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OTHER YEARS 2018 2016 2015 2014
SOUTH RACING’S FORD RANGER CREW OF BULACIA AND BUSTOS CROSS BACK INTO ARGENTINA INSIDE THE DAKAR TOP 20
SALTA (ARGENTINA): Marco Bulacia and Claudio Bustos overcame a difficult eighth competitive section of the 2017 Dakar Rally between Uyuni in Bolivia and Salta in Argentina to enter the top 20 in their South Racing Ford Ranger.
Adverse weather conditions on the Altiplano and in other areas of Bolivia again forced rally officials to modify the route for stage eight – the second half of the Marathon stage. Rising water levels in a river bed due to be crossed by competitors forced officials to stop the first section of the stage at PC1, after 171km.
Crews then headed to the second half via a neutralisation section of 176km that also included the crossing of the frontier between Bolivia and Argentina at Piscuno. The second part of the competitive section started on the Argentinean side of the border, was unchanged and ran for around 248km and preceded a liaison of around 350km to the overnight halt in the city of Salta. The first section reached heights of in excess of 4,300 metres before the border and dropped to between 3,400 metres near the stage finish.
Bulacia revelled in the last competitive section of this year’s Dakar in his native Bolivia and reached the end of the first part in 19th position. That was sufficient for the Ford Ranger driver to move up to 21st overall. He reached the finish in a time of 4hr 50min 39sec and that was the 19th quickest time of the day to move him into 20th overall at the expense of the Argentinean driver Alejandro Yacopini in the standings.
Bulacia’s latest generation South Racing Ford Ranger was prepared by Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) with collaboration from South Racing. Bulacia has additional backing from YPFB, Vialco, Hard Rock Santa Cruz, BOA and Ende for his second Dakar with South Racing.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), the ninth special stage of the Dakar heads from Salta to the punishing heat of Chilecito. It’s a massive day in terms of liaison distances, with a special stage of 406km sandwiched between liaisons totalling 571km on the longest day of the entire event. What has been termed the ‘Super Belén’ stage by rally officials is reported to feature daunting navigation and many tricky off-road sections.
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The nature of the atomic-level structure in the binary Cu-Zr metallic glasses and the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) metallic glasses
Dr. SHA Zhendong
E-mail address: shaz@ ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
Institute of High Performance Computing, 1 Fusionopolis Way, 16-16 Connexis 138632, Singapore
Ab initio simulations on the basic clusters in the best glass formers of Cu-Zr metallic glasses (MGs) provide the most straightforward evidence that a gap in the density of states (DOSs) at the Fermi level is observed. We establish a direct connection between the electronic structure of the basic clusters in MGs and the glass-forming ability (GFA) of MGs, providing a new avenue to examine the GFA of MGs. [1]
Their further ab initio simulations on the basic polyhedral clusters in the best glass formers of the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) MGs have also been performed. The one thing in common of these basic polyhedral clusters in the binary Cu-Zr system and the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) system is the electronic stability, instead of the traditional viewpoint of topological stability. [2]
Their findings provide a check for the atomic structural models of MGs, and have implications for understanding the formation and properties of MGs.
1: Z. D. Sha, et al., Intermetallic (2012) in press
2: Z. D. Sha, et al., under review
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Copyright and Collective Authorship
Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work
Part of Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Author: Daniela Simone, University College London
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As technology makes it easier for people to work together, large-scale collaboration is becoming increasingly prevalent. In this context, the question of how to determine authorship – and hence ownership - of copyright in collaborative works is an important question to which current copyright law fails to provide a coherent or consistent answer. In Copyright and Collective Authorship, Daniela Simone engages with the problem of how to determine the authorship of highly collaborative works. Employing insights from the ways in which collaborators understand and regulate issues of authorship, the book argues that a recalibration of copyright law is necessary, proposing an inclusive and contextual approach to joint authorship that is true to the legal concept of authorship but is also more aligned with creative reality.
Incorporates four case studies to exemplify the mismatch between creative norms in environments in which collaboration evidently flourishes and copyright law's rules on authorship
Provides a fresh perspective on the doctrinal problem of applying the joint authorship test
Identifies the ways in which collaborators understand and regulate authorship between themselves, and then applies this insight to provide a critically evaluation of copyright law's approach to authorship
1. Copyright law and collective authorship
2. Authorship and joint authorship
3. Wikipedia
4. Australian Indigenous art
5. Scientific collaborations
6. Film
7. Characteristics of collective authorship and the role of copyright law
8. An inclusive, contextual approach to the joint authorship test.
Daniela Simone, University College London
Daniela Simone is a Lecturer in Law at University College London, where she is also a Co-Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law. Dr Simone holds BC.L., M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a B.A./LL.B. (Hons I) degree from the University of Sydney, was admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and worked as a lawyer for a global commercial law firm in Sydney.
The Copyright/Design Interface
Past, Present and Future
Drafting Copyright Exceptions
From the Law in Books to the Law in Action
Art and Modern Copyright
The Contested Image
Film Copyright in the European Union
Public Rights
Copyright's Public Domains
Copyright Exceptions
The Digital Impact
Piracy in the Indian Film Industry
Copyright and Cultural Consonance
Licensing and Access to Content in the European Union
Regulation between Copyright and Competition Law
The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement
Promoting Sustainable Development
International Journal of Cultural Property
International Journal of Cultural Property provides a vital, international, and multidisciplinary forum for the broad…
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I Stopped Working For Free And Guess What Happened?
By Chadia Mathurin • 3 years ago
I had my first company while I was a student at University. It was a company where I provided my hall mates with the convenience of ordering their clothes, shoes and tech gadgets online without a deposit. I would clear the items from customs, pay all fees and they would pay when the items were delivered to their door.
With Order Up, I provided a service which didn’t need me to showcase too much experience or too much skill. However, the company that I started off after University was largely reliant on me showing off. People needed to know that I had the ability to do what I was claiming I could do.
I had studied International Relations and a lot of Economics at University. Nothing in my courses said that I would be good at strategic branding or building websites. I needed to find a way to scream from the mountain top that I was good. I needed to build a portfolio of work that would allow me to charge for my time and expertise in the future.
To accomplish this, I scouted companies that I felt needed my services and I offered them for free. This allowed me to practice my craft and to settle on my signature but it also established a bad habit: Chadia does FREE work.
I can’t say if it’s a Caribbean thing or if it’s a human thing. What I can say is that people will try to milk free work from you for as long as you allow it. What I can say is that establishing that Chadia does FREE work made people unwilling to come to me expecting to pay in exchange for my services.
So how and when did I tell someone that I actually ked and wanted to work for or with that if they needed particular things from my company that it would be on an exchange basis; that it would be a service/product in exchange for a monetary payment?
The turning point for me came when I found myself grossly behind on loan payments. I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t idle yet I wasn’t making enough to meet my financial requirements. I quickly realized that I was doing too much free work. More poignantly, I realized that I had to find a way to establish that I was an Entrepreneur and not a Non-Profit Organization.
I had claimed entrepreneurship the moment I had started to produce valuable work. But I realized that I really could not have laid claim to the title until I began to charge for my work. I am not anti-free work because I believe that free work has its place: Philanthropy, Charity, Internships, Strategic Partnerships, sometimes for friends and family but definitely not Entrepreneurship.
Chadia Mathurin
Chadia Mathurin is a serial entrepreneur and marketing enthusiast hailing from the island of Saint Lucia. During her down time Chadia loves writing music, playing the piano, reading and writing articles and books on Content Creation and Entrepreneurship, watching spy shows, and playing Scrabble and Monopoly.
I Met The One
The #BYOB (Be Your Own Boss) Movement is Now Televised
The Power of Accountability in Achieving Set Goals
Finding Accountability Partners
Entrepreneurial Lessons From A Lagos Bus Conductor
Gregory Rockson: At the Forefront of Africa’s Digital Healthcare Sector
Elevating African Writers & Musicians: Chidi Nwaogu & Publiseer
Use What You Have: Scovia Ngarambe & Her Poultry Farm
The Four Pillars of Branding You Should Never Ignore
The Stages of Team Development
A Memo to the African Entrepreneur
African Entrepreneur
We are cultivating a culture of entrepreneurship on the African continent.
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Art as Critique conference: March 1
This entry was posted in ARC Past Events Past Events on March 7, 2019 by Lauren Pearson.
Art as Critique conference
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Please enjoy an event summary here as well as videos of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4.
ARC’s March’s conference Arts as Critique seeks to prompt the question of the relationship between art and criticism from the standpoint of social and political exigencies of our times, and to do so by thinking scholars and curators thinking from and about the global margins and zones of acute transition often called the “Global South”–from Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East, to U.S. Latino, African American, Native American and Asian American communities.
Arts as Critique is interested in the extent to which contemporary art, art criticism and curating wield a transformative capacity to actively condition or mobilize collective imaginaries and struggles. How do feminist, queer, postcolonial/decolonial, postnational perspectives and interventions call attention to, and reclaim, the political implications of art as critique beyond Eurocentric ramifications? What kinds of (un)belongings and displacement, figured through tropes of gendered, sexualized, ethnicized and racialized vulnerability, could allow us to think (with) the limits and the resistant potential of art?
Featuring Victor Albarracin, Neda Atanasoski, Natalia Brizuela, Tarek Elhaik, Adriana Johnson, Koyo Kouoh, Anneka Lenssen, Leigh Raiford, Kriss Ravetto, Pedro J. Rolón, Poulomi Saha, and Kalindi Vora.
8:30am: Door Open to the Public
9:10am: Welcome by ARC Director Natalia Brizuela
9:30am – 10:45am: Panel 1
Future Remake: On the Uses and Abuses of Representation for Life
Tarek Elhaik, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
Kriss Ravetto, Professor, Cinema and Digital Media & Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis
Response by Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor, English, UC Berkeley
10:45am-11:00am: Break
11:00am-12:15pm: Panel 2
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Kalindi Vora, Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, UC Davis
Neda Atanasoski, Professor, Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
Response by Anneka Lenssen, Assistant Professor, Art History, UC Berkeley
12:15pm-1:45 pm: Lunch Break
1:45pm – 3:00pm: Panel 3
An Expanse of Water: Ways of Knowing
Adriana Johnson, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature,UC Irvine
Response by Pedro J. Rolón, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
3:15pm -5:15pm: Panel 4
Art, Knowledge, Action, Society: Curatorial Practices from the Global South
Presentations by Koyo Kouoh from RAW Material, Senegal, and Victor Albarracin, from Lugar a dudas, Colombia
Response by Natalia Brizuela, Director, Arts Research Center; Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, and Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley
5:15pm-5:45pm: Break
5:45pm-6:30pm: Poetry Readings, and Performance
Poetry readings by 최 Lindsay and Jared Robinson
Multimedia Performance with alex cruse
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, UCHRI, the Department of History of Art Curatorial Initiative, Townsend Center for the Humanities, BCNM, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, D-Lab, Digital Humanities, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
ARC’s 2018-19 program is a collaboration between ARC Interim Director Natalia Brizuela (Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese), Tarek Elhaik (Anthropology, UC Davis), Anneka Lenssen (History of Art), Leigh Raiford (African American Studies), and Poulomi Saha (English), supported by a generous grant from the The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
This project was supported in part by the University of California Office of the President MRPI funding MR-15-328710.
← Artist & Curator: Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik: February 20
9/13/18: The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe →
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Kosztolányi Dezső
Anna Édes
Bolti ár: 5120 Ft (Az MNB aktuális árfolyamai szerint)
Méret: 20.4
Kiadó: Norton
Fordító: Szirtes György
Kategóriák: Magyar irodalom idegen nyelven, Szépirodalom, Magyar irodalom
This long out-of-print novel by Hungarian writer Kosztolanyi (1885-1936) takes place in Budapest just after the end of WW I. The city is occupied by Romanian troops after having undergone two brief social revolutions. The novel focuses on the plight of a young peasant woman who comes to work as a maid for the Vizys, a pathologically self-absorbed middle-class couple who are struggling to maintain their social standing amidst the ever-changing political climate. Pleased with Anna's almost robotic work ethic, Mrs. Vizy becomes obsessed with maintaining her servant's loyalty through psychological manipulation. A metaphor for the inhumanity of Hungary's precarious bourgeoisie, the novel follows Anna's victimization by her employers, her fellow servants and the Vizys' dissolute nephew as she struggles to achieve even the slightest emotional connection. Kosztolanyi's characters are ironic to the point of caricature, except Anna, whose inexplicable simple-mindedness limits the reader's sympathy for her. The novel nevetheless provides fascinating insight into a volatile period in Europe's history, laying bare the barbarism and hypocrisy inherent in all strata of society.
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Gary Dowsett asks ‘Why do we need an age of consent at all?’
Category: Safe Schools (Paedophile) Program
Created: Thursday, 07 June 2018 23:38
Written by Michael Foucault – Sexual Morality and the Law
From the video below: “There used to be a spicy element in gay and lesbian liberation… demands that we can and should f*** anything that moves, as long as it said yes freely. Do we still aim for that? That we can and should f*** anything that moves, so long as it said yes freely. Do we still aim for that? Do we still see the queering of all sexuality as possible? Desirable? Inevitable? The same kind of problem occurs with those other kind of thorny sexuality issues of the day…
The age of consent, intergenerational sex, pornography and other sexual health issues.
Why do we need an age of consent at all? Are there diverse kinds of intergenerational sex? And are they always harmful?
Might there be benefits in pornography? How do we deal with alcohol and drug use? What is the impact on body culture of gay men’s sexual relations and practices? Is there an ethics in gay sex that might help us understand risk taking and continuing HIV incidents?
Instead of these issues, one often gets the sense, while reading gay newspapers and magazines today, that our only function is form. We prefer chic to critique. Having achieved a lifestyle, rather than liberation.
Sure, it might be far less painful than police raids, imprisonment and harassment but it might simply that we have been sedated.
Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. Maybe equality is our SSRI…” – Dowsett, Gary. (2013, April). Rethinking HIV in the Future of Gay Men. Presented at Beyond Behaviours: Uncovering the Social Production of HIV Epidemics Among Gay Men, Vancouver, Canada.
The following video comes with a STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING:
“This might continue to provide a small basis for a challenge to the normalising of intimate citizenship as it plays out currently in marriage equality. It might still provide a basis for pursuing that challenge Foucault saw possible in gay men’s sexuality, for the universal market is notoriously amoral.” Gary Dowsett – Abjection. Objection. Subjection: rethinking the history of AIDS in Australian gay men’s futures. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2016.1273392#
So, what does Foucault say…? As well as being an enthusastic advocate for sadomasochistic sex, Foucault argued for something far more sinister.
Wikipedia: Sexual Morality and the Law is the transcription of a 1978 radio conversation in Paris between philosopher Michel Foucault, playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, and novelist/gay activist Guy Hocquenghem, debating the idea of abolishing age of consent laws in France.
In 1977, the issue was brought to public attention in France by a petition against age of consent laws addressed to the Parliament, defending the decriminalization of all consented sexual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France).[1] Foucault stated that the petition was signed by several philosophers including himself, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto, and also by people he described as belonging to a wide range of political positions.[1]
Read the full transcript here: https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm
“Now, where children are concerned, they are supposed to have a sexuality that can never be directed towards an adult, and that’s that. Secondly, it is supposed that they are not capable of talking about themselves, of being sufficiently lucid about themselves. They are unable to express their feelings about the whole thing. Therefore they are not believed. They are thought to be incapable of sexuality and they are not thought to be capable of speaking about it. But, after all, listening to a child, hearing him speak, hearing him explain what his relations actually were with someone, adult or not, provided one listens with enough sympathy, must allow one to establish more or less what degree of violence if any was used or what degree of consent was given. And to assume that a child is incapable of explaining what happened and was incapable of giving his consent are two abuses that are intolerable, quite unacceptable.” Michael Foucault – Sexual Morality and the Law
Source : http://youreteachingourchildrenwhat.org/2018/06/gary-dowsett-asks-why-do-we-need-an-age-of-consent-at-all/?fbclid=IwAR0t5SVFpaLvKsNNRYgVSb0SrNgITSTPhaqlZ1KuMknJ_y8GMyFii3ifJF8
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OUR CAST OF CHARACTERS
Meet the team behind the scenes.
Ryan Hanson
Chief Visionary
He’s been called a rainmaker, a reveller and a storyteller but it’s Ryan’s ability to walk into a blank space and, with his client’s script in mind, paint a vivid vision no one else expects that’s built a tribe of loyal clients. For over a decade Ryan’s been dreaming up and making happen some incredible events. Not to mention he’s won over a dozen International Awards for Event Design, Corporate Event Planning and Event Marketing, secured his own column in an industry publication and has been a sought-after speaker for industry events around the planet.
Jack Strawn
When you’ve got many moving parts and need to get stuff done, you find a Jack-of-all-trades. And finding Jack is pretty easy…just visit your local State Fair. There he’ll be, map in hand – which he’s populated with the year’s list of ‘can’t miss’ food vendors. Corn dogs, BLTs on a stick, fried chocolate bars; he’s tried and loved them all. Former server, live product demonstrator for “As Seen On TV” gizmos and gadgets, graphic designer and savvy online treasure hunter, cross-stitcher and craft cocktail mixologist, Jack can and has done everything. That’s what makes him our, never-say-never, I’m-on-it, get-er-done Project Coordinator.
Alissa Bemis
Experience Rockstar
For Alissa, music is embedded in her DNA. From when she was a little girl, playing Frosty the Snowman repetitively on her mini vinyl record player, to 12 years of piano lessons to making it one half of her double major in University, music has always been close to her. It’s the emotional connection and significance behind the lyrics and notes that resonate with her the most. That’s why events have been her chosen career path. The parallels between music and events allow her to create a heart-stirring experience, full of meaning, for our clients and their guests.
We’re also very proud of her for being awarded Up-and-Coming Special Events Planner for Minnesota Meetings + Events’ Hall of Fame. What a rockstar!
Libby Silverman
Bits ’n Bobs Manager
Many years ago, as a part of her degree in Global Business, Libby had the chance to study abroad in London. And it’s there that she fell in love – with the languages, the diversity of foods and the people. She’s re-visited four times, including interning at an Event Planning company, and each time she brings back some very important lessons that have greatly influenced her role as Project Coordinator. Her taste of British work and life culture have opened her eyes to fresh, new concepts that we don’t see here in America, encouraging her to try new things. Tip ‘o the hat to our dear, Libby. It’s those very ideas that allow us to push the boundaries of design and strategy.
Ashli Murschel
Office Ranger
As an Executive Administrator, Ashli’s mission is to make everyone’s lives run as smooth as butter. Perhaps that’s why she’s been in an administrative role for over 10 years. But back to butter. Did you know that Ashli’s favorite past-time is camping? And her favorite thing to cook over an open fire is buttery popcorn? Besides being outdoors, being one with bugs (not) and hearing the sounds of nature, Ashli loves all of the prep work that goes into packing for a weekend in the woods. It’s that finely-tuned craft of staying on budget, never packing too much and thinking through every detail before you arrive that makes her the perfect fit for her role.
Photography Credits:
Steve Allen Photography, Dan Norman Photography,Noah Wolf Photography, Studio Laguna, Lauren B Photography
Copyright © 2017 BeEvents. All Rights Reserved.
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Belly Dance Classes East Bay
Belly Dancing Lessons
During a hearing several days later, the belly dance clothes were brandished as evidence of the party's debauchery. The dancers are not protected from the police either. A belly dance inspection unit monitors the premises to apply the strict dress code introduced as a pommel to religious conservatives in the 1980s. The bare midriffs, the décolleté and the skirts revealed women are banned, and many dancers have told me stories of throwing themselves into closets and stopping to change into more modest clothes when the police arrive.
If you are the tyFor those who usually order the dance floor, be it swing dance or pole dance, then you will want to watch this class. Instructor Salit, who has played for many years, will teach you Egyptian-style belly dance moves and alluring combinations. You will also work on flexibility, tone, core strength, posture, flow and confidence. Then, at the end of the class, all the movements are put together and you have a chance to perform the newly learned routine.
Enter the world of gothic belly dancing, where the hip rollers meet sword and steampunk. Mavi Clay with blue hair, one of the pillars of this scene, is a "dark belly artist of fusion", known for his dramatic performances. Her costumes embody her slogan, "Mayhem's Maven" she belly-dancing with horns and body painting, sometimes balancing sharp scimitars on her head. His arms are adorned with tattoos, wreaths and swirls that twist on his skin.
If the bad weather pushes you inside, take a seat in the brewery. With rustic wooden benches to sit on and exposed brick walls, this bar and restaurant has a modern German aesthetic. Guests can taste beer from Weihenstephaner, the oldest brewery in the world, and 11 other German-inspired breweries. Kolsch, hefeweizen, lager and IPA this beer garden has it all. Not in the foam? There is also a wine list and a full bar available.
Generally, we see women shaking and rolling different parts of their body without focusing on the belly muscles. The dances are not unique and, frankly, look more like striptease shows. It also disturbs me that customers expect the money to be in the costume of the belly dancer, just as one would do in a strip club in the United States. I guess it is possible that this practice has evolved as a method to compensate for these dancers, but I think it reduces the performance.
Samira Dawn doing a tradition belly dance routine. Samira is the director of Shimmy Dreams Belly Dance and offers classes in Lafayette Ca.(East Bay of San Francisco for belly dancers of all levels.
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Founded in 1898, Biscayne Engineering has a deep and rich history as one of South Florida’s pioneer companies. Today, BE remains dedicated to our founding principles and driven to create innovative solutions for the changing demands of both our clients and the environment.
Enjoy Biscayne Engineering’s timeline as we honor some of our past leaders and notable project throughout our history.
Biscayne Engineering begins when J.S. Fredrick and W.E. Brown form a partnership.
In 1905 J.S. Frederick makes the first official Miami Map. In 1908, the company is first named Frederick Brown Engineering Company.
The present name of Biscayne Engineering Co. is adopted. The company is named after the building they occupied in the former Bank of Bay Biscayne. J.S. Fredrick
This professional association becomes known as Biscayne Engineering: W.E. Brown, President John A Moore, Vice President Earl E. Harvey, Secretary-Treasurer
Biscayne Engineering receives its corporate charter and records the ownership of the corporation Biscayne Engineering Company, Inc.
Construction begins on Villa Vizcaya – a villa built in a North Italian sixteenth-century style for James Deering. Biscayne Engineering’s responsibilities include the building and road
Carl Fisher selects Biscayne Engineering for the development of Miami Beach
The U.S. Corps of Engineers gives Mr. Deering authorization to dig a channel to Vizcaya and he retains Biscayne Engineering Company’s services for the design and
The firm is retained during the construction of Star Island- the first man-made island on Biscayne Bay. Work was also done on Bell Meade Island.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to help with the development of the Flamingo Hotel.
The company early work includes engineering and surveying of the Miami streets, later extending to Dade County Streets.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to lay out the design for the University of Miami campus.
Biscayne Engineering receives payment for services performed after the 1926 hurricane.
Biscayne Engineering is contracted to help convert Tropical Park from a dog track to a horse track.
Norman C. Harvey -son of Earl E. Harvey – acquires interest in the company and later becomes Vice President.
During World War II, Biscayne Engineering is granted security clearance to provide reproduction materials for the war effort – including blueprints and photo stats.
Notable clients and projects include Howard Hughes • Senator Claude Pepper’s home in the Keys • Congressman Dante Fascell • President Nixon – Helicopter Pad and
Biscayne Engineering is involved in the construction of the Florida International University campus, which is developed on a portion of the land known as the Graves
J.J. Bennett becomes President of Biscayne Engineering.
Biscayne Engineering is involved in the development of Bayfront Park.
Biscayne Engineering is involved in numerous projects located throughout the State including Punta Gorda Isles, Port Charlotte and Marco Island
George Bolton buys Biscayne stock from his uncle, Norman C. Harvey.
The 15,000 acres of land now comprising the City of Weston was first amassed in the 1950’s by a gentleman named Arthur Vining Davis, the original
A.B. Mohr, who joined Biscayne in 1946, becomes president of Biscayne Engineering.
George C. Bolton, grandson of Earl E. Harvey, becomes president.
Mary Bolton joins Biscayne Engineering to oversee the Accounting Department.
Biscayne Engineering Company begins its involvement with the renovations and updates of the historic Art Deco Hotels in Miami Beach.
Biscayne is selected to perform professional services for plat of the Welleby Subdivision. Biscayne performs engineering and surveying for the extension of Hill and Hiatus Road
Biscayne Engineering works with Dade County Transit on full surveying and layout work for the Metro Mover. Biscayne Engineering later works on the extension of the
The firm performed professional services for the construction of Centrust Tower.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to work on the development of Bayside Marketplace.
The First 100 Years Biscayne Engineering Recognized as a Pioneer Company by the Miami Centennial Committee The following are excerpts from the Miami Centennial Calendar – The
Biscayne Engineering Company is responsible for the construction layout of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.
The firm is hired to handle engineering and surveying services for the planned renovation and expansion of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Biscayne is selected to perform professional services for the Flamingo Apartments, coincidentally on the same site as they worked in 1920 (see timeline).
Biscayne provides engineering and surveying for design and construction for a multi-story building at the campus of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Biscayne Engineering is responsible for surveying and scanning for the MET Square archeological site to prepare Topographic Survey with contours and include a detailed survey of
Biscayne celebrates 120 years in business!
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Vol. 11, Issue 189 - Saturday, July 8, 2006
S | S | M | T | W | T | F
Lingle names Public Safety director
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Gov. Linda Lingle appointed First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Iwalani White yesterday to serve as director of the state Department of Public Safety.
The post, which oversees the state's Corrections and Law Enforcement divisions, was left open in November 2004 when then-Director John Peyton resigned so he could return to work in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
If her appointment is confirmed by the Senate, White will be responsible for state prisons and community correctional facilities as well as the Narcotics, Protective Services and Sheriffs divisions beginning Aug. 1.
Lingle said White's background as a prosecutor and Family Court judge would "contribute to her ability to effectively manage" the department because she "understands Hawaii's criminal and judicial systems."
White has been first deputy prosecuting attorney since 1997. She joined the city Department of the Prosecuting Attorney in 1982, and has specialized in Family Court issues, particularly juvenile justice and domestic violence.
From 1992 to 1997, White served as a District Family Court judge and has served on the Board of Bar Examiners for 19 years. She previously was on the board of the Hawaii State Bar Association.
She received her law degree from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and a bachelor's degree in sociology from UH-Manoa.
Jim Propotnick and Frank Lopez served as interim and acting directors of the department following the resignation of Peyton and interim Director Rick Bissen, who was sworn in as Circuit Court judge in April 2005.
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TopShots #4 - Bf 109G-6
The book is printed in a pamphlet style - 24 x 16.7 cm - and consists of 36 page walkaround with 103 colour photos, plus an introduction, a set of 1/72 scale drawings and profiles & decals for two aircraft.
One could really say this books isn't so much about the Bf 109G-6, as about a particular Gustav. The subject of the book really quite unique; Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 W. Nr. 163306, which crashed into Lake Trzebun on the morning of 28th May 1944, carrying Feldwebel Ernst Pleiness to his death.
The brief service history of the aircraft and its subsequent recovery in 1999 and restoration by the Polish Eagles Association is well described in the English introduction to the walkaround.
All the photos are printed to a very high standard, usually three or four per page, and are ideally sized for modellers' references. The aircraft is shown during restoration and the authors, Miroslaw Zelechowski and Jakub Plewka, have been granted exceptional access to the airframe in its part-disassembled state. This means that many areas normally hidden in other walkarounds are fully visible in these photos. The pictures are grouped into the following sequence:
The basically complete airframe on display at Krakow.
The fuselage, minus the wings and tail assembly with exposed details of the attachment points.
The propeller assembly, including pitch adjustment gear.
The engine - under restoration with some parts missing.
The cockpit - again incomplete.
The wings, including details of the slats and radiator baths. The radiators themselves were destroyed in the crash.
The tail assembly - disassembled, showing its construction clearly.
The undercarriage.
As you can see, some parts of the airframe are incomplete - and this is perhaps the only weakness in the book. As it stands, TopShots 11004 represents a fascinating study of W. Nr. 163306 under restoration, but if the authors had also included some comparison shots from original manuals or other restorations, it would have provided a more complete reference for modellers.
The walkaround is finished off with a 1/72 scale 4-view plan of the Bf 109G, which will be useful to modellers and, finally, the rear cover of the book has two excellent side-profiles, along with detailed English/Polish captions describing the camouflage and other painting:
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6, II/JG 77, Sicily 1943
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 - W. Nr. 163306, 2/JGr West, May 1944 - the subject of the walkaound photos.
Kagero have included a very neat little set of decals printed in 1/72, 148 and 1/32 scales to accompany the profiles. The decals are printed by Techmod and look excellent; thin, glossy and printed perfectly in register. They are intended to be used in conjunction with donor kit-sheets, so no national insignia or stencils are included.
This should be a useful book for anyone wishing to add more detail to their Bf 109G. The fact that the airframe is under restoration provides a unique opportunity to see the innards of the Bf 109, but it does also mean that modellers will require addition references to fill in the gaps of the incomplete areas.
The restoration is testimony to the care, expertise and respect devoted by the Polish Eagles Association to the aircraft of a former foe and serves as a reminder of the human tragedy of war. Recommended.
Thank you to Kagero Books for kindly supplying the review sample.
Kagero Books are distributed in the US by MMD-Squadron.
Please remember, when contacting retailers or manufacturers, to mention that you saw their products highlighted here - on ARMORAMA
People would be forgiven for asking if we really need anotheer book about the Bf 109; well, on the basis of Kagero's TopShots 1104, the answer is a resounding Yes - and it proves proves that there's always more to learn about a subject, no matter how well you think you know it.
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Browse > Home / Marketing, Microsoft, News, Open source, Search, Technology / On the Prevalence of Open Source
On the Prevalence of Open Source
Who would have thought, two decades ago, that open source code was going to dominate the software field? Vallified’s Philip O’Toole meditates on “The Strange Economics of Open-Source Software.” Though the industry gives so much away for free, it’s doing quite well for itself.
O’Toole notes that closed-source software is still in wide use, largely in banks’ embedded devices and underpinning services. Also, many organizations are still attached to their Microsoft and Oracle products. But the tide has been turning; he writes:
“The increasing dominance of open-source software seems particularly true with respect to infrastructure software. While security software has often been open-source through necessity — no-one would trust it otherwise — infrastructure is becoming the dominant category of open-source. Look at databases — MySQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB, CouchDB, InfluxDB (of which I am part of the development team), or cockroachdb. Is there anyone today that would even consider developing a new closed-source database? Or take search technology — elasticsearch, Solr, and bleve — all open-source. And Linux is so obvious, it is almost pointless to mention it. If you want to create a closed-source infrastructure solution, you better have an enormously compelling story, or be delivering it as part of a bigger package such as a software appliance.”
It has gotten to the point where developers may hesitate to work on a closed-source project because it will do nothing for their reputation. Where do the profits come from, you may ask? Why in the sale of services, of course. It’s all part of today’s cloud-based reality.
Cynthia Murrell, November 11, 2015
Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Marketing, Microsoft, News, Open source, Search, Technology
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Last.fm allows you to play music for free
Although not the complete answer, it *is* an answer and this could easily cause a big shift in online music. Here is the press release:
A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We’ve had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it’s time to spill the beans:
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be.
Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening our coverage into other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track can be played up to 3 times for free before a notice appears telling you about our upcoming subscription service. The soon-to-be announced subscription service will give you unlimited plays and some other useful things. We’re also working on bringing full-length tracks to the desktop client and beyond.
Free full-length tracks are obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song. Music on Last.fm is perpetually monetized. This is good because artists get paid based on how popular a song is with their fans, instead of a fixed amount.
We will be paying artists directly.
We already have licenses with the various royalty collection societies, but now unsigned artists can put their music on Last.fm and be paid directly for every song played. This helps to level the playing-field—now you can make music, upload it to Last.fm and earn money for each play. If you make music, you can sign up to participate for free.
We’re not printing money to pay for this—but the business model is simple enough: we are paying artists and labels a share of advertising revenue from the website.
Today we’re redesigning the music economy. There are already millions of tracks available, and we’re adding more every day. We will continue to work hard to bring this to everyone in the world.
Take it for a spin.
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Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul Review — B+
September 30, 2017 Reviewsanime, reviewdraggle
It’s like the first season but with a girl in love.
It’s really good, but I didn’t love it to quite the same extent I loved the first season. I feel like things slowed down with the extra episodes, and it never achieved the same level of comedy as I recall the first season achieving. (Keep in mind, it’s been a while, so maybe I’ve just forgotten.) There’s no Anima and Rita has much less of a role this season, which is probably the main reason.
I’m also not too sure about Nina, the main character of this season. Sometimes I feel that I like her, but usually I’m just, “why?” She’s a very goofy character, but unlike the previous goofy characters this show has had, for the vast majority of the time she’s goofy but not actually funny. And I thought her whole romance story was kind of dumb. The only reason she likes the guy is because he’s hot. It wasn’t very compelling.
But don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great show. I love the sense of style. A superb soundtrack too. Some of the best OPs and EDs of the year. And I love the direction the story took, with how the oppressors became the oppressed. Room for plenty of interesting directions which this show didn’t fail to pursue.
Storytelling – B – Great change from first season!
Voice – A – Love the style and world.
Characters – B – Not entirely sure about Nina.
Attention Grab – B – Kept my attention throughout for the most part.
Production – A – Looks great.
Overall – B+
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2 thoughts on “Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul Review — B+”
In no way was Nina the biggest weakness of this show, as its biggest weakness was the genocidal maniac that Nina loved. For some completely unfathomable reason, the writers decided to wholly redeem King Charoice by the show’s end with nary a word about all of the murderous havoc he wreaked to attain his supposedly worthy goal. Virgin Soul started out strong, but around the middle became a something of a stultifying mess, and by the end was truly just embarrassing.
You’re absolutely right. I just sort of mushed them together mentally since that stupid king is barely a character at all more than a hot love interest for Nina. That guy didn’t make a single lick of sense.
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Big Five Presents Luxury Tours in Boutique Hotels in Colombia
Last updated on November 15th, 2016 by Amy Lombard
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Discover Colombia in exquisite boutique hotels from Big Five luxury travel company. Big Five Tours & Expeditions is a premier luxury travel company specializing in individualized vacations worldwide and now debuts new luxury tours to stay in Anandá Hotel, the newest luxury hotel in Cartagena, Colombia.
“Colombia is undergoing a remarkable renaissance,” states Ashish Sanghrajka, president of Big Five. “It now offers a wealth of cultural and historic attractions as well as superb boutique hotels such as the Anandá Hotel Boutique in Cartagena. This is a brand new luxury hotel, and typifies the incredible strides Colombia has made in recent years to become the new star on the international travel scene. This new breed of luxury boutique hotels says a lot about the new spirit and energy of this country.”
For example, the Anandá is an intimate and elegant restored colonial mansion, which has been updated to exceed modern standards of style and comfort. Its 24 suites are part of the original house, and include 16 suites, four double suites and four grand suites. The interior design, the furniture, the linens and extra touches meet the highest standards in luxury accommodations.
Inside the walled city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the heart of the historic district, Anandá Hotel is within walking distance of important historical buildings such as the Cathedral, San Pedro’s Church, the Naval Museum and Santo Domingo Square. Guests can also enjoy exotic beaches, water sports, golf courses, shopping and fine dining in the surrounding area.
Big Five has luxury tours ranging from 8-13 days that delve into Colombia’s rich culture and the traditions around Colombia’s renowned coffee. Starting from $2450 per person, land only, double occupancy, the itinerary includes Cartagena. The Anandá Hotel Boutique can easily be incorporated into this or other Colombia getaways.
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Shopping Precincts in Ho Chi Minh
by Fiona | Where to Shop
Ho Chi Minh may not be the capital city of Vietnam, but it definitely deserves the title of shopping capital! A modern metropolis in the making, Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon as it is still known to locals, has managed to shed its image as a war-torn city to become the bright beacon of economic freedom in Vietnam, gradually catching up to booming Asian cities like Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.
Numbering in as one of the top things to do in Ho Chi Minh, shopping can be found on every street and corner in Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh’s shopping scene is small, but what it lacks in terms of volume, it certainly makes up for in quality. The city’s top billing local designers jostle for space with international names on the glitzy street of Dong Khoi, whilst little lanes are crowded with an interesting array of local boutiques that draw attention to Saigon’s talented artisans and craftspeople.
Although Ho Chi Minh is made up of 24 districts, tourists rarely venture beyond districts 1, 3 and 5. And why would we need to? These districts alone are ample hunting grounds for luxury boutiques, cool concept stores, sprawling markets, antique streets, souvenir shops and more! Want to get on intimate terms with the city’s culture, people and hidden gems? Then get those walking shoes ready and read our quick breakdown to the key shopping precincts in Ho Chi Minh.
The locus of city life in Saigon, District 1 is where majority of the city’s commercial activity is concentrated. Home to most of the major sights and historical monuments such as the Reunification Palace and the Ben Thanh Market, the two most important items in your itinerary (shopping and sightseeing, in that order) can be conquered in one convenient sweep.
At the heart of it all lies Dong Khoi, a wide, picturesque street strewn with an intriguing mix of high-brow international stores, distinguished local designer boutiques and humble artisanal gift shops. Just off Dong Khoi, Mac Thi Buoi is a trendy little street housing some of Saigon’s top-notch local designers. Running perpendicular to Dong Khoi are the two main threads of Le Thanh Ton and Ly Tu Trong, both popular shopping grounds. One of the longest streets in the city, Hai Ba Trung runs from District 1 into District 3 and is riddled with shops and restaurants. Saigon’s renowned antique street – Le Cong Kieu, is also situated in District 1. Then there are a number of smaller shopping strips like Ton That Thiep and Thi Sach Street spread in fitful bursts all over town.
A largely residential enclave, District 2 offers a break from the non-stop frenetic bustle of District 1. A mere 20-min drive from the city centre, leaf-arched residential villas and large gated terrace houses dominate the scenery in District 2. Drawn by a healthy expat population, an outcrop of tasteful and contemporary shops has surfaced around the district’s popular international schools. Anchoring the area is the commercially busy street of Xuan Thuy. Here you will find a host of refined furniture and homeware stores and children’s and women’s fashion boutiques scattered along the street’s length. Trail off into Thao Dien Street and the neighbouring street of Le Van Mien for more of the same.
Read the guide to shopping in District 2.
Close enough to be considered District 1’s backyard, District 3 enjoys a quieter pace of life than its overcrowded neighbour. Similar to District 1, leafy avenues skirt around a sprinkling of French colonial buildings and historical relics such as the War Remnants Museum, Jade Emperor Pagoda and Xa Loi Pagoda. Fashion boutiques and multi-label stores are a dime a dozen in District 3. The main arteries of Vo Van Tan, Le Van Sy and Nguyen Dinh Chieu offer plenty of great alternatives to shopping at the malls. Unfolding across District 1 and 3, Truong Dinh is worth an amble for its pretty lifestyle shops and jazzy cafes.
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Interaction of VIF Delegation with China Institute for International Strategic Studies at Beijing
A VIF delegation led by Mr. Ajit Doval and comprising of Gen. (Retd.) NC Vij, Amb. PP Shukla, Lt. Gen. Ravi Sawhney and Brig (Retd.) Vinod Anand visited China Institute for International Strategic Studies at Beijing on 15th March 2013 and interacted with their faculty. The topics discussed were Sino-Indian relations and the emerging scenario in Afghanistan.
Mr. Ajit Doval highlighted the importance of bilateral relationship between the two countries. He was of the view that there are plenty of commonalities between the two nations as far as threats and challenges to the two countries are concerned. There was a need to look for innovative ways to improve the relations between the two. Mr. Zhao Ning, the leader of the Chinese delegation agreed with the observations made by Mr. Doval and stressed that both are emerging economies and if we like the current century to be described as Asian century then cooperation between India and China was very important.
Amb. Zhao Gang, a former Ambassador to India deliberated upon Sino-Indian relations. He opined that Chinese government was satisfied with the present state of China-India relations; he highlighted the frequent exchanges between high level leaders from both the sides. There was cooperation in multilateral organizations/institutions, enhanced economic exchanges, cooperation in anti-terror efforts etc. Yet, he said that there were problems in some areas; peace and tranquility has been maintained on the border and there was a need for a resolution. However, his remark that Sino-Indian border is 2000 KM in length was promptly questioned by Amb. PP Shukla and Gen. NC Vij. Amb. PP Shukla further stressed that this claim of border being 2000 KM long was of recent origin and the solution to the boundary question should be found at the earliest. Amb. Shukla also remarked that the question of trade imbalance between India and China also needs to be addressed. Further, China was similar to India culturally and emotionally and Beijing should leverage this goodwill.
Gen. NC Vij spoke about his official visit to China and remarked that so far as boundary issue was concerned not much progress has been made in the last 13 years; he was of the view that if China has been able to solve its boundary problems with 13 countries then why can’t it be solved with India. He also remarked on China’s unconditional friendship with Pakistan with which India is uncomfortable. Further, there was a need to enhance mil to mil relations between the two countries.
Afghanistan issue was also deliberated upon and Chinese perspective on ‘possible scenarios of post-2014 Afghanistan’ was articulated by Mr. Lin Yu. Main concern was the spread of terrorism in case of unstable conditions in Afghanistan. There was a need for an Afghan national reconciliation otherwise a civil war scenario was a distinct possibility. Mr. Mu Changlin also observed that China was very worried about the situation. Mr. Ajit Doval and Lt. Gen. Ravi Sawhney gave out the Indian perspective on evolving situation in Afghanistan and possibilities of cooperation between the neighbours of Afghanistan including China and India. There was a general consensus that there were many uncertainties in the emerging Afghan scenario and regional cooperation was necessary for a positive outcome.
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Jerry Ragovoy in the Cathedral Of Soul
by Andy Schwartz
When Howard Tate died on December 2, 2011, most obituaries for the great soul singer mentioned the name of another man who’d passed on in July of this year. Jerry Ragovoy (September 4, 1930 – July 13, 2011) was a songwriter, producer, pianist, and the studio Svengali behind Tate’s career masterpiece, the 1967 Verve album originally issued as Howard Tate and later retitled Get It While You Can.
Arguably, Ragovoy never made a better album in his career. In fact, Rags didn’t make that many albums: Much of his most influential music appeared on singles released before 1967, when Sgt. Pepper broke the “album market” wide open. Howard Tate/Get It While You Can features superb vocal performances by Tate, whether singing church–flavored ballads (the title track, “I Learned It All The Hard Way”) or blues standards (“How Blue Can You Get”); sturdy arrangements by Ragovoy, frequent partner Garry Sherman, or Artie Butler; and tough, committed playing by a cast of NYC session players including pianist Paul Griffin and guitarists Cornell Dupree and Eric Gale.
Finally, Howard Tate/Get It While You Can contains the original versions of some of Ragovoy’s best and most–covered compositions including “Ain't Nobody Home” (B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt), “Get It While You Can” (Janis Joplin), and “Look At Granny Run Run” (Grand Funk, Ry Cooder). Several notable non–LP singles emerged from the Tate sessions including “Stop,” written by Ragovoy with Mort Shuman, later covered by both Sam Moore and Jimi Hendrix.
But if Jerry Ragovoy had never worked with Howard Tate…had never written “Get It While You Can” or “Ain’t Nobody Home”…we’d still be hanging his name in the Soul Hall of Fame. Here are some of the reasons why:
GARNET MIMMS & THE ENCHANTERS – “Cry Baby” mp3
Written by Jerry Ragovoy (as “Norman Meade”) and Bert Berns (as “Bert Russell”) Released July 1963 as United Artists 629. No. 1 Billboard R&B (three weeks), No. 12 Pop. available on Cry Baby
In his liner notes for the 1993 CD Cry Baby: The Best of Garnet Mimms (all 25 tracks produced by Jerry Ragovoy), Robert Pruter wrote that prior to the July 1963 release of this landmark single, the sporadic soul hits of the period were “mainly easily digestible songs by Sam Cooke and Chuck Jackson that fitted well into the pop mainstream of the day, so that nothing seemed alien or new about them. ‘Cry Baby’ was different. The song was a gospelized production so full of the soul–saving, fire–and–brimstone ecstasies of the black sanctified church that it singularly stood apart…Never had the public heard anything so intense and so emotional on Top 40 radio.”
Ragovoy told Pruter he’d worked on the song “on and off for about two years” and, in his efforts to place the finished master, had been given the brush–off by executives at various labels: “Typically, in the record industry, if it doesn’t sound like anything the record executives are familiar with, they turn it down.” With Jerry as writer and producer, Garnet Mimms placed eight more songs on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The consistent excellence of their output was such that even Mimms’ commercial misfires later became ideal cover material: “Look Away” for the Spencer Davis Group with Stevie Winwood, “My Baby” for Janis Joplin.
ERMA FRANKLIN – “Piece of My Heart” mp3
Written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
Released 1967 as Shout 221. No. 10 Billboard R&B, No. 62 Pop.
available on Piece of Her Heart: Epic & Shout Years
Ragovoy co–wrote this soul classic with frequent collaborator Bert Berns and probably played the piano part that forms the bedrock of the arrangement. One of only two singles ever charted by Aretha Franklin’s older sister, “Piece Of My Heart” is probably Rags’ best–known song thanks to Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), whose cover version reached No. 12 in 1968 and has remained a staple of classic rock radio ever since. Erma’s original was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1968; twenty–five years later, in 1992, after renewed exposure in a British TV commercial for Levi’s, her recording entered the UK Top Ten.
THE ENCHANTERS – “God Bless the Girl and Me” mp3
Written by Samuel Bell & Lorraine Ellison. Produced & arranged by Jerry Ragovoy. Released March 1966 as Loma 2035.
Garnet Mimms and Sam Bell were members of a Philly vocal group, the Gainors, who left to form the Enchanters. The success of “Cry Baby” pushed Mimms to the forefront, however, and soon the other members (including Zola Pearnell and Charles Boyer) were cutting tracks without him. The Enchanters’ “I Wanna Thank You” struggled to No. 91 R&B in the fall of ’64, but with Ragovoy producing and Sam Bell as a contributing writer, the group came up with two more deep–soul stunners, “I Want To Be Loved” (Loma 2012, released February ’65) and “God Bless The Girl and Me.” I’m pretty sure Sam Bell is singing lead on these sides; if so, then he’s nearly the equal of Garnet Mimms for church–bred intensity and passionate articulation. The combination of piano and organ is another key element derived from gospel music and a trademark of Ragovoy’s sound in this period.
MIRIAM MAKEBA – “Pata Pata” mp3
Written by Miriam Makeba & Jerry Ragovoy. Produced by Jerry Ragovoy.
Released 1967 on Reprise 0606.
available on Pata Pata
Ragovoy’s biggest crossover hit of the Sixties after “Cry Baby” was also among his least typical. Thanks to the support of Harry Belafonte, by 1967 South Africa’s Miriam Makeba was already established in the US: She had released several LPs on RCA and been nominated for a Grammy the previous year. I’m not sure if Makeba was signed to Reprise at the time she recorded “Pata Pata,” or if Ragovoy independently produced and then shopped the master.
In any case, singer and producer retooled a South African folk song (that Makeba had first recorded in 1956) and the result was a sui generis hit that reached No. 7 R&B/No. 12 Pop in 1967. “Pata Pata” was the first song of South African origin since “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” to make a major impact on American audiences. Makeba’s hit preceded by about a year the Number One success of “Grazing In The Grass” as recorded by her then–husband, trumpeter Hugh Masakela.
LORRAINE ELLISON – "Stay With Me" mp3
Warner Bros. LP 182, released 1969. Produced by Jerry Ragovoy.
available on Stay With Me
Along with Howard Tate/Get It While You Can, this is the other great Jerry Ragovoy album.
Its creation began with the title single, “Stay With Me,” co–written by Ragovoy and George David Weiss. Sometime in 1966, Frank Sinatra canceled a New York recording session, potentially leaving his label Warner Bros. with the bills for a 46–piece orchestra and no music to show for it. On two days’ notice, Ragovoy, arranger Garry Sherman, and singer Lorraine Ellison (born 1931, Philadelphia PA) hustled into the studio and recorded “Stay With Me” – a towering, operatic ballad that many consider the pinnacle of East Coast “uptown soul.”
“To many people, ‘Stay With Me’ still typifies the basic idea of what real soul music is all about,” wrote UK soul music maven David Nathan in a 1974 article for Blues & Soul. “And there aren't too many soulful people around who don't get that spine–chilling tingle when they hear it, even to this day.”
“‘Stay With Me’ was a song that Jerry Ragovoy had written with Mr. Weiss, and I thought it was going to be a monster smash,” Lorraine Ellison told Nathan in Blues & Soul. “It certainly looked that way – the record had twenty-six national breakouts in the States, and it did make it onto the soul charts and made some headway onto the nationals.
“But at that time, Warners was just not into black music, period. They really had no idea how to promote the record and they had no real way of getting into the R&B market.”
The single made it to No. 11 R&B/No. 64 Pop, and these stats – along with some positive reviews and a certain underground buzz – were enough for Warner Brothers to green–light a full album. Heart and Soul: Introducing Miss Lorraine Ellison was released as WB 1674 in 1966. Produced by Ragovoy but arranged and conducted by jazz man Oliver Nelson, it was an uneven set that found Ellison singing familiar standards (“Cry Me A River”) and other people’s hits pop (“A Change Is Gonna Come,” “If I Had a Hammer”). “Stay With Me” was buried in the middle of Side Two, and only one other song, “When Love Flies Away,” bore a Ragovoy writing credit. Heart and Soul did not chart and was soon deleted.
“Then interesting things began to happen,” West Coast rock critic John Mendelsohn wrote in his liner notes for Stay With Me – the second Lorraine Ellison album, unexpectedly issued by Warner Bros. in the fall of 1969. “[Such] diverse musical figures as Laura Nyro and Carl Wayne [of The Move] listed Lorraine Ellison as their favorite female vocalist. And in Harlem...an enterprising pirate tape–duplicating operation found mobs of takers when they offered tapes of ‘Stay With Me’ at the somewhat outrageous price of $5.00 apiece.”
“… Having realized that they had an artist of almost limitless potential, both commercial and artistic, sitting around their house, [Warner Bros.] got Jerry Ragovoy busy producing a straight–ahead album of gospel–based soul, the music that Lorraine had been doing for years with such unrewarded brilliance.”
Indeed, this was the album that should have followed the single. Stay With Me is eleven tracks of pure uptown soul, with an unswerving stylistic focus and the sustained mood of a secular cathedral. Ragovoy arranged and produced the entire set; he co–wrote seven songs with (variously) Mort Shuman, Doc Pomus, Sam Bell, Bert Berns, and Ellison herself. The title song closes Side One with a bang, in a manner analogous to the placement of “Get It While You Can” on Howard Tate.
It was all too little too late, however, and Stay With Me followed Heart and Soul into the cut–out bins. But Janis Joplin must have gotten hold of a copy: She later covered “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)” on Pearl, along with four other songs co–written by Jerry Ragovoy.
LOU COURTNEY – “What Do You Want Me Yo Do” mp3
Written by Lou Courtney. Arranged by Jerry Courtney. Produced by Lou Courtney & Jerry Ragovoy. Released 1973 as Epic/CBS 5–11062. No. 48 Billboard R&B in spring 1974.
available on I'm in Need of Love
By 1973, hardcore Southern soul was pretty much a spent force, commercially if not inspirationally. Otis Redding had been dead for years, Atlantic had dropped Wilson Pickett, and Aretha Franklin was cutting jazz–flavored material with Quincy Jones. Ragovoy hooked up with R&B journeyman Lou Courtney, whose biggest chart record – the quasi–Motown dance novelty “Skate Now” – was six years behind him. Together they came up with a flute–flavored, proto–disco sound that was closer to Johnny Bristol’s “Hang On In There Baby” than to the glories of Garnet Mimms or Erma Franklin. Still, “What Do You Want Me To Do” is a genuinely infectious record with an arrangement that positively pops, and Courtney sings the hell out of it. The single crawled to No. 48 R&B and died, but not before singer and producer managed to squeeze out a pretty good album, I’m In Need of Love, also on Epic/CBS.
“Open Up Your Soul” mp3
by Erma Franklin, 1968.
“I Want To Be Loved” mp3
by Loraine Ellison, 1969.
Garnet Mimms – “Look Away”
by Garnet Mimms, 1964.
available on Warm & Soulful
"Malayisha" mp3
by Miriam Makeba, 1967.
“Ain’t Nobody Home” mp3
by Howard Tate, 1967.
available on Get It While You Can
“Stop” mp3
Posted by Ted Barron at 4:34 PM
Labels: Andy Schwartz, Bert Berns, Erma Franklin, Garnet Mimms, Howard Tate, Jerry Ragovoy, Lorraine Ellison, Lou Courtney, Miriam Makeba
"Stop" was also recorded by the James Gang for their first Yer Album and Ragovoy plays piano with them on it.
H.M.S. said...
Wow, thanks to Andy for this detailed piece on Jerry Ragovoy's production career, much appreciated and admirably done!
allen vella said...
That was an awesome 7 days of great posts..thank you!
Bruce said...
Norman Meade=Jerry Ragovoy & Bertrand Russell Berns should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These two great songwriters have a impeccable resume. May they both rest in peace.
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Opinion Duel, Day 2
Today, Gustavo Coronel fires his rebuttal in the first Venezuela Opinion Duel.
Going head to head with Gustavo Coronel
Gustavo Coronel has been writing about NiNis.
So have I.
I don't agree with a single thing he has to say about them.
So I challenged him to an Opinion Duel.
He accepted.
Click here to read the results...
Roberto Smith in his own words...
I'm translating selected excerpts of Venezuela de Primera leader Roberto Smith's online forum at Noticiero Digital. The questions are posed by Noticiero Digital readers.
Q: What's different in your offer from what we've seen and lived before?
A: We offer something no one has ever offered, not the bolivarian generation, nor the generation of '28, nor that of '58, nor those in power today: to build a first-world country economically, socially, politically and culturally, within one generation. To be the first country in Latin America to be a first-world country, like Singapur, South Korea, Taiwan and Lebannon did, among others.
I'll transcribe the opening of our statement of principles:
"Never in our history has a generation set out to turn Venezuela into one of the best countries in the world. We take on that challenge and we begin here a new era in the history of our people: the era of the construction of a first world Venezuela, a people known as one of the greatest in the world.
Our starting point is clear: all Venezuelans hope for a First World Venezuela, a society like the most successful in the world in all areas of human life, prosperous and poverty-free, with work for everyone without exclusion or marginalization, free, pluralist and republican, free of populism and authoritarianism, with an effective and just government, free of mediocrity and culturally creative. There is no other acceptable destiny, and so a First World Venezuela is the only national project that can truly unity all Venezuelans on a great common enterprise."
There is no country in the world with our potential for prosperity and social justice. We refuse to accept a mediocre destiny. That is VERY DIFFERENT from the offers that the Venezuelan people has heard before.
Q: Are you Rodolfo's son?
A: I am not related to journalist Rodolfo Schmidt, whom I admire. My father is Roberto Smith Camacho, from Churuguara, Falcon State, an engineer and first rate man, and my grandfather Juancho Smith, who was a peasant.
Q: If, right now, unity is the most important thing, what's the point of coming out to compete at this time? Doesn't it just strain the atmosphere and atomize the opposition even more?
A: I agree with you that unity is key, but I mean the unity of ALL Venezuelans around a new project to turn us into a first-world country. That, in my humble opinion, is the only "unity" that's worth anything. The idea that the country is split in two chunks is wrong. There is a huge majority of Venezuelans who don't want what we have now or what we had in the past. Together we should build that more transcendental unity, which will eventually encompass everyone. I don't see what could be bad about setting out to compete by proposing a project for real national unity.
Q: Don't you think the Opposition's possibilities for success would be more realistic if they recognized the lies and errors they've imposed on their followers over the last seven years?
A: I agree with you.
Q: Will you be the leader to recognize once and for all that there was no fraud in the referendum, that April 11th was a planned coup and that the opposition has been in the minority in Venezuela since 1998? Or are you scared of being rejected like all those who have gotten "close" to the government?
A: I don't identify with the Opposition, but rather with a new proposal (in spanish "proposición") to build a first world country. I think the Opposition allowed itself to lose the referendum ("se dejó ganar"), with or without fraud. I have severely criticized the events of April 2002. I marched peacefully along with hundreds of thousands and I was infuriated by the violence that day, but I was much more indignated by what happened afterwards.
I believe most Venezuelans today are not on one side or the other, but that they aspire to a new proposal for a First World Venezuela, without conflict, with national unity. In the past, a large majority systematically backed a project for change that offered much that was positive. But time passes, while the people still suffer and wait...
I want to unite 100% of Venezuelans, not just one part.
Q. The opposition has suffered 10 defeats since 1998. Every defeat has been decisive. Isn't that a sign that in Venezuela today there is an irrefutable rejection against everything that has to do with the political past and a firm determination not to go back?
A: I endorse the idea that THEY SHALL NOT RETURN (NO VOLVERAN) - that includes much from the not-so-recent past, but also lots from the recent past. I share the predominant concern with the excluded and the poor in the current discourse, but I am very worried about the inefficiency and corruption that are a consequence of public mismanagement.
Q: Since you are part of that political past (reference to his stint as communication minister in the early 90s), how do you intend with the stigma?
A: The only thing no one can change is their past. I am proud of my career, marked by efficiency, honesty, social commitment and good management.
Q: Do you think of yourself as right wing or left wing?
A: Part left, part right...I'd rather think of myself as first wing, like all Venezuelans. The right-left axis isn't very meaningful anymore because we live in the century of diversity, of creativity, and that axis is too simplistic.
Q: Do you think the alliance with Cuba is a positive thing?
A: I love Cubans, I hate their dictatorship. It's a historical anomaly, and I dream of helping Cuba find the liberty, the democracy and the prosperity they don't have today.
Q: Do you think CNE is legitimate? If not, why do you participate in the elections put together by an illegitimate CNE?
A: The electoral system, on the whole, is "depressing", not "First World" ("deprimente, no de primera"). We believe in elections, not in abstention, but we're demanding CNE to allow the people to count all the votes, and to get rid of the thumb-print scanners and electronic rolls that undermine the secrecy of the vote, and to clean up the electoral registry. We will keep on demanding those things until they are achieved. If they are not, we will take other steps in due course.
Q: Do you believe in Twentyfirst Century Socialism?
A: I've been studying social and political doctrines since I can remember. I was a democratic socialist (read MAS supporter) when I was at university, but I've left such simplistic views behind. Today my heart is full of solidarity and justice, but my head is focused on efficiency, that's why I believe in a proper balance between market and state, between solidarity and efficiency - I think "isms" work only to justify systems of domination. I believe we should shift from the hegemony of domination to the predominance of cooperation.
Q: Do you really think you have enough support to become president?
A: Our project for a First World Venezuela has the overwhelming support of the population, they want full employment, zero crime, a home for everyone and a First World democracy. Turning that into a vote for president demands, nonetheless, a huge effort. But history is full of election surprises. Fujimori had 0.6% in the polls 8 months before he was elected. Uribe was at 6% just 6 months before his election. Kennedy was on 3% a year before his election. And the current president had 2.5% 10 months before his election. (Note how he NEVER mentions Chavez by name, even when he - exceptionally - talks about him. -ft) Nothing is settled until the people make their choice.
The main tool I use to reach the people is to be there, to live , suffer and share with the poor people of this country. There is no other way to understand the problems of the majority except from inside the poor barries and the most misery-stricken towns. In those barrios and those towns you find the First World people of Venezuela. Those who long for a first-world country, those who want to improve their lives together, those who want to leave the fighting aside and reconnect once again in a world of opportunities for all.
Q: I want to live like they do in the Nordic countries. Will you achieve that? It's impossible: nobody wants Venezuela to be like that. Why did they take down Carlos Andres Perez? He had that goal and they wouldn't let him.
A: We Venezuelans want to live like the richest and most prosperous people on earth...but keeping our culture, identity, originality, beauty. The idea isn't to copy anyone, but to be better than everyone. How? Just two examples:
1. We will become the biggest energy superpower on earth, producing 10 to 12 million barrels of oil and gas per day, processing them to maximize their added value. That will allow us to finance the projects for First World education, First World health care, and others, as well as generating over 1.5 million new productive jobs.
2. We will become a tourism powerhouse, bringing 15 million tourists a year (not the mere 300,000 who come now) on the basis of our biodiversity, our coasts, our mountains, and especially our beautiful and gentle people. That way we would create over 2.5 million jobs with good wages.
Those are just two examples, but I could go into our plans for new export industries, for a knowledge society, for modern agroindustry. Finland is a good example of a country that went from being really backward to being one of the most successful, because they rode the wave of the information society. Why can't we do something similar or better?
Learning the Lessons of the Opposition Debacle
Over the last ten days, I’ve written a series of short posts trying to summarize what has gone wrong with the Traditional Opposition, and pointing to Venezuela de Primera as a group that seems to have learned the right lessons from the Opposition debacle. Looking back, it strikes me that they read more like subsections of one long essay. So, breaking again my pledge to post only shorter pieces, I’ve stitched together those posts into an Epic Post of Opposition Bumbling and Suggestions for Making it Right Again.
1. Understanding NiNis
My starting premise was that the debate on the trustworthiness of CNE is largely misplaced – the basic reason the Opposition can’t beat Chavez at the ballot box is not fraud, it’s that most Venezuelans prefer voting for Chavez than for the Opposition. To have any hope to reverse that trend, we need to understand why.
The startling fact is that seven years into the Chavez era of furious political polarization, about half of the Venezuelan electorate remains politically non-alligned - the so-called NiNis. As a matter of simple arithmetic, it is not possible to construct an antichavista electoral majority without winning over a large chunk of this sector. But Venezuela’s Opposition faces major obstacles in winning over the politically non-alligned; basically because they don’t understand them. So, first, I want to discuss why the Opposition can’t seem to understand the NiNis, as a starting point for a broader discussion of how the Opposition has managed to alienate the broad political center where elections are won.
Obviously, a lot of Opposition supporters are extremely frustrated by the NiNi position. I've come to think the heart of the problem is confusion about the word "opposition."
There are two ways to understand the word in a political context, and the subtle difference between the two has given rise to endless misunderstanding...
Princeton WordNet renders them as:
opposition (n) : a body of people united in opposing something
Opposition (n) : the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected (e.g. "Her Majesty's loyal opposition")
The first definition is generic: anyone who disagrees with something is in opposition to it. In English, at least, this generic meaning is conveyed by writing it with a little "o". The second meaning - often capitalized in English - is specific: the Opposition is the particular set of parties and leaders that leads the opposition to the government.
The point about NiNis is that they are in opposition but not in Opposition.
When pollsters ask NiNis "are you part of the opposition?" what NiNis hear is "are you part of the Opposition?" They interpret it specifically, not generically.
Not surprisingly, they say no. The word brings to mind the old Coordinadora Democratica, what I've been calling the Traditional Opposition - and the one thing NiNis are agreed on is that they hate the Traditional Opposition. They reject its radicalism, its Chavez fixation, its obsession with incomprehensible detail, its negativism...they have lots and lots of perfectly good reasons to be upset with the Opposition .
But Opposition supporters usually think of the word generically - and so they can't fathom how anyone who is opposed to Chavez could possibly be a NiNi in good faith.
This is why Opposition supporters get so frustrated with opposition-minded NiNis. "If you oppose the government," they say in exasperation, "then - by definition - you must be part of the opposition! Otherwise you're either a fence-sitter, an opportunist or an idiot!"
"Not at all!" reply the NiNis, "we don't have to be in the Opposition to be opposed to Chavez!"
Thing is: they're talking about subtly different things, but this isn't immediately apparent. So the misunderstanding drags on and on and on...
What the polling data show, though, is that the Opposition has lost the support of large chunks of the opposition. My last few posts just express my anger at the Opposition's inability to grasp this, and its unwillingness take drastic action to reverse the trend.
If the Traditional Opposition doesn't realize it has to change to win back the opposition, then the opposition will have to find a way to form a New Opposition - one embodying the message of optimism and renewal they constantly tell the pollsters they are hungry for.
2. Antichavismo without Chavez
The Opposition, as we've known it, has failed. On this, we're all more or less agreed. It's failed on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. But, to my mind, the most basic failures have been tactical.
Time and again, Opposition leaders have centered political debate on issues that play to Chavez's advantage. Chief among these is the issue of Chavez himself.
It baffles us, angers us, dismays us and infuriates us, but most Venezuelans kinda like Chavez. A good 30% idolize him, another 40% have mixed feelings about him, but only a relatively small minority positively detest him like the Opposition leadership does. In poll after poll, Chavez personally gets much higher marks than "the government", "the cabinet", or anything else associated with Chavez.
How might a tactically savvy Opposition respond to this polling trend? You'd think it would try to refocus debate away from Chavez the man and towards his government's incompetence. But this hasn't happened. Opposition leaders' visceral horror at his caudillismo and autocratic zeal prevents it. With remarkable singleness of purpose, they work to keep debate centered on the one aspect of Chavismo that's most popular with the electorate at large.
Not surprisingly, it hasn't exactly worked. So maybe it's worth trying something different. Maybe the smart way to go about this is to put together an anti-government discourse that scrupulously avoids even mentioning Chavez.
Impossible?
Venezuela de Primera doesn't think so...
3. Discipline, Optimism, Renewal
More than its failures, what exasperates the opposition grassroots is that the Opposition leadership doesn't seem to learn from those failures. Today, I want to go deeper into the Opposition inability to put together a message that people might want to vote for.
The Opposition's main message problem leading up to last year's Recall Referendum was its inability to communicate in a disciplined way. The old Coordinadora Democratica was an absolute gallinero, a loose confederation of politically very diverse groups brought together only by visceral antichavismo. It's not surprising that such a disaggregated coalition could not settle on a limited, deliberately chosen set of key themes and stick to them. The CD members never accepted a single leader, or even a strong central secretariat, with real power to impose some "message discipline."
Not surprisingly, the CD's communications quickly degenerated into an incoherent potpourri of anti-Chavez bile, with spokesmen competing to out-do one another in a game of "quien-es-mas-antichavista". What passed for a "communication strategy" wasn't much more than a string of anti-Chavez rants carried live on Globovision and Union Radio, each stressing different themes in different ways. There was no message discipline at all, largely because there was no organization to impose message discipline.
This combination of message indiscipline and Chavez fixation made it impossible for the CD to put forward an optimistic message. This is important. A pile of social science research shows that voters respond much better to optimistic messages. Even after seven years, Chavez's relentless optimism is a big part of his electoral draw. But an opposition held together only by distaste for Chavez could only talk about how bad things would be if Chavez stayed in power. Their message came over as relentlessly negative: a major turnoff for voters.
A related failure was the CD's inability to put forward a message of renewal. This was also a function of CD heterogeneity. The perceived imperative for "unity" inside such a varied organization meant melding together the fourth republic dinosauriat with sixth republic reformism. The prominence of fourth republic figures in the CD made it an easy target for government attacks. How on earth do you convince the voters that Henry Ramos Allup is really going to go for a forward-looking reformist government? That Antonio Ledezma is the future?! Those are some tough sells!
If the Traditional Opposition had had the guts to accept defeat in last year's referendum, it might have launched a serious internal debate about these problems. Instead, they decided to duck behind a fraud claim on evidence that couldn't convince anyone outside the hardcore base. The claim put a stop to any serious consideration of the CD's message problem. The Traditional Opposition, today, has made exactly zero progress on message discipline, or on forging an optimistic message of renewal.
Again, I can't help but notice that there's only one political group out there that seems to have clearly understood the need to put out an optimistic message of renewal in a disciplined way: Venezuela de Primera. I can see no reason to think that anyone else has quite learned the lessons of the CD failure.
4. Talking to the NiNis
Another area where the Coordinadora Democratica failed disastrously was in thinking through its target audience. By and large, the Traditional Opposition was happy to talk to hardcore antichavistas only. It never really put together a message to attract the political center. It still hasn't.
This is a serious problem. For all the talk about polarization, both hardcore antichavismo and hardcore chavismo have remained minority positions in Venezuela over the last two years. The largest single piece of the political cake has remained the the politically orphaned people who question both Chavez and the opposition – the confusingly dubbed NiNis. According to survey and focus group data gathered by Hinterlaces, 51% of voters were politically non-alligned in March 2005. In the 20 months preceding that study, the NiNis averaged 47% of the electorate.
According to the study, 30% of the Ni Nis identify with some of Chavez's values, but would welcome new political alternatives. They don't consider themselves chavistas, but they voted against revoking Chavez. Half of NiNis broadly question Chavez, but see a few positive aspects in his discourse and his government. 60% of this group voted against Chavez in the referendum. The remaining 20% of NiNis oppose the government radically, but don't identify with the Traditional Opposition. In fact, the one thing that brings NiNis together is that they all reject a Traditional Opposition they see as a holdover from the despised fourth republic.
So the Traditional Opposition has pretty successfully alienated a vast political center. The good news is that 69% of the people Hinterlaces interviewed in March ardently wished for a credible alternative to Chavez. They wanted a fresh face, one that isn't fixated on Chavez, with a positive vision for the future, and free from the stench of puntofijismo.
If the polling data can be believed, the country is ready and waiting for a group like Venezuela de Primera. Run by a frighteningly bright guy, disciplined in its message, free of cuarta republica dinosaurs, armed with an optimistic message of renewal taylor made to the demands of NiNis, fully conscious of where the Traditional Opposition went wrong and determined to learn from those mistakes.
5. Picking Themes that Resonate
The Opposition’s amazing ability to turn off the political center needs to be carefully considered. Part of the problem I’ve gone through already: its negativism, Chavez-fixation, and fourth republic bedfellows have alienated precisely the people they most need to defeat Chavez. But the Opposition’s choice of political themes has also been a major problem. The Traditional Opposition consistently alienates the political center by focusing on particularistic, nitty-gritty matters, often technical in nature, which baffle even many experts and leave the NiNis totally cold. While Chavez leans on themes that resonate with people's aspirations, the Opposition keeps getting bogged down in incomprehensible detail.
There are a million examples of this. In 2001, the Opposition spent months arguing that Chavez should be tried for misallocating FIEM funds. Now, personally, I agree what happened with FIEM was a scandal - the guy more or less admitted to a criminal offense in public. Politically, alas, that's beside the point. The explanation of the crime hinged on a detailed understanding of macroeconomic stabilization legislation, budgeting laws and parliamentary procedure, issues most people neither understand or care about. As a matter of law, the accusation was spot on. As a matter of political communications, it was just silly.
At different times, this Opposition penchant for droning on at great length about incomprehensible details has latched onto topics as varied as data transmission patterns to and from CNE voting machines, the macroeconomics of central bank reserve management, the doctrine of the "Estado Docente," the aplicability of Benford's Law to elections data, juridical doctrines on the relative competence of different chambers within the Supreme Tribunal, the geological dynamics of heavy crude well management, and many, many others. Say what you will about each case on its own merits, but it was always absurd to expect these sorts of topics to "catch fire" politically.
Meanwhile, Chavez limited his political rhetoric to crisp, clear, emotionally resonant themes that anyone at any level of education could understand. Which of these is smarter politics?
What the Traditional Opposition failed to see is that the vast majority of voters care about symbols and they care about their day-to-day lives. You can mobilize them with emotionally resonant, symbolically dense discourses - Chavez's specialty - and with messages about their day-to-day problems - the Opposition’s great wasted opportunity. But you can't mobilize them if they can't understand you.
Tactically, the Traditional Opposition failed calamitously at the basic, emotive trick any politician needs to pull off to get votes: connecting with voters' aspirations. Connecting, in an emotionally meaningful way, with their hopes for the future, their desires, their fantasies even.
At the very least, voters need to be convinced that those who aspire to lead them understand them in some basic way. That they get it, they sympathize, that they feel their pain, to borrow that awful Clintonian formulation. Chavez is a genius at this sort of thing. The Traditional Opposition never even tried to compete, retreating instead into arcane debates that made them seem utterly out of touch. Seen in this light, it's not really a surprise we kept getting our butts kicked at the ballot box.
We need to learn from those mistakes. A renewed Opposition needs to learn to play the game of aspirational politics. Again, I'll point to Venezuela de Primera as a group that seems to have learned this lesson. On their homepage, you read this little blurb from the current Miss Venezuela:
"Today I'm the happiest woman in the world... With the money I get I will help my family: I want to fix up my mom's room, and my brother's, get rid of the leak in the roof... I don't picture myself driving the BMW I won - it's a great car, but it's too risky to drive it around town. They'll think I'm rich and I don't want to risk my life. I have enough for the basics, and I do need a little car to get around. For sure I want to save, to work hard to make sure my kids can get work. I want my own house, so I can give my kids everything I couldn't have."
It's a simple message, really. Modest, optimistic, realistic and forward looking. It speaks to people's aspirations. Speak consistently, optimistically to these themes in a disciplined way, and maybe you can get people to identify with your message. Drone on and on about some technical detail they can't understand, and they certainly won't.
Before closing this essay, I want to stress that I don’t actually know Roberto Smith or anyone else in the Venezuela de Primera team – and I am not actually a VdP zealot. Roberto may well turn out to be an electoral dud. The movement may not catch on at all. What concerns me – as I’ve tried to stress again and again – are opposition tactics. At the level of political communications, of political marketing, I think VdP has a very interesting approach. Ideally, I wish the Traditional Opposition would sit up, take the polling data seriously, think through their past mistakes carefully, and start copying VdP’s approach. What I will say, though, is that VdP is the first group I see that gets serious about the Opposition’s message problem and makes drastic changes to address it. It’s a promising sign…but, for now, it’s nothing more than that.
The Coming Venezuela-Mercosur-EU Free Trade Area
I'll take a break from opposition bashing and write about economic issues for a change. Believe it or not, I'm still writing a Ph.D. dissertation, and believe it or not it has nothing at all to do with Venezuelan politics. It's about trade policy making and the WTO. So the second part of this item about the EU electoral mission caught my eye.
Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez assured EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner that Venezuela's decision to join Mercosur (which is baffling on its own merit) would not delay ongoing Mercosur-EU negotiations to launch an Interregional Association Agreement.
What does that mean, exactly?
Since 1998, the EU and Mercosur have been negotiating a preferential trade deal. Under WTO trade rules, preferential trade deals must liberalize "substantially all trade." And, indeed, the EU says its negotiations with Mercosur aim at the "liberalization of trade in goods and services, aiming at free trade, in conformity with WTO rules."
So - and hardly anyone seems to have caught on to this - by joining Mercosur Venezuela would be joining a Free Trade Agreement not just with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, but also with the whole of the EU...in a few years' time.
Sumate Will Play Ball with the EU
Sumate, which has taken a very hard line against CNE recently, today welcomed the EU's decision to send an elections observation mission, calling it a chance to expose CNE irregularities.
Great! They've had a year to fine-tune their theory of what CNE is doing wrong. They should have it licked by now. Unless Europe is somehow unable to rise to the level of technological sophistication of Plaza Caracas, any electronic fraud will almost certainly be detected.
Very good! Now we can get down to campaigning!
...erm...anyone...anyone...
When opposition is not Opposition
A lot of Opposition supporters are extremely frustrated by the NiNi position. I've come to think the heart of the problem is a misunderstanding about the word "opposition."
(I didn't know this rule of capitalization - so I haven't been using it consistently in my last few posts - but it's quite useful, so I'll adopt it.)
This, I think, is the reason so many Opposition supporters get so frustrated with opposition-minded NiNis. "If you oppose the government," they say in exasperation, "then - by definition - you must be part of the opposition! Otherwise you're either a fence-sitter, an opportunist or an idiot!"
This just in: European Union will Monitor Dec. 4th Parliamentary Elections
It's official: the EU will send 150 monitors to oversee the December parliamentary elections.
So now we have credible monitors, and a CNE commitment to count the ballots from a third of the voting centers - which makes massive fraud a statistical impossibility. If the Supreme Tribunal votes to outlaw the "Twins" - the only thing missing will be...erm, an actual campaign by the opposition!
Debating the NiNis
Today, I've decided to post the little back and forth between Daniel Duquenal and myself from yesterday's comments section. Being the Sunday Supplement, it runs a bit longer than my pledge allows. I'm insisting on the NiNi topic because I think the opposition as a whole has a real problem understanding their position, and it's really hurt us. Daniel, btw, is the guy behind Venezuela News and Views, better known as Daniel's blog. For newbies, I go by my nickname "Quico" in the comments section.
Are you bent on dicovering warm water?
All this is fine, and known for quite a while, starting with the opposition failure to connect with its own constitutency, even its hard core one.
One thing that you might want to look at is the NiNi voting intention no matter what. I bet you that you would find really interesting results there...
The problem in your argument is that after February 27 2004, you cannot be a NiNi anymore: you are with Chavez, you are against him or you do not give a crap. NiNi is actually a code name for people who do not give a crap about politics, human rights or whatever. They only care about what they can get now, in the present tense. If Nini are swelling again it is because they are not getting as much as they were getting or not as much as they were hoping.
NiNi are the product of nearly 50 years of crass populism. Until they do not go hungry they will not take a stand. Convincing them is an expensive and risk laced enterprise. The NiNi were agaisnt Chavez in 2003 and had a great time in the oppo highway bailoterapia, but came back to him in 2004 when Misiones were more fun, and are drifting again and wil go for again and so and so no matter who is in charge in Venezuela.
No, I think that what is better than VdP (by the way VdP sounds kind of VenDe Patria you know) is to create a party of the democratic right and accept that it will take at least 5 years until any possible long lasting electorate is built, amen of winning even the election of alcalde de Tucusiapon. Only when the debate gets back on concrete values and populism failure becomes more apparent (with 25 millons of us in here it should not be long until we run out of money) we will not be able to effect any positive change. The best chance for a real efficient social democracy in Venezuela passes through the previous construction of a real right (this is what happened in Chile by the way as the succes of Lagos is due to the existence of a true right wing opposition).
In other words, if you want to do something with the NiNi once and for all, a little bit of forcing the issues might be more difficult to do but might have better long term results. VdP, I do not see them doing it.
By the way, I love this debate. Something you will never see in a chavista page.
daniel | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 9:21 am | #
Alas, Daniel - this is just not what the polling data shows! Hinterlaces, which has done more careful study of these guys than anyone, goes to pains to differentiate NiNis from indifferents, which are a different group altogether. And their focus groups show clearly that NiNis very often have very clear, very definite political ideas. Being skeptical of chavismo in no way stops them from rejecting the TRADITIONAL opposition.
I think a lot of the problem we have here is with Language. NiNi is a misleading label. It seems to hint at indifference, or political confusion. I think no-chavista-antioposicion is more accurate, though obviously far less snappy.
Still, for sure it's good to have this debate...the problem is that it's taking place in the comments section of a blog that nobody reads instead of the pages of El Universal...
Quico | 10.22.05 - 10:49 am | #
I have to confess that the Hinterlaces polls and whole stuff was when I was very busy preparing trips etc. So I have not followed that closely. If there are still some alive links I would be glad that you send them to me.
This being said, if Hinterlaces used focus groups it would be a good approach. In particualr to test the resolve of NiNis. After the Tascon list I suspect that a lot of the so called NiNi are in fact oppo types that are scared. Eastern Europe circa 1980 was Nini land, an era where people were allowed not to show everyday support to communism but were certainly not allowed to express any opposing view. We all know how this ended a decade later.
They are also like all of these Cubans painted in the movie Havanna blues...
But perhaps you are right. We should start by defining what a NiNi is and how important a group it is based on an accurate definition of the group. I can advance you one thing: I will have a hard time in accepting the "ideological definition" of NiNism. You cannot be a NiNi in Venezuela after 02/2004. If you are you are either lying for for survival reason or you are stupid or you do not give a crap or you are dramatically misinformed. NiNi could exist again if the regime were to allow forms of dissent that could lead to questioning its hold on power. Then perhaps there would be real NiNi that would in fact wonder whether they want Chavez to remain, warts and all. Right now, this is not an option: chavistas have stolen too much money, violated too many things to risk to lose power and be investigated. It is always important to keep this last fact in mind when specualting on how the oppo can manage a credible challenge.
daniel | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 7:24 pm | #
The latest Hinterlaces study is here.
One thing you could do is go and talk to Oscar Schemel while you're in Caracas. Really engaging guy; knows more about NiNis than anyone.
I think a big part of our problem with imagining that NiNis really can exist after the reparos just expresses our personal bias - we find Chavez so execrable that we can't possibly imagine how someone could establish a kind of moral equivalence between him and the traditional oppo...but the voters are crazy, man, every pollster knows that! I mean, por dios, 45% of chavistas describe MVR as a rightwing party! En serio!!! The stuff you find when you actually go out there and talk to people about their beliefs is always screwy as hell...so I have no problem at all believing that 40-50% of the voters are real NiNis - politically engaged, lukewarm-to-angry at Chavez, and at the same time totally unwilling to put themselves under oppo leadership.
We might not like it, but the thing is reality really doesn't care how angry we get at it...that's ONE message we should've learned from the last few years...
Quico | 10.23.05 - 5:03 am | #
So we agree at least on the stupidity parameter (I beleive you used the term "crazy" but I am not as gentle as you are).
Whatchoogonna do, though?! Get pissed off that the voters are so dense? OK, well, I understand the frustration, but in the end you'll still need their votes.
I think the pataleta has gone on long enough. It's time to come to grips with the fact that like it or hate it, for whatever historical/sociological/political reason, right or wrong, crazy or sane, stupid or brilliant, THIS is what the voters think and this is what we have to work with.
What they're saying, in the end, isn't so crazy. The way Luis Vicente Leon puts it in his column today, they just want someone who is moderate, compassionate, effective and free of the stench of the cuartarepublismo. They want a forward looking message, a message of renewal and optimism. They're sick and tired of the oppo's negativism and fixation with Chavez.
OK, sure, we can keep on picking apart the regime's excesses per secula seculorum...but, to what end? Why bother comissioning all these polls and focus groups if we're not going to pay any attention to the results?
When oppo pollsters go out and ask NiNis what they want from an alternative leader, they get clear, crisp, consistent answers...and they have for a long time. So, crazy idea here: why don't we try giving it to them?
This just in: European Union will Monitor Dec. 4th...
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Douglas Eric Clegg takes space at 421 Nottingham Road (Ilkeston); the premises are approved for ‘Builders workshop and office’. D.E.Clegg & Co Ltd begins trading
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D.E.Clegg awarded a £250,000 contract, their largest to date, to build new offices and factory in Giltbrook, Nottingham. Works also on site include a new public house for the Home Brewery Company and retail outlets for Boots in Leicester
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After almost 70 years in Derbyshire, D.E.Clegg relocates to Nottingham, further developing and buying offices in The Lace Market they previously refurbished in 1989. With a current turnover of £32million, all existing 23 staff pack up the office and make the ambitious move to the Lace Market
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CLIMATE FOOLS DAY PIERS CORBYN SAMMY WILSON PHILIP FOSTER MATTHEW SINCLAIR YOUTUBE
MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Climate Fools Day 2011
Sunday, October 30th 2011, 2:05 PM EDT
Climate Fools Day 2011
Weather Action Climate Fools Day Video taken at the House of Commons on Wednesday 26th of October 2011
Many apologies for the poor sound quality, we had one cameraman, but no soundman. This YouTube is still worth it's weight in gold for climate information. Well done to all those who came, pity the AGW media and Government reps (apart from our very own Sammy Wilson) did not take time out. It may have helped them to understand how the tax payers money is being thrown down the drain. GR
JAMES DELINGPOLE PHILIP FOSTER UPDATED MEETINGS ANDREW ORLOWSKI
James Delingpole: Climate Change: an emetic fallacy: Updated by Andrew Orlowski
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I attended this and below are a couple of blogs by, repectively, James Delingpole and Bishop Hill. In many respects I would agree that the event did have a lot of talking across each other.
What was of some interest is just how little the AGWers really have in their locker. They have been aware of the severe holes in their position, but really haven't managed to invent any good replies. Eg the issues of the ice cores showing warming leading CO2 was sloughed over Prof Eric Wolff (Scott Polar Inst.) suggesting it didn't really matter which came first did it? Well I suppose not if time has no meaning, but most of us fairly simple souls have a vague intuition that cause generally precedes effect, but, hey, we can be flexible surely!
Ian Plimer's comment to me during the coffe break was, "well if that's all they can do I can put away my canon and use a pea-shooter." P.F.
Yesterday I was at Downing College, Cambridge, for a Climate Change conference organised by Professor Alan Howard, the scientist/philanthropist/entrepreneur known, inter alia, for having devised the Cambridge diet and for funding the magnificent lecture hall in which the event took place. (For more reporting – and some brilliant cartoons from Josh who sat right next to me sketching in a most impressive way – see Bishop Hill; and many, many thanks to the Howard Trust for organising it.)
Updated below by Andrew Orlowski
Source Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole
PHILIP FOSTER CLIMATE FOOLS DAY YOUTUBE
MUST SEE: 'Carbon tax-hungry govt, media ignore true facts about climate' - RT with Reverend Philip Foster
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Global warming sceptics in the UK have gathered to mark what they've dubbed 'Climate Fools Day'. On this date two years ago, snow fell in London as the British Parliament was debating a bill to tackle global warming. It was the first such early snowfall for over eighty years. Activists claimed the ironic coincidence was just more proof that the bill is a waste of billions of tax-payers' pounds. One of those doubting the reality of climate change is Reverend Philip Foster, who joins us now live from London.
REPEAL THE ACT PIERS CORBYN PHILIP FOSTER LORD MONCKTON HEADLINE STORY
A Very Heated Debate by Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (Pay Wall)
Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 3:32 AM EST
As the world is gripped by extreme weather, the global warming sceptics are gaining ground. Who is winning the battle for our hearts and minds?
Global-warming sceptics are gaining ground, but are they full of hot air? (Jasper James)
In a basement in London, in probably the smallest office in the world, an American television crew is demanding to know what the weather will be like on April 29, the day Prince William marries Kate Middleton. Any mainstream meteorologist would tell them their question is unanswerable so far in advance. But Piers Corbyn is not mainstream.
“It looks like being a cool day with blustery showers, although we do have to see if there will be a blocking high pressure to keep things away. But to do it properly we need a little more time.”
Corbyn, who is the brother of the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, has the air of a Dickensian clerk — crazy hair, disordered clothes, and he sniffs persistently through a giant nose. “He comes across,” muses one climate scientist, “as mad as a hatter, but he’s not daft.”
Source Link: thesundaytimes.co.uk
MEETINGS REPEAL THE ACT PHILIP FOSTER PIERS CORBYN
Meeting: ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’
Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 9:34 AM EST
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Also: ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’ – a landmark conference, March 19, 2011
March 01, 2011, Cambridge, UK. Press Dispensary. The price of misjudging the global response to climate change theories could be catastrophe: economic for developed nations and life-threatening for the world’s poorest people. One prevailing scientific view of climate change dominates world policy-making, leading to radical law-making of seismic significance. But is this view proven beyond reasonable doubt or is it just one theory among many, driven by vested interests? And if wrong, at what cost is it being followed ... and who will pay?
On March 19, 2011, ‘Climate Change?’, a landmark international one day conference in St Ives, Cambridge, questions the most fundamental tenets of prevailing climate change theory and digs below the sound-bite headlines. Held on the weekend running up to Climate Week, it will feature a range of experts in the field, with international scientific reputations, and will reopen a debate which has yet to be settled but which has slipped from media attention now that governments are beginning to set policies, however misguided those policies may be.
Under the full title of ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’, the conference will see the launch of a nationwide campaign to repeal the Climate Act 2008, the legislation responsible for committing the UK to a massive and costly carbon reduction programme, not to mention the present flood of wind farms. The ‘Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act’ ( www.repealtheact.co.uk ), which soft-launched on Facebook in 2010, is headed up by Fay Tuncay, who is an expert speaker at the conference. There will also be a call to establish a "Climate Change Truth Commission" with the brief of fully and impartially assessing the true state of climate change science.
PHILIP FOSTER MET OFFICE VOLCANIC ASH ADVISORY CENTRE
Rev Philip Foster: The Met Office does it again!
Once more Britain's airspace has been thrown into chaos by the Met Office's computer models (which cost the taxpayer £30 million and goodness knows how many billions in terms of lost economic activity).
We know that the Met Office doesn't bother much with evidence, witness Prof John Mitchell's unguarded remarks at the Downing College Conference (at which I was present).....
People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful,... Our approach is not entirely empirical.‘
This explains why they produced ridiculous projections, yet again, about the volcanic ash 'cloud' which bore no relation whatever to reality. Ryan Air and BA both conducted experiments (do the Met Office know the meaning of the word?) to find out where the ash might be and if it presented any threat. Both correctly measured its virtual non-existence and corrected concluded that it presented no danger to aircraft.
Also See Volcanic ash disruption: UK flights set to resume - BBC News
GREEN CARS PHILIP FOSTER BBC
Should electric cars be made to go 'vroom'? by Nick Holland BBC News: Updated by Philip Foster
With whisper-quiet electric cars set to proliferate, the motor industry is under pressure to give them an artificial noise for safety purposes, but should they sound like traditional petrol vehicles?
It is an unsettling experience watching a car drive around, hearing little more than the whisper of the wind it generates as it glides down the road.
There would have been little time to get out of its way had it gone unseen.
Such a moment is the essence of the debate over how electric and hydrogen fuel cars should sound in the future.
The answer could determine how different cities could sound in 10 or 20 years. The rise of the electric car presents a rare opportunity to tackle the persistent roar of traffic that many city dwellers are used to.
Source Link: bbc.co.uk
PHILIP FOSTER VIDEO LINK
MUST SEE VIDEO LINK: Rev Philip Foster - Global Warming Con is a Tool of Control
Sunday, April 17th 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
Reverend Philip Foster discusses the other side of the Global Warming Issue...the side that shows quite different scientific results...global warming is inflenced by the sun and not especially by mans activities. St Matthew Publishing Ltd. PF.SMP@dial.pipex.com (Disclaimer: Views and opinions presented here are for informational and educational purposes only and may not necessarily be those of the makers of this video.)
Click source to see MUST SEE VIDEO LINK [1:12] of Rev Philip Foster taken from 2008
Source Link: spike.com
New pdfs by Philip Foster
Sunday, April 4th 2010, 1:59 PM EDT
Citizens!
Attached some great A5 leaflets from Philip Foster.
The one called WhatGreenH.pdf was produced after Philip and I met two weeks ago at the UKIP conference. Philip understood the issue of counting the same energy twice over instantly and also grasped the fact that the so-called greenhouse gases actually make the earth cooler rather than warmer.
It is these two issues that are not even grasped by the majority of skeptical academics and are the major stumbling block to being effective in stopping the ongoing madness over emissions.
Also see TheTrick.pdf
Note: Please use the "clockwise" position to see the PDF files in FULL as they are "sideways" on.
Philip Foster: Hot Spot pdf
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Justice Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday extended till November 6 the interim-bail granted to former federal minister for overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar facing charges of securing graduation degree on the basis of fake intermediate certificate.
The judge directed the investigating officer to produce the all-case record till next date of hearing.
The anti corruption establishment (ACE) had lodged a case against Ghulam Sarwar for obtaining a fake degree of F.A to appear in B.A examination to meet the graduation condition in general elections of 2008.
It was alleged that Ghulam Sarwar, son of Muhammad Hayat Khan, had obtained duplicate diploma originally issued to another candidate of namesake but his father’s name was Abdul Hameed Khan.
Ghulam Sarwar used the duplicate diploma for appearing in graduation examinations and obtained BA degree eventually.
Death sentence: Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhary Tariq Javed on Wednesday awarded death sentence to Hazrat Bilal involved in murdering his colleague, a security guard, over distribution of meat on Eid ul Azha in 2009.
Convict Hazrat Bilal, a security guard in PCSIR colony, gunned down his colleague, Abdul Aziz, on November 30, 2009. It is stated that the convict had gunned down the deceased over distribution of meat on the eve of Eid ul Azha.
Later, the complainant, real brother of the deceased, Muhammad Rafique got registered an FIR in Sattokatla police against the convict under section 302.
The police declared guilty the convict in challan. The judge after hearing detailed arguments, awarded death sentence to the convict after the prosecution established his guilt in the murder case.
At the moment of the announcement of the verdict, the convict told the judge that he was innocent and he had not gunned down anyone. However, arguments of prosecution and other available evidences established Bilal’s involvement in the crime.The court has also imposed a fine of Rs. 200,000 on the convict.
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Church of the Masses
"Theaters are the new Church of the Masses - where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human." -1930's theater critic
People are talking....
No actually, You Don't Want a Screenwriter
Heaven is For.... Anyone with a Heart
Why Should Christianity Be “Patron of the Arts”?
If we can't beat Da Vinci, can we join 'em?
I was quoted in an article that appeared in the recent issue of Daily Variety's bi-monthly magazine, V-Life. The article was on a marketing company owned by my friend, Jonathan Bock, Grace Hill Media. Grace Hill is playing an advisory role to Columbia Pictures as it produces and markets The Da Vinci Code.
It's a risky business Jonathan is in. I'm on the record as supporting Jonathan, as opposed to supporting the movie. ["Split hairs much, Barb?"] I couldn't find the piece on-line, but here's the piece of it with my quote in it, courtesy of a friend who sent it to me with the exclamatory question, "Are you smoking crack?! Have you lost your mind?!" Or something like that.
When Grace Hill markets a film, one of its first tactics is to contact heavyweight Christian pop culture blogs like Hollywoodjesus.com and Holycoast.com, providing free screenings for mentions in the blog, and--like Universal did with its recent 'In Good Company'--a direct link to the film's trailer. All of which is important because the Internet has created a tight-knit religious community, more organized and more in touch than ever before.
By hiring Grace Hill to work a film like the 'Code,' Columbia's not only trying to arrange proactive damage control but also to positively motivate this demographic.
"And Grace Hill seems to believe there are possible positive benefits that 'Da Vinci Code' could bring. Barbara Nicolosi, exec director of Act One... has talked with exec director Bock about why he accepted 'Da Vinci Code' as a project. 'Jonathan believes the Church has nothing to fear from discussion,' she says. 'He feels that people talking about who Jesus was and why he is still important 2,000 years later is worth something, even if the thing that's spurring the discussion is a project like 'Da Vinci,' which says Jesus isn't divine and that the Church is basically evil. I think the book is particularly repulsive, but I agree I would rather have people talking about Jesus than ignoring him.'
"Not everyone is of the same mind. Fr. Frank Desiderio, president of Paulist Productions, who consulted on the History Channel's 'Beyond the Da Vinci
Code,' says, 'It's just going to be tough to turn this into a positive for the
Catholic Church. The best thing that can be done is for the Church to say 'Ouch,' then back away. Otherwise you're going to have what happened with the Jewish Defense League and 'The Passion of the Christ'--when their protest turned into one of the greatest free marketing campaigns in film history.'
Actually, what I said was something more to the effect of, "For the last forty years, Jesus has been ignored in the mainstream culture. And from where I'm sitting, it was a really bad idea. So, now, we have the opportunity to have Jesus be at the center of cultural discussion. Even if it starts with a posture of irreverence, like in the Da Vinci Code, I'm going to say we try it. At least, we'll be talking about Jesus."
I have a friend who is always insisting, "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." I agree.
P.S. (added Wednesday, June 1)
I am dismayed by how quick some of you have jumped to the conclusion that Jonathan Bock and Grace Hill Media are completely mercenary in their motives concerning Da Vinci Code. I don't suppose it would help if said, "Just trust me, Jonathan is a good man, and this is about more than money." It is much more about bringing the People of God and the Hollywood power-brokers into dialogue. ([drily] ref. JPII, Letter to Artists)
I haven't seen the script yet, so I can't say whether I will be able to recommend the movie. There are a few changes that could be made in the story that would make the project acceptable to me as a believer...or at least merely risible, but not protestable.
I do know that the studio involved is seriously concerned about offending the Christian audience. They have committed to spending a lot of money for public dialogues about the historical issues in the film. My sense is, the filmmakers are hoping to have the movie be anti-establishment Church, but not anti-individual Christian. Of course, we have seen that attempt before, and we know that, like Jesus, we all associate ourselves with any attack on any part of the Church.
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Seattle Christians Engaging Culture
[Note from Barb: Act One alumn, Lauri Deason, asked me to post a notice about an upcoming film festival being hosted by her church...and Lauri is not someone to be denied! Here follows the announcement. I only add that if Lauri is involved, it will be great. And also that the film "After the Truth" was written by Christopher Riley, the Director of our Act One Writing Program.]
UPC Presents FilmFest 2005:
June 16, 17 & 18 in Larson Hall at UPC
Join us for all or part of this three-day event focusing on the themes of justice and reconciliation. FilmFest includes four films: "12 Angry Men," "Hotel Rwanda," "The Green Mile," and "After the Truth." Following each film there will be an interactive panel discussion featuring experts and filmmakers.
FilmFest is a partnership event with First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue and other local area churches to raise money for International Justice Mission and their efforts to open an office in Rwanda.
For questions or additional info please e-mail filmfest@upc.org or call 206/524-7301, ext. 330.
Tickets are $10/film or $30 for all four films and will be available at UPC on Sundays, May 29, June 5 and June 12. Additional dates & locations to purchase tickets will be posted as soon as they are available. Seating is limited.
(Parents are encouraged to use their discretion with children ages 17 and under. Ratings are listed along with the movies below.)
Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.
FilmFest presents "12 Angry Men," rated PG
This Oscar award winning film starring Henry Fonda and Jack Klugman is heralded as one of the all-time great theatrical releases. "12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. What begins as an open-and-shut murder case soon becomes a mini-drama of each juror's prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused and each other.
Friday, June 17, 7 p.m.
FilmFest presents "Hotel Rwanda," rated PG
(due to violence, disturbing images and brief strong language)
Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.
Saturday, June 18, 1:30 p.m.
Filmfest presents "The Green Mile," rated R
(due to violence, language and some sex-related material)
Starring Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb, a slightly cynical veteran prison guard on Death Row in the 1930s. His faith and sanity deteriorated by watching men live and die. Edgecomb is about to have a complete turnaround in attitude when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Saturday, June 18, 7 p.m.
Filmfest presents "After the Truth," unrated
(contains references to violence and sex; subtitled)
Written by Christopher and Kathy Riley, this international award-winning German film is about the famous Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz" who comes back from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as an 87-year-old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor, Peter Rohm, has to defend him but Rohm - himself an expert on Mengele and his crimes - feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only his relationship with his wife but also their lives.
SAVING JOAN
Karen Hall, sister of Joan of Arcadia creator, Barbara Hall, notes on her blog that there is still a remote chance that Joan could be saved. She writes...
...everyone should stop bugging CBS and start writing to Sony, who is shopping the show to other networks. Also wouldn't be a bad idea to write to other networks to encourage them to buy the show. Try NBC, ABC and Fox. UPN is owned by CBS, and the actors probably wouldn't be interested there anyway, or anywhere else that doesn't really have an audience.
There is a very real deadline of June 15th, when the actors' contracts are up. It's pretty much dead after that. So if you really want to keep the show around, you'd better start bugging your friends and relatives to write to Sony NOW. They can use the volume of letters when they are trying to sell the show.
Address: Sony Pictures Television, 10202 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Yesterday, was the Feast of St. Joan of Arc btw...
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Brave New Us
You want to laugh, except that it's not a joke. Did anybody else catch ABC's This Week Sunday morning? There was Sen. Arlen Spectre (R?-PA), and Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) arguing for George Stephanopoulos as to when it is ethically okay for scientists to do experiments on human embryos. Spectre (talk about the shoe fitting..) his voice dripping with disgust that he would even have to explain it, detailed how human life can't be said to begin until the little embryo implants itself into the uterine wall.
I admit, I hadn't heard this new definition of personhood. And apparently neither had Stephanopoulos, as he blurted out the question, "But in its nature, what is the fundamental difference between an embryo un-implanted, and one that IS implanted?" Spectre sputtered and snorted and said something insulting about religious fanatics, but he never got around to answering George's question. And George, realizing that he accidentally asked the key damning question, didn't press for an answer.
Poor Brownback didn't have much to say. How do you enter into an argument like this?! As soon as you start arguing "when" it is okay to experiment on human embryos, you've already launched yourself far off the slippery slope and into a double backwards aerial helicopter flip.
At one point, Spectre held up an hourglass near his head as a sign that his time as a Parkinson's patient was slipping away. (If only...) He was almost raving with rage. And I found it unbelievablely disgusting. This old, dissipiated, power-mad politico basically just wants to keep his sad life going as long as possible -- no matter how many thousands of little lives it takes. You have to wonder if he would eat his own children if he was told by a doctor somewhere that it would add a few minutes to his lifetime. (BTW, thanks, Rick!)
Honestly folks, this stuff is way, way, way scary and depraved. Here's the principle: We only get to experiment on people with their permission. Until we can get one of those human embryos to make an "X" on a waiver slip, we don't get to make them act as substitutes for lab rats. Somebody say it: The only reason embryonic stem cells hold promise for medical research is because they are HUMAN embryos!
Do we have no collective memory? When Spectre justified the embryo experiments because, "They are just going to be thrown away anyway," all I could think about was Mengele sticking needles in the eyes of Jewish twins a few short decades ago. HE said the same thing! "They are going to die anyway. Might as well get scientific data for the rest of us."
I'm so sick of this crap. Somebody pinch me when the culture of death is over....If there's anybody left to pinch me.
THE WORSE THE BOOK, THE BETTER THE MOVIE?
One of the things that defines a beautiful work of art, is that - to use sacramental language - it is a harmony of matter and form. The ideas that the artist has to communicate choose the artistic medium that suits them. A brilliant work of art pushes the limits of the chosen medium, exploiting all of its levels of meaning to impact the receiver.
It's the difference between a painter using all the colors in the spectrum, or just using five or six. And then, also choosing the kind of brush strokes to convey meaning. Van Gogh needed to plop big slashes of paint - a pintbrush wouldn't have accomplished what he needed to communicate. And then, the artists needs to decide what kind of surface on which to paint - plaster or canvas or pottery or wood, or wtaver. And also using only as much canvas or plaster or wood as necessary - so that there isn't one inch of the painting that could be altered without altering the effect of the whole piece.
It's a musician taking advantage of harmony and rhythm and silence and all the octaves on the piano, as opposed to just one or two. It's a bad fit to compose a piece for the piano that could be delivered with the same impact on a triangle. Some things were written for the horn. They are a different thing - probably a lesser thing - if translated to the guitar.
So, one of the signs that an artist has mastered their artform is that a project can not be translated to any other medium. It was conceived for this particular art form, and in so far as it drew on all of the potentials of that medium, it makes itself a bad candidate to be experienced in another art form.
This is why Flannery O'Connor and Dostoevsky make bad movies. This is why people are always saying that they loved the book better than the movie. What they are really saying is that they loved the cumulative effect of the literary medium, and that they did not find a repeat of that experience in the cinematic medium. We tend to like screen adaptations, because we have fallen in love with the literary characters, and we fill in the spaces of the movie from what we have experienced in the book. (This is probably why I hated Jackson's LOTR trilogy. I never read the books, and so all I had to go on was a lot of episodic scenes with under-developed characters fighting for goals that were not real clear to me. In other words, the LOTR movies do not stand alone.)
In the same way, I heard a fan of Jane Campion's film The Piano lampoon the novelized version that was made after the film, for being 'insulting and easy.' The movie is much better at being a movie than the book was.
I've been having this problem for two years or so, as I have been trying to adapt a screenplay I wrote into a play. It's a good screenplay. And, by that I mean that I wrote the story to be told through cinema. It has close-ups and visual images, and imagery juxtapositions, and voice-overs, and ambient and off-screen sound cues, and super-impositions, and match cuts....and, none of these are ancillary to the narrative. They are all motivated. I wrote a story that could only be told on the screen. So, now, in trying to "dump" the contents of the story into a play, I am finding that I really have to write another project. Even more than just a difference in technique, the story I was telling in the screenplay - thematically about the universal human striving for immortality - "matches" cinema better than theater. Because, whoever ends up on the screen attains a kind of eternal life. (ie. Charlie Chaplain will always be 36 years old in The Gold Rush.)
On the other hand, I have found that bad books, can make very good movies. The Wizard of Oz is probably the prime case in point. Edna Ferber's Giant, for another example, has all the literary punch of a Harlequin romance, but it became the story fodder for one of the greatest movies ever made. (I'd go ahead and say the greatest, because I love it so much, but, I don't want to distract those of you who think Revenge of the Sith was a good movie off the main point here.) Whereas the movie deals with the power of love to save us - albeit over decades of commitment and compromise, the book is basically about a high strung woman flirting with a cowboy. Where the movie carries a side-long critique of societal racism, the book is easy and non-controversial.
Another case in point is Dr. Zhivago. I am in a Dr. Zhivago obsessive phase these days and have been spending way too much time doing things like watching the movie four times to hear what Omar and Rod Stieger had to say about it scene by scene. In terms of cinematography and art direction, the movie is one of the most lovely to look at in cinema history. The director, David Lean, also knew how to work with actors, which, combined with the hauntingest of scores, makes the film very emotionally affecting. But more importantly, the film is about something thematically. A few things actually. One big theme treats the perversion of good things by evil. The A-story is the perversion of Lara by Komarovsky. It is set up against the perversion of the pure intent of the Russian Revolution by the Bolsheviks. A secondary theme, is the way that art allows human beings to weather everything - both joy and tragedy.
Loving all this, I decided to rush out and plunge myself into the book so as to get even more insight into these two wonderful themes.
But alas, the novel by Boris Pasternak is barely about anything. Walking through Beverly Hills yesterday with Flannery O'Connor's god-child Benedict Fitzgerald, (oh, did I let that slip?), we decided that the bok is flawed because Pasternak was basically a poet and not a novelist. Consequently, he is much more interested in the phrases he conjures up paragraph by labored paragraph, than by the intricacies of weaving a theme into a narrative. He has terribly tortorous metaphors all throughout, like, the following...
"In the hot stillness, the heavy eared wheat stood straight. Neat sheaves rose aboe the stubble inthe distance; if you stared at them long enough tehy seemed to move, walking along the horizon like land surveyors taking notes."
Huhhhhh? Holy pretentious prose, Batman!
"There the lilies stems were shorter and more tangled; the white flowers with their glowing flowers looked like blood-specked egg yolks, sank and emerged dripping with water."
Blood speckled egg yolks?! The virtue of a metaphor is to be clearer than the reality you are trying to describe. In this case, I would just say there were some water liles on the pond.
The book is constantly running embarrassed from the most active/exciting narrative beats, preferring to languish in over-wrought scenic descriptions.
Now,, because Pasternak is a Russian, he can't help saying amazing things every now and then like this:
"Lara was not religiou. She did notbelieve in ritual. But sometimes, to be able to bear life, she needed the accompaniment of an inner music. She could not always compose this music for herself. That music was God's word of life, and it was to weep over it that she went to church."
The book is worth reading for the gems like that, that one feels Pasternak kind of just blurted out here and there. But none of these gems are developed sufficiently to say they are the theme of the book.
So, in terms of its emotional power, and subsequently its power to haunt me so that I am growing, the movie is much stronger than the book. The book, being a bad book, gave the filmmakers license to create a new thematic unity from the scattered elements of plot and character and story.
Anybody else think of a bad book that made a brilliant movie?
And now, somebody ask, "But what about brilliant books that have been made into brilliant movies?" I think they are very few. There are some good books that have made brilliant movies - like GWTW or To Kill a Mockingbird. And you'd have to say, that they succeeded as films in so far as they destroyed/perverted the most brilliant elements of the novels as storytelling forms. Where the novels take their time, the movies rush. Where the novels make their impact with number of characters, the film chooses one fourth as many. A film adaptation is a generalization by its nature. This is the opposite of the kind of knowledge conveyed in a novel about particular characters. But, overall, the most brilliant novels fail on the screen.
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LILY AND ME...[HUMBLE COUGH]
There's a nice interview up here with Barbara Hall. (You have to click on the link on the upper-righthand side, where they spell our name wrong.) This is my favorite part...
FAITH: Tell us about your conversion to Catholicism.
BH: I was born and raised Methodist. I went through the RCIA process – I was taught by an ex-nun. She was much like the ex-nun who appears on Joan of Arcadia, but wasn’t into surfing and smoking like that character is.
It makes me want to run out and buy a pack of Marlboros.
[Did I spell that right?]
GOD + PLAY STATION = AN UNEQUAL YOKE?"
Joel Stein has an intriguing piece in the L.A. Times this week about his day at the Los Angeles video game convention held here recently. He basically hated it because the totality of the violence plus the objectification of women was too much for him. (ref., well, me: on the adherents of the Sexual Revolution finding their way around to exhaustion with its consequences...)
The article comes around to a Christian video game maker, Mr. Pardew, who has fled the secular side of the industry, and who is now making state of the art "Bible games." Stein plays the games, and while he finds the games technically good, he finds the idea of the games absurd. Here's a snip...
Even if I didn't love his game, I admired Pardew's decision to put his
morality above commerce and try to creatively marry his professional
passion with his personal one. But making a Christian video game is like
trying to teach monogamy through porn. The medium is designed for the
thrill of quick, random violence.
I am interested in this question because we have been getting pressure at Act One to train writers for the game industry. The question is, can it be done with excellence? If the highest level of art in a video game is in its perfection of the quick attack and high stakes (ie. die if you don't kill) competition, then, if we are going to get into it, would we have to be okay with creating a more mediocre product? We can't be "the best" in video game making, because "the best" is innately evil?
Hmmmmm.....
P.S. I confess to being someone who every few months or so goes through the ritual of deleting and discarding the video game that I have put on my computer. I always get to a point playing them of being filled with self-loathing because there is no good thing that comes to me or the world for the time I put into them. Unless somebody can convince me that knowing how to design and govern an ancient Egyptian Nile plain is a pastoral skill, I will stay in my current remission from it all, by God's grace...
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ACT ONE ON AMAZON!
I'm not someone who gets excited very often...but this is cool.
Here's a link to our new Act One book Behind the Screen. Published by Baker Books, you can place a pre-order for it NOW (Hurry! Rush! Quick!) and help us get our Amazon ranking up. Right now, we are hovering around 498,247 most popular book on the planet.
If we get enough pre-orders, the publishers will do a bigger initial press run.
The book is a collection of essays from eighteen of our faculty. The idea behind the book is to be a bridge between Christians working in Hollywood, and Christians out there on the other side of the screen. Each essay, hopefully carries with it a different way of thinking about culture, movies, television, and how the Church should relate to the same.
We have essays from faculty members like Ralph Winter (X-Men, X2, Fantastic 4), Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emilie Rose), Ron Austin (Fr. Dowling Mysteries, Mission Impossible), Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia), Linda Seger (Making a Good Writer Great), Dean Batali (That 70's Show), Janet Scott Batchler (Batman Forever)....and others...and I'm in there too.
Please do your part to spur the new renaissance in the Church and in Hollywood - buy our book!
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ACTORS CO-OP PRESENTS THE ACTORS ACADEMY
[Note from Barb: Marianne is a good friend of mine and a brilliant actress and acting teacher. If you know any aspiring actors, this will be a day well spent.]
Actors Co-op - a professional theater company composed of Christian actors in Hollywood presents a day-long workshop for actors. Topics to be covered include:
PLAYING OBJECTIVES
- What’s the most important thing an actor does?
- What give a scene life?
- Playing an objective or an action.
Discover the key to dynamic acting. Learn how to determine the action from the text. Practice making specific choices as to how to play the action you’ve chosen. Playing objectives or actions will invigorate you as an actor. Being specific and flexible in playing your actions will win you roles.
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2005
10:00am – 4:30pm (1/2 hour lunch break)
Cost: $80 (payable by Visa, MasterCard, Check or Cash)
Class size is limited
Teacher bio: Marianne Savell is the Producing Director of Actors Co-op. She received her MFA in Acting at the Professional Actor Training Program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and also studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. As a member of Actors Co-op Marianne directed ANGEL STREET, TRANSLATIONS, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN and GOD & SHAKESPEARE and performed in THE SEAGULL (LA Weekly Award for Best Featured Actress), THE HASTY HEART, AS YOU LIKE IT, ALL MY SONS, UNCLE VANYA, TWELFTH NIGHT and HENRY V. She directed THE LION IN WINTER and THREE SISTERS at Vanguard University, and MOLLY SWEENEY at the Eclectic Theatre Company. Recently, Marianne directed the critically acclaimed SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Marianne works with Vanguard University as an adjunct professor in the theatre department as is alumni and participant of Directors Lab West and an associate artist with Taproot Theatre Company in Seattle, WA.
Please call Marianne Savell @ Actors Co-op
323-462-8460 ext. 103, or email msavell@fpch.org
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CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION AND THE MEDIA
I'm here in Orlando to give a speech to the Catholic Press Association and the Catholic Academy of Media Professionals. Here, for posterities' sake, are the notes (in someplaces outline) for my talk.
I. Greetings from the Church in Hollywood! I am very honored to be addressing you. And intimidated. The topic I was assigned seems so much better suited to a theologian or philosopher or historian. I am a screenwriter. And the Executive Director of a small non-profit in Hollywood that mentors writers and business people for Hollywood careers. But it seems to me that the Catholic Press Association knows that, and still asked me here. So, I will do my best to share some of what we have worked out at Act One, as we brood over our young artists. Always, always, we are asking ourselves, "What is the place of Christianity in mainstream culture?" So, forgive me if I am too pragmatic - but I am a practicioner and a teacher of practicioners - and, as artists, we only have a small appetite for philosophy and theology.
a) I want to start by saying a bit about bringing a Catholic lens to bear on the times. Jesus said once in frustration to his followers, “Can You Not Read the SIGNS OF THE TIMES?!” This current moment in post-Passion, pre-Narnia Hollywood, is a distinct one in history. I want to lay out how different in terms of some things that are going on, how we got here in the culture, and where we are headed.
b) I will speak a little about the New Evangelization, and what that means to those of us in media. I want to talk about why the Church has a stake in being a “Patron of the Arts” and why we need beauty in our spiritual lives.
c) I want to finish with scattered musings about some things we can say to the secular media industry, that no one else is saying: about the role of entertainment in human life; about the role of artists in the human family, about truth, about power and responsibility, about beauty;
II. The Cultural “Signs of the Times”
a) I will resist interpreting these for you. Just go down a list…
1. Columbine and Hollywood – Was this our fault? – 2 issues of the WGA magazine dedicated to the debate.
2. 9/11 – One year later issue – from WGA Pres: “This was PARTLY our fault. What have we been putting out there?”
3. “Exhausted with unbelief…” Gen X and Y coming of Age – rejecting the Sexual Revolution (Eternal Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Garden State, Hitch)
4. Music video – 7 of 10 hottest directors from music video – Daily Variety noted that they stand out for their ability to convey meaning through images – not what things look like, but what they mean.
5. LOTR – 1 billion – despite all the producers efforts, the movie was powered by its Christian constituency
6. The Passion of the Christ – biggest indie ever. Biggest 3rd world movie ever. For ten years we Christians in Hollywood have been trying to subtlely put Christian worldview in movies. Then, TPOTC hits and now we are hearing from the industry, "the audience wants overt religion, guys!" We have been very assiduously traiing our students NOT to write that kind of thing. Good grief.
7. 14 pilots this season supernatural elements. 6 Good Samaritan reality shows. Joan of Arcadia was huge – until it moved away from pushing the supernatural edge.
8. The People of God pouring into Hollywood and the Arts. Terrible anger about all the ugliness in the Church arts in the last few decades. Ardent desire to have a new renaissance.
9. Me, interviewed by Inside Edition, “Christian is the new gay.”
Now, you can say to me, but what about the OTHER signs of the times – 1 in 11 men are addicted to porn; The L Word, Real Sex, Queer Eye, Desperate Housewives; Sin City and Kinsey, and Vera Drake and Kingdom of Heaven and Million Dollar Baby and The six primetime shows advocating stem cell and euthanasia since Christmas;
And these are all there. The dividing line between the life with God, and the life without Him will be more and more clear in culture. It's kind of a relief.
III. The New Evangelization
a) Not new in terms of it’s content – still the kerygma.
b) Not new in terms of its end – still that “they become us.”
c) New in terms of its arena, its method, and its means.
1. Arena – has to be considered as the culture. Anything we do on the one-to-one evangelization level will be undermined by the culture unless we make it serve the Gospel. The only way to ensure and solidify individual conversions, is to bring God into every human system. Is it just some kind of cute saying to “renew all things in Christ”? What does it literally mean? We need to speak the Truth to scientists. We need to speak the truth to artists. We need to speak the truth to celebrities and those with the spotlights and microphones. We need to speak the Truth to politicians and pundits. We need to speak the Truth to educators and thinkers. Humanity is innately religious. If we do not make room for the good God, mankind will make himself a bad one. It isn’t a matter of being disrespectful about others beliefs. It is a matter of sharing the Truth that we have as an act of charity to poor lost humanity that is flailing around drowning and desperate.
“Don’t be afraid to throw open the windows to Christ!” JPII
2. Method – New Evangelization will focus on ways of reaching all these groups en masse. Television. Cinema. The Arts, especially music. The Internet. Through celebrity. Through soundbites.
“Ride the horse in the direction in which its going.” Linda Obst
(I know, btw, this goes against your grain. We have been focused on the one-to-one in evangelization for so long, that this sounds like heresy. But that is why it is a NEW Evangelization. And it isn’t to say that we eliminate the need for one-to-one interaction in handing on the Gospel. We’ll have time to fill in the sound-bites later. Right now, the culture is like a mighty river sweeping by us – mankind by the millions crying out in the unnecessary anguish wrought by sin. There are 400,000 frozen embryos in this country. And soon, we will have 700,000 elderly grandparents getting euthanized. The cloning people are standing just there - right outside the door. The time is short and desperate.
3. Means (symbols) – In his Letter to Artists, JPII called for “a new iconography” for the arts. He said we need new images that are revelatory of the Gospel for the people of today. I don’t know what this means. Because the images we have come from the Scriptures for the most part, we are never going to do away with them. Jesus called Himself, sheepgate and vine and shepherd and king – and it seems that the Scriptures will be the first place people encounter those realities. But we can move beyond them to an iconography of the modern Christian life. (ie. Ancient Christian burial site – wrestler oil streaks…) What are visual metaphors that we can derive from modern life for the Christian life?
I have no idea. I'm just asking...
IV. Why Patron of the Arts?
The sad thing is, if you walked on the street and took a spot survey, asking people to name the Patron of the Arts, no one would say, the Catholic Church. People would probably say Ted Turner or Hollywood. And they would be right in that latter. Hollywood does MUCH more to keep alive the arts than does the Church.
How far we have come! But even though most Sunday liturgies are exercises in sensory torture, we have to keep alive in us the fact that despite the ugliness and mediocrity with which we have terribly obscured her, the Church remains as Cardinal Newman wrote,
“…the poet of her children, full of music to soothe the sad and control the wayward; wonderful in story, rich in symbol and imagery. So that gentle and delicate feelings, which will not bear words, may in silence intimate their presence. The liturgy’s very being is poetry; every psalm, every petition, every prayer; the cross, the mitre, the incensor; each a fulfillment of some dream of childhood, or aspiration of youth.”
We can spend a lot of time trying to figure out why we have lost our appreciation for the arts in the Church, or we can try and reclaim the reasons why the historical Church has always had a stake in the arts. Let’s do the latter…
1. Patron of the Arts because our theology is fundamentally analogical. This is what sets us apart from the Islamic imagination, for example. Theology can never precisely define God. But the Christian imagination says, “God is like a mountain.” Islamic imagination says, “God is NOT the mountain.”
A work of art expresses a truth that can not be said in a sentence. It expresses a Truth through the journey of the work of art itself. As Flannery O’Connor says, “If I could say it in a sentence, I wouldn’t have needed the story.”
And we have to insist that the truths that the arts convey are just as important as those that come through on the pages of a catechism. Chesterton again, in Everlasting Man:
“Imaginative does not mean imaginary. Every true artist does feel that he is touching transcendant truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. The natural mystic knows that there is something there behind the clouds and trees; and he believes that beauty is the way to find it; that the imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.”
2. Patron of the Arts because – quoting Cardinal Ratzinger, “there is no surer proof that our faith is true than the works of beauty we make, starting in the lives of the saints.” And in so far as we put the lives of the saints in beautiful art we accomplish a double proof that our faith is true.
3. Patron of the Arts because beauty conveys two different kinds of knowledge:
a) We move from delight to joy to wonder to humility. We become aware of our smallness. It makes us sad, and yet joyful. It teaches with certainty that heaven exists.
“The only way to enjoy even just a weed, is to feel yourself completely unworthy of the weed.” (Everlasting Man, Chesterton)
“At the back of our brains, there is a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sense of wonder.” (Autobiography, Chesterton)
b) Beauty gives us firsthand experience of spiritual realities. This is contrasted with book learning. (Ratzinger says that the knowledge that beauty conveys is to be preferred to that of booklearning which is essentially second-hand information.)
“The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand.” (Orthodoxy, Chesterton)
4. Patron of the Arts because there is nothing that creates community more quickly and more powerfully than sharing something beautiful. It is a sign that something is beautiful that people are moved to share it.
V. Things the Church Can Say to the Secular Media That No One Else Will Say
1. There is a beauty that is good for us, and there is a kind of beauty that is bad for us.
a) Spiritual Beauty – reveals that man has a spirit; leads to transcendant; leads to wonder; begs to be shared
b) Sensual Beauty – revels in man’s physical nature; “Eve saw that the apple was attractive to the eye and GOOD FOR FOOD.” Sensual beauty stimulates the desire to eat; to possess; to consume; to dominate; to collect; to have sex with; it is the opposite of sharing.
2. To restore the Artist to His Essential Place in Human Society
The story of the 20th Century has been the story of the artist in proud isolation. He was told that in order to preserve his voice, he needed to stay on the fringes of the community. Too many other people would pollute his distinct message. This is all wrong. The artist gets his message from association with human society. Without society, the only thing an artist can talk about is the contents of his own navel. We have been looking at artistic guts for too long in the last half a century.
a) The artist is prophet – to reveal the mind of God; to reveal the groanings of the Spirit; to shake us up by reminding us who we are and who God is. The point of the liturgy - which is the primary work of art of the People of God - is always to achieve this two-fold end: to make real the Awesome God, and to make real the desperate need of humanity;
The nature of the revelation proper to art is not confusion. Confusion paralyzes. Art should lead to compunction. (David to Nathan, “I have sinned…”)
This is the primary reason non-representational modern art is not appropriate in churches, btw. It is inscrutable and confusing even when it is excellent, except to those who have studied it. Sacred art needs a mass accessibility.
b) The artist as priest – dedication to his vocation to beauty is the ongoing sacrifice offered by the artist. It disfigures him. But it makes him a worthy vessel of grace.
c) The artist as representative of the Creator – he is the arbiter of beauty; he tells us what is good and what is ugly; we listen to him. Especially we clerics who have no artistic training and who only know what we like, but not what we are talking about when it comes to art.
3. Catholic understanding of media will always be governed by our love of the Truth, and our conviction that human beings need the Truth.
a) It is not the handing on of Truth that is saving, but the knowing of Truth; Knowing here in the Biblical sense in which Adam "knew" Eve. We enter into relationship with Truth. Embrace it. Give ourselves to it without reserve. We cleave to it. It becomes fecund in us. So, our media will be an effort to entice people to set out on this journey of relationship with the truth. A journey that begins in questions, shadows, intimations, reverence.
b) Truth has authority. If we are ignored in the mainstream, it is because we quibble. We dance around. We refuse to commit. We qualify. We say things like, “In my opinion” and “it may be” and “some might conclude” and “perhaps it may seem”. These words are the death of authority. The people of today are starved for a voice of authority.
A good soundbite is one which has substance and style. From a Catholic standpoint, a soundbite is true (if it is authoritative) and beautiful (if it is memorable).
This is a 24 hour sound-bite culture. We have to take the microphone that is offered to us and do the best we can with it.
“About ssm: Kids need a mommy and a daddy.”
“About abortion: I don’t think violence solves anything.”
“About euthanasia: Suffering is not the worst thing that can happen to you.”
“The way you lose your humanity is by denying someone else theirs.”
For God’s sake, if you cannot say something you knowand are willing to put out there with authority, AT LEAST be busy about handing on the literal words of Christ! Don’t dare diminish His power by trying to water Him down to be more palatable. That is our sin in Catholic media.
4. Catholic understanding of media will include the conviction that, “There are some things which should not even be mentioned among you.”
a) Catholic understanding of media will say, “We don’t show THAT because it is dehumanizing to people.” “We don’t look at THAT because it objectifies us.” “We don’t talk about THAT because it popularizes vulgarity which is a precursor to barbarism.”
b) We say with clarity and convition: “Porn is not adult entertainment. It is anti-adult. It is not the stuff of maturity but the stuff of adolescence. Porn is dangerously addictive. It isn’t harmless. It devastates families. It physiologically destroys the brain. It destroys the possibility of intimacy." One therapist I met in NY told me, “95% of my practice can be attributed to porn. For men, it is how to cure them of their addiction. They can not have normal sexual relationships. They can not be turned on by normal women. For women, they either develop body issues (food disorders) to try and fit the porn model, or else they move into a place of hating men for trying to make them fit into that impossible model.”
5. Catholic understanding of media will proclaim that entertainment time is essential time for human development.
a) Most people in the entertainment world see their work as churning out sausage. Especially in television. One tv writer told me once, “In 12 years of comedy writing, it never occurred to me to do anything except keep the viewer from turning the channel.”
“Leisure is the basis of culture.” Pieper
b) We need to watch Frodo lose his hand, so we don’t have to. We need entertainment to stretch us into the heroes that mundane life may never ask of us. Entertainment time is the opportunity for us to experience the fullness of our own nature – to laugh deeply, to be moved to tears with sympathy, to feel outrage at injustice; to yearn to give oneself completely – to die for someone. All of these need to be the stuff of our entertainment. There is no time to waste.
6. Catholic understanding of media will include a commitment to use the power it offers justly.
a) Hollywood will not take responsibility for its power. It wants it both ways: to advertisers “We can make you rich by making people want your product.” To the rest of us, ‘Movies and television don’t change human behavior.”
b) We need to be saying over and over and over about the media, “With great power comes great responsibility.” You have tremendous power as storytellers. You can heal and inspire. You can make people want to be heroes. You can make them want to be better friends, better moms and dads, better citizens, better humans; you can also lead people to be more paranoid, more isolated , more suspicious of their neighbors, more jealous and materialistic; you can make them want to dominate or to serve. Which is it going to be, every damn day on primetime? Which is it going to be?”
SONGS FOR THE POST-MODERN SCAFFOLD?
I’m doing research for a spec script about the 17 Carmelite martyrs of Compeign. The story is that these women – ages 27 – 78 – offered themselves as a holocaust to stop the Great Terror. This is the same story that was novelized by George Bernanos, and made famous in the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.
(And I know some of you are out there thinking that this kind of project is just more unhealthy fodder for my macabre obsession to be the first one to authoritatively predict the next wave of Church persecution. Yeah, well, I’ll be the one smugly laughing when we’re all getting lined up and blind-folded. That’s right…)
Well, the story goes that as the first, and youngest, Carmelite ascended the scaffold, she intoned the Te Deum, and all the other nuns quickly joined in the chant.
O GOD, we praise Thee: we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. Everlasting Father, all the earth doth worship Thee.
To Thee all the Angels, the Heavens and all the Powers,
all the Cherubim and Seraphim, unceasingly proclaim:
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts!
Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of Thy glory.
The glorious choir of the Apostles,
the wonderful company of Prophets,
the white-robed army of Martyrs, praise Thee.
The nuns sang it in Latin, of course. And all the rabble standing around for the barbarous entertainment, halted in their jeering, and fell silent. They all knew the Te Deum, and that the nuns were singing a song of glory and triumph.
And so, I got thinking… What will be our song at the scaffold?
Yet another reason to be sullen and irritated at the iconoclasm of the post-Conciliar weirdness is that we won’t even have a nice hymn to die together by.
Can’t you see the last ever liturgy committee meeting unfolding as we’re all lined up and bound? Somebody will shout to the rest of us, “Hey does everybody know Gather Us In?
Like the good-natured suffering sheep we are, we’ll probably all shrug, “Might as well give it a try.”
So, the martyrdom procession’s music minister will start singing,
Here in this place, of something and something,
Now is the darkness gathered away.
Here in this space our fear and our dreaming,
Something and something the light of this day.
(She’ll pathetically try and raise her hand up so we can all join in)
”Gather us in, the lost and the somethings.
Gather us in the blind and the lame.
Call to us now and something will something,
Ta-ta-ta-tum in the something ta – ay.”
“Hey! That sounds stupid,” complains one martyr to be. Like the weeds that never die, the music minister still has a few minutes left to be patronizing, “God judges the heart, not the voice.”
Meanwhile, the lambs getting readied for the slaughter are getting scared. Somebody tries again, “How about Be Not Afraid? We all know that don’t we?”
A bald-headed guy at the end of the line shakes his head. “We used the Gather hymnal at our Church.” The lady next to him nods, “We just added those. Now, we have the old Glory and Praises stacked in the pews because they both don’t fit in the hymnal racks.” The lady from the Diocese of Arlington sniffs, "We use the red Ritual hymnals."
The thirty-something lady closest to the scaffold looks back at her fellow oblates with pleading, “Can’t we sing something, PLEASE?”
So, then, a voice somewhere in the middle of the crowd starts a high-pitched wail,
"And I will RAY-HAY zhim up…."
And the others join in, screeching and straining,
An overweight, gray-haired lady in sensible shoes, and soon to be a martyr, makes a face, “I’m not going to die singing sexist language!”
And the other, weary martyrs nod, and then, continue with submission,
”And I will RAY-HAYZ YOU uh-up on the lah-hast day.”
And then, as we start to sing the refrain again, the persecutors will shoot us all down on the spot for our horrible music. And this will wreak havoc with our beatification processes, because it won’t be clear if we died for Jesus, or to spare our persecutors having to listen to our dreadful music.
Just watch.
CYNTHIA GETS BACK TO ME ON SACRED ART
"As for your art interests, sounds to me like your thinking is just
fine." (comment from Barb: "Now, I can die.")
"When it comes to modern art, the problem is not only representational but pedagogical. A lot of modern art and music requires some previous formation in the viewer/listener. (I love Picasso now that I've studied him a bit. His story is one of the most exciting in art history.)
The thing with art in churches is that it has to have a direct appeal and a clear meaning since it's intended for an audience of all sorts, educated and not-so-educated.
I remember something Mozart said about a piece he was working on. Something to the effect that there was something in it for the expert, but it would delight everyone. That must be the summit. Or if you think of a Shakespearean play, there's lots of special effects stuff for the masses, but the plays can fire up a seminar group for weeks with their profundity. Not many artists are working at the level of either Mozart or Shakespeare...
Like most answers to difficult questions, it's six of this and a half dozen of that."
RIPPED OFF YOU WERE
I'm in a hotel business center in Orlando. Even though they are charging me .69 a minute, I am making the financial sacrifice to let all of you know that Revenge of the Sith is abominably, laughably, inexcusably bad. If you haven't gone yet, please do not pour your money into the Lucasfilm dark side.
It's a terrible movie.
More later. (I'm not THAT generous.)
ON THE ROAD AGAIN...AGAIN
I'm off to San Antonio, Washington and Orlando. I'm not sure how much blogging I'll get to...Unless, of course, I run into another convention of nuns. Then, you KNOW you'll be hearing from me!
Keep the faith!
PENTECOST SEQUENCE
(attributed to Pope Innocent III)
Holy Spirit! Lord of light!
From Thy clear celestial height,
Thy pure, beaming radiance give:
Come, O Father of the poor!
Come, with treasures which endure!
Come, O light of all that live!
Thou, of all consolers best,
Visiting the troubled breast,
Doth refreshing peace bestow:
Thou in toil, are comfort sweet;
Pleasant coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
Light immortal! Light divine!
Visit now these hearts of Thine,
And our inmost being fill.
If Thou take Thy grace away,
Nothing pure in man will stay;
All his good is turned to ill.
Heal our wounds -- our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend stubborn heart and will;
Melt frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
Thou on those who evermore
Thee confess and you adore,
In Thy sevenfold gifts descend.
Give them comfort when they die;
Give them life with Thee on high;
Give them joys which never end. Amen.
BEAUTY = LOOKING LIKE WHAT GOD DOES - ?
I'm in that hellish, scary place of preparing a couple of new talks. This means I'm doing lots of book reading, surfing the Internet, earnest discussing with blinking-eyed friends, and brooding, brooding, brooding (although in my happy Sicilian way...thank God I didn't take after our French dark side!) At the end of it, I'll have a new schtick to add to my repertoire - exactly like my opera singing sister, Val, adding a new aria to hers.
Part of my process is invariably trying to engage my older sister, Cynthia, in doing the hard thinking for me. She's over in Ireland somewhere. I thought you might enjoy our email correspondence about this Catholic beauty thing. If you comment something really profound, I will certainly rip you off in my speeches, unless you put your name.
Here's my first sally to Cynthia. I'll post her response next.
I am stuck on the idea that there is a necessary connection between representational art and beauty. I'm hearing a lot of Baby Boomers chastise younger devout Catholics for wanting to bring back old stuff, in terms of art. I think there certainly is an attraction to be connected to the old stuff in the way that it connects them to their family heritage in the Church, but I think there is more too. Old stuff is representational. That is, things look like things we see. Modern art has been largely non-representational. Modern religious art finds a launching point in trying to look "real", but then delights in subverting the "real" in favor of making statements.
A case in point is the crucifix in the sanctuary of the new Los Angeles cathedral. It is some kind of metal. I seem to recall it being reddish - or having red streaks on it. It is basically pock-marked and ruggedish - with the torso of Jesus being this long skinny pockmarked thing. The representational here is in the fact that there is a recognizable cross, and a figure that indicates a human body -- even in its distortion, it isn't a cow or a bumble-bee.
The question is - why the pock-marked spattered mess? It doesn't affect you emotionally. It affects you intellectually. I never ask "Why?" when I walk into St. Peter's and look at the Pieta. It makes me want to pray.
The moderns seem to be trying to say things to the brain all the time, in their medium and method. I don't see the great art of the past being so preocupied with this. The statements being made may or may not be true, but the work of their hands is invariably not "harmonious" in terms of the universe. Which means it is generally not harmonious in itself.
It can't be that my notion of the harmonious is subjective based on my living in this world, surrounded by the stuff here, right? I judge things to be harmonious because they are balanced and beyond...it's math, not perpective.
I think we instinctively relate representational art to beauty, because in representational art we are staying close to the designs that God resorted to. And God only makes things that are perfectly ordered - harmonious. So, the closer my portrait of someone looks like a person, the more beautiful it is.
So then, what do we do with Flannery's assertion that art finds its power in a certain amount of distortion?
Anything you want to add here? Just jump in anywhere.
Secondly, JPII wrote that what the Church needs in art today is a new iconography. He said, the symbols of the past - wheat, rainbows, peacocks, shepherd - all belonged to another time and no longer have significance for people. I like the idea, but, I can't really imagine its application. Does this mean we need images of electronics - or smog filled skies - or test tubes? Have the agrarian images really lost their power? It's true, I don't have half the understanding of what the life of a shepherd entails, but there is something messy and absurd as trying to sell images of "Jesus: The Good Information Technology Guy. He never loses memory. He never crashes. He always saves."
I am seriously considering dissing all non-representational modern art as far as the Church is concerned. You have a few days to try and stop me...
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SEE BARB IN DC
Artists for a Renewed Society and Act One present,
ARE YOU MISSING THE REVOLUTION?
HOLLYWOOD ONE YEAR AFTER THE PASSION
a discussion with Barbara R. Nicolosi,
screenwriter and Executive Director, Act One, Inc.
Topics to be covered:
- The new openness in the entertainment industry to spiritual themes. What will it look like on the screen, and will it last?
- Some cool projects in the works...
- Talking to the MSM about God-stuff. What we're doing right. What we're doing wrong.
- What Hollywood needs today from the People of God.
Saturday, May 21, 10:00am – 11:30am
St. John Parish Hall
Ms. Nicolosi is a screenwriter and the Executive Director of Act One, Inc., a training and mentoring program for Christian writers and executives in Hollywood. She has an M.A. in Television and Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and has been a script consultant on numerous film, television and video productions. She wrote The Work, a screenplay on the Spanish Civil War, for IMMI pictures of Beverly Hills. She is on the board of Catholics in Media Associates and on the Executive Committee for the City of the Angels Film Festival. She has been a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Humanitas Prize, the Angelus Student Film Awards, and the Gabriel Awards. The author of a monthly column on media in the National Catholic Register, Ms. Nicolosi has appeared on CNN, CBS, PAX, EWTN,CBN, and in the New York Times, Daily Variety, USA Today and the Chicago Tribune.
A free-will offering to support the work of Act One will be taken up after the presentation. For more information, call 323-464-0815, or email Elizabeth@actoneprogram.com.
Act One, Inc., 2690 Beachwood Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90068 www.actoneprogram.com
ARS, 6203 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 http://www.catholicartists.org/
SEE BARB IN SAN ANTONIO
I'll be doing a lunch-time talk in San Antonio on May 18th. The Macro goal is to keep building a groundswell cultural strategy in the Church. The micro strategy is to help pay for my hotel and airfare bill for the rest of the trip. (rats...) It's basically Bring Your Own Food. More info to follow, but here's the gist. Interested people will have to email an RSVP and we'll send you the room where it will be happening at the hotel. (Please forward it on to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks -)
WHAT I'M SEEING AT THE REVOLUTION: ONE YEAR AFTER THE PASSION IN HOLLYWOOD
A Lunch-hour Discussion with Barbara R. Nicolosi,
(Screenwriter and Executive Director of Act One, Inc.)
May 18, 12:30pm - 2pm
Hilton Palacio del Rio
200 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, Texas, United States 78205
RSVP required. (We won't do it if we don't get at least ten people.) RSVP to elizabeth@actoneprogram.com
Suggested donation - $10
FIGHTING HARD FOR A LEGACY OF FAILURE
In my new screenplay, I have a scene in which an elderly dying man, stubbornly resists his stated attraction to be reconciled to God. After a wracking bout of bloody coughs, he rasps to the young priest hero of the piece, "I told myself my whole life, that I wouldn't turn to God in the end because I was afraid."
I got this line straight from real life. Suffering from Parkinsons, an agnostic aunt of mine said this to me one night a few years back, after a few glasses of wine. I remember being bowled over by the pathetic absurdness of it all, saying, "And? How is that working out for you?"
I have thought of this line many times in the last few weeks as the Church has gone through the process of electing the 265th successor to St. Peter. Suddenly, all the grey-haired dissenting Catholic pundits were back in their beloved limelight, stubbornly defending their disastrous tenure as the arbiters of American Church life. Watching them, I thought of my aunt. "Eventually," I thought, "one of them is going to break down and say, "Hell, we really screwed up, didn't we?"
How about Richard McBrien saying, "That freakin' Catholic philosophical tradition may have been oppressive and patriarchal, but damn if it didn't produce students who were more rigorous in their thought."
Or how about Andrew Greeley looking up from his latest soft-porn manuscript to shrug, "Humanae Vitae was right. Sex outside of total commitment objectifies women and de-civilizes men."
But the ones I'm really waiting for are the Joan Chittisters, osb, and the legions of other women who, in one lifetime, devastated the power and tradition of religious communities in the U.S. Certainly, some one of these unhappy women is eventually going to exhale, "Well, that was a mistake."
Because of my personal history, I find religious women to be the most egregious offenders in the "stubborn refusal to have a keen sense of the obvious" contest.
THE PLANET. THE PEOPLE. THE PREACHING.
Two weeks ago, I spent two days of meetings in a Chicago airport hotel. Waiting at the curb at O'Hare for the Wyndham shuttle, I found myself suddenly surrounded by a flock of overweight, grey-haired women in Walmart clothes and sensible shoes. "Nuns" I knew with certainty.
(It's so ironic that most American nuns went secular so as to get away from any kind of indication that religious life was anything special. The whole point was to blend in. But is there anything as conspicuous as a nun in lay person's clothing? Beyond not having the resources to dress well, they are not the kind of folks for whom accessorizing is a main preoccupation anyway. If it were, they wouldn't have been attracted to religious life in the first place. Sheesh...!)
As we boarded the shuttle, I said to one of the fourteen nuns, "What Congregation are you with, Sister?" The woman was annoyed at me for asking for some reason. I have experienced this cagey coldness before from the secular religious who, I guess, are too busy campaigning for social justice to be nice to strangers on an airport shuttle. The nun murmured back, "Sinsinawa" and then leaned into a conversation with the sister beside her.
"Sinsinawa," I thought. "Ah, Dominicans." (I love that I know stuff like that.)
Walking in to the Wyndham lobby, we were all greeted by a large sign which read, "Dominican Sisters Assembly: The Planet. The People. The Preaching." The sign - I found it on line here - was decorated with, a graphic of planet earth, I think with flowers on one side of it. It was clearly some kind of planet, anyway.
Taking it in, my head bent spontaneously to the side in perplexion. "The Planet? The People? I can give you 'the preaching' as that is, after all, a Dominican thing. But what about 'The devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist? The rosary? The enlightened intellect? Or, blow your mind, 'St. Dominic'?"
YOU KNOW YOU ARE TOO BUSY WHEN...
Still, I am someone who likes being around nuns. So, I was actually kind of enjoying the joke that I was going to spend the next two days surrounded by them. And, then, I thought to myself, "Hey, I'll be able to catch Mass here with them tomorrrow morning, instead of trying to convince myself to trudge the two miles to the nearest church. Cool."
So, I turned to the friendliest looking sister near me (I know it is my personal pathology, but secular nuns always look kind of scary to me), and I asked her, "Sister, what time are you all having Mass tomorrow? Would it be possible for me to crash?" I thought that given secular laissez-faireness, letting a lay woman crash the assembly's Mass would be an acceptable kind of rebellion.
But the sister looked back at me in confusion, "Mass?" she said. "And why would we be having any kind of Eucharistic liturgy on Friday?"
"Oh crap." I thought. "I just outed myself all over the floor here, didn't I?" Aloud I said, "Oh, sorry... I thought...well, because you're all sisters...but of course, why would you...I mean..." [retreat into stupid nervous laughing sounds]
The sister turned away from me like last week's blue-light special. A few seconds later she turned around again, holding a brochure out for my inspection. "We have a VERY packed schedule."
I decided to go get a beer and check in later. As I walked away, the sister called out to me, "We do have a meditation room. You would probably be welcomed to use that."
"Oh, hey, cool. Thanks."
My dark side took over. I couldn't resist. Soon, I was slinking down the hall, past the table displays about political protesting, following the signs for "Prayer Circle Space." I slipped inside, even now, looking around to see if Jesus Host was there somewhere, waiting to be asked for help in salvaging the Dominican communities in the United States. But no.
They had a circle of chairs around some kind of a mounted paper mache planet thing. I guess it was supposed to match the planet image that I had seen on the sign in the lobby.
There was no Jesus. No Mary. No Dominic. No Thomas or Albert. No rosary. No cross. No anything to establish this group as Domincans, nevermind Christians, nevermind Catholics.
But none of the sisters seems to mind. They were everywhere in groups of three and four, laughing and hugging, and just fine with the fact that everything they have as a community will end with them. There were no younger members.
Later on, I asked one of the nuns, also having a beer in the bar, why the community was meeting at an urban hotel. "Don't you have any retreat centers with some nature around? It seems like with your theme of "The Planet" you might pick a place that has some trees..." The sister gulped her beer and shrugged. "We need to get away from all the places we work. In a hotel, we don't have to worry about doing the dishes and making beds. We have a lot of work to do."
Talk about your understatement of the half-century.
The problem is, they won't get to the real work they have to do. They are going to die clinging with gritted teeth to their errors. They are going to see the property and the institutions sold off. So many wonderful places that were acquired through generations of sacrifice by the people of God and the members of their own communities. And they are going to watch it all with unflinching commitment to the revolution. They are so like the nostalgic Marxists who taught me in grad school. Even six years after the wall had smashed down, they just wouldn't give over that Communism was a failure.
Being stiff-necked isn't a virtue. It's just very sad. Somebody needs to tell the secular nuns that. Not me, of course.... (shiver)
Meeting by Accident,
We hovered by design --
As often as a Century
An error so divine
Is ratified by Destiny,
But Destiny is old
And economical of Bliss
As Midas is of Gold --
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THE OTHER BARBARA NICOLOSI
So, I get an email today, from somebody who read something I wrote somewhere. In the course of the message, the emailer congratulates me on my casino winnings.
Now, I WAS in Vegas last week, and I DID have my usual break even luck at the slot machines, but it was hardly the stuff of kudos. And how would somebody know to even mention it? I wanted to know.
So, the emailer sends me back this link to some mid-western casino bingo page. And there, in the fifth row second face in, I'm not. But somebody else named Barbara Nicolosi is.
I've never actually seen another person with my name before, although I've heard that there is Barbara Nicolosi realtor woman who sells houses to the stars in Bel Air. Technically, as I am younger than both these ladies, it's more that I have their name, than that they appropriated mine.
I feel bad for both of the other Barbara Nicolosis because I have completely branded our eternal Internet identity as "that ex-nun happy Catholic chick who works in Hollywood."
I feel bad for me, because I can't see any way of making a claim against the $720 that my namessake took home from the Ft. Whatever-It-Is Casino.
BARB ON THE ROAD AGAIN
I have a week or so of travels coming up. Because it worked so well on that last trip, I am again looking to set up meetings and conferences with other groups while I'm wandering through your neighborhood. Here is my schedule...
San Antonio - May 17-18
Washington, DC - May 19 - 22
Orlando, FL - May 23 - 26
If you have an idea for a me centered event (....rats...), please email my consigliere, Elizabeth at elizabeth@actoneprogram.com
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CRASH IS NO ACCIDENT
So, you think you know what kids are thinking? As someone who works with and teaches teens and twenty-somethings, I have learned that Internet technology has given them a whole alternate media that herds them - by happy consent of the herded - with lock-step success. This alternate media includes web-sites like aintitcoolnews.com, and a whole cultural chat-room universe to which people over thirty are not invited. I experienced this again this weekend.
When I walked into the theater to see Kingdom of Heaven Friday - the movie Hollywood and the MSM have been telling kids they want to see - the theater was less than half-full. The film itself never achieved half the emotion from the audience as did the previewed trailers for Batman Begins, The Return of the Sith and Fantastic Four. I knew right away that it would be counter-productive to make too big an issue of Kingdom because the audience was going to ignore it anyway. The audience at Kingdom skewed older - people in their forties, with a handful of teenage fans of Orlando Bloom.
Then, last night, I walked into a theater to see a screening of an underfunded indie picture called Crash,
that several of my students had told me was a "must see." The theater was packed -- even that front part in which viewers sit ten feet from the 25 foot screen. And I was one of the few people in the room over 35.
I was marveling about the alternate media network that had packed that theater. There has been very little advertising for the film. Sandy Bullock and Brendan Fraser have small parts in it, but they aren't doing any real press, and they certainly wouldn't draw the kind of multi-racial, under twenty throng that was filling the rows for this particular R-rated indie.
I liked Crash. I was pleasantly surprised by the game it plays on the audience with its skillful use of structure and characters. With the notable exception of its easy over-use of the F-word in dialogue, not much else about Crash is easy from a technical screenwriting standpoint. It is a smart movie....But I'm not sure what the net effect of it is on me as a person. But I'm okay with that this morning, because I have the haunting sense that the movie knows exactly what it's doing, and it will be up to me to puzzle over it and its message...we call it healing rumination at Act One.
So, Crash at first seems to be a straight scape-goating film in which everybody in Los Angeles is basically a racist. Fully the first half of the movie moves the audience from shock to sadness to horror as we watch different characters act on their varying degrees of prejudice. But, then, the movie starts to mess with the audience's expectations. Suddenly, the characters we thought were bad guys, start to show qualities like mercy, compassion and even heroism. And then, the ones we thought were good guys, reveal themselves as frightened and even bumblingly murderous.
And there is a wonderful element of providence in the film - call it grace - which corresponds with the acts of goodness in the film to basically keep the forces of hatred in check at the end. It even does something miraculous...in a funny kind of way in which grace can make good even out of our neutral ignorance and haste.
Crash is a good, thoughtful consideration of a complex social issue. The film transcends easy political distinctions in favor of a "human family" perspective. The language in the film is foul, and there is one non-erotic but still too explicit sex scene, but these artistic choices do not ultimately subvert the larger project of the film, which is good. This film is Pulp Fiction without the cynicism and violating violence. It is Traffic with gentle humor.
I'm giving Crash the coveted COTM thumbs-up.
THE FAVOR BANK IN SMALL TOWN HOLLYWOOD
Funny story.
So, I get a call from one of our faculty who was a successful TV show-runner and now studio movie producer. A friend of his was just hired by Disney to rustle up some celebrities to talk about C.S. Lewis and Narnia for a documentary the studio is doing to accompany the film's Fall release.
The friend hird by Disney, called my producer friend for the favor of getting someone who would know some folks in town who might know who C.S. Lewis was, and that Narnia ISN'T a hot new club just south of Sunset in West Hollywood.
I, of course, take the call from producer friend, as a favor, and put a call in to the guy who called him. After several rounds of phone tag, we finally connect, and I feed my friend's friend several names of celebrities with whom I have had remotely intelligent conversations about God-stuff, who might be good for the project.
The guy goes back to his boss on the project, and starts spewing out all the names I fed him. And his boss says, "Cool, who is the source of all these?" And the guy says, "Barbara Nicolosi." To which his boss says, "That would be my roommate."!!!
Turns out, my roommate who has been working for Disney on the project, told them she needed someone to help line up interviews. So, they called around and got this guy who is known as a real aggressive interviewer getter. So he gets me.
I said to my roommate this morning, "Laura, if you wanted to ask me for a favor, you just had to, you know, knock."
Funny.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVE
The good news is, the Kingdom of God has nothing to fear from Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. Probing new depths in tedium, Kingdom is an over-produced piece of pretentious politically-correct pablum.
Honestly, the first time I looked at my watch, it was only about fifteen minutes into the movie. "Allah forbid," I groaned, as a character we had just met a couple minutes before and didn't care about, got an arrow shot through his forehead.
About ten minutes later, as the main character was being insulted for no discernible reason by an obnoxious French guy named Guy, I looked at my watch for the second time and, then, a minatar went off in my brain, "Why not depart this Kingdom and set out on a crusade throughout the other theaters seeking out some good filmmaking?"
Ah! Infidel Scott! How dare you expect to create sympathy for your main character by having him murder a priest, even a bad one? And the stupid speech-making! I remembered, as the leper king with the tin transvestite mask was making a long boring speech to Orlando I'm So Bloomin' Earnest, that Ridley Scott always puts long boring speeches in his films because he is a baaaaaaaaaaad director who can't achieve real emotion no matter how much budget he has to spend. Even in his best film, Blade Runner the sociopathic android pauses in his dying to devolve into a ten-minute seminar on personhood and property law.
You know it's a bad movie, when you see saracens praying on their prayer rugs, and you start wishing you had one to sprawl out on somewhere on the theater floor...I ended up on a pilgrimage to parking garage Mecca at about the one hour point. After the first 20 minutes, I was only hanging around so that I could proclaim to the far winds with authority, "Behold, my brethren! The Kingdom doth sucketh with inglorious awfulness!" Then, I decided, wasting another 125 minutes of my life in this cause would be inflicting fatwa on myself. So, I commited the mother of all theater exits.
But, let's cutteth to the quicketh... The underlying theme of Kingdom of Heaven is that religions are fine - as long as they are personal coping devices that do not invade the parameters of the polis. The bad guys in the film are religious "fanatics". The problem is that fanaticism is defined as being anyone who thinks that God is engaged in what men do together as a society. Against the rallying cry of the Crusaders "God Wills It!" (and, I suppose, the un-voiced rallying cry of the people of the religion of peace: "To the Airplanes!") ridley Scott et al, respond with their own manic shout, "Religion is a Private Matter!"
There was so much wrong with this movie, it won't take any kind of outraged crusade by the People of God to have it purged. This film will fall under its own self-righteous, badly written weight.
Pass. The God of good cinema wills it.
CHRONICLING NARNIA
I can't remember if I blogged about this already...but I was interviewed a few weeks back for a story by Mark Pinsky (Orlando Sentinel) about whether the Narnia projects would signal and end to the Christian boycott of Disney. I think I said, "There's a boycott?"
Anyway, here's a link to Mark's article as it appeared in The Washington Post.
One of my two snips...
Any efforts to deemphasize the religious aspects of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" film are bound to backfire with Christians, according to Act One's, Nicolosi.
"Disney and [co-producer] Walden Media are aware that there's a proprietary sense about 'The Chronicles of Narnia,' " she said. "C.S. Lewis is our guy. They better not take that away from us."
CHARLIE AKBAR!
Good friend and fellow writer, Charlie Carner, copied me on a letter he sent to the Hollywood Reporter in response to their rave review of the new Crusades retelling by Sir Ridley "Not Exactly the Lionhearted" Scott. I plan on seeing the film tomorrow night after at least two stiff drinks, so look for a review this weekend.
But here's Charlie's defense of the faith.
Kirk Honeycutt
5055 Wilshire Blvd.
Re: “Kingdom of Heaven”
Dear Mr. Honeycutt:
From your “Kingdom of Heaven” review, published in the Hollywood Reporter Monday, May 2, 2005:
“‘Kingdom’ fulfills the requirements of grand-scale moviemaking while serving as a timely reminder that in the conflict between Christianity and Islam it was the Christians who picked the first fight.”
The First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II in 1095.
For nearly 450 years prior to that, Muslim conquerors killed tens of thousands of Christians, made slaves and eunuchs of Christians for the pleasure of the caliphs, burned down or sacked the holiest churches in Christendom, robbed and killed thousands of Christians on holy pilgrimage, brutally sacked Jerusalem, and pillaged the countryside of Israel, North Africa and Western Europe. Beginning with Mohammed himself around 630, and continuing with Abu Bakr and the caliphs who followed, Muslim armies conquered and subjugated others through armed invasion and bloody war.
Because it was the closest geographically, Palestine was the first Western non-Arab area invaded in the Muslim imperialist expansion. At the time, Palestine was under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled from Constantinople by Greek-speaking people, and was Eastern Orthodox Catholic. The Eastern Orthodox rule was despotic and the Eastern Roman Empire was in serious decline. The Muslim conquest of Palestine began in 636 with the battle of Yarmk. Muslim armies laid siege to Jerusalem in July 637. After five brutal months, the city fell in February 638. The conquered Christian and Jewish people were made to pay a tribute to the Muslim victors, who thereafter bled the city to supply Baghdad with a steady stream of plundered wealth and slaves, many of whom were made eunuchs.
The Muslim conquest of (Christian) North Africa went relatively easily until the Berbers put up stiff resistance – for more than twenty years – before the Muslims broke through in a series of bloody battles followed by massacres of their largely Christian opponents. The Muslim conquest continued through North Africa and through what is now Spain, Portugal, and southern France – until they were stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Poiters in 732.
After Jerusalem fell in 638, Muslims ruled the city in a largely peaceful manner (chiefly under the Umayyads) for about a hundred years. Then, under the Abbasids, the Muslim rulers began an aggressive program of forcible conversion to Islam among the majority Christians and Jews. Thereafter, Jerusalem and its Christian and Jewish majority suffered greatly during alternating periods of peace and war. Among the oppressive measures were repeated Muslim destruction of the countryside of Israel (970-983, and 1024-1077); the wholesale destruction by the Muslims of Christian churches – sometimes at the direct order of the Caliph, as in 1003, and sometimes by Muslim mobs; the total destruction of Jerusalem by the Caliph of Cairo in the early 1020s; building mosques on the top of Christian churches; enforcing the Muslim laws limiting the height of Christian churches; attacking and robbing Christian pilgrims from Europe; attacking Christian processions in the streets of Jerusalem; and on and on.
This was the condition in the Holy Land when Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade. The Christians did not “pick the first fight.” They responded to centuries of armed aggression, conquest and subjugation by Muslims.
Charles Robert Carner
sources: The Columbia History of the World, edited by John A. Garraty and Peter Gay; Arab Ethnic Cleansing Imperialism and Colonialism, by Richard C. Csaplar, Jr, Regent University Board of Trustees; The First Crusade, by Thomas Asbridge
You are Lady Marchmain. You make some people
uncomfortable, but you do your best to help
people in unfortunate circumstances, personal
or spiritual.
What Brideshead Revisited character are you?
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No. No. No. Now, I'm going to be depressed for a week. I've always been afraid of being Lady Marchmain. But I suppose she is better than Bridey. Only slightly though.
I really want to be Cordelia. Doesn't everyone?
On the other hand...even though the book sets up Lady Marchmain in an unfavorable light - it is from Charles' unconverted perspective. And then, by the end of the novel, everybody in the family really has come around to Lady Marchmain's worldview...right?
Apparently, there was a storyline on House last night about parental notification on abortion. I didn't see it, but Anne and Emily over at After Abortion have the details.
I haven't seen House yet, but some of my Christian friends are very enthusiastic about it. Looks like they did a fair job with this issue anyway.
GETTING SPUN
It's happened twice in the last five days. I was interviewed by journalists for Daily Variety on Friday, and The New York Times yesterday. The interviews were basically same-old same old stuff about Christians in Hollywood, and specifically the change in the market since The Passion of the Christ.
But in both interviews a funny thing happened. About half way through lots of half-hearted questions about why Christians won't like Revelations and whether Christians will take a contract out on Tom Hanks for starring in The Da Vinci Code, both journalists slipped in the query, "So, who did you vote for in the last election? You're a Bush voter, aren't you?"
I said to the Daily Variety guy, "You aren't trying to narrowly define me so you can dismiss me, are you?" When it happened yesterday with the Times I got a little more annoyed. "Did you ask the Hollywood pagans you are interviewing for this story that question?" Both journalists demurred in extravagant terms. They were just "collecting context" for their pieces. But then, the Times guy came back insistently, "Would you characterize yourself as right or left of center?"
I liked both the journalists, and they liked me. The Variety guy asked me if he and I could have coffee someday soon, just to talk about a whole lot of things. The Times guy said, "This has been a fun interview. You're not a regular Christian, are you?" I said to him, "Why, because you like me, and that doesn't fit with your prejudice about my people?" He said to me, "You don't sound like some other Christians I have interviewed." I couldn't resist coming back with, "That's because we are a diverse people, not chained by politically correct dogma."
I know I am slow on the uptake here, but I can't stop marveling about the pervasive anti-Christian bigotry that continues to mess with the MSM's attempts to cover the whole red-state, Passion-watching, Terri Schiavo crusading, spiritual revival moment that is arm wrestling the culture of death in the marketplace of ideas. These reporters NEED for us Christians to be the people they need us to be: basically sub-human intolerant simpletons who can be dismissed, and part of that is that we are knee-jerk GOP voters.
I told the Variety guy off-the-record, "I voted against John Kerry in the last election because he is a champion of the culture of death. But, believe me, if the GOP ever dropped it's stated preference for the sanctity of human life, me and my friends at church would drop the Republicans so fast their heads wouldn't stop spinning for a decade." To the Times writer I said, "Here's my principle: we don't get to kill people, and we can't change human nature with laws. Does that make me right or left?"
Anyway, after two hours of interviewing, I'll probably have one-eighth of a sentence in one or both publications sometime this week. If somebody sees something, let me know so I can link.
FAVORITE OMINOUS "THE CULTURE IS THROWING UP ALL AROUND US" QUOTE OF THE DAY
Heard in my car just now, from the local NPR affiliate...
"Life is important. Drive carefully."
Life is "IMPORTANT"??? No, idiots! Life is sacred. Comfortable shoes are important. Getting your oil changed every 3,000 miles is important. Having a spam blocker is important.
Life is first. Sacred. Irreplaceable. Most precious. Beyond value or definition.
I am insecure sharing the planet with people who think my life or their own is just "important." A little fanaticism is in order here...
TIE the strings to my life, my Lord,
Then I am ready to go!
Just a look at the horses—
Rapid! That will do!
Put me in on the firmest side,
So I shall never fall;
For we must ride to the Judgment,
And it ’s partly down hill.
But never I mind the bridges,
And never I mind the sea;
Held fast in everlasting race
By my own choice and thee.
Good-by to the life I used to live,
And the world I used to know;
And kiss the hills for me, just once;
Now I am ready to go!
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WRITING AS APOSTOLATE
Back in L.A., I'm taking what must be just a short break from my work on the rewrite of the Spanish Civil War movie.
After spending the last five hours working as hard on this project as I ever have on anything in my life, I have to take a moment for a little recuperative self-pity. Wow. Being a writer is very, very hard. Being a screenwriter is agononizingly hard. This would be the wrong day for some brother or sister in Christ to say something to me about how the movies are so stupid that anyone could write better ones. If someone says that to me today, I am sure some kind of violent lunging will ensue.
I am particularly grateful today, that my father taught me to play chess when I was six. Because screenwriting is actually a lot like chess. It's fundamentally keeping eight things present in your head at every moment. And getting a few words down on paper is a constant matter of negotiating between all of the projects goals.
If I go for this witty piece of dialogue, am I messing with the character's arc?
If I let him have an early moment of heroism, do I lose the suspense of the piece?
If I throw in a moment of developement for one of the supporting players in this scene, do I dilute the tension in the overall scene for the main character?
Does this wonderful scene I just wrote have anything to do with what this movie is about? Is there any way I can keep it (The answer is almost always, "No.")
In giving this moment for theme, did I just blow my structure?
If I make the story points really clear, am I lying about the ambiguity of a real journey of faith?
I'm tired right now. And that's the other thing with writing for a living. You can't really stop when you're tired. When you really don't have anything left to say. When, by all rights and justice, you should stop, because the urgency of the truth is done with you for today....you have to keep writing.
Isn't there a wet dog somewhere I can go lick? (Private joke to those who have ears to hear.)
I am - overall - pleased with this screenplay. It was a very hard assignment because it's basically a saint's story - and those are almost unintelligible from a merely human, exterior visual sense. More on that in the coming months. I have learned a huge truth about writing God stuff in mainstream entertainment. And that truth is, "If you don't push the religion, you end up telling a lie." There is no way to soft-pedal religious faith as motivation for character choices.
The hardest thing about this project is coming up with the lyrical imagery that will give the audience a sense of the underlying truths of this essentially spiritual story, without insulting their intelligence. Can I just second JPII's call for "a new iconography" of religious art, that takes us beyond candles and rainbows and doves and wheat sheafs into a deeper level of meaning for people today?
Just now, I really, really wish I had gone with the adolescent impulse to be a forest ranger..... Which will last until the next line or two on the page that brings together my whole past, my memory, education and studies, and goes beyond what I sat down with to fuse with the Truth out there somewhere.
Then, writing is very cool.
CATHOLIC FILM FESTIVAL IN PHOENIX
[I got an email asking me to help get the word out about this event. I don't know any of the folks connected with it, but better to be obliging.]
Christ the King Catholic Church is proud to present the first AZ
Catholic Film Festival May 20th – 21st, 2005. The church is located at
1551 E Dana Ave in Mesa.
Organized by Fr. Chris Carpenter, Pastor of Christ the King and film
critic for “The Catholic Sun,” the festival will feature films made by
Catholic filmmakers and/or featuring Catholic subjects.
On Friday, May 20th, the festival will kick-off with a 6:30 PM opening
night reception, followed at 7:30 by the premiere of Tony, Tony Stick
Around, a heart-warming family drama by Scottsdale writer-director
Joanne Caroselli. A discussion with Ms. Caroselli and cast members will
follow the screening.
Saturday, May 21st, at 10:00 AM, the festival continues with a double
feature of pro-life documentary shorts: The Witness, by New York-based
filmmakers Jenny Stein and James LaVeck, and Hope Floats, by local
filmmaker Derek Natzke. Discussion with the filmmakers and others will
follow the screenings.
Lunch will be available for purchase from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM
Saturday, May 21st, at 1:00 PM, the festival will feature the Arizona
premiere of the Oscar-nominated documentary Twist of Faith, detailing
one man’s recovery from sexual abuse by a priest. Discussion will
*Parents, please be advised that The Witness and Twist of Faith are
not suitable for pre-teens due to some disturbing images and/or subject
matter.
Festival participants are invited to celebrate 4:00 PM Mass at Christ
Saturday, May 21st, at 6:00 PM, the festival closes with three new,
30-minute films featuring contemporary stories of young adults based on
Jesus’ teachings or the Mysteries of the Rosary. They are produced by
Family Theater Productions, a Catholic media outlet founded in 1947 in
Hollywood by Servant of God Fr. Patrick Peyton, CSC, a Catholic media
pioneer and now sainthood candidate.
Tickets for the Friday evening reception and screening only can be
purchased for $5. Festival Passes for the opening night reception and
all screenings can be purchased for $10. Seating is limited, so please
pre-order tickets and passes by calling (480) 964-1719.
Fr. Carpenter indicated he has been thinking of starting a Catholic
Film Festival for a couple of years since Catholics are numerous in
Arizona. We hope to provide enough variety to appeal to all audiences
for entertainment, as well as some spiritual thought and positive
messages. Our goal is to continue and grow the festival in future years
to bring Catholic entertainment in the Phoenix area and throughout
Arizona to a new level.
For further information, please call Fr. Chris Carpenter at (480)
964-1719 or Joanne Caroselli at (480) 941-4045
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Missing Form Two Student found dead in teachers latrine tied with a rope
allan June 4, 2019 2:22 pm GMT+0000 June 4, 2019 2:25 pm GMT+0000 Crime #CrimeinKenya, DCI, Education in Kenya, Kakamega, Keroka police station
A twelve-day search for a 17-year-old Form Three student ended in grief yesterday when his decomposed body was pulled from a pit latrine at St Don Bosco Secondary School in Gesima.
Cliff Mayieka was reportedly said to be missing through a police abstract OB number 43/3/6/2019 recorded by the School Principal Mr Samuel Mabeya since May 19, 2019.
Cliff Mayieka, the Don Bosco Secondary School Gesima student whose body was retrieved from a pit latrine in the institution on June 3, 2019. PHOTO | COURTESY
But what shocked parents and the board of the school were that the principal recorded the situation two weeks later in what he says that he learnt through the class teacher.
The principal later called on the deceased’s father Robinson Mayeka and informed him that the son had gone missing from the school.
The body’s location was triggered by a foul smell which was noticed by the watchman emanating from a nearby toilet normally used by teachers. When the search was launched to find out the cause of the smell, the boy’s body was found with the hands reportedly tied with a rope.
David Nyambane Osongo, the school gourd says that he noticed that one of the latrines had been locked from inside and as he peeped he noted a body lying on the floor.
Kenya Police Service, DCI from Keroka police station and Education Officers visited the scene and found a decomposing body of the deceased lying on the floor of the toilet while hands were tied.
Police confirmed that the body also had visible injuries and a loose mosquito net was hanging loose on the rooftop. The body was later moved to a private morgue at in Keroka.
County Director of Education Nicodemus Anyang said Cliff Mayieka’s body was retrieved at 8 pm.
“We have no clue of what may have caused his death, but police are investigating,” said Dr Anyang.
Dr Anyang said they had deployed a team of counsellors to offer psychological support to students who were in shock.
Kenyans have condoled with the family and called for investigations.
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EXCLUSIVE: All the glitz and glamour at the lavish Dark and Lovely event (PHOTOS)
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Solar eclipse 2017: Americans gaze at sky spectacular
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CFSA Scientists Received by Irish President
Chinese Academy of Science and Science Foundation Ireland hosted a scientific cooperation seminar on December 9th, 2014 when Irish President Mr. Michael Higgins was visiting China. The seminar reviewed and showed collaboration outcomes between Chinese and Irish scientists in various areas.
At the seminar, Mr. Higgins met with scientist representatives and CFSA Laboratory of Microbiology director Mrs. Fengqin Li. He also visited the poster exhibition of the collaborative research project between CFSA and University College of Dublin.
In recent year, CFSA and University College of Dublin have deepened mutual cooperation, frequenting academic cooperation and personnel exchange. University College of Dublin professor and the former European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) executive director Mr. Parikh Ward was hired as a member of CFSA international advisory commitee in 2012. Since then, Mr. Ward has come to CFSA annually to give guidance. Other cooperation includes Dr. Fengqin Li’s visit to University College of Dublin as a visiting scholar in February 2014 and the holding of the “molecular microbiology technology applied in food microorganism detection” seminar in Beijing in October 2014. CFSA and University College of Dublin are planning to have further cooperation in staff competency building, reciprocal expert visits and scientific research projects.
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Alien�: Extended (1992)
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Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet.
The troubled film makes a home at dead-donkey. Firstly, let's throw all the cards on the table. This is not as good a horror film as Alien, and this does not attempt to be a follow up to Aliens. Instead, Alien3 goes further, darker, and grittier. Many could not understand or rather digest the jump from bleak, to bleaker. Bar the outburst of optimism at the end of Aliens granted. Alien3 starts just as Aliens did, it shakes up the system and created something unique. The problem is, many find this too dark, and too 'realistic' for the Aliens vibe. It's true to say that the gore is stepped up for this sequel, early workprints are said to contain a very gorey autopsy (which the documentry in the Quadrilogy confirms).
Alien3 is the product of a most notorious struggle of director against studio; dwarfing that of Terry Gilliam and his Brazil project. The film that came out in 1992 was troubled, and true to say not true good. A flawed, scriptless shoot seemlingly produced a inconsistant (but visually stunning film). The film still repsected the franchise, Ripley and the previous director's work, and ultimately created a unique corner of the series (unlike the fourth effort). However I, and fair to say most others, were dissapointed although the film was a success at the box office.
Then I saw this extended edition and the audience gets to see a more complete film. A film that should have come out in 1992, that could have come out originally. The film is brilliantly shot, and radically changed. The opening is more dramatic and visually stunning, the visuals are awinspiring, and the chestbursting is restored to its original form. Most significantly, a huge plot hole is filled and a brilliant sequence, cut presumably by men in suits, is restored and adds a whole new level to the film, making the ending all the more justifiable and fitting. The ending is added to and I believe works better.
The audio in a few places is unclear; this is not a flaw in the rip, it is because the sequences are restored from a non-theatrical workprint.
Video Codec: XViD
Bitrate: 896kbit
Length: 145 mins 23.976fps
Ripper: fragment
Audio Codec: 5.1 AC3
Bitrate: 448kbits/
Filesize: 699mb + 698mb
Uncut Alien 3
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Dannatt on Defence - 3
NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE 21st CENTURY � Part Three
By Paula Jaegar
British Army's Chief of the General Staff General Sir RichardDannatt's proposed revision of the British Army falls divides three interconnected strands: Procurement; personnel; brigade structure.
Given what is politely referred to as the current economic climate, a new concentration and seriousness of purpose must be
brought to bear on the procurement process. Fundamentally, the big issue is: Do we aspire to ultimate capabilities, supertoys and dream weapons, or do we sign up for a route which is evolutionary, incremental and pragmatic, choosing platforms which are simpler, to which adaptations and upgrades can be added over time ? Dannatt comes out in favour of the latter.
His message is: We can live with the givens; budgetary constraints, flawed legacy projects, wavering learning curves. But no more delays or pursuit of fantasy. Decisiveness and sobriety are demanded. In return, the Army directorate has applied creativity and imagination to come up with solutions which might otherwise be provided by cash injection.
UORs have delivered very fine new equipment to the frontline; but on return from active duty, soldiers are required to hand over their new kit to troops on pre-deployment exercise, and to pick up again their old armaments, thereby losing facility and having to retrain for battlefield use of the newer equipment. It's an example of the inherent wastefulness and hidden expense of applying contingency measures on a continuous basis. Crisis has become the norm. The practice is also, says Dannatt, psychologically damaging to the individual affected.
At around 98 000, falling short of the 102 000 target, the Army is technically undermanned; and that number doesn't factor in those service people not immediately available for regular duties. Recruitment traditionally falls off at times of rising casualties, and the numbers reported from Afghanistan of late are on the increase. Goodwill has been stretched, divorce and family breakup are more common.
Welcomes Home for the troops have been very much appreciated, and provide a sense of connectedness and integration between Army and populace. Dannatt mentions the streets of Belfast crowded with wellwishers on the return of the Royal Irish; not a sight he might have predicted during his time on the streets there, and some token of the possibility of sectarian rapprochement in the most hopeless-seeming stalemates.
There is a role for the media to play in bridging the gap between the public's sympathy for our lads, and their understanding, or lack thereof, of the mission. Dannatt wants the media on-message. He pointed at a journalist in the IPPR event audience during a discussion of media access to front lines, and said, "You are a part of this". Quite where this leaves the concept of a free and independent Fourth Estate is a debate for another day.
Overstretch has been a function of the present setup of 10 brigades revolving between two theatres, a pattern designed for eight. Dannatt proposes restructuring the brigades into, not two groups of five in cycle, but one group of six. These would comprise a tank battalion and one of armoured reconnaissance, an armoured and two mechanised infantry battalion, a mechanised infantry battalion and two "light role" infantry battalions. A reduction in heavy tanks and artillery would be balanced by an increase in light/medium weight manoeuvrable pieces. And instead of deploying for six months in every 24, the Army would deploy 6 months in every 30.
An important innovation would be the creation of specialist units, including linguists and experts in local and regional cultures and custom, which could move freely on attachment as required. These might be staffed by reservists, and Dannatt, a proponent of One Army, would like to see work done on creating a database of reservists with desirable skills, identified as current pinchpoints. His ideal overall number is up from 102 000 to 130 000, irregulars included.
Dannatt's reference to the British Army being consumed in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future is a striking and doubtlessly considered use of language. He elaborates on the timeframe; not 20-30 years, but the next 3-5. An original estimate of an Afghan army of 70 000 has been revised upwards, to around 120 000. Given his definition of success in Iraq as the culminating handover to British mentored native forces, this increases substantially the task of ISAF and its British component; who also, most importantly, must maintain security while their mentoring goals are being achieved.
The Army needs a breathing space; now, on the eve of our likely departure from Iraq, and before an irrevocable move to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan, is the moment in which to resolve how best to use it.
Our experiences since 2003 have taken us into new terrain, but cannot altogether abandon older lessons. Major land ops must be factored into planned capabilities. Recently Dannatt took a new generation of officers round the phantom battlefields of the (cold) War that Never Was; not a trip down memory lane, but an important dimension unfamiliar to young men and women whose experience was grounded in counter-insurgency and reconstruction projects. If we are in Afghanistan for the long haul, the lesson of Northern Ireland, of strategic patience, must not be overlooked.
The tantalising unasked question , harking back to the General's introductory remarks, concerns the period of accelerated change which is ahead of us, and which will outstrip the phase we have just been through in its pace and demands. Why does the Chief of the General Staff think this is likely, and given our present commitments, is it likely to happen to us in the next few years in Afghanistan ?
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Bomb Dogs More Effective Than Manual Screening at Ferries, but Cost Three Times as Much
U.S. ferries annually carry over 80 million passengers and 25 million vehicles. They are potential targets for terrorism, and ferry systems have been hit by terrorists overseas. The Transportation Security Administration supplies Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams to ferry systems. Some of these VIPR teams include explosives detection canine teams (a handler and a dog). TSA has deployed 319 VIPR units to ferry systems in almost four years, but it is not clear how many of these units included canine teams. Statistics have not been provided as to how many canine teams work in the ferry system on any given day, but it seems likely that only a small portion of people, luggage, and vehicles going onto ferries are actually sniffed by dogs. The map shows areas with significant ferry services in the U.S. (Dark circles show human passengers; light circles show vehicles. Washington State has a high level of cars on its ferries.)
In a report published this month, the Government Accountability Office evaluated security at ferry systems using canine and manual screening. Some ferry systems use walk-through metal detectors and baggage belts. The GAO noted that the Coast Guard believes that canine screening is “a reliable and proven method for detecting concealed explosives.” The Coast Guard has stated that “canines provide advantages of superior mobility and the ability to follow a scent directly to its source—citing that canines have a higher probability of detection compared to manual, x-ray, and trace detection methods.”
The description of following a scent to its source may be (or may not be) a reference to Auburn’s now-trademarked Vapor Wake Detection Program, which the GAO has described recently. See Technology Assessment: Explosives Detection Technologies to Protect Passenger Rail, GAO-10-898, p. 42 (July 28, 2010). On November 16, 2010, Auburn was granted trademark rights to the phrase, Vapor Wake. (I have some concern that Auburn’s trademarking of this phrase may induce other training organizations to seek protection for phrases used in marketing and online materials. Some of those phrases may be used by other organizations, meaning that everyone will have to check whether their use of a phrase has become problematic because of someone else trademarking it.)
A dog’s alert allows a ferry to take further action. According to the GAO:
"[S]tate police officers who perform canine screening at one ferry system we visited reported that state case law generally prohibits them from opening a vehicle trunk without the driver’s consent or a search warrant. However, when a canine detects a potential threat associated with a vehicle and the driver does not consent to trunk screening, officers notify the ferry captain. Under the ferry system’s security procedures, anyone denying such a screening will be prohibited from boarding, preventing a potential risk from boarding the ferry."
The Coast Guard has estimated, however, that canine screening is over three times more expensive than manual screening, with a startup program for two handlers and two dogs costing about $250,000. This apparently means that the training phase of the handler, and the expenses related to a dog before deployment, amount to about $125,000. One port security official estimated that the cost of one system’s four canine units per year was $160,000, meaning that a single team costs about $40,000 a year (at least at one location, probably in the South where handler salaries are lower).
The GAO should have investigated how a calculation was reached that canine screening is so much more expensive than manual screening. This seems to be something of a comparison of apples and oranges. For instance, if a ferry takes automobiles, it would be far more time-consuming, likely less thorough, and certainly more Constitutionally suspect, to manually search every car than to walk an explosives detection dog through the vehicle hold. The generally less intrusive nature of drug and explosives sniffs—sui generis as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor described it 27 years ago in U.S. v. Place, 462 U.S. 696 (1983)—continues to explain why canine teams have procedural and often economic advantages over other criminal investigation techniques. (O’Connor’s Latin phrase, sui generis, has never stopped reverberating through the case law of canine sniffs; see the opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405 (2005), concerning automobile sniffs during a legitimate traffic stop.)
Cost issues would, of course, become somewhat secondary if a U.S. ferry were to become a terrorist target.
No uniform standards exist for non-federal canine teams used for screening at ports, though federal project bids will usually include requirements and the captain of a port may have to approve a contractor. Coast Guard officials informed GAO that DHS is currently evaluating the feasibility of developing standards for nonfederal canine programs. (Participants in TSA’s Transit Security Grant Program and DHS’s Homeland Security Grant Program must satisfy SWGDOG guidelines.)
Government Accountability Office, Maritime Security: Ferry Security Measures Have Been Implemented, but Evaluating Existing Studies Could Further Enhance Security, GAO-11-207 (December 2010)
Additional Notes. On December 22, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, federal agents conducting a sweep around Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport found men hiding in a truck at the Delta Airlines cargo facility. It was the second night of a Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response operation focused on trucks carrying cargo to be loaded on planes. No specific threat prompted the operation. Bomb dogs, a radioactive detector, and an x-ray device were brought but no explosives were found. This indicates that VIPR teams often involve deploying multiple modalities. DHS also summarized the incident in its daily report. The TSA Blog for August 22, 2013, indicates VIPR teams are not being cut back, at least in rail environments.
Duel on the Clearwater (1932)
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Affected Facilities and Clinics
Q: What do Dousedaicon, Swedish, PacMed and Kadlec patients with Premera coverage need to know?
There is no change in 2016. Our hospitals and clinics serve all patients and patients can always access our services, but in 2017, Dousedaicon, Swedish, PacMed and Kadlec hospitals and clinics will be out of network, for patients with Premera coverage, which may mean increased out-of-pocket expenses.
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Warlock - "Burning The Witches" (1984)
Can - "Tago Mago" (1971)
Grave Digger - "Heavy Metal Breakdown" (1984)
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^^The new Clutch sounds better than the last one to me. It's tight as nails and sounds great.
They are so consistent.
FlockaJawaka
Switched it up from the usual horrorshow and listened to some rock and metal stuff from 2003/4. Thought I may as well share thoughts on them.
Mastodon - Remission - haven't listened to this for years now, since I went off Mastodon generally (Blood Mountain time). I rate them, it's just not really moving me. This is heavy as fuck but the tail end of it seems less remarkable now, just those kinda meandering nice guitar compositions jammed out that sound uniquely Mastodon, but also a bit too-much-so considering how much of *that* they've put out since this. I liked it when they went in real hard between those jams, the rocking stuff on here kicks ass and the opening 2 tracks are devastating. Insert Gojira RE:"From Mars To Sirius" for almost identical breakdown of said record (track 6 for that one!) and my impressions of the output afterwards.
Carry On - A Life Less Plagued - OK, didn't totally neglect the usual choices. This has been out ages, can't believe that such a short record has had such resistance to diminishing returns and still gets me amped up. It's so deliciously luxuriously ironic that this might be explained by me receiving a dopamine response from listening to a straight edge band's straight edge record. Not out of nastiness or disrespect, but as a cynic and a cunt that is some real value there. Best of both worlds.
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder - curiosity, this one, with what seems a bit of a forgotten record. Production (Brendan O'Brien) is so on point on this, I love the sound and a lot of the playing. Unfortunately a bit spoiled by a lyricist (who's actually decent, but...) who constantly steers things into WET.. Sensitivity in your artistry is one thing, but encroaching on such wet territory diminishes any impression of ever being not wet; it it spoils the theatre of e.g.aggression, anger, talking tough and all, which actually accounts for the majority of the rest of the record. A lot of that stuff misses the mark for me, I'm not usually affected by lyrical dynamics but they're really disparate here. So personally there seems to be a black dog experience that stops the question of whether Incubus are good group from mattering. I'm mostly just regarding them, feeling distanced and not that involved in it. At this point in their discography at least. But also I'm struggling to fault this in an objective way, it's a well-made record with a handful of fat to trim. The title track really is a great tune.
FlockaJawaka wrote:
I like Remission but I thought Leviathan rendered it largely irrelevant, with the exception of a couple of tracks.
As far as Gojira are concerned: I love their talent, their ethics, their live performances, their song writing, their adoption of less "metal" aesthetics; however, I do find their albums a little inconsistent, with some tracks disappearing into the background. From Mars to Sirius is an awesome record, though.
Boston Strangler : fire
Mastodon - Remission - haven't listened to this for years now, since I went off Mastodon generally (Blood Mountain time). I rate them, it's just not really moving me. This is heavy as fuck but the tail end of it seems less remarkable now, just those kinda meandering nice guitar compositions jammed out that sound uniquely Mastodon, but also a bit too-much-so considering how much of *that* they've put out since this. I liked it when they went in real hard between those jams, the rocking stuff on here kicks ass and the opening 2 tracks are devastating.
Agree that the album is pretty front loaded. After "Ol'e Nessie", there isn't much real greatness to be found, but I still find the material to be quite strong on the whole, just less impressive than it's on the first half.
The album has stood up pretty well, although it perhaps seems less impressive now than it did in 2002, mostly because this type of fluid mix of styles is more commonplace today and they were an unknown entity back then who hadn't really spread their wings or fulfilled their potential. It's only natural that 16 years later the album will carry a different 'message', regardless of whether you heard it at the time or not.
I like Leviathan a lot, but it's completely different album really, and I must confess that I found it somewhat disappointing when I heard it, possibly because it was less heavy.
I guess many Mastodon fans would argue that Remission was the sound of a band finding its way, so to speak, and they became better songwriters over time. I get where they are coming from, but Mastodon's 'songwriting' is often hit and miss, and one's response to their more straightforward material will largely depend on their attitude towards the clean vocals, which is perfectly understandable.
I don't think they are great songwriters. They have cool riffs and a big sound, but nothing sticks for me, even after repeated exposure
Def Leppard - "High 'n' Dry" (1981)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - "Rising Force" (1984)
Gotham City - "The Unknown" (1984)
Gojira, being a 6-track album of its best joints would have made "From Mars To Sirius" one of the tidiest releases of its whole era. They make soooo much plodding boring stuff though. To be fair, they were amazing live, one of the best live bands i've ever watched.
3 of the week:
Decapitated - Nihility - this band led a shift to crisper, more musically sophisticated thing than its influences and predecessors from the straighter DM crowd, chucks in some 90's more-mainstream metal songwriting sense, and has so much stronger material than "Winds Of Creation" which seems to be people's primary reference point for this band. Thats a bit of a shame, I can usually take/leave straight DM but this is very strong, I might continue on through their discography next week. I kept loose tabs and never thought it sounded wack, I just dont listen to long hair type metal a whole lot so I never got round to listening. I think the last I checked out was the final one before that accident. Cool.
Car Bomb - Meta - wrote up in the other thread while I had it on, hits all the spots for me.
Car Bomb w^w^^w^w - also been nobbing this to death. Both records been in heavy rotation.
Krokus - "One Vice At A Time" (1982)
Shiva - "Firedance" (1982)
Pretty Maids - "Red, Hot & Heavy" (1984)
I had a listen to that Shiva record, if it was yourself who posted it in the 'now listening' thread. I liked it, pretty much nailed the description - like early Priest with Alex Lifeson's guitar tone and Jon Anderson singing. Pretty bare faced attempts to replicate those sounds but the material is idiosyncratic, enough so. I don't think I'd ever heard of them before, nice one.
I've really gotten back into black metal and seeking out new music this week.
Is the first band called All My Shit?
Sounds like an emo band!
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The supposed "police" number quoted by the press is 10,000 people, though the PR department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police has said they don't announce the numbers. What "police" the mainstream media outlets have been quoting, no one knows; supposedly some anonymous inside source that the press club reporters have access to all the time.
So, it was a success for the Noda administration and the pro-administration media, who didn't need to quote the number from the organizers this time.
This photo from the article by independent journalist Ryusaku Tanaka (7/13/2012) shows the police on one side of the metal fence and protesters on the other side. An older man on the left, looking at the camera looks puzzled and annoyed. (Click to enlarge.)
Tanaka calls it "Intifada". In Japan, it usually means the Palestinian ones. That's how he describes the protest that is herded in by the metal fences and the law enforcement.
In his article, Tanaka quotes two protest participants, both women in their 50s. The first one speaks like a man:
「ふざけんじゃねえ。国民が自分の意志を表すために集まって来ているのにこんな鉄柵をつけるのはおかしい。これだけの人が来るのだから車道を開放すべきだ」（中野区・女性=50代）
"Stop bullshitting me. Citizens gather here to express their wills, and what's the point of this metal fence? With this many people coming, they should just open the road." (a woman in her 50s from Nakano-ku, Tokyo)
「初めて官邸前に来たら鉄柵があった。ものものしい雰囲気にびっくりしている。ノーと言える子供を育てたい。今日は子供たちに教室を休む理由を説明してきた」（名古屋・音楽教室を営む女性=50代）
"I'm here for the first time, and there are these metal fences. I'm surprised at this elaborate security. I want to raise children who can say "No". Before I came here today, I explained to my students why I was not giving lessons today." (a woman in her 50s from Nagoya, who runs a private music school)
There are tweets from younger people saying they didn't like the "obnoxious and impolite" baby-boomer generation at the protest, who apparently complained loudly to the police and to the pushy cameramen from the media, as they should. Well, young people, tough.
Labels: nuke protest, Ooi Nuclear Power Plant, Tokyo
Scott said...
Wow the younger generation is more pacifist than the older. That's unexpected. I'd think with youth, there would be more fire in their hearts to rally a loud and lively protest.
Now that we know the police/government tactics for marginalizing the appearance of the protests; I hope the organizers find new and more creative ways to make their weekly protests known. Don't let this fencing in and station closing BS get you guys down. Keep pushing!
Yes, the younger generation is more pacifist. Although young participants are anti-nuclear, many may not truly realize the gravity of the situation. Nothing short of actual graphic reports of malformed and sick children will be greatly effective. The worry for me is that this will be a fad for some youth, who next year will move on to something else. Noda is definitely not going to back down from his dictatorial stance. One good thing is that the party he leads is deteriorating, so if Hatoyama and friends defect, the DPJ will become just another one of many parties, and Noda's punishing politicians who refuse to support him will become the bullet from his gun in his own foot.
It's the middle-aged people and older who seem to have the vigor. I don't think the organizers are very creative. They are happily collaborating with the police.
The younger ones still "dont get it"--and expect the government has everything under control. Just wait, THOSE younger ones..first will have to cover the costs of the health decline of those in the older generation..AND then..the cost of the cleanup/nuke mess deconmamintation..AND THEN..their own health crisis. Its the "younger one" who will carry the damaged DNA into the future.Wait until they understand THAT!
Hikarius said...
@Anon 7:56 PM
That's true. It reminds me of the July-1 protest in Hong Kong (against communist authoritarian rule) every year. It seems to me that the organizers of both protests (in Hong Kong and Japan) managed to bring hundreds of thousands people on the street, yet don't have any strategy to achieve their goals. As a results, those protests become just another vent of peoples' discontentment.
I have a mixed feeling about this demo, particularly when I see people trying to pick some cute symbol and naming for their "movement" even though they haven't achieved anything of consequence yet.
I dislike the "hydrangea revolution" moniker, I don't like the white balloons. It is distributed by one of the opposition politicians (whom I much admire), he likes to have the white balloon as the symbol. Why? For no other reason than it was used in a peaceful demonstration in Belgium in the 1990s against a sex offender.
Why is that balloon any relevant here? I have no idea.
Helen Caldicott interviewed Taro Kono (LDP) recently, and he emphasized that what people need to do is work through the system, regardless of how difficult that may be, or how corrupt it may be. Demonstrations, he believes, really won't achieve much. Is this, perhaps, what is happening in Hong Kong as well? Demonstrations are tolerated by the government because it knows, in the end, that nothing concrete will be achieved anyway.
That's totally, completely expected from the likes of Kono.
kintaman said...
While these protests/demos are a step in the right direction Japan needs to step it up several notches to have any effect.
Instead of demos there should be general strikes with mass amounts of people not going to work. It will only be successful if huge amounts of people leave work. I doubt this could ever happen but if it did it would cause change to happen. Then the people could remove those criminals from power and arrest them as a next step.
When the young people, the older people AND the police realize that they are not going to get a pension and their savings have been evaporated and their healthcare system is stark bollox naked and their bond market is imploding and their yen is worth sweet FA, then you will have moderate success with the demos. Till then though most of the population are happy to watch the olympics and play with their smart phones thinking of all the 'other' troublespots like Greece and Spain and Syria and and...They are oblivious to the dire position of their own country. Give them a hyperinflation and things will change.
My impression is that these demonstrations occour because of the utter nonsense of restarting npps. At the moment I do not see much else, which would not be a problem if there were some degree of progress towards stopping the restarts.
I agree the organizers need come up with some creative idea to get more media attention and inflict some level of pain to the counterparty beyond simple "noise", as Noda described the "saikado hantai" chants resounding in the Kantei hall.
Little Canary said...
As kintaman said, the only solution is oraganized civil disobedience, not going to work is just a little example of what the 99% could achieve.
In Spain yesterday at Madrid 6 people, according to the police, were arrested. Well many opted to fight, getting involved in the divide and conquer scam.
I personally think that demos and protest, as any wing of any political party, do not bring any change to society unless people stop been isolated by the new technologies=facebook, jobs, races etc.
Janick in Tokyo said...
I understand the arguments developed by other readers, and not everything pleases me either (there is no way I am going to take a white balloon if I am offered one ! it's ridiculous ! and the protesters are not there to support that politician anyway, so it's also a kind of abuse). That said, don't forget that there were parallel demonstrations in at least 14 towns throughout Japan yesterday, including some places very, very far away from Tokyo, where people do not really rely on new technologies like Facebook, and certainly not to the point of being isolated (by the way, Facebook is an excellent way to get together, I don't quite see your point, Little Canary !). Forget about races, it's not the problem in Japan, and I don't have the feeling that jobs make people isolated, on the contrary. My point here (and I may be proven wrong of course) is that people now DO get together like never before against the idea of pursuing nuclear energy. Yesterday's demonstration, however, was a bit sad compared to last week's because the police separated people in small groups and most people could not move forward (nor could they get close to Noda's official residence). How people and the organizers will react to that new problem next time, I don't know really. We'll see next Friday...
By the way, the next big demonstration is due on Monday afternoon. I guess it will be a strong one. The organizers are different people but the protesters will certainly be the same... and some more.
The only way to respond to this new tactic is not to announce every event weeks in advance they need to spontaneously flashmob locations on various times and days. They won't attract as many people but it will keep the cops guessing where the next mob will pop up. The short nature of the demos lend themselves to the Flashmob. These flash mobs could network at the weekly planned events in order to increase their impact.
Violence is needed otherwise this movement is a joke, the powers that be are shitheads and sociopaths so they need to be hit fucking hard by the force of peoples fists in their faces..
I disagree. Violence will only give the government the excuse to enact martial law. It will also scare supporters away as they are against violence.
I will reiterate that the ONLY way to achieve success is by starting with a MASS STRIKE. If 75%+ of the people go on strike the economy will grind to a HALT. The next move is to remove those in power, ALL OF THEM. Then start fresh, a peaceful revolution for a clean slate. Keep America and Israel out of everything.
Violence is exactely the OPPOSITE of what the anti-nuclear movement needs. The shitheads and sociopaths in charge THRIVE on violence you would only make them victims in the MSM and give them a real justification for clamping down. The Japanese are famous for the old proverb "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" for a reason. There is a good portion of the Japanese people who would respond very negatively to a violent movement even if they were against NPP's.
Aum Shinrikyo, currently known as Aleph used violence and all it got them was branded as a terrorist organization with a jailed leader. In most countries nuclear power is considered a national security asset any violent action against these facilities or their operators is considered a serious crime.
Violence is not necessary, but perhaps doing something outside of the rules is...such as going outside the police barriers and laying down in the road, showing up at 5 instead of 6, staying until 10 instead of going home promptly at 8. If you had a front line of people distracting the police, it (hopefully) wouldn't be that hard for the people to step outside the boundaries. I wholeheartedly agree that nothing will change as long as the protests remain within the "permitted" boundaries set up by the police. There is nothing to fear from well-behaved citizenry. There is fear, however, in unpredictable behavior, which does not have to be violent.
Having worked beside the Japanese for many years, I think it would be culturally very difficult for any of these anti-nuke demonstrators to quit being anti-nuke once they have gone so far as to have participated in a demonstration. A more committed (some might say head-strong) people I have never met. The demonstrators will not give up until nuclear power is renounced. Dividing the protests at the PM's residence is a mere speed bump to this movement.
Further, there is nothing to prevent the demonstrators from setting up their own Friday evening demonstration pods in places the police haven't thought about. For example, down the hill on the other side of the PM's residence may be better than the back of the sidewalk toward the diet building. Next Friday, perhaps the demonstrators can ask some of the people in the sadder areas of the demonstration to voluntarily move en masse to another location around the PM's residence. The police would have no right to detain them if they want to leave the police-designated demonstration area. If they reassemble somewhere else, is there a law to prevent them from doing so? Point is, if the demonstration needs to be broken up, it should be the demonstrators who decide where the pods will go; and this decision should be made completely independent of the police.
It's interesting to consider also, from the perspective of the anti-nuke Japanese, what the government has done to them so far. The government has refused to listen when we tried to tell them that nuclear energy has no place in Japan's future - polls clearly show that the public does quite rightly sees the potential catastrophe as being far worse than the true economic impact of shutting the nuke plants. The public has spoken, and the government does what the nuclear mura is paying them to do anyway. The people have lost their representation.
So the public is taking to the streets in protest - trying to get their government to listen. Now the government is trying to diffuse the protests by breaking the ever-growing protest into multiple smaller protests. Again, stifling the voice of the common people.
But we all know what happens when frustration builds and voices are ignored. The more the government acts to repress these voices, the sooner we will have a "steam explosion" of the unheard, frustrated masses. Perhaps this is playing out as it should. And if it happens, it could be as life-changing as the steam explosions at TEPCO's nuclear plant.
I like the post above about 14 sites all over Japan becoming protest sites on Friday evenings.
It reminds me that this vocal opposition to the DPJ's nuclear war against the Japanese people is growing like a cancer. And even if they split the main Tokyo group into five groups, each of those smaller groups also will grow to overflow their boundaries. Additionally, new cells are springing up all over Japan. They too will grow. And new cells will spring up elsewhere. Why? Because we are RIGHT! and we KNOW we are RIGHT! And we are completely and totally committed with every fiber of our being - completely committed to stopping nuclear power in Japan.
This movement will NOT go away until Japan renounces nuclear power. In the meantime, the government and police need to be careful in stifling the voices of the concerned citizens of Japan. If they don't listen, if they continue to ignore and insult the people who are trying to communicate with the government, this situation could easily escalate.
Let the people assemble. Let the people speak. These are basic human rights that are essential to the functioning of a free and democratic society. The situation may escalate if the people feel their voices are being stifled unfairly.
... and maybe an escalation is exactly what the Japanese government wants. I agree with those who said violence is unnecessary and will only deter peaceful demonstrators. What better weapon for the government is there than to discredit all protesters by characterizing them as violent lunatics?
Protests MUST continue peacefully and creatively. Nonviolent protests, civil disobedience, and strikes draw attention and cannot be ignored forever.
Maybe also try to promote "lights out" or
"electricity-free" hours on certain evenings. No one needs to go anywhere, saves electricity, and dark cities send a message.
*mscharisma*
What would happen if a large number of people turned off (or on) their electric appliances all at the same time?
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A new report by the American Immigration Council finds that Americans’ attitudes toward unauthorized immigrants are, among other factors, deeply related to their personal values and to the type of contact they have with immigrants in their daily lives.
No One Should Face the Immigration System Alone: The American Immigration Council Highlights the Critical Need for Access to an Attorney for #GivingTuesday Campaign
The American Immigration Council announced today that it will focus on the critical need for access to an attorney when navigating the immigration system during its #GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising campaign starting November 27.
Administration’s Attempt to Restrict Asylum is Illegal and Un-American
The Trump administration revealed today a new interim final regulation that restricts access to asylum at the border, causing chaos and uncertainty for many seeking protection.
American Immigration Council on President Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship
President Donald Trump said yesterday in an interview that he plans to sign an executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship, a principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitution that grants citizenship to any person born within the territory of the United States.
The Immigrant Success Story: How Family-Based Immigrants Thrive in America
Through analysis of data from the decennial census and administrative data from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, this special report examines the earnings gains over time of all immigrants, as well as the earnings gains experienced by family-based immigrants compared to employment-based immigrants.
NAS Report Finds Immigration a Win for the U.S. Economy
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) immigration report takes a comprehensive look at the fiscal and economic impact of immigration.
Practical, Comprehensive Immigration Solutions Promote Public Safety
Immigration Council Strongly Reaffirms Research on Reagan-Bush Family Fairness Policy
Understanding ICE’s Release of Immigrants with Criminal Convictions
Washington D.C. - Understanding the complexities of immigration law and its intersection with criminal law is not easy.
New Report from Center for Immigration Studies on Deportation Data Misleads and Misinforms
Washington D.C. – Today the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a new report that makes a range of false claims about deportation data.
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2016 Cape Town Cycle Tour entry applications open tomorrow
(Cape Town, 08 September 2015) A reminder to all prospective 2016 Cape Town Cycle Tour riders: Online entry applications open on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 at 1pm and will stay open for two and half weeks, closing on Monday, 28 September at 1pm.
Entry applications amount to an indication of interest only and do not ensure entry. Cycle Tour entries will be awarded at random, regardless of whether interest is registered on the first or the last day of the application period.
In August 2015, the Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust (CTCTT), organisers of the annual iconic event, announced a new online entry application process for 2016 which has been introduced to eliminate the quick sell-out of entries and improve cyclists’ overall experience. David Bellairs, a CTCTT director, says: “This is the first time Cycle Tour has moved away from the first-come-first-serve entry mechanism, and we believe this new system will ensure a more equitable and inclusive process for all prospective riders. We want to remind applicants that they do not need to rush to be the first in line as soon as the portal opens. Instead, they are able to apply for an entry at their convenience during the allocated period, giving all eager riders a fair chance to access the online portal to register their interest and to update their details at the same time.”
The Cape Town Cycle Tour takes place on Sunday, 06 March 2016 and is limited to 35,000 riders. All entry applicants must follow the clear three-step process to apply for a 2016 entry.
How to apply for a public entry to the 2016 Cape Town Cycle Tour:
Entry application:
From Wednesday, 09 September at 1pm until Monday, 28 September at 1pm, prospective local and international riders can apply, free of charge, for an entry at www.capetowncycletour.com.
Entry confirmation:
During the week of 2 October, successful applicants will receive an email notification from the Cycle Tour Events Office, advising them that their application has been successful.
Securing an entry:
Successful applicants will have until Monday, 26 October at 1pm to make payment which will secure their entry. Payment not received by this date, or should the applicant opt to decline the entry awarded to them, will result in that entry being made available to a previously unsuccessful rider. Local general entries will cost R470 per rider.
Corporate Group entries will no longer be available this year, so those who have made use of these in the past will need to follow the public entry application process. A certain number of the entries will be made available via charity groups at varying costs and unsuccessful applicants or corporate group riders are encouraged to support a worthy cause by entering via one of the successfully listed charities.
Follow @CTCycleTour on Twitter or like the official Cape Town Cycle Tour page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CTCycleTour) for regular updates.
For any event queries, or assistance with entries, please contact the Cycle Tour Events Office during office hours on 087 820 7223 or visit www.capetowncycletour.com.
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Without Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto III, we wouldn’t have Sleeping Dogs, The Saboteur, and possibly dozens of other series, including Saints Row. But whereas Grand Theft Auto IV upped the realism to aggravating levels (managing relationships and awful driving are the worst offenders), Saints Row has descended further and further into insanity, basically delivering the same sandbox joy that GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas were known for.
I’ve never played the original Saints Row, and while Saints Row 2 seems to continue directly off from the first game, I’m guessing I’ll be able to jump into the gangster-filled world with ease. I’ve heard tons of great things about the third game recently, but the second one flew under my radar, so I’m not exactly sure what to expect.
Here’s the first hour of Saints Row 2 for the PlayStation 3.
Gang Bangin’ Minutes
I’ve been mixing up the format of this for the last few weeks, and Nate recently suggested we have sort of a theme for each game. For example, Space Marine’s notable minutes simply featured all the dorky quotes I heard. I like this idea even more than just straight up describing the important bits.
Saint Row 2’s first hour is pretty insane, so I’d like to present the events as candidly as possible, hopefully juxtaposing the craziness.
02 - Wake up from a multi-year coma.
03 - Fix my hair and makeup.
07 - Kill doctor.
09 - Begin prison escape.
11 - Kill guards.
13 - Steal cop car.
14 - Steal boat.
15 - Shoot down helicopters with gatling gun.
17 - Read newspaper headline: “Coma victim wakes up, kills way to freedom.”
22 - Begin rescue of friend who is about to be convicted of 300 counts of murder.
30 - Kill shotgun-wielding judge.
37 - Pour out a 40 over my dead friend to revive him.
40 - Read newspaper headline: “Gat found guilty, still goes free.”
50 - Sprayed septic tank juice on some mansions.
55 - Showered mobile homes with excrement.
60 - Gave some beach houses a feces fountain.
First Hour Summary
Minutes to Action: 7
You can’t say that Saints Row 2 doesn’t deliver on the early action. The immediate prison escape with exploding helicopters and boats leads to a courtroom shootout and tops it all off with me shooting literal crap at houses around town. Ridiculous barely describes the first hour of Saints Row 2.
While a few of the buttons felt “off” from what a standard sandbox action game would provide, I was pleased with how in control I felt with a gun in my hand. Aiming was downright perfect in Saints Row 2, and I had seemingly unparalleled control over the reticle. I’m not sure if auto-aiming was working very subtly or if I was just totally in the zone, but usually shooting can be a huge pain point in a Grand Theft Auto type of game. At least it has been in... every Grand Theft Auto game.
Driving in a new city like this can be a chore, but Saint Row 2’s mini-map was very helpful, blinking on what streets I should turn on to is a huge plus. I was surprised with the amount of driving involved this early in the game, and experienced a few annoying points where I destroyed my car on a bridge and absolutely zero other cars showed up for minutes, forcing me to foot it. Pretty annoying when I wanted to keep moving.
The courtroom level had me questioning whether my character even had a health bar, as I was rolling through there like Rambo. Police and guards were getting mowed down at every turn but I never felt threatened at all. In some ways, I don’t mind, some of Grand Theft Auto’s missions were obnoxious in how much you had to babysit your health, but a little life drain can go a long way in creating a challenge. This isn’t to say I did not have a lot of fun mowing down baddies, I had a blast.
But after the courtroom, I felt like the narrative abandoned me for a while. The game tossed me into the city with a billion icons to explore but no real direction. I was told to do something, okay, but shouldn’t someone be bugging me about the next mission too? Turns out, the game wanted me to try one of the little icons out, or a few of them. I’m honestly not totally on board with this and feel like a game should take a bit more control early on.
Bias: I don’t like the direction Grand Theft Auto has taken, so playing a game like Saints Row 2 is rather exciting.
Would I Keep Playing? Yes, this may just be the craziness I need in my life right now. But squirting poop also reminds me a lot of raising children.
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The Chat Thread
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Re: The Chat Thread
Quote from: Smiles on May 08, 2012, 12:05:11 am
sure! only 303 a month! +electric
God damn that's inexpensive
Kanazaka
Quote from: akashayi on May 09, 2012, 12:43:42 am
Compared to California, probably so . In other news, in three days, I will be a college graduate (again)!
So Smiles where can I set up my workshop of DDDDdddddddOOOOOOOOooooooooooooMMMMMmmmmmmm if I move in?
parameciumkid
http://helia.heliohost.org
CAN I MOVE IN TOO
I've been out for two years, so warn me if I act like I missed something obvious. ^^;
...oh, and to anyone who missed me, I'm open to hugs, kisses, and intense tearful cuddles.
the balcony is perfect! ^_^
Now another thing to spend your money on, our very own Razzly has finally been able to print her first album!
http://www.merriganmusic.com/
Ok how about this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8091965/Nasa-unveils-bold-plans-to-send-humans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html
Nasa unveils bold plans to send humans 'one-way to Mars to colonise planet'
Humans could be sent one-way to Mars under ambitious plans being investigated by Nasa to permanently colonise other planets in space.
Space agency officials confirmed feasability studies were under way to asses whether astronauts could be permanently sent to the red planet, or its moons, to establish human colonies.
The multi-billion pound mission, titled Hundred Years Starship, is being spearheaded by the Ames Research Centre, one of Nasa?s main research centres, based in Moffett Field, California.
Officials from the Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are also heavily involved in turning the science fiction idea into a reality.
Early estimates put the cost of such a mission, which has ?just started? at more than ?7 billion and could be achieved by 2030.
Scientists have been given ?600,000 government grant ? including ?100,000 from Nasa ? to start research into the idea, according to US reports.
The world?s billionaire?s, including Larry Page, Google?s co-founder, have been asked to help fund the project.
Pete Worden, the Ames director, confirmed the plans to a conference in San Francisco at the weekend.
?You heard it here. We hope to inveigle some billionaires to form a Hundred Year Starship fund,? he told the Long Conversation event at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
?The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds. Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.
?Within a few years we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds.?
Such a space journey would take up to nine months with volunteers embarking on the mission knowing they would never return to earth.
This is because the cost of returning astronauts to earth would make the project prohibitively expensive. Supplies would be sent to make them self-sufficient.
Such a mission would be gruelling for humans with forbidding conditions including sub-zero temperatures and a thin atmosphere.
Mr Worden said Mr Page was keenly interested in the project.
?Larry asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to send people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion and his response was, ?can you get it down to 1 or 2 billion?,? he said.
?So now we?re starting to get a little argument over the price.?
But he admitted that he did not know how such a mission would work in reality.
"How do you live in another world? I don't have the slightest idea," he said.
"If you're a conservative, you worry about it killing us; if you're a liberal, you worry about us killing it.
?I think things like synthetic biology have lot of potential for that. I think rather than make an environment on Mars like Earth, why don't we modify life ... including the human genome ... so it's better suited to [Mars]?"
A DARPA spokesman later confirmed details of the mission.
"A key element of the study is exploring models by which sustained co-investment by the private sector in these areas can be incentivised,? he said.
?The study is currently in the early formulation stage, but will be entirely open and unclassified, with more details forthcoming in early 2011."
It comes as researchers claimed such a human mission was technologically feasible and was cheaper returning astronauts to earth.
Their new study, in the Journal of Cosmology, found the costs of safely returning a crew would eat up the majority of such a mission?s budget.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from Washington State University and Paul Davies, from Arizona State University, said four volunteer astronauts could undertake the first mission to permanently colonise Mars.
?A one-way human mission to Mars would not be a fixed duration project as in the Apollo program, but the first step in establishing a permanent human presence on the planet,? they said.
?There are many reasons why a human colony on Mars is a desirable goal, scientifically and politically.
?The strategy of one-way missions brings this goal within technological and financial feasibility.?
They added: ?Nevertheless, to attain it would require not only major international co-operation but a return to the exploration spirit and risk-taking ethos of the great period of Earth exploration, from Columbus to Amundsen, but which has nowadays being replaced with a culture of safety and political correctness.?
Such a mission would come with natural ?ethical considerations?, they admitted.
I'm liking the new forum layout.
Yeah, I kind of like it too
When I saw the forum had changed I was terrified all the old posts might have been lost,
It's confusing me, another forum I go to has the same layout so trying not to post replies meant for in there in here
lol I understand completely though I haven't had that problem in years. *sighs* the good ol days
Quote from: Emp_Dragon on May 15, 2012, 11:16:49 am
I appreciate the advertising Emp. <3 Thanks.
You better watch out Razzly he might want a cut of your profits lol
Quote from: Oddball on May 20, 2012, 08:48:30 am
I'd never!...
Though an infinite hug would be acceptable recompense
i like hugs ^_^
Hugs are nice
Almost as good as kisses
mmmm but you can hug more people than kiss.
L0g0s
Wow, yes, the forum does look different.
Oh, by the by, I am still alive! (barely, but still kickin! [Okay, maybe not *kickin'* per se...])
That's one thing that makes me a bit sad sometimes
Duuude, new forum man... I's all trippin' out guys...
There's a thief in my building stealing cars right out from the parking garage /worry
That's no fun You got a car of your own down there?
of course ... ._.
« Reply #3023 on: June 01, 2012, 02:42:32 am »
but if he/she's stealing them out of the garage, doesn't that narrow down the number of suspects quite significantly?
The page with wet Regina made me sign in. How is everyone? At a quick glance, it seems like a lot of the people I love are still here.
Sorry I haven't been around in a while. Sure have been disgustingly busy.
Things are getting better though lately I would have to say.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2012, 09:27:07 am by UmberIsSexy »
Looks like car theft is a big thing just now, my big sis living in a small village down in Englandshire some where called London, had her car stolen last weekend. They just broke in took the keys and a packet of ciggies and nothing else all while they slept up stairs. Sounds like the car was stolen to order.
I like robot ninja chocolate monkeys!
Life been hectic, barely managed to keep up to date with flipside (well theres my first lie, flipside is no trouble, it comes first :3) but not been around the forums for a while, so i thought i would come say hi.
Flipside desktops, knock yourself out.
now with more pictures!
Quote from: UmberIsSexy on June 01, 2012, 09:25:18 am
<3 Tease, come back and tell us more about how you are
LAWNMOWER MASACRE
*Crawls in*
G'day all. I've been missing you all, I assure you.
Life in general has just been busy... and still is... but what the heck, I've got to make time for personal indulgence.
I'M BACK BABY!
CLAN OF THE CATS IS MAKING A COMEBACK! JUNE 8th. BE THERE!
The Aussie with the weird beard is back! (with or without beard I wonder...)
How's the missus and the babe?
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UK scientists are going to be all right after Brexit science minister
Email Sign up for our daily newsletter Get more great content like this delivered right to you! Country Q: You voted “Remain” in the referendum over Brexit. But now you are in a position of protecting U.K. science during the separation process. How difficult is that?A: I voted to remain because I thought it was costly and complicated to leave the EU, and that is clearly still the case. But there are opportunities and challenges.Q: Several weeks ago, at the Universities U.K. conference, you told universities that this is not the time to “shrink back and sulk” about Brexit, that universities need to “engage and lead in these debates.” What would you like them to do at this late stage?A: Universities have a big role to play … making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.Q: Your government wants to be an associated member of the European Union’s premier research funding programs, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, like Norway or Switzerland, but with some influence over research priorities for the programs. A: Our ask: We will make a financial contribution and it will be significant. It will be larger than all the other associated members combined. … In return for that, we ask for a number of things: that the focus of the programs is based on scientific excellence. … If the framework programs become about building capacity and capability in other EU countries, then the focus goes away from excellence. … We would [also] want our scientists to be involved in the decisions of some of the programs, the thinking behind some of the programs.Q: Your government established the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s (UKRI’s) Rutherford Fund to help attract young researchers from outside the United Kingdom. But there is evidence—declines in graduate school applications for example—that non-U.K. scientists are seeing the United Kingdom as a less appealing destination. What else can you do to staunch brain drain?A: I understand that mobility of scientists is essential to our success. … We’ve also subsequent to the Rutherford Fund launched a £1 billion “future leaders” program under UKRI, which is open to the brightest, the best, and the talented from all around the world. And we’re looking at our visa regimes. The UKRI visa program, it’s going to make it easier for researchers to come to the U.K. and do their work.Q: You have been upset over the European Union’s stance that the United Kingdom will be shut out of future contracts for Galileo, the European Union’s GPS system, even after pouring in more than £1 billion, and that you might not have access to its secure, military-grade signal elements. What leverage do you have to remain in the program? A: The Galileo thing is incredibly frustrating. … It doesn’t look like the EU is going to change its mind based on where we are in negotiations. So we will do what any sovereign nation would do which has military interests to bear in mind and which needs access to this technology—which is to look to produce our own version of it.Q: That’s a colossal undertaking that takes billions of pounds and a decade of time. How credible could a U.K. effort be?A: After building it we’ve learned a lot of lessons along the way. Companies have learned how to do things faster. It’ll probably be less complicated than one that’s built to the spec of 28 different countries. What we want to be post-Brexit is nimble, agile—and this is one area where we can prove that. The government has already committed £92 million to doing feasibility work around our own Galileo.Q: During recent Brexit negotiations in Austria, European leaders made it clear that withdrawal would not be easy. The European Council president said that May’s current plan for a new relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom “will not work.” And French President Emmanuel Macron had a harsh message for Brexiteers. He said, “Those who explain that we can easily live without Europe, that everything is going to be all right, and that it’s going to bring a lot of money home, are liars.” What do you say in response to that, to the scientists you are supposed to be advocating for? Are they going to be all right?A: They’re going to be all right, and we’re going to do everything to make sure that post-Brexit, the U.K. is a go-to place for science and innovation. We’re proving that by increasing investment in science to record levels. … It’s neither in our interest nor the EU’s for there not to be a deal. I think cool heads will prevail.*Update, 2 October, 5:20 p.m.: This story has been updated to include additional material from the interview. Science minister Sam Gyimah hopes the United Kingdom can still have a say in EU funding programs such as Horizon Europe, which will begin in 2021. In January, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Sam Gyimah as science and universities minister as a part of a broader cabinet reshuffle. Gyimah, a Conservative member of parliament representing East Surrey, replaced Jo Johnson, who had been science minister for almost 3 years. Last month, Gyimah came to the United States on a whistlestop tour. He visited pharmaceutical companies in Boston and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In Washington, D.C., he met with National Space Council head Scott Pace to talk about opportunities for collaboration in commercial space. During his visit, Gyimah spoke with Science about the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, a topic that is causing a great deal of anxiety among U.K. scientists. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Q: You were a banker for Goldman Sachs after you studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. What interest do you have in science?A: Everyone who’s rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science. … It’s something I value immensely. 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Mysterious childhood brain illness in Africa shows surprising similarity to Alzheimers
First, though, the researchers need to convince others who have studied nodding syndrome for years that they are right. Originally reported in Tanzania, the disease spread to what is now South Sudan in the 1990s and to northern Uganda after 1998. Uganda has reported 3000 cases, but no new ones since 2014. The current study was done on the brains of five Ugandan children who fell ill while living in camps for internally displaced persons between 2005 and 2010, when Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army was terrorizing the region, and later died.The brains are among a dozen obtained by U.S. and Ugandan researchers between 2014 and 2017, overcoming challenges such as persuading relatives, harvesting the organs promptly after death, and transporting them from remote areas in a tropical climate. Initial investigations done in the United States were never published—it’s not clear why—and the brains were returned to Uganda, where Pollanen’s group studied all 12. They hope to publish their analyses of the remaining seven soon.The current paper is thin on detail and lacks important controls, cautions neurologist Avindra Nath of the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, who has studied nodding syndrome. It does not describe the brain pathology in children from the same population who died of other forms of epilepsy, for example.Robert Colebunders, an infectious disease expert at the University of Antwerp in Belgium who has long worked on nodding syndrome, says he has still-unpublished postmortem findings from seven children who fell ill at the same time, in the same camps, but survived longer because they received better care and experienced fewer seizures. None of them shows tauopathy, he says. “My conclusion is that tau [deposition] is a consequence of seizures, not a cause.”Colebunders favors a long-standing theory that the ultimate cause of nodding syndrome is infection by a parasitic worm called Onchocerca volvulus, which is endemic to the same regions. There is no evidence that the worm itself penetrates the brain, but last year, Nath and others proposed that a protein in the worm triggers the production of antibodies that attack a similar protein on neurons, in a misdirected autoimmune response.It’s dangerous to propose that nodding syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease, Colebunders says, because it could divert resources away from much-needed efforts to eradicate the worm and to improve care for children with the illness. “With good care and nutrition, the epilepsy can be controlled and the children can go back to school without suffering any cognitive deficit,” he says.But Peter Spencer, a neurotoxicologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, suspects the worm is a bystander. He suggests it opportunistically infects people who have another condition that also triggers seizures and tau deposition. How it all fits together is unclear, but tau gives investigators one more piece of the puzzle, Spencer says. “We have an opportunity here to discover the primary cause of this disease, and then to do primary prevention.” Not only will that benefit affected children, Spencer adds, “It will potentially open up our understanding of other tauopathies, too.” Mysterious childhood brain illness in Africa shows surprising similarity to Alzheimer’s A 2012 image from Uganda shows an 11-year-old boy suffering from nodding syndrome. A disease mystery with no shortage of leads now has an intriguing new one. Since the 1960s, thousands of children in poor, war-torn regions of East Africa have developed epilepsy-like seizures in which their heads bob to their chest; over time, the seizures worsen, cognitive problems develop, and the victims ultimately die. Researchers have proposed causes for nodding syndrome that include malnutrition, parasites, and viruses, but have not proved a clear link to any of them. Now, the first published examination of the brains of children who died after developing the condition suggests it has a key similarity to certain brain diseases of old age, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s: It leaves victims’ brains riddled with fibrous tangles containing a protein called tau.”Nodding syndrome is a tauopathy,” concludes Michael Pollanen, a pathologist at the University of Toronto in Canada who is lead author of a report published last month in Acta Neuropathologica. Pollanen believes the finding “suggests a totally new line of investigation” into the syndrome. As significant as the discovery of the tangles may be what his group of Canadian and Ugandan researchers didn’t find: any sign of the brain inflammation that might be triggered by a parasite or virus. “Our hypothesis is that nodding syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s,” Pollanen says.Some who study the condition are skeptical, but the possibility excites researchers working on other tauopathies including Alzheimer’s. Childhood forms of those diseases are exceedingly rare, but the nodding syndrome finding “means [tau deposition] is not an age-dependent problem,” says John Hardy, of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London. Something else must have triggered the tauopathy in these children. And because nodding syndrome struck a small region of East Africa, over a specific time period—in Uganda, the condition appears to be vanishing—its trigger might be relatively easy to identify, and could shed light on the causes of diseases like Alzheimer’s, Hardy and others say. 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Rogue ozonedestroying emissions traced to northeastern China
The paper is “very definitive,” providing “firm evidence” that there is a continuing problem with emissions from China, says Ian Rae, a chemist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who was not involved in the study.The authors say further investigation is needed to confirm which processes are responsible for the increasing CFC-11 emissions. But, “if consistent with historical usage, it would be expected that emissions have primarily occurred during, or following, [insulation] foam blowing.” That conclusion is in line with previous on-the-ground investigations by the Environmental Investigation Agency, a London- and Washington, D.C.–based environmental group, which singled out the CFC-11 used to create rigid polyurethane insulation in homes and commercial buildings.“The Chinese have been doing the best they can” to identify and shut down the rogue operations, Rae says. “But regulators have real trouble keeping tabs on what is going on” throughout the country.Over the past year, China has been bolstering efforts to crack down on the illegal releases, according to plans filed with the United Nations Environment Programme, which monitors compliance with the Montreal Protocol. “We hope that the information that this new study provided helps the Chinese government take steps to address the issue,” says Sunyoung Park, a study co-author who is a geochemist at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea. An international team of researchers has traced the rogue use of a banned, ozone-degrading chemical to a region centered on two provinces in northeastern China. Trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), once a common refrigerant also used to produce building insulation, was to be phased out by 2010 under the 1987 Montreal Protocol because of its contribution to a then–rapidly growing hole in Earth’s ozone layer.As use declined ahead of the ban, atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11 started to drop. Scientists projected a gradual decrease, because CFC-11 would continue to leak from old refrigerators and escape from foam insulation long after production and use stopped. But in 2012, levels started to increase in the Northern Hemisphere, with evidence pointing to sources in China. Now, Matthew Rigby of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and colleagues have used atmospheric observations and modeling to narrow down both the source and the magnitude of emissions, showing they are coming from Shandong and Hebei provinces and represent new production and use of CFC-11. In addition, amounts have increased since the chemical was banned, the team reports today in Nature. Click to view the privacy policy. Required fields are indicated by an asterisk (*) By Dennis NormileMay. 22, 2019 , 1:15 PM Banned trichlorofluoromethane contributed to the rapid growth of Earth’s ozone hole. 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Russians Pose as Americans to Steal Data on Social Media
Both Twitter and Facebook have made efforts to counter nation-state backed exploitation of their platforms, but the consensus is that more can be done.”They must dynamically verify the identities of their users and filter illicit and inflammatory content,” Carbon Black’s Kellermann told TechNewsWorld.”Facebook and Twitter are seemingly just learning how to combat this, and they both appear to be very late to the game,” observed Brian Martin, director of vulnerability intelligence at Risk Based Security.The social networks could deploy a number of measures, he told TechNewsWorld, ranging from monitoring the IP addresses of suspect accounts to refining their analyses of the language in posts, looking for key indicators of actors who don’t speak English as their first language.Users should have the option to flag suspected bots, so the social media companies could investigate and weed out bad actors, said Sherban Naum, senior vice president for corporate strategy and technology at Bromium. Americans were targeted on social media by Russian agents on a mission to harvest personal information, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.The agents pretended to work for organizations promoting African-American businesses as a ruse to obtain personal information from black business owners during the 2016 presidential election campaign, according to the report.Using names like “BlackMattersUS” and “Black4Black,” the agents set up hundreds of accounts on Facebook and Instagram, the WSJ said.As part of its efforts to address the abuse of its platform during the election, Facebook introduced a tool that would enable its members to determine if they had contact with Russian propaganda during that period. The tool doesn’t address the problem of Kremlin agents masquerading as Americans, however.Facebook did not respond to our request to comment for this story. Defeating America Without Bullets Target of Opportunity Better Authentication What’s a Social Network to Do? The Journal story came on the heels of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday announcement that his administration was doing a “very, very deep” study of election meddling and would make “very strong” recommendations about the 2018 elections.However, Adm. Michael Rogers, chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and head of the National Security Agency, last week told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the White House had not directed him to take any actions to counter potential Russian meddling in the 2018 elections.”The impact of social media is very real,” said Ajay K. Gupta, program chair for computer networks and cybersecurity at the University of Maryland.”The lack of real attribution for social media content means that elections are being impacted by people who we don’t know who they are,” he told TechNewsWorld.”Russians have said since the beginning of the Cold War they would be able to defeat America without firing a single bullet,” Gupta added. “They couldn’t do that as the U.S.S.R., but social media has given them another opportunity to try that.” The latest revelation about Russian activity on social media during the elections lends credence to the idea that the Kremlin’s goal is not to swing elections one way or another, but to weaken America’s form of government.One in four voters were considering staying away from the polls due to cybersecurity fears, according to a survey Carbon Black conducted last year, for example. If accurate, that could put the number who would not vote for that reason in the neighborhood of 55 million.”This blended campaign of human intelligence and signals intelligence is dangerous for democracy,” said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black.Russia is into the long game, noted Tellagraff CEO Mark Graff.”Hillary Clinton was a target of opportunity for the Russians in the 2016 election,” he told TechNewsWorld.”Their strategic goal was not to elect Donald Trump. The strategic goal was to disrupt American society, undermine our feelings of unity, undermine our faith in democracy,” Graff maintained. “They’ve been trying to do that for over 50 years — and now what they can do, using social media, is do it from the comfort of government buildings inside Russia.” Credible news outlets should be given some kind of distinctive authentication, Naum also recommended.Social media companies have certain “verified” users, but that appears to be inadequate. “Lots of bad guys are verified,” he told TechNewsWorld.”Twitter and Facebook could also publish trending information about bots and bad information so users can see what’s trending that is legit and what’s trending that is junk,” Naum suggested.What can consumers do to protect themselves?Users should “approach social media with the same skepticism that they should be approaching email and scams,” Risk Based Security’s Martin advised.”Someone offering you 100 million dollars is suspect, of course,” he said.”Someone that seems to have a ‘magic bullet’ showing a political figure is the next devil? Think about it more critically than you might otherwise,” Martin cautioned. “Does the post have any evidence to back it up? Or is it just a compelling picture, that may have been doctored, and a catchy one-liner that invokes emotional responses?” John P. Mello Jr. has been an ECT News Network reportersince 2003. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, IT issues, privacy, e-commerce, social media, artificial intelligence, big data and consumer electronics. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including the Boston Business Journal, theBoston Phoenix, Megapixel.Net and GovernmentSecurity News. Email John. read more
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Microsoft and Intels Project Evo Ups the PC Game
Essentially, users will be able to wake up a PC, whether it’s open or shut, simply by saying “Hello Cortana.” Through voice commands, users will be able to access the information they need either directly from their personal computing device or from the cloud.”This is going to make the PC way more intuitive than it is today,” Intel SVP Navin Shenoy, general manager of the Client Computing Group, told WinHEC attendees. “You no longer need to be directly in front of your PC to activate Cortana.””There are certainly aspects of Project Evo that are likely to compete directly with Amazon Alexa and Google Home,” noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.However, it’s likely that “Intel and Microsoft are after a fundamentally bigger game,” he told TechNewsWorld.In the case of Project Evo, the companies are working with much more powerful computing capabilities than Amazon and Google are using with their home hubs.”Microsoft has the technology in the cloud, not the home,” noted Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.”The problem is that the PC is not the center of the home or the consumer experience,” he told TechNewsWorld.While there is room for improving the PC experience, this project is not going to push Microsoft into a direct competition with Amazon, McGregor said. New Reality Home Hub Connection? Passwords Passe The Project Evo collaboration will provide advanced security to the PC, including biometric authentication using Windows Hello, eliminating the requirement to memorize multiple passwords, Shenoy said.A major aspect of the collaboration is to provide mixed reality experiences in PCs that are affordable to the average consumer, and also to use head-mounted displays that blend the physical and virtual world in ways not seen before.Microsoft has submitted its HoloLens to the Chinese government for approval, Myerson announced at WinHEC, and the company expects to make the devices available to developers and commercial customers during the first half of 2017. Microsoft and Intel on Wednesday announced Project Evo, their highly anticipated collaboration to create the next generation of personal computers. The project aims to expand on new advances in artificial intelligence, mixed reality, advanced security and gaming,Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, unveiled some of Project Evo’s ambitious plans at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) event in Shenzhen, China.Through the collaboration, the companies will push the boundaries of a personal computer’s capabilities in the near future, he said. Technologies under development include far-field speech and wake-on-voice enabled through Cortana, biometrics and voice authentication in Windows Hello, spacial audio, and HDR support for gaming.Project Evo — particularly its expanded use of Cortana — invites comparisons to the digital assistant tools found in Amazon Echo and Google Home, standalone speakers that use Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant respectively. Though their capabilities differ, each uses voice communications to interact with the automated home.However, Project Evo seems geared toward making the personal computer into a much more sophisticated device — one that can be accessed and operated in ways never before seen. Together with Intel, Microsoft also shared specifications for PCs that can support headsets capable of mixed reality. New head-mounted displays from Acer, Asus, Dell, HMD and Lenovo are expected in 2017. 3Glasses, the leading HMD hardware developer in China, will make its Blubur S1 headset ready for Windows 10 by the first half of 2017, reaching more than 5 million active monthly customers in that market.HMD Developers Kits will be made available next year at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco.Microsoft and Intel also are working on ways to make PCs more capable in terms of gaming, as Intel’s 7th Gen Core Processors allow for immersive gaming experiences such as 4K gaming, high dynamic range video, the ability to broadcast real-time competition, and connecting the Xbox controller to the PC.Project Evo will open mixed reality to a wider segment of the PC owner base at an affordable price point, said Lewis Ward, research director for gaming and VR/AR at IDC.However, “you generally get what you pay for” in terms of the speed and processing capability for the competitive gaming audience, he warned.”Intel is moving up the GPU ladder for sure, and Evo is the next logical step for them,” Ward told TechNewsWorld, “but they’re still not ready to compete with AMD and Nvidia at the high end of the GPU market, which is where a lot of hardcore PC gamers in particular tend to cluster.” David Jones is a freelance writer based in Essex County, New Jersey. He has written for Reuters, Bloomberg, Crain’s New York Business and The New York Times. read more
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Health benefits of producing marula vinegar
Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. (Editor)Nov 27 2018Marula vinegar produced from waste by-products was found to be a potential source of health promoting compounds including total phenolics and flavonoids with good antioxidant properties.Marula is a well-known indigenous plant in South Africa, and the fruit is used to make the legendary Amarula cream liquor.Molelekoa and colleagues investigated the feasibility of using marula fruit waste sourced from a processing plant as feedstock for vinegar (acetic acid) production. They used two fermentation techniques (surface and submerged culture methods) using both naturally occurring and inoculated bacteria. The surface culture method combined with inoculation produced a higher-quality vinegar with potential for commercial-scale production. A consumer survey recommended the application of the vinegar in products such as salad dressing and mayonnaise. Source:https://www.sajs.co.za/ read more
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New Climate Change exhibit draws on latest scientific information about impact of
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Feb 1 2019The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces the new Climate Change exhibit that draws on the latest scientific information about our warming climate, the global and local consequences, and how to both reduce the fossil fuel emissions that cause it and prepare for its effects.This multimedia exhibit includes engaging video and storm simulations, a “check your knowledge” interactive station, and a dramatic inside look at a high-tech Argo float from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution-one of more than 4,000 deployed worldwide to monitor global oceans and climate.Related StoriesResearch sheds light on sun-induced DNA damage and repairBridging the Gaps to Advance Research in the Cannabis IndustryTrump administration cracks down on fetal tissue researchDeveloped in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for the Environment and informed by new Harvard research, the exhibit offers visitors the hard facts¬¬–the knowns and unknowns–about one of the greatest challenges the world faces.”Climate change is one of the most complicated and challenging problems the world has ever faced” said Professor Dan Schrag, Director of the Harvard Center for the Environment and lead curator of the exhibit. “It is a global problem, and one that requires global action to manage the impacts and minimize the risks. Here at Harvard, we have many researchers who contribute to understanding climate change and working towards solutions. This exhibit is a manifestation of that knowledge, and through our partnership with HMNH, we are able to present some of that to the broader community.” For more perspectives on climate change across economics, public policy, the arts, and more see the videos at https://climatechange.environment.harvard.edu/home#section2.Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Executive Director Jane Pickering said the museums aim to provide a meeting point for scholars and the public. “The Harvard Museum of Natural History has had an exhibit on climate change since 2004,” said Pickering, “but we felt it was imperative at this time to rethink our display. We wanted to connect visitors to the cutting-edge research going on at the university as they consider their own responses to this unprecedented global challenge.” Source:https://hmnh.harvard.edu/climate-change-pr read more
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Veterans more likely to have heart disease at a younger age finds
Source:https://www.ucf.edu/ Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. (Editor)Mar 15 2019After the war is over, veterans face a new threat. They are more likely to have heart disease at a younger age than nonveterans, and this could herald a new health crisis on the horizon.These results are published in a new University of Central Florida study appearing in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.”I think it’s sort of the first indications of a coming public health crisis for veterans,” says Ramon Hinojosa, an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of Sociology and the study’s author. “Because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have a relatively large, new, younger generation of veterans who are going to survive for 30 or 40 years after their war experience.”The study indicates that perhaps the “healthy-soldier effect” is no longer guaranteed. The effect refers to the tendency for active-duty service members to be more physically fit and less overweight than same-age, nonmilitary individuals. It’s a phenomenon that Hinojosa explores in ongoing research.”The outcome of the analysis suggested that not only does the healthy-soldier effect not seem as potent as it once was, in fact, what I see is veterans tend to have cardiovascular morbidity earlier than nonveterans, and they tend to have a greater number of conditions,” Hinojosa says.The researcher said the change could be due to the nature of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, modern warfare, changing diets, changing approaches to leisure and exercise, higher rates of obesity in younger veterans than nonveterans at the same age, and higher rates of drinking, smoking and mental illness.In light of these results, Hinojosa said it is important for health practitioners to look closely at cardiovascular health for younger veterans so they can address preventative approaches to ward off early onset of cardiovascular diseases.Related StoriesStudy explores role of iron in over 900 diseasesTeam approach to care increases likelihood of surviving refractory cardiogenic shockCancer incidence among children and young adults with congenital heart disease”I think that being aware we sort of have the first rumblings of what seems to be a health crisis will help us focus our attention on health resources and providing younger veterans with access to resources that can help them ameliorate the likelihood of early onset cardiovascular disease,” Hinojosa says.The study used data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative health survey of individuals in the United States that’s conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.Hinojosa looked at five particular cardiovascular conditions reported in the survey and their association with veteran status and sociodemographic status, including age.Responses from 153,556 individuals were used, and the study looked at pooled survey data from 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the most recent available data at the time.From age 35 to about age 70, veterans reported significantly more cardiovascular conditions than nonveterans. After age 70, nonveterans reported more cardiovascular conditions than veterans.The switch could be due to fewer veterans surviving into older age because of cardiovascular diseases, Hinojosa said.”It’s concerning to know that the physical benefits of military service seem to be not holding as well for the younger veterans,” Hinojosa says. “This suggests the health protective benefits of military service are not what they used to be. I think that should cause us to really look at what’s going on among the veterans after they leave military service.” read more
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Study highlights eczemarelated disparities in Hispanic and black children
Source:University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine May 23 2019Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. (Editor)In a study that highlights racial disparities in the everyday impact of eczema, new research shows Hispanic and black children are more likely than white children to miss school due to the chronic skin disease. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania examined more than a decade’s worth of data among children enrolled in a national eczema registry and found Hispanic children were most likely to have missed at least six days of school over six-month period due to their condition. Black children also saw higher probabilities of missed school days compared to white children. JAMA Dermatology published the findings today.Eczema, or atopic dermatitis (AD), is a common inflammatory disease that causes red and itchy skin. It affects about 30 million Americans in total, including up to 20 percent of children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It is more common among black children and slightly more common in Hispanic children when compared with whites. In addition to the physical impact, eczema is associated with negative psychological effects, including an increased likelihood of anxiety and depression.“The effects of eczema are more than skin-deep, and studies have shown that the mental health and social impact of this condition can be significant – sometimes just as much or more than the physical – and may lead to a higher number of school days missed,” said the study’s lead author Joy Wan, MD, MSCE, a post-doctoral fellow and Instructor of Dermatology.Building on that previous research, this study specifically looked at eczema-related school absenteeism by race and ethnicity. Researchers used data on 8,015 patients enrolled in the Pediatric Eczema Elective Registry (PEER) between November 2004 and July 2017. All patients were between the ages of 2 and 17 and had their AD diagnosed by a doctor. Overall, 241 of them (3.3 percent) missed six or more days of school over a six-month period, which meets the U.S. Department of Education’s definition of chronic school absenteeism. When adjusted for demographic and other variables, data showed Hispanic children were 3.4 times more likely to be chronically absent due to AD than white children. Black children were 1.5 times more likely.Related StoriesPuzzling paralysis affecting healthy children warns CDCResearch team receives federal grant to study obesity in children with spina bifidaWhy Mattresses Could be a Health Threat to Sleeping ChildrenThe PEER data are self-reported, and the authors say the children included in PEER may not represent the general population with eczema. They say more research is needed to better understand the link. However, they point out this adds to a growing body of work that uncovers disparities related to eczema, including their recent study showing black and Hispanic children are more likely to go to an emergency room and black children are less likely to see a dermatologist for their eczema than white children. Most people don’t realize the serious impact eczema can have on a person’s life, and our research shows minorities may be disproportionately affected. We still have a lot to learn about eczema-related disparities but it’s becoming increasingly clear that these disparities need to be addressed.”Study’s senior author Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD, MSCE, an assistant professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology read more
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Counseling may also benefit parents of depressed teens involved in treatment
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Jun 10 2019Teen depression can affect parents’ marital satisfaction, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found. Parents often seek mental health treatment for a child struggling with depression, but the treatment shouldn’t stop with the depressed teen, suggests the studyThe study found that while depressed teens were involved in active treatment, parents’ marriages and parent-child conflict remained stable. Once the teens’ treatment had finished, however, parents’ marital relationships slightly worsened, the study found. Related StoriesBiden calling ACA ‘breakthrough’ for mental health parity highlights gapsHospitals’ decision to transfer kids with mental health emergencies is based on insurance typeEffective stop smoking treatments less likely to be prescribed to people with mental health conditionsThe study was a secondary analysis of data from 322 clinically depressed youths who participated in the 2007 Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study, a landmark study on treating adolescent depression. As part of this study, adolescents’ depression was measured during the treatment period, which lasted 36 weeks, and for one year afterward.Source:Northwestern UniversityJournal reference:Howard, K.R. et al. (2019) Marital and Parent-Child Relationships during Treatment for Adolescent Depression: Child-Driven and Bidirectional Effects. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s10802-019-00566-x. To address this, Howard and her co-authors recommend that parents of teens who are depressed also have a check-in for their marital relationship.”Families are interactive, fragile ecosystems, and a shift in a teenager’s mood can undoubtedly alter the family’s balance — negatively or positively,” Howard said.While adolescent depression is well known to be a stressor for parents and families, this is one of only a few studies to examine how adolescent depression impacts family relationships and, in turn, how family relationships impact adolescent depression.The study was published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.The study found that parents of teens who had higher depressive symptoms at the end of their treatment experienced more marital problems and more parent-child conflict at later study visits. Conversely, parents whose kids showed fewer depressive symptoms at the end of treatment saw an improvement in later parent-child conflict. This study is important in that very little research has examined the effect of treating teens, with medication or psychotherapy, on family relationships. Findings in this area have been inconsistent, and the effects can be subtle.The take-home message – that teen depression can affect families, and that parents of depressed teens may need support – is entirely sensible. It’s something we should all keep in mind.”Mark A. Reinecke, chief of psychology in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Feinberg Families might be putting their own issues on the back burner while their teen gets help. Once the treatment ends, they’re forced to face issues in their marriage or family that might have been simmering while their depressed teen was being treated.”First author Kelsey Howard, a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine read more
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Unloved Airbus A380s to be stripped for parts
Two Airbus A380 superjumbos once flown by Singapore Airlines are to become the first of the iconic doubledeckers to be stripped for parts, after a German leasing firm failed to find a new operator for them. Explore further Citation: Unloved Airbus A380s to be stripped for parts (2018, June 5) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-06-unloved-airbus-a380s.html The Dr. Peters investment group said Tuesday that despite “intensive negotiations” with several airlines, including British Airways and Iran Air, efforts to find a new lessee proved fruitless.”The market for the A380-800 aircraft type has not developed positively in recent years,” Dr. Peters’ chief executive Anselm Gehling said in a statement. “Some airlines have cancelled orders from Airbus, while others have opted for smaller long-haul jets.”The company will now dismantle the two aircraft over a two-year period before selling the components on the second-hand market, expected to net it some $80 million (68 million euros) per plane.Airbus declined to comment on the decision, but said it still believed in the potential of the A380.”We remain confident in the secondary market for the A380 and the potential to extend the operator base,” it said in a statement.The supersized A380, the world’s largest commercial airliner capable of seating up to 850 passengers, was hailed as the next frontier in air travel when it was rolled out in 2007.But first customer Singapore Airlines returned the planes to the Dr. Peters group after its 10-year lease ended last year, and the two jets have since been parked at Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, according to Bloomberg News.European aviation giant Airbus has long struggled to win customers for the four-engined A380, which airlines have to operate at full capacity in order to make a profit.At the start of the year, Airbus warned it might have to end production of the A380, before Emirates Airlines threw it a lifeline by striking a $16-billion deal for 20 more of the jets with an option on a further 16.The lower than expected demand for the A380 as well as Airbus’s troubled A400m military transporter prompted the group to announce 3,700 job cuts in March. Airbus to get ’10 years of visibility’ from Emirates deal: CEO © 2018 AFP Worth more than the sum of its parts? Maybe not This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. read more
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Opel to offload 2000 jobs to French engineering firm
The restructuring of Opel has already begun to bear fruit as it swung back into profit in the first half of this year. The carmaker last booked a profit in 1999 Citation: Opel to offload 2,000 jobs to French engineering firm (2018, September 5) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-09-opel-offload-jobs-french-firm.html Explore further Opel, which was bought by French auto giant PSA last year, said it was discussing a possible “strategic partnership” with Segula “to protect engineering jobs in Ruesselsheim and to overcome the workload decrease from third parties”. Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller said in a statement that the automaker faced a “heavily decreasing” workload at its R&D centre, as engineers finish off the last contracts for former owner General Motors.The proposed deal still needs to be approved by Opel’s powerful works council.If it goes ahead, Segula intends to take over “up to 2,000” of Opel’s 7,000 development centre employees as well as several buildings at the Ruesselsheim site just outside Frankfurt.Segula has promised to safeguard jobs until 2023, echoing a deal struck between Opel and union leaders. No financial details were revealed but Lohscheller told reporters in a conference call that Segula would set up a new company to house the employees, in which Opel would have no stake.Segula said it wanted to create “a core engineering centre” in Ruesselsheim that would not just focus on the automobile industry but also sectors “such as rail and energy”.Loss-plagued Opel, sold under the Vauxhall brand in Britain, has embarked on an ambitious restructuring since it was taken over by PSA.It aims to achieve 1.1 billion euros in savings by 2020, mainly through voluntary redundancies and by sharing equipment and technology with its parent company.The cost-cutting measures appear to be paying off, with Opel dramatically swinging back to profit in the first half of 2018.Under General Motors, the lightning logo carmaker last booked a profit in 1999. German carmaker Opel on Wednesday said it planned to shift some 2,000 jobs at its historic Ruesselsheim research and development hub to French engineering group Segula Technologies, in a bid to avoid job cuts under a major turnaround plan. © 2018 AFP PSA Peugeot Citroen rides to higher sales, backed by Opel Vauxhall This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. read more
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21 States have framed rules to curb illegal mining Minister
COMMENT SHARE economic offence July 10, 2019 Published on COMMENTS Twenty one States, including mineral-rich Jharkhand and West Bengal, have framed rules to check illegal mining, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. “As per information provided by the Indian Bureau of Mines, 21 State governments… have framed rules to curb illegal mining under Section 23C of the MMDR Act, 1957,” Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. State governments, he said, are empowered to make rules for the prevention of illegal mining, transportation and storage of major and minor minerals, the Minister said. In fiscal 2018-19, there were 1.1 lakh cases of illegal mining for both major and minor minerals. mining and quarrying SHARE SHARE EMAIL Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi read more
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Haryana bans 10yearold autorickshaws in Gurugram
Next Indo-Asian News Service ChandigarhJuly 13, 2019UPDATED: July 13, 2019 21:58 IST Manohar Lal Khattar said secretary Regional Transport Authority and Gurugram Traffic Police would jointly prepare policy | File photo from REUTERSHIGHLIGHTSManohar Lal Khattar said if any 10-year-old auto-rickshaw found on road it will be impoundedOrders were issued by Manohar Lal Khattar while presiding over district grievance committee meetingThis policy would be prepared by Gurugram Police Commissioner Muhammad AkilHaryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday announced that more than 10-year-old auto-rickshaws would not be allowed on roads in Gurugram, Haryana.”If such an auto-rickshaw is found plying on the roads it will be impounded,” Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said.The orders were issued by Manohar Lal Khattar while presiding over the district grievance committee meeting in Gurugram.Manohar Lal Khattar said the Secretary Regional Transport Authority and the Gurugram Traffic Police would jointly prepare a policy for auto-rickshaws plying illegally without registration and carrying passengers more than the specified limit.This policy would be prepared by Gurugram Police Commissioner Muhammad Akil.Also Read | Man masturbates on woman inside Gurugram metro station, cops apologise for delay in actionAlso Read | Journalist sexually harasses domestic help in Gurugram, bookedAlso Watch | Gurugram man drags traffic cop on car’s bonnetFor the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byMohak Gupta Tags :Follow GurugramFollow GurgaonFollow HaryanaFollow TransportFollow Manohar Lal Khattar Haryana bans 10-year-old auto-rickshaws in GurugramThe orders were issued by Manohar Lal Khattar while presiding over the district grievance committee meeting in Gurugram.advertisement read more
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Siddaramaiah exudes confidence of winning trust vote says its a joint decision
Next Siddaramaiah exudes confidence of winning trust vote, says it’s a joint decisionSenior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said the decision to seek a trust vote by the coalition government headed by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was taken by the two ruling partners and asserted it has the numbers.advertisement Press Trust of India BengaluruJuly 12, 2019UPDATED: July 12, 2019 20:00 IST Replying to questions, Siddaramaiah said without numbers or confidence none will seek a trust vote. (Photo: PTI)Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said the decision to seek a trust vote by the coalition government headed by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was taken by the two ruling partners and asserted it has the numbers.The Congress Legislature Party Leader also said he had been talking to disgruntled party MLAs barring Roshan Baig because he has been suspended.”Yesterday, we took the decision (on the trust vote) after discussions,” the former chief minister told reporters.Kumaraswamy, whose government is teetering on the brink of collapse after 16 MLAs of the ruling combine resigned, made the announcement about trust vote in the assembly earlier on Friday.Replying to questions, Siddaramaiah said without numbers or confidence none will seek a trust vote.”We have confidence, so we are moving the confidence motion,” he added.On how the ruling combine would muster the numbers, Siddaramaiah said, How can we disclose now? You will come to know when the vote of confidence is moved. Things like how it will happen, who will be present cannot be disclosed now.”To a question, he ruled out the possibility of a counter-operation to the alleged toppling bid of BJP, saying his party did not belive in operations.He refused to comment on the Supreme Court ordering status quo in the matter of resignation and disqualification of ten rebel MLAs.However, he added the Speaker was empowered under the anti-defection law to decide on disqualification of MLAs.Also Read | Karnataka crisis: Will face all issues on floor of House, says CM KumaraswamyAlso Read | Karnataka crisis: No decision on rebel MLAs till July 16, SC tells SpeakerAlso Watch | Kumaraswamy seeks floor test, says he govt has numbersFor the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byShifa Naseer Tags :Follow KumaraswamyFollow Karnataka crisisFollow Siddaramaiah read more
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Press Trust of India New DelhiJuly 13, 2019UPDATED: July 13, 2019 00:12 IST Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Russia’s space agency ROSCOSMOS, and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval led the two sides in the meeting. (Photos: ANI)India and Russia held high-level talks here to elevate bilateral cooperation to the next level in the field of space, including assistance in India’s maiden human space flight mission ‘Gaganyaan’, according to Ministry of External Affairs.National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Dmitry Rogozin, Director-General of Russia’s space agency ROSCOSMOS, led the two sides in the meeting held on Thursday.”There have been frequent contacts between the two space agencies to finalise the details of the Gaganyaan Mission, which will carry Indian astronaut to space in 2022, to coincide with India’s 75th anniversary of Independence,” an MEA statement said Friday.Russia has promised all assistance for India’s Human Space Flight Mission and details regarding cooperation for the Gaganyaan Mission were discussed, the statement said, adding it also offered support to India in participating in the International Space Station.Both sides agreed to take a strategic approach to elevate bilateral cooperation to the next level keeping in mind the special and privileged partnership and India’s priorities such as Make in India programme, the MEA said.Senior representatives of ROSCOSMOS, GLAVCOSMOS, Energia and Energomash were present from the Russian side. From the Indian side, ISRO Chairman and Department of Space Secretary K Sivan and the Director of the Human Space Flight Programme also attended the meeting.Cooperation in futuristic technologies including new space systems, rocket engines, propellants and propulsion systems, spacecraft and launch vehicle technology were also discussed.”The Russian side stated that they would like to see India participate in the International Space Station, and offered its full support for this purpose,” the statement said.Space has emerged as a key area of cooperation between India and Russia in the high technology sector. India shares robust cooperation with Russia in strategic areas of defence, nuclear and space.Also Read | Pakistan not invited by Russia for Eastern Economic ForumAlso Watch | India signs $5.43 Billion deal with Russia on S-400 missileFor the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byChanchal Chauhan India, Russia hold talks to boost space cooperationRussia has promised all assistance for India’s Human Space Flight Mission and details regarding cooperation for the Gaganyaan Mission were discussed, the statement said, adding it also offered support to India in participating in the International Space Station.advertisement Next read more
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Recent research: six studies on depression – bereavement, pregnancy, bipolar disorder, suicide, & stress in hospital staff
Originally added on 11th December 2008
Last updated on 11th December 2008
Five of these six studies are from last month's American Journal of Psychiatry. Kendler et al discuss the many similarities and only occasional differences between bereavement-related and other life event-related depression - an issue explored further in Maj's editorial. Li et al show that depression in pregnancy (exacerbated further by stressful life events and obesity) increases the risk of preterm delivery. Miklowitz reviews research on the value of adjunctive psychotherapy for bipolar disorder sufferers (already taking medication) and discusses the various ways it can be helpful. Oquendo et al (in a freely viewable editorial) argue that suicidal behaviour should be placed on a "separate axis" in the next version of the DSM diagnostic system. Finally Vertanen et al, in an interesting study, demonstrate that increased hospital overcrowding - measured by bed occupancy rates - is associated with increased use of antidepressants by hospital staff.
Kendler, K. S., J. Myers, et al. (2008). "Does Bereavement-Related Major Depression Differ From Major Depression Associated With Other Stressful Life Events?" Am J Psychiatry 165(11): 1449-1455. [Abstract/Full Text]
OBJECTIVE: Of the stressful life events influencing risk for major depression, DSM-III and DSM-IV assign a special status to bereavement. A depressive episode that is bereavement-related and has clinical features and course characteristic of normal grief is not diagnosed as major depression. This study evaluates the empirical validity of this exclusion criterion. METHOD: To determine the similarities of bereavement-related depression and depression related to other stressful life events, the authors identified and compared cases on a range of validators in a large-population-based sample of twins. The authors evaluated whether cases of bereavement-related depression that also met DSM criteria for "normal grief" were qualitatively distinct from other depressive cases. RESULTS: Eighty-two individuals with confirmed bereavement-related depression and 224 with confirmed depression related to other stressful life events were identified. The two groups did not differ in age at onset of major depression, number of prior episodes, duration of index episode, number of endorsed "A criteria," risk for future episodes, pattern of comorbidity, levels of extraversion, risk for major depression in their co-twin, or the proportion meeting criteria for "normal grief." However, individuals with bereavement-related depression were slightly older, and more likely to be female, and had lower levels of neuroticism, treatment-seeking, and guilt and higher levels of fatigue and loss of interest. Interaction analyses failed to find unique features of people whose illness met criteria for both bereavement-related depression and normal grief compared to those whose illness was related to other life stressors. CONCLUSIONS: The similarities between bereavement-related depression and depression related to other stressful life events substantially outweigh their differences. These results question the validity of the bereavement exclusion for the diagnosis of major depression.
Li, D., L. Liu, et al. (2008). "Presence of depressive symptoms during early pregnancy and the risk of preterm delivery: a prospective cohort study." Hum. Reprod.: den342. [Abstract/Full Text]
BACKGROUND: The impact of prenatal depression on pregnancy outcomes is largely unknown. METHODS: We conducted a population-based prospective cohort study among pregnant women of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program to examine the impact of prenatal depression on the risk of preterm delivery. We interviewed pregnant women in their early pregnancy. Women's depressive symptoms were ascertained using the standard Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD). The presence of significant prenatal depressive symptoms and severe depressive symptoms was determined by CESD scores 16 and 22, respectively. RESULTS: Among the 791 participants who answered CESD questions and delivered a live birth, after controlling for potential confounders using the Cox proportional hazard regression, women with CESD scores 16 had almost twice the risk of preterm delivery compared with women without depressive symptoms: adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 1.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0-3.7. The risk of preterm delivery increased with increasing severity of depression: aHR = 1.6 (CI 0.7-3.6) for CESD 16-21 and aHR = 2.2 (CI 1.1-4.7) for CESD 22. The risk of preterm delivery associated with prenatal depression appears to be exacerbated by low educational level, a history of fertility problems and the presence of obesity and stressful events. The observed associations were not confounded by the use of antidepressants, although some of the associations did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that pregnant women with depressive symptoms are at increased risk of preterm delivery and, in addition, provide preliminary evidence that social and reproductive risk factors as well as obesity and stressful events may exacerbate the effect.
Maj, M. (2008). "Depression, Bereavement, and "Understandable" Intense Sadness: Should the DSM-IV Approach Be Revised?" Am J Psychiatry 165(11): 1373-1375. [Free Full Text]
The issue of the differentiation between depression and "understandable" intense sadness (representing a "normal" response to an adverse life event) has significant clinical, scientific, political, and ethical implications, which have become particularly visible in the past few decades, in parallel with the escalation of the prevalence rates of depression in the community, of the estimated social costs of depression, of the number of people on treatment for depression, and of the prescriptions of antidepressant medications. Psychiatry has been accused of inappropriately medicalizing the ordinary experience of sadness in order to expand the range of its jurisdiction, and the high prevalence rates of depression reported by community studies have been regarded as unbelievable even by some prominent psychiatrists, who have emphasized the risk to misdiagnose "normal reactions to a difficult environment" as a mental disorder ... Further research is clearly needed to explore the applicability and reliability of a "contextual" criterion in the diagnosis of major depression and the clinical utility of such a criterion for the prediction of treatment response and clinical outcome. The limited available research evidence suggests that definite "situational" major depression does not differ from definite "nonsituational" major depression on many clinical and psychosocial variables and that response to antidepressant medications is unrelated to whether or not major depression is preceded by a life event. At the present state of knowledge, it may be therefore unwise to disallow the diagnosis of major depression in a person meeting the severity, duration, and impairment criteria for that diagnosis just because the depressive state occurs in the context of a significant life event. On the other hand, the removal of the bereavement exclusion criterion from the DSM-V diagnosis of major depression-a move that may be perceived as a further step in psychiatry's attempt to pathologize normal human processes-requires strong and unequivocal research evidence. Some differences between bereavement-related and other life stressor-related depression found by Kendler et al. (the lower percentage of bereaved individuals who sought treatment; the lower levels of neuroticism in those people) and by Wakefield et al. (the lower proportion of bereaved people who reported that their condition interfered with life a lot) seem to point in the DSM-IV direction and deserve further investigation. Moreover, bereavement may be a quite different experience after the death, for instance, of a son or a friend (these events were included in the same category in the study by Kendler et al.) or in the elderly compared to younger people (the mean age at index episode, in Kendler et al.'s sample, was 35 years). Finally, if we expect DSM-V to be more widely used in various cultural contexts than DSM-IV, some cross-cultural validation of Kendler et al.'s findings is probably warranted.
Miklowitz, D. J. (2008). "Adjunctive Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder: State of the Evidence." Am J Psychiatry 165(11): 1408-1419. [Abstract/Full Text]
OBJECTIVE: Psychotherapy has long been recommended as adjunctive to pharmacotherapy for bipolar disorder, but it is unclear which interventions are effective for which patients, over what intervals, and for what domains of outcome. This article reviews randomized trials of adjunctive psychotherapy for bipolar disorder. METHOD: Eighteen trials of individual and group psychoeducation, systematic care, family therapy, interpersonal therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy are described. Relevant outcome variables include time to recovery, recurrence, duration of episodes, symptom severity, and psychosocial functioning. RESULTS: The effects of the treatment modalities varied according to the clinical condition of patients at the time of random assignment and the polarity of symptoms at follow-up. Family therapy, interpersonal therapy, and systematic care appeared to be most effective in preventing recurrences when initiated after an acute episode, whereas cognitive-behavioral therapy and group psychoeducation appeared to be most effective when initiated during a period of recovery. Individual psychoeducational and systematic care programs were more effective for manic than depressive symptoms, whereas family therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy were more effective for depressive than manic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Adjunctive psychotherapy enhances the symptomatic and functional outcomes of bipolar disorder over 2-year periods. The various modalities differ in content, structure, and associated mediating mechanisms. Treatments that emphasize medication adherence and early recognition of mood symptoms have stronger effects on mania, whereas treatments that emphasize cognitive and interpersonal coping strategies have stronger effects on depression. The placement of psychotherapy within chronic care algorithms and its role as a preventative agent in the early stages of the disorder deserve investigation.
Oquendo, M. A., E. Baca-Garcia, et al. (2008). "Issues for DSM-V: Suicidal Behavior as a Separate Diagnosis on a Separate Axis." Am J Psychiatry 165(11): 1383-1384. [Free Full Text]
Suicidal behavior (death and attempts) is usually a complication of psychiatric conditions, most commonly mood disorders (1). However, it also occurs in schizophrenia, substance use disorders (particularly with alcohol), and personality and anxiety disorders, among others (1). About 10% of those who commit or attempt suicide have no identifiable psychiatric illness. However, our current nomenclature considers suicidal behavior a symptom of major depressive episode or borderline personality disorder ... We recommend that suicidal behavior be considered a separate diagnostic category documented on a sixth axis. Suicidal behavior meets the criteria for diagnostic validity set forth by Robins and Guze (3), and it does so as well as most conditions we treat. It is clinically well described (4), research has identified postmortem and in vivo laboratory markers (1), it can be subjected to a strict differential diagnosis (4), follow-up studies confirm its presence at higher rates in those with a past diagnosis (2), and it is familial (5). With suicidal behavior in a sixth axis, it would be identified through review-of-systems questions, in addition to inquiry during the mental status examination. This proposed solution would address both conceptual and practical issues. Suicidal behavior might be conceptualized as an impulse-control disorder not elsewhere classified, but it is not always impulsive. Classification among "other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention" diminishes its hierarchical position among diagnoses. Practically, an axis for suicidal acts would compel clinical and administrative structures to determine the suicide risk status of individuals assessed in psychiatric settings. In this manner, suicide risk can be documented as part of a multiaxial diagnosis, giving it the prominence that it deserves in written reports and treatment planning for vulnerable patients.
Virtanen, M., J. Pentti, et al. (2008). "Overcrowding in Hospital Wards as a Predictor of Antidepressant Treatment Among Hospital Staff." Am J Psychiatry 165(11): 1482-1486. [Abstract/Full Text]
OBJECTIVE: This report assessed whether hospital ward overcrowding predicts antidepressant use among hospital staff. METHOD: The extent of hospital ward overcrowding was determined using administrative records of monthly bed occupancy rates between 2000 and 2004 in 203 somatic illness wards in 16 Finnish hospitals providing specialized health care. Information on job contracts for personnel was obtained from the employers' registers. Comprehensive daily data on purchased antidepressant prescriptions (World Health Organization's Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification code N06A) for nurses (N=6,699) and physicians (N=641) was derived from national registers. Cox proportional hazards models were used to examine the association between bed occupancy rate and subsequent antidepressant treatment. Monthly bed occupancy rates were used as a time-dependent exposure that could change in value over the course of observation. Hazard ratios were adjusted for sex, age, occupation, type and length of employment contract, hospital district, specialty, and calendar year. RESULTS: Exposure over 6 months to an average bed occupancy rate over 10% in excess of the recommended limit was associated with new antidepressant treatment. This association followed a dose-response pattern, with increasing bed occupancy associated with an increasing likelihood of antidepressant use. There was no evidence of reverse causality; antidepressant treatment among employees did not predict subsequent excess bed occupancy. CONCLUSIONS: The increased risk of antidepressant use observed in this study suggests that overcrowding in hospital wards may have an adverse effect on the mental health of staff.
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@ Keg Spring Cup
1 Fraser Valley
3 vs. TWU
1 vs. Concordia (Portland)
@ Saint Martin's Univerisy (Lacey, Wash.)
0 at Saint Martin's
3 at Western Washington
SPARTANS AIM FOR SECOND TITLE IN THREE YEARS AT ANNUAL KEG CUP TOURNAMENT
Written by Joel Waterman
LANGLEY, B.C. – Trinity Western’s women’s soccer team will be in Victoria this weekend for the 32nd annual Keg Cup Mar. 24-25 in hopes to build off a consistent spring season so far.
Top quality opposition will join the Spartans including first round foes UBC Thunderbirds, while the Victoria Vikes and Alberta Pandas will go head-to-head in the other semifinal matchup.
TWU will be looking to get back in the win column after back-to-back scoreless draws with Concordia University (Portland) and Seattle University.
For Spartans coach Graham Roxburgh, he hopes the weekend can provide two good performances and allowing his team to keep taking steps in the right direction.
“Spring is strictly the balance between making sure that you’re developing everybody and wanting to keep a culture of winning, competing and playing well,” Roxburgh says. “We want to win and play well, however we also know we are playing good opponents and it will not be an easy outing. I hope we play better than what we’ve shown recently and I am confident that we will be able to improve our play to get some good results.”
TWU beat UBC in last year’s semifinal before falling to Victoria 2-0 in the final. The Spartans last Keg Cup title was in 2016 when they also beat the Thunderbirds in the semifinal before earning 2-1 win over the Vikes in the final.
The Spartans are coming off a successful season where they finished first in the Pacific Division and made program history by going a record 924 regular season minutes without conceding a goal. After clinching first place, TWU took the playoffs by storm beating the Thunderbirds and Vikes on their way to the Spartans seventh Canada West championship.
The semifinal winners will play in Sunday’s final, while the semifinal losers will play in the third place contest.
Saturday, March 24 – TWU vs. UBC (10 a.m.) / Victoria vs. Alberta (2 p.m.)
Sunday, March 25 – Consolation: TBA vs. TBA (10 a.m.) / Final: TBA vs. TBA (4 p.m.)
ALL-TIME KEG CUP TITLES
UBC: 7
Victoria: 6
Alberta: 6
TWU: 3
SFU: 1
Bridges' 11: 1
Whitecaps DVT: 1
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The Innermost Room: Exhibition of Rescued Photographs
Monday April 23, 2012 - Friday June 1, 2012
Location: Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, 500 10th St NW
URL: http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/general/museum_location.htm
Teri Williams, Robert C. Williams Paper Museum
Summary Sentence: An exhibition of rescued photographs and public documents by Georgia Tech artist-in-residence Ruth Dusseault.
Full Summary: Exhibition of rescued photographs and public documents by Georgia Tech artist-in-residence Ruth Dusseault.
The Innermost Room - Photography Exhibition
Ruth Dusseault
The Innermost Room is an exhibition of rescued photographs and public documents. Featuring original images and video, the exhibition will benefit Operation Photo Rescue.
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012, 6-8 pm. See full event details >
Open through June 1, 2012.
Ruth Dusseault is visiting assistant professor and artist-in-residence in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. Dusseault's numerous projects examine utopian expressions in the built environment. Her work reveals the paradoxical relationship between utopian and dystopian realities in our present and immediate histories.
This exhibition is sponsored in part by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.
Artist Statement by RUTH DUSSEAULT
This exhibition is primarily an event to benefit Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a national organization that goes into disaster-hit cities and works with community organizations to salvage, clean and return photographs to their owners. Storm victims who have lost all material possessions can at least regain their memories and reconstruct their identities as they rebuild their lives.
At 5pm on Sunday, May 22, 2011 the town of Joplin Missouri was struck with an F5 tornado, the third deadliest on record. Seven thousand homes were destroyed and 155 people perished. OPR moved in to collect photographs salvaged from the debris, some pictures were found 250 miles away. The faces of this middle-class middle American community are resilient in the scarred photos. The surfaces of the prints are marked with the geophysical patterns of the tornado.
Since the storm, cleanup efforts have steadily progressed and citizens have voiced their desires for a new, more sustainable city. In an age of increasingly turbulent weather, issues associated with rebuilding are increasingly pertinent. It is a question of whether cities should simply reconstruct or completely redesign.
As an artist, I am interested in utopian expressions in the built environment. In various manifestations, I find they offer some reflection and insight on the historic reality in which we live. This storm occurred just prior to my visit to the region for another project. When I learned of the devastation and the clean swept landscape, I went to Joplin to work and record. Over time I stayed in contact with the city manager and collected public documents in which the people of Joplin express a utopian future.
Those documents will be on display in this show, they were gathered over the course of two visits – three weeks and seven months after the storm. Also on display will be prints from scans of unclaimed rescued photos, original images and video. These materials present a portrait of this middle-class city, tell the story of the storm and voice a vision of the future, which reads as a to-do list for the planet.
Please visit www.operationphotorescue.org to learn more about OPR. They have worked in many places across the country, including cities in Georgia. If you know how to digitally restore photographs, you can help from home.
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"Looking at Criminal Cases to Examine the Non-Special Policies Towards Ethnic Minorities" by Woeser
Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser originally written for Radio Free Asia on July 14, 2009 and posted on her blog on July 24.
As Woeser mentions, this blogpost is a continuation of an earlier article that examined China's policies towards its ethnic minorities titled "Does This Kind of Special Policy Really Exist?" and also a response to various comments to that article, including a comment left here on High Peaks Pure Earth.
"Looking at Criminal Cases to Examine the Non-Special
Policies Towards Ethnic Minorities"
By Woeser
Quite a few people commonly assume that ethnic minorities in China, such as Tibetans and Uighurs, enjoy the privileges of some type of special policy of “two restraints and one leniency” (fewer arrests, fewer death penalties and greater leniency). I recently wrote a brief article for Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Tibetan programme, which was also translated into English and published on High Peaks Pure Earth. Somebody left a comment criticising that “these special policies are applied in criminal cases, not in political cases. As a Tibetan grown up in China, you should know the difference.”
I would like to thank the person who posted the comment for calling my attention to this, reminding me of the known criminal cases that happened on Tibetan grounds; why not conveniently look at some of these specific cases to examine the Party’s special policies towards “ethnic minorities”. To keep it brief, I am going to introduce two exemplary cases. One of them occurred in Lhasa two years ago. There is an establishment named “Boundless Recreational Centre” where people can indulge in sensual pleasures. Apart from owning several hundred prostitutes, they also possess numerous thugs coming from inland China and because they have high officials working in the background at management level, they intimidate others, dominate the market, and at every opportunity gather a mob to beat people up; they are the “mafia”. One day, these thugs smashed the bar of a Tibetan businessman; his friend, a Tibetan painter, was also beaten and injured. Subsequently, the two men and another friend, a Tibetan entrepreneur, decided to pay the centre a visit to demand an explanation and request the troublemakers to formally apologise; a few of their fellow townsmen, all of whom were from Chamdo, accompanied them. In order not to make the situation any worse, they called and informed the police before they set off. Following their arrival at the centre, because they found the doors shut and the staff gone, a few Tibetans broke some window panes; this held up traffic for one hour but did not cause a serious brawl. Soon after, those three Tibetans were arrested and sentenced to four years of harsh punishment by Chengguan District's Lhasa City People's Court. On the surface, this judgement was passed for the offence of stirring up trouble and disturbing public order. But in reality, it was because it alerted Zhang Qingli, the Autonomous Region’s party secretary, who labelled all these Tibetans as belonging to an entirely fabricated “Khampa Organisation”, groundlessly turning them into a politically tainted “criminal clique.” As a result, these people received unreasonably harsh punishment. Even if the defendants had made an appeal and demanded to commute the original sentence, it would still have been dismissed. Up to this date, the three Tibetans are still in prison serving their sentence.
The other criminal case happened four years ago in the countryside of Gomjo (Ch. Gongjue) County in Kham. In the name of carrying out official duties, the deputy chief of the county’s Public Security Bureau led three policemen to the countryside, but in reality they were taking out their guns and hunting. They shot animals belonging to first- and second-grade nationally protected species. Moreover, they asked the villagers to provide horses to give them a lift... Because it was not his turn to provide a horse, one villager expressed the wish to refuse, so the deputy chief and the three policemen brutally beat him up causing severe injuries and life-long disability. The villager’s family took this matter to court and the police side actually had to pay a small indemnity which the family did not accept. After three years of continuous appeals to the higher authorities, they finally won the lawsuit and received increased compensation, but they had also evoked the officials’ utmost hatred. They hence deliberately provoked them, invented a different criminal matter and then finally arrested the disabled villager’s family on suspicion of stirring up trouble and disturbing public order. They were sentenced to three years.
In Tibet, these kinds of unjustly administered criminal cases are ubiquitous because officials’ own interests are high above the law. Consequently, criminal cases are created, politicised, and furtively used by public organs who often abuse public power to retaliate against a personal enemy. There are too many cases to be counted that they have been determined to be “political cases” and received harsh punishments. An acquaintance of mine, a white-collar Tibetan worker who used to work for some bank in Lhasa, once shouted “Free Tibet!” when he was drunk and went to prison for a whole year. In all these cases, can we find any trace of the so-called “two restraints and one leniency” policy? Of course, when relatively minor crimes of thievery are actually reported to the authorities only very few fines are given. If they take people into custody, they would have to provide food and accommodation, it would be too much trouble, so they commonly just turn a blind eye and do not ask questions. Such practices are also rather common. But this has always given people the wrong impression that these thieves enjoy the privileges of the special policy of “two restraints and one leniency”.
In fact, a netizen with a very good sense of humour quite accurately summarises the CCP’s policy towards ethnic minorities like this: “there is suppression for main issues, and there is connivance for minor issues; firmly confine religion, and Mandarin Chinese precedes; the Han are in power, the Party is the heart; transmitting wealth from the West to the East, present small economic sops and baits; accelerate assimilation, and peace reigns under heaven.” Subsequently, I also very much agree with what one of my friends, who belongs to the Hui minority, once said: “with the aim not to give certain groups of the Han masses any reason to feel dissatisfaction and grievance towards ethnic minorities and with the aim to give those big Han fascists as little excuses as possible to assault ethnic minorities, I suggest to abolish those 'superficially clever', sympathetic policies towards ethnic minorities that in fact only exist in name, but are devoid of any substance...”.
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Labels: Chinese government, Ethnic Minority Policy, Han/Minority relations, Han/Tibetan relations, Woeser
Very enlightening. Woser la I enjoy your blogs. Pema
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La Certosa di Galluzo
It was very late in the morning by the time we drove out of Florence, and wound our way up into the hills to the south of the city, where the Ema and Greve rivers meet at Galluzzo. The rivers this time of year are slow-moving, and green. Galluzzo is a sleepy town with a Tuesday market, but is the gateway to the Certosa di Galluzzo, which holds court as it has for centuries from a hill high above town.
We were with Jason's Italian colleagues, Elsa and Susanna, medievalists all three of them. This was a very special visit to the Certosa for them, as Jason's associate Don Alessandro, a Catholic priest with all the keys, was to meet us in the courtyard. His order, San Leolino, are the newest custodians and residents of the Certosa. They plan to eventually grow it into more of a retreat center.
Don Alessandro says Mass at Gonzaga in Florence on a regular basis. He is a very friendly man, with a wide smile and blue eyes. A youthful priest in the best sense, we are on warm terms with him, having even been to his local parish at Panzano in Chianti a couple of times for Mass (followed by an amazing pranzo at Cecchini.)
Elsa and I sat in the back seat and worked on deriving the etymology of "Galluzzo" - "gallo" means "rooster" in Italian, but the ending brought another shade to the definition, which we debated at length, much to the amusement of the professors up front. Was it a big ugly rooster? Or just an ugly rooster? or a strange, ugly rooster? Maybe a weird rooster.
Jason and I had been to the Certosa (the Charterhouse, as in the Stendhal novel) before, but had only picked our way around the parking lot, and seen the courtyard, as we had arrived too late to make the final guided tour. This time, as we pulled in the car and got out, a squinting attendant asked us our business, and Jason was quick to inform him that we were meeting Don Alessandro. The attendant quickly desisted and ambled back to his small table and chair under a canvas lean-to.
The midday sun was strong, and bright white. I kept to the shadows of the buildings. Olive groves lined up in martial formations in the hills around the Certosa. We waited in the courtyard, admiring the distillery and the gift shop, the front of a smaller chapel, until Don Alessandro strode up in a clerical collar, smiling and gave each of us a strong handshake. Elsa and Susanna wanted to make a few purchases in the gift shop, so Don Alessandro called a couple of his companions to attend to us. I perused the books, noting that none other than Oriana Fallaci had historic links to Don Alessandro's Order of San Leolino, based in Panzano in Chianti. I also scrutinized the many monastic remedies available to purchase, of contents both herbal and alcohol. Susanna selected a small wall ornament designed to hold holy water in the home, for her mother in Viareggio.
Pick up your medieval liquor here.
We paid for all our small things (bottles of liquor, books, postcards, ceramics, honey, rosaries), and walked with Don Alessandro up the long flight of stairs to the adjacent Palazzo Acciaiuoli, where the founder and namesake Niccolo had imagined all manner of humanistic erudition would take place. Today used as a conference center, the two main halls adjoin in an L-shape, with vaulted ceilings and enormous oil portraits of assorted patron saints and leaders, chief among them San Bruno and San Lorenzo. The palazzo itself was never intended to be a sacred space, but rather a sort of college appended to the Certosa in which learned study might take place.
A few quick historic notes here for non-medievalists. The Carthusian Order was founded by San Bruno in 1084, in Grenoble, France, where it remains headquartered. It is a hermetic order that maintains vows of silence. The brothers remained in seclusion, and even received their meals through a specially-designed cupboard with offset openings so that they never saw the faces or hands of those who waited on them.
Boccaccio is a special figure in the Certosa, as Niccolo Acciaiuoli was his patron, and so his personal history closely intertwined with that of the institution. Indeed, the Certosa's geographic location (high on a hill, fresh air, sewage runs downhill) made it an ideal escape from which to ride out the bouts of plague that so often swept through Florence.
Boccaccio was a signatory on the document that established the financial gift from Acciaiuoli to begin the project. About 10 years later, after Boccaccio fell out with Acciaiuoli, he made fun of the Certosa, calling it a pile of rocks on a hill that would never bring everlasting fame to its patron Acciaiuoli. But history proved him wrong, and let that be a cautionary tale for readers here.
From the Palazzo Acciaiuoli (very successful! historically noted!) we stepped out onto a grand piazza, in full sun, crowned by the facade of the church.
One big piazza, check.
The inside, like almost every building in Florence, was surfaced in an amount of fine marble sufficient for a thousand luxury bathrooms. Don Alessandro explained that the foyer of the church was for the public, and lay monastics, whereas the interior of the church remained closed to the public to maintain the Carthusian seclusion. We went into the main sanctuary. The ambient temperature progressively dropped. Don Alessandro kept up his knowledgeable patter, supplemented by the exclamations of the medievalists who offered facts or confirmation here and there. I hung back to look at the wooden choir stalls, with their bare, buxom mermaids leaning out as though from the prows of ships.
Choir stalls, Certosa.
We followed Don Alessandro into the sacristy to see the liturgical treasures: chalices and tabernacles, votives and relics. He unlocked and opened an enormous set of cupboard doors that reminded me of my recent trip to the Great Synagogue, and where the Torah is kept. Around the walls of the sacristy were frescoed, in a kind of wainscot, images in single-tone of what England did to Catholics in the early seventeenth century. "The English were incredible," Don Alessandro smirked. "If there was a way to torture a person, they would do it without hesitation." The depictions on the wall attested to this, as Carthusians were shown being drawn and quartered, beheaded, crucified, burned, and more. Farm carts were piled high with torsos, legs, and arms. A calligraphied narrative clarified the facts of the scene - quite a counterpoint to the serene icons and portraits of saints, and the gleaming gold in the sacristy's cupboard. Oh, England, I thought.
We twisted through a maze of halls, down an unlit two flights of stairs, to reach the crypt of Acciaiuoli family. Cells phones with flashlight apps came out. The medievalists were beside themselves. There in a small chapel at the end of the crypt were Niccolo himself, and his wife, and a sister and brother, in their marble tombs since the fourteenth century, their long fingers clasped in silent, eternal prayer. It was cold. I began to shiver, but after the heat and the sun above, it felt good. A voto was set within the wall, with more remains in a vault.
Wife of Niccolo Acciaiuoli, Margherita degli Spini.
She's been resting here now for quite some time, since the fourteenth century.
No telling where his mistress Catherine of Taranto is laid.
Outside of the Acciaiuoli chapel were laid what appeared to be every member of the Ricasoli family who passed to eternal rest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their marble lapidaries attesting to the enduring one or two basic facts of their life ("distinguished solder," "long and painful illness," "grieving wife," "epilepsy.") A few more altars were tucked here and there in dark spaces, and one more tomb of a Bishop of Florence, gleaming in white marble with a small rope hung around it like a hapless fence.
We climbed our way back up the dark and dusty staircase, until it became warmer and warmer. A small gallery with wooden seats set into the wall was situated between the sanctuary and the courtyard. This place, Don Alessandro said, A sign at the end of the hall over the door read "Penitentibus" (for penitents, plural ablative, thank you Peggy Chambers) and I imagined what sins a secluded monk under vows of silence might confess. Had unkind thoughts about another brother? Perhaps caught a glimpse of his weekday waiter through the offset windows in the wall?
We passed into the courtyard preceding the refectory, which was situated like another set of cloisters, with a massive stone lavandone that had three metal taps, and bore an inscription about washing off iniquity.
The grand cloister of the Certosa is huge, like a residential college at Yale or Oxford. The doors of the monastic cells open onto its cloistered path, shaded from the sun, looking out onto a massive garden of grass and lavender. A huge well was sunk into its center. The green space in front of the cells was matched by a private garden, with lavender and oleander and a bench, a place to sit and contemplate God's works. I mentioned their dinner cupboard above, but also, next to the cupboard, was bored a small opening above the monk's bed. This, Don Alessandro explained, was so that the good health - or not - of the monk might be verified if he had not been seen or heard from in more than a day or two. When the questioning knock came, he was to reply, "Deo gratias" - thanks be to God.
Outside in the cloister, along the main wall of the building and the low wall surrounding the garden, were more tombs, hundreds of them, seemingly of parish members. I was struck by a memorial for a baby who died at three days old, and the many tombs for the laity, again with the one or two remaining facts of their lives chiseled into marble plaques. A smaller, sectioned off cemetery contained the graves of nameless monks, whose extreme abdication of the ego brought them closer to God even in death.
Grand cloister.
We made a quick final loop through the refectory, which looked much like the choir stalls. A dais at the east end of the room was, presumably, for the abbot, and a lectern set high into the corner to the left of the abbot's place ensured that the lectio divino read out by one of the brothers would be heard by all the monks, chewing carefully and in silent contemplation, with their one or two possibly sinful thoughts pushed away for the moment.
Our tour complete, Don Alessandro again shook hands warmly with each of us while Jason and the medievalists continued their conversation about the conference they planned to hold on the grounds next year. The monastery had taken on the midday hush of Italian midsummer, save for a lone woman speaking loudly into a cellphone, who was greeted by name by Don Alessandro, after which she seemed to pipe down. Don Alessandro got into a small car outside the Certosa walls and waved goodbye from the window as he departed down the gravel road.
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-Author's Notes: Okay, this is my first fic on....Marron and Trunks! They look soooooooo cute together! ^_^ I just bought the new Destiny's Child CD and my two favorite songs inspired me to write this fic, "Emotion" (which is about a broken heart) and "Brown Eyes" (which is about love). This fic does, I repeat, does NOT CONTAIN HENTAI! Wow, surprised anyone? This fic is rated PG because I use only one, small, cursed word : hell. Maybe it should be G...whatever. Anyways, tell me what you think. Oh, and the ages, Marron-20, Trunks-25, and Pan-16.
-Disclaimer: I don't own Trunks, Marron, or Pan or any other DBZ characters, okay?
by Android 18
Marron walked through the forest, going to her secret spot she shared with Trunks, Pan, Goten, and Bra. For as long as they can remember, they've always gone to this spot near a crystal clear lake, to hangout or to get over heartbreaks and other problems that affected their daily lives. All day, she had been searching for Trunks to tell him something. that could affect their friendship.
She didn't know how to take it. When she woke up every morning, her thoughts were on Trunks. When she fell asleep at night, her dreams were of Trunks. How could she continue to live her life with only fantasies of him? It was time to tell him how she felt about him, how much she cared about him.
"But what if he doesn't feel the same?" she asked herself. She knew that she shouldn't be so negative, but the question crossed her mind ever 20 seconds. What if he rejects her? What if he's really in love with someone else? she wondered. She knew it would be hard to just be friends with him but she couldn't force him to love her back.
She looked up into the summer sky. Unfortunately, this beautiful day wasn't going to last since dark, gray clouds were making their way through. Hopefully, Trunks was at the meeting spot so he could take her home before she would get drenched.
Reaching the end of the trail, she pushed past the last of the bushes and stepped out onto a beautiful, sandy beach. It was only a matter of minutes until she'd make it to the end of the beach her and her friends would hangout at.
"Please be here Trunks, please be here Trunks," she murmured.
She continued to make her way down the beach, thinking about how she should tell Trunks. 'Hey Trunks? Guess what? I'm in love with you! No, that won't do, she argued mentally. Maybe...Trunks? What if I told you that I like you in more than a friendly way?
Marron looked ahead and smiled. She was almost their! Just behind those rocks would be their meeting spot! Already, she could hear voices coming from behind the rocks. Taking a few steps forward, she strained to hear who it was.
"Trunks...I'm so glad you're here," a voice said.
"Hey pan. What's up?" the other voice greeted.
Pan? I was hoping it'll only be Trunks. Oh well, I'll just wait until she leaves, Marron reasoned. She sat on one of the flat rocks, waiting for Pan to leave.
"Trunks...there's something you should know. I-I didn't come here just to say hi. I-I....I..." Pan stuttered.
"Are you okay Pan?" Trunks asked.
Something about Pan got to Marron. Her curiosity getting the best of her, Marron peered over the rocks and stared at Trunks and Pan.
"It's...I...I really like you," Pan blurted out, blushing deeply.
Trunks stared at her in silence, at a loss for words.
What! She can't like him, she just can't, Marron thought.
"I...wow...I really don't know what to say Pan," Trunks replied.
Pan continued. "H-how about you just don't say anything?"
Throwing her arms around a surprised Trunks, Pan locked him into a deep, passionate kiss. Marron cried in dismay, feeling tears threaten to fall. Trunks and Pan heard this and quickly pushed apart, staring at Marron.
"M-Marron?" Trunks whispered.
With tears falling rapidly, Marron turned and ran from Trunks and Pan.
"Marron! Wait!" Trunks called.
Marron ran through the forest as rain started to fall. Whether she was wet from her tears or from the rain, she did not know. All she knew was that Trunks loved Pan, not her. All she wanted to do was curl up into a ball and sob away.
Lightning struck the sky, scaring the hell out of Marron. She didn't watch where she was going and tripped over a rock, yelping in pain. She looked down at her favorite pink dress, which was covered in mud, and began sobbing wildly.
"Why? Why do the bad things always have to happen to me?" she whispered.
She hugged her knees to her chest and cried, letting out an occasional scream when lightning lit the sky. She didn't know what was worse about this situation; finding out Trunks didn't love her, getting her dress covered in mud, or facing her worst fear : lightning.
"Marron! Marron!" Trunks shouted. He ran up to her and offered to help her up.
Marron reeled her arm back as he touched me. "Go away Trunks! I don't need you and it's obvious you don't need me!"
"Please Marron, let me help you," he whispered sadly.
Marron stared up into his blue eyes, feeling instantly ashamed for yelling at him. He stared down at her, his eyes forming small tears.
"I'm sorry Marron. I didn't think Pan would kiss me," Trunks sadly appologized. "My father's right, I am an idiot. I'm too stupid to realize that the woman I love loves me back so I just go ahead and kiss someone else."
Marron stared up at him in shock. "You-you mean...you...love me?"
Trunks blushed. "Uh...well...I kind of do...I..I mean...I'm...I'm crazy about you Marron."
Trunks offered his hand again and Marron accepted it. She stood right in front of him, so close that she could feel his breathe against her skin. Looking into her eyes, Trunks whispered, "I love you Marron."
Marron smiled, more tears cascading down her face, "I love you too Trunks."
Wrapping his arms around her, he pulled her body right against his, locking her into the deepest kiss. And the two continued to kiss in the rain, for what seemed to ba an eternity.
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We are Juice=Juice #48 (2014.09.02)
By Lurkette | September 8, 2014
The opening word this time is adult, courtesy of Sayubee. She says that she chose it because she wants to become more of an adult this year, which she says all the time but now she really means it.
Sayubee: I’m 17, so I think now I have to grow up… eventually… like in my makeup and stuff and… Why are you laughing?!
Yuka says that she’s conscious of this, too, and a while ago put forth more of an effort to act more mature. She recommends Sayubee pay more attention to the way she walks, the way she talks, and what she insists on carrying around with her. Sayubee says she’ll try.
Fan Letter
This letter comes from Kasutabe and they’re writing to say how much they enjoyed Uemu’s last voice blog. They thought it was really funny and cute and they would like to hear another one for a different song. Of course, Uemu is not on this broadcast, so they will have to wait until next time to see if she does it. Yuka wasn’t present for that particular recording but she had heard about it from the staff members and eventually had Uemu do it for her, and she thought it was really funny. She says that she and Karin and Uemu have had some practice recently in doing those sorts of introductions at events, but Sayubee had some trouble recently. She was supposed to be an announcer of sorts for a fashion show and she said she had a really difficult time with it. Yuka thinks that perhaps they should all practice like Uemu on the radio show. Sayubee sounds… less enthusiastic.
Category: We are Juice=Juice Tags: Miyazaki Yuka, Takagi Sayuki
The opening word this time is mango. Sayubee explains. She says that at the Hello!Cons at Nakano Sun Plaza the catering menu included shaved ice with a variety of flavors, including mango, which was especially good. In her blog, Kanazawa Tomoko wrote that Sayubee had gotten shaved ice with lemon, but Sayubee wants us all to know that that was not the case; she did not get lemon, she got mango.
It’s not lemon, it’s mango, and this is apparently very important to know.
The opening phrase is new songs, because Juice=Juice are releasing a new single on October 1! The new songs are entitled Senobi and Date ja nai yo, Uchi no Jinsei wa. Hooray!
Fan Letter #1: This letter is from Black Fried Shrimp. They’re writing to say that they went to the Juice=Juice live in Fukuoka. Everyone was excited to see the group in person and they especially enjoyed all the songs they performed. It made them think that they have to see another Juice=Juice show. They say that they love the radio show, too, and hope that they’ll keep having fun with it. Karin mentions that she messed up during one of the songs at the Fukuoka show. She says that it’s a little difficult to see in the live houses and she accidentally moved to the wrong position during a song. It happened to be the position Sayubee was supposed to be in, and it resulted in some confusion
Karin: I could see her glaring behind me.
Sayubee: I didn’t know what to do. If you make a mistake you make a mistake, but then it was just going to turn into more mistakes no matter what I did! I was sweating it out.
Uemu: I just watched from the back.
Category: We are Juice=Juice Tags: Miyamoto Karin, Takagi Sayuki, Uemura Akari
Every We are Juice=Juice begins and ends with a word. The opening word this time is color chalk, because all of the members of Juice=Juice have gotten some color chalk. It’s used to add very bright but very temporary color to hair, so the members each got their own fruit color to use. Sayubee got red and white in addition to yellow. They want to go out sometime with all of their colors in.
This letter comes from Iwate Apple Cheeks. They recently entered the raffle for a Juice=Juice signed poster and won! They were really excited when they heard, but after waiting so long for it to arrive they were a little bummed. Then, when they opened it, they realized that they had completely forgotten it was signed. They’re going to get it framed and can’t wait to put it up on the wall because they feel happy just looking at how cute everyone is. They look forward to seeing Juice=Juice in person. The members congratulate them on winning and thank them for listening to their radio show through Radico’s radio streaming service. Karin also reminds us that Juice=Juice will be performing in Iwate on their News=News tour in Morioka.
Song: Juice=Juice – Black Butterfly
Karin asks Sayubee to tell the listeners what to pay attention to in Black Butterfly, since they’ve been performing it at Hello!Cons and on their individual tour. Sayubee says that everyone is wearing matching costumes for this song, all in black and with butterflies, which she personally likes, and that the dance is rather sensual and has various parts that she wants everyone to try doing along to the song, as well.
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“This honest, lucid book examines the urgent problems of family history and early diagnosis in mental illness from a personal and scientific standpoint. It will be invaluable to families trying to understand their own history, and to those who have been blind to such history.”
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Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello’s family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children.
In this riveting story—part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation—in the tradition of the story of Henrietta Lacks, Costello recounts how the mental unraveling of her seventeen-year-old son Alex compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition. Eventually she tied Alex’s descent into hallucinations and months of shoeless wandering on the streets of Los Angeles to his great grandfather’s suicide on a New York City railroad track in 1913.
But this insight brought no quick relief. Within two years of Alex’s diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, both she and her youngest son succumbed to two different mental disorders: major depression and anxiety disorder. Costello depicts her struggle to get the best possible mental health care for her sons and herself, treatment that ultimately brings each of them to full recovery. In the process, she discovers startling new neuroscience and genetic findings that explain how clusters of mental illness traverse family generations.
The author closes by translating what she’s learned into a set of ground rules for “New, New Parenting,” advice to help individuals and families recover from addictions and mental disorders, and prevent their return in future generations.
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016 Colin Melvin - Changing an Industry, The Fifty Trillion Dollar Man 0
Colin Melvin is the Global Head of Stewardship for Hermes Investment Management as well as the Founder and Chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Services. It is Colin's mission to innovate and create successful stewardship for large institutional investors, enabling them to be active engaged owners of the companies in which they invest. Colin describes why there's such a huge disconnect in this industry and what he and his team do to help change that.
01:00 - Who is Colin Melvin?
05:45 - Why are investment/pension funds shifting?
09:45 - The proper function of the financial system should be the allocation of capital, but that's not happening.
12:00 - We currently have a short-term relationship between the investor and the company.
13:55 - Adopting what the UN has done for ethical business practices, Colin and his company are focusing on responsible business principles for investment firms.
16:35 - What challenges has Colin faced while implementing these new changes?
20:25 - Colin shares an example of their global reach.
23:35 - Colin explains his role at Hermes.
27:00 - It has taken Colin and his team 11 years to get to where they are today.
27:50 - Colin discusses the concept of 'The Universal Owner'.
29:45 - Is the government getting involved with this process?
32:00 - Colin believes there have been some political shifts based on the investment industry shifting.
35:15 - What if we valued companies differently? In a more dynamic way? Colin explains further.
36:45 - What skills has Colin used that have lead to his success?
38:45 - Does Colin have any daily rituals?
39:45 - What advice would Colin give his 25-year-old self? Don't be afraid.
FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/colin-melvin/
015 David Allen - Creating Space, Getting Altitude and Mitigating Against the Stress of Opportunity 0
David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. He is the author of Getting Things Done and has shown millions of people how to transform their overwhelming lives into a relaxed and more productive one. Listen to David's popular methodology and how it has helped successful leaders all over the world.
03:15 - What is the 'Getting Things Done' approach David uses?
04:45 - How did you stumble upon this methodology?
06:45 - How does Getting Things Done help with innovation?
08:45 - Nobody went out to be innovative, they just went out to solve problems.
09:30 - What's a typical day look like for a successful tech company using David's system?
11:25 - You need to step back and look at all of the hats you're wearing.
14:00 - Surprisingly, people who are attracted to David's work are people who need it the least.
15:15 - Most of the stress you have is due to breaking agreements with yourself.
15:35 - Getting Things Done is not about getting things done. It's about being engaged with every single moment in your life.
17:45 - The first step is to get everything out of your head and on a piece of paper.
18:55 - Getting Things Done is timeless.
25:15 - David talks the evolution of his business model.
29:55 - Reflection is critical to the decision making process.
32:25 - Keeping stuff in your head is the wrong place to be keeping stuff.
35:45 - What are David's morning rituals?
41:35 - What advice does David have for his 25-year-old self?
FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/david-allen/
014 Shane O'Mara - Darwin's Self-Doubt, The Power of the Resting Brain and What Our Brains Are Not Built For 0
Shane O'Mara is Principal Investigator and Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College Dublin, and is currently Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is the author of the book Why Torture Doesn't Work and discusses some of the neurological effects that stress can have on the human body. Listen in for more great insights from Shane.
04:00 - How necessary is it for your team to understand how the brain works?
07:55 - How does long-term stress effect the human body and the brain?
11:25 - It eventually backfires on organizations who intentionally build high-pressure environments for their employees.
16:15 - If you don't have to solve a problem today, then don't. Think about the problem extensively, even sleep on it.
22:00 - Shane shares an example of why Darwin delayed writing Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection for so long.
24:25 - The part of the brain we use to judge people is the same part we use to judge commercial brands.
29:00 - Shane talks about Google's hiring process.
32:40 - How much do we really understand about the brain?
35:40 - The brain changes by our experiences, by our attitudes, and even by how we talk to ourselves.
36:30 - What's Shane's morning routine?
39:10 - Shane likes to write at night because there are few distractions around.
40:10 - To be chronically sleep deprived is extremely bad for you. Shane explains further.
45:45 - What advice would Shane give to his 25-year-old self?
FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/shane-omara/
013 Whitney Johnson - The Disruptive Individual, Riding S Curves and Liberating Constraints 0
Whitney Johnson is the author of Disrupt Yourself and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Whitney is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She discusses the four things that help you know whether you're on the right or wrong S curve and shares examples of how to disrupt a constraint in a company environment. Tune in for more insightful advice from Whitney!
02:50 - Why did Whitney write Disrupt Yourself?
05:35 - Whitney touches on the emotional side of the job, when you first get brought on to a company.
07:35 - Are you on the low-end of the curve or simply on the wrong curve?
07:55 - Are you taking the right kinds of risks?
08:35 - Play to your strengths. We often undervalue them.
10:35 - You will get on the wrong curve, but that doesn't mean it can't benefit you.
11:25 - Constraints can be a good thing when you're trying to disrupt.
12:55 - Whenever you ask people to adopt a brilliant idea, you're asking them to jump to a new curve.
15:35 - How do you really take advantage of constraints? Whitney shares an example.
20:40 - What are good leaders doing to create innovation?
24:15 - What do good leaders do in times of failure?
27:30 - How would Whitney help an executive innovate?
30:20 - How important is curiosity and where do you go to get the proper stimulation?
32:20 - What's next for Whitney?
34:30 - Whitney asked employees, at a Fortune 50, how many of them were using their strengths every day at w
35:55 - What are your morning rituals?
37:00 - What has Whitney changed her mind about recently?
38:00 - What advice would Whitney give to her 25-year-old self?
FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/whitney-johnson/
012 Steven D'Souza - Not Knowing - The Science of Opportunity 0
Steven D'Souza is the Founder and Director of Deeper Learning.He is an international educator and the author of two books,Brilliant Networking and Not Knowing. Today, he discusses aleader's relationship with uncertainty and the unknown. He alsodives into how companies can embrace the concept of 'not knowing'and how to teach your staff to be more curious and engaged with theunknown. Find out more about this fascinating subject by listeningin.
03:55 - Uncertainty has a physical impact as well as anemotional impact of feeling threaten.
04:00 - We are afraid to feel the unknown.
04:08 - However, the unknown is not the same asuncertainty.
04:30 - There are many different ways to react to theunknown.
06:40 - It's impossible for leaders to have all theanswers.
07:45 - In the book, Steven discusses the dangers of knowledge,the dangers of thinking we, in fact, do know
08:00 - Why did nobody predict the global financial crisis?People did predict it, but people were over conf
09:05 - We all have limits to what we know.
09:40 - How do companies embrace this idea of 'notknowing'?
13:00 - Successful leadership is making space for others tohelp contribute.
15:20 - Things are not as simple or clear cut as we like tobelieve.
17:35 - When an organization is facing the unknown, it can bean incredibly terrifying place.
21:45 - A lot of innovation happens at the individual level.Steven shares an example.
22:20 - Not knowing can be a blessing sometimes.
24:25 - People who are deep in their industry recognize thelimits of their knowledge.
26:55 - Speak to somebody who doesn't have any knowledge ofyour field and see if you can describe it simply
28:25 - Is there a way to teach others on your team to be morecurious?
30:40 - Steven talks about his first book, BrilliantNetworking.
32:25 - What advice would Steven give his 25-year-oldself?
FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/steven-dsouza/
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Steve King Retweets Writer Calling Him a White Nationalist
Steve King poses with the German nationalist politician Frauke Petry, center, and far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders. Photo: Twitter
Just a week after addressing the Story County GOP’s sixth annual Judge Joseph Story Dinner fundraiser in Ames, where he again called Vladimir Putin a better leader than Barack Obama, Congressman Steve King took to Twitter before the first official debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to offer his analysis of the big event:
Tonight’s biggest post #debate question: Inquiring American minds will want to know,
was Hillary on her meds or off her meds?
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 26, 2016
Hours later, King struck again, retweeting Dan Brooks, a writer from Missoula, Montana, who tweeted at King that he “embarrasses my home state and its tradition of decency,” adding, “May his grandchildren be brown and educated.” He also quoted an earlier tweet of King’s with a photo of the lawmaker posing next to a pair of far-right European nationalists, Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam Dutch lawmaker who once went on trial for allegedly inciting hatred against Moroccans; and Frauke Petry, a German anti-immigrant politician who’s a fan of Trump and has been given the nickname “Adolfina”:
It didn’t take long for Brooks to notice:
Huh. pic.twitter.com/XtBsQLaRrG
— Dan Brooks (@DangerBrooks) September 26, 2016
Oh god. So many Nazis in my mentions.
In the 20 or so minutes since @SteveKingIA retweeted me, I’ve gotten dozens of @’s calling me a kike. Lapsed Protestant, you guys.
Thanks to @SteveKingIA for introducing me to so many angry white people.
King, who in recent months has called the decision to replace slaveowner Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill “racist” and “sexist,” suggested at the Republican National Convention that white people had contributed more to the world than any other “subgroup,” drawn criticism for displaying a Confederate flag on his office desk, and said NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protests against police brutality were “sympathetic to ISIS,” has been embracing his nationalism more than that lately on Twitter. King recently retweeted an image from the anti-European Union Voice of Europe account featuring anti-Clinton quotes from Wilders, right-wing British populist Nigel Farage, anti-migrant Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, and French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen:
Strong European leaders absolutely don’t like the Hillary for President idea. Bill even has the voice of Soros! pic.twitter.com/GiVFed38CC — Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) September 4, 2016
And last month in a tweet, King attacked Clinton for criticizing the racist alt-right movement that has come to prominence during Trump’s bid for the presidency:
Hillary Clinton’s “Vast Alt-Right Wing Conservative” rant. Think she won’t further divide our nation? https://t.co/7ooIy410fo
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) August 27, 2016
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HyesMusings January 10, 2019
5 Questions With… Playwright Jeff Ho
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The Saga Collectif returns with Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)’s Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land), a vital new adaptation of the rarely performed Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides.
Saved from a sacrifice at Aulis at the hands of her father Agamemnon, Iphigenia (Virgilia Griffith) is whisked away by the god Artemis to Taurian land. Now a priestess, her role is to slaughter any foreigners that arrive – assisted by a disgruntled Chorus (PJ Prudat). Two strangers, pursued by the Furies, stumble upon her temple, claiming to be her long lost brother Orestes (Thomas Olajide) and his gawgeous lover Pylades (Augusto Bitter). Upon their reunion, Iphigenia is forced to make an impossible choice: risk it all and flee with the newcomers, or stay alive and true to her sacred mission. However, the Chorus might have something to say about all this…
PJ Prudat & Virgilia Griffith
To understand more about how Ho’s adaptation of this Greek mythology story came to be, he answered my 5 Questions…
HM: I understand the collective questioned whether to remount Iphigenia Among The Taurians due to it being predominantly a “white” play. What made you rewrite this story in a contemporary narrative?
Jeff Ho (JF): It was chosen for me. Jonathan Seinen [the director] and the collective had a desire to put up the original Iphigenia Among the Taurians, drawing from a pre-existing adaptation. Jonathan contacted me to perform in it, due to our previous working relationship (director and actor) on Unknown Soldier at Summerworks ‘ 14. I couldn’t participate as an actor, so I brazenly asked if I could try my hand at adapting it. Fortunately, Jonathan agreed, and so we began.
It is a play from the Euro classics, for sure. It has been predominantly been staged by “white” folks, for sure. But as a classicaly trained artist, I felt every right and ownership towards retelling this story, the way our collective wanted to – with all the wrinkles, misogyny, and ancient things in it.
Stories evolve, and this particular one has evolved over millenias, this is another iteration of it, in Toronto, 2019, in full colour.
HM: During your writing process, did you encounter any challenges in terms of story or characters?
JF: Absolutely. The character of Orestes is rife with familial murder, with sins and guilt that not many modern citizens would understand (such as killing his mother). There are lines in the original such as “women are so good at scheming.” There are airs of misogyny, of colonialism, of things that simply rub our 2019 world view the wrong way.
It was always a question of, do we transform these “problems,” do we question them? Or do we bring them up from the past, highlight them, and let the audience come to their own collision with them, the same way the team had to?
We decided on the latter.
Virgilia Griffiths (centre), Thomas Olajide (middle), Augusto Bitter (back)
HM: Once Jonathan Seinen was established as director, did both of you discuss how to cast the play to include a more diverse group of actors?
JF: Again, Jonathan was the lead vision on this project. He was always established as the director, if anything, I came later into the process, and he “established” me as the writer. He had already cast the play. In our first conversation, he spoke about how he had imagined Virgilia Griffiths as Iphigenia and Thomas Olajide as Orestes, and that was the vision I worked to fulfil. The casting of Augusto Bitter and PJ Prudat came in once the first draft was established. How fortunate we are, to have this talented and diverse group of viciously talented artists.
HM: I’m curious… how did the cast respond to the text, and what was the rehearsal process like?
JF: They were incredibly generous, and jumped right in, with all the wrinkles of the classic as well as the fact that this new version is basically a new play as well… it’s been a true gift.
The rehearsal process involved tons of conversation around our “right” to tell Euro classic stories/myths, our struggles working on classics at predominantly white institutions… but also of our own desires, wishes, and dreams, to be able to tell any story we wish to tell.
We also just had so so much fun… the piece is ultimately a comedy, so lots of laughs, and lots of foolish fun.
From L-R: Augusto Bitter, PJ Prudat, Virgilia Griffith, Thomas Olajide
HM: As a POC myself, I’m very much looking forward to this production. Anything else you’d like audiences to know about Iphigenia And The Furies (On Taurian Land)?
JF: I’m never sure what to say as a “moral,” or “message” of any production, it’s absolutely up to the audience’s interpretation. But something to KNOW about the piece is that, hopefully, you’ll laugh, learn, and listen to some voices we don’t often hear. Have fun, and please join us for an evening of irrevernt, experimental fun theatre.
Saga Collective’s Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) premiered to positive regards this week. It is currently on-stage at Aki Studio. Tickets: Pay What You Can Afford (PWYCA) $5 | $25 | $45; available by call the Box Office 416-531-1402 or online at sagacollectif.com.
All photos by Dahlia Katz Photography.
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Cold Turkey: The Art of Learning Board Games
By Wolfie on February 22, 2011 Discussion Miscellaneous
I’ll start off this post by admitting that I’m comparably new to board games. Some people have grown up with board games since they were babies, learning games from their parents and friends. Sure, I played Monopoly (shudder) and Life as a kid, but it took me up until just recently – a year or so ago – to call myself an actual hobby gamer. If you’ve read my 1st post, you will know that through high school I had tried some games – Catan, Munchkin, Heroclix – which I enjoyed, buy never really got into (except for Heroclix. Good golly I spent a lot of money on those.)
I feel fortunate that I kept a pretty solid group of friends through those years. We all sort of transitioned through various hobbies together. We played Heroclix, we played Halo, we played Soul Caliber. And so, when we finally discovered Games Plus and started getting into DnD and Board gaming together… none of us really had a big background in board gaming. None of us knew which games to start with beyond a few basics (Carcassonne, Settlers) and our first few shots were just guesses. We picked up some games from other groups, but I lot of the games I own now I simply heard about and took a chance with a purchase.
And that brings me to the main subject of this post: learning how to play a board game.
Because of the previously described situation, we learned a lot of games in perhaps a unique way – from the instruction manual.
Okay, that’s probably not that unique. But I think a lot of people learn games by playing with another group that has experience with a game. It’s definitely a great way to learn – when you encounter those tricky situations where the rules seem unclear, experienced players can offer a quick and usually correct solution without wasting time paging through a booklet looking for that hidden piece of information.
But many of the games our group picks up, we learn from scratch. Android, Arkham Horror, Cosmic Encounter, Frag, even Dominion – our first few plays were enjoyable, but somewhat painstaking exercises in working through confusing rules and unexpected situations. Dominion was easy enough, but Frag seemed a little unbalanced, and some moments of Cosmic Encounter were a little bit rough as we worked through the terminology of the game. Android took hours to explain and longer to play, and Arkham Horror thrashed us through and through. (Actually, our group has not yet successfully won a game of Arkham without cheating, though it can be assured that this cheating was due to a lack of knowledge of some of the finer points of the rules).
Still, there’s something.. rewarding about piecing together the subtleties of any game, working out the rules, figuring out the strategies, all by yourself. And I’m sure it’s great exercise for the brain as well.
However I can certainly see the benefit of learning from an experienced player. Though I’m often assigned the duties of learning the rules of a new game, my Nemesis (the other Jon) is excellent at explaining rules of a game quickly and concisely. I feel like I understand a game better when he introduces it. He’s also very good at pointing out some of the basic or key strategies of a game, which is another benefit to learning from an experienced player. Sometimes games have very important strategies that aren’t always obvious from the get-go. Learning Cosmic Encounter took a number of playthroughs to start to understand the strategies of offering alliances, attempting negotiations, and preventing others from getting too far ahead. Carcassonne, which I learned from the Nemesis, made a lot of sense after 1 or 2 playthroughs – perhaps because it was a simpler game, but I think it had a lot to do with the Nemesis offering up some basic strategies. After all, what good is a nemesis-ery if you’re not somewhat evenly matched?
There can certainly be a downside to learning from an experienced player, though. Nemesis Jon has told stories of games he learned from friends or relatives during which he was totally creamed, because the experienced players used his inexperience to their advantage. Instead of helping a new player into the game, these players took advantage of him to feed their egos. Don’t be that guy.
Learning from scratch can be challenging but rewarding, and perhaps provide a unique insight to a game. On the other hand, it can cause some rough first experiences with a game until the rules are ironed out.
Learning from an experienced player or group can get you up and running faster, but with the wrong person or group a first-time with a new game can be very negative.
So how do you guys learn most of your games? Do you play with others familiar with the game, or do you like to page through the rulebooks yourselves? Do you feel that one way is better than the other? Any other thoughts about it?
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Ian February 22, 2011 5:47 am
One thing that has really helped me learn a new game is to sit at the table by myself and set everything up as if I was going to play a 2 player game. Then as I’m going through the rulebook I play as both players step by step for as many rounds as it takes me to figure out how the game works. This doesn’t work for games with tricky end games or games that don’t work with 2, but it’s proven to really ingrain the flow in my head.
freelunch February 22, 2011 6:53 am
I’m the “rules guy” in our group because:
* the games we play are almost all mine
** nobody else wants to read manuals
*** I’m uncomfortable playing a game WITHOUT reading the manual first
which works out just fine 🙂
Snuggles February 22, 2011 3:11 pm
Since I have a great game group I almost always play games for the first time with someone else explaining it to me. It might not always be an experienced player as is the case with new games that everyone is pretty much learning together. There are usually go to people that have read the rules to most games and are good at teaching and its great to have them around when a confusing situation comes up.
The other nice thing about having experienced players is they can give you an idea of what the game is all about and the game play mechanics involved. This way you’ll have a better idea of whether to play or pass on a game you’ve never played before.
I personally love playing new games. I love figuring out the basic strategies and seeing how all the mechanics of the game tie together. It’s great to develop depth of strategy once you’ve played a game many times but that first time is always a unique experience. On the other hand it’s nice when you know a game to skip the rules explanation and have faster game play.
chris February 22, 2011 3:47 pm
“Nemesis Jon has told stories of games he learned from friends or relatives during which he was totally creamed, because the experienced players used his inexperience to their advantage. Instead of helping a new player into the game, these players took advantage of him to feed their egos. Don’t be that guy.”
Seriously, I dislike that guy. This is why I usually try to advocate for playing a few rounds of a game and then restarting. The experienced players nearly always have a huge advantage just because they understand how to play and what the victory conditions are.
I have way too many other thoughts on this to squeeze into a single comment though. We’ll have to talk about this next time we’re in person.
GeekInsight February 22, 2011 5:41 pm
I’m the dedicated rule reader and game explainer for my group. Usually, I’ll play a sort of test game all by myself so that I can see how it all works before I try explaining it to the group.
It also allows me to tell people what strategies may or may not work – though admittedly with only one play and only by myself I’m hardly an authority at that point.
DM_Cadrach February 22, 2011 5:46 pm
Yeah, I agree with Snuggles up there. Having the pieces out and going through a complete round before play can help.
If I’m the only one at the table with experience on a game what I usually do is simply go first and explain step by step what I’m doing and why. This gets the game started and demonstrates the game flow. Hearing it and seeing it helps way more than just hearing it read out of a book.
The thing that really bugs me is when someone else at the table decides that they need to explain a rule too and two or more people end up talking at the people new to the game. Its confusing and ends up taking longer.
wolfie February 22, 2011 5:58 pm
Running through a turn step by step definitely helps with a lot of games. Some games, though – like Android – are far too complex to just run through a turn without explaining a lot of goals you need to be looking at.
Cadrach, I totally agree – it can get annoying when someone jumps in while someone else is explaining. It’s definitely a distraction and usually the rule-teacher is going to get to that element anyways. I try to stay out of it when someone else is explaining rules, at least until that person has finished their shtick. Sometimes I throw in a few tidbits after that if I feel like the new player isn’t getting something or if a basic strategy was left out. I probably occassionally cut in in the middle, but I try not to do that.
It seems like a lot of people have somewhat of a designated “New Game Teacher.”
Jonathan February 22, 2011 8:04 pm
I’ve been given the explainer role in my family, but mostly because I’m normally the one bringing the new games. I was asked over Christmas to read and explain the rules to Mystery Express by Days of Wonder cold turkey (it was my gift to my sister, at her request). That made it harder, and the sample play by myself would have helped immensely. As it was, the rules were slightly ambiguous on some points, one of the players didn’t like deduction games, and it was all around a bad experience. That’s how I rang in 2011, by the way. 🙂
I appreciate the shout-out, and that my teaching methods are appreciated.
Ryan Sturm February 22, 2011 9:57 pm
How about listening to a podcast about learning and teaching games? I hope you will give my show How to Play, a listen if you haven’t tried it yet. This is what the whole show is about 🙂
http://www.howtoplaypodcast.com
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KUMB Awards XXII: 2018/19 Season
Results Announced: Thursday, 4th July 2019
There were 11 categories to nominate your winners for in this year's KUMB Awards, our 22nd annual poll...
KUMB.com PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2018/19
1. LUKASZ FABIANSKI (44%)
2. Declan Rice (32%)
3. Felipe Anderson (6%)
Congratulations to Lukasz Fabianski who becomes the first goalkeeper to be named as KUMB Player of the Year since Robert Green more than a decade ago back in 2008, following a fantastic debut season at West Ham.
Having moved from relegates Swansea for a paltry £5million fee last summer, Fabianski enjoyed a fantastic season as the club's number one having wrestled the jersey from previous regular Adrian. Declan Rice - who has his fingers in many pies came a worth second, whilst club record signing Felipe Anderson made up your top three this year.
2017/18 Marko Arnautovic; 2016/17 Manuel Lanzini; 2015/16 Dimitri Payet; 2014/15 Aaron Cresswell; 2013/14 Mark Noble; 2012/13 Winston Reid; 2011/12 James Tomkins; 2010/11 Scott Parker; 2009/10 Scott Parker; 2008/09 Scott Parker; 2007/08 Robert Green; 2006/07 Carlos Tevez; 2005/06 Danny Gabbidon; 2004/05 Teddy Sheringham; 2003/04 Matthew Etherington; 2002/03 Joe Cole; 2001/02 Sebastien Schemmel; 2000/01 Stuart Pearce; 1999/2000 Paolo Di Canio; 1998/99 Steve Lomas; 1997/98 John Hartson.
YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR
2. Issa Diop (11%)
3. Grady Diangana (4%)
And it's a first Award of the year for emerging midfield talent Declan Rice, who smashed this category last season too with a massive 97% of your votes! The 20-year-old, now-English international was a clear and obvious winner for this year's Young Player award once again following his breakthrough into Gareth Southgate's England squad, having remodelled himself as a defensive midfielder at West Ham. The equally-impressive Issa Diop, eligible as he began the campaign as a 21-year-old surprisingly failed to mount a serious challenge to Rice whilst Grady Diangana, another enjoying his first season in Manuel Pellegrini's squad secured a fair few votes to take third spot.
2017/18 Declan Rice; 2016/17 Edimilson Fernandes; 2015/16 Reece Oxford; 2014/15 Reece Burke; 2013/14 Dylan Tombides; 2012/13 Danny Potts; 2011/12 Danny Potts; 2010/11 James Tomkins; 2009/10 Zavon Hines; 2008/09 Jack Collison; 2007/08 Mark Noble; 2006/07 Mark Noble; 2005/06 Nigel Reo-Coker; 2004/05 Mark Noble; 2003/04 Chris Cohen; 2002/03 Glenn Johnson; 2001/02 Jermain Defoe; 2000/01 Michael Carrick; 1999/2000 Michael Carrick; 1998/99 Rio Ferdinand/Frank Lampard; 1997/98 Rio Ferdinand.
1. FELIPE ANDERSON v CRYSTAL PALACE (36%)
2. Michail Antonio v Tottenham (29%)
3. Mark Noble v Watford (15%)
Felipe Anderson might have cost a few bob but when he scores goals like this year's Award winner, he suddenly looks worth every penny. Taking an opportunity from the left, a shot that initially appeared off-target suddenly dipped and swerved sharply before rippling the back of Palace's net. Comparisons with Roberto Carlos' incredible Le Tournois 1997 strike were not without some merit. Michail Antonio's runner-up was as memorable as technically proficient, perhaps ensuring it took the runner-up spot ahead of Mark Noble's brilliant late-season solo effort against Watford.
2017/18 Pedro Obiang v Tottenham; 2016/17 Andy Carroll v Crystal Palace; 2015/16 Dimitri Payet v Crystal Palace; 2014/15 Enner Valencia v Hull City (a); 2013/14 Ravel Morrison v Tottenham (a); 2012/13 Mo Diame v Man Utd (h); 2011/12 Ricardo Vaz Te v Blackpool (n); 2010/11 Scott Parker v Liverpool (h); 2009/10 Scott Parker v Wigan (h); 2008/09 Carlton Cole v Wigan (a); 2007/08 Dean Ashton v Man Utd (a); 2006/07 Mark Noble v Bolton (h); 2005/06 Anton Ferdinand v Fulham (h); 2004/05 Bobby Zamora v Ipswich (a); 2003/04 Jon Harley v Sheffield Utd (a); 2002/03 Paolo Di Canio v Chelsea (h); 2001/02 Trevor Sinclair v Derby (h); 2000/01 Paolo Di Canio v Manchester United (a); 1999/2000 Paolo Di Canio v Wimbledon (h); 1998/99 Stan Lazaridis v Newcastle (a);1997/98 John Hartson v Aston Villa (h).
MOST MEMORABLE MATCH
1. TOTTENHAM 0-1 WEST HAM UTD (62%)
2. West Ham Utd 3-1 Manchester Utd (23%)
3. West Ham Utd 4-3 Huddersfield Town (7%)
For the third successive season it's a victory against Tottenham Hotspur that takes the gong in this year's Most Memorable Match Award. Michail Antonio's winning goal - the first conceded by Spurs at their new north London home - resulted in a legendary celebration, whiuch resulted in the legendary pic above, which resulted in Tottenham's first defeat at New White Hart Lane.
Runner-up this season was the comfortable 3-1 victory over a soon-to-be-sacked Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, whilst the annual crazy caper - this year being the seven-goal thriller aginst relegated Huddersfield - came in third place.
2017/18 Tottenham 2-3 West Ham Utd; 2016/17 West Ham Utd 1-0 Tottenham; 2015/16 West Ham Utd 3-2 Manchester Utd (h); 2014/15 West Ham Utd 3-1 Liverpool (h); 2013/14 Tottenham (a) 3-0; 2012/13 Chelsea 3-1 (h); 2011/12 Blackpool 2-1 (n); 2010/11 Man Utd 4-0 (h); 2009/10 Wigan 3-2 (h); 2008/09 Portsmouth 4-1 (a); 2007/08 Man Utd 2-1 (h); 2006/07 Man Utd 1-0 (a); 2005/06 Liverpool/FA Cup Final (n); 2004/05 Ipswich 2-0 (a); 2003/04 Ipswich 2-0 (h); 2002/03 Chelsea 1-0 (h); 2001/02 Man Utd 1-0 (a); 2000/01 Man Utd 1-0 (a); 1999/2000 Arsenal 2-1 (h); 1998/99 Palace 4-1 (h)/Barnsley 6-0 (h); 1997/98 Tottenham 4-3 (h).
BEST SIGNING
3. Fabian Balbuena (14%)
It's a second KUMB Award in this year's poll for Lukasz Fabianski, who was a runaway winner in a season where competition for Best Signing was tough and included several viable contenders. Having replaced Adrian as West Ham's number one following his move from relegated Swansea - where he was also voted as Player of the Year - Fab enjoyed a fantastic season, amking many notable saves throughout the campaign.
In the scramble for second place, Issa Diop also enjoyed a brilliant debut season in Stratford and was a well-deserving shout, as was his defensive partner Fabian Balbuena who the tyoung Frenchman narrowly pipped for the runners-up spot.
2017/18 Marko Arnautovic; 2016/17 Edimilson Fernandes; 2015/16 Dimitri Payet; 2014/15 Aaron Cresswell; 2013/14 Adrian San Miguel Del Castillo; 2012/13 Andy Carroll; 2011/12 Ricardo Vaz Te; 2010/11 Demba Ba; 2009/10 Alessandro Diamanti; 2008/09 Valon Behrami; 2007/08 Scott Parker; 2006/07 Carlos Tevez; 2005/06 Yossi Benayoun; 2004/05 Teddy Sheringham; 2003/04 Matthew Etherington; 2002/03 Rufus Brevett; 2001/02 Sebastien Schemmel; 2000/01 Frederic Kanoute; 1999/2000 Igor Stimac; 1998/99 Trevor Sinclair; 1997/98 Eyal Berkovic.
1. ROBERT SNODGRASS (41%)
3. Michail Antonio (18%)
Famously vilified by two members of the Board, it's perhaps sweet justice that Snodders - as he is affectionately known - has completed a remarkable turnaround to win KUMB's Most Improved Award. Sent out on loan to the Championship and criticised in print by Karren Brady and David Sullivan, it looked like his days at West Ham were numbered. But recalled and reinvigorated by Manuel Pellegrini, the Scot has since become a firm fans' favourite as a result of his determination and grit.
Declan Rice, the winner of this particular award last season might have appeared a shoo-in again but for Snodgrass' remarkable renaissance, having become a first team regular and West Ham's first England regular for several seasons. Michail Anotnio, another who appeared destined for a move away last summer has also enjoyed a resurgence under the Chilean's direction.
2017/18 Declan Rice; 2016/17 Pedro Obiang; 2015/16 Michail Antonio; 2014/15 Stewart Downing; 2013/14 Matt Taylor; 2012/13 Winston Reid; 2011/12 Winston Reid; 2010/11 Jonathan Spector; 2009/10 Julien Faubert; 2008/09 Carlton Cole; 2007/08 George McCartney; 2006/07 James Collins; 2005/06 Marlon Harewood; 2004/05 Anton Ferdinand; 2003/04 Stephen Bywater; 2002/03 Glen Johnson; 2001/02 Christian Dailly; 2000/01 Michael Carrick; 1999/2000 Marc-Vivien Foe; 1998/99 Frank Lampard; 1997/98 Frank Lampard.
MOST MISSED
1. JAMES COLLINS (58%)
2. Mabel Arnold (33%)
3. Cheikhou Kouyate (8%)
With only five names to choose from this time around, it was no surprise that crowd-favourite Collins - or 'Ginge' as he was perhaps more commonly known - romped away with the Most Missed title in this year's Awards. Two spells at the club endeared him to West Ham fans and even though he was rapidly approaching his 35th birthday last summer, many supporters were still calling for him to be offered another contract extension.
Runner-up this year was centurian Mabel Arnold, possibly one of the club's most famous fans having been featured in the 'Farewell Boleyn' celebrations in 2016. Mabel passed away in February at the age of 102, just two months shy of her 103rd birthday, having followed the Hammers for an astonishing 85 years. Cheeky chappipe Cheikhou Kouyate, never short of a smile or a laugh, wraps up this years' top three.
2017/18 Diafra Sakho; 2016/17 Dimitri Payet; 2015/16 Carlton Cole; 2014/15 Jack Collison; 2013/14 Dylan Tombides; 2012/13 Wally Downes; 2011/12 Demba Ba; 2010/11 Alessandro Diamanti; 2009/10 Dean Ashton.
WORST PLAYER OF THE SEASON
1. ANDY CARROLL (53%)
2. Carlos Sanchez (14%)
3. Lucas Perez (7%)
It's a damning indictment of his spell at West Ham that striker Andy Carroll should be named as the club's worst player in his final season with United. A former international who promised much and occasionally delivered simply faded away, making just 12 mostly bit-part appearances in his final season and scoring just one goal - the very thing he was paid handsomely to do.
Carlos Sanchez perhaps somewhat unfortunately takes the runners-up berth this season having been sidelined through injury for most of it - he managed just eight appearances all season, whilst striker Lucas Perez - who has already left for warmer climes - was perhaps somehwat unfortunate to finish ahead the likes of Samir Nasri who he narrowly beat to land third spot.
Leading the chasing pack of four or five players was former French international Evra, who appeared to be paid a small fortune just to repeat his newly-adopted catchphrase - whilst your Most Missed player registered in third spot! Unusually, all three have already left West Ham - which probably isn't a bad thing.
2017/18 Joe Hart; 2016/17 Gokham Tore; 2015/16 Carl Jenkinson; 2014/15 Kevin Nolan; 2013/14 Alou Diarra; 2012/13 Emanuel Pogatetz; 2011/12 John Carew; 2010/11 Matthew Upson; 2009/10 Jonathan Spector; 2008/09 Diego Tristan; 2007/08 Luis Boa Morte; 2006/07 Nigel Quashie; 2005/06 Category Suspended; 2004/05 Don Hutchison; 2003/04 Wayne Quinn; 2002/03 Gary Breen; 2001/02 Titi Camara; 2000/01 Titi Camara; 1999/2000 Neil Ruddock; 1998/99 Iain Dowie/Andy Impey; 1997/98 Iain Dowie.
WORST SIGNING OF THE SEASON
2. Jack Wilshere (26%)
3. Lucas Perez (16%)
Whilst his arrival at West Ham wasn't exactly universally welcomed, that Carlos Sanchez barely played after September having sustained serious medial ligament damage in the 8-0 defeat of Macclesfield meant he was always going to feature highly on this list.
Jack WIlshere, who arrived on a free transfer but earns a packet still has much to do to prove to West Ham fans that his signing was worthwhile, whilst Lucas perez's six goals in 19 appearances wasn't quite enough to dissuade supporters that he was the third worst signing of last summer.
2017/18 Joe Hart; 2016/17 Simone Zaza; 2015/16 Nikica Jelavic; 2014/15 Mauro Zarate; 2013/14 Mladen Petric; 2012/13 Emanuel Pogatetz; 2011/12 John Carew; 2010/11 Robbie Keane; 2009/10 Benni McCarthy; 2008/09 Diego Tristan; 2007/08 Henri Camara; 2006/07 Matthew Upson; 2005/06 No award; 2004/05 Mauricio Tarrico; 2003/04 Wayne Quinn; 2002/03 Gary Breen; 2001/02 Ragnvald Soma; 2000/01 Titi Camara; 1999/2000 Sasa Ilic; 1998/99 Andy Impey; 1997/98 Ian Pearce.
GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT
1. FA CUP EXIT AT AFC WIMBLEDON (49%)
2. Manuel Lanzini's season-long injury (15%)
3. Marko Arnautovic's Chinese whispers (12%)
West Ham are of course no strangers to embarrassing Cup defeats, and so it was perhaps no surprise when the Irons were dumped out of the FA Cup by Wimbledon, who were bottom of League One at the time and without a win in eons. Who better then to face that a hapless West Ham side who capitulated against a team who were still a non-league club five years earlier.
Once again the team's fortunes were hampered by a succession of injuries and Manuel Lanzini's torn knee ligaments epitomised the extend of the problem, making that your runner-up. Finally Marko Arnautovic's January antics, that almost saw him leave West Ham for a Chinese Super League club took enough votes to secure third spot.
2017/18 Cancellation of anti-Board march; 2016/17 Leaving the Boleyn Ground; 2015/16 Referees' inconsistency; 2014/15 Our post-Xmas slump in form; 2013/14 Our style of football; 2012/13 Our away form; 2011/12 No home win in seven matches; 2010/11 Relegation; 2009/10 Dean Ashton's retirement; 2008/09 The Lord Griffiths ruling in favour of Sheffield Utd; 2007/08 The injury situation; 2006/07 Failing to build on the previous season's success; 2005/06 The FA Cup Final; 2004/05 Booing players; 2003/04 Millwall away; 2002/03 Relegation; 2001/02 Chelsea FA Cup defeat; 2000/01 Spurs FA Cup defeat; 1999/2000 Mannygate.
HACKETT OF THE YEAR
1. SIMON BECK (33%)
2. Karren Brady (24%)
3. Graham Scott (23%)
A wide-open catergory this season with no outstanding candidate, the Hacket of the Year Award - for those who have wronged West Ham more than any other individual - goes to errant linesman Simon Beck, who someone failed to spot that James Milner was a country mile offside ahead of their goal in the 1-1 draw with West Ham in Stratford. VAR will sort that out next year... right?
Last year's winner Karren Brdy - nominated then for her ill-informed comments regarding Robert Snodgrass - has to settle for second spot this season having stood by the disgraced Phil Green (at least until her support threatened her own standing) whilst referee Graham Scott took third spot for disallowing Felipe ANderson's perfectly legitimate strike against - a decision that cost West Ham two very important Premier League points at Old Trafford.
2017/18 Karren Brady; 2016/17 Dimitri Payet; 2015/16 Roy Hodgson; 2014/15 Kenny Brown's thieves; 2013/14 Chico Flores; 2012/13 Barry Hearn; 2011/12 Barry Hearn; 2010/11 Avram Grant; 2009/10 Eidur Gudjohnsen; 2008/09 Lord Griffiths; 2007/08 Kevin McCabe; 2006/07 Dave Whelan (Wigan).
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Microsoft Works 2000 articles, fixes and updates - Year 2014
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252874 Works Word Processor: Characters Overlap and Appear Jumbled Q252874 KB252874 December 23, 2014
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I have always been fascinated with internal structures and mechanisms, how things are made and where they come from, how individual parts interact to make a functional whole, both through making and in the physical world. Through my studies in geology, I’ve learned that we and everything in our environment are inextricably linked in cycles of cause and effect that have persisted and evolved for billions of years. However, with increasing awareness of this human age called the “Anthropocene”, my wonderment with the world has begun to merge with a feeling of anxiety. I have become both disturbed and fixated with the opaqueness of industrialized society, where modes of production and disposal are obscured to the public and the impacts of supposedly disposable materials like plastic, foam, and resins last far beyond time scales that we as humans can fathom. My work is driven by this paradox of permanence and impermanence, opaqueness and transparency, that marks our modern materials, processes, and attitudes. As a maker, I naturally take on the role of this overwhelming human force—flattening live plants, destroying traditionally made chairs—and sealing them in sterile, meticulously crafted acrylic and vacuum-formed PETG to represent a limbo state of both connection and disconnection, chaos and order. I warp and deconstruct furniture archetypes to challenge fundamental assumptions about our built environment. In my work, I want to express a sense of curiousness and uncertainty about the changes occurring around us. At the same time, I want the internal structures—the parts—to be exposed and understood.
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Home > Sport > Rugby > Cardiff closes roads for Wales v England match
Cardiff closes roads for Wales v England match
Oliver Lewis
The Principality Stadium
ROADS in Cardiff city centre will be closed on Saturday, February 23 ahead of Wales’ blockbuster Six Nations clash with England.
Eddie Jones’ Six Nations leaders come to town to face second place Wales, with a sell-out crowd expected to fill the Principality Stadium.
Cardiff Council has announced road closures in the city centre in anticipation of the game, which kicks off at 4.45pm.
A full city centre road closure will take place between 1.15pm and 7.45pm, and spectators are advised to leave plenty of time before arriving at the ground.
The following roads will be closed on Saturday afternoon:
Kingsway from its junction with North Road to its junction with Duke Street.
Cowbridge Road East from its junction with Cathedral Road to its junction with Westgate Street.
Tudor Street from its junction with Clare Road to its junction with Wood Street (access for residents and traders will be permitted via Fitzhammon Embankment.)
Plantagenet Street and Beauchamp Street from their junctions with Despenser Place to their junctions with Tudor Street (access for residents and traders will be permitted.)
Saunders Road from its junction with St Mary Street.
Customhouse Street throughout its length (access to private car parks will be permitted).
Penarth Road from its junction with Saunders Road to the entrance leading to the rear of the Central Train Station.
The following roads will be closed in their entirety: Duke Street, Castle Street, High Street, St Mary Street, Caroline Street, Wood Street, Central Square, Westgate Street, Quay Street, Guildhall Place, Golate, Park Street, Havelock Street and Scott Road.
Cardiff Council will reopen these roads after the event when it is safe to do so.
More information can be found by clicking this link.
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My name is Ollie Lewis and I am a trainee journalist at Cardiff University. I have a keen interest in news and sport - in particular football and MMA/boxing.
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For an extensive list of Microsoft alternatives, please see http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/
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Are you a Windows user and want to gradually wean yourself off of a dependence on Microsoft? Download, make a copy from a friend (yes, it's legal), or order TheOpenCD which is a fantastic CD packed with a ton of great open source software that will give you a taste on Windows of what's available on open source operating systems like Linux. You will be getting a fully featured, free office suite, a powerful photo editor, a cutting edge web browser, and so much more. Start using these very high quality, non-Microsoft applications today on Windows and you can gradually decrease your dependence on Microsoft at your own pace. Every Microsoft alternative you use helps to keep choice and innovation in the software industry alive and it moves you one step closer to being free from everything that is wrong with Microsoft.
If you're sick of the unreliability, the bloat, the insecurity, and the perpetual upgrading associated with Microsoft products you'll be happy to know that there are some excellent alternatives out there. The list below is meant as an introduction to Microsoft alternatives and as such it is by no means comprehensive.
The KMFMS recommended products are products that we here at KMFMS have personally used with great satisfaction. The recommended list does not necessarily reflect the value of other alternatives, it is simply a list of products that we can personally vouch for. Just because a product isn't recommended by KMFMS doesn't mean it isn't a great product - it may just mean that we haven't had a chance to extensively use it yet. You may also be interested in what other users have to recommend in the "alternatives" section of our discussion forums.
Legal disclaimer: all product names below are trademarks of their respective owners.
Microsoft Product(s)
Alternative(s)
KMFMS Recommends
Desktop Operating System Windows Linux, Mac OS X, and many, many more Fedora (Linux), Mac OS X
Web Browser Internet Explorer Firefox Netscape, Opera, Lynx, ELinks, iCab, and many, many more Firefox
Office Suite, Word Processor, and Spreadsheet Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Corel Office, Lotus Smart Suite, Appleworks, KOffice, GNOME Office, WaveMaker OpenOffice.org
Email Client Outlook Thunderbird, Eudora, Pine, and many, many more Thunderbird *
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Web Based Email Hotmail Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hushmail, KMFMS Email Yahoo! Mail
Server Operating System Windows BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and many, many more RHEL, OpenBSD
Web Server IIS, Frontpage Apache, Tomcat, lighttpd, Zeus, Boa, thttpd, Enhydra, and many, many more Apache, Tomcat, lighttpd
Game Console Xbox Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Sony PlayStation *
Internet Service Provider (ISP) MSN AOL, Earthlink, Speakeasy, and many, many more Within the USA: Earthlink for dial-up, Speakeasy for broadband
Email Server Exchange Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, Steltor's Outlook Connector Evaluation not complete
Did you realize that older computers which can't satisfactorily run the latest version of Windows can be given a second lease on life by installing an operating system that better manages resources? Are you a home or business user who is tired of the instability of Windows or who could use the performance increase that a well written OS would offer? You may be interested to know that there is an OS out there called Linux which offers much better performance than Windows and without the overhead. Linux will breathe new life into hardware that you thought was obsolete and it will unleash the real power in newer hardware. Even Microsoft can't help but give Linux a glowing review as you can read in their internal memo that was leaked in October 1998. Oh yeah - Linux is free too.
Another excellent option to consider if you are buying a new desktop or laptop is Mac OS X. OS X combines the legendary ease of use and stylishness of Apple's Macintosh operating system with the rock solid stability and power of BSD. It easily outflanks Windows in ease of use, style, stability, security, and power. Mac OS X comes included with new Macs.
Are you an administrator who uses Windows as a server? If so, you should be aware that the alternatives are more reliable, much more secure, and much less expensive. Linux makes an excellent server with its stability and excellent performance. It's also easy to install and easy to administer if you get a distribution such as Red Hat's. If security is a concern (as it should be) you may also be interested in the OpenBSD operating system which is perhaps the most secure operating system in the world. It makes a great server and it completely blows away Windows (as well as most other operating systems) when it comes to security.
Linux and BSD (including Mac OS X) are our favorites here at KMFMS because they have proven to be excellent solutions for various projects. There are, however, several other non-Microsoft solutions that we haven't tried so those of you wishing to get a broad overview of what's out there check out the review of operating systems at tunes.org, the KMFMS forum on alternatives, or Yahoo's list of operating systems (by the way - Yahoo, one of most heavily used sites on the internet, also runs on BSD).
Editor's note: the following information on the Mac OS was accurate when it was first published in August 1999. Some information, such as current version numbers, has since changed.
A KMFMS Reader writes: For those of who want a professional-level OS, but don't want to spend all your time learning it, MacOS X Server is good. (It's ideal for a small network.) OS X Server is only at version 1.0, but is quite comparable to Linux. With your help, it can grow into something that'll make Microsoft shake in their boots. It sits upon the Mach microkernel and BSD.
The best choice in web browsers for nearly all people is Firefox (although, Safari is also a good choice for Mac users). If you are on Windows you should use it because it has nowhere near the number of security exploits as Internet Explorer, it is packed with a lot of powerful features while retaining a very clean feel, it is quite stable, it won't bring down your operating system if it does happen to crash because it hasn't been forcefully shoved into the OS like Internet Explorer, and it properly supports Java (unlike IE). If you're not using Windows (good for you) then you're probably already using something else because Microsoft can't strong-arm you into using IE. Although Microsoft does have a version of IE for the Mac, they have no loyalty and you would do well to not rely on it being there going forward since they have already pulled the rug out from under users on other operating systems. Microsoft initially released a version of IE for Solaris so that they could claim that IE was "cross platform", but it didn't take them very long after IE gained a majority market share to drop the Solaris version entirely.
There are a ton of other browsers out there, some of which may be better than Firefox for certain situations. Several people consider Opera the ultimate lightweight browser and its speed and small size are very impressive if you're into that sort of thing. Also, Lynx and ELinks are both text only browsers which can be extremely useful for remote administration, but chances are if you have a use for them you probably already knew what they were. Finally, there's a whole slew of browsers at Yahoo that fit into other niche markets.
Office Suites, Word Processors, and Spreadsheets
Why would anybody spend several hundred dollars on Microsoft Office when there are high quality, free equivalents available? Save yourself some money by trying the free, high-quality, open source OpenOffice.org today. Not only will you save yourself a bundle now, but you'll save yourself even more on upgrades in the future as you will no longer be locked into Microsoft's viscous cycle of forcing MS Office upgrades by changing the "doc" and "xls" file formats (OpenOffice.org does a good job of keeping up with the newer MS Office file formats).
OpenOffice.org provides alternatives to many of the applications which make up the Microsoft Office suite including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and more.
If you work in a (physical) office that uses office suite software and you are worried about potential compatibility issues, try this: limit your MS Office installation to a single machine and install OpenOffice.org everywhere else. For internal documents and documents which you print (or otherwise distribute in hardcopy form) you can standardize on the OpenOffice.org format (which is an open standard and not proprietary). For the few documents that you want to electronically distribute outside your company, you can use OpenOffice.org to write the document in MS Office format and then use your single installation of MS Office to touch up anything that may not have converted perfectly. For incoming documents in MS Office format, OpenOffice.org will read most without a problem. If there ever are any problems, simply use your single installation of MS Office. This simple strategy could save even a small office several thousand dollars.
Email Client
There's a very good reason why Outlook has come to be nicknamed LookOut by seasoned users. Microsoft Outlook has a notorious security history with many a virus owing its ability to spread to Outlook's "features". Help slow the spread of email viruses and support software diversity by using another email program, such as the free and excellent Thunderbird.
Perhaps you use Outlook for more than just email and an address book. If you use Outlook for scheduling as well, you may also want to consider using Yahoo! Calendar in conjunction with Thunderbird or a web based email solution. This can provide quite a bit more convenience and versatility than using Outlook by itself.
Do you want to further explore combining alternatives to replace how you use Outlook? If so:
See the alternative configuration to Outlook recommended to one user.
Post your own question in the KMFMS forum on alternatives.
Web Based Email
When selecting a web based email service, you absolutely do not want to use Hotmail. Forget for a moment the large number of security holes that have been uncovered in the Hotmail service (including one that allowed anybody to read the email from any Hotmail account without using a password). An even bigger problem is that by using Hotmail you are very likely to become victim of Microsoft's typical lock-in tactics at some point in the not-too-distant future. MSN has locked out non Microsoft browsers before, forcing people to use Internet Explorer, so what happens if Hotmail starts doing this too? Don't think for a second that it doesn't matter because you use IE anyway - what happens when you're traveling and you stop to check your email via the web? What if you're visiting a friend who uses Firefox or you're at a web kiosk that uses Linux underneath for security purposes? You won't be able to use IE, which means you won't be able to use services that require IE.
Yahoo! Mail is an excellent alternative to Hotmail. It features exceptional functionality which many people consider superior to Hotmail (having never used Hotmail ourselves, we are relying on third party comparisons). Most importantly, it is not produced by a company that has a vested interest in forcing users to use a particular browser. In fact, Yahoo! has an excellent track record of making their content available to the widest possible audience. Yahoo! Mail is a good way to protect yourself against the software lock-in and incompatibility that you risk by using Hotmail.
If you're running a web server it's tough to beat Apache. Over half the web servers on the internet are running Apache (Source: Netcraft) , it has the largest number of developers developing for it (Source: Netcraft) , and it offers far more performance than most websites could ever dream of needing. It's also open source and free in all senses of the word which means it is more secure (because it is subject to peer review and doesn't rely on security through obscurity), it rapidly incorporates new standards, it is feature rich while at the same time capable of being entirely stripped down for maximum performance, it is well modularized for easy expandability, and it is guaranteed to have long term viability because it is not being used to drive a perpetual upgrade cycle. Add the PHP module onto Apache which makes dynamic content a lot easier to generate than with the CGI of days gone by, and you have a first class web server for no money down and no payments ever. For an even more elegant and highly scalable dynamic content system, check out the Tomcat servlet container for serving JSP and servlet content from Apache or other servers.
If you are fortunate to hit the performance limitations of the Apache web server, lighttpd is a compelling upgrade option. It combines the incredible scalability of next generation web servers with a high degree of customizability and the ability to serve dynamic content in many of the same ways as Apache. Like Apache, it too is free and open source, so you automatically get the benefits of peer review and long term viability.
The PlayStation platform has a much larger library of games available than the Xbox. Furthermore, current incarnation of the PlayStation are still capable of playing games made for older PlayStations, which expands the available library even more given that the PSOne was one of the most successful systems in history.
Please note: this recommendation is under consideration for possible reconsideration. You may want to consider other alternatives as well, such as Nintendo.
You should definitely avoid using MSN because it will force you into using Microsoft's software. As of this writing (November, 2001) you must use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Hotmail to retrieve your MSN mail and the MSN website portal recently made headlines by blocking most users who weren't using Internet Explorer (earning Microsoft a much deserved rebuke from Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web). You would be much better off with a non-Microsoft ISP and there is practically no reason to go with Microsoft in this case as ISPs are all very standardized and Microsoft doesn't wield monopoly power in that industry (yet).
Your physical location will have a great impact on your choices of ISPs. "The List" is a very comprehensive list of ISPs which should help you find an ISP regardless of your location. If you are in the United States, you might want to consider Earthlink for dial-up access or Speakeasy for broadband access. Earthlink has a very large number of dial-up numbers throughout the US, which is good if you travel at all and have a laptop, and it is very easy to set up Linux to use an Earthlink account. Speakeasy is an exceptionally good DSL company (absolutely worlds apart from the Baby Bells, if you've had any experiences with them) with a surprisingly clueful technical support staff which actually supports Speakeasy on Linux.
Email Servers
The KMFMS evaluation of email servers is not complete enough to make a recommendation because expectations vary widely on what an email server is meant to do. Here at KMFMS we actually have considerable experience with email servers within the context of sending and receiving email. The problem is that enterprises might also want the email server to handle ancillary tasks, such as calendaring, and we only have experience using email servers for email. If you want a best of breed email server that outshines Exchange on what email servers are supposed to do (transfer email) look no further than the staples of the internet, Sendmail and Qmail. For email servers that handle more than email, we will reserve recommendations for a later date. For now, we will pass along the following pitch from a representative at Steltor who has informed us that Steltor's Outlook Connector is a "piece of client-side middleware (MAPI service providers) that allows you to replace Exchange with a standards-based offering consisting of a mail server offered by Steltor partners such as Sendmail, directory servers (offered by Steltor partners) and a best-of-breed calendar server offered by Steltor."
A KMFMS reader wrote in to highly recommend Exim writing that he strongly prefers it over Sendmail and that it has easy to use spam filtering.
Another KMFMS reader also wrote in to tell us about EMWAC IMS. He said that if you are stuck using Windows, EMWAC IMS is an excellent, free choice for a mail server. He used it at his own ISP which handled over 100,000 email messages a day on a Pentium 100 and he claims that it is very well supported in the community.
Do you want to further explore Exchange alternatives? If so:
See the Exchange Alternatives Round-up forum thread.
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Reviews of Modern Physics(88)
Volume 85 (10)
Cavity optomechanics 期刊论文
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS ISSN:0034-6861 Volume:86 Issue:4 Page:1391-1452
Aspelmeyer M; Kippenberg TJ; Marquardt F;
来源数据库：[Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts] 被引频次：1574
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The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review covers the basics of optical cavities and mechanical resonators, their mutual optomechanical interaction mediated by the radiation-pressure force, the large variety of experimental systems which exhibit this interaction, optical measurements of mechanical motion, dynamical backaction amplification and cooling, nonlinear dynamics, multimode optomechanics, and proposals for future cavity-quantum-optomechanics experiments. In addition, the perspectives for fundamental quantum physics and for possible applications of optomechanical devices are described.
Hydrodynamics of soft active matter 期刊论文
Marchetti MC; Joanny JF; Ramaswamy S; Liverpool TB; Prost J; ...
This review summarizes theoretical progress in the field of active matter, placing it in the context of recent experiments. This approach offers a unified framework for the mechanical and statistical properties of living matter: biofilaments and molecular motors in vitro or in vivo, collections of motile microorganisms, animal flocks, and chemical or mechanical imitations. A major goal of this review is to integrate several approaches proposed in the literature, from semimicroscopic to phenomenological. In particular, first considered are "dry" systems, defined as those where momentum is not conserved due to friction with a substrate or an embedding porous medium. The differences and similarities between two types of orientationally ordered states, the nematic and the polar, are clarified. Next, the active hydrodynamics of suspensions or "wet" systems is discussed and the relation with and difference from the dry case, as well as various large-scale instabilities of these nonequilibrium states of matter, are highlighted. Further highlighted are various large-scale instabilities of these nonequilibrium states of matter. Various semimicroscopic derivations of the continuum theory are discussed and connected, highlighting the unifying and generic nature of the continuum model. Throughout the review, the experimental relevance of these theories for describing bacterial swarms and suspensions, the cytoskeleton of living cells, and vibrated granular material is discussed. Promising extensions toward greater realism in specific contexts from cell biology to animal behavior are suggested, and remarks are given on some exotic active-matter analogs. Last, the outlook for a quantitative understanding of active matter, through the interplay of detailed theory with controlled experiments on simplified systems, with living or artificial constituents, is summarized.
Bell nonlocality 期刊论文
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS ISSN:0034-6861 Volume:86 Issue:2 Page:419-478
Brunner N; Cavalcanti D; Pironio S; Scarani V; Wehner S;
来源数据库：[Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts] 被引频次：646
Bell's 1964 theorem, which states that the predictions of quantum theory cannot be accounted for by any local theory, represents one of the most profound developments in the foundations of physics. In the last two decades, Bell's theorem has been a central theme of research from a variety of perspectives, mainly motivated by quantum information science, where the nonlocality of quantum theory underpins many of the advantages afforded by a quantum processing of information. The focus of this review is to a large extent oriented by these later developments. The main concepts and tools which have been developed to describe and study the nonlocality of quantum theory and which have raised this topic to the status of a full subfield of quantum information science are reviewed.
Interfacing single photons and single quantum dots with photonic nanostructures 期刊论文
Lodahl P; Mahmoodian S; Stobbe S;
Photonic nanostructures provide a means of tailoring the interaction between light and matter and the past decade has witnessed tremendous experimental and theoretical progress on this subject. In particular, the combination with semiconductor quantum dots has proven successful. This manuscript reviews quantum optics with excitons in single quantum dots embedded in photonic nanostructures. The ability to engineer the light-matter interaction strength in integrated photonic nanostructures enables a range of fundamental quantum-electrodynamics experiments on, e.g., spontaneous-emission control, modified Lamb shifts, and enhanced dipole-dipole interaction. Furthermore, highly efficient single-photon sources and giant photon nonlinearities may be implemented with immediate applications for photonic quantum-information processing. This review summarizes the general theoretical framework of photon emission including the role of dephasing processes and applies it to photonic nanostructures of current interest, such as photonic-crystal cavities and waveguides, dielectric nanowires, and plasmonic waveguides. The introduced concepts are generally applicable in quantum nanophotonics and apply to a large extent also to other quantum emitters, such as molecules, nitrogen vacancy centers, or atoms. Finally, the progress and future prospects of applications in quantum-information processing are considered.
Quantum simulation 期刊论文
Georgescu IM; Ashhab S; Nori F;
Simulating quantum mechanics is known to be a difficult computational problem, especially when dealing with large systems. However, this difficulty may be overcome by using some controllable quantum system to study another less controllable or accessible quantum system, i.e., quantum simulation. Quantum simulation promises to have applications in the study of many problems in, e.g., condensed-matter physics, high-energy physics, atomic physics, quantum chemistry, and cosmology. Quantum simulation could be implemented using quantum computers, but also with simpler, analog devices that would require less control, and therefore, would be easier to construct. A number of quantum systems such as neutral atoms, ions, polar molecules, electrons in semiconductors, superconducting circuits, nuclear spins, and photons have been proposed as quantum simulators. This review outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.
Quantum fluids of light 期刊论文
Carusotto I; Ciuti C;
This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In the presence of effective photon-photon interactions induced by the optical nonlinearity of the medium, a many-photon system can behave collectively as a quantum fluid with a number of novel features stemming from its intrinsically nonequilibrium nature. A rich variety of recently observed photon hydrodynamical effects is presented, from the superfluid flow around a defect at low speeds, to the appearance of a Mach-Cherenkov cone in a supersonic flow, to the hydrodynamic formation of topological excitations such as quantized vortices and dark solitons at the surface of large impenetrable obstacles. While the review is mostly focused on a specific class of semiconductor systems that have been extensively studied in recent years (planar semiconductor microcavities in the strong light-matter coupling regime having cavity polaritons as elementary excitations), the very concept of quantum fluids of light applies to a broad spectrum of systems, ranging from bulk nonlinear crystals, to atomic clouds embedded in optical fibers and cavities, to photonic crystal cavities, to superconducting quantum circuits based on Josephson junctions. The conclusive part of the article is devoted to a review of the future perspectives in the direction of strongly correlated photon gases and of artificial gauge fields for photons. In particular, several mechanisms to obtain efficient photon blockade are presented, together with their application to the generation of novel quantum phases. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.299
Hybrid quantum circuits: Superconducting circuits interacting with other quantum systems 期刊论文
Xiang ZL; Ashhab S; You JQ; Nori F;
Hybrid quantum circuits combine two or more physical systems, with the goal of harnessing the advantages and strengths of the different systems in order to better explore new phenomena and potentially bring about novel quantum technologies. This article presents a brief overview of the progress achieved so far in the field of hybrid circuits involving atoms, spins, and solid-state devices (dincluding superconducting and nanomechanical systems). Howthese circuits combine elements from atomic physics, quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and nanoscience is discussed, and different possible approaches for integrating various systems into a single circuit are presented. In particular, hybrid quantum circuits can be fabricated on a chip, facilitating their future scalability, which is crucial for building future quantum technologies, including quantum detectors, simulators, and computers. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.623
Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction 期刊论文
Macchi A; Borghesi M; Passoni M;
来源数据库：[Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, Electronics & Communications Abstracts] 被引频次：572
Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective to investigate novel regimes as available laser intensities will be increasing. Experiments have demonstrated, over a wide range of laser and target parameters, the generation of multi-MeV proton and ion beams with unique properties such as ultrashort duration, high brilliance, and low emittance. An overview is given of the state of the art of ion acceleration by laser pulses as well as an outlook on its future development and perspectives. The main features observed in the experiments, the observed scaling with laser and plasma parameters, and the main models used both to interpret experimental data and to suggest new research directions are described.
Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: Physics and spintronic structures 期刊论文
Dietl T; Ohno H;
This review compiles results of experimental and theoretical studies on thin films and quantum structures of semiconductors with randomly distributed Mn ions, which exhibit spintronic functionalities associated with collective ferromagnetic spin ordering. Properties of p-type Mn-containing III-V as well as II-VI, IV-VI, V-2 -VI3, I-II-V, and elemental group IV semiconductors are described, paying particular attention to the most thoroughly investigated system (Ga, Mn)As that supports the hole-mediated ferromagnetic order up to 190 K for the net concentration of Mn spins below 10%. Multilayer structures showing efficient spin injection and spin-related magnetotransport properties as well as enabling magnetization manipulation by strain, light, electric fields, and spin currents are presented together with their impact on metal spintronics. The challenging interplay between magnetic and electronic properties in topologically trivial and nontrivial systems is described, emphasizing the entangled roles of disorder and correlation at the carrier localization boundary. Finally, the case of dilute magnetic insulators is considered, such as (Ga, Mn)N, where low-temperature spin ordering is driven by short-ranged superexchange that is ferromagnetic for certain charge states of magnetic impurities.
Silicon quantum electronics 期刊论文
Reviews of Modern Physics, 85 (3), 2013 ISSN:0034-6861 Volume:85 Issue:3 Page:961-1019
Zwanenburg F.A; Dzurak A.S; Morello A; Simmons M.Y; Hollenberg L.C.L; ...
This review describes recent groundbreaking results in Si, Si/SiGe, and dopant-based quantum dots, and it highlights the remarkable advances in Si-based quantum physics that have occurred in the past few years. This progress has been possible thanks to materials development of Si quantum devices, and the physical understanding of quantum effects in silicon. Recent critical steps include the isolation of single electrons, the observation of spin blockade, and single-shot readout of individual electron spins in both dopants and gated quantum dots in Si. Each of these results has come with physics that was not anticipated from previous work in other material systems. These advances underline the significant progress toward the realization of spin quantum bits in a material with a long spin coherence time, crucial for quantum computation and spintronics.
Spinor Bose gases: Symmetries, magnetism, and quantum dynamics 期刊论文
Stamper-Kurn DM; Ueda M;
Spinor Bose gases form a family of quantum fluids manifesting both magnetic order and superfluidity. This article reviews experimental and theoretical progress in understanding the static and dynamic properties of these fluids. The connection between system properties and the rotational symmetry properties of the atomic states and their interactions are investigated. Following a review of the experimental techniques used for characterizing spinor gases, their mean-field and many-body ground states, both in isolation and under the application of symmetry-breaking external fields, are discussed. These states serve as the starting point for understanding low-energy dynamics, spin textures, and topological defects, effects of magnetic-dipole interactions, and various nonequilibrium collective spin-mixing phenomena. The paper aims to form connections and establish coherence among the vast range of works on spinor Bose gases, so as to point to open questions and future research opportunities.
Cold atoms in cavity-generated dynamical optical potentials 期刊论文
Ritsch H; Domokos P; Brennecke F; Esslinger T;
This is a review of state-of-the-art theory and experiment of the motion of cold and ultracold atoms coupled to the radiation field within a high-finesse optical resonator in the dispersive regime of the atom-field interaction with small internal excitation. The optical dipole force on the atoms together with the backaction of atomic motion onto the light field gives rise to a complex nonlinear coupled dynamics. As the resonator constitutes an open driven and damped system, the dynamics is nonconservative and in general enables cooling and confining the motion of polarizable particles. In addition the emitted cavity field allows for real-time monitoring of the particle's position with minimal perturbation up to subwavelength accuracy. For many-body systems, the resonator field mediates controllable long-range atom-atom interactions, which set the stage for collective phenomena. Besides the correlated motion of distant particles, one finds critical behavior and nonequilibrium phase transitions between states of different atomic order in conjunction with superradiant light scattering. Quantum-degenerate gases inside optical resonators can be used to emulate optomechanics as well as novel quantum phases such as supersolids and spin glasses. Nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions as predicted by, e. g., the Dicke Hamiltonian can be controlled and explored in real time via monitoring the cavity field. In combination with optical lattices, the cavity field can be utilized for nondestructive probing Hubbard physics and tailoring long-range interactions for ultracold quantum systems. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.553
Models of wave-function collapse, underlying theories, and experimental tests 期刊论文
Bassi A; Lochan K; Satin S; Singh TP; Ulbricht H;
Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory that agrees with every experimental test. However, the principle of linear superposition, a central tenet of the theory, apparently contradicts a commonplace observation: macroscopic objects are never found in a linear superposition of position states. Moreover, the theory does not explain why during a quantum measurement, deterministic evolution is replaced by probabilistic evolution, whose random outcomes obey the Born probability rule. In this article a review is given of an experimentally falsifiable phenomenological proposal, known as continuous spontaneous collapse: a stochastic nonlinear modification of the Schrodinger equation, which resolves these problems, while giving the same experimental results as quantum theory in the microscopic regime. Two underlying theories for this phenomenology are reviewed: trace dynamics and gravity-induced collapse. As the macroscopic scale is approached, predictions of this proposal begin to differ appreciably from those of quantum theory and are being confronted by ongoing laboratory experiments that include molecular interferometry and optomechanics. These experiments, which test the validity of linear superposition for large systems, are reviewed here, and their technical challenges, current results, and future prospects summarized. It is likely that over the next two decades or so, these experiments can verify or rule out the proposed stochastic modification of quantum theory. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.471
White organic light-emitting diodes: Status and perspective 期刊论文
Reineke S; Thomschke M; Lussem B; Leo K;
White organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are ultrathin, large-area light sources made from organic semiconductor materials. Over the past decades, much research has been spent on finding suitable materials to realize highly efficient monochrome and white OLEDs. With their high efficiency, color tunability, and color quality, white OLEDs are emerging as one of the next-generation light sources. In this review, the physics of a variety of device concepts that have been introduced to realize white OLEDs based on both polymer and small-molecule organic materials are discussed. Owing to the fact that about 80% of the internally generated photons are trapped within the thin-film layer structure, a second focus is put on reviewing promising concepts for improved light outcoupling.
Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory and its applications 期刊论文
Aoki H; Tsuji N; Eckstein M; Kollar M; Oka T; ...
The study of nonequilibrium phenomena in correlated lattice systems has developed into one of the most active and exciting branches of condensed matter physics. This research field provides rich new insights that could not be obtained from the study of equilibrium situations, and the theoretical understanding of the physics often requires the development of new concepts and methods. On the experimental side, ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopies enable studies of excitation and relaxation phenomena in correlated electron systems, while ultracold atoms in optical lattices provide a new way to control and measure the time evolution of interacting lattice systems with a vastly different characteristic time scale compared to electron systems. A theoretical description of these phenomena is challenging because, first, the quantum-mechanical time evolution of many-body systems out of equilibrium must be computed and second, strong-correlation effects which can be of a nonperturbative nature must be addressed. This review discusses the nonequilibrium extension of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), which treats quantum fluctuations in the time domain and works directly in the thermodynamic limit. The method reduces the complexity of the calculation via a mapping to a self-consistent impurity problem, which becomes exact in infinite dimensions. Particular emphasis is placed on a detailed derivation of the formalism, and on a discussion of numerical techniques, which enable solutions of the effective nonequilibrium DMFT impurity problem. Insights gained into the properties of the infinite-dimensional Hubbard model under strong nonequilibrium conditions are summarized. These examples illustrate the current ability of the theoretical framework to reproduce and understand fundamental nonequilibrium phenomena, such as the dielectric breakdown of Mott insulators, photodoping, and collapse-and-revival oscillations in quenched systems. Furthermore, remarkable novel phenomena have been predicted by the nonequilibrium DMFT simulations of correlated lattice systems, including dynamical phase transitions and field-induced repulsion-to-attraction conversions.
Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators 期刊论文
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS ISSN:0034-6861 Volume:85 Issue:1 Page:1-48
Corde S; Phuoc KT; Lambert G; Fitour R; Malka V; ...
Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from electrons accelerated in plasma, these sources have the common properties to be compact and to deliver collimated, incoherent, and femtosecond radiation. In this article, within a unified formalism, the betatron radiation of trapped and accelerated electrons in the so-called bubble regime, the synchrotron radiation of laser-accelerated electrons in usual meter-scale undulators, the nonlinear Thomson scattering from relativistic electrons oscillating in an intense laser field, and the Thomson backscattered radiation of a laser beam by laser-accelerated electrons are reviewed. The underlying physics is presented using ideal models, the relevant parameters are defined, and analytical expressions providing the features of the sources are given. Numerical simulations and a summary of recent experimental results on the different mechanisms are also presented. Each section ends with the foreseen development of each scheme. Finally, one of the most promising applications of laser-plasma accelerators is discussed: the realization of a compact free-electron laser in the x-ray range of the spectrum. In the conclusion, the relevant parameters characterizing each sources are summarized. Considering typical laser-plasma interaction parameters obtained with currently available lasers, examples of the source features are given. The sources are then compared to each other in order to define their field of applications. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1
Colloquium: Understanding quantum weak values: Basics and applications 期刊论文
Dressel J; Malik M; Miatto FM; Jordan AN; Boyd RW;
Since its introduction 25 years ago, the quantum weak value has gradually transitioned from a theoretical curiosity to a practical laboratory tool. While its utility is apparent in the recent explosion of weak value experiments, its interpretation has historically been a subject of confusion. Here a pragmatic introduction to the weak value in terms of measurable quantities is presented, along with an explanation for how it can be determined in the laboratory. Further, its application to three distinct experimental techniques is reviewed. First, as a large interaction parameter it can amplify small signals above technical background noise. Second, as a measurable complex value it enables novel techniques for direct quantum state and geometric phase determination. Third, as a conditioned average of generalized observable eigenvalues it provides a measurable window into nonclassical features of quantum mechanics. In this selective review, a single experimental configuration to discuss and clarify each of these applications is used.
Defect identification in semiconductors with positron annihilation: Experiment and theory 期刊论文
Tuomisto F; Makkonen I;
来源数据库：[Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded] 被引频次：240
Positron annihilation spectroscopy is particularly suitable for studying vacancy-type defects in semiconductors. Combining state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical methods allows for detailed identification of the defects and their chemical surroundings. Also charge states and defect levels in the band gap are accessible. In this review the main experimental and theoretical analysis techniques are described. The usage of these methods is illustrated through examples in technologically important elemental and compound semiconductors. Future challenges include the analysis of noncrystalline materials and of transient defect-related phenomena.
Complex photonics: Dynamics and applications of delay-coupled semiconductors lasers 期刊论文
Soriano MC; Garcia-Ojalvo J; Mirasso CR; Fischer I;
Complex phenomena in photonics, in particular, dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers due to delayed coupling, are reviewed. Although considered a nuisance for a long time, these phenomena now open interesting perspectives. Semiconductor laser systems represent excellent test beds for the study of nonlinear delay-coupled systems, which are of fundamental relevance in various areas. At the same time delay-coupled lasers provide opportunities for photonic applications. In this review an introduction into the properties of single and two delay-coupled lasers is followed by an extension to network motifs and small networks. A particular emphasis is put on emerging complex behavior, deterministic chaos, synchronization phenomena, and application of these properties that range from encrypted communication and fast random bit sequence generators to bioinspired information processing. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.421
Quantum error correction for quantum memories 期刊论文
Terhal BM;
Active quantum error correction using qubit stabilizer codes has emerged as a promising, but experimentally challenging, engineering program for building a universal quantum computer. In this review the formalism of qubit stabilizer and subsystem stabilizer codes and their possible use in protecting quantum information in a quantum memory are considered. The theory of fault tolerance and quantum error correction is reviewed, and examples of various codes and code constructions, the general quantum error-correction conditions, the noise threshold, the special role played by Clifford gates, and the route toward fault-tolerant universal quantum computation are discussed. The second part of the review is focused on providing an overview of quantum error correction using two-dimensional (topological) codes, in particular, the surface code architecture. The complexity of decoding and the notion of passive or self-correcting quantum memories are discussed. The review does not focus on a particular technology but discusses topics that will be relevant for various quantum technologies.
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This week's blog post is something a little different - below, a number of Lashers share the story behind their Lashings names! We figure that regular readers might find it interesting, and that potential new Lashers might be find it useful when it comes to thinking of their own stage names...
When I’m feeling particularly dangerous, I perform under the full stage name ‘Galatea Gorgon’. I acquired the first part of the name from an appallingly creepy story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which we’ve performed as a dance piece from time to time -- the sculptor Pygmalion, disgusted by the lewdness and crudeness of human women, decides to make himself a perfect girlfriend out of ivory and sleep with that instead: a bit like an Ancient Greek version of a RealDoll. He ends up falling in love with this beautiful inanimate statue which never talks back, and eventually the goddess Venus makes it come alive so it can marry him. Bleargh. I think that in 21st century culture, a lot of women are encouraged to be our own Pygmalions, shaping ourselves into perfection for other people’s benefit while keeping as quiet as possible; shoving any inconvenient messiness or imperfection out of view. The Gorgons, meanwhile, were completely the opposite -- they’re female monsters from very early Greek mythology, and so outrageously fierce and ugly that one look at them will turn you into stone! Put together, I think these two names speak to a really interesting tension, particularly since most of my performance is dance-based and I rarely speak directly to the audience. I like the idea of playing around with the gaze, looking and transfixion -- when I dance for you, is it about beauty or about horror? Who is being brought to life, and who is being turned to stone?
Sebastienne
This is a name I’ve been using for at least ten years, now. It’s a feminised form of Sebastian, as in Saint Sebastian, who’s been a site of deeply queer and kinky imagery for some centuries. He’s generally portrayed bound at the wrists and bleeding, pierced by phallic objects. Ahem. Anyway. After leaving prison, Oscar Wilde used the name ‘Sebastian Melmoth’, in what I’ve always considered to be a nod to posterity - to the idea that he might be (as he now is) considered a queer martyr. “Sebastienne” was only ever meant to be one half of my psyche, the other part being designated “Alia”.. but we don’t hear from her much, any more. (That’s not quite true; I’d say there’s been a reintegration. Alia’s still around in my gender identity and my politics; but I have Sebastienne’s sexuality and sense of style.) The divide was a necessary consequence of my adolescent inability to reconcile my belief in social justice and the importance of truth (Alia) with my Wildean conviction that “pleasure is the only thing one should live for” and the importance of artifice (Sebastienne). Lashings is where I learnt that it is entirely possible to embody both these things.
at some point in my anorexic early 2000s, i dropped to 2 1/2 stone and ended up in hospital, in starvation psychosis. seeing my reflection in a hospital mirror in my delirious state, i thought i was a goblin. And then, as i recovered, it kinda stuck - still, a significant proportion of my friends call me Goblin. Like a number of anorexic girls, i used to adore the symbolism and images of angels and elves, their effortless perfection - for me, referring to myself as Goblin, implying all my skinny gawky pudgy glory, is part of embracing my many imperfections instead of striving for impossible perfection. Also, it suits me, and i think the ears are cool. ;-)
I’m a singer; my first language is German; and I’m decidedly political. And the deliberate misspelling of the German “Kabarett” - a word that is suggestive of cabaret as political satire? Well, that’s for reasons to do with my wallet name & a slightly unhealthy love of anagrams: so my stage name comes from the handle I invented for commenting on political blogs. In news that will surprise no-one who’s ever met me, I am indeed entirely too delighted by my own cleverness, at least when it comes to multilingual puns.
I took my stage name from the eponymous hero of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando. It was actually CN who suggested I use it, after reading an essay I wrote about the novel, but it fit so perfectly that I now can’t imagine using anything else. The character Orlando is born a boy in the Elizabethan era: the book follows them through a surreal and dreamlike version of history, during which they age very little over several hundred years, undergo a mysterious change of sexed morphology, and begin presenting as female, male, and neuter in different contexts. Orlando is openly gender-fluid and bisexual - they ‘changed far more frequently than those who have worn only one set of clothing can conceive… and enjoyed the love of both sexes equally’. The book has a lot to say about the cultural construction of gender, and I feel that the gender-fluidity of the main character speaks a lot to my experiences, despite the fantastical nature of the story.
I turned my surname, Valentine, into my stage name! Valentine came from my looking for something that sounded awesome that also went with my blog’s name, Silicone Valley, and is extra-excellent because it’s also the name of the villain in Mortal Engines, which is basically one of the greatest books ever. Yay! My name rocks.
This is my full real-life name. Natch. I’ve almost never used it in English-speaking day to day life, it feels a lot like a best Sunday dress, too much for everyday use. Plus, it’s a mouthful. (In GREEK it sounds fine.) I’ve wanted to be on stage for basically for ever and at some point my best friend and I coined the idea of keeping my full name for a stage name, so when people started telling me to pick a Lashings name there was never really any other choice. (Plus, I am a Classics nerd so it has that going for it too. Galatea was rooting for Patroklos based on this. ;))
Nigel Newt
I'm a Nigel - that friend, relative, partner or other close acquaintance, who seems to understand enough of the principles of feminism to not be completely unbearable. I make some contribution for the easy stuff, like the housework, or generally progressive causes. But I also get something of a free pass - I'm shown more patience when I inevitably show my privilege. Newt is a female character in "Aliens", who gets to talk to Ripley (another female character) about monsters - fulfilling all three requirements in Dykes To Watch Out For's "The Rule" . As my first role in Lashings was the increasingly grumpy recipient of all the token female roles from popular sci-fi & fantasy, this seemed an appropriate aspiration.
Florestan
It has two famous uses as a name for characters in classical music. First, it is the surname of heroine, Leonore, and her imprisoned, starved husband, in Beethoven's opera Fidelio. She disguises as a man (called Fidelio) and rescues her husband from political prison. I like having a name that belongs to both male and female, being somewhat genderqueer, with the female displaying strength.
It is also a name used by Robert Schumann, a brilliant composer who experienced quite complex mental health issues in his short life. He often wrote words and music signed with the names Florestan and Eusebius, who represented contrasting aspects of his personality. Florestan was the exuberant, passionate and - in my imagination - slightly out of his own control side.
So we have a heroine/boi, a man she saved (both all-singing), a fictitious wisp of borderline personality disorder and a source of wild, imaginative music and musical philosophy; Florestan.
... so there you have it! Readers who have chosen their own names, whether for the stage, the internet, as a new legal name, or in any other venue: is there a story behind yours? We'd love to hear it!
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Labels: cleopatra, galatea, goblin, kaberett, lashings of ginger beer time, names, orlando, sebastienne, valentina
Galatea 19 October 2012 at 17:10
It occurs to me, reading over this, that we come across as a terribly intellectual lot! People might be interested to know that the discussion at an average Lashings meeting is actually at least as likely to contain references to Disney cartoons, children's television, 'Buffy' and 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' as it is to be about Ovid, classical music or Virgina Woolf... :D
Ollie 19 October 2012 at 23:04
I love this! What a great idea to share these motivations :-)
I chose my name because it was the name I would have been given if I had been "born a boy". It's also a family name: my middle name is my Mum's maiden name, and my Mum's middle name is her Mum's maiden name - and that's my name now :-)
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Join crochet designer Heïdi Mullins-Lemieux for an exclusive introduction to the art of crochet: Tricot Social! In this crochet class, which is taught all in French, you will explore the history of crocheting and how it is used in fashion today. No prior crochet experience is required.
“For those who are interested in taking their current knowledge of the French language to the next level, this is the place to experience it in a more social and relaxed environment,” says Heïdi. “And you get to start the week off with the opportunity to do something that can be fun, relaxing and quite creative.”
By using basic patterns, you will learn how to crochet hats, scarves, and ornaments. Tricot Social will be a space for creative freedom. Students can explore the art of crochet and practice speaking French in a relaxed and inviting environment.
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Heïdi Mullins-Lemieux earned her bachelor’s degree in Fashion & Textile Design at The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago in 2010. One of her garments from the 2009 graduating class collection was used extensively for promotional material for the SAIC Nightwalk Fashion Show of 2010. Heïdi is originally from Montréal and speaks French fluently. Growing up, she was influenced by the world of the opera and Le Cirque Du Soleil. She is passionate about costume design.
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1. Can any foreigner buy immovable property in Malta?
2. Do they need a permit to buy immovable property?
All citizens from a non-EU country need a permit to buy immovable property. Citizens from an EU country including Maltese citizens who have not resided in Malta for at least 5 years who are buying a holiday home (secondary residence) require a permit (AIP – Acquisition of Immovable Property Permit) from the Inland Revenue Department. This permit is granted within 6/7 weeks.
3. Are there any exceptions when a permit is not required?
A) If an EU citizen declares on his contract of purchase that he intends to purchase the immovable property as a primary residence i.e. permanent resident.
B) If any foreigner (even non EU) purchase immovable property in a special designated area.
C) If an EU citizen has been a resident of Malta for more than 5 years.
4. Can a foreigner buy more than one immovable property?
EU citizens may only buy one property unless (1) they have been resident for at least 5 years and (2) they buy in a special designated area and (3) the second property is required for the person’s business activity or supplying of services. Those EU citizens who have already lived in Malta for a continuous period of 5 years may purchase another property, without the necessity of a permit, immediately.
5. Can non-EU citizens buy more than one immovable property?
No, except in special designated areas.
6. Can any foreigner buy 3 immovable properties in a special designated area and one outside special designated areas?
Yes, he can. There are no restrictions on special designated areas.
7. Which are the special designated areas?
Madliena Village
Fort Cambridge
Pender Gardens
Portomaso
Tigné Point
St. Angelo Mansions
Tas-Sellum
Chambrai – Gozo
8. Can an immovable property be purchased in the name of a Company?
Yes, if the property is in a special designated area.
Yes, as long as 75% of the share capital is held by persons who are citizens of the EU and who have resided in Malta continuously for 5 years. The company operates in an EU state and all directors must have 5 years residence qualifier.
In other cases, a permit will only be granted if the property is required for an industrial or tourist project or as a contributor to the development of the economy of Malta.
9. Are there any permits required if a foreigner inherits an immovable property “Causa Mortis”?
10. What are the conditions in the AIP permit?
A) The value of the immovable property has to be not less than €101,551 in case of Apartments/Maisonettes and €169,205 in case of houses.
B) The property has to be used solely as a residence for applicant and his family.
11. Can a foreigner buy below the threshold of €101,551 and €169,205 if the immovable property is shell or unconverted?
Yes, he can as long as he can produce an architect’s certificate showing that the property requires additional costs, which bring it to the level of the threshold to make it habitable.
12. Can these thresholds be revised in the future?
Yes, these are linked to the property price index, which is published in the Government Gazette every year. In fact these have lately gone up to €101,551 and €169,205.
13. Can a foreigner rent his immovable property?
Foreigners may rent the property as long as;
A) It is in a special designated area.
B) It is a villa or house with a private pool.
C) It is issued with a licence from the Ministry of Tourism Authority under “Superior” and “Comfort” category.
14. How does one go about applying for a permit to rent his immovable property to the Ministry of Tourism Authority and what are their fees?
Submit the relevant application to the Ministry of Tourism Authority.
www.maltatourismauthority.com/index.pl/licences_application_forms
www.maltatourismauthority.com/uploads/47/8/holiday_premises_regulations.pdf
15. Can two couples buy one immovable property between them?
16. Can a foreigner not married but having a common law wife buy the same immovable property together?
17. Does a Maltese with dual citizenship e.g. Canadian and Maltese citizenship, who has not resided in Malta for 5 years need a permit?
18. Does a non-EU husband married to an EU wife require an AIP permit?
19. Does an EU Citizen whose business is to develop immovable property be given permission to do so?
Yes. He will be given permission to do so.
20.. What does one need to submit with an AIP application?
A) Two passport sized photos.
B) Copy of convenium (Preliminary Agreement of Sale).
C) Photocopy of passport showing details.
21. Is the process for buying immovable property the same as for Maltese?
22. Are the legal expenses and stamp duty the same as Maltese?
Yes, except if applicant requires an AIP permit, this attracts an administrative charge of € 232.94.
1. Can anyone take up residence in Malta?
2. What does one have to do to take up residence?
An individual must declare his intentions within 3 months from arrival by completing and submitting a form (EU or non EU) at the Immigration Division at the Police Headquarters, unless one decides to take up residence in terms of the Residents Scheme Regulations, 2004.
3. Is he obliged to bring in a certain amount of income?
No, in this case there is no minimum amount that he has to bring in but he has to show proof that he brings enough to support himself and not be a burden on our economy. There is a stipulated minimum amount if the individual takes up residence in terms of the Residence Scheme Regulations, 2004.
4. Does a person taking up employment need to apply for a Work Permit?
A NON-EU foreigner taking up employment would require employment permission, which has to be applied for by his employer. The individual must then regulate himself at Immigration once the work permit (employment licence) has been issued. With effect from the 1st May 2011, EU Nationals will no longer require an employment licence (work permit) to work in Malta.
5. What are the chances of an EU citizen getting a work permit?
As from 1st of May 2011 EU citizens are no longer required to apply for an employment licence to work in Malta.
6. Is an EU citizen who takes up residence subject to tax and at what rate?
Yes. An individual is normally regarded as being a resident of Malta if during the year his stay exceeded an aggregate of 183 days in one calendar year. The rate of tax is the same as us Maltese and is based on any income (not capital), which the individual brings into Malta. Foreign residents in Malta are not taxed on their worldwide income. The individual may also opt to be taxed at a flat rate of 15% with a minimum tax liability of € 4,193.
7. Has the old scheme for permanent residents been retained?
Yes, up to a certain extent. An individual may obtain a certificate from the Inland Revenue Department, which certificate is issued for an indefinite period as long as certain conditions are satisfied on an annual basis.
8. What are the conditions?
A) The same as in the previous residency scheme i.e. applicant must have a capital of € 349,406 or an annual income of € 23,294. He has to remit to Malta a minimum of € 13,976 per annum plus € 2,329 for each dependent. He cannot repatriate the amount out of Malta.
B) The applicant must, within 12 months from taking up residence, have purchased a property for at least €110,000 or €183,500 or leased one for a minimum rent of € 4,193 per annum.
9. How long does the certificate take to be issued?
Normally 3 months. The applicant must take up residence within 12 months from the issue of the permit.
10. Does one have to be physically resident in Malta to qualify for the scheme?
11. Is the rate of tax still at 15%?
Yes, however, there is a minimum amount that is paid on issue of the permit of € 4,193 per annum. Therefore as you may have realised one has to bring in at least € 27,952 to start benefiting from the very favourable rate of 15%.
12. Does the rate of 15% also apply if the applicant has to pay capital gains tax?
13. Does one pay tax both in Malta and in the country of origin?
No. Thanks to a number of double taxation agreements with a substantial number of countries or through unilateral provisions, residents do not pay in both countries.
14. Does a foreigner who sells his secondary property (holiday home) pay capital gains tax?
Yes, at the same rates as locals but the thresholds are slightly different e.g. only the first € 698.81 is tax-free.
15. The 3-year residency exemption still applies?
Yes to the following:
A) Resident who has the certificate from the Inland Revenue Department in terms of Resident’s scheme Regulations 2004.
B) Residents who have declared their intention to stay in Malta whose stay exceed 183 days every year.
C) To individuals with work permits.
IMP. The exemption is only granted if the property has been owned and used as a main residence for a period of three years and has not been vacated for more than one year. The Inland Revenue Department is actually checking on this before a sale is authorised and merely having one of the above (a or b or c) does not automatically exempt the individual after three years. The department normally checks through utility bills if owner has physically been resident in the property for at least three years.
16. Do EU citizens pay VAT and Import Duties when they import their household effects (excluding car)?
No, as long as these are VAT paid in their country of origin.
17. Do non-EU citizens pay VAT and Import Duties when they import their household effects (excluding car)?
They may initially be required to pay a deposit or lodge a Bank Guarantee for the amount of duty/VAT, which will be refunded upon the expiry of 200 cumulative days in Malta.
18. Can residents import their car?
Yes, but this is always subject to full registration tax for all citizens and VAT for cars originating from outside the EU. See “Malta Your Island Home”.
19. Can residents bring in their pets and are they subject to quarantine?
Yes, they can. If pets qualify under the “Pet Travel Scheme”, they do not require quarantine. Pets from qualifying countries, which have been vaccinated against Rabies e.g. UK, Ireland require 21 days. Pets coming from countries, which do not qualify under the pet’s scheme, six calendar months.
20. Can a foreign buyer take out a loan from a local Bank?
21. How much can he borrow and at what rate of interest?
He can borrow up to 90% of the value of the property always depending on his income at the present lowest rate starting from 3.3775%. The loan may be repaid over a maximum period of 30 years provided age does not exceed 65 years upon last repayment.
22. What security does the Bank require?
Same as a Maltese. A charge over the property and insurances.
23. Does a foreigner have to pay any deposits for Water, Electricity and telephone?
If from EU countries there are no deposits. From non-EU € 1,164.69 for telephone and €465.87 to the Water Services Corporation.
24. Can foreigners make use of our Medical facilities and what are the costs?
EU citizens, resident in Malta are entitled to Free Public Health care. These have to be in possession of the appropriate E form issued from the country of origin. UK pensions may call The Medical Benefit Section in their country (+44 7044 191218 7547) they would be asked for the NI number and E121 would be sent by post. They have to apply to the Entitlement Unit with the Ministry of Health. The Government is not responsible for costs in a private hospital or clinic.
25. Does a reciprocal health agreement still exist between Malta & UK, and if yes, do UK citizens still require the E121?
The agreement is currently superseded by EU regulations and UK citizens must also therefore be in possession of the E forms and for residents, the Local Health Entitlement Care issued by the Ministry of Health.
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In an effort to make ice hockey a more desirable and rewarding experience for all participants, the USA Hockey Youth, Junior, and Senior Councils have instructed the Officiating Program to adhere to certain points of emphasis relating to sportsmanship. This campaign is designed to require all players, coaches, officials, league officials and administrators to maintain a sportsmanlike and educational atmosphere before, during and after all USA Hockey sanctioned events.
Thus, the following points of emphasis must be implemented by all on-ice referees and linesman:
A minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct (Zero Tolerance) shall be assessed whenever a player:
Openly disputes or argues any decision by an official.
Uses obscene or vulgar language at any time, including any swearing, even if it is not directed at a particular person.
Visually demonstrates any sign of dissatisfaction with an official's decision.
Any time that a player persists in any of these actions, they shall be assessed a misconduct penalty. A game misconduct shall result if the player continues with such action.
A minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct (Zero Tolerance) shall be assessed whenever a coach:
Uses obscene or vulgar language in a boisterous manner to anyone at any time.
Visually displays any signs of dissatisfaction with an official's decision including standing on the boards or standing in the bench doorway with the intent of inciting the officials, players, or spectators.
Any time that a coach persists in any of these actions, they shall be assessed a game misconduct penalty.
Officials are required to conduct themselves in a businesslike, sportsmanlike, impartial and constructive manner at all times. The actions of an official must be above reproach. Actions such as "baiting" or inciting players or coaches are strictly prohibited.
On-ice officials are ambassadors of the game and must always conduct themselves with responsibility in mind.
Parents/Spectators
The game shall be stopped by game officials when the parents/spectators displaying inappropriate and disruptive behavior interfere with other spectators or the game. The on-ice officials will identify violators to the coaches for the purpose of removing parents/spectators from the spectators' viewing and game area. Once removed, play will resume. Lost time will not be replaced and violators may be subject to further disciplinary action by the local governing body. This inappropriate and disruptive behavior shall include:
Use of obscene or vulgar language in a boisterous manner to anyone at any time.
Taunting of players, coaches, officials, or other spectators by means of baiting, ridiculing, threat of physical violence or physical violence.
Throwing of any object in the spectators' viewing area, players bench, penalty box or on ice surface, directed in any manner as to create a safety hazard.
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Sep 27 'Refuse to lose': Teen inspired inside juvenile detention helping others
MUSKEGON, MI -- Change how you think. Change how you feel.
That's some of the advice Tyya Cunningham received from mentor Leslie King, founder and director of Sacred Beginnings.
Cunningham, 16, of Muskegon, is going through the Lighthouse Girls Treatment Program, which is part of the 20th Circuit Court Family Division.
Sacred Beginnings is a Grand Rapids-based nonprofit that works with human trafficking victims.
Cunningham first met King when she spoke to the group of girls in the Lighthouse program about three months ago. Cunningham was new to the 4-month intensive program at the time.
"She knew how I was from the first day she seen me," Cunningham said of King. "She understood. She can relate to me."
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MTSU Opens WNIT at Home Against Ball State
Zach Ward | Contributing Writer 4 years ago
Sophomore guard Ty Petty sets up for a shot during Middle Tennessee's game against Rice in Murphy Center on Feb. 12. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
MURFREESBORO – Although its streak of six-straight NCAA Tournament appearances came to an end Monday, Middle Tennessee (21-9) will continue its season in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
MTSU will open play in the WNIT on Thursday when it hosts a first-round game in Murphy Center against Ball State (17-13). It will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs, but the two teams share many similarities.
The Blue Raiders sit at 21-9 overall. They went 14-4 in Conference USA, finishing second in the conference standings. However, MTSU fell in the semifinals of the C-USA Championship to Southern Miss last Friday, ending its shot at a seventh-straight NCAA Tournament berth.
Ball State is a member of the Mid-American Conference, or MAC. The Cardinals finished second in the MAC during the regular season, just like MTSU did in C-USA, with a 13-5 record. Ball State also mirrored MTSU by losing in its semifinal of the MAC Tournament to Eastern Michigan.
The Cardinals faced two C-USA teams this season, Charlotte and Western Kentucky. They beat Charlotte, but were blown out by WKU. The Blue Raiders also beat Charlotte and lost to WKU.
Both teams shoot about the same percentage from the field, with MTSU shooting 41.9 percent and BSU shooting 42.2 percent. The Cardinals, however, hold their opponents to just 36.7 percent shooting from the field.
MTSU should have opportunities to get second-chance points against Ball State. MTSU averages 15.7 offensive rebounds per game, while Ball State averages just 9.5. Overall, the Blue Raiders pull down 40.3 rebounds per game. The Cardinals grab 34.7.
Another similarity the programs share is that they each have a pair of double-digit scorers. MTSU is led by sophomores Olivia Jones and Ty Petty. Jones was C-USA’s leading scorer, pouring in 19.8 points per game. Petty averages 10.6 points per game. Petty has been especially important since the dismissal of star Cheyenne Parker. In the five games since Parker’s dimissal, Petty has scored in double figures in all five games, and has averaged 17.2 points per game.
Ball State’s offense is powered by the tandem of Nathalie Fontaine and Jill Morrison. Fontaine scores 16.5 points per game, while Morrison tallies 11.4 points per game.
The Blue Raiders have used home-court advantage well this season, recording an 11-3 record at the Glass House. The Cardinals have been mediocre on the road, going 7-7 this season in road games.
The winner on Thursday will face the winner of the Arkansas State-Western Michigan game in the second round.
Middle Tennessee hosts Ball State this Thursday at Murphy Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. CST.
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Written by Loreal. Published on March 16th 2015.
"IT IS a big undertaking but we have a vision. We fell in love with the building and, I don't know if you’re interested in fate and such things, but we felt it was meant to happen," said Kirsty Almeida, one of the creative brains behind Wonder Inn and an extensive renovation of the 1810 Grade II-listed Shudehill building.
"The Wonder Inn Café will be an organic café and we'll be working with chefs across the country to put on events and an open kitchen"
Almeida's name may be one you already know here in Manchester.
She's a Gilbraltar-born singer and songwriter, one of those broadsheet and BBC acclaimed folk music-types, well-travelled (she's in Florida when we speak), partial to a bit of on-stage theatrics, and has performed in various art installations across the world. Manchester is her home, though, and it's here she found a home for another creative business, The Wonder Inn.
Kirsty Almeida
The Wonder Inn is gradually developing into a new 7000 sq ft events, café and creative wellness centre. It is, Almeida admits, a bold project.
"The building also used to be retail and warehouse space, although it has been derelict for a number of years. Renovation will happen in stages, as it’s a listed building and very old there will be constant improvements. Many listed buildings in Manchester have been knocked down, so the plan is to preserve the heritage and history," she explained.
The Wonder Inn
The renovation is a joint project between Almeida and business partner, Mari-Ruth Oda, a talented Japanese ceramacist and designer who, like Almeida, made Manchester her home after falling in love with the city fifteen years ago. It's an international creative partnership Manchester International Festival would be proud of.
So how did the two arrive at The Wonder Inn?
"I've hosted secret gigs with chefs for a longtime - I'd take people and bring them to odd places. Me and Mari-Ruth have worked together creating a number of different backdrops and installations. We did the refurb for Blue Pig in the Northern Quarter, we redesigned the entrance room for The Music Place in Altrincham and we also had a lot to do with Bury Light night. We thought it would be lovely to have our own venue," said Almeida.
Mari-Ruth working in her studio in Stockport
The Wonder Inn will run as a community interest company (not for profit) and will have seven main key 'wellness' areas: a children's area for story telling; a 'health promoting' organic café; a gallery space; a workshop space for all ages; an event space for music, inspirational talks, cinema evenings; yoga and meditation room; and a therapy room.
"It will be a venue for art installations where people can interact with the art," she added.
There's certainly a lot of space to work with and The Wonder Inn is already out of the blocks. Street fooders Guerrilla Eats have already claimed some space, relocating its popular food festival from Ancoats to the Wonder Inn from Saturday 14 March. Hosting residencies and working with food vendors and chefs is one of pair's long term plans.
Guerilla Eats
"The Wonder Inn Café will be an organic café and we'll be working with chefs across the country to put on events and an open kitchen - Guerrilla Eats are the first in the space in this manner. We also want to encourage those with allotments to share their produce - things like that."
RT @BethMKnowles: Interesting visit to @WonderInnNorth can't wait for wonderful things to emerge from within pic.twitter.com/6h0eDM0tyD
— The Wonder Inn (@WonderInnNorth) February 23, 2015
The Café is still a work in process but the two creative entrepreneurs are set to open a pop-up on the 1 May. There's lots of other plans and art projects still in the conceptual phases and, Almeida says, to expect live gigs from international stars.
Day-to-day, everything in The Wonder Inn will have a wellness theme.
"It's not just about wellness, but creative wellness," explained Almeida - sort of. The difference between wellness (an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life) and creative wellness seems a little blurred, and a creative wellness centre seems like a rather niche and new-age concept. If you're not partial to your vegetables organic and your tea oolong, would you be able to interact and enjoy the specialist (yet intriguing) programes soon to be announced at The Wonder Inn?
"Certainly," says Almeida. "Manchester has these amazing pockets of undulating creativity which are extremely inspiring. We really are excited about this lovely project and are giving it our heart and soul. It is very inspiring to be part of and we are learning from it and all the lovely people who are sharing their expertise to help get it off the ground."
The Wonder Inn are looking for volunteers.
See The Wonder Inn Facebook and Twitter pages for more information.
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DarrenMarch 16th 2015.
I've always loved this building. Crazy it's been empty for so long when it's next to a major transport hub and minutes from a major train station.
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Pakistan to continue import of LNG from Qatar
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A Pakistani cabinet minister says Islamabad will continue to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar under a 15-year agreement, despite the severing of diplomatic ties with Qatar by Saudi Arabia and some other countries.
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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the federal minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, said Qatar and Pakistan last year signed a $1 billion agreement, under which Qatar's Liquefied Gas Company Limited will sell LNG from 2016 to year 2031 to state-run Pakistan State Oil.
He said since no sanctions have been imposed on Qatar by the United Nations, Pakistan and Qatar were bound to abide by the agreement.
Qatar has released an initial report into the alleged hack of its state-run news agency, an incident which helped spark a diplomatic crisis between the energy-rich country and Arab nations.
The Qatari Interior Ministry said late Wednesday that the website of the Qatar News Agency was initially hacked in April with "high techniques and innovative methods."
It said hackers installed a file and then published a fake news item attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, just after midnight May 24.
The ministry did not say who it suspected carried out the attack. It also thanked the FBI and the British National Commission for Combating Crime for assisting it in its investigation.
The alleged fake news item, which had Sheikh Tamim making controversial comments on Iran and Israel, immediately was picked up by Saudi and Emirati media, laying the groundwork for the crisis that began Monday (05.06.2017.)
Kuwait's emir has traveled to Qatar and met that country's leader as part of his efforts to mediate an end to a crisis that's seen Arab nations cut ties to the energy-rich country and attempt to isolate it.
Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah was met planeside by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, when he arrived on Wednesday night.
The two held talks, though details of their discussions were not released. Sheikh Sabah earlier Wednesday traveled to Dubai where he met with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who also serves as prime minister and vice president of the UAE.
Sheikh Sabah also has traveled to Saudi Arabia in his efforts.
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Fri, 2019-07-19 00:43 JEDDAH: Football fans around the world celebrated the recognition of women in sports after the recent FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) final match, in which the US beat the Netherlands 2-0. One country where the US victory struck a powerf
Fri, 2019-07-19 00:43 JEDDAH: Football fans around the world celebrated the recognition of women in sports after the recent FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) final match, in which the US beat the Netherlands 2-0. One country where the US victory struck a powerful chord among female sports enthusiasts is Saudi Arabia. Women are participating in sports in increasing numbers in the Kingdom as the reforms being introduced under the Vision 2030 plan enable women to take on different career paths. Members of Jeddah Eagles, a women’s football squad with 39 players, watched the July 7 WWC final in anticipation of an exciting finish. In the end, they celebrated not only the US team’s victory but the recognition of women in sports as a whole. Johara Al-Sudairi, who has been playing for Jeddah Eagles as a winger since August 2017, said she is thrilled that football is gaining popularity among women in the Kingdom. “I’ve been a fan of women’s football ever since I was a kid. Watching Mia Hamm play, then watching Marta Vieira da Silva play for Brazil when I was a teenager got me hooked,” the 26-year-old Saudi told Arab News. “I have never missed a women’s World Cup since. I’m so happy that now the sport is getting more and more recognized. This is a huge step forward.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FAST FACTS 18 - The Storm, a Saudi women’s football squad, has 18 players. 39 - Jeddah Eagles women’s football squad has 39 players. Saudi women participate in sports in increasing numbers. Reforms under Vision 2030 enable women to take different career paths, including professional sports. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Al-Sudairi said women have the drive to succeed in the sport more than their male counterparts. “I believe that hard work pays off. And from what I’ve seen, I believe women want it more,” she said. Hala Khashoggi, a Saudi who has also played on the wing for the team since February 2019, said the US team’s victory struck a blow for women’s empowerment worldwide. “I feel incredible that female empowerment is increasing and it enlightens a lot of young girls and inspires them to play football,” she told Arab News. Khashoggi believes both men and women can excel equally in the sport. “Comparing the men’s and women’s games is already old hat,” she said. “Every individual player has their own uniqueness and quality. Every team has its own ability to score well and play incredibly. Thus, comparing is not the solution. Playing better is.” Farah Jefry plays for the Jeddah Eagles as a midfielder. (Supplied photo) In conclusion, Khashoggi said: “Every woman should follow her dreams, whatever it is and whatever it takes, because football is not just for men or for women. Football is for footballers.” Fatimah Gari, who joined the team as a striker in 2014, was happy for her fellow female football players in the US for their victory. “It is a very good feeling,” the 28-year-old Saudi told Arab News. “I wish one day we will have a Saudi team and will be in their place.” Gari’s views are echoed by Farah Jefry, a Saudi who has been playing for Jeddah Eagles for over a year now. “As a female soccer player I am delighted to see this amount of attention given to women’s sports. I hope it continues to grow,” she said. The 16-year-old midfielder believes Arab women would perform better than their male counterparts with the right support. “With the right amount of funding and support, Arab women for sure can be better at playing,” she told Arab News. “Saudi Vision 2030 is giving us lots of opportunities. I would totally encourage women in the Kingdom to learn to play football.” The US team’s victory in France was a memorable event for members of another Jeddah female football team, The Storm, which a squad of 18 players. Dona Adel Rajab, the head coach of The Storm since February 2018, who was born and raised in the US, has played football most of her life. “Women’s sports has been around me and I never felt any difference until I moved to Jeddah in 2015,” the 28-year-old Saudi told Arab News. Women’s sports have grown in recognition and awareness in Saudi Arabia since then, Rajab said. View this post on Instagram Girls.. choose between what you want now and what you want MOST. . . . @cairoscene @elfaslaonline @britishcouncilegypt . . . #womensfootball #egyptianfootball #الكرة_النسائية #womensupportingwomen #womenempowerment A post shared by @ sarahessam64 on Jul 17, 2019 at 2:21pm PDT “The popularity of football is increasing. However, the initiative in taking the next step is needed,” she said. Rajab said what really matters in sports most is discipline and seriousness, not gender or ethnicity “Since we are talking about sports, ethnicity and gender are not good indicators to differentiate between male and female. As a football coach, I look at performance and discipline,” she said. Rahaf Al-Hazmi, a 21-year-old Saudi who co-founded The Storm and plays in defence, is enthusiastic about the future of the sport for women in the Kingdom. “The mentality of Saudi women has changed a lot. Women have started to participate in all kind of sports and requests to join our team are increasing,” she said. “The love of football is increasing among women in the kingdom. Especially now that the government is focusing on sports for women.” “Women who take part in sports in general, and play football in particular, felt blessed to have witnessed this achievement in women sports, “ Al-Hazmi told Arab News, referring to the WWC final results. “Watching women not only play for fun but also as a career and a calling can give us a motivation to move forward. Women have an amazing capacity to reach their aim. If we really focused on developing our skills and we made this our first priority, we can be so much better.” Jeddah’s The Storm playing a warm-up game. (Supplied photo) Johara Hamad, 21-year-old Saudi winger for The Storm, said: “I was surprised at the amount of people who watched and showed an interest. It actually made me even more motivated to improve my skills so that one day I will be a part of such a great event.” Hamad is against comparing genders in sports, but she too believes Saudi women can play better than their male counterparts with the right support and equal opportunities. “I don’t like comparisons but in the context of Saudi Arabia, we can be better than the men’s teams if we get the same chances and support,” she told Arab News. “I believe that we have it in us to scale far greater heights with the support of the General Sports Authority.” Danyah Al-Othmany has witnessed a steady increase in the number of women interested in football in Saudi Arabia since she took up the sport. The 24-year-old Saudi, who plays at right back for The Storm, calls the US team’s victory “a great accomplishment.” “Women have the potential and can become great players if they set their mind to it,” Al-Othmany told Arab News. “Honestly, it’s all about the commitment. Regardless of whether the player is male or female, what matters is if they are willing to spend time on themselves to improve and become better.” Al-Othmany’s message to women in the Kingdom who want to take up football is simple: “Commitment is what really counts.” Perhaps Al-Hazmi, who co-founded The Storm, spoke for many Saudi female footballers when she said: “Years ago no one in the world imagined having a World Cup tournament for women’s football, so nothing is impossible. We need every single talent we have in the Kingdom so that we can collaborate in order to reach the WWC and play alongside the best professional players of the world.” Main category: Saudi ArabiaTags: Vision 2030FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC)LYON WORLD CUP Saudi women footballers set their sights on green goalsSaudi Arabia in Group D for World Cup, Asian Cup qualifiers
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:19 RIYADH: The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) has warned people against using the viral face-transforming mobile application FaceApp, citing the software’s use of personal information. The app allows users to upload photos of
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:19 RIYADH: The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) has warned people against using the viral face-transforming mobile application FaceApp, citing the software’s use of personal information. The app allows users to upload photos of their faces and have them edited to look older, a popular trick that filled the social media feeds of millions of users spread over more than 100 countries. Cybersecurity concerns over how the photos could be misused by the app raised concerns among many users, and the NCA has now warned against using it, stressing not to grant it access to personal images. Muhammad Khurram Khan, a professor of cybersecurity at King Saud University said: “These days many people seem obsessed with some smartphone apps, which are used for fun or entertainment without any fear or knowing that it could be dangerous to their privacy and could be used for unknown malicious purposes. “FaceApp, a face-aging app, and many other similar apps are very hot and greatly used by users worldwide without paying attention to the app’s terms of service and their own rights. BACKGROUND • The app, a more than 2-year-old program created by a Russian-based developer, has a host of image altering features such as adding smiles or changing a person’s gender. • Cybersecurity concerns over how the photos cold be misused by the app raised concerns among many users, and the NCA has now warned against using it, stressing, not to grant it access to personal images. “The privacy policies of FaceApp are not clear how it protects users data, but the company claims that any data collected can’t reasonably be used to identify any particular individual user,” he said. “However, it does explicitly say that it shares information with ‘third-party advertising partners’. It’s not just about one photo a user uploads for fun, but FaceApp terms of service seem to allow users to give access to all stored photos, and nobody knows when and with whom this data could be shared or used.” In the past apps like Candy Crush and Angry Birds were used to gather personal data, including contact lists, emails and other sensitive information from the smartphones. “These data-leaking apps harbor the greatest security and privacy perils for users who download them and give access and control to personal data, photos, microphones and cameras, which could be used to eavesdrop or monitor their activities,” Khan added. As reported by Forbes, over 100 million people have downloaded FaceApp from Google Play, and the app is also currently the No. 1 free, and No. 2 grossing, app on the Apple App Store. The app, a more than 2-year-old program created by a Russian-based developer, has a host of image-altering features such as adding smiles or changing a person’s gender. Users joining challenges on the app use it to make themselves appear elderly, giving fans a preview of what their favorite athletes or celebrities would look like once they become senior citizens. Main category: Saudi ArabiaTags: FaceAppSaudisSaudi ArabiaCybersecurityNational Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) US senator asks FBI, FTC to probe Russia’s FaceApp that alters users’ photos25 Saudi children trained in cybersecurity
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:30 RIYADH: South Korea’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia has spoken of his “thrill and excitement” over the “marvelous fruition” of cultural ties between the two countries. Envoy Jo Byung-wook, recently seen on TV enthusiastically
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:30 RIYADH: South Korea’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia has spoken of his “thrill and excitement” over the “marvelous fruition” of cultural ties between the two countries. Envoy Jo Byung-wook, recently seen on TV enthusiastically dancing and waving a light rod during a K-pop music concert in Jeddah, told Arab News that his country was looking forward to further enhancing Saudi-South Korean mutual understanding and connection of minds. Relations have continued to blossom following Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the east Asian nation last month — the most senior Saudi to tour South Korea since the late King Abdullah in 1998. In the first bilateral summit between the two countries, the crown prince met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the presidential Blue House, and as well as discussing economic and investment prospects the leaders pledged to become “reliable friends for the future,” promising opportunities for cultural exchange. Jo said that culturally, both countries had plenty to offer. “Korea has various cultural assets to attract Saudi people; pop music, drama, traditional dance, fashion, beauty, food, and even architecture, paintings, and interior design.” He also highlighted which aspects of Saudi culture he would like to share with his own people. “In 2017 the exhibition ‘Roads of Arabia’ was held in Seoul for about three months, showing Saudi culture and history with its archaeological artifacts, which attracted and fascinated more than 120,000 Koreans. I think this is a good example of what the Kingdom can introduce to Korea. “Saudi Arabia has beautiful Arabic calligraphy, especially that of the Holy Qur’an, which I believe could fascinate Koreans, since we also have our own way of calligraphy. And Saudi traditional cuisine is very unique and healthy, so I always wanted to introduce it to Korean people,” said Jo. According to the communique which followed the crown prince and South Korean president’s meeting, the two nations also wished to work on “enhancing cultural and popular exchanges and build bases for cooperation that would continue affecting the coming generations.” To that end, memorandums of understanding were signed in the fields of culture, tourism, sport, social protection, human resources management and civil service. Academic scholarships The official communication also stated that South Korea and Saudi Arabia had agreed to expand academic scholarships, exchange programs, educational opportunities, student visits, the translation of distinguished scientific and arts materials and their publication in scientific journals. Jo added that the Korean Embassy was planning to host several events that would help promote cultural exchange. Korea is keen to help the Kingdom achieve the goals of Vision 2030, and Korea will actively participate in cultural activities in the Kingdom so that we may contribute to achieving the ‘vibrant society’ goal of Vision 2030. Ambassador Jo Byung-wook “The embassy has started a new cultural journey since last year, because my assignment coincided with the period of transformation the Kingdom is undergoing with the launch of Vision 2030,” he said. During 2018, the embassy held several events including the Korea-Arab Friendship Caravan showcasing traditional and modern Korean music and dance, an exhibit at the Riyadh National Museum — on loan from the Korean National Museum -— displaying more than 500 archaeological artifacts, and the screening of the first Korean movie at the Indian Embassy. This year officials have planned even more events, such as the 4th Korean Ambassador’s Cup Taekwondo tournament, the 1st Korean Film festival, which will screen several Korean movies, the 2nd Ambassador’s Cup Korean Speech Contest, a reception for Korean National Day, and a workshop by Korean handicraft experts. “Korea is keen to help the Kingdom achieve the goals of Vision 2030, and Korea will actively participate in cultural activities in the Kingdom so that we may contribute to achieving the ‘vibrant society’ goal of Vision 2030,” said the envoy. He also commented on the popularity of K-pop, or South Korean popular music, which has recently been sweeping the nation. K-pop boy band Super Junior recently took to the stage during the Jeddah Season festival as part of their world tour, becoming the first Korean group to perform in the Kingdom. Jo said: “These concerts will help promote cultural cooperation and increase mutual goodwill between Korea and Saudi Arabia, because culture plays an important role in enhancing mutual understanding and connecting people’s minds.” The ambassador was famously seen on a televised broadcast getting into his groove at the show. “During the concert, I was so thrilled and excited, and could feel the enormous change that Saudi Arabia is going through, which I believe is a beginning of a marvelous fruition. I can say that I saw a whole new Saudi Arabia that night,” he added. Jo expected more K-pop groups to appear in the Kingdom, including BTS who are due to perform in the Saudi capital in October as part of Riyadh Season. Main category: Saudi ArabiaTags: Saudi-South KoreaMoon Jae-InCrown Prince Mohammed bin SalmanRiyadhSeoulSouth Korean Ambassador Jo Byung-WookVision 2030 Cultural ties will add new facet to Saudi-South Korean relationsMinister’s visit boosts Saudi-South Korean ties
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:59 Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Hamdan has been the undersecretary of the Department of Publications Affairs and Scholarly Research since June 2018. Al-Hamdan recently announced that the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guid
Fri, 2019-07-19 01:59 Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Hamdan has been the undersecretary of the Department of Publications Affairs and Scholarly Research since June 2018. Al-Hamdan recently announced that the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance had started preparations for its Hajj season book distribution program, which will oversee the distribution of 8 million copies of the Holy Qur’an, ritual books and manuals to pilgrims. Fifty-two books in more than 30 languages have reportedly been approved as part of the program. Al-Hamdan also noted that the Islamic electronic library has created a website containing all of the ministry’s written and audio versions of books related to Hajj and Umrah: www.islamic-ebook.com. The portal will be made available for public use at every international airport in the Kingdom, several exit-port centers and some mosques and “important sites.” In 2018, Al-Hamdan was part of two significant Saudi Arabian delegations overseas. In November, he traveled to the 31st Conference of Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The conference explored the possibilities of teaching Arabic in Latin America and the Caribbean, and was organized by the Center for Islamic Advocacy in Brazil in cooperation with the Islamic Ministry in the Kingdom. Al-Hamdan also visited several cities in Serbia where he met with Chief of Scholars in Belgrade Sheikh Saad Nasovic, and other prominent figures from the Muslim community in Serbia. Main category: Saudi ArabiaTags: Who's WhoSheikh Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Hamdan Dr. Abdulmajeed bin Abdullah Al-Banyan, president of Naif Arab University for Security SciencesSaleh Al-Sulami, general secretary of the Saudi Export Development Authority
Author: Fri, 2019-07-19 05:01 It is a great honor for me to be featured in this space, not only to be representing the young women of society but also to be able to share my personal background story. I am privileged to have been brought up in a home
Author: Fri, 2019-07-19 05:01 It is a great honor for me to be featured in this space, not only to be representing the young women of society but also to be able to share my personal background story. I am privileged to have been brought up in a home where both my parents did not discriminate between genders but rather promoted equality and equal opportunity and education among me and my siblings. This shaped me into becoming the eager, persistent, determined, and some would even say competitive, person that I am. My father has always been a role model for me in business. A well-rounded global engineer by education, a successful businessman by virtue, but more importantly he is my father. He taught me always to remain strong, fearless, and brave but gave me all the opportunities to be successful by earning it rather than receiving it. This somehow constitutes the core of our business values at Globe Group. Similar to every family business, boardroom discussions always somehow find themselves at the center of the dinner table, but this is where we can count on my wonderful mother to intervene. As a graduate in English literature, she brings the arts and cultural side to our family which is always a nice break when we’re constantly thinking of how to grow a successful third-generation business. She is the motivation behind the enhancement of my language skills (truly capturing Arabic, French and English languages) and the hobbies we enjoy (such as playing the piano). I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance from Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University in 2014 and currently hold the position of supply chain director at Globe Group, as well as finance director at Abduljawad Holding Co. Abduljawad Holding is the investment arm of our business conglomerate, Globe Group. Globe is one of the most established logistics and transportation companies in the region and was founded by my late grandfather Fareed Abduljawad in 1976. My journey at Globe started very early in my teens, when I enjoyed spending time with my father at the office and learning the trade. I realized with age that no matter how much corporate governance we tried to follow in the company, our code of ethics was very similar to values we were taught at home. Nothing is given to you on a plate; you need to work hard and earn every merit. Globe is a company that was here before I was born, and we want to ensure it is around for the next generation, stronger and more successful than ever. Because of our family nature, we tend also to treat our employees as family and end up being one big family running an operation. This goes back to how I was brought up with my siblings; we are much stronger as a team than as one. Who do I aspire to be? An established, global and successful businesswoman leading the family name and business for the next generation to come, hopefully one day as the CFO. Main category: Saudi ArabiaTags: TheFaceAbduljawad Holding Co. TheFace: Munirah Alsanani — from reluctant gift recipient to ardent collector of Arabian artefacts TheFace: For Rana Al-Kadi, documenting architectural heritage is a passion worth living for
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MANILA, Philippines---Malacaang on Friday denied that the Duterte administration is behind the filing of the sedition charges against Vice President Leni Robredo and 35 other individuals, including incumbent and former senators and priests after they were tag
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MANILA, Philippines --- Malacaang remains unfazed over the possible filing of an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte as the 18th Congress is set to open on July 22. Communications Secretary Martin Andanar dismissed the threats of impeachment against the President after afisherfolk group said it would file impeachment complaint against Duterte for allowing China to fish in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said Duterte committed treason, and betrayed public trust. "Every administration naman ginagawa ng mga militante iyan, hindi na bago iyan ...Keep on reading: Palace on impeach raps: Duterte has supermajority in Congress
MANILA, Philippines - Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Friday said «it is about time to know the truth» behind the series of narcolist videos linking President Rodrigo Duterte and his immediate family into the illegal drugs trade. &
MANILA, Philippines - Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Friday said «it is about time to know the truth» behind the series of narcolist videos linking President Rodrigo Duterte and his immediate family into the illegal drugs trade. Panelo issued the statement a day after sedition and other charges were filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and other opposition figures over the viral narcolist videos. «You know our attitude there, my attitude there is it's about time to know the truth about these videos,» Panelo said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel. Panelo was referring to the series of «Ang Totoong Narcolist» videos that fea...Keep on reading: Palace: It’s about time to know the truth behind ‘Bikoy’ videos
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DOTr approval of hatchbacks as TNVS a ‘positive step’ in resolving issues — Poe
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SINGAPORE - A 24-year-old man died after his motorcycle was involved in an accident with a car in Tampines on Wednesday night (July 17). The police said that they were alerted to the accident at the junction of Tampines Street 32 and Tampines Avenue 2 at 10.
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Manchester United, arguably the most popular club in the world, rolled into town last night for this weekend's International Champions Cup (ICC). But, while the reception from the fans was red hot, the Red Devils themselves blew cold. As if acting on author
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SINGAPORE - Ignoring a sign telling e-scooter riders to «dismount and push», a man rode his device onto a pedestrian bridge and it hit an elderly man who fell. Instead of waiting for the police to arrive, Victor Chin, 37, decided to flee on his e
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National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL), Lagos Archdiocese Holds 4th Professional Development Seminar & Colloquium
Geraldine Wey
The National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL), Lagos Archdiocese will hold its 4th Professional Development Seminar and Colloquium on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
Geraldine Wey, President, National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL)
The event will feature two eminent speakers during the morning session, i. e. the professional development seminar with the theme: Exploring Emerging Areas of Law Practice.
Mrs. Bisi Adeyemi, managing director of DCSL Corporate Services Ltd will speak on the opportunities available to lawyers in 21st Century law practice. Mr. Emeka Ndu, the vice chairman of C & I Leasing Plc will cover current developments in his area of specialization. He is expected to address participants from the viewpoint of a corporate body requiring the services of in-house and external counsel in modern business transactions, especially bearing in mind that the frontiers of law Practice are being pushed on a daily basis.
This year, the NACL has added a new twist to its seminar programme. The afternoon session will feature a colloquium convened to address the theme: ‘THE NIGERIA ITS PEOPLE DESIRE, DESERVE AND DEMAND – The Citizens and Government’s Collective Task of Building a Sustainable, Responsive and Accountable New Nigeria.’ The Lead Speaker on this subject will be Prof. Pat Utomi, founder and CEO of The Centre for Values and Leadership.
Also, Prof. Akin Oyebode, a former professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos, will speak on the theme, ‘A People’s Constitution as an Instrument of Growth and Development in a New Nigeria,’ while Ms. Idayat Hassan Director, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD Abuja) will address the colloquium on ‘Building Strong Democratic Institutions: An Imperative for the Common Good in Nigeria : Recognizing the importance of Knowledge, Youth and the role of Religion and Ethnicity in the search for a viable Nigeria.’
On her part, Dr Chi Chi Aniagolu Okoye of WaterAid, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in London, UK will speak on the subject, ‘Education in the Search for Effective Leadership in Nigeria,’ while Prof. Charles Ukeje, a Reader in International Relations at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife will cover the topic: ‘The Youth as Agents in the Restructuring of Nigeria.’
The Rev. Fr. (Prof.) Anthony Akinwale, who is the Vice Chancellor of Dominican University in Ibadan, will be on hand to speak on the issue of ‘Pseudo Religion and Ethnicity –A Bane to Accountable and Transparent Leadership in Nigeria.’
The commencement time for the seminar is 9.00 am, while the Colloquium will begin at 11.30 am at the Colonades Hotel, 21 Kingsway Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
For registration and enquiries, please contact: nacllag@gmail.com, or call 08034157325.
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How the disappointing Devils went from rebuilding to competing
Duchene gets himself a New Jersey
Smell of change is in the air in Jersey....
The NJ Devils and its fans faced many struggles over the years being stuck in an endless cycle of losing in games and counting on the draft lottery to take therm to their long awaited spot into the playoffs; however, it was not draft picks that lead NJ to a contentionship it was the teams' drive to win and the hiring of a GM that come out of nowhere.
Rookie GM Zachary Maidment came into the NHLSL with a team that was set for the future with only a couple of years more of losing and when we asked what was his initial plans with the Devils when he came into the league he said,
"Honestly I was prepared to stick with the rebuild, we had promising prospects in Comtois, Frost and others but the team just kept winning and i knew the core guys in the locker room wanted to make the playoffs more than anything so I went after what our team need most... a number one centerman."
And Maidment acquired Matt Duchene from the Senators in what we consider his first major trade, and since being acquired Captain Evgeni Malkin and Matt Duchene have been the power couple of league as Duchene accumulated 52 points in his 50 games as a Devil while being a large contribution to Malkin's 95 point season. Maidment's trading habits continued as he acquired heavy hitter Josh Manson from the Washington Capitals, Dadanov from the San Jose Sharks, and young stud Jake Guentzel from the Detroit Wings. Those were just some of the big trades for Maidment who has gone on to make 13 trades in total this year, totally reshaping the Devils team.
The Devils managed to clinch a playoff spot in the east while putting up a good fighrt for the third seed in the metro falling just short of veteran GM Jack's Blue Jackets. The Devils went on to set the franchise record for most wins in a single season recording 44 wins and reaching the 100 pt mark. The unexpected playoff contenders aren't really feeling the pressure as much as you'd expect tho as Evgeni Malkin pointed out,
"No one expected we be playoff team...um... we face good Tampa team...um...they must win...and... they have bunch of guys on last year contract, us we have team for few years...um...we can win we just play our hockey, score on them...don't let score on us."
Even with longshots odds both coach Babcock and GM Maidment don't seem to be worrying, both said they're confident in their system and the players are all excited to be in the playoffs. "This team and more importantly fanbase has seen enough losing" said Babcock, "We're going to go into game 1 put everything we have into and go from there."
New Jersey isn't without it's problems though Frederick Andersen has recorded a 0.896 save % while Jacob Markstrom has played excellent recording a .926%. When asked Babcock said, "Freddy is our guy, simple as that."
The New Jersey Devils certainly have been an interesting story this year and the big question is will the Devils persevere or will the Bolts zap them out of the playoffs.
This is Snooki from Jersey Shore News, good night and hopefully we'll get to see an exciting series.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joshua Michael "Josh" Radnor (born July 29, 1974, height 6' (1,83 m)) is an American actor, writer and director. He is best known for portraying the main character Ted Mosby on the popular, Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy-drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated the Grand Jury Prize. He is currently producing his second film, entitled Liberal Arts, which he again wrote and directs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josh Radnor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Centre Organization
Research and Technology Transfer
NAVIS Founders
Navis in Media
EU FP7 Projects:
EU Horizon 2020 Projects:
ICCE 2012 Special Session on Satellite Navigation Technology
In collaboration with the ICCE 2012 conference, NAVIS Centre organizes the Special Session on Satellite Navigation Technology in Hue city, Vietnam, from 1st to 3rd August, 2012.
This Special Session is a great opportunity to meet key persons in sat-nav R&D and applications in South East Asia as well as finding out the latest trends in research and technologies. The session aims to put in contact researchers creating new links and sharing views.
Contributed papers are solicited describing original works in satellite navigation and related technologies. Topics and technical areas of interest include but are not limited to the followings:
GNSS Receiver Signal Processing
GNSS Modernization
Multi-Systems receivers
Precise Positioning
Regional Navigation Systems
GNSS as Signal of Opportunity
Remote Sensing using GNSS
GNSS Applications
Multisensor (NAV+…) Integrated Systems
More details of the Special Session can be found at the website: http://www.hut-icce.org/special_sessions_GNSS.html
UNSW funding for "Navigation Research in Hanoi"
On December 13th, 2011, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, has announced that the application title "Navigation Research in Hanoi, Vietnam" for the UNSW Contestable Funding has been awarded. Through this project, in 2012, there will be one workshop on GNSS at NAVIS Centre and also some joint research activities on the GNSS field between the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems (Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research – ACSER) and NAVIS. More details of the project plan will be announced later.
New Directors of NAVIS Centre
On December 15th, 2012, based on the nomination of the Dean of School of Electronics and Telecommunication and the Dean of School of Information and Communication Technology as well as the approval of the Supporting Institutions, the Rector of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) appointed Dr. Ta Hai Tung as the new director of NAVIS Centre.
Also, based on the Agreement between Politecnico di Torino (Polito) and HUST, as well as the approval of the Supporting Institutions, the Rectors of Polito and HUST have agreed to appoint Prof. Gustavo Belforte as the co-director of NAVIS Centre.
The Official Appointment Ceremony will be held in Hanoi on February 9th, 2012.
This new organization of the Executive Committee of NAVIS promises to develop the Centre in all of its activities towards the objective of becoming an international recognizable GNSS centre.
A/Prof. Dao Ngoc Chien, the ex-director of NAVIS, has been promoted to be the Vice-Director of Department of High Technologies, Ministry of Science and Technology. NAVIS thanks A/Prof. Chien for the works he had done for the Centre and wishes him luck in his new position.
NAVIS is accepted to host a JAXA Multi-GNSS monitoring site
On 12/12/2011, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that the application of NAVIS for “JAXA’s Hosting sites for Multi-GNSS Monitoring Network (MGM-net)” had been accepted. So NAVIS is going to host one of the first 20 sites (the core of MGM-net) in the Asian Pacific region. JAXA intends to expand the network to the global level with 60 sites by the end of 2013. The MGM-net aims at:
Improving Precise Orbit Determination (POD) accuracy, i.e. orbit and clock offset estimation for the Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), the Japanese Satellite Based Augmentation System for GPS; contributing to the accuracy improvement for Precise Point Positioning (PPP) applications.
Extending current POD function for GPS/QZSS to also include multiple GNSS constellations, and to generate error correction and integrity information which can be broadcast from QZSS to support the multi-GNSS demonstration campaign.
The installation of the site at NAVIS is foreseen to be completed within February 2012. This application success can be considered as an achievement, which could pave the way for cooperation activities among Japanese as well as other partners of MGM-Net and NAVIS Centre in the GNSS field.
Congratulation to NAVIS!!!
SEA-EU-NET Stakeholders Conference
Navis people at SEA-EU-NET Stakeholders Conference
Participants of the Conference (Prof. Gabriella Povero is the leftmost of the seating row; and Dr. Ta Hai Tung is just behind her)
On November 15-16, 2011, Prof. Gabriella Povero and Dr. Ta Hai Tung attended the 4th SEA-EU-NET Stakeholders Conference entitled: ASEAN-EU YEAR OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION 2012 (Research & Innovation Potentials for closer ASEAN-EU Cooperation), in Melia hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam. This event is organized by the SEA-EU-NET project, which was launched in 2008 and set to run until December 2012. The project has 22 partner organizations across Europe and Southeast Asia. Already, SEA-EU-NET has made inroads into delivering a closer Europe-Southeast Asia partnership, especially in framework of the European Commission's Seventh Framework programme (FP7), the EC’s €53 billion programme for funding research.
The Conference was highlighted by the official launch of the ASEAN-EU Year of Science, Technology and Innovation 2012, an initiative to foster bi-regional STI cooperation comprehensively. In the Conference, policy makers, experts and researchers from both ASEAN and EU regions shared knowledge, view point, research projects results, etc. that facilitate closer cooperation between SEA and EU in science and technology. Especially, there were three thematic sessions focused on: EU Ecological Footprint in SEA; Green/Sustainable cities; and Water management/Water security.
It should be stressed that Navis people has coordinated two projects, namely JEAGAL and SEAGAL, among 150 joint ASEAN/EU projects so far. Moreover, Growing Navis, another EU FP7 funded project, has been approved and the project kick-off meeting is scheduled in Turin, Italy, in March 2012. Growing Navis, which could be consider as the next step of SEAGAL, has partners from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Spain, France, Germany and Italy and aims to develop Navis Centre in all of its activities.
First two Galileo satellites are launched today
UN/Vietnam Workshop visits HUST and Navis
Navis at SoICT 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam
Navis at United Nations / Vietnam Workshop
Dr. Nguyen Trang from VAST visited the NAVIS and the Galileo Demo Centre (08.05.19)
Technical tour of FIG Working Week 2019 in NAVIS Centre (26.04.19)
BELS+ Special Session: Galileo – Status and Innovative Solutions for Precise Positioning at the FIG Week 2019 (25.04.19)
Ms. Pavlina Nicolova of the European Commission meets with Dr. Doan Ha Thang Chief Officer of the Vietnam Space Committee (23.04.19)
BELS+ Training day at the FIG Working Week 2019 (22.04.19)
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Tour of Croatia
Photo: Mario Stiehl
17. apr 2018 to 22. apr 2018
Učka
The international men's cycling race Tour of Croatia will be held for the fourth consecutive year, from April 17 to 22, 2018, through six stages on a route of over 1000 kilometers throughout Croatia. This year, the more demanding race in an even higher category of World Bicycle Organization (UCI) – 2nd HC will host teams from the most senior rankings of classification, while the excitement and stunning images of Croatia will be broadcast on all continents.
The start and finish of the routes are as follows:
TUESDAY 17.4. Osijek – Koprivnica
WEDNESDAY 18.4. Karlovac – Zadar
THURSDAY 19.4. Trogir – PP Biokovo (St. Jure)
FRIDAY 20.4. Starigrad (NP Paklenica) – Crikvenica
SATURDAY 21.4. Rabac – Poklon (PP Učka)
SUNDAY 22.4. Samobor – Zagreb (St. Mark's Square)
The international men's cycling race Tour of Croatia will be held for the fourth consecutive year, from April 17 to 22, 2018, through six stages on a route of over 1000 kilometers throughout Croatia.
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Tag: virgin galactic
July 18, 2019 July 18, 2019 News 0
Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl 747 performs its first captive carry of LauncherOne. (Credit: Virgin Orbit)
UK Defence Minister Penny Mordaunt announced a plan on Thursday to loan a Royal Air Force test pilot to Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, apparently so the aviator can earn astronaut wings with Virgin Galactic.
Penny Mordaunt (Credit: Ministry of Defence)
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt Keynote Speech
Air and Space Power Conference 2019
Full Speech
Excerpts About Space
And we should be a leading player in space. It won’t just help strengthen our industries. It’ll also provide an incredible opportunity to capture the imagination of a new generation and encourage them to get involved in aerospace.
Fifty years on from the moon landings we’re seeing SpaceX and other private sector individuals and leaders coming into the sector and making use of the technology. From satellite launches to more ambitious projects. It’s no longer a matter of if, but when, the first humans will walk on Mars. And this year we might see the first routine tourist flights into space.
Virgin Galactic Announces Merger, Plan to Go Public
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo’s first flight above 50 miles on Dec. 13, 2018. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
Virgin Galactic’s customer backlog would singlehandedly double
the total number of humans to have ever gone to space
Virgin Galactic has developed a set of unique technologies designed to enable a safe and familiar flying experience for customers to go into space and become officially designated astronauts
Virgin Galactic’s technologies have created the first vehicle built for commercial service to put humans into space
Virgin Galactic already has customer reservations from more than 600 people in 60 countries representing approximately $80 million in total collected deposits and $120 million of potential revenue
Virgin Galactic has already been granted its FAA commercial space launch license, and the New Mexico Spaceport has also received its Spaceport license
Pro forma enterprise value of the merger is $1.5 billion and represents:
1.5x invested capital ($1 billion+ of capital invested to date)
2.5x estimated revenue for 2023
5.5x estimated EBITDA for 2023
Social Capital Hedosophia Founder and CEO, Chamath Palihapitiya, will invest an additional $100 million in the transaction and will become Chairman of the combined entity
NEW YORK, USA, July 9, 2019 (Virgin Galactic/Social Capital Hedosophia) — VIRGIN GALACTIC (“VG”) and SOCIAL CAPITAL HEDOSOPHIA (“SCH”), a public investment vehicle sponsored by Social Capital and Hedosophia, announced that the boards of directors of each company have approved a definitive agreement under which VG and SCH will merge, with the current shareholders of SCH expected to own up to approximately 49% of the combined company. Upon closing of the transaction, which is expected in the second half of 2019, VG will be introduced as the first and only publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company.
Companies Eye Space Station for Retinal Implants, Organs-on-Chips & More
July 3, 2019 July 2, 2019 News 12
International Space Station (Credit: NASA)
NASA is funding projects that will use the microgravity of the International Space Station (ISS) to improve sight-restoring retinal implants, produce high-value optical materials, and conduct research using organs-on-chips (OOCs).
These are three of seven proposals the space agency selected for funding last month under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that utilize ISS or demonstrate technologies in low Earth orbit (LEO). Each phase 1 award is worth up to $125,000 over six months.
Other selected projects are focused on improving water recycling on crewed vehicles, facilitating on-orbit spacecraft refueling and storage, hosting payloads on satellite constellations, and automating the watering of plants on ISS.
For Sale: The World’s Largest Airplane*
Stratolaunch takes off. (Credit: Stratolaunch)
As we previously reported, Stratolaunch is up for sale. Paul Allen’s sister Jody Allen, the executor of her brother’s estate, has no interest in continuing the development of the giant airplane, which is designed to air launch rockets.
CNBC reports on the eye popping price tag:
Holding company Vulcan is seeking to sell Stratolaunch for $400 million, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. Vulcan is the investment conglomerate of late billionaire Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder. Allen died last October following complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The hefty price tag includes ownership of the airplane as well as the intellectual property and facilities.
Stratolaunch is the world’s largest airplane by wingspan, which stretches 385 feet — longer than an American football field. The plane is powered by six jet engines salvaged from Boeing 747 aircraft.
Allen’s vision of a massive plane that can launch rockets from the air was at least partially fulfilled in April, when Stratolaunch flew for the first time after about eight years in development. Based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, the giant airplane flew for more than two hours before landing after what was deemed a successful first flight.
Virgin Orbit Loses 35 OneWeb Launches, Sues Over Termination Fee
June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019 News 4
When the contract was announced in June 2015, it seemed like a blockbuster deal: satellite Internet provider OneWeb had placed an order for 39 launches with options for 100 more for Virgin Galactic’s (now Virgin Orbit’s) LauncherOne.
What made the order extraordinary was not just the large number of launches, but the fact that the rocket really didn’t even exist yet. (The fact that Richard Branson’s Virgin Group was an investor in OneWeb probably helped.)
Four years later, the blockbuster deal is a bust. According to a lawsuit filed this week by Virgin Orbit, OneWeb last year canceled 35 of the 39 planned launches., slicing most of the value from the $234 million deal.
SpaceNews reports that Virgin Orbit orbit is suing for $46.32 million it claims OneWeb owes it from a $70 million contract termination fee.
Three Virgin Galactic Crew Presented with Commercial Astronaut Wings at 35th National Space Symposium
The curvature of the Earth from SpaceShipTwo. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 9, 2019 (Virgin Galactic PR) — The three-person crew from Virgin Galactic’s second space flight have received Commercial Astronaut Wings from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Chief Pilot, Dave Mackay, Lead Pilot trainer, Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci and Chief Astronaut Instructor, Beth Moses, were presented their wings at the 35th Space Symposium, where it was also announced that Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company (TSC) are to be presented the Space Achievement award later this week.
UAE Eyeing Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Flights
A view from SpacehipTwo. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is looking to host flights of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, The National reports.
Mohammad Al Ahbabi, director of the UAE Space Agency, said the organisation is working with Virgin Galactic on a bid to operate tourist space flights from Al Ain International Airport in the coming years….
“The reason why the company opted for Al Ain airport is that it is less crowded than other UAE airports, which are scheduled with thousands of flights.”
Airbus has used Al Ain airport to stress test its new aircraft in high summer temperatures, including the wide-body A350.
It was chosen for its hot, dry conditions and relatively quiet runways.
Abu Dhabi is part-owner of Virgin Galactic having invested $390 million in the company through its sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company (formerly known as aabar Investments).
Bezos: No Asterisks Next to the Names of Blue Origin’s Astronauts
February 23, 2019 February 23, 2019 News 38
Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable, suborbital rocket. (Credits: Blue Origin)
Two days before Virgin Galactic completed the ninth powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital program, rocket billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos threw some shade at billionaire Richard Branson’s rival suborbital space tourism venture. SpaceNews reports:
Bezos, in the interview, pointed out the altitude difference between the two vehicles. New Shepard has typically exceeded 100 kilometers, an altitude known as the Karman Line, on its test flights. SpaceShipTwo reached a peak altitude of 82.7 kilometers on its most recent test flight Dec. 13, its first above the 50-mile boundary used by U.S. government agencies to award astronaut wings.
“One of the issues that Virgin Galactic will have to address, eventually, is that they are not flying above the Karman Line, not yet,” Bezos said. “I think one of the things they will have to figure out how to get above the Karman Line.”
“We’ve always had as our mission that we wanted to fly above the Karman Line, because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not,” he continued. “That’s something they’re going to have to address, in my opinion.”
For those who fly on New Shepard, he said, there’ll be “no asterisks.”
On Friday, Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity flew to 89.9 km (55.87 miles) on its fifth flight test, which was the highest altitude the program has reached to date.
There are two competing definitions of where space begins. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding civilian astronaut wings to anyone who flies above 50 miles (80.4 km). The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) recognizes 100 km (62.1 miles) as the boundary of space, although it is considering lowering the limit to 80 km (49.7 miles).
The FAA awarded astronaut wings to Mark “Forger” Stucky and Frederick “C.J.” Sturckow, who flew VSS Unity above 50 miles in December. The crew of Friday’s flight — pilots David Mackay and Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci, and chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses — will also qualify for astronaut wings.
New Shepard has flown 10 times without passengers; nine of those flights were above 100 km (62.1 miles). Bezos has said he expects to begin flying people aboard the suborbital spacecraft by the end of this year.
Video of Today’s SpaceShipTwo Powered Flight
SpaceShipTwo’s rocket motor burn from today’s space flight 🚀 pic.twitter.com/SC4hJSt33Z
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) February 22, 2019
SpaceShipTwo Flies to Highest Altitude with 3 People Aboard
VSS Unity deploys its feather during reentry. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
MOJAVE, Calif., 22 Feb 2018 (Virgin Galactic PR) — Today, Virgin Galactic conducted its fifth powered test flight and second space flight of its commercial SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity.
In its fifth supersonic rocket powered test flight, Virgin Galactic reached space for the second time today in the skies above Mojave CA. Spaceship VSS Unity reached its highest speed and altitude to date and, for the first time, carried a third crew member on board along with research payloads from the NASA Flight Opportunities program.
SpaceShipTwo Unity Reaches New Heights on Program’s Ninth Flight
Our Chief Astronaut Trainer, Beth Moses, experienced zero-g float time as SpaceShipTwo reached apogee today. Three new @virgingalactic Commercial Astronauts. pic.twitter.com/OrVSm1PAvE
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity completed its fifth powered flight on Friday, setting new altitude and speed records while carrying a third crew member for the first time.
Richard Branson’s suborbital space plane hit Mach 3.04 as it soared to an altitude of 295,007 ft (89.9 km/55.87 miles) over the California’s Mojave Desert. Unity’s previous flight reached Mach 2.9 and an altitude of 82.72 km above the High Desert.
Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot David Mackay was in command with Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci in the co-pilot’s seat. The company chief astronaut trainer, Beth Moses, was aboard to test out the astronaut experience. She was able to leave her seat in the six-passenger cabin and float around.
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo is in the Air
The vehicle took off from Mojave about 25 minutes ago (about 8:05).
Lovely footage of take-off. WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo continue to rise to release altitude. pic.twitter.com/HnzFXBjp3Y
David Mackay and Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci are in t6he pilot’s seat. Beth Moses, who is 5the chief astronaut trainer, is aboard to evaluate pilot experience.
Our third crew member on SpaceShipTwo today is Beth Moses, our Chief Astronaut Instructor at @VirginGalactic and our cabin evalutaion lead. She’s an expert micro-gravity researcher who’s completed over 400 zero g parabolic flights in 4 different aircrafts. pic.twitter.com/JRAnth83o6
They are expecting to drop SpaceShipTwo from WhiteKnightTwo at about 8:55 a.m. PST.
SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, Prepares For Fifth Powered Test Flight
February 19, 2019 News 5
MOJAVE, Calif., February 19, 2019 (Virgin Galactic PR) — Virgin Galactic’s historic, first spaceflight, was a wonderful way for our dedicated and talented teams to close 2018. But now, with the rocket motor from that flight on show at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and our first space pilots proudly wearing their FAA Commercial Astronaut Wings, we are getting ready to return VSS Unity to the black skies.
Collier Trophy Nominees Include Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, NASA MarsCO Project
WASHINGTON, DC (NAA PR) – The National Aeronautic Association announced today that 11
aviation and space achievements will compete for the 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy. For 107 years, the Collier Trophy has been the benchmark of aerospace achievement. Awarded annually “… for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America,” it has been bestowed upon some of the most important projects, programs, individuals, and accomplishments in history.
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City of Fallen Angels
Simon Meets Isabelle at a restaurant for a date. As they start talking, she points out two men that are a vampire’s human subjugates. They introduce themselves as Archer and Walker and tell Simon their master, the leader of the Manhattan Vampire Tribe, has requested to meet with him. He eventually agrees to go, figuring Raphael won’t leave him alone until he does. However, when they arrive (sans Isabelle), he meets Camille. She explains that Raphael usurped her position by framing her fro murder. She wants Simon to go to the Hotel Dumort with her to win back some of the tribe, she offers teach him how to do normal things in return and gives him five days to decide. When Simon gets home, his newly overprotective mother is asleep on the couch. He puts a blanket over her before going to his room to call Clary, remembering he can’t tell her about Camille’s offer.
Clary is alone in the raining room when Simon calls. he tells him that he needs to pick a girl (between Isabelle and Maia) before Jocelyn and Luke’s wedding. Jace comes back and their training becomes less educational. Isabelle comes in and mentions that Maryse in investigating a Shadowhunter that was murdered in Brooklyn. Jace quickly passes over the subject because he doesn’t want Clary to worry. Isabelle tells them she isn’t really interested in anything serious with Simon because he is too boring. Jace walks Clary out and she doesn’t want to leave. He is worried that Jocelyn thinks he will be just like Valentine. He gets oddly emotional before he takes the elevator back up.
While Simon and his friends discuss the pros and cons of having a vampire in their band, a guy named Kyle comes to audition for lead singer. On his way home, Simon is attacked by a man with a knife. Before the blade can pierce his heart, the man is ripped open and turned into salt. When he gets home, his mom has found his bottles of blood. he tries to tell her he is a vampire, but she freaks out. He convinces her with some sort of compulsion that she is dreaming. He packs a bag to leave. With Alec off with Magnus, the Institute has been quite. Jace sits in his room going through Stephen Herondale’s (his biological father’s) things that Amatis gave him. Clary comes over, telling him she snuck out. They start making out and he stabs her with a knife. He has been having this nightmare for weeks and it makes him sick every time. Jace thinks about Valentine and his adoptive brother, Sebastian/Jonathan. He doesn’t want to be like them, but wonders if it is possible to escape Valentine’s influence.
Simon calls Raphael and they meet. He asks his sire about him telling his mom it was all a dream and her believing it. Raphael explains that as vampires, their powers include persuasion. Simon asks if he can stay at the Dumort, but Raphael tells him he can’t stay there until he starts living like a vampire. Jace and Clary go to the park. He falls asleep and wakes up from another nightmare. He says they need to start training and go to a hidden area. The Seelie queen appears to tell them they found a dead Shadowhunter in the park. Jace goes off to call Maryse. The queen questions whether Jace and Clary really love each other, or if they are drawn together because they share the blood of the same angel. When Jace returns, the fairy is gone. Simon plans to stay with Eric, his bandmate, for a few days while he figures out what to do. Kyle comes over to find his keys and offers him a place at his apartment. Simon accepts.
When Simon wakes up in the morning in his new room, Kyle is up cooking breakfast. They have a brief conversation where Kyle doesn’t seem to approve of Simon dating two girls. They go their separate ways. SImon goes to a dress shop with Clary to make sure her dress fits for her mom’s wedding. Maia meets them there to hang out with Simon and asks Luke questions about the party the pack is throwing him. Jocelyn and Clary disappear to see the bride’s dress and Maia leaves. Jace walks in looking for Clary. When she comes out, he acts strangely cold towards her, asking for his jacket and then leaving. Luke, Jocelyn, Clary, and Simon go out to dinner, but it is short lived when the news reports a woman leaving her baby at the hospital with a note asking them to euthanize it. Simon walks home alone and is attacked by two men dressed the exact same as the mugger that attacked him before. Jace lands on one and the other explodes into salt when he tries to shoot Simon. The other disappears and the two boys are left wondering who sent them.
Clary goes to see Jace at the Institute, but he isn’t there. As she waits for the elevator, she realizes that someone is on their way up. Luke appears and Maryse comes along to greet him. They talk about how three Shadowhunters have been found dead in different Downworlder’s territories. Two have been identified as former Circle members. Luke thinks it is a thinly veiled attempt at breaking up the new Accords. Clary sees a rune when Maryse mentions the dead talking. Back in Simon’s new apartment, he notices that Jace looks sick. He takes him to a grocery store to get food. On the way, Jace explains that he was following Clary because he has her phone. He wanted to leave it somewhere she could find it. Simon wonders why he doesn’t just give it to her. While Simon goes to grab soup, Jace is given a girl’s phone number. Simon realizes it happens to him whenever he goes out without glamouring himself. Clary, Luke, and Maryse meet Brother Zachariah in the Bone City. He takes them to the latest Shadowhunter’s body. Clary uses her stele to put the rune on his arm and he seems to wake up. He can feel the pain that was inflicted on him. Maryse starts asking questions and he tells them Camille killed him. Luke uses acid to burn off the rune and let the body rest. He and Clary leave disgusted. Jace and Simon try to figure out who is trying to kill him. Simon tells him about his meeting with Camille, but Jace rules her out because she knows about the mark. Simon goes to get his last bottle of blood and starts drinking it. Kyle comes home and Jace instantly recognizes that he is a werewolf. Luke and Clary ride home in silence. When they do talk, Luke explains that Clary needs to learn more about runes and try to master her powers. She points out that Maryse was supposed to hire someone to help her, but is distracted by Max’s death.
Kyle explains that he is a member of the Praetor Lupus, a pack of werewolves that help out abandoned and newly made Downworlders before they hurt themselves or others. Kyle was assigned to Simon. Jace and Simon fill him in on the attacks, but leave out any mention of the Mark of Cain. When Simon goes to bed, Jace follows, vowing to be his bodyguard. Simon wonders why Jace is going through so much to avoid Clary. Luke calls Simon in the morning, asking to meet alone. Jace is still asleep. When the house phone rings, Clary listens in on her mother’s conversation. Jocelyn plans to go see the baby that was left at the hospital, which died the previous night. She wants to make sure there isn’t someone out there recreating Valentine’s experiments on babies. Clary demands to go with her. Simon sneaks out and meets up with Luke. The werewolf asks him about Camille, explaining she might be involved in the Shadowhunters’ murders. Simon explains his meeting with her. THe next day, she will require an answer, and they will need to find a way to find her to question her. Simon returns to the apartment and tells Kyle and Jace about his early morning meeting. They decide to focus on whoever is trying to kill Simon. THey agree to lure them out after the band performs that night. Kyle is hesitant because he doesn’t know about the mark. Simon questions Jace’s motives for avoiding Clary. Jace isn’t specific in his answer, but seems to want to protect her.
Jocelyn and Clary meet a warlock, Catarina, at the hospital. She takes them to the morgue and opens the drawer with the dead baby. Jocelyn comments that its eyes are just like her son’s when he was a baby. Clary notice’s it has claws for hands. Jocelyn is upset and leaves. Catarina asks Clary to tell Magnus that she showed them what they wanted to see. She also gives her a scrap of fabric the baby was wrapped in. When Clary takes it, she sees a rune. Simon and Jace wait behind stage while Kyle and the rest of the band sets up. Luke and Maryse meet with Raphael’s projection in the Institute’s library. They tell him about one of the dead Shadowhunters, mentioning Camille’s involvement. Raphael tells them he discovered her killing people and told her to leave the tribe. He said she was taking a leave of absence to keep anyone, especially the Clave, from getting suspicious and punishing the whole clan. They ask for his help in capturing Camille to question her, but don’t give him much of a choice in how to answer. Clary arrives at Simon’s gig and finds Isabelle to sit with. She sees Jace hanging around backstage and goes to talk to him. He is surprised to see her since Simon said she couldn’t make it. She tells him to just get the breaking up over with when she realizes he has been avoiding her. He says he isn’t breaking up with her, but can’t talk to her or even look at her. Clary runs outside. Simon starts getting dizzy on stage. He leaves his guitar behind and goes behind the curtain. THe band’s only fan, Maureen, greets him, asking for a picture. He agrees, but ends up biting her.
Jace catches up with Clary and drags her back to the alley behind the bar. He tells her he is watching over Simon so that she’ll forgive him, but she doesn’t know what he did wrong. She tries to get him to tell her what is going on, but he says he can’t live without her and starts kissing her instead. Isabelle finds them while looking for Simon. Jace runs off. Kyle stops Simon from killing Maureen, but when he pulls the vampire back, he is thrown across the room. Kyle tells Simon to wait outside while he takes care of the near dead girl. A lady who claims to be a band promoter gives Simon her card before wandering off. He goes to meet up with his bandmates and sees Isabelle waiting for him. Maia shows up and he is left to explain to both of them what is going on. Kyle comes out and once Maia sees him, she attacks him.
Simon watches as Isabelle pulls Maia off of Kyle, and hold her down until the rage subsides and she starts crying. The Shadowhunter tells both boys to leave. Simon drives them back to the apartment. He starts to pack is bags to leave, but realizes after his own experience with lacking self control, that Kyle had the same issue when he turned. Jordan Kyle admits to all of Maia’s accusations. He joined the Wolf Guard to make up for what he’d done. Simon explains how Maia ended up in Luke’s pack. Clary takes the piece of cloth Catarina gave her and draws the rune she saw on it. The words “Church of Talto” appear on it. Her internet search doesn’t return any results. Clary starts thinking of who can help her. she sends a text with an address and then heads off. Jordan explains that he used to get into fights and was bitten by some guy. A few weeks later, he was irritable and hit Maia. THe night he saw her kiss another guy was his first full moon. The Praetor Lupus found him and explained that he had to join and help others or face punishment. They wouldn’t let him see Maia. The doorbell rings and they find a note threatening someone’s girlfriend at the address Clary is headed to. They call Maia, Isabelle, and then Clary and all seem to be fine. Jordan wants to go watch over Maia. Jace arrives. Clary wanders into the church alone. She finds an atheme on the alter. THere are a series of pictures showing women being injected with demon blood while pregnant. THeir babies are born and they are horrified. Clary goes to leave, but is surrounded by men in grey track suits (like the people that attacked Simon) and a three headed demon between her and the exit.
Clary’s training kicks in and she avoids the demon. She grabs the atheme, but it doesn’t do much damage. She use her stele to draw a rune on it before throwing it at the middle head, which dies. The demon continues after her and beats her to the door. Isabelle shows up and removes the last 2 heads with her whip. Simon goes to meet with Camille under the pretense of joining her. His phone goes off and he disobeys a direct order from her not to answer. He is able to take and send a few pictures before Camille demands he signs a blood oath declaring his loyalty to her. As Simon approaches her, nervous that he will have to follow through, a portal appears and Shadowhunters pour through. Back at the Institute, Isabelle helps heal Clary’s wounds. They talk about Simon being with the Conclave to sort out some vampire politics and how Jace has been acting strangely. Maryse and Jace kill Walker and Archer (it is illegal to have human servants) before Maryse declares the arrest for the murder of Shadowhunters. They take Camille through the portal to be kept in the Sanctuary for questioning. She refuses to talk to anyone except Magnus Bane.
Jace explains to Simon that the Sanctuary was used back before vampires could project their images. Isabelle comes along and they let her know what is going on. She tells them about helping Clary kill a hydra demon. Once Jace learns that his girlfriend is there, he runs off. Isabelle agrees to talk to Simon. She explains that her mom told her about her dad’s affair with another woman and that is why she dates guys who are not willing to commit. Simon explains that heartbreak can make you stronger. When Isabelle learns that Simon broke off his relationship with Clary, she tenses and leaves. Clary wakes up to find Jace by the bed. He kisses her, but she pushes him away. She tells him that he has to talk to her about what is wrong. He explains that the events of Idris are catching up to him. They start making out and he cuts her arm with a knife. She pushes him away and he sinks to the floor. Camille points out that Simon will always be looked down on my the Shadowhunters. They make the vampires repress their predatory nature. Maryse leads Magnus and Alec in. It is obvious that Magnus and Camille know each other; he explains they used to date. Simon can hear Alec and Magnus argue over the warlocks past partners. Eventually Alec leaves and Magnus points out that they will be the only ones left in a hundred years. Simon is overwhelmed by the thought, and leaves as Magnus agrees to talk to Camille for the Conclave. Jace explains to Clary that he has been killing her in his dreams and thinks something is wrong with him. Clary points out that it might be something someone is doing to him. THey decide to go to the Silent City right away. Camille tries to lure Magnus back to her, but he is unwilling. She promises to share information if they grant her immunity. She admits she killed the Circle members under orders from someone much more powerful than herself. Magnus goes to talk to Maryse. The Silent Brothers make a painful intrusion into Jace’s mind. They find out about him dying and the angel, Raziel, bringing him back to life. They say that it is like he is reborn and must undergo the rituals again to be protected. He agrees to stay alone in the Silent City until they can “cure” him. Simon wakes up and Jordan shows him the newspaper that was shoved under their door. Maureen is dead from her throat being cut open. Jordan reminds him that they received a ransom note threatening his girlfriend.
The only place for Jace to sleep in the Silent City is the jail cells. He drifts off to sleep and dreams. Max appears saying the angels sent him with instructions on how to cleanse Jace’s soul from Valentine’s influence. Jace cuts his arms with the dagger from Stephen Herondale. Max collects the blood and draws a symbol on Jace’s chest. Jace collapses in agony. Simon feels responsible for what happened to Maureen. Jordan convinces him to call Jace for help, but Isabelle is the one that answers the phone. Simon tells her what happened. she tells them about the Church of Talto being in the same location. They all plan to meet at Luke’s pack’s party to discuss what to do next. A fairy appears to Clary while she is waiting for the party to start. She gives Clary a bell that she can use to summon someone from the queen’s court. CLary is hesitant, but accepts is. Her mom comes over to check on her because she appeared to be by herself. They talk about Jace before Jocelyn goes back to Luke. Simon and Jordan arrive at the party. Isabelle is waiting for them outside and tells them both to stay away from Maia.
Simon and Jordan join Clary, Alec, and Magnus at their table. Alec still can’t seem to drop not knowing about his boyfriends past and it leads into a verbal fight between them. Alec stalks off. Clary leaves thinking she saw Jace come into the party. Simon follows and Clary tells him most of what has been going on before continuing her search. Maia approaches Simon. She’s mostly forgiven him and he tells her Jordan’s story before going to get some air. Clary finds Jace outside. He claims that the ritual was simpler than the Silent Brothers thought. He questions who he is and whether she would still love him if he was permanently damaged by Valentine’s influence. He asks her to bind them together with a rune and Clary agrees.Jace marks her, but the rune he draws has a much darker meaning. He catches her as she collapses. Magnus tries to talk to Alec, who finally tells Magnus what is wrong. He heard Camille say that Alec looked like Will, a Shadowhunter from Magnus’ past. Magnus tries to explain that his feelings for Alec are unique. Isabelle comes along to tell Magnus that Camille escaped. He needs to help the clave find her so they don’t suspect he had helped her. Maureen comes to Simon as a vampire. She explains that the people who kidnapped her gave her the choice of dying or becoming undead. She tells him they want him because he is a Daylighter. If he doesn’t go, they will continue to hurt people he loves.
Maureen takes Simon to a building that is being constructed. They break in and take the elevator up. Isabelle realizes that Simon is missing. She starts asking around and she, Jordan, Alec, and Maia all look for him. THey decide he isn’t there and to widen their search. Maureen leaves Simon alone on the roof with the woman who claimed to want to promote his band. She tells him that she is the first demon, Lilith. She says that she needs his blood and reveals a glass coffin surrounded by a circle of runes. Sebastian is inside of it suspended in some sort of liquid. The search party goes through the apartment for clues. Jordan and Maia get distracted by their feelings, but end up finding Simon’s wallet. Isabelle finds the band promoter’s business card and gives it to Alec. He explains that the woman’s name is one of the 17 names of Lilith. She was Adam’s first wife and left him and the garden of Eden because she didn’t want to be obedient. God cursed her so that she couldn’t have children, so she created demons in a place called Edom. They decide to go to the address on the card. Lilith wants Simon to turn Sebastian into a vampire so she can start a new race. Simon points out that he cannot revive the dead. Lilith says that since Jace was brought back to life, the dark side is also allotted a life. Simon refuses and starts to walk away until Lilith points out Jace holding a knife to Clary’s throat.
Clary wakes up in Jace’s arms. When she remembers what happened, she tries to get away. She rips Jace’s shirt in the process and sees the red mark on his chest. She realizes that he is under someone’s control and can’t leave him behind. He takes her to the roof. She realizes that Lilith is the greater demon that gave her blood to Valentine to make Sebastian what he became. Lilith demonstrates her complete control over Jace by having him slightly cut Clary. She was the one messing with his head because she needed him present to complete the ritual. When they arrive at the address, Isabelle’s ruby pendant alerts her to demons. They take the elevator to the tenth floor and the ruby goes crazy. They quietly search the floor and find something disturbing. After Lilith explains that Clary had Raziel bring Jace back when he died, Simon agrees to do what Lilith asks to save Clary. Isabelle Looks at one of the many dead babies they have found in a room. she looks at its hands and sees claws, like Clary had described. Isabelle sees something move in the shadows and attacks it. A woman in a grey track suit explains that Lilith saved them. Their babies were too weak to survive her blood and so is the woman. Isabelle goes to the elevator to continue her search for Simon, but when it opens, a mob of track-suited cult members comes after them.
Clary watches as Simon drinks Sebastian’s blood. She tells Jace that she can’t watch and asks to face him. He allows her and she start talking to him, promising a way to save her and obey Lilith. Clary takes advantage of his distracted reaction to her. She grabs the knife from his belt and cuts at Lilith’s mark on his chest. She throws the knife down and tells him to kill one of them. Simon retches up Sebastian’s blood. Alec, Isabelle, Jordan, and Maia fight off the cult members. Alec feels bad for killing the almost-human creatures. One flees and he chases it through a maze of hallways. He ends up finding Camille instead. Jace throws the knife at Lilith and challenges her. She refuses his terms of a fair fight and summons two hell hounds. One goes after him, the other after Clary. Camille tells Alec that she agreed to kill the Shadowhunters because she knew Lilith would kill her if she refused. The mother of demons needed the blood to attempt creating more babies like Sebastian. When Alec refuses to free her, she offers him a way of becoming immortal without becoming a vampire. Alec cuts her free and turns around to see Isabelle, but Camille is already gone. Clary uses the chain holding the Morganstern ring to fend off one of the hellhounds. Jace comes to finish it off after killing the other. He tells her to get out of there. Simon is too sick to focus on what has been going on. He blindly listens to whatever Lilith tells him until Jace starts to fight her. He honestly believes that Clary left, but Lilith pulls her out of hiding. She goes to land the killing blow, but Simon jumps in the way. Her attack is returned to her sevenfold and she turns to salt.
Jace has Simon carry Clary as neither of them have a stele to heal themselves. As they get ready to leave, Alec and Isabelle make it to the roof. They exchange tales of what happened. Isabelle wants to cut Sebastian up, but Simon points out that he is connected to Jace through Lilith’s uncompleted ritual. Alec sends a message to the Clave and Jace agrees to watch over the rooftop scene. Alec pushes Clary out of the elevator to wait with Jace. Maia and Jordan don’t know what happened to Alec and Isabelle. There is a flash of light and Maia grabs him. She kisses him, but can’t explain when he asks why. Clary approaches Jace, angry about how he hasn’t stopped to think about how she has been dealing with his behavior. She explains that none of the night’s events were his fault. They kiss before she goes down to the lobby to find her mom. Simon is surprised that Isabelle came looking for him. They don’t get to talk much before the Clave and Magnus arrive. He watches the warlock and Alec make up. Jocelyn and Luke come running in just before Clary comes out of the elevator. Simon talks to Luke about biting someone. Luke points out that the more he represses his nature, the more it will control him. Simon decides to go home. Simone’s bite woke Sebastian. He controls Jace through Lilith’s healed mark. He finishes binding through blood and the ritual. When it is done, Jace feels at peace.
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Claire is worried about their new vampire guests, Mr. Bishop and his subordinates. He requests breakfast. Claire joins her friends in the kitchen and explains they need to do what the vampires say because they are all in danger. Claire’s parents join them, but are quickly invited to sit in at the table in the living room with Mr. Bishop. Michael goes to watch over them while Claire, Eve, and Shane cook. After the food is served, Claire calls Amelie and leaves another voicemail. They decide they need more immediate action, so Eve calls Oliver and has Claire explain the situation. Oliver tells them to do whatever Mr. Bishop says while he goes to find Amelie. Michael ends up being pushed into the kitchen by one of Mr. Bishop’s vampires, Francois. Claire tries to hold Shane back while Eve threatens Francois with a knife. The house starts shaking in an attempt to help Michael. Oliver kicks in the door and tells Claire to invite him in. Before she can do that, Amelie arrives. She walks in and says she will take care of Mr. Bishop. She temporarily invites Oliver in as backup. Shane tries to hold Claire back from following and ends up opening up his stab wound. Michael follows the other vampires into the living room to get Claire’s parents and away from Shane’s blood. Eve patches Shane up and then Michael returns with Claire’s parents. He tells them they are all going out to eat.
Michael drives them to a late night dinner where Claire notices vampires watching the drunk college students. Her father tells her she is moving in with them. She is surprised when Shane agrees it is a good idea. Eve tries to tell them Claire is safe where she is, but Michael explains the idea was planted by Mr. Bishop, and they have no hope of changing their minds. Oliver calls Michael to tell him to return to the house. Mr. Danvers insists Claire returns with them, but Michael tells him Claire has to go back to the Glass house. After dropping off Claire’s parents, the four teenagers return to their home. Amelie and Oliver are playing chess while they wait for them. Amelie tells them to avoid Mr. Bishop, who is in fact her father. She sends Oliver away and revokes his invitation to the house before going upstairs and disappearing. While Shane is checking all the locks, Eve lures Michael upstairs. Claire calls her parents and confirms Mr. Bishop is not staying with them. Shane suggests chess, but once they can hear Eve giggling, he changes his mind to video games.
Claire wakes up the next morning and starts walking to class. On the way, Monica and her friends pull up beside Claire to warn her the war between them is still on. A bit later, Jason stops her and tells her he needs to talk to Eve about their dad. Claire promises nothing and leaves him standing in the shadows. She goes to get coffee and tells Eve about her encounter on her way there. Eve insists she doesn’t care about her parents. Claire gets a call from Dr. Mills. He asks her for more information about the crystals she gave Monica. She decides to call Amelie before divulging any information. Amelie answers and tells Claire to work with Dr. Mills, but to keep Myrnin’s lab and the vampire illness a secret. She meets with the doctor after class. He tells her Amelie gave him her notes and he was able to make some improvements as well as a liquid form he has put into a dart gun for her. He wants her to try to measure Myrnin’s blood before administering the drug. In the meantime, he is looking for a safer place for them to conduct their experiments. When Claire gets home, Eve sends her and Shane out to the grocery store. In the parking lot, Shane tells he he did some research at the vampire section of the library. There was a vampire that was a Bishop that killed anyone that got in his way, including other vampires. One day, he just disappeared. When they go inside the grocery store, they split up. When Claire finds Shane, Mr. Bishop’s associate, Ysandre, is all over Shane. After she leaves him, he storms out in a hurry. Claire quickly pays for the food and follows Shane out to the car, who looks like he is about to leave her behind. He peels out as soon as she gets in.
When they get back to the house, Shane immediately goes to his room. Claire eats with Michael and Eve, but her mind is wandering. When Eve starts making fun of Shane for pouting, Michael tells her to leave him alone. She questions his odd behavior. When he snaps at her, she leaves the room. Michael promises Claire he wouldn’t hurt any of them. Claire goes upstairs and into Shane’s room. He tells her he is upset because Ysandre got in his mind and made him want her. She comforts him and they end up sleeping next to each other all night. The next morning, Shane wakes up and immediately goes to the bathroom. Claire hears Eve’s boots heading for her bedroom door and goes out in the hallway to see what she wants. Eve is not happy about Claire staying the night in Shane’s room, but believes they only slept. She tells Claire that Michael left in the night and still hasn’t returned. The doorbell rings and Eve answers to sign for an envelope addressed to Shane. He comes down to open it and tells Eve to burn the contents. Eve reads the invitation to a ball Ysandre has ordered Shane to accompany her to. Eve and Claire go down to Common Grounds and talk to Sam. He says he will call when he finds Michael. Shane is by the phone and answers when it rings. He hangs up immediately. Eve uses the callback feature and hears her brother, Jason, on the other end. He tells her their dad’s liver is failing and he only has a few days to live. Shane offer to take Eve to the hospital to see him. After they leave, Sam calls and tells Claire that Michael is on his way home. When Michael arrives, he explains he was with Amelie. Claire tells him where Eve and Shane went. Michael plans to join them at the hospital, so Claire asks him to drop her off at Myrnin’s lab on the way.
When Claire reaches Myrnin’s cell, she can tell he isn’t right and won’t be able to get a blood sample as Dr. Mills requested. She ends up shooting him with the dart of the liquid formula and it brings him back. He asks to be let out, but she refuses knowing he could turn back at any moment. She tells him Bishop is in town and he explains the older vampire only sees humans as food. Amelie tried to kill him once, so Myrnin guesses he is in town for revenge. When the formula starts to wear off, Claire goes to the refrigerator and starts handing out packets of blood. She uses the portal to get back to Myrnin’s lab and then decides to walk home from there. When she arrives, Richard Morrell (Monica’s brother) is there because Shane is behind on his taxes. Claire realizes this means Shane hasn’t been donating blood. She says she will go with him and donate as well, but Shane still refuses. She reminds him there are worse things going on and that she needs him. He agrees to go. Richard makes a call on his walkie and the blood mobile arrives. Shane refuses to go inside the mobile donation unit because people tend to never come out. Richard agrees to drive them to the donation center instead. They get into his police car.
They get to the donation center and the receptionist recognizes Shane because she used to play cards with his mother. Shane goes back to have his blood taken and Claire fills out forms to donate her own. During the process, she freaks herself out thinking about where the blood will end up. Shane tells her he once went to the blood mobile with his mom. A man was brought in and taken away and no one saw him again. As they are getting ready to leave, Shane finds a door. He opens it to see a line of vampires at a pharmacy-like counter. Michael gets a bottle of blood and drains it quickly. Afterwards, he sees them watching them and tries to explain. Shane says he understands and they leave. Back at home, they learn Eve’s father died. They go to the funeral at the church the next morning. Eve is appalled at her mother’s behavior and they try to get out as quickly as possible. Jason shows up, but leaves quickly rather than getting into it with Shane. Then Ysandre arrives to remind Shane about the invitation she sent him. They go to Denny’s for food. There is a flyer posted to advertise Michael performing at Common Grounds. He doesn’t want them to go, but they all insist.
Michael and Eve leave early. Shane and Claire are tempted to stay in, but decide to take advantage of his temporary safety and walk down to Common Grounds for Michael’s show. Claire is amazed at how crowded the place is when they get there. Michael is a huge hit. Later back at the house, Claire is getting ready for bed when she hears Eve scream. She rushes down the stairs after Shane to find Miranda bleeding in Michael’s arms. He passes her over to Eve and goes to get away from the blood. Claire goes to check on him and he admits he is hungry after the show. She sneaks down to the refrigerator to get him an emergency bottle. He is better after he drinks it. Claire joins Eve and Shane downstairs as they listen to Miranda, who is in a trance. She tells them it is spreading and they will all die. Michael eventually joins them and says she is talking about Bishop destroying Morganville. The next morning while Claire is getting ready to go to class, her mother calls. Mrs. Danvers admits she never would have sent her to Morganville if she had known the truth. She apologizes. Claire tells her she is staying in the Glass house with her friends. Mrs. Danvers says she is proud of Claire before she hangs up.
A few days pass with little excitement. Claire tries to get Shane to talk about the ball he has to attend with Ysandre. He acknowledges that he hates the vampire, but still has to go. Claire is frustrated and ends up storming off to her room to cry. He tells her he is only going because Ysandre threatened to kill her if he refused. Claire goes to Myrnin’s lab and finds Oliver there going through his journals. He tries to explain they are united against Bishop, but Claire knows Amelie wouldn’t have let him in the lab without someone watching him. She gets Myrnin out of his cell and tries to get him to help her work, but only does the minimum by giving her a bit of blood. He calls the ball a welcome feast for Bishop and gives her a book that describes Ysandre. She was a famous murderess working politics even before she was a vampire. He warns her to let Shane deal with her. A few days before the masked ball, Claire is sitting in the university coffee shop. When Eve takes her break and comes to sit with her for a bit, Monica comes over to show her the invitation to the ball she received from Michael. Claire calls Amelie to try to get some information on what is going on. Amelie agrees to meet her in the secret room of the Glass house. She tells Claire that what Myrnin told her is correct; she doesn’t intend to fight her father. However, she is unconcerned with the romantic dealings of Claire’s friends. When Claire asks for an invitation, Amelie makes it very clear that Myrnin and Claire are not to attend. She reminds Claire that while she is important, she is replaceable. Claire goes to leave the room and has to beg Amelie to let her out before she actually does. That night, Jason comes to the back door to talk to Claire. Shane answers and refuses to let him in. Jason pushes his way in and grabs Claire. He puts a gun to her head and says he has information from Oliver. He gets her into a car, but Michael comes and pulls him out from the roof. Claire tries to get Shane to keep Michael from committing murder. Michael stops when he sees Eve looking at him. Richard Morrell shows up with Detectives Hess and Lowe because of a call that Michael was killing his roommates. Richard chases after Jason and catches him easily. Claire assures Shane she is fine.
The four roommates spend the rest of the night watching a movie on the couch and all fall asleep there. Friday morning arrives and Claire goes to her classes. The professors all seem to be in an especially bad mood. Claire goes to the bathroom before her history test that has a test that day. Monica comes in with Gina and Jennifer. When Claire goes out of the stall to wash her hands, Monica pulls out a set of handcuffs and uses them to trap Claire in the bathroom. Luckily, they allow her to keep her book bag, but they flush the key down the toilet. Claire gets her cell phone out and calls the police department. They put her through to Richard Morrell, but he is on his way to a domestic disturbance call. When Claire is finally free, she goes directly to her teacher to explain what happened. However, one of Monica’s friends is there and tells the teacher she fell asleep in a common room before the test. The professor sends her away telling her to drop the class or attempt to pass with a low grade by taking the second and final test. Claire skips the rest of her classes and goes home. Ysandre and Francois come to visit even though it is the middle of the day. Claire refuses to let them in and calls for Michael. They pull Miranda out from hiding and threaten to suck her blood if they don’t let them in. Michael invites them in and Ysandre goes immediately for Shane. Claire is furious and uses the power of the house to expel them. She decides she needs to talk to Oliver and goes to Common Grounds. She finds Eve sitting with Oliver, but her roommate doesn’t notice her when she leaves. Oliver sits with Claire and says Bishop came to him with an offer to team up, but the knowledge is useless now because things are moving too fast. She asks what Eve was talking to him about and he says he is taking her to the masked ball. He tells Claire to keep herself locked inside that night. When Claire gets back home, Shane is waiting for her. He tells her he wants to do something with her. They end up going to a restaurant, playing a ton of music on the jukebox, and swaying in each other’s arms.
Shane and Claire don’t get home until nearly dawn. When she wakes up, Claire finds she is the only one in the house. Richard Morrell stops by figuring Claire would be Amelie’s guest. When he goes to leave, he makes sure she locks the door behind him. Claire decides she still has plenty of time before the sun goes down and goes to work with Myrnin. When she gets into Myrnin’s lab, she feels like someone is watching her, but can’t see anyone. She continues through the portal to the prison. She hands out blood and finds her boss in the last cell. He seems more sane than usual and insists he is fine. He gives her a sample of his own brain tissue for study. He then breaks the lock on his cell joins her on the other side. He tells her the vampires are each bringing a human to the feast for Bishop to choose which ever offering pleases him. Amelie and Oliver combined don’t have the power to challenge Bishop, so they are playing the long game at the expense of the humans. Myrnin says he is going to the feast and invites Claire along. she agrees to go with him. In a secret attic in the Glass house, they find costumes. Claire is dressed as Harlequin and Myrnin as Pierrot. The pulls out a large case filled with weapons and gives Claire holy water and a cross. He reminds her that if she were to kill a vampire, the judging on her would still be harsh even if coming from Amelie. He grabs a knife for himself.
Using the portals again, Claire and Myrnin arrive at the Council building. They find themselves in a janitor’s closet and make their way to the party. Claire thinks they are just going to blend in, but Sam notices them. He and Myrnin get a little heated about their presence. Claire calms them both down. Myrnin has them introduced and Claire can feel everyone staring at them as they enter. She sees Michael dressed as a priest and Eve as Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. It takes her a moment to realize Shane is in a dog mask and literally on Ysandre’s leash. Dinner is served and Claire notices how hungry Myrnin seems. Afterwards, the tribute starts. When it is Sam’s turn, he refuses to swear fealty. Bishop asks him to leave his human behind. Sam refuses and Amelie backs him up. He doesn’t ask again until Oliver presents Eve. Oliver leaves Eve behind and Shane decides to ditch his date and escort Eve out of there. Amelie says they belong to her and Bishop lets them go. More and more vampires refuse to swear fealty. Just when Bishop is about at his tipping point, Myrnin’s name is called. He takes Claire’s hand and they make their way to him.
When they reach Bishop, Myrnin is disrespectful, but Bishop thinks he is just being his usual foolish self. When he starts to really insult him, Bishop goes after him and Ysandre grabs Claire. Myrnin slashes at Bishop with his knife and Claire uses the Holy water on Ysandre. Myrnin takes off running leaving Claire behind. Bishop tells Ysandre to leave Claire alone. He asks Amelie to swear fealty to him, but she refuses. He tells her he will leave her town if she gives him the book she took from him when she thought she killed him. People and vampires start standing in a group to back up Amelie, but many vampires have already sided with Bishop. Jason Rosser stabs her in the chest with a stake. Sam and Oliver rush to Amelie. Claire tells her parents to get out and watches them leave. Sam picks up Amelie while Claire goes to follow Michael, Shane, and Eve out. Ysandre grabs Claire and starts to strangle her. Oliver saves her and carries her out while she looses consciousness. Claire wakes up at the Glass house. Bishop has his vampires out burning houses. Shane tells her there are about 30 people and vampires in their house. She goes to check on Amelie and takes Miranda to her bed on the way. The guards let Claire up into the secret room where Sam and Oliver are helping Amelie. Same pulls the stake out of her chest while Oliver gives her blood from his arm. Amelie says Claire has to leave because she is too hungry. Claire goes to get blood out of the refrigerator, but remembers their isn’t any left. Shane calls Richard Morrell for a delivery, but the donation center is burning. The blood mobile is brought to the house and the humans start donating. Claire uses the portal to get to the jail. When she sees Myrnin isn’t there, she goes to his lab instead. She finds him there studying slides in a frenzy. He shows her that not only is Bishop’s blood not infected, but it is the cure. He explains getting the sample of blood was his and Amelie’s plan all along. She fills him in on what happened after he left. Myrnin apologizes for leaving her in danger. He tells her to let Bishop think he is winning to bide time. He also needs to talk to Dr. Mills. Claire leaves saying she will get him there somehow.
Claire has some trouble figure out the portals with the power out because she can’t see where she is going to end up. She hears the people inside the Glass house, but suddenly, Bishop is behind her. He pushes her through and then goes after Myrnin. Claire finds herself in her parent’s house and calls Richard for a ride back home. When she gets there, she tells Amelie what is going on. Amelie says they cannot loose the founder houses, Common Grounds, or the University. She starts splitting everyone up to cover certain areas. The humans will be taught how to stake vampires. Oliver objects at first, but agrees with Amelie’s statement for equality. She tells Claire that she will go back to Myrnin’s lab with her. Shane demands to stay with Claire, but Amelie tells him she needs him in the blood mobile and gives him the book Bishop is after.
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Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
Posted on September 10, 2014 by seloc
I wanted to like Stiff. I wanted Mary Roach to be an entertaining writer. Alas, she is not.
She’s judgmental and annoying. She writes too much about too little. She goes on long, pointless tangents.
Most damning of all (for me, as a journalist), are incongruities between what she’s written as either the truth or a semblance of the truth and the truth I’ve read from more credible authors. Meaning, she’s lying or being lazy or a combination of the two.
Once the first hole is poked in Roach’s credibility, I have no faith that her work is not riddled with holes.
At this point, I should put some caveats in my review: I am not easily grossed out. I’m a little bit morbid. While I do not deal with dead bodies extensively, I deal with death and the grieving on a regular basis as a cops and courts reporter for a newspaper.
This appears to be an issue for some reviewers. I did not find the book to be particularly gross.
First, my biggest problem with the book. Roach writes a little bit about the history of the body market, but not that much. When it comes to the modern body market, she writes, a costs $500. Who knows how much it sells for.
One single reference.
Yet, I can’t help but wonder, when a person is being kept alive to have his organs harvested, how much does the hospital charge for those organs? Where is the money going? All those corpses donated to science, or to certain scientific institutions, does no money change hands when bodies go from one to the other?
I don’t believe it, but, who knows! Mary Roach certainly didn’t research the financial side of the human cadaver.
Human blood sells for quite a bit (what’s the cost of a blood transfusion) but it’s a donated product. I have to think the human body sells for something.
Besides, she writes in an off-hand remark, that anatomy schools are picky about the corpses they use. Not too skinny, not too fat, etc. What happens to the rest?
No more credibility
So, here’s the big credibility gap. Roach writes, embalmment (via formaldehyde or other chemicals) doesn’t last forever. It lasts some time, but not forever. (Turning the flesh into plastic does last a really long time though, but, that’s different. At least for now.)
How long? She doesn’t know. But really, not that long once it’s in the ground.
Which sounds like a fine answer, unless one has also read “Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales “ by William Bass.
In it, one learns about William Bass’s greatest blunder, the one he always gets ribbed about: that one time he mistook the body of a guy killed in the civil war period to be a guy dead not even days. A couple hundred years, verses a couple days? Well, he’s been embalmed. In the south. Where it’s wet.
So, there we go. Mary Roach, who visited Bass’s “Body Farm,” isn’t competent enough to ask anyone with any knowledge about embalming. Credibility entirely shot through.
“And that is embalming. It will make a good-looking corpse of you for your funeral, but it will not keep you from one day dissolving and reeking, from becoming a Halloween ghoul. It is a temporary preservative, like the nitrites in your sausages. Eventually any meat, regardless of what you do to it, will wither and go off.”
Fantastic how she compares rotting bodies to preserved meat, outside of the context of cannibalism. Fantastic, too, how she answers the question about how long a preserved body lasts and under what conditions.
It’s a good day for bad journalism.
Throw-away paragraphs
So, Roach visits the body farm. Which turns into a chapter where she narrates her guided tour through the place, and her lunch afterward.
I don’t know what publisher thought it was acceptable to let her get away with that, but, Iexpect more from a researched book than I do from a newspaper column. Newspaper reporter goes out, writes a first-person story about his tour of X, Y or Z? I think that’s perfectly acceptable. Puts it into a book, as a whole chapter on the science of the decomposition of bodies? Reeks of laziness.
Here’s another example, but more to the point of Roach’s worthless writing. She describes a the bugs under the skin of a corpse’s foot as being like expensive rice paper.
“You tell yourself these things.”
The first time she writes it, I get it. You’re depersonalizing the experience, you’re dehumanizing what’s happening by saying, it’s something inanimate. It only needs to be written once or twice. Not through the whole book. No. That’s just filler, which much of this book is.
“With the radio playing and the three of us talking, the room has a feeling of late-night congeniality. I find myself thinking that it’s nice for UM 006 (a cadaver) to have company. There can be no lonelier state of being than that of being a corpse.”
Really, this presents a cognitive dissonance. Earlier, and later, Roach will talk about the cadaver being the shell of what was a human being. Yet here, well, we might just bring it back to life and make it human again!
Mean spirited
Roach has it in for a few people, whom she makes judgment calls on. I disagree with her judgment calls and therefore, call BS on her putting them in her book. I signed up to read about cadavers, not about her moral opinions on the social status of those contracted to obtain bodies for science.
I also think some of her judgment calls are actually wrong. Like, entirely wrong.
Here she goes and bashes “body snatchers,” without any factual basis for her claims. Notice the character defamation of dead people.
“Body snatchers were common thugs; they motive, simple greed. But what of the anatomists? Who were the upstanding members of society who could commission the theft and semi-public mutilation of someone’s dead grandmother? The best known of the London surgeon-anatomists was Sir Astley Cooper. In public, Cooper denounced the resurrectionists, yet he not only sought out and retained their services, but he encouraged those in his employ to take up the job. Thing bad.”
Roach’s language here is really sad. Just sad. How does she know the motive was simple greed? Do teachers become teachers out of simple greed? They only work nine months out of the year for a salary equivalent to a person who works the whole year.
What about accountants? Or lawyers? Or doctors? Or construction workers? Or demolitionists? Or fireworks makers? Brewers? Candlestick makers? Writers?
Everyone does their job, on some level, for financial gain. We live in a capitalist society. There is no reason to work at a job (different from a volunteer position) to do so for no money.
How are we to know Roach’s motive isn’t greed? I always figured that’s why she keeps on writing books. I figured that’s why she pads them with useless tangents and descriptions of her tours.
But the anatomists, who are of a higher class, well, they’re doing something noble.
Furthermore, I would bring one’s attention to her use of the dead grandma, as if a cadaver (it is a corpse, after all) should somehow have the same value as a human being.
A grandmother is a human being. A dead grandmother is the corpse of what was a person who had a title. It is not the grandmother. It is a corpse.
C’mon.
Here’s another example of her mean spiritedness:
“One fine day in 1861, a twenty-four-year-old colonel named Elmer Ellsworth was shot and killed as he seized a Confederate flag from the atop a hotel, his rank and courage a testimony to the motivating powers of a humiliating first name.” Emphasis added.
That’s just mean.
Wait, Mary Roach has an unpleasant name, Roach! No wonder she writes books. It’s because she wants us all to be constantly grossed out by the association of her name with the bug.
Mary Roach: Moral titan our of time
So, here Mary Roach opines some pretty fantastic assumptions. Can you spot what’s a fact and what’s just her trumped-up opinion?
”Who decides when it’s okay to sacrifice human lives to save money? Ostensibly, the Federal Aviation Administration. The problem is that most airline safety improvements are asses from a cost-benefit viewpoint. To quantify the ‘benefit’ side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human life. As calculated by the Urban Institute in 1991, you are worth $2.7 million.”
Part of the problem here is the singling out, part of the problem is the assumption that government regulations are the ones solely responsible for advocating for safety measures in transportation.
I don’t see Roach advocating for stricter car regulations, which kill far more people. I don’t read her demanding that car companies install interlock devices on all cars so they can only be turned on once someone sober has blown into a device. I don’t see the demand to take older drivers off the road. I don’t see the demand for better driving education.
I do see a ridiculous statement.
It’s not government regulators who decide what the value of a human life in a plane wreck is. It’s the consumer. The consumer wants cheap, fast transportation, which is far safer than a car.
Totally ridiculous and fallacious statement.
More hypocrisy
Roach (ick! roaches! or, fantastic! Let’s smoke.) makes the argument that we shouldn’t do what the soviets did and use corpseblood for (blood) transfusions. She’s not OK with that.
Yet, she wants more regulation for air flight. Corpse blood or the occasional air crash not caused by surface-to-air missiles . . .
Roach is great in another passage, where she admits the things she thinks, the moral agreements she makes, are based on her, on our, culture. Yet she’s still against corpseblood.
“We are all products of our upbringing, our culture, our need to conform. There are those (okay, one person) who feel that cannibalism has its place in a strictly rational society:”
She then quotes Diego Rivera, who says, we should eat human flesh.
Notice how she denigrates his position by stating, he’s the only person who thinks this way. Notice how, after she writes that we are products of our society: society tells us cannibalism is taboo, it’s not inherent, it’s not a natural law, it doesn’t hurt anyone.
(Assuming no one was killed for the purpose of being eaten.)
Yet, again, she throws all that out the window to make her judgments.
She then goes into a long, pointless tangent about trying to track down a story in China that’s basically Sweeny Todd but with a mortuary in China. I think it’s just filler.
Like this paragraph!
“Supper on China South Airways was an unsliced hamburger bun and a puckered and unadorned wiener, rolling loose in pressed aluminum container. The wiener was too small for the bun, too small for any bun, too small for its own skin. Even for airline food, the meal was repugnant. The flight attendant, having handed out the last of the meals, immediately about-faced, returned to the front of the plane, and began picking them up and dropping them into a garbage bag, on the just and accurate assumption that no one was going to eat them.”
That’s 95 words. Ninety-five entirely pointless, useless, filler words. If you read it, you wasted the time it took to read those words. And I am sorry.
The one positive thing
There is one incredible chapter in the book, which many reviewers find to be the most repugnant. It’s about putting heads on others’ circulatory systems.
Chopping heads off and putting them on other bodies, either in addition to the current head or instead of.
This can be done, even with dogs, and it works. It’s beyond cool.
Also, we’re probably alive for a little bit after the head is chopped off. Creepy.
That one day, if we ever figure out how to make the spinal cord work after it’s severed, we can put someone’s head on someone else’s still-functioning body is just so cool.
Too, that our hearts are little machines that, with a little blood, just start pumping. That, too, is cool to know.
Writing this review, I downgraded my original rating from three stars to two. I did this because I realized how much was missing, how much was filler, how much was pointless in this book. How much was disrespectful, and how much was blatantly hypocritical, and how much Roach never stepped outside of herself.
Not worth it.
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Government tackles businesses’ concerns over holiday pay ruling
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Moyes on the Boys April 26, 2017
Moyes on the Boys after Middlesbrough: another slap in the face for the manager
Moyes on the boys
Malcolm Dawson writes….Pete Sixsmith is the most resilient of the Salut! Sunderland regulars. While M Salut was tied up entertaining long distance relatives, John McCormick was fighting his own relegation battle in the Merseyside Chess League or whatever and I was occupied in my post retirement part time career opportunity in Lytham St Annes, Pete was at the Riverside suffering ……again! His seven word summation suggests that he and our manager differ in their opinions as to how tonight’s match went if this post match e-mail is anything to go by…
I’m disappointed that we didn’t get a win because we needed one tonight. I have told the players that if we had played like that for the majority of games this season then we would’ve given ourselves a better chance of winning more.
I thought tonight we passed it well and we kept it when we had it. We had control of the game which is something we have lacked in other games this season. We tried to mix it up and we went long to Victor (Anichebe) at times and we did a lot of good things but not the things that really matter.
We didn’t score at their end and we didn’t defend as well as we could’ve done when they had their two chances. Jordan (Pickford) made a good save for us but ultimately it was up to us to make chances and score goals.
We did some good things and we got into some good areas.
We threatened tonight but the threatening didn’t come to anything and nothing really dropped in the right positions for us.
Jake shows the way to go home
Tags: David Moyes, Middlesbrough, Premier League, Sunderland
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8 Responses to “Moyes on the Boys after Middlesbrough: another slap in the face for the manager” Subscribe
Jake April 26, 2017 at 10:35 pm #
I agree with him, Jordan DID make a good save for us, apart from that he’s talking shite.
Rob April 26, 2017 at 11:19 pm #
Worst manager we have had ever. Full of negativity. No future with Moyes in charge. My friend is an Evertonian. As soon as he was appointed he told me ‘Tough luck with that one’. Allardyce would have had the same set up and resources in the top half.
Drummer April 27, 2017 at 5:21 am #
Abosolute garbage from Moyes on and off the pitch . Get out of our club !!
CSB April 27, 2017 at 5:28 am #
What game was David watching, certainly not the one I watched.
We were awful, clueless, second best for long periods and squandered possession regularly.
Davy boy needs a very strong reality check because if this is truly what he thought the game was like tonight we are heading for Championship obscurity for decades.
The only good news is the Championship is not televised as extensively as the EPL so at least we won’t have to waste as much time watching this phish for the upcoming seasons!
malcolm April 27, 2017 at 9:13 am #
But there will be 8 more games to endure and we won’t be doing a Mags next year. More like a Villa.
CSB April 27, 2017 at 10:39 am #
Afraid so, with or without Moyes we will not be rebounding straight back.
There is a very large overhaul needed at the Club which will continue in crisis until Short is replaced, a decision about Moyes’s and his backroom staffs ability to start from scratch, or not, is made, a major clear out for the playing staff etc etc
God it hurts just thinking about it!
John Irvine April 27, 2017 at 9:22 am #
As a Boro fan, I must say last night was as poor a performance for Boro as it was for Sunderland. Sunderland took the initiative for the majority of the game and spent more time in our half than we did in yours. I was impressed with Anichebe, though couldn’t understand why he didn’t play up the middle to support Defoe, who was very isolated. Pickford made an excellent save when Downing should have scored, but apart from the goal I don’t think we threatened Pickford as much as Guzon was under pressure. I have never seen Negredo dominated by anyone as much as O’Shea did. particularly in the air. Gestede won more headers in 5 minutes than Negredo all game.
Two poor teams on display, who can be forgiven for making so many mistakes as this win was really all both teams had to play for. I can’t see either of us gaining another victory this season.
Then what happens next year? Sunderland have a major overhaul to contemplate . Boro have several saleable assets, such as Gibson, De Roon, Traore, Valdes. Sunderland will only get money for Defoe, in my opinion.
Boro have a basis for a Championship side-the main decision is about a permanent manager.
I have always liked Moyes, at Preston and Everton, and think he drew a short straw taking on Sunderland when he did. Moyes takes time to build a side, but I am not sure that can happen in this climate of ‘must win’. I feel for Sunderland (I was at Wembley in 1973 shouting them to beat Leeds) and I feel hard times are ahead unless there is some serious investment. Boro will find it hard to come straight back up, as very few teams do that, but they may be able to at least challenge.
All in all, depressing times for the North East. On the bright side, at least both our Chief Executives are walking free !
malcolm April 27, 2017 at 11:34 am #
Totally agree John.
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BIRTH OF THE SQUEEDUNKS
September 19, 2016 September 20, 2016 Jeff Elliott 1876, Squeedunks
It was a solemn and historic occasion, but all we remember about it today is that some bozos showed up and made fun of everybody.
The event was the Fourth of July 1876 ceremonies held in Santa Rosa. “At an early hour the streets were thronged with carriages, horsemen and well dressed and happy looking men and women,” reported the town’s Sonoma Democrat. The parade formed on Third street; near the head was the Santa Rosa Brass Band and judges and dignitaries in carriages (including Bear Flag veterans with their famous flag). In the parade were also carts or displays representing local businesses, among them a wagon loaded with coal from the Taylor Mountain Coal Mine. “The procession marched through the principal streets which were gaily decorated with flags,” the paper continued, before returning to the grandstand on Santa Rosa’s plaza.
Gaye LeBaron wrote about the notable event that happened that day in “Santa Rosa: A Nineteenth Century Town,” but the version that appeared in her 1998 column was a bit more concise:
The Squeedunks made their first appearance in Santa Rosa in 1876, on the occasion of the Centennial Independence Day. When the county’s honored “First Citizen,” General Mariano Vallejo, ended his long oration (in Spanish, with a translator) and the formal portion of the celebration drew to a close, a band of masked men in outrageous costumes seized the podium and began a mock-heroic “Oh Ration,” an extemporaneous and outrageous send-up of the venerable Vallejo’s speech.
It’s a fun story and often retold – except none of it happened quite that way.
This was not the debut of the “Squeduncques” at a Santa Rosa Fourth of July celebration but at least their third appearance. Their “comical uniforms” were mentioned in a review of their 1874 showing so yeah, it’s probably safe to assume they were also dressed up two years later, although nothing about it was mentioned. Those are quibbling points, tho.
(RIGHT: Sonoma Democrat ad, June 26, 1874)
But in no way did they seize the stage following Vallejo’s speech to ridicule him. They were a scheduled part of the program at the end of the celebration, which wrapped up with the Squeedunks presenting the mayor with a wooden sword as “the thanks of every member of this beer destroying gang.” And before they went on stage they presented their own parade which mocked that morning’s procession. Where earlier the Sonoma Democrat was carting around a small printing press turning out programs for the day’s events on the fly, for example, they had the “Dum Oh Krat Steam Press.” Once they were at the podium they continued making fun of the original program with “intejuicery” (introductory) remarks, a “poim” (poem) and “Oh Ration,” which was a sendup of the town’s foibles and failings. All of this is transcribed below – complete with comic spellings as they appeared in the newspaper – but here’s a sample:
Look at our big brick depot, that we haven’t built yet nor never will. Look at our grand school houses for the edification of the hoodlums of generations yet unborn. Look at all these and say are we not mighty in ourmightiness? Then let the proud eagle squawk; let the great American Jack bray and proclaim in stentorian tones “Erin go unum, E pluribus Bragh.”
Nor did General Vallejo even speak at the event. As described in the paper, he sat onstage as his speech was read by Charles E. Pickett, a well-known (and somewhat notorious) orator.1 The Sonoma Democrat didn’t indicate whether it was in Spanish or English although it was likely the latter, as the paper commented the speech “was listened to with deep attention by all.” The entire address in English appeared in the Democrat the following week.
Even delivered in English by a popular orator the Vallejo speech was a real stemwinder, which probably added to the anticipation for the Squeedunks’ part of the show – the paper reported before they appeared the large crowd “seemed by this time to have grown a thousand or two stronger.” It’s easy to understand their appeal; much of the irreverent humor still holds up today, 140 years later – and works particularly well if you can imagine Groucho Marx reading it. For some in the audience, however, their antics probably had a nostalgic appeal; the Squeedunks were part of a long American tradition on the East Coast better known as the “Fantastics.”
The Fantastics – sometimes “Fantasticals” – began in Colonial times (and can even be traced farther back to British mumming) were mainly young men dressing up, sometimes in women’s clothes or wearing blackface while noisily mocking propriety and figures of authority. Think of it as trick-or-treating for adults, not children, and it happened at Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other holiday except Hallowe’en. Also: They wanted you to give them booze, not candy. More about the origins can be read here.
Needless to say, our more sober ancestors were not approving of their young men carousing drunkenly in costumes four or five times a year. (Did I mention firing guns in the air was also a big part of the custom?) Apparently starting in the 1830s, restrictions began to be imposed limiting the partying to the Fourth of July and requiring the costumed revelers be enrolled in some sort of organized group. The earliest example of this I can find is an ad in the June 27, 1839 Baltimore Sun that calls for members of the “Eagle Fantastical Club” to attend a meeting for the upcoming parade.
For about twenty years on either side of the Civil War, parades of Fantastics were to be found all over the East; there’s a mention from 1843 which suggests the Fantastics were long part of the Fourth of July celebrations in Maine and up to the start of the war their shenanigans were particularly popular in Pennsylvania and Maryland, Georgia and South Carolina. From the New York Sun, November 27, 1885:
Fantastic processions burst out all over the town in unusual abundance and filled the popular eye with a panorama that looked like a crazy-quilt show grown crazy and filled the popular ear with the din of thumping drums and blaring trumpets. Thirty-six companies of fantastics had permits to march around making an uproar, and they did it with great success. Local statesmen went around.with the down-town paraders and helped them whoop things up. There were lots and lots of fantastics who hadn’t any permit, and who didn’t care either. They were the thousands and thousands of small boys who put on their sisters’ old dresses, smeared paint on their faces, pulled on red, yellow, brown, black, and indiscriminate wigs, and pranced round their own particular streets, without the least fear of police interference.
Why our local “patriotic hoodlums” chose to call themselves “Squeduncques” instead is not known for certain, although in the early 1870s a squeedunk was the name of a homemade noisemaker that made a particularly horrific screeching sound.2
The Squeedunk tradition continued in Sonoma county for decades, spreading to Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Cloverdale and other communities. The last great ballyhoo in Santa Rosa was in 1908 (see “SQUEEDUNKS ON PARADE“) but attempts at revivals popped up occasionally in later years. How sad to have lost the custom of celebrating our old bums, lunch eaters, and scalawags.
1 Charles E. Pickett was then 56 years old and well known as an eccentric who claimed his profession as “philosopher.” Despite a complete lack of legal training he was long a gadfly concerning the state supreme court, insisting the system of selecting judges was corrupt because the governor could appoint someone to fill a vacant seat until the end of the six year term of office. Thus a justice who was elected in 1870 and died or resigned the following year would be replaced with a politcal appointee until 1876, despite the opportunity for voters to choose a new justice in two general elections during that span of time. (Or at least, that’s my reading of the confusing rules – see more details here.) In Pickett’s view this meant the entire court should be impeached and as a new session began in August, 1874, he stormed the bench during opening ceremonies and took a seat himself. An uproar ensued and he was ejected, fined, and served over a year in jail for his unusual contempt of court.
2 Squeedunk (usually spelled Squedunk) came to be used as a joke town name, similar as Podunk, Skunktown and many others. Sometimes it was meant as the name of a place where backwoods yokels lived, othertimes it was just the name of a a hypothetical town. See: H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 1936. In the early 1870s, however, a squedunk was the name of a popular homemade noisemaker with a teeth-rattling sound created by drawing a violin bow or a waxed string on the rim of a tin can. Thus by calling themselves Squeedunks, the joke could have been either proclaiming themselves to be proudly “backwards country folk” or intending to be really, really annoying. Or both.
The Squeduncques, a distinguished band of imps, devils, patriotic hoodlums and screachers, will parade the streets of Santa Ross on the Fourth of July.
– Russian River Flag, July 2, 1874
…The fantastical display of the Squeduncques, which took place in the afternoon, drew to their stand, at the Court House, a vast assemblage. Their officers were: Captain, George Dunnegan; President of Day, D. H. Shahan; Orator, M. S. McClaire; Poet, L. W. Boggs; Reader, T. Woodward. Their burlesques, local hits and comical uniforms created shouts of laughter, and added much to the pleasures of the day. The Squeduncques were generally pronounced a success…
– Sonoma Democrat, July 11, 1874
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
Santa Rosa, July 4th, 1876.
Oration by hos. H. Burke — Historical Address by Gen. M. G. Vallejo – Poem by F. M. Dimmick — Bear Flag Men – Veterans — Squeduncques — Grand Sword Presentation to Mayor Neblett
The celebration of the Centennial Fourth of July in the city of Santa Rosa was one of the grandest demonstrations ever witnessed in the county…
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
At the close of the oration Mayor Neblett announced that Gen. M. G. Vallejo had arrived on the morning of the fourth in Santa Rosa, having concluded to accept the invitation of the committee sent from Santa Rosa some days previously to invite him to deliver his historical address here, the managers of the Sonoma valley celebration having concluded to omit this feature from their published programme. The large audience hailed the General’s advent [illegible line of microfilm] with much enthusiasm. His well prepared history of the early settlements of the north side of the bay of San Francisco, and other incidents, was read by Mr. Chas. E. Pickett of the city of San Francisco, a pioneer of 1842, was listened to with deep attention by all. At his close three cheers for the General were called for and loudly given. This instructive, graphic and exact historical sketch, with characteristic comments by the author, will appear in the weekly issue of the DEMOCRAT.
SQUEDUNCQUES.
At four o’clock in the afternoon the ancient and honorable order of Squeduncques suddenly made their appearance. The crowd which was immense in the morning seemed by this time to have grown a thousand or two stronger and greeted the appearance of the Squeduncques with cheers and shouts of laughter. They were headed by the old He Sque Dunk as Grand Marshal, and he was followed by the Drum Corps, who discoursed strains of discordant music which the pen of no living man can fully do justice to. Suffice it to say that the music department was a most distracting success. After the band came a line of vehicles which looked as though they once belonged to Noah’s family and had seen rough usage since his death. These were drawn by horses who had the appearance of being in their Centennial year and for a long time strangers to oats and corn. Then came burlesques on the Water Company, the Dum Oh Krat Steam Press, the Fire Companies, the New Depot, the Street Sprinkler and other things; which we find we have not descriptive powers sufficient to do justice to and therefore cannot attempt it. The procession was followed by large crowds and cheered all along the route. When the pavilion was reached and the Officers of the Day, Orator, Poet and Reader, accompanied by the Drum Corps ascended the platform, the rush and jam of that vast crowd to get near was awfully sublime. The intejuicery [sic all misspellings below] remarks of the President of the Day, the Poim the Reading of the Declamation, the Oh Ration, and the
GRAND PRESENTATI0N
Of a magnificant sword (wooden) to his Honor Mayor Neblett, who was called to the stand. The grand gyascuius of the Squedunques then addressed him as follows:
Most potent, grave and reverend Seignor. Oh, thous noblest Roman of them all. Oh, ubiquitous chieftain of all patriotic emblems that adorn our American Eagle domain. Open your port-holes and hearken to the words that will immortalize you forever.
For over nine million years it has been the custom of this lunch destroying band ever to recognize merit in the human family. Our four fathers, ants and sisters, were celebrated for a looseness in this disgusting familiarity of Freedom.
For many sleepless nights we have watched the bursting character of your patriotic bosom. We have seen it swell–heave and pad out with a grandeur which few bosoms can ever expect to reach.
For tendering us the use of this lumber pile, and for aiding us in the rescue of our hungry recesses, by the donation of the sum of one hundred dollars, accept the thanks of every member of this beer destroying gang.
We are overflowing with gratitude but we can beer it all times. In order to make a proper showing of our inside feelings towards you, we present you with this beautiful sword. In other hands a club of this character would prove a very dangerous weapon. May you never entertain suicidal notions, for it won’t do to get reckless in order to provide free rides for old bums.
Take it–Hang it up in the cellar where it can never rust, nor become mortified by bad use. And when your beaming head shall have assumed the radiance of a white-wash bucket, and when telegraphing shall have been supplanted by the lightning speed of Fortson’s street railroad, may you be rolled up in the emblems of eternal ease, surrounded by limburger cheese, and beer, and with this shining blade buckled to your majestic form may you march on to Fame and Glory, and find sweet repose in the happy hunting grounds of our Honorable Order.
[ .. non-Squeedunk description of fireworks and late dinner ]
– Sonoma Democrat, July 8, 1876
SQUEDUNCQUE OH! RATION
FELLOW SQUEDUNCQUES: One hundred years ago to-day the booming of patriotic cannon awaked from their heroic slumbers a band of ancient Squedunques. That Cannon has never ceased to boom from that day to the present. You hear it now, you have heard it all day.
Why, Fellow Squedunques, is all this grand parade? Why all this vast assemblage of old bums, lunch eaters, and scalawags? Why all this tootin of horns banging of drums and squallin of “nest hiders?” It is, my fellows in iniqnity, to remind us of the fact that he who fit and run away has lived to fite another day.
Yes, my Fellow Dunks, we have cause to squelch over our misdeeds. Aye, and in Santa Rosa, too.
“For not a town go far and near,
That does not find a rival here!
I ask you, Squedunques, are we not great in our greatness? Compare us today with Santa Rosa one hundred years ago. Look at these sombrero oaks, which within the hundred years from little acorns grow. Look at these beautiful maidens who a hundred years ago were clad in homespun linsey and tow linen. How are they now? Wrapped in silk and satins from the Injins, bedecked with laces from Crapean and Deutchland adorned with gold and silver from Som Evaders, pinned back till the hump raises on their backs equal to the Camelias of Arabia. Look at our farms where a hundred years ago, notight was heard but the war whoop of the Digger and the wild screech of the Coyote, now blossoming and blooming with mustard and dog fennel. Look at our bankin institutions. There’s the Anti Roses Bank where every Squedunque can borrow all he wants, if he leaves two dollars in the place of every one he borries. Then there’s the Shavings Bank with millions in it saving up for the widders and orphins of deceased Squedunques, to be divided a hundred years from to-day. Then there’s Long Pillars’ Pharaoh bank that declares a divy every night, if you only copper the loser and go straight up on the winner. Ain’t that improvement?
Then look at our young bucks, gay fellers with kid gloves and high-toned mustaches–they are away up. They are all great and grand, but each one presents some splendid exemplification of some singular qualification. One, a perfect Dick Nailer, fascinates his lady love by simply stroking her hair until in ecstacy exclaims, “Oh, how sweet!” While the Spring Valley man contents himself with playing with cotton pads while his dulcina holds the reins in an afternoon ride. Ain’t that fastness? But, feller Squedunques, that is not the climax of our progress. Look at the great financial ability we display! A common weaver, without a loom, without any filling, without any warp, comes to our town, opens an ox-eyed-dental, wears a big bonanner and takes in the keenest and shrewdest mercadores of the town, even the Maccaroni and Crown Princes could not get away with him; even the great Southdown who for 20 years has been chief, and who saved him from the dungeon chains, and assisted him in escaping the wrath of his fellow dunks, cries out, “he [illegible line of microfilm]
Once more: Look at our great array of Policioners and County Deficients, who have entrusted us with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors. Don’t they give up the jail keys valiantly and nobly; did they not a few weeks since with pistol and club arrest a powerful gang of marauders, put them in prison and save the life of an innocent criminal? Who cares for $1,500 reward?
Then look at our defences! Don’t we keep a cannon, always loaded full to the ‘nuzzle, parading our streets from rosy morn to dewy eve, guarding the destinies of all good and worthy gin slingers?
But this is not all, old bums! Look at our broad gouge railroads that President Don’t-know-who has built clean through our county and down among the switches and hazel brush to Stumpville, with only $300,000 and the right of way to help him. Look at our big brick depot, that we haven’t built yet nor never will. Look at our grand school houses for the edification of the hoodlums of generations yet unborn. Look at all these and say are we not mighty in ourmightiness? Then let the proud eagle squawk; let the great American Jack bray and proclaim in stentorian tones “Erin go unum, E pluribus Bragh.” Happy proud Squedunques the lightning of tarantula juice has yielded to your animosity, let not the temptations of mint juleps and sherrey cobblers seduces you from the paths of sobriety. Fare you well.
CITY OF ROSES AND SQUATTERS
AS MUCH FUN AS PULLING TEETH
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Towards sensible music licensing for film: Beyond Creative Commons
Posted on 2nd August 2010 by Ruben Kenig
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What is the value of and best use of Creative Commons in terms of music for film and video? Steve Lawson (AKA @solobasssteve, warning he is one of the most logorrheic Twitter users I follow) tweeted a wish for easier and more explicit marking of Creative Commons licensed music on Bandcamp and Soundcloud particularly for use in video projects. This opened up an interesting vista of musing for me about the role and potential of Creative Commons (CC) and the culture of sharing within creative communities.
Problems with licensing music for film
Perhaps because I am more mired in old-world thinking than Steve, who is something of a social media age renaissance man, I initially saw problems with the premise of a directory of CC music for film/video use,
Would this cover both synchronisation and master use?
What territories would be covered?
What kinds of exhibition?
How long would the license last?
I worked, many moons ago, in the field of film sound and music and music licensing was often a fraught issue particularly with licensing existing music for films. There are lots of cumbersome procedures to get through in order to do it in the old-world way.
The synchronisation right allows the film maker to include the music in the film soundtrack, the master license allows them to make copies of the film including the music (like a mechanical license for a CD) and then there’s an exhibition right to screen the film. This mental oxbow is probably not relevant to what Steve was thinking of but the difference is important as it points to the liminal state creative arts licensing is currently in.
The dusty old world
In the old world model a filmmaker would contact the music publisher and negotiate all the rights to use the music they wanted in their film and then would negotiate exhibition rights. These are a nightmare with a stupid number of variables and seem designed to confuse both filmmakers and musicians in order to stymie the whole process.
For low-budget film the standard initial license was for festival/not-for-profit screenings and would include a pre-defined option for further rights to be purchased if a commercial release was secured. This would typically be x-pounds for three TV broadcasts within Europe within five years of the license purchase, and that’s a simple basic example.
There are strong regressive forces here in the culture of film. Festivals require explicit clearance for all material used in a film and film festivals are often technically commercial so aren’t covered by not-for-profit clauses. Film producers are terrified of not having pre-defined options for commercial release. The fear is that a TV company will want to show their film and they will then have to negotiate clearance with rights holders who will have them over a barrel. If you don’t grant them the right to use your music for the broadcast they can’t show the film.
How music licensing for low-budget film could be better
The problem with the old-world model is that it’s based on fear and mistrust. That pours cold water over creativity pretty quickly. It forces creative people to think like lawyers and that seems to lead to worse-case scenario thinking pretty quickly.
A system where musicians could opt-in to an existing standard agreement that would cover both simple not-for-profit (YouTube/Vimeo/etc. release) and low-budget film use would be liberating both for the musicians, filmmakers and our creative culture in general. I don’t think CC as it currently stands but it’s probably the best solution for now.
Filmmakers could get the clearances they need to show their work in promo screenings and festivals and have licensing options in place incase they secure commercial release and musicians get their work in films and have a chance of some income if the film gets a release.
Creative Commons doesn’t quite hit the spot
Creative Commons isn’t a perfect fit for this for two reasons,
The noncommercial definition
The derivative works definition
In general, low-budget films, and even YouTube/Vimeo videos, are only sort of non-commercial. For low-budget film the hope is, generally, that by giving these films as much exposure as possible they will secure a commercial life of some kind. So while they may start life as non-commercial they may not stay that way.
It is not clear if editing a piece of music to fit a film is making a derivative work under CC licenses. In the normal course of adding music to a soundtrack it may be necessary to truncate it, time-stretch it, extend a section by cut and paste or even pitch-shift it to fit with other elements of the film sound. This could be seen as making a derivate work under CC. Even if there is no alteration of the music the act of syncing it to picture is the creation of a derivative work. Thanks to Jason Sigal for pointing this out in the comments. So you may not use any music under a “no derivative works” licence without securing further permission from the creator.
While it may be a crufty solution I think that a new license that resolves these ambiguities would be a huge boon to the creative community. This could be in the form of a copyright bolt-on like CC or simply an opt-in directory with a license agreement in its terms of service.
There would be huge advantages to building a scheme like this within Creative Commons because it is an existing community and culture.
Culture is more important than mechanism
Ultimately the how is not important. What matters is that a creative culture can be nurtured. It is disappointing, in some ways, to have to think of creating workarounds such as this, but a working solution is better than nothing. Creative work is increasingly moving outside of its old corporate and quasi-corporate mechanisms and schemes that allow individuals without access to media lawyers to participate fully in a collaborative cultural life are important.
The biggest success of Creative Commons, in my view, is not the licensing but the culture. The directories of content allowing free access and in some cases collaborative work to be entered into are an important emerging culture. Whether you are a participant or part of the audience this emerging culture is valuable and we all will benefit from its continued success.
The image above is based on Shunting by John Spooner and is used under a Creative Commons license
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1. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.1 Page 70A
2. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.1 Page 184A
3. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.2 Page 154B
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4. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.2 Page II
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Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula, vol.2 Page 135
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CHAP. V SAKAI OF PERAK 135 made of small pieces of wood or pith stuck on to the bamboo under the strings of their guitars, but not touching them until pressed down by the fingers. Of wind instruments the Sakai use various forms of flute,1 which are similar to those manufactured by the Semang. Hale mentions their use of a along bamboo flute with three holesa in it, as well as a species of bamboo whistle. Mr. L. Wray writes me, that the nose-flute in Ulu Batang Padang is about 18 in. (45 cm.) long, and has four holes, the first being 9 in. (23 cm.) from the blowing end, and the other holes at distances of two fingersa width from each other. The holes are made by taking a small dry stick, lighting one end in the fire, and then blowing out the flame and applying the glowing charcoal point to the bamboo, blowing with the mouth meanwhile to keep it alight. Mr. Wray had never seen more than one flute used at a time. If two are used, they must, he thinks, be of different construction, as those he had seen had to be held so that the wind from the nostril passed almost at right angles to the length of the flute. Whistles are rare, but what are usually called by this name by most writers, are in reality short flutes. They have one end closed by the node of the bamboo, except a small hole in the centre, the other end being open. They are played with the mouth like a flute. The palm of one hand is held over the open end, and the thumb of the left hand over the small hole in the other end. They thus give three notes. The hole blown through is not circular, but shaped like that of a whistle. * De Morgan, viii. 281 ; L' II. ii. tells me that the Sakai often plug one 619; Hale, p. 298. Mr. Cerruti nostril with grass.* De Morgan, viii. 281 ; L' II. ii. tells me that the Sakai often plug one 619; Hale, p. 298. Mr. Cerruti nostril with grass.
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Home > Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials > Atomic Layer Etch Finally Emerges
Atomic Layer Etch Finally Emerges
After nearly two decades of being confined to R&D labs, equipment makers are placing big bets on this next-gen plasma etch technology.
May 15th, 2014 - By: Mark LaPedus
The migration towards finFETs and other devices at the 20nm node and beyond will require a new array of chip-manufacturing technologies. Multiple patterning, hybrid metrology and newfangled interconnect schemes are just a few of the technologies required for future scaling.
In addition, the industry also will require new techniques that can process structures at the atomic level. For example, a transistor gate width could consist of only 20 atoms at the 7nm node, compared to 140 atoms at 20nm. So, to help manipulate the atoms in future devices, chipmakers will likely require a new and disruptive technology called atomic layer etch.
Atomic layer etch, sometimes known as ALE, is a next-generation plasma etch technology that enables layer-by-layer, or atom-by-atom, etching for IC designs. ALE is also related to atomic layer deposition (ALD). ALD has been in IC production for years, but ALE has been a solution looking for a problem and stuck in R&D labs for nearly two decades.
Now, after years of hype, ALE appears to be moving from the lab to the fab. And in fact, the plasma etch tool titans, such as Applied Materials, Lam Research, TEL and others, are readying ALE-enabled tool technologies for customers.
“People have been asking about atomic layer etching for years, but it’s been a difficult thing to do,” said Bradley Howard, vice president of the Etch Advanced Technology unit at Applied Materials. “Finally, the industry has the ability to make it happen. In logic, for example, when you start to get to 10nm, you will start to see processes that include ALE or ALE-like technologies. At 7nm, it’s a big inflection point toward getting these types of capabilities inserted.”
ALE will not replace the traditional plasma etcher in the fab, but the newer technology will be required for the most advanced structures, added Thorsten Lill, vice president of emerging technologies and the Systems Group at Lam Research. “We are in an era of atomic scale dimensions,” Lill said. “We are saying that atomic level fidelity and sub-10nm structures will require new approaches in plasma etch. So we believe ALE is necessary. Certain applications can only use ALE. Without it, we can’t move forward.”
More specifically, ALE is a way to selectively and precisely remove targeted materials. “This could be used for things like dummy gate removal for fin replacement as the industry moves to new gate materials like InGaAs, or for simply creating more perfectly shaped fins to support continued scaling,” said Weston Twigg, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities. “It could also be very useful in creating nanowires for potential 5nm insertion by removing all of the material around and under the wire. This is very interesting stuff, but it’s early, and we expect a tradeoff somewhere, likely in throughput.”
Etching the surface
Etch, the process step that removes materials from the wafer to create the features of a device, is a critical but somewhat unheralded tool in the fab. The overall plasma etch market represents 12% to 14% of the total wafer fab equipment (WFE) business, according to Lam Research. In total, the WFE market is expected to reach $30.8 billion in 2014, up 13% from $27.3 billion in 2013, according to Gartner.
Going forward, etch is becoming more important in the flow. For example, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography remains delayed, forcing chipmakers to deploy multiple patterning techniques starting at 20nm. Multiple patterning, in turn, adds 30% more etch steps in the logic flow, according to Pacific Crest Securities.
For decades, meanwhile, chipmakers have used the same basic plasma etcher, sometimes called reactive ion etch (RIE), in the fab. In general, the etcher is used for two main and separate applications—conductor and dielectric. Conductor etch helps shape the active materials, while dielectric etch carves patterns in insulating materials to create barriers.
In RIE, a tool combines many gases in the reactor at the same time. Basically, ALE also provides conductor and dielectric etch, but the newfangled technology handles these functions at a finer scale or at the atomic level. And unlike RIE, ALE performs single unit steps to achieve set outcomes, which may impact the overall throughput of the process.
Today’s plasma etchers remain the workhorse tools in the fab, but there are some new challenges as chipmakers migrate to finFETs and other devices. In finFET production, for example, one challenge is to make fin structures with consistent heights during the etch process. A faulty etch step could lead to variability with the fin structures.
“That was one of the things that drove people to look at the need for atomic layer etching,” Applied’s Howard said. “The topography (in fin structures) drives an over etch. And if you over etch to clear over more topographies, you are exposing your device to potentially more damage.”
ALE, in theory, minimizes the damage in the etch flow. “If you are talking about a 45nm transistor and you have a nanometer of damage on each side, that’s probably not a huge problem. But if you have a 10nm or 7nm device, and you’ve got one nanometer of damage on each side, that’s a large bulk of what that device is in terms of damaged material. Anything you can do to reduce the damage characteristics, and don’t have to use aggressive cleans afterwards, is an important part going forward,” Howard said.
Another driver for ALE is also apparent. The industry is moving towards atomic-level scaling. “The features are getting smaller,” Lam’s Lill said. “At 7nm, we will basically have about 20 atoms to create a transistor of this width. If you account for the variability for a device at 7nm at 1%, and (you account for) a CD budget, that is now basically seven angstroms. Now, we are talking about two atoms or two atomic bonds. 5nm would be four atoms. It’s very obvious, but at the end, there will be only one atom left.”
A mug of ALE
So for atomic-level scaling, the next-generation etch solution is clear—ALE. The big question is what can ALE do in the fab and will it achieve the same success as ALD. For years, ALD has been used to scale the capacitor in DRAMs as well as developed the high-k/metal-gate stack for logic devices.
“In atomic layer deposition, you come in and saturate a surface with one reactant. Then, you come in with another reactant. That becomes a single layer of material. You cycle through this multiple times to create many layers of atomic layers,” said Applied’s Howard. “Atomic layer etching is taking that in reverse. You want to have the etch occur only at the very surface, effectively one layer at a time or one atomic layer at a time. What you are doing is getting a reaction or change on the surface. Then, you remove that reactant material. You go through that same cycle multiple times. So in the end, atomic layer etching gives you the opportunity to have very low damage and polymer free surfaces at the end of etching.”
Unlike ALD, ALE has not moved into mass production. Among the challenges for ALE has been to control the pulsed power at low energies. “We know how to do that now,” he said. “There has been a lot of improvement on etch processing control, ion energies and pulsing of gases.”
Going forward, Applied envisions that ALE will likely appear in a cluster tool. That tool could have one or several dedicated ALE chambers. The same tool could also have dedicated and separate RIE and clean chambers, in which ALE, RIE and the cleans are running in conjunction as a mean to perform separate tasks.
“ALE won’t take over everything in etch,” Howard said. “RIE will be around for the foreseeable future for certain applications. If you have to etch a substantial amount of material, you probably do not want to use ALE. That takes time,” he said.
“On the other hand, you will see ALE come in for both conductor and dielectric etching. For conductor, ALE will play in the regular gate and fin formation, or any engineering on the shaping of the fins,” he said. “For the dielectric side, when you make a contact, you typically come down to a stopping layer. And then you punch through the stopping layer. If you could have a very low damage process that etches through that stop layer, and gets you down to your contact surface, you can improve the contact resistance and the device matching capabilities.”
Lam’s Lill agrees that ALE will not replace RIE. “We will offer both technologies in one reactor,” Lill said. “We think they will be complementary for certain applications. But we are already seeing the transition (to ALE) in certain applications.”
ALE could be used for 3D NAND, sub-20nm DRAMs and finFETs, but there are still some challenges before ALE is running in the production fab. “There are still three grand challenges left,” Lill said. “One is that there are no secondary unintended reactions for ALE. For example, we don’t want extreme UV radiation in the reactor. Second, we want the unit steps to be discrete. And finally, we need self-limiting single unit steps. They are very difficult to find.”
There are other issues as well. “One of the key challenges in getting ALE into the fab is the smart chemistry aspect of this technology,” said Craig Huffman, atomic layer etch and clean engineer at Sematech. “The semiconductor world has used HF or hydrofluoric acid (in traditional etch). HF has a very good reaction with Si0², but it has almost zero reaction to silicon. If you expand that into the new materials that will be used in transistor fabrication moving forward, you can imagine chemistries along the same lines.”
In the distant future, meanwhile, ALE could help pave the way to future devices, such as III V finFETs, gate-all-around FETs and others. III V finFETs are slated for 7nm, while gate-all-around could appear at 5nm. “III V might be one of the materials that ALE will play a key role in,” said Dae-Hyun Kim, ALE project manager at Sematech. “In case of the nanowire, the physical dimensions are below 10nm or so. It will be extremely important to control any geometry of that circumstance. Losing 1nm out of 10nm means 10% change or variation.”
ALE, according to Kim, could be used in the development of futuristic two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, boron nitride, and the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Two TMD materials, molybdenum diselenide and molybdenum disulfide, are both attractive materials for use in future FETs.
“There are applications for what we would describe as vanilla materials like oxide nitrides all the way to exotic materials,” added Richard Hill, technology manager at Sematech. “So, ALE was once a solution looking for a problem. That problem has come of age. So we see a long and healthy future for ALE.”
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Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Published byJuan Gutierrez Modified over 5 years ago
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0 Overview of Electronic Commerce
Chapter 1 Overview of Electronic Commerce
1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Learning Objectives Define electronic commerce (EC) and describe its various categories. Describe and discuss the content and framework of EC. Describe the major types of EC transactions. Describe the digital revolution as a driver of EC. Describe the business environment as a driver of EC. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Learning Objectives Describe some EC business models. Describe the benefits of EC to organizations, consumers, and society. Describe the limitations of EC. Describe the contribution of EC to organizations responding to environmental pressures. Describe online social and business networks. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
3 Electronic Commerce: Definitions and Concepts
electronic commerce (EC) The process of buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging products, services, or information via computer networks. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
e-business A broader definition of EC that includes not just the buying and selling of goods and services, but also servicing customers, collaborating with business partners, and conducting electronic transactions within an organization. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
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6 The EC Framework, Classification, and Content
Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
CLASSIFICATION OF EC BY THE NATURE OF THE TRANSACTIONS OR INTERACTIONS business-to-business (B2B) E-commerce model in which all of the participants are businesses or other organizations. business-to-consumer (B2C) E-commerce model in which businesses sell to individual shoppers. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
e-tailing Online retailing, usually B2C. business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) E-commerce model in which a business provides some product or service to a client business that maintains its own customers. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
consumer-to-business (C2B) E-commerce model in which individuals use the Internet to sell products or services to organizations or individuals who seek sellers to bid on products or services they need. mobile commerce (m-commerce) E-commerce transactions and activities conducted in a wireless environment. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
10 The EC Framework, Classification, and Content
location-based commerce (l-commerce) M-commerce transactions targeted to individuals in specific locations, at specific times. intrabusiness EC E-commerce category that includes all internal organizational activities that involve the exchange of goods, services, or information among various units and individuals in an organization. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
business-to-employees (B2E) E-commerce model in which an organization delivers services, information, or products to its individual employees. collaborative commerce (c-commerce) E-commerce model in which individuals or groups communicate or collaborate online. consumer-to-consumer (C2C) E-commerce model in which consumers sell directly to other consumers. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
peer-to-peer Technology that enables networked peer computers to share data and processing with each other directly; can be used in C2C, B2B, and B2C e-commerce. e-learning The online delivery of information for purposes of training or education. e-government E-commerce model in which a government entity buys or provides goods, services, or information from or to businesses or individual citizens. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
exchange A public electronic market with many buyers and sellers. exchange-to-exchange (E2E) E-commerce model in which electronic exchanges formally connect to one another for the purpose of exchanging information. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF EC The Google Revolution EC Failures EC Successes Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
15 The Digital Revolution Drives E-Commerce
digital economy An economy that is based on digital technologies, including digital communication networks, computers, software, and other related information technologies; also called the Internet economy, the new economy, or the Web economy. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
16 The Business Environment Drives E-Commerce
The Business Environment Impact Model Business Pressures and Opportunities Organizational Response Strategies Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
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EC BUSINESS MODELS business model A method of doing business by which a company can generate revenue to sustain itself. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
EC BUSINESS MODELS TYPICAL EC BUSINESS MODELS Online direct marketing Electronic tendering systems for procurement tendering (bidding) system Model in which a buyer requests would-be sellers to submit bids; the lowest cost or highest value bidder wins. name-your-own-price model Model in which a buyer sets the price he or she is willing to pay and invites sellers to supply the good or service at that price. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
EC BUSINESS MODELS Find the best price also known as a search engine model affiliate marketing An arrangement whereby a marketing partner (a business, an organization, or even an individual) refers consumers to the selling company’s Web site. viral marketing Word-of-mouth marketing in which customers promote a product or service to friends or others. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
EC BUSINESS MODELS group purchasing Quantity (aggregated) purchasing that enables groups of purchasers to obtain a discount price on the products purchased. SMEs Small-to-medium enterprises. e-co-ops Another name for online group purchasing organizations. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
EC BUSINESS MODELS Online auctions Product customization and service personalization customization Creation of a product or service according to the buyer’s specifications. personalization The creation of a service or information according to specific customer specifications. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
EC BUSINESS MODELS Electronic marketplaces and exchanges Information brokers (infomediaries) Bartering Value-chain integrators Value-chain service providers Supply chain improvers Social networks, communities, and blogging Negotiation Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
24 Benefits and Limitations of EC
THE BENEFITS OF EC Benefits to Organizations Benefits to Consumers Benefits to Society Facilitating Problem Solving Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
THE LIMITATIONS AND BARRIERS OF EC Technological Limitations Nontechnological Limitations Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
26 SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORKS
social networks Web sites that connect people with specified interests by providing free services such as photo presentation, , blogging, and so on. Business-Oriented Networks Revenue Models of Social and Business Networks Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
27 The Digital Enterprise
A new business model that uses IT in a fundamental way to accomplish one or more of three basic objectives: reach and engage customers more effectively, boost employee productivity, and improve operating efficiency. It uses converged communication and computing technology in a way that improves business processes. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
intranet extranet electronic market Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Summary Definition of EC and description of its various categories. The content and framework of EC. The major types of EC transactions. The role of the digital revolution. The role of the business environment as an EC driver. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Summary The major EC business models. Benefits of EC to organizations, consumers, and society. Barriers to EC. Social and business online networks. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
31 E-Marketplaces: Structures and Mechanisms
Chapter 2 E-Marketplaces: Structures and Mechanisms
Learning Objectives Define e-marketplaces and list their components. List the major types of e-marketplaces and describe their features. Describe the various types of EC intermediaries and their roles. Describe electronic catalogs, shopping carts, search engines, and portals. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
Learning Objectives Describe the major types of auctions and list their characteristics. Discuss the benefits, limitations, and impacts of auctions. Describe bartering and negotiating online. Describe the major mechanisms for delivering Web 2.0. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
E-MARKETPLACES e-marketplace An online market, usually B2B, in which buyers and sellers exchange goods or services; the three types of e-marketplaces are private, public, and consortia. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
E-MARKETPLACES E-MARKETPLACE COMPONENTS AND PARTICIPANTS Customers Sellers Products and services digital products Goods that can be transformed to digital format and delivered over the Internet. Infrastructure Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
E-MARKETPLACES front end The portion of an e-seller’s business processes through which customers interact, including the seller’s portal, electronic catalogs, a shopping cart, a search engine, and a payment gateway. back end The activities that support online order fulfillment, inventory management, purchasing from suppliers, payment processing, packaging, and delivery. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
E-MARKETPLACES intermediary A third party that operates between sellers and buyers. Other business partners Support services Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
38 Types of E-Marketplaces and Mechanisms: from Storefronts to Portals
private e-marketplaces Online markets owned by a single company; may be either sell-side and/or buy-side e-marketplaces. sell-side e-marketplace A private e-marketplace in which one company sells either standard and/or customized products to qualified companies. buy-side e-marketplace A private e-marketplace in which one company makes purchases from invited suppliers. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
public e-marketplaces B2B marketplaces, usually owned and/or managed by an independent third party, that include many sellers and many buyers; also known as exchanges. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
information portal A single point of access through a Web browser to business information inside and/or outside an organization. Chapter 1 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
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Have no fear of the dark with “Iron Maiden: Album By Album”
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Required reading for all Iron Maiden fans, Album By Album is a compendium of in-depth, entertaining and profusely illustrated conversations about all sixteen of the legendary metal band’s studio albums.
Now ready: Iron Maiden: Album By Album (Voyageur Press, $30), from prolific rock journalist Martin Popoff, pays tribute to the Iron Maiden’s studio discography through a series of in-depth, frank, and entertaining conversations about all 16 of the legendary heavy metal band’s studio albums. Inside, the author gathers together metal journalists, authors, and musicians, who offer insights, opinions and anecdotes about every release.
Maiden’s fan base is large, diverse and enduring, and that goes for the line-up Popoff assembled to break down each Maiden studio release. Among those weighing in are musicians Marty Friedman, Mike Portnoy, Matt Heafy, Nita Strauss, Ahmet Zappa and former Maiden singer Blaze Bayley. Rocker and pro wrestler Chris Jericho is here, along with journalists “Metal” Tim Henderson, Rich Davenport, Jimmy Kay and other metal and Iron Maiden experts.
Together, the conversations comprise a unique historical overview of the band, covering everything from early albums with original lead singer Paul Di’Anno; the songwriting of founder and bassist Steve Harris; the impeccable talents of drummer Nicko McBrain and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, and Janick Gers; mega tours undertaken in support of the albumss; fights and drama within the band; and much more.
The resulting insights, opinions and anecdotes explore it all, starting with the band’s debut at the vanguard of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal to breakthrough iconic releases like The Number of the Beast and Powerslave. Popoff also includes loads of sidebars that provide complete track listings, details on album personnel, and information on where and when the albums were recorded. Every page is illustrated with thoughtfully curated performance and offstage photography, as well as rare memorabilia.
“Metal” Tim HendersonAdrian SmithAhmet ZappaBlaze BayleyChris JerichoDave MurrayIron Maiden: Album By AlbumJanick GersJimmy KayMartin PopoffMarty FriedmanMatt HeafyMike PortnoyNicko McBrainNita StraussPaul Di’AnnoRich Davenport
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SINGAPORE – Freehold Katong Plaza will be launched for collective sale on Thursday (June 7) with a S$188 million expected price, sole marketing agent Huttons Asia announced on Tuesday.
The expected price translates to S$1,969 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr) for the mixed commercial and residential development, after factoring in the payable development charge.
The public tender for Katong Plaza closes at 2pm on July 16.
The site has a land area of 34,044 sq ft with a gross plot ratio of 3.0, and can yield a possible 102,133 sq ft of gross floor area (GFA) after redevelopment, Huttons Asia’s head of investment sales Terence Lian said.
It is located 120m away from the future Marine Parade MRT station, and is in the vicinity of schools such as Tao Nan School, Haig’s Girls’ School, CHIJ (Katong) Primary and Tanjong Katong Primary School, and amenities such as Parkway Parade, 112 Katong and East Coast Park.
According to the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) guidelines, a minimum of 60 per cent of the GFA in the new development will need to be zoned for residential use, with the remaining 40 per cent for commercial purposes.
With “continued strong demand” for residential homes in the Katong area, the winning developer could also choose to increase residential use to 80 per cent, with the remaining 20 per cent for commercial use under the current master plan zoning, subject to URA approval, added Huttons Asia’s deputy head of investment sales Angela Lim.
“Katong Plaza is strategically nestled within an established F&B (food and beverage) and retail belt in the heart of Katong. We see a huge potential for the site to be transformed as the successful developer could introduce lifestyle cafes and eateries along the plot’s existing 150m frontage along Brooke Road,” Ms Lim noted.
“We envisage Brooke Road to form a vibrant weather-friendly thoroughfare lined with alfresco dining and activities that would help seamlessly link up the Katong/Joo Chiat area with the future Marine Parade MRT station,” she said.
Spanish Village up for collective sale
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How social media is helping terrorists recruit
Terrorists 2.0 exist! They are recruited on the web, via social media, through an islamist radicalization. Jihadists chose social media to touch a lot of people, but also for their modernity. Their virility makes them extremely effective.
The selection procedure is very well thought out. The key words to reach an effective propaganda are, either the same or very close: conspiracy of the stronger against the weaker, contestation of the consumer society, real commercial approach and seduction, plus a strategy of confinement, building a new “lifestyle” with more and more interdictions, a new language.
The recruitment starts using the tools offered by Facebook: the recommendations, meaning filtering a body of information according to the centers of interests of a surfer. Once the surfer is convinced Islam is the only recourse against this Evil, he will start to become a part of a Facebook open group and make new friends. By the end, they think the conversion to Islam is an irreversible act.
But Facebook is not the only canal since Daesh has 46,000 Twitter accounts, more or less all-active. Even if Social media is not felt immediately, concerns by this phenomenon have started terrorist attacks in Paris in November: they have to work with government institutions.
It doesn’t mean freedom of speech is threatened; it will help closing jihadist Facebook or Twitter accounts down. Henceforth, Twitter states “You should not make threats or incite anyone to violence, including terrorist threats and advocating terrorism”.
This is the beginning of a new era, with new questions such as will a new channel be created specifically for the fight against terrorism? And how strong would it be?
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