help lower your score with consistency, feel, and shot shaping to place you closer to the hole.
Joe Lambert
These look great! Definitely on my try list. Surprised to see the Tour model cheaper than the forged..I think this is pretty unusual..PrettyIrons!!
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