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Murder warrant: Orange County deputies search for shooting suspect
Submitted by Sharon Brooks on December 22, 2017 - 1:25pm
Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) are searching for 31-year-old James Derrick McGlothlin of Vidor after a murder warrant was issued for his arrest following the shooting death of 51-year-old Christopher Sharpe Dec. 19, reports Criminal Investigator Janois Strause Grizzaffi.
According to information from Grizzaffi, OCSO's Criminal Investigative unit submitted an affidavit of probable cause and secured a murder warrant for McGlothlin's arrest Dec. 22. Deputies originally questioned and released McGlothlin, who witnesses placed at the scene of the shooting at a residence in the 1100 block of Liberty in Vidor at about 10 p.m. that Tuesday night. Investigators believe the two had a disagreement that evening that led to the shooting.
Detectives are currently attempting to serve this warrant on McGlothlin. Anyone with information as to where McGlothlin may be located is a asked to contact the Sheriff"s Office at (409) 883-2612 or contact CrimeStoppers at 409-833-TIPS (8477).
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Port Vale Checkatrade clash with Stoke ends in violence and 11 arrests
by Mandy Day | December 06, 2018 | 09:33
On Tuesday night, Stoke and Port Vale fans did their best to reenact those surly scenes, at one of the rarest derbies in English football - known locally as the "Potteries derby" - in the U21 EPL Checkatrade Trophy second round.
Two men have been charged following violent scenes at the Port Vale vs Stoke City Checkatrade Trophy match on Tuesday night.
More than 150 officers were deployed and they used public order tactics in a bid to restore peace, but were targeted with coins and flares thrown from the terraces in response.
"My officers have shown bravery and dedication tonight and the support from stewards and partners has been first class in ensuring that those intent on fighting each other were unable to do so".
"Where this behaviour involved so-called supporters of Stoke City we will be working closely with Staffordshire Police and Port Vale to bring the culprits to justice", he said.
Staffordshire Police reported "considerable damage" while pubs in the Burslem area closed early in an effort to avoid clashes.
It ended 4-0 to Port Vale, although the violence will likely outlast the result in the memories of those who were there.
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The two cross-town clubs have not met in 16 years as Port Vale play in League Two, England's fourth tier and a couple of divisions below Championship side Stoke. Some of the away fans clearly came simply to cause trouble.
"You could hear them chanting and screaming as they were coming up the road".
"Dozens of seats have been wrecked".
It was perhaps symptomatic of a bad-tempered affair on and off the pitch, with Staffordshire police saying today that eleven arrest - and counting - have been made after some "despicable behaviour" unfolded at the event.
The Sky Bet League Two club say repairs have begun at their ground, and they fully expect the next home game against Cheltenham to go ahead a week on Saturday.
11 people have been arrested after parts of a football stadium were damaged last night (4th December).
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Development Update: Tuesday, November 4
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
THEN AGAIN (Hallmark, New!) - Jennifer Westfeldt ("Notes From the Underbelly") and David Sutcliffe ("Private Practice") are set to star in a new original movie for the cable channel. The project, set to air on Valentine's Day, centers on George (Sutcliffe), who is heartbroken over his fiancee Jane's (Westfeldt) refusal to marry him. But, after he gets into an accident, George finds himself transported back in time to fix Jane's wounded heart from a disastrous near-trip to the altar in the past. Lauren Holly ("NCIS") also stars as Mary, Jane's New Age best friend. Paul Fox is directing from a script by Elena Krupp with Phillip Krupp and Zev Braun executive producing.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters
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Show Media Item - Activists ask gov’t to create employment opportunities for youth to curb involvement in criminal acts
Activists ask gov’t to create employment opportunities for youth to curb involvement in criminal acts
Youth activists in the country have urged government to created more employment opportunities and skills centres for the youth to curtail their involvement in criminal enterprises and the devastating back-way (irregular migration) Europe through high seas.
They said creation of economic Empowerment for young people would enable them to contribute to nation building.
Lamin Jammeh, a Jambanjelly-based activist challenged government to create more employment opportunities and skills centres to prevent them from engaging in drug abuse and other criminal activities.
He said young people are the potential work force of the country‘s development and should be empowered to contribute to the national development.
“I think authorities should re-double their efforts to create platforms that would enable the youth to earn decent living and discourage them from taking on the back-way to Europe,” he said.
Mr. Jammeh said it is lack of job opportunities and hardship on young people in the country that is forcing thousands of them to embark on irregular migration in attempt to better their lives in which some of them would meet their death.
He said if there are abundant employment opportunities available in the country, young people will not engage in the risk journey to Europe in search of better living condition.
Pa Abdou Saidy, also a youth activist in Brikama said young people are significant constituent in the country and government should try to establish more kills centres for them where they can learn several skills to better their living condition.
“Establishing skill centres in all the regions in the country will help youth to learn skills and create job opportunities to prevent them from involving in criminal activities and other social vices,’’ he said.
He said lack of job opportunities force youth to engage in enterprises that can harm their lives.
Bubacarr Jatta from Kartong in Kombo South challenged authorities to equip youth with skills to engage into something that will improve their living condition and also prevent them from involving in criminal activities. “Government should encourage youth who are engage in farming and fishing to use it as their source of income,” he pointed out.
Karim Sey said youth are vital component in the development of the country and government should direct more attention to them to realize their objectives.
He stated that majority of youth embark on the back-way journey to Europe due to lack of employment opportunities and inadequate skills.
“Government should try to create more opportunities for youth to stop them from resorting to the Atlantic Ocean to Europe for better living condition,” Mr. Sey said.
He said government should support youth who are engaged in farming, fishing, business and entrepreneurship to maintain their professional.
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Show Media Item - Yagana World Foundation gives learning materials to students
Yagana World Foundation gives learning materials to students
Yagana World Foundation last Saturday donated learning materials to fifty-two sponsored students within the greater Banjul Area and Makumbaya village in West Coast Region, as part of their contribution to the development of education in the country.
The presentation ceremony, held at Makumbaya Village, was attended by the community leaders and parents.
Yagana World Foundation is a charitable organization established in The Gambia in 2000 through the Dutch nationals based in the Netherlands.
Since then the foundation has been very supportive of Gambian students, especially those in the Lower Basic schools.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Dinemarie Lanereis, the project coordinator in The Gambia, said Yagana World Foundation’s areas of intervention include education, agriculture and health.
She added that the foundation has been very supportive of the people of Makumbaya for the past 14 years.
He pointed out that in Makumbaya village alone they are sponsoring 37 children and are also sponsoring another 15 children from other communities.
“We are also sponsoring some poor children whose parents cannot afford to pay their school fees but are clever and are passing exams in school,” she said.
She announced the sponsoring of 10 more children by one of their sponsors Mr Derek Kent based in Holland, who, he said, is working hard to sponsor more students in the near future.
Plans are underway to expand the sponsorship to as many students as possible, she said, adding that Mr Derek himself once visited The Gambia on holidays and has ever since felt there is need to support some of kids in The Gambia in their education.
She said their first sponsorship in The Gambia started with three students and now the foundation is able to sponsor at least 52 children.
Last year two of their sponsored kids’ parent’s houses collapsed during the raining season but the foundation was able to build new houses for them through two Canadian women who came specially to see what the foundation is doing in The Gambia.
According to her, the foundation has received from the Dutch government an award for supporting the work towards the Millennium Development Goals.
She said 37 mothers of the sponsored kids also received packages containing soap, tea, candle, body lotion, pens and small notebooks.
She posited that 37 mothers received big umbrellas given to them by Emile Du Croix Real Easte of Holland.
Speaking on behalf of the Alkalo of the village, Momodou Manneh thanked the sponsors through Dinemarie for being very supportive of the development of the village.
He pointed out: “We need to help them to strengthen their efforts so our children who are our future leaders can have quality education.”
He said the sponsors made it clear “if your kids cannot pass the exams for two consecutive years, your sponsor will transfer to another student who passes his or her exams”.
Author: Bakary Samateh
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HomeReviewsMoviesAnthony Mann’s The Tin Star (1957)
Anthony Mann’s The Tin Star (1957)
Oct 15, 2013 Wade Sheeler Movies, Reviews 1
Deep vistas. Narrow minds. That’s the visual and thematic takeaway from The Tin Star (1957), one of director Anthony Mann’s finest achievements. Bounty Hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Fonda) rides into town with a dead outlaw slung over his horse’s back. From the very first dolly move, as the camera swings around to capture his horse’s slow saunter, to its tethering and Fonda’s entering the sheriff’s office, there is a dimension and air between the characters, the set pieces and the lens that gives an almost 3-D effect.
By the late 1950s, directors and cameramen had a solid understanding of the widescreen format. And while earlier widescreen directors forcefully staged characters flatly on either side of the long stretched image, the latter day filmmakers referred back to the long axis (first displayed to great effect in silent cinema) for stronger theatrical impact.
The theory of the long axis is that, much like theatrical staging, the most powerful position for any character is upstage (towards the back) and the submissive or foil characters is downstage (near the bottom). Characters in the background that stride slowly from a distance towards the lens create the greatest visual tension. The camera can also be placed over a character’s shoulder, as they look away from us, deep into the center of the frame.
No one staged these suspenseful images in the late ’50s better than Mann.
In the Sheriff’s office, the bright interior and big open windows give an unbelievable view all the way down the town streets on either side of the room. Cinematographer Loyal Griggs’ deep focus only helps to build on the depth and symmetry between objects. Historically, interior scenes were shot on a soundstage, with a character entering a building from an outdoor exterior. With Mann’s old west town, interior shots were actually shot inside buildings, so the connection to the town was not just implied, but real.
Clint Eastwood, ever the voracious student of great filmmakers, replicated these long axis shots for Unforgiven, as the sheriff’s hired men gather in and outside his office, windows open, displaying a brightness that belies the darker forces at work inside.
That’s for the film fans to savor.
For the moviegoer, there is an unspoken power and heft to The Tin Star’s scenes, thanks to camera placement and staging. Fonda can’t find the Sheriff, then peering into the backroom of the jail’s , cramped, dark and tight quarters, we see a kid practicing his gun draw, dropping his revolver and fixing eyes on the lanky stranger. Shouldering his vest, the tin star that unceremoniously hangs from his chest gives us the final bit of unspoken information we need to set the story in motion.
Mann’s filmography covered many genres, but he is best known for, and excelled at Noir in the ’40s and Westerns in the ’50s. He was often matched up with James Stewart, from the stellar Winchester ’73 and The Naked Spur, to The Man from Laramie as well as several other Westerns, melodramas and war movies. But this was Mann’s first and only teaming with Henry Fonda, and their blending couldn’t be more perfect.
Fonda’s Hickman, at first reviled by the town for his occupation, then embraced, is almost immediately admired by Anthony Perkins’ naïve young Sheriff, Ben Owens. Hickman really just wants his bounty money and to leave, and as the wheels of payment are slow, he’s forced to wait it out while watching the Sheriff go up against badass Bart Bogardus (Neville Brand), a bully who had hoped to grab the Sheriff’s position and turn the town to corruption. With no place to stay while he waits, Hickman comes upon widowed homesteader Nona Mayfield (Betsy Palmer) who offers him a room. He immediately bonds with her son, who is half Indian. The young boy is often at the receiving end of racist Bogardus’ anger, and we start to understand the bigotry and small-minded townspeople that the young Sheriff is caught between. The Mayor and other big businessmen want him to turn a cold shoulder to Bounty Hunter Hickman, but he is the only person to offer the Sheriff advice and real world wisdom.
Hickman thinks Owens is as good as dead in the no-win scenario, but he lets it slip he had once been a lawman in his day. The two strike up a father-son rapport, and against his better judgment, Hickman is drawn into the fallout from a botched stagecoach robbery and murder. Soon the town is split into three factions, the justice seekers, Bogardus’ lynch posse, and the desperate murderous brothers, holed up in their ranch.
To say that The Tin Star takes its time is an understatement, but Anthony Mann’s sure-hand (second only in this genre to John Ford) guides some of the more traditional and expected story points through these tricky waters. The audience knows Fonda and Palmer will become lovers, just as they know good will win out. But as always, it’s the telling of the tale that holds our interest and Mann is one of the premier storytellers.
As usual the Warner Archive Classics is paltry in extras, but the reason to rent and own this recent release is really for the film itself, its stunning images transferred with unparalleled crispness and contrast.
The Tin Star is arguably the last great film by Mann, and a mandatory addition to any film lover’s library.
Editor’s note: The Tin Star is available as a manufacture on demand DVD (MOD) through Warner Archive.
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What strange, secretive, and sometimes even sinister creatures of cryptozoology – or even of something else entirely – might still lurk undetected by science amid the shadowy depths of forbidding forests in the remotest regions of West Africa? (Pixabay/free usage)
Ati, bwana! There is a story you will not believe, because you are a white man. White men laugh at the stories told by the black man. They say this is not so, and that is not so. We have not seen this or that, so how can it be? They say, Ho, Ho! Black men are like little children, telling tales to each other in the dark. But remember, bwana, white men have been in this country for a time that is less than the life of one man, so how can you know all the things that have been known to black men for a hundred lifetimes and more?
Roger Courtney – A Greenhorn in Africa, quoting an elderly African
hunter, Ali
Whereas many mystery animals have been well documented from North, East, Central, and southern Africa, far fewer have been publicised from West Africa – especially from its westernmost corner, constituting The Gambia and its encompassing neighbour, Senegal. Yet these two small countries (sometimes referred to collectively as Senegambia) apparently harbour a sizeable array of bizarre, unidentified beasts rarely if ever brought to widespread cryptozoological attention…until now.
Owen Burnham in Kenya‘s Namanga Hills Forest(© Owen Burnham – photograph kindly made available to me by Owen for use in relation to my cryptozoological writings)
I owe a great debt of thanks to a longstanding colleague, naturalist Owen Burnham, who spent his childhood and teenage years in Senegal, for very kindly supplying me during our longstanding correspondence with information regarding the creatures documented here. While living in Senegal, Owen became formally accepted as an honorary member of the native Mandingo (Mandinka) tribe, and thus learnt much about this land’s mystery animals and also those of Gambia that has remained unknown to other Westerners.
One such creature, the Gambian sea serpent, or Gambo for short, launched my own career in cryptozoology when I investigated its case in detail during the mid-1980s, and has now become very well known and well-documented in the literature (click here to access my extensive coverage of this cryptid on ShukerNature). However, Owen also learnt of several other mystery beasts that have received far less publicity, and so it is with these hitherto little-documented yet no less interesting examples that this present ShukerNature blog article is concerned.
Illustration of Gambo produced by Mark North for publicity material appertaining to the Centre for Fortean Zoology’s 2006 Gambian expedition (© Mark North/CFZ)
MYSTERY STONE PARTRIDGE
This enigmatic Senegalese bird was originally documented by me in a World Pheasant Association News article (May 1991) on gallinaceous mystery birds.
The stone partridge is represented in Senegal by its nominate subspecies Ptilopachus petrosus petrosus – a familiar sight to Owen. However, he remains perplexed in relation to the covey of stone partridges that he spied at Fanda, Senegal, in 1985. Unlike this country’s normal brown-headed, buff-breasted specimens, these were very finely but noticeably mottled with white upon their head and neck, and their breast was whitish. They were also rather smaller in size, but most unexpected of all was their habitat.
A typical stone partridge, in The Gambia, which neighbours Senegal(© Francesco Veronesi/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 2.0 licence)
Eschewing the rocky terrain or scrubland normally frequented by Ptilopachus, this covey was dwelling within a small but dense area of undergrowth in a rice field, many miles from the nearest expanse of stony ground. Owen saw a second covey of this strange form of stone partridge at Kouniara, and this time they were living in thick woodland, comprising a mixture of real forest and palm trees. Yet despite their radically different habitat, their behaviour was similar to that of typical stone partridges, scurrying rapidly across the ground – though in this case over fallen trees and through the forest, rather than over rocks and through scrub.
Local hunters had informed Owen that such birds existed, but he had not believed this until he had encountered them himself. In view of their morphological differences and markedly distinct habitat, could these stone partridges constitute a separate subspecies, isolated topographically from the nominate race? Bearing in mind, however, the tragic, continuing destruction of Senegal’s wildlife habitats, especially forests, it is to be hoped that this mystifying bird form can be thoroughly investigated in the near future, to enable it (if still surviving) to be saved not only from continued scientific obscurity but also from ensuing extinction. Interestingly, I recently discovered online a vintage colour illustration that portrays a pair of stone partridges closely matching Owen’s description, complete with white mottling upon their head and neck, plus a whitish breast, so clearly such a form has been seen and even depicted in the past.
A pair of stone partridges resembling those seen by Owen Burnham in Senegal – this vintage colour illustration was created some time between 1700 and 1880, and is from Iconographia Zoologica (public domain)
GIANT BUSHBABY
Related to the Madagascan lemurs and the Asian lorises, as well as to Africa‘s own pottos and angwantibos, the bushbabies or galagos constitute 19 currently-recognised species of primitive primate. Nocturnal and arboreal, they are characterised by their large ears, long tail, and fairly small size. Currently, the largest species are the three aptly-named greater bushbabies, with an average total length of 3 ft, of which over half comprises the tail.
Bushbaby – does Senegalharbour an undiscovered giant species? (public domain)
However, Senegal may be harbouring a rather more sizeable surprise. In June 1985, while exploring the heart of the Casamance Forest, Owen spied a mysterious creature resembling a giant form of bushbaby. It was the size of a half-grown domestic cat, with pale grey fur, and was accompanied by two or three young ones. Several years later, a similar animal was also reported from another West African country, the Ivory Coast. And in 1994, an assistant of bushbaby taxonomist Dr Simon K. Bearder, from Oxford Brookes University in England, encountered and even photographed a strange cat-sized creature in Cameroon that once again was superficially reminiscent of a giant bushbaby. Further details concerning these perplexing extra-large prosimians can be found in my book The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals.
HAIRY MAN-BEASTS OF FOREST AND STREAM
Another mystifying entity reported from Senegambia, and also from Guinea, but unrecognised by science is the fating’ho. Although still believed in by the more elderly members of native Senegalese society, younger people here tend to discount them as mere superstition or folklore, but occasionally something happens to make them think again.
For instance: one day in or around November 1992, one of Owen’s longtime Senegalese friends, a youthful native entomological researcher called Malang Mane, was conducting research in a densely forested area of northern Guinea at an altitude of about 3600 ft when he saw something that drove all thoughts of insects far from his mind. Without warning, and completely silently, a man-sized entity stepped out of the undergrowth only a short distance ahead of him. It was covered in long, shaggy black hair, had a noticeably large head, and emitted a guttural grunting sound. Most significant of all, however, was the fact that this veritable man-beast was walking on its hind legs, and was not holding onto any branches or foliage for support, i.e. it was fully bipedal, just like humans. Too shocked and frightened to move, Malang watched it approach to within a few feet of him before it ran away again.
Dramatic artistic representation of a confrontational Australopithecus group, exhibited in Brazil(public domain)
Malang is very familiar with the West African chimpanzee, and he was certain that the creature was not a chimp, bearing in mind that he had observed it in detail at very close range. Nor was it a gorilla, which is not native to this region of West Africa anyway. Only then did he realise that he must have seen one of the elusive, legendary fating’ho.
Similar man-beasts have been reported elsewhere in Africa too, and some cryptozoologists have suggested that they may be surviving australopithecines – primitive hominids that officially became extinct at least a million years ago. Like many West African ‘monsters’, however, the fating’ho seems to inhabit a twilit world midway between mythology and mystery, for it combines various ostensibly physical features with certain purportedly preternatural ones, thus frustrating traditional attempts at cryptozoological classification.
Artistic representation of a living australopithecine, as depicted on the front cover of Dr Bernard Heuvelmans book Les Bêtes Humaines d’Afrique, dealing with sightings of various mystery man-beasts in this continent (© Plon Publishing – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational/review purposes only)
Some eyewitnesses, for example, claim that these entities will sometimes disappear into thin air in full view of their human observers. It is also believed that they can fire arrows at humans that are not tangible, but are ‘spirit arrows’ instead. These reputedly cause disfiguring ulcers to break out on their victims’ skin, which never heal again.
The fating’ho is not the only mysterious man-beast reported from Senegal. Also on file is the wokolo, which is chiefly differentiated from the fating’ho morphologically by its yellow eyes (those of the fating’ho are red) and long pointed beard. However, whereas the fating’ho prefers dense forests, the wokolo is more commonly encountered near streams.
GUIAFAIRO AND KIKIYAON – ENCOUNTERS OF THE EERIE KIND
Two of the weirdest and most grotesque monsters reported from Senegambia – or anywhere else, for that matter – must surely be the guiafairo and the kikiyaon.
Said to remain hidden by day within the hollow trees and cave-ridden rocky outcrops rising above the hot savannahs, it is during the evening that the guiafairo takes to the wing, earning itself a fearful but memorable title – ‘the fear that flies by night’. Few people who have been unfortunate enough to receive a visitation from this dire entity can agree upon its precise appearance. Some claim that it is grey in colour and winged, with a human face and clawed feet – a form of giant bat? Yet others aver that it is phantasmal, with no permanent, corporeal form, and can even materialise through locked doors.
Is the guiafairo some mysterious form of giant bat? (© William M. Rebsamen)
All confirm, however, that its arrival is accompanied by a vile, nauseating smell that engenders a suffocating, mind-numbing fear never forgotten by those who experience it – always assuming that they do survive. Some of the guiafairo’s victims have died soon afterwards from a creeping, paralysing malaise, almost as if their fear has itself acquired a lethal, physical reality.
No less deadly, or dreadful, than the guiafairo is the kikiyaon, which is said by the Bambara tribe to inhabit only the darkest expanses of forest, and rarely emerges from this stygian gloom. On those occasions when it is seen, however, it is likened to a monstrous owl, with a pair of immense wings, huge talons on its feet, and, most notable of all, a razor-sharp spur projecting from the tip of each of its two shoulder joints. Yet whereas its wings are feathered like those of normal owls, the body of this awesome apparition is clothed in short, greenish-grey fur, and it is even said to possess a short tufted tail.
An exercise in imagining what form an encounter with the dreaded kikiyaon might take (Pixabay/free usage)
Most native people believe the kikiyaon to be a truly supernatural creature, rather than merely an elusive natural one. They claim that evil sorcerers utilise this entity to kill people, either physically or spiritually, and can even directly transform themselves into a kikiyaon.
Yet it can give voice to some very substantial cries. These include a deep far-reaching grunting call that has been likened to (albeit not conclusively identified with) that of Pel’s fishing owl Scotopelia peli, a sizeable owl that is native to Senegambia. However, there is another cry that does not seem to resemble that of any known species of owl here, and has been compared to the hideous shrieks of someone being slowly strangled!
Perhaps Pel’s fishing owl will one day prove to be the hitherto-unrevealed identity of the very vocal kikiyaon? This exquisite chromolithograph was produced in 1859 by Joseph Wolf (public domain)
Intriguingly, this is precisely the description applied to the voice of another still-unidentified, exceedingly elusive mystery beast. Namely, the devil bird of Sri Lanka, whose fascinating if highly frustrating case history I examine and document in considerable detail within my book From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings.
Who knows? Perhaps a real, reclusive creature, possibly even an undescribed species of owl, originally inspired belief in the kikiyaon, but was gradually ‘transformed’ by superstition and folklore into the bizarre monster claimed to exist here today. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that a seemingly impossible creature has ultimately been shown to have a somewhat less dramatic and hitherto unrecognised but unequivocally genuine animal at its source.
WERE-HYAENAS AND SABRE-TOOTHS
Another Senegalese mystery beast that may be more substantial than surrealistic is the booa. Although only rarely seen, when it is observed the booa is usually likened to a giant, abnormally-coloured form of hyaena. In contrast, it is very frequently heard, especially at night. Indeed, its name is onomatopoeic, being derived from the hideous screaming cry that reverberates loudly through the still evening air when one of these creatures is in the vicinity.
As with the kikiyaon, some Senegalese people are convinced that the booa is actually a transformed sorcerer, i.e. a were-hyaena. They claim that if a booa is shot and its trail of blood followed, it will surely lead to a human house, inside which a man or woman will be found, bleeding profusely from gunshot wounds. (This scenario closely echoes many medieval Western accounts of werewolves.) There is a similar Senegalese belief regarding the mo solo – said to be a type of were-leopard (not to be confused with the leopard-man cults).
Is the booaa a mysterious giant hyaena, such as the supposedly long-extinct short-faced hyaena Pachycrocuta brevirostris? (public domain)
However, reports of the booa also readily call to mind numerous accounts from East Africa, especially Kenya, of a seemingly allied but corporeal mystery beast variously termed the chemosit, kerit, or Nandi bear.
Many descriptions of this infamously ferocious, forest-dwelling creature have likened it to a huge form of hyaena, of aberrant colouration and with a relatively short face (click here for a recent ShukerNature blog article dealing with the Nandi bear). Perhaps the booaa is an occidental counterpart in Senegal?
Artistic representation of the wanjilanko’s possible appearance (I found this illustration on the Net, but I am currently unaware of the artist’s identity, despite having made extensive online searches in relation to it – consequently I am reproducing it here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational/review purposes only)
Due to poaching and political unrest, in quite recent times some of Senegal‘s forests have been destroyed, and its more exotic, rarer animals have become extinct. In addition, it is possible that some particularly secretive species have actually died out here even before their very existence was recognised by science.
During discussions with native hunters in Senegal‘s depleted Casamance Forest, Owen has learnt that they can still readily recall a huge but very mysterious form of cat, which they refer to as the wanjilanko. According to their descriptions, it was striped, possessed very large teeth, and was so ferocious that it could even kill lions. Tragically, however, it appears to have died out, as have the lions that it allegedly once attacked.
Could sabre-tooth survival be a reality in the most remote regions of West Africa? Meanwhile, here’s one that I made earlier! (© Dr Karl Shuker)
Reports of huge striped cats with very large teeth and savage temperament have also been recorded elsewhere in West Africa. In Chad, for example, such a creature is known as the mountain tiger or hadjel, whereas further east, moving into the Central African Republic, local tribes speak variously of the gassingram or vassoko. Their descriptions invariably recall Machairodus, the officially extinct African sabre-toothed tiger. In addition, when illustrations of this prehistoric stalwart’s likely appearance in life have been shown to native hunters, they have readily identified them as pictures of their lands’ striped, toothy mystery cats (see my books Mystery Cats of the Worldand Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery, as well as Still In Search Of PrehistoricSurvivors, for additional details).
The prospect of sabre-tooth persistence into modern times must rate as very slim indeed. Nevertheless, there are few places on earth more capable of sustaining such survival beyond the reach of scientific detection than the remote, little-explored jungle-lands of West Africa.
Proffering a portrait of Senegal‘s red-furred, leonine chakpuar (© Dr Karl Shuker – created by me from a Pixabay/free usage image)
Also needing an explanation are Senegalese stories of a strange long-necked red lion known as the chakpuar, and peculiar ‘cat-wolves’ referred to as the guomna and sing sing. To quote one of Owen’s communications to me concerning the sing sing:
The “cat-wolf” is a strange concept that I have invented really to explain the oddities of the Sing Sing which seems to have the speed and stealth of a cat but the tenacity and stamina of a dog. It appears to have a head like a wolf and non retractable claws. The pelage is said to be somewhat brindled, like that of a laughing hyena [= the spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta] without the spots. Its tail is short and ringed. Again, this creature inspires fear in hardy hunters and is rarely talked about in case discussing it causes it to appear suddenly from the depths of the forest.
Except for the short tail, this description recalls the striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena, which is indeed native to Senegal. As this species is normally nocturnal, and therefore not readily seen, it may have engendered a heightened, exaggerated sense of fear among the local people, thus explaining their dread of it and its elevation in their minds to the status of a veritable monster – the sing sing.
THE TANTALISING TANKONGH
While visiting Guinea, another West African country that may still contain some intriguing zoological surprises, Owen learnt of yet another unidentified beast, the diminutive tankongh. This extremely shy beast is said by local hunters to resemble a small zebra, yet lives only in the high mountain forests and is rarely seen. However, Owen was once shown a pair of tiny dull grey hooves and some pieces of black and cream mottled skin – the remains of a tankongh that had been killed and eaten.
Owen mentions that according to local reports, this mysterious animal has a pair of small canine tusks, which makes me think of the water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus. This is a small, hornless, but tusked ungulate adorned with stripes and spots, which is native to Guinea’s lowland forests and swamp margins. Could this known but exceedingly elusive mammal be the identity of the tankongh, or could the latter even be a related but scientifically-undescribed species adapted for a montane existence? And what of the un-named, uncaptured toad, also hailing from Guinea, that reputedly gives birth to live young – is this a new form?
Vintage chromolithograph depicting West Africa‘s handsomely-marked but extremely reclusive water chevrotain (public domain)
It was Pliny the Elder who said: “Ex Africa semper aliquod novi” – “There is always something new out of Africa“. Judging from the cryptic creatures documented here, all currently lurking within that dusky borderland between reverie and reality, the intrepid cryptozoologist would do well to heed his words, and pay a keen-eyed visit to this mysterious continent’s all-too-long-overlooked Western quarter. Who knows what extraordinary revelations may still await formal scientific disclosure here?
This ShukerNature blog article is exclusively excerpted from my book Dr Shuker’s Casebook: In Pursuit of Marvels and Mysteries.
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Photo: Scott Council
By Kyle Mullin
Corb Lund has lassoed plenty of fanfare and press over the years with his cheeky cowpoke musical antics — be it yodelling or penning lyrics about saddle-bucking steeds and trucks getting stuck in thick prairie mud. Listeners who long for such heartland-tinged chuckles will delight in "Washed-Up Rock Star Factory Blues," a hilarious midway track on the Albertan country vet's new album, Things That Can't Be Undone, out now on New West.
"I used to work a lot of shitty jobs," Lund tells Exclaim! "That's the fear in the back of most musicians' minds, to have to do a regular job again."
But Lund is quick to add that the song — about trading his six-string for a broom and enduring taunts from the former boss that he has to crawl back to — isn't autobiographical. In fact, he wrote the fictitious, joke-loaded tune with pal and fellow Americana songsmith Evan Felker of the Turnpike Troubadours.
"I don't co-write very much; in fact this is one of the few successes I've had with that. We just had some beers and wrote a great song."
Writing much of the rest of Things That Can't Be Undone was a far more sobering, and sombre experience for Lund. He explains: "I went through a lot of loss in recent years — my dad, my niece and my grandma. So this record reflects that, and is a little darker."
Such heartache is evident in the musical tone and lyrical theme of "S Lazy H." The tune features tender acoustic strumming and Lund's earnest singing about a young rancher — based on an amalgamation of his prairie friends and acquaintances — who laments his sister selling her share of the family property, which results in him losing the rest to greedy bankers and realtors.
"S Lazy H" was the first song he wrote for this new LP, and after testing it on the road over the past year, Lund has come to realize just how much fans have to come appreciate his earnest deep cuts as much as his quirky hits.
"I've played that song all through the Canadian and American west, and I was surprised by how much it resonates," Lund says. "Almost every time I play it, someone comes up after and tells me they're going through that now."
Fans are sure to be equally moved by "Sadr City," which features an uncharacteristically chiming indie rock riff (which Lund attributes to acclaimed Nashville producer Dave Cobb and Grant Siemens, the guitarist of his backing band the Hurtin' Albertans). Lund penned the tune's lyrics from the perspective of an Iraq war veteran, after meeting several solders who were fans of his 2007 LP Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!!, which is laden with military odes.
"These guys had a few beers with me after my set, and told me their story," Lund says of the vets, who fought in an infamously bloody battle in the Sadr City slum on the outskirts of Baghdad, an altercation that took place shortly after president George W. Bush's notorious "Mission Accomplished," speech. Lund adds: "The song is their story, really. I mostly just set it to music."
Lund says it is deeply rewarding to know that soldiers could be moved by "Sadr City," and that rural landowners have been touched by "S Lazy H." "That feels good, although it's hard to start out with that goal in mind. You have to start out with the goal to just write songs. But it's nice that people are being moved by it."
He adds that writing such serious fare not only fulfills him emotionally, but also creatively.
"Sometimes I get tired of playing the cutesy ones live," Lund says of his humorous hits like "Truck Got Stuck," "Roughest Neck Around, and "You Ain't Been a Cowboy (If You Ain't Been Bucked Off)." "I'm proud of those songs, but sometimes you want to change it up a little. This is our eighth album, so I was really open to trying something new."
As previously reported, Corb Lund is out on a North American tour and will play plenty of Canadian dates in the new year. You can see all the stops here and stream all of Things That Can't Be Undone below.
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Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea) — December 1981
Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 12 (December 1981)
Managing Editor: Lindsay McClelland.
Manam (Papua New Guinea) Explosions and seismicity intensify
Global Volcanism Program, 1981. Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea). In: McClelland, L. (ed.), Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 6:12. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN198112-251020.
Volcano Profile | Complete Bulletin
4.08°S, 145.037°E; summit elev. 1807 m
"Activity further intensified in December. Southern crater emissions became darker after 9 December when spearheaded projections of tephra were first reported. Rumbling, thudding, and roaring sounds also intensified after the 9th. Larger tephra was visible beginning 13 December. Incandescent tephra ejections were seen throughout the month. Daytime incandescence, visible from Tabele Observatory (4 km from the summit), was reported occasionally, but became more common at the end of the month. These ejections rose to a maximum height of about 0.7 km. Spearheaded tephra projections became common at the end of the month. Light ashfalls in coastal areas 4-5 km from the summit were reported on several days in the second half of the month.
"Main crater was less active than Southern crater. Weak to moderate volumes of brown to grey emissions were reported occasionally in the first 10 days of December. However, activity intensified later in the month, and tephra emissions were reported every day 21-30 December. Weak glow from Main crater was seen on 29 December. Seismicity strengthened throughout December, reaching August and September levels by the end of the month. Distinct inflation was evident from tiltmeter measurements."
Geologic Background. The 10-km-wide island of Manam, lying 13 km off the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, is one of the country's most active volcanoes. Four large radial valleys extend from the unvegetated summit of the conical 1807-m-high basaltic-andesitic stratovolcano to its lower flanks. These "avalanche valleys" channel lava flows and pyroclastic avalanches that have sometimes reached the coast. Five small satellitic centers are located near the island's shoreline on the northern, southern, and western sides. Two summit craters are present; both are active, although most historical eruptions have originated from the southern crater, concentrating eruptive products during much of the past century into the SE valley. Frequent historical eruptions, typically of mild-to-moderate scale, have been recorded since 1616. Occasional larger eruptions have produced pyroclastic flows and lava flows that reached flat-lying coastal areas and entered the sea, sometimes impacting populated areas.
Information Contacts: C. McKee, RVO.
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The Tektronix 7F10 is an optical-input vertical plug-in introduced in 1987 for 7000-series scopes, at a price of $6,495 (2018 value $14,400). The 7F10 has 10 kHz — 750 MHz bandwidth in a 7104 mainframe (400 MHz in 79xx, 300 MHz in 78xx).
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Tektronix provided no schematics for the O/E converter module. A manual (provided by third party) is the "7F10 O/E Module Manual".
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PUTRAJAYA: Amanah vice-president and Pokok Sena MP Mahfuz Omar will have to pay RM200,000 in damages to former NGO leader Hasan Mohamed Ali for defamation.
This follows the Federal Court's refusal to grant leave to Mahfuz, who is deputy human resources minister, to appeal against the Court of Appeal ruling.
Lawyer Faiz Fadzil, who represented Mahfuz, told FMT a three-member bench led by acting Chief Justice Ahmad Maarop dismissed the leave aplication with RM10,000 in costs.
"The bench is of the opinion that the two questions of law framed to persuade the court to hear the appeal did not cross the threshold under Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964," he told FMT.
This means the questions framed are not novel or of public advantage.
Faiz said the damages to be paid to Hasan, the ex-Jalur Tiga Malaysia (Jati) president, could be more as the compensation included interest.
The High Court, in December 2015, awarded RM200,000 to Hasan, also a former PAS leader, who was sacked from the party in 2011.
Hasan filed the suit against Mahfuz in April 2012 after the latter made a defamatory statement that was later carried by several dailies and online portals.
The then High Court judge, Nor Bee Ariffin, said Hasan had proved on the balance of probabiities that there was malicious intent in the statement made by Mahfuz alleging Hasan of receiving aid from the government.
Nor Bee, in her ruling, said the statement, if read as a whole, could cause Hasan to be stigmatised and deemed an insincere person and not qualified to hold a post in politics.
The decision was also upheld by the Court of Appeal.
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Freedom Force: The Price of Freedom
by Philip-Todd Franklin
A young man named Hiroshi Tain struggles to understand how he has become an agent of Old Glory! More importantly, how can this Japanese-American become a member of Rick Flagg’s Freedom Force, when the old soldier already hates his guts? Meanwhile, as Hi-Jack continues to search out the Earth-X counterparts of his old allies, Amos Fortune and the Royal Flush Gang of Earth-One, has he inadvertently made an enemy who seeks his death? And what murderous dark force is destroying the Imperial Japanese fleet, one sailor at a time? Guest starring Plastic Man and Max Mercury, the former Quicksilver!
This entry was posted in Earth-X, Stories and tagged by Philip-Todd Franklin, Casey Johnson, Ethan Jones, Freedom Force, Hi-Jack, Hiroshi Tain, John Bull, Macy Johnson, Max Mercury, new hero, new villain, Plastic Man, Quicksilver, Rick Flagg, Tony Johnson, USA the Spirit of Old Glory, Vagabond, Victor Jenkins on September 6, 2004 by 5earths.
Smash Team-Up: We Will Fight Our Countries’ Battles
by CSyphrett
As the last of the Imperial Japanese Occupation forces are routed from mainland California, Quicksilver and the Creature Commandos find themselves fighting a new threat: the Divine Wind, Imperial Japan’s answer to the Freedom Fighters. But even they may pale in comparison to the threat that is looming on the horizon for the entire world: the so-called Manhunter from Mars has been cloned, and the first of these clones has plans of his own for his faux Martian army. But can even the combined forces of the Freedom Fighters, the SS Ubermenschen, and the Creature Commandos defeat the Martians? Guest starring the Jester, Margo the Magician, and the Blue Tracer!
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Quicksilver: The Fall of Los Angeles
California has been occupied for several months by Imperial Japanese forces, but now the American armed forces have finally begun retaking that state. If Los Angeles can be reclaimed with the help of the new Quicksilver and the California Resistance, then the rest of the state will soon follow. But will the Japanese be ousted that easily?
This entry was posted in Earth-X, Stories and tagged by CSyphrett, California Resistance, Control, Patrick Ito, Quicksilver on April 9, 2002 by 5earths.
SS Ubermenschen: World at War
With their leader the Manhunter still in Occupied California, the Red Torpedo now leads the SS Ubermenschen, Germany’s super-powered answer to the Freedom Fighters. But when this Nazi super-team relocates to England to capture the terrorist known as the Jester and the English Resistance fighter called 711, have they met their match? Meanwhile, will the Ray of the Freedom Fighters be able to infiltrate the group from within? And how will Quicksilver stop the powerful Manhunter from killing any more Americans in California? Also guest starring Billy Dunn and Bomber Jones of the Blue Tracer.
This entry was posted in Earth-X, Stories and tagged 711, Billy Dunn, Blue Tracer, Bomber Jones, by CSyphrett, California Resistance, Control, English Resistance, Invisible Hood, Jester, Magno, Manhunter, Neon the Unknown, Patrick Ito, Quicksilver, Quiller, Ray, Red Torpedo, SS Ubermenschen on March 14, 2002 by 5earths.
Quicksilver: Flash of Lightning
After being injured in a lab accident more than a year ago, chemist Richard Ito of Los Angeles, California, spent almost a year in a coma. When he awoke, his state was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, and he possessed super-speed. Now all Richard wants to do is use his speed to avoid the Japanese forces in Occupied California and occasionally pester them. But will the imprisonment of his brother Patrick, a member of the California Resistance, force him to change his mind? Will he be forced to become the new Quicksilver after all?
This entry was posted in Earth-X, Stories and tagged by CSyphrett, California Resistance, new hero, Patrick Ito, Quicksilver on September 10, 2001 by 5earths.
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Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.
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So this is it. 81 games later and the best the Habs could muster up this year, was a 15th place finish in the East. If you're the last place team in the Eastern Conference then hands down you are the worst team in the league. Forget the Blue Jackets, the West is way tougher. Good Job, Montreal.
Remember October? How they couldn't win a game at home? We all just brushed it off and thought
'This will pass, it's just some rust from the summer.'
And then they kept losing, and losing, and losing, and losing etc. But for some reason, it seemed right.
When I 'became' a Habs fan the tradition was of a losing team. When Montreal won the Eastern Conference in 2008 I was shocked. It almost felt weird to win game after game after game. Losing feels right for my generation, and it sucks.
With that being said there is no better opponent to play in the last game of the season, than the 13th place Toronto Maple Leafs.
They too have a tradition of losing established, and they are 'raising' a generation of 'losers' as well.
While this game had huge implications way back in 2007, it has never really lived up to that standard since then. Tomorrow nights game is not about a playoff spot, or draft picks really, it's about pride. The kind of pride you had at 10 years old, when everybody got a trophy for participating in the season.
If Montreal wins, I'll be happy. It might even change my perspective on next year. If they lose, it will be so perfectly symbolic a poet could not write anything clearer.
From firing a coach before a game, to firing the head coach, to apologizing for hiring a new interm coach, to trading for Rene Bourque mid-game, to firing the GM, this season has been a ship wreak. Titanic 3D has nothing on how 'real' this season has been. Actually, if this season was Titanic 3D the Habs would be Jack, dangling in the water waiting for death, and some morons in charge ran the ship into disaster.
So in short, if the Leafs win tomorrow night I'm boycotting the 2012 NHL playoffs. I'm really not that excited about hockey anymore anyway. Thanks for that Montreal.
Now excuse me while I go back to watching Tiger swear at Augusta, and wait for the Blue Jays to rack up some injuries.
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Satellite positioning protects Hangzhou's historical buildings
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-07-11 16:18
An historical building near West Lake in Hangzhou, Nov 18, 2018. [Photo/IC]
The precise satellite positioning program organized in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, targeting 364 historical buildings in the city's central area, was completed by the city's historical building protection center recently, Qianjiang Evening News reported.
By comparing and analyzing multiple satellite images, people can get a more comprehensive understanding of the historical buildings.
Although image clarity from different satellites has varied, some images sent back have been quite clear, according to the report. Roof structures, planting conditions and certain decorative objects in the yards can also be observed.
"Except for the rooftops, the surrounding environment and the conditions of the whole area also come with a plain view," said a staff member with the protection center.
Currently, the daily supervision of the city's historical buildings is completed mainly through regular human inspections, especially in bad weather.
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The historical conditions of these buildings in geographical space can also be reviewed back in time via the satellite imagery system, which can provide pictures dating back to the early days after the People's Republic of China was founded.
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (APP): President Mamnoon Hussain Saturday said Pakistan and Turkey enjoyed friendly and brotherly relations and hoped that this bilateral cooperation would be beneficial for Muslim Ummah and humanity.
The president was talking to Dr. Mehmet Gormez, President, Religious Affairs of Turkey, who along with a delegation called on him at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
On the occasion, Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousuf and Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Sadik Babur Girgin were also present.
The president said the regular exchange of delegations between the two countries would further cement bilateral relations.
He appreciated the idea of establishment of Imam-Hatip school system in Pakistan and called for establishing linkages between educational and academic institutions of the two countries.
President Mamnoon Hussain underscored the need to further broaden collaboration in the field of education between Pakistan and Turkey, adding the exchange of students’ delegations between the two countries could play an important role in this regard.
He informed the visiting delegation that measures were underway to integrate religious education with modern and contemporary education in Pakistan.
Dr. Mehmet Gormez said Pakistan and Turkey enjoyed strong bonds of friendship.
He said there was no difference in the message of Pakistan’s national poet Allama Iqbal and Turkey’s national poet Mehmet Akif and both drew inspiration from Maulana Rumi.
He thanked the president for taking keen interest in furthering bilateral relations between Pakistan and Turkey.
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Agriculture, livestock still major emission source
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Global greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totalled 4,69-billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), an increase of 13% over 1990 emissions.
By comparison, global carbon dioxide emissions from transport totalled 6,76-billion tonnes that year, and emissions from electricity and heat production reached 12,48-billion tonnes, according to Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service.
Growth in agricultural production between 1990 and 2010 outpaced growth in emissions by a factor of 1,6, demonstrating increased energy efficiency in the agriculture sector.
The three most common gases emitted in agriculture are nitrous oxide, CO2 and methane. Methane is generally produced when organic materials – such as crops, livestock feed or manure – decompose anaerobically (without oxygen). Methane accounts for around 50% of total agricultural emissions.
Enteric fermentation – the digestion of organic materials by livestock – is the largest source of methane emissions and of agricultural emissions overall.
Nitrous oxide is a by-product generated by the microbial breakdown of nitrogen in soils and manures. Nitrous oxide production is particularly high in cases where the nitrogen available in soils exceeds that required by plants to grow, which often occurs when nitrogen-rich synthetic fertilisers are applied. Nitrous oxide is responsible for around 36% of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
Finally, carbon dioxide is released from soils when organic matter decomposes aerobically (with oxygen). The largest source of CO2 emissions within agriculture is the drainage and cultivation of “organic soils” – soils in wetlands, peat lands, bogs or fens with high organic material.
When these areas are drained for cultivation, organic matter within the soil decomposes at a rapid rate, releasing CO2. This process accounts for around 14% of total agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
Emissions from enteric fermentation rose by 7,6% worldwide between 1990 and 2010, but regional variation was high. At 51,4% and 28,1%, respectively, Africa and Asia saw their emissions increase, while emissions in Europe and Oceania fell by 48,1% and 16,1%.
Europe’s significant reduction in emissions parallels the decline in its beef production between 1990 and 2010, but it may also reflect increased use of grains and oils in cattle feed instead of grasses.
“Adding oils or oilseeds to feed can help with digestion and reduce methane emissions. But a shift from a grass-based to a grain- and oilseeds-based diet often accompanies a shift from pastures to concentrated feedlots, which has a range of negative consequences such as water pollution and high fossil fuel consumption,” says Laura Reynolds, Worldwatch Food and Agriculture researcher and the study’s author.
“Aside from reducing livestock populations, there is no other clear pathway to climate-friendly meat production from livestock.”
Manure that is deposited and left on pastures contributes to global nitrous oxide emissions because of its high nitrogen content. When more nitrogen is added to soil than is needed, soil bacteria convert the extra nitrogen into nitrous oxide and emit it into the atmosphere – a process called nitrification.
Emissions from manure on pasture were highest in Asia, Africa and South America, accounting for a combined 81% of global emissions from this source.
These data indicate the huge share of global emissions that is attributable to livestock production.
While reducing livestock populations is one way to reduce global emissions from agriculture, farmers and landowners have numerous other opportunities for mitigation, many of which offer environmental and even economic co-benefits.
For instance, growing trees and woody perennials on land can sequester carbon while simultaneously helping to restore soils, reduce water contamination, and provide beneficial wildlife habitat. Reducing soil tillage can rebuild soils while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Some practices can even result in increased income for farmers – “cap-and-trade” programmes allow farmers to monetise certain sequestration practices and sell them, while government programmes like the US Conservation Reserve Program pay farmers to set aside some of their land for long-term restoration.
Further highlights from the report include:
* Enteric fermentation accounted for 29% of emissions in both North America and Asia in 2010 – the lowest share of all regions – but was the source of 61% of South America’s agricultural emissions, reflecting that continent’s world leadership in cattle production.
* Rice cultivation was responsible for 17% of Asia’s total emissions in 2010, but no more than 3% of emissions in every other region – indicating Asia’s dominance of global rice output.
* Four out of the top five countries with the highest emissions from cultivated organic soils were in Asia: Indonesia contributed 278,7-million tonnes of carbon dioxide from this source; Papua New Guinea 40,8-million tonnes; Malaysia 34,5-million tonnes; and Bangladesh 30,6-million tonnes – indicating the levels of deforestation and clearing for agricultural land.
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By Bruce McAllister
Issue #167, February 19, 2015
Many have asked how the Child Pope and I, boys that we were at the beginning of it all, first met the Sienese girl Caterina, that she might become our companion and friend on the long journey to that cold, northern lake. After all, had she not joined us, we would not have had the power to defeat the Drinkers of Blood on that lake’s shores and, by our victory, end their dark communion before it reached all of Christendom. The Oldest Drinker—born on the same night as our Lord fifteen centuries ago, his first drink not milk but blood—and living even then in the shadows of Rome—would certainly have prevailed.
The minstrel who found me on the wharf one night in my fishing village, carrying word from the father I had never seen, certainly did not mention a girl. He said only that I must find the Child Pope Bonifacio, who had been hidden on the windy Island of Elba by his uncle, the Cardinal Vocassini; and that from this boy no older than I obtain the holiest water in the land. I was, the minstrel insisted, the emissary of La Compassione’s spirit to the world, whether I knew it or not; and, as my body changed to serve her, I was essential to any hope for the Drinkers’ defeat. I would (he explained) need the holy water not only for what would occur at that lake but also to save those who mattered to me most on my hurried journey to the lake’s icy waters.
I did as I was told. I took what the minstrel gave me: the pouch of florins, the tiny glass vials for the holy water, and on its leather cord the tooth of a great beast. I also took my beloved dog Stappo—big and ugly though he was. At Elba’s abandoned monastery the Child Pope Bonifacio and I barely escaped a monstrous Drinker that had once been a priest, reaching the mainland again only by the blessings and winds of La Compassione.
We did not know what to do next. If we traveled north at night, the Drinkers would find us. Surely they sensed our importance to their fate. Would my rash, and the light that turned my skin into a blinding sun when a Drinker was near, be enough to save us from more than one Drinker? Yet if we traveled by day, we might be captured by the soldiers of the Medici, whose territory this was, or by the interloping mercenaries of the Venetian Doge, who wanted Bonifacio for his own political machinations.
When, as we headed north in sunlight, we were nearly captured by the Doge’s men, we turned south instead, and, hiding in olive groves, culverts, and tall wheat, began toward Siena—whose walls, we told ourselves, might protect us from both the Drinkers and the soldati of two states while we re-thought our journey north.
Had we not turned south that day we would not have met Caterina.
When we reached Siena’s great walls at last, we sat down on the earth far from the main road and caught our breath. Before too many minutes had passed, Stappo appeared with the moldiest piece of bread we had ever seen. Bonifacio closed his eyes as if to escape an alimentary nightmare, and I sighed, but we both praised Stappo and took the bread. Hunger was hunger, and weakness was not a blessing for any human on the run.
Despite the crowds on the road entering Siena, the night passed without boot steps or inhuman wailing in the darkness around us. Whether the latter was because of the vials of holy water within whose circle we slept, Stappo with us, or simply that the Drinkers had not found us yet, we did not know; nor did it, for the moment, matter. What mattered was that we lived to arise the next morning at first light, gather up the vials, eat the remaining bread (spitting out green pieces that tasted like metal), take two drinks from a spring near a gully and prepare to enter the city along with the teeming hordes arriving for the races.
“I have never seen a dirtier pope,” I said to my new friend. He was indeed dirty. Bonifacio had abandoned his satin gowns on Elba and donned a camicia, a vest and red leggings that made him, chubby as he was, look like an odd fruit. His hands belied his clothes. They were, even with earth smeared on them, as pink as his cheeks. Nor did his imperious scowl, something he had adopted from the adults of his world—the cardinals and tutors, not a single woman among them—fit the paesano he needed to be.
“And I have never seen a dirtier emissary,” he answered pompously, feigning insult. “Though of course neither of us has seen more than one of the other.”
Stappo for some reason looked clean, which made us feel even dirtier.
“Dogs have useful tongues,” Bonifacio pointed out, “while human beings need to bathe.”
“Our dirt will help us, I think,” I said.
We indeed fitted into the crowds at the gate. It was Palio, after all, and travelers were filling the roads into the city, riding on horses and carts or simply walking to the city’s iron gates. As we joined the crowd, no one looked at us in curiosity, as if to say, “Why were those boys walking by the wall instead of the road?” Many had already imbibed enough celebratory uva to paralyze a horse, and people either nodded at us with bleary looks or ignored us completely. Who would imagine that two boys and a dog were going to the Palio to hide from the soldiers of two city-states, and, worse, from inhuman creatures few people this far from Rome believed even existed.
The Palio—the horse race in honor of the Madonna of Provenzano—was a fourteen-day affair. If our calculations were right, this should be the twelfth day and the fourth of the qualifying races. The seventeen neighborhoods of the city—the “quarters,” the contrade—would be celebrating. The ten neighborhoods chosen to compete this year would be celebrating with particular enthusiasm and would be the best to hide in. People would be eating day in and day out in the open. The horses would be receiving the official blessing of priests. The standard-bearers that represented each quarter would be practicing their tricks, tossing their great flags with their neighborhoods’ emblems into the air and catching them until they got it right. The race itself, in which even a horse that had lost its rider could win, would be in two days.
“What day should we leave?” Bonifacio asked when no one could hear.
“I am not sure, Bonifacio. If we leave before the final race, the roads will be empty and we may look suspicious. We should leave when everyone else is leaving.”
“Do the celebrants leave all at once?”
“I do not know. There are of course festivities after the race, and much drunkenness, according to our village priest, Father Tamillo, who does not approve of excessive drinking but cannot disapprove of a race in honor of the Madonna of Provenzano. But to answer your question, there may be a time when more leave than not. We will have to watch for it.”
“We will be safe in the neighborhood we choose to hide in?”
“We will have to be careful, Your Holiness. Father Tamillo told us that sometimes neighborhoods try to poison one another’s horses—even the riders—and we do not want to be taken for poisoners or spies. We must be pretend to be, I would think, relatives of a family in the quarter we choose.”
“Yes, that would be sensible. You say each neighborhood has a design. Perhaps we should carry that design on our persons and act exceedingly passionate about it.”
“We may have to steal those designs.”
“God will forgive us.”
“You are certain?”
“Yes, I am certain.”
“You are the pope.”
“Yes, I am the pope, but He would forgive you just the same.”
“That makes me happy.”
“If you are afraid of God at the moment, it is only that you are tired. We both need sleep. And where will we do that, Emissary?”
“That could be tricky, Bonifacio. Sleeping in the Piazza di Campo will not work because that is where the soldiers, and any townspeople working for them, would look. That is where those not from the neighborhoods—from outside the city—would sleep on the clay the horses run on, or on hay placed there for both horses and travelers. Sleeping on the street within a quarter would make us too visible. And we do not know anyone we might stay with—inside a home—in any of the neighborhoods.”
“Then perhaps we need to meet someone—someone with a home.”
“I was thinking that exact thing myself, Bonifacio, and, since Stappo always knows what it is that we are supposed to do, I imagine that he, ugly though he is, was too.”
I had never seen so many people, and certainly not so many drunk and happy people. The streets and alleys were full of them. The Piazza di Campo overflowed with them. Everywhere was food, drink, dancing, hugging, drunk men and women falling down, slightly less drunk friends picking them up and laughing, children running, dogs barking. Most of these of course were the carefree spectators, those who had come from distant towns for the race and for whom the only serious matter was the betting. The contrade were celebrating, too, but would be doing it in the neighborhoods themselves, not out in the Piazza or main streets; and they would, drunk or not, be much more serious. There was much at stake. The honor and pride of each quarter. The year-long blessing of the Madonna to the quarter that won. The pride of the entire city, whose horse race was in fact called “the portrait of the Madonna.” Some of the most serious men might indeed poison a horse or cripple a rider for such rewards, even if no Madonna could possibly condone it.
“How will we know what neighborhood to choose?” Bonifacio asked as we jostled our way through the crowd.
“If Stappo fails to tell us, we will still know.”
It was true. As we passed from the Tortoise Neighborhood—with its central fountain and its marble tortoise spewing water from its gaping beak—a different emblem appeared on doorways, and we stopped. Stappo, at my side, was whining.
The new emblem was a seashell. A scallop. A pettine. And there, to our right, above the fountain in this new neighborhood’s square, was the same seashell but as big as a shield, carved from white marble. Water flowed from the shell, filling the fountain, and the shell’s rays were like a sunrise, one that might save the world if the world would only let it.
The rash on my arms and legs was tingling, but not in the way it did when a Drinker was near. I did not understand, but I knew I should listen. La Compassione, I had learned, had so many ways of speaking, though never with words.
I couldn’t look away from the scallop.
“This one,” I said.
Bonifacio laughed. “Why am I not surprised, Emissary?”
“A divine sign, is it not?”
He was, I knew, thinking of his seashell collection—the one he’d shown me proudly on Elba—though a scallop was a clam, and clams were not snails, and his collection was rare “left-handed” snails, which he loved because (he explained) they were as different from others of their kind as he often felt from other boys. “Have you not always felt this way, too, Emilio?” I had nodded.
“Yes,” I answered.
Bonifacio beamed. “A pope who collects mollusks and an emissary from a fishing village whose skin has always been irritated by salt water. What a pair of travelers! And how perfect a scallop is for them!”
I was nodding. Bonifacio was saying, “That fountain’s water is not salty,” and before I knew it I had walked through the crowd to the fountain, climbed in, and was sitting in the cool water, my burning skin murmuring its gratitude.
Soon I was in a dream. People in the square had stopped and were gawking at me, but I was no longer there, in an old city called Siena. I was in a great, cold lake, swimming, my skin cool, no longer tingling, blue sky and snow-covered peaks above me. My father was close by, calling to me with a cornamusa, a little bagpipe just like the one the minstrel had played on the wharf to call me to him. I was swimming with other great creatures like me, and there were other men playing cornamuse on the shore, calling them as well. I was happy to be there at last. I was happy to see my father’s face on the shore and know he loved me.
“Emilio!” a voice called from somewhere.
The cold lake water parted around me like a song as I swam.
“Emissary!” the voice said again, anxious, stern. I could hear other voices too, shouting too, unhappy, hostile.
When I opened my eyes, the little square was packed with people, everyone staring at me disapprovingly, some heckling with Sienese epithets, others calling for the city’s guards to remove me from their fountain.
A horse snuffled.
I could not but blink. There, only a few strides away from me, was a horse and rider, both decorated with the blue and white silk of the scallop emblem. The rider was a boy perhaps a year or two older than I, the horse a beautiful brown creature. The boy gazed down at me while attendants, decorated with the same emblem, fussed at the flanks of the horse, and behind them stretched the citizens of this contrada in a procession that had now come to a complete standstill.
I could not tell whether the rider was smiling or frowning. There was an odd expression—though not an unkind one—on his face, and his riding cap, which would keep his hair from his eyes when he raced, seemed large, too big for his head.
He stared at me, head cocked as if in a question, but said nothing.
I looked down at my arms and legs and saw what I had not expected: Though my rash, reddish blue and scaly as it always was, was no longer itching, there was more of it—much more. It had spread on my arms and legs even as I sat in the fountain dreaming.
A tall man rushed toward me from the procession.
“What is the meaning of this?” he shouted, spittle on his lower lip. “This is desecration!”
A priest followed behind the man; but rather than shouting along with him about desecration and other offenses, he simply looked back and forth between Bonifacio and me, as if trying to understand something.
“Call the city’s guardie!” the tall man was saying. He grabbed my arm.
As he did, the patches of rash on my arm grew hot again and the man jerked back as if burnt. But because this made no sense to him—that a boy’s skin might burn him—-he responded in the only way he could:
“This boy is ill!” he cried. “Look at his skin! He defiles our fountain!”
The priest had stepped forward to stand between me and the tall man and three other men who had joined him, all of them quite incensed. The priest was of course looking at me but also at the rider, as if more interested in what the rider was feeling than anything else.
Who was this rider—that a priest would be so interested in a boy’s reaction?
The rider was dismounting. He was a thin boy, a little taller than both Bonifacio and I, with a sharp nose, and hair in the Tuscan style, almost to his shoulders. His hands, though roughened by a rider’s training, had long delicate fingers; and there was something odd about him, I thought, though when I looked at Bonifacio I saw nothing in his manner that suggested he agreed.
The four angry men parted to let the rider approach the fountain. When he reached it, he looked down at me with the same expression—neither frown nor smile—and said simply, “We would ask that you remove yourself from our fountain.”
The rider’s voice had cracked once as he spoke, and sounded low for one his age. Perhaps, I told myself, he was older than he seemed and was simply becoming a man. A boy’s voice must change.
I obeyed, inspecting again at the new rash on my arms and legs.
“Are you ill?” the rider asked matter-of-factly, glancing at the priest. The priest looked back without expression.
“No,” I answered, feeling my face grow hot as I did. “It is only an irritation. Fresh water relieves the discomfort.”
“Enough talk!” the tall man said. “Summon the guardia. These boys are not Nicchio. They may be Tartaruga or Leopardo. How are we to know? If they so willingly despoil our fountain, they might just as easily despoil our food.”
“I am certain it does,” the rider was saying to me, ignoring the man, “but does your fresh water have to be our fountain?”
“No. I am sorry.”
A guard from the Piazza was approaching.
The rider, who had, I felt certain, almost smiled at me, was looking again at the priest, who had been listening intently and now stood by the rider and whispering in the boy’s ear.
The rider nodded, turned to the four irate men, and said: “That will not be necessary, Tomaso. Father Salemi has recognized these two boys as fourth cousins of the Borsinis. They are from Terranova and of no threat, even though their behavior be rude.”
The four men grumbled, deprived of their mission. The rest of the procession was losing interest and moving back to their apartments to prepare for the next neighborhood event.
“The procession,” the rider said, turning back to me, “is over for the day, ragazzo, and our horse has been blessed.” He was looking at Bonifacio now.
The priest whispered again into his ear.
“Our priest, who is rarely wrong, feels that I approve of you,” the rider said quietly to Bonifacio and me, “and his feeling is right.” Again, the boy’s voice cracked, as if he were struggling with it; and again, I felt an oddness from him. “He is right because when I first saw you both I felt you posed no threat to our contrada; and so we must, if we are to behave as the Madonna would have us behave—especially at this time of the year—welcome you as guests. I did utter a falsehood to those who would remain suspicious and less than hospitable, but you are indeed our cousins in spirit if not in physical fact. You may stay with my father and me. Our abode is down that alley.”
Why had the boy lied to the procession—to the citizens of his neighborhood? Why had the priest collaborated in the lie? And why would a priest care so much about what the boy felt?
There was, I knew, more than one thing the rider was not telling us, but to press for it, I also knew, would not become the guests of any contrada.
The apartment was much bigger and brighter than the one I had grown up in with my mother, whose evening visitors—unmarried or unfaithful men of the village—had made it seem even smaller. While Bonifacio followed the rider into it, Stappo and I stopped at the doorway and waited.
The rider looked back at us, stopping too.
“Thank you for the courtesy,” the rider said. “I am afraid your dog must remain outside. My father is sick, and dogs upset him even when he is well. He was bitten when he was a boy and, because he lives now more in his childhood than in the present, he fears dogs as much as a child would. We also need a good guard dog for our alley, and yours certainly has the weight and teeth for it, does he not?”
The rider looked at Bonifacio for a moment.
“Were you bitten by a dog, too? You step away when the dog nears you. It is a subtle thing—something that most would not notice—but my father, when he could still walk, did the same thing.”
“Yes,” Bonifacio answered, his own voice cracking a little, too. “I was bitten when I was five years of age. I still carry the scars.” He rolled up his sleeve to show what the four longest teeth had done to his forearm.
This clearly surprised the rider—not that Bonifacio had scars but that he was so willing to show his body to a stranger. The rider looked at Bonifacio and said slowly: “How painful it must have been.”
“At the time, yes. They do not bother me now.”
The rider was nodding with the faintest of smiles, amused as he probably was by the forthrightness of this boy who looked so silly in his leggings and did not act or sound like a peasant at all.
Bonifacio did not seem bothered by the smile. He liked the attention, I knew.
“Thank you,” the rider said at last. “This helps me understand better my father’s fear.”
I told Stappo to remain outside, and when he had lain down, I entered the apartment and shut the door.
As I turned to face the rider, he said: “My name is Gian Felice Rottini. I have ridden in the Palio for five years now, and I was the winner for the city’s Madonna the last two years, finishing last year with an arm broken in two places and the year before that with a broken collarbone.”
He pulled his sleeve up, and there was the bony protrusion proving it.
“But none of this should surprise you, cugini. As you must know, all Sienese are willing to suffer such travails of flesh and bone, not to mention mind and spirit, for the Madonna and for the honor of our neighborhoods and families and city.”
The rider’s tone was not bragadoccio but only what he felt we should know, guests that we were.
“My father rode when he was younger, and his father and his two uncles before him. We have always known good horses and good riders, our family, as you will see if you look at the list posted in the Piazza. I had a sister, too....”
The rider paused, and I thought it odd—mentioning a sister suddenly, out of the blue.
“She ran away with a young man from Capperchio, and who knows where they are. It was a sad thing, but the human heart, when it is not in the service of God, does many sad things....”
The rider had become contemplative, even wistful. What a strange boy this was. Bonifacio was staring at him, too. Something about the words “in the service of God” had made him look at the rider hard. Did Bonifacio, because he was pope, hear more in those words than I could?
“But our neighborhood, Il Nicchio, does not pass judgment on the children of God, for that is for God to do, though God, in his love, passes judgment not at all, leaving—”
“—leaving,” Bonifacio interrupted suddenly, as if quoting someone, “mortals to judge themselves and make of those judgments ‘sins’ which God, in His eternal compassion, need not forgive—for they are not real. For ‘sin’ is but a mistake which—“
“—the truth,” the rider finished for him, “can correct simply by being the truth, if mortals will forgive both God and themselves....”
It was the rider’s turn to stare now. Who was this dirty boy who quoted heretical teologia too? I wished Bonifacio had remained silent.
And yet what the rider himself had said was not, I knew, what a boy from Siena, a rider in the Palio, or any boy from any city—except perhaps a Child Pope—would say either.
Who was this rider?
“You are not,” he said suddenly, using the plural you, “who you appear to be—either of you.”
I said nothing. Bonifacio remained silent.
“And that is exactly what I felt when I first saw you.”
Stepping to Bonifacio so suddenly that the Child Pope startled, he took Bonifacio’s arm and held it out for us to see.
“This is not the skin of a commoner,” the rider said. “These hands have never dug dirt or hammered iron or fished. And you, his friend, have both the hair of the devil—though I do not believe in such superstitions—and a rash that makes you need to sit in fountains to feel relief. You are not going to tell me who you are—of that I am certain—but you can at least tell me your given names, so that I might feel your truths within them.”
Feel your truths within them? What did this mean?
“I am Bonifacio,” Bonifacio said with a sigh, because he knew he must. The rider was still holding his arm, and Bonifacio did not wish a struggle.
“And I am Emilio.”
“You are fleeing from someone?” the rider asked.
“May I ask from whom?”
“Soldiers.”
“I would, were this an ordinary day and you ordinary boys, answer that of course you are fleeing soldiers, or guards, or property owners—someone—because you have no doubt stolen something or injured someone. But not when your friend’s skin is so white and smooth, and he walks like a prince....”
“We have committed no crime,” I answered. “They simply wish to capture us.”
The rider laughed. “You might be better off if they did. A city can be cruel.”
Bonifacio was scowling. All of this, I knew, would have been insulting to him. To expect a pope to be good at stealing or farming or living on the streets—what offense! Bonifacio looked at me and I looked back, and we both knew he could not afford to complain. The rider was not being unkind. He was stating fact.
There was a strange look in the boy’s eyes now, eyes which were almost closed, as if he were listening to something beyond the room...and hearing it.
“There is more,” the rider said, and his voice was strange. It was higher now, not cracking, not the voice of a boy-becoming-a-man at all.
“Yes,” I answered, wondering why I had.
“But you do not feel comfortable telling me or anyone.”
“That is true, Master Rottini,” I said. “It would also be better for you perhaps if you did not know.”
“That may be true,” he said distractedly, still listening.
His eyes cleared, and he returned to us.
“Perhaps,” I heard myself say, “we should ask who you are?”
The rider looked at me, then away, as he said, “My father lies in one of the other two rooms of this appartamento. You will hear his coughing. His lungs are full of fluid, and no one can help him. How much longer he will live, we do not know, but his illness is not the kind that sickens others. We have blankets for you to sleep on in this room so that his coughing will not interrupt your sleep. If you are hungry—which I can tell you are—and because this is Palio, there is no shortage of food anywhere in the city, including our home. So please conduct yourselves not only as our guests, but as our family, which you are as well.”
The rider turned and walked toward the room where coughing had started up suddenly.
When he was gone, Bonifacio started to speak, but I put my finger to my lips. “Are you not hungry, Bonifacio? And thirsty?”
“Yes. Very.”
“Then let us act in that spirit only, as members of this hospitable family.”
As Bonifacio and I sat at the table eating bread and stew from a pot that seemed to have been placed there for us, and drinking all of the water we wanted from a beautiful Sienese pitcher, the rider’s head poked around the corner.
“My father is sleeping now, and I must go to the Piazza to register for the third qualifying race, which occurs this afternoon. I would recommend that you not venture out into the city this day—that you wait until the race itself two days from now—but you have your own intuitions to guide you in such matters, I am sure, and do not need mine. If you do leave the apartment and have not returned by night, I will assume that you have left the city on your own or been captured by those you attempt to elude. I would hate to think the latter, Emilio and Bonifacio, but I would have no choice....”
It was the strangest declaration of caring that I had ever heard, but perhaps the Sienese spoke this way—roundabout and formally.
Bonifacio was astonished, too, and not doing well at hiding it.
“We...thank you,” he was saying.
“The gratitude is ours,” the rider answered.
The Sienese were definitely an odd people.
When the rider was gone, a puzzled Bonifacio said, “I have no reason to want to leave this apartment.”
“Neither do I,” I answered, and at that moment the coughing started up again in the other room. We were silent, expecting it to calm on its own accord and the father to fall back asleep. It did not. It worsened. And though we tried to distract ourselves with both talk and an inspection of the apartment, nothing helped.
Without saying a word, we both headed for the father’s room.
There, on a pallet of burlap, straw, and woolen blankets, lay a small, thin man whose eyes stared at the ceiling and whose body was far too frail to stop the terrible wracking of its own coughs. He did not seem to be aware of us, but he did open his mouth to say, “Caterina! Dove stai?” Catherine! Where are you?
That night the man’s coughing grew even worse, and Bonifacio and I could not help but lie on our blankets listening. The rider was in the father’s room, of course, and spoke tenderly to him throughout the night. It was a gentle, consoling voice, one I would have indeed wanted to hear had I been ill, but even the voice left me confused: who was this rider, and why did it feel as if he were hiding just as much as Bonifacio and I? What would a Palio rider have to hide?
As Bonifacio and I stared at the dark ceiling and listened to the coughing grow more violent and ragged—until our own bodies hurt to hear it—we heard footsteps leave the father’s room and, a moment later, a voice standing over us barely holding back tears and saying, “He has made a turn for the worse. I believe he is dying. I must bring the doctor!”
“We will sit with him,” I said.
“Yes, we will sit with him,” Bonifacio echoed.
“Thank you.” The rider composed himself. It was not becoming a Palio competitor to cry. . “Give him sips of water if he asks for them, but not too much. He cannot sit up. He may ask for food, but do not give him any. Sometimes a hand on his forehead is enough to calm the coughing, but tonight I doubt that will be enough.”
Bonifacio and I rose as the footsteps left us and the front door opened but did not close.
“Your dog is here,” the rider said, and we heard Stappo’s feet coming toward us. “Keep him from my father, please.” The door closed at last.
“Stappo!” I whispered, leaning down, finding him with my hands and scratching him behind the ears. He whined a happy whine.
Bonifacio and I headed through the darkness to the father’s room, where the candlelight was faint but did let us see a little.
The coughing was terrible. A part of me wanted to leave, to get away from it, and the room, and the entire city, but another part knew I needed to stay.
It is important, a voice whispered.
What that meant, I did not know, but I could not leave.
Bonifacio was kneeling in the candlelight beside the father, who sounded even frailer now, and whose chin glistened red and wet.
“He is not going to survive the night, Emissary,” Bonifacio said.
“You have seen men die like this?”
“Two. A Cardinal and a Bishop. They, too, coughed up blood.”
“You helped them die? I mean, did you—”
“Yes. When a Cardinal, Archbishop or Bishop dies, it should be the pope from whom they receive last rites. I have given these rites sixty-seven times in my brief life, Emissary.”
What an amazing thing, I thought. To be a boy and yet to have helped sixty-seven men die, helped their souls pass from flesh to God’s grace.
“Can we wait for the doctor to arrive?”
“The doctor is not a priest. We do not know whether the rider will bring the priest as well.”
“No, we do not. Do you have what you need, Your Holiness?”
“Not exactly. I do not have oil and will have to use holy water. You have the vials in your pouch. Please give me one. Once we open its wax seal, we should use it all. We can use the rest of it to bless this house and the rider tomorrow morning. We might even bless the rider, his horse and the race.”
When—fumbling in the dark like a blind man—I finally produced a vial, Bonifacio was saying, “He is not able to request absolution; he cannot perform Penance. I must proceed to the Anointing and then the Viaticum. But if he is the rider’s father, he is certainly a man of contrition, and I can give him the forgiveness he believes he needs.”
“Though he does not...need it,” I heard myself say.
I could feel Bonifacio’s eyes on me in the dim light.
“I was listening to the heresy, Bonifacio, the rider’s....”
“Yes. And I have always thought the same—about God and ‘sin’....”
“I am not surprised, Emissary,” he answered, and I could not tell whether it was the boy or the pope speaking.
I handed him the vial.
“In nomine clementiae patris inunctio te,” Bonifacio began, making a cross with a wet finger on the man’s forehead. I could barely hear the Latin over the coughing, and almost as soon as Bonifacio began, the man began to squirm, as if to say, Do not give up on me! Do not give me the last rites when I am not dying! Allow me to fight a little longer!
Bonifacio stopped, looked at me again, but I had no advice to give. Bonifacio was pope. He should know.
As if hearing my thought, Bonifacio said:
“I believe he is dying, and as pope I must trust what the Holy Spirit tells me. Yet I do not want to help dispatch a man prematurely from his body by the very words I might utter....”
There was a sound behind us, a familiar one. A dog’s paws on a floor. But how had Stappo gotten in?
Then there was another sound, and I turned. A figure stood in the doorway to the room, Stappo at its feet, and the figure was saying, “The doctor is nowhere to be found. They say he has gone to Valverde to minister to a cousin, and I—”
The voice stopped. Even in the dim light I could see the rider’s eyes open wide as they took in the scene in the room: A chubby boy with pale skin—who was not a commoner but was fleeing from someone—kneeling on the floor by the rider’s father and reciting Latin no boy should know. Reciting it with power and authority, one hand on the man’s forehead and in his other a glass vial that glinted in the candle’s light.
The rider took a step. Still Bonifacio did not turn from the father. The work at hand, which only he could do, had made him deaf.
I looked at the rider and the rider looked back at me. The boy, whose features looked even softer now in the dim light, appeared to be fighting tears again. Stappo remained perfectly still.
Then the father indeed began to die. The death rattle that people always spoke of but that I had only witnessed once, when my grandmother had died on a pallet in our church, began as a raspy word that was not a word.
When I saw the expression on the face of the rider, the sadness and yet the acceptance, I felt something move through my body.
It was not an itch I felt, though indeed the feeling came from the rash. It was a coldness and yet a warmth; and it was a word, one I could have uttered with my lips, but one so important that it was also a light I could not speak. It was the light that had moved through me that night in Bonifacio’s room on Elba when the Drinker had nearly taken him from me, but even more of that light would be needed now. Stappo was whining—
—because light was beginning to fill the room. The light was coming from me, as it had before, but this time it would be different, I knew. It would bring something back, rather than send something away. That is what the light was saying, and the voice within it, and the spirit whose emissary I was and would remain until my journey was over.
Bonifacio looked up now. He stood up and stepped back to give me room, my light reflecting in his eyes as if it were bright morning through a window.
Behind us, in the doorway, the rider made no sound.
I placed my hands on the father’s chest and, as I did, the room was filled with such light that it was no longer a room, and the five bodies in the room were no longer bodies. There was only Truth and the beauty of it. These were all that was needed. There was a singing now, too, a sound like a great cornamusa, like a great body swimming toward what needed to be done.
When I woke, I was standing over the father in the candlelit darkness, the light gone. Bonifacio was speaking Latin again, though calmly, and the rider was kneeling on the floor, touching his father, wiping blood gently from the man’s chin.
The father was no longer coughing but instead breathed steadily, eyes open and aware. I was looking at Bonifacio, and Bonifacio was looking back at me. The rider looked up at me then, too, and in a voice that no longer cracked, that was high and sounded happy to be what it was, finally said:
“You are the Emissary we have heard of....”
“Yes,” Bonifacio answered for me. “He is.”
“And you—” the rider said to Bonifacio. “You are—”
“I am Pope Boniface the Ninth. Il Papino.”
“Grazia alla Madonna!” the rider exclaimed, removing his cap and pulling even more hair from underneath it, so that it was longer than any boy’s should have been. Still kneeling, the rider—who was not a boy at all, I could see—added in Latin, “In nomine Clementiae mundus salvus semper est....” In the name of La Compassione the world is forever saved....
At seeing the rider in truth a girl, I felt my knees turn to water, and I collapsed into darkness.
When I woke again, I was looking up into a face which, belonging as it now did to a girl, was much prettier than it had been when it belonged to a boy. It was more than that, however. The face was more willing to smile now, and to be as soft as in truth it was. And when the face spoke, it relinquished all pretense of a voice other than its own—a relief to my ears and certainly to Bonifacio’s as well.
“Are you all right, Emissary?” the girl asked, concerned but happy. I was embarrassed, of course. This was a girl, after all, and my head was in her lap—but I did not wish to move. I felt like a child, in the caring presence of my mother, whom I did miss, though I had not thought of her in days.
“If he speaks,” Bonifacio said from somewhere, “he must be all right.”
Bonifacio’s voice carried an odd tone, one I had not heard before. Getting up on one elbow, I looked at my friend. Could it be? Bonifacio was standing by the doorway as if ready to leave, and there appeared to be a pout on his lips.
“Where are you going, Bonifacio?”
“I am not needed here. I am going to the kitchen.”
Did I hear jealousy? A pope jealous of a girl’s attention? As I thought about it, I understood: I had saved the girl’s father; the girl was grateful; she was worried about me, and was attending to me. Bonifacio, though a pope, was suddenly not very important.
A boy-pope had as much right to be boy as pope, did he not?
“You are indeed needed here. I can barely get up on one elbow. I may need last rites at any moment.”
“You tease me.”
“Yes, Your Holiness. That is what friends are for, is it not?”
Bonifacio nodded despite himself.
To the girl I said, “I am fine. Thank you—” I started to address her by her real name, but did not know it.
“Caterina,” she said. “Caterina Rottini.”
“That is the name your father called out in his illness,” Bonifacio said gruffly.
I had stood and was helping the girl up. Her long fingers felt cool in my hand, and I did not want to let them go; but Bonifacio, poor Bonifacio, was watching, and, even if no one were, I would have grown embarrassed holding her hand too long.
Bonifacio, I saw with relief, had moved from the doorway and was standing beside me now.
“How is your father?” I asked her.
“He is sleeping. His lungs sound free of fluid.” She was looking at me, and it seemed that her eyelashes were suddenly longer, which was of course impossible. Her gaze made me uncomfortable, especially in Bonifacio’s presence, but what could I do?
“Yes,” I said, stepping to the sleeping man. “He looks much better.”
“Thank you, Emissary.”
“Please,” I answered. “I am Emilio. And now it is your turn, wouldn’t you say, to tell us who you really are.”
“My twin brother’s name was Giovanni,” she began. We sat at the apartment’s one table eating bread and sausage. “He was the truly blessed rider, and, though a boy, better than most men. Three years ago he was injured in the race—a terrible injury to his head—and we took him home to be attended by the Nicchio’s doctor. Nothing could be done for him; and when he passed from this world, the families of the Nicchio—who knew that I, too, rode well, though never in the Palio, and wished the Madonna’s blessing of our neighborhood and city to continue—swore our doctor to secrecy about my brother’s death, the same secrecy to which they themselves swore.
I was dressed up to look like my brother, kept my face dirty, put a little scar on it where my brother had had a scar, and wore a cap (so our story went) to cover the much worse scar on my head and the skin there that was so sensitive to sunlight. Who the rider is in the Palio does not matter—it is the horse who wins, not the rider; even a horse who has lost his rider may win—but we knew that the Governors of the Race would not allow a girl to compete. Our priest prayed to the Signora to ensure that our pretense would not be an offense to her, and she appeared to him one night to bless both our plan and our contrada....”
I looked at Bonifacio again and saw from my friend’s expression that he was thinking the same: All of this might be true—and probably was—but it could not be the entire truth. We could both feel it in her words. For reasons only she knew, Caterina Rottini was choosing not to tell us everything.
Bonifacio, bold as he often was in such matters (and wishing, as any boy would, to be important), went ahead and asked it: “That is all?”
“That is enough,” the girl answered just as boldly, but averting her eyes, too. What a strange girl, I thought to myself. So strong, confident and even brash, and yet gentle and humble. How could one be all of these at once?
I stared at her; and as if sensing my look, she turned to look at me, too. The instant our gazes met, I felt my heart jump once, then again, and did not know why. Why did her look make my body jump? How could eyes do that? And why was it hard for me to look away?
There was a silence.
“How will you conceal your father’s recovery from the Nicchio?” I asked.
“I will not need to.”
“I do not understand,” Bonifacio said. “The miracle of his healing must point somewhere, and we are the logical direction.”
“They will know,” she answered, “that he was healed, but not that—not that Emilio healed him.”
Bonifacio frowned and glanced at me. I shrugged. I did not understand either.
“We still do not understand,” Bonifacio said.
The girl had gotten up, was tucking some of her hair under her cap again and heading toward the front door with no intention of explaining. At the doorway she turned.
“I have preparations to make—one more qualifying race and then the race itself, which I wish you could attend—”
How strange, I thought. She was certain that she would be in the final race. Everything—even her father’s recovery—she seemed to take for granted.
“—but I would indeed be grateful if you would instead watch over my father while I am gone. He will be hungry—anyone who has returned from death is—and he may be able to eat bread softened with broth, or broth alone, if he seems weak.” She paused again, and when she spoke, it was with a smile: “And when I return, it will be time for you both to tell me whom a Child Pope and an Emissary of La Compassione would, with their considerable authority, need to flee from?”
Not knowing what else to do, we nodded; and as I turned to look down at the girl’s father, who was muttering in his sleep, something changed in the room. In the corner of my eye Caterina was not a girl. Though it was impossible, there was a woman in Caterina’s place, one wearing something in her hair, her hair as bright as daylight. When I jerked my gaze back to the doorway, however, it was Caterina again, her back to us as she stepped outside and closed the door behind her.
“Did you see a woman?” I asked a moment later.
“I have seen many women, Emissary,” Bonifacio answered.
“You are sounding pompous, Bonifacio.”
“I will try to improve. What woman?”
“I am tired and imagining things. Forget that I asked....”
When the father woke at last, we had been sitting in his room on stools carried in from the kitchen and were so nearly asleep sitting on those stools that we startled when he said: “Where is Caterina and who are you? And why is there a dog in this room?”
Bonifacio and I both started at the man, who was up on one arm and looking surprisingly well for one who should be dead.
Bonifacio could not find the words.
“We are friends of your daughter, Signore Rottini,” I said. “When you experienced what could only be termed a miraculous recovery, she told us her story and asked us to remain and care for you while she went to the qualifying race. I am Emilio Musetti and that is Bonifacio—Bonifacio....”
“Bonifacio da Grossacio,” Bonifacio completed for me, and I thought the invention quite sonorous.
“And you do not need to fear our dog,” I added. “He will protect you as he protects us.”
The man stared at Stappo for a moment, and then, with a trusting if exhausted sigh, lay back on his pallet of blankets. “I should have known it would happen.”
Was the man referring to his own miraculous healing or something else?
“That what would happen, Signore?”
“That she would be able to do it.”
“What, Signore?” I asked just as Bonifacio asked, “Who, Signore?” We sounded like a Commedia troupe, trying to get laughs on the street for our daily bread.
“Heal me,” the man said impatiently. “Caterina, my daughter. That she would heal me.”
Bonifacio and I looked at each other. We were doing this frequently. The world held too many surprises for us not to.
“You do not know who she is?” the man asked, puzzled now. “You said she told you.”
“We met her only yesterday, Signore,” I explained. “We have had only one talk with her, and she told us only a little. We are new to Siena.”
When suspicion fell over the man’s face, I added quickly, “Your priest felt your daughter’s approval of us, and so he approved of us as well.” I was not sure what it meant exactly—to phrase it this way—but this was how the people of this city, or this neighborhood at least, put things, so why not put it this way for a confused Nicchiaiolo who had just returned from the dead?
“I see....” the man said.
“And so,” Bonifacio added, “all we really know about her is that she is a remarkable horse rider—“
“And,” I continued, “that she took her twin brother’s place—your son’s place, God rest his soul.”
“My son?”
“Yes, the one you lost to a terrible injury to his head in the Palio three years ago.”
The man was speechless. A frown had taken over his face, and all he seemed able to do was stare at us. I added, “At which point your kind and dutiful daughter, with the blessing of your priest and the Madonna of this city, adopted the identity of her twin brother and began to race successfully for your quarter and for the Blessed Madonna, just as your blessed son did....”
The man’s expression did not change, nor did he speak. Was he having a seizure?
“At least,” Bonifacio said, “that is what your daughter told us.”
The frown changed into something else. The man was looking at us now as if we were crazy. When he finally spoke, it was to say: “I do not know why Caterina told you such a story, but it is not true. If you are in our home and have the priest’s blessing, and hers, which I do believe you have, then you are welcome; and I thank you for attending to me in my illness. But Caterina has not told you the truth. Her brother ran away with a girl from Capo Montalbero. The entire Nicchio, at our priest’s suggestion, kept it a secret and advised Caterina to take his place. Her brother did not die of a terrible head wound.”
It was my turn to be speechless, though Bonifacio was somehow able to say, “Why did your priest advise her thus?”
“Because....” The man hesitated, but then, as if finding something in our faces that made him trust us, proceeded: “Because we all believe—and have for many years now—that she is the incarnation of the Madonna of Provenzano.
“Had she not approved of you,” the man went on, “the priest would certainly not have done so, and you would not be sitting with me now.” He had gotten up easily on his own from the pallet, and the three of us were now seated in the kitchen, at the table, where he wolfed down bread and jerky and stew like a starving animal. “Father Salemi,” the man went on, “once told me that he would not be surprised if she showed an ability to heal others, and so it has come to pass.”
I knew what Bonifacio was thinking. I remembered Caterina’s strange words, too: The Nicchio will know that he was healed, but not how....
“Even when she was little, she seemed able to foresee the future, even to guide the events of the present to better ends than they should have reached on their own. This gift had also belonged, they say, to the Madonna of Provenzano. Father Salemi saw it when Caterina was very young, and more than one member of our quarter has seen the visage of the Madonna in Caterina’s face, for a passing moment at least, and even the Madonna’s figure walking beside her. This has only become more pronounced as she has grown older. The Madonna herself, people say, has appeared before Father Salemi to confirm this....”
Having spent himself with words, the little man looked at us silently, spoon in hand, stew dripping from it, and took a deep breath.
“I do not know why Caterina did not confess this to you when she trusted you enough to let you both minister to me. Why instead she told you a disturbing story about her brother, whose departure from us was foolish but not so tragic, I have no idea. She must have had a reason. Someone who can see the future usually has reason....”
“Perhaps,” I said, “she is simply humble.”
The father snorted. “Some would say so, but others would claim she is as obstreperous and rebellious as the boy she pretends to be. I suspect, however, that you are right. She is humble when it comes to matters of the spirit...at least when the Madonna is guiding her.”
Silence fell again in the kitchen, so that all we could hear was the revelers in the street below, and it lasted until Caterina burst suddenly through the door, dirty and sweaty. She said, “You are looking healthy, Father, and no longer hungry!”
“Yes, Caterina.”
“I qualified!”
“Of course you did,” her father said.
Of course she would, if she were the incarnation of the Madonna and could foresee the future.
Turning to me, she said, “I must ask Emilio to be present tomorrow for the race, even if there is risk of discovery for him. Will you do this for me, Emilio?”
Bonifacio was too stunned to look hurt or jealous. His mouth popped open and remained that way until I said: “Of course.”
Bonifacio and I—and Stappo, too, since the father was unafraid of him—spent the night in the main room, while Caterina slept as always on the floor not far from him.
Try as I would, I could not sleep. There was a question that kept my eyes open, but what was it?
I had wanted, out of vanity, to think Caterina had chosen me over Bonifacio to be at the Palio tomorrow because...well, just because. Perhaps she thought me handsome. Perhaps she could barely contain her gratitude for what I had done for her father and so wanted me near her. Perhaps it was vanity on her part, too, and she wanted me to be impressed with her prowess in the race. Perhaps....
But this was not how a Madonna thought, I knew. Even a mortal girl who could, at times at least, see the future might have another reason.
When I woke on my own pallet, it was to a voice; and I was certain an angel or something worse was standing over me. From the look on Bonifacio’s face, he feared the same. But it was only Caterina silhouetted by bright morning light through the room’s window. She had woken before us and dressed for the race, and was again the boy she needed to be.
“You should rise now, too,” she said to us both. “I will return in a few minutes.” Then she was gone, the door closing quietly behind her.
What she meant by this, I had no idea, and neither did Bonifacio.
As the father stumbled into the kitchen—no less steady than anyone his age would be upon waking—he grumbled “Buona mattina, ragazzi!” and began to prepare bread and butter for himself.
“You have awakened a monster with your healing,” Bonifacio whispered, short-changed on his holy rest and irritable as a consequence.
“No wonder the son ran away—” I joked back, stopping when the father glanced at us from the kitchen table.
Bonifacio stifled a laugh. The father was looking at us.
Just as we sat down with him in the kitchen, buttering our own bread, the front door opened again and instead of one figure—Caterina’s—two entered.
The Nicchio priest was with her. Why? Were our secrets not to be kept?
“Do not be angry with me,” she began. “I have brought Father Salemi, and for good reason. He is the one person I have told about the miracle of my father’s healing and your identities, and I have done so because there is a need. He has asked to meet you. I have agreed, but in return have asked a favor of him.”
“Your Holiness,” the priest said, and he was so agitated, his face so red, that I feared for a moment his heart might explode. He knelt before the chubby Bonifacio, who looked about as holy as a piglet, but who, of the two boys standing before the priest, was obviously il Papino. Had the Child Pope possessed orange hair, as I did, Rome would certainly have spoken both tirelessly and tiresomely of it.
Bonifacio straightened, took on the bearing he had grown up with—the boy-man who had given last rights to cardinals, archbishops and bishops—and with sincerity and compassion said: “Grazia a Lei, Father Salemi. May the blessings of the Lord be upon you.”
The girl’s father, poor man, was struck dumb, the last piece of bread he had put in his mouth still there, the chewing of it ceased, the mouth open, the eyes darting from Bonifacio to the priest to Caterina to me and back to Bonifacio again.
“Benedicat tibi Dominus et custodiat te,” the priest and Bonifacio said together.
Caterina, solemn now, continued: “And this is Emilio Musetti, the one by whose light my father was healed.”
At this the father choked and the bread flew at last from his mouth. His hand, horrified by what his mouth had done, reached out wildly to grab the piece in midair but had no luck. The morsel of bread fell to the floor not far from my left foot, and there it lay until Stappo, wondering at the silliness of humans, found it and ate it.
“Emilio is the emissary,” she went on, “we have heard rumors of, even as we have heard rumors of the Drinkers of Blood and chosen foolishly not to believe them. His light healed my father, and that he carries such light is evidence not only that he is emissary, but that the rumors are true: the Drinkers do exist. They have, as we have heard, taken Rome, turning five hundreds priests in the Holy City to their immortal devices. And the hideous figures of the night that those priests have become now travel throughout Christendom to bring about its fall as well.”
The priest was nodding. His kneeling had become awkward for everyone. I stepped to him and offered him a hand. He hesitated, staring at my hand.
“It will not burn you,” I said.
He took it, rose and, with a tremble in his voice, said: “Thank you for blessing us with your presence, Emissary.”
The girls’ father was up, too, and was trying to speak. “Caterina. What is happening here? “
“Father,” she answered lovingly but firmly. “You will tell no one in the Nicchio what you have heard and seen and heard in these rooms. I wished you to know the truth, so that you might join me in giving thanks to the one who returned your life to you and you to me.”
“But you are the Madonna!”
“I do not know who I am, Father; and if I do not, no one does.” She paused, then looked at me. “Except perhaps the Emissary....”
I thought that Bonifacio might frown, feeling slighted, but he did not. He simply stared at her.
“We have a race to race today,” she said, “and I must leave soon for the Piazza. I have asked Father Salemi to come here this morning to meet you both. It is important for reasons that will become clear. He will also lead you to the Piazza at the right time, so that you do not get lost.”
Again, her tone was matter-of-fact, but beyond it, as always, something else whispered too. Something not at all matter-of-fact. Something immense and important.
Feeling like children, Bonifacio and I nodded and said, “Of course.”
The Piazza di Campo was pure madness. Whether those present were inebriated or merely enthusiastic mattered not, for either of those taken to an extreme produced madness. I had seen this at the Carnevale in Viarreggio, south of our village, on the two occasions my mother had taken me there: men and women pummeling each other with leather batons. Whether it was passion or wine or both that numbed their pain had not been clear to me. In their madness they had laughed, kissed, grabbed, fondled, slapped, pummeled, bled, and then laughed even more.
But there was something especially insane about the Palio. While the richest of the city readied themselves to watch the race from windows high in the buildings around the piazza, the rest were packed like over-heated cattle into its center, the race course a circle of empty earth around them. The poor were elbow-to-elbow with no room to stretch and only stale air to breathe. How the crowd resisted panic, I did not know, but I was starting to panic myself just looking at them from where we stood by the track. Bonifacio looked even worse. We had somehow made our way through the crowd at the piazza’s center and were now pressed against the wooden barriers that kept the revelers from the course.
Perhaps if this were your city—if you had grown up here and in your father’s arms had watched every race from the year you were born—if the Madonna of Provenzano, for whom this race was always run, was your Madonna—the insanity of the crowd would not feel insane but instead beautiful?
“Are you going to faint, Bonifacio?”
“I am not sure, Emissary,” Bonifacio called over the din of the crowd, looking somewhat green of face. “I have not been in such circumstances before.”
“Nor have I.”
“Perhaps it is the Sienese. It is in their blood and they love living like this. Perhaps they all sleep together as children in little apartments, and Siena is one great family to them and they prefer this to vast, empty piazze with endless elbowroom. Perhaps they even die of loneliness in piazzas where is too much—”
“You are starting to babble, Bonifacio.”
“Yes, but, if I speak, there is less chance I will faint.”
“Then please speak. I would hate to have to—”
A bell sounded from the great tower. Bonifacio and I jumped, but the noise had absolutely no effect on anyone around us. These simply continued with their yelling, their affectionate or ill-tempered insults, their bad breath and belches, and, of course, their wagers. “Twenty on Draco because I love you, cugino!” “Tartaruga wins or your children will be born with horns. Fifty on Tartaruga!” “Thirty on il Nicchio! The Madonna will deliver!” “Eighteen to your thirty—the Madonna wants speed, not a porker!”
And then the horses tore by the barrier beside us in a cloud of red dust, bright contrada colors and little clubs with which the riders beat each other with determination.
“Did you see her?” I asked.
“I saw one long horse with forty-eight legs and twelve riders.”
“They will spread out more, will they not?”
“Perhaps, but the race is only three laps. We only have two more chances to see her.”
Before the horses could circle the course again, we heard a cry go up from the crowd. Something had happened.
The crowd, I could see, was breaking through the low wooden barriers at the other end of the piazza.
As I stood there, I sensed it was Caterina the cries were about. A strange light was filling the piazza, one the crowd seemed not to notice.
I squinted at it—the light. I did not know at first what was making it, but then I saw it.
Where the light was brightest, a figure hovered in the air high above the crowd.
Even at this distance, I recognized the figure. I had seen her in Caterina’s apartment, confusing her with Caterina herself, but had assumed she was but imagination.
As she drifted closer, she looked at me in silence, and I could see her face—the moon of it, her hair beautiful, a halo for that moon. She was dressed in the finest gown, white and the palest blue and the yellow of the smallest flowers on the hills above my village in spring.
“Do you see her now, Bonifacio?” I asked, barely able to speak.
Bonifacio looked around. “Who, Emissary?”
“Her. Over there.” I pointed above the crowd to the exact place where she floated.
“Now you are babbling, my friend. Do you feel faint?”
I ignored him. I started pushing my way toward the commotion. My legs wanted to run, but the bodies around me would not let them. All I could do was push and keep pushing.
“Bonifacio,” I called back. “Caterina has been hurt! The Madonna has come for her!”
As I pushed, the figure floated near me. It did not leave.
When I reached the far barrier, which the crowd had easily toppled, I scrambled over it and was on the race course itself now, earth not cobbles.
The figure floated above me. It had been my guide.
I looked around, coughing from the dust, and there, in front of me, was what I had most feared.
Caterina was lying on the earth unmoving, as if asleep. Her horse was upright, apparently uninjured, its muzzle lowered to her, pushing at her shoulder, trying to get her to rise.
I felt more fear than I could bear. Do not take her from us, Nostra Signora—from her contrada—from her father and her people—from Bonifacio and me—please!
I looked up and the light was gone. The figure was gone.
I looked down at Caterina again and saw what I’d somehow known I would see: A wound on her head, the blood seeping into the earth as if the soil were a rag.
This was why Caterina had wanted me to be here.
This was why she had insisted.
She had known this would happen, but why had she not stopped it? She was the incarnation of our Lady, was she not?
She wanted you to be here with her when she died, but why?
When I knelt by her side, no one tried to stop me. Those standing on the track simply stared. She was still a boy to them. Clothes and cap and hair of a boy. The boy who had won two races for the Nicchio.
The Madonna was there again, hovering high above us, waiting, and that could mean only one thing: That I needed to tell Caterina goodbye.
I could hear footsteps running toward us, but they were not important. I sat down beside her, leaned over her, moved her shoulders so that I could put her head gently in my lap, held her head with both of my hands, and whispered to her, “Thank you for being who you are, Caterina. For being in my life even if briefly.”
“No!” a voice whispered hoarsely.
In astonishment I watched as one of Caterina’s eyes, the one that was not so bloody, opened, and she whispered again:
“It is not time...”
I nodded, wondering whether I had fainted and was dreaming, or we were both dead and in another world. Someone with a wound like hers could not be speaking, could not be thinking so clearly.
The footsteps were louder now, voices with them, and Bonifacio knelt beside me.
“We must give her rites,” he was saying.
“What do you mean ‘No’? She is dying if not already dead!”
“Help me carry her,” I said to him, to give him something to do, to calm his frantic hands, to keep the Latin she did not want from his lips. But then others arrived, and they were the civil guards of the Nicchio contrada. It was their arms that began to lift her up and away.
“No one can live with a wound like that,” one man said.
I wanted to argue, but how could I?
As the men carried her back to the contrada, I stayed by her side, and Bonifacio stayed by mine. Father Salemi was with us, too, hurrying beside the guards.
“Why isn’t Father Salemi giving the rites to her, Emilio?”
“I do not know, Bonifacio.”
“Please do not let her die without them, Emissary.”
I could not find words with which to answer.
At the apartment the guards rushed the girl to her father’s room. The priest was shouting, “Here, here! Put her here!” When the men obeyed, placing her on the floor where her father had lain so recently, the priest shouted, “Now leave! Please!” The men stepped back, blinking, and confused.
“Leave!” the priest insisted.
Now he will try to give her the rites. I must stop him!
But the priest did not kneel beside her. No Latin came from his lips.
Caterina’s father was there now, standing behind Bonifacio and me. Without a word he stepped to Father Salemi’s side. Both of them just stood there looking at me, waiting.
“Father, please!” Bonifacio cried out. “If you do not give her last rites, I will have to.”
“It is too late for that,” the priest said. “She died in the piazza before I could reach her—even before you could reach her, Your Holiness.”
I thought I might be sick there on the floor. How could she have been dead on the track? I had heard her voice.
“Bring her back to us,” the priest said to me then.
“Yes, Emissary. Return her to us,” her father said.
I stared at them both. If the Madonna could not bring her back to life, how could I? How could the spirit of La Compassione, if the Madonna could not? This was not a Drinker that only needed to be filled with fear. This was not a father ill and dying on the floor. This was a girl, a wonderful girl, and she was dead, her flesh already returning to the earth.
Even Bonifacio was looking at me, waiting.
“I cannot,” I said. “The Madonna will come for her. She will take Caterina’s soul to a life beyond....”
The priest said: “No, the Madonna will not. That is not why the Madonna was here, Emissary. Caterina foretold all of this.”
Then a voice—one without lips or throat or words—said:
Bring me back, Emissary.
I started to shake. I thought I would fall to the floor.
Bring me back, Emissary, the voice said again, and it was Caterina’s voice, and a woman’s too. Only you can do what must be done today. It is the only way you will become the instrument of La Compassione the world needs you to be.
At her words, though for a moment I refused them, my body began to change. My rash became a fire, just as it had with the girl’s father, but now my arms began to glow like coals as room brightened like the sun.
I stepped to Caterina’s body, knelt down, placed my right hand upon her brow, and saw that my hand was no longer a hand but something else, something a creature might need to swim with—and something of fire that could both give life and take it away, as it would soon on the blood-washed shores of a distant lake.
Caterina’s face became the Madonna’s, and then a girl’s again, because they were indeed the same. There was no blood now on her head because tears—or the waters of a great lake—had washed it away, so that her flesh might heal. The boy inside me was crying, of course, but that meant nothing. Mortals weep in the face of Truth, its beauty and the grace it is.
When I opened my eyes, I was still kneeling, the light was gone, my rash no longer hurt, my cheeks were still wet from mortal tears.
Caterina was different. There was no blood on her. The wound by her eye was gone, the gash in her skull had smoothed over, and her skin was perfect once more. And she was sleeping.
I stood up and looked from Bonifacio to the priest to the father. Their faces looked as exhausted as those of soldiers after a battle. What they had seen while I had dreamed a dream I could not remember, I did not know.
“The story is complete,” the priest said.
I did not know what he meant, but then I did: The story Caterina had first told us, the odd lie about her brother. How he had died from a terrible head injury in a race two years ago and how she, disguised as a boy, had taken his place because she was a good rider, too.
“She knew this day would come,” I said.
“Yes, Emissary. And so it has happened, and now the people of Siena will believe her brother died, just as she told you he did, and in a race, while the sister will now run off with a boy for the sake of love.”
“But the people of the Nicchio will know,” I said.
“They will know only that she was brought back from death. They will assume it was by the grace of the Madonna, out of love for her daughter. Which is as it should be, Emissary, if your presence here is to be kept a secret, and you are to continue your journey.” The priest paused. “It is also, as you might imagine, a gift to this contrada—to any contrada in this city—for it to believe that the Madonna performed such a miracle for those who love her.”
“We are all instruments of La Compassione, Father,” I found myself saying. “The Madonna was present, overseeing it all, I assure you. I saw her at the campo. She led me to Caterina. I think I saw her in this room as well....”
The priest bowed his head. “Of course.”
We watched Caterina struggle up on one elbow. She was not in pain. She was smiling, as if amused, and she was looking at me. I blushed.
“What will you do now, Caterina?” Bonifacio asked, seeing my reddening face.
“I will travel, as a boy, with you and Emilio to Assisi,” Caterina answered, and in that tone we had heard before—one that said no argument would be tolerated. “That is where you must travel next, Emissary, if you are to elude those who seek your capture.”
“You have seen it?” I asked.
I was no longer surprised.
“This was your plan all along,” I said.
“Yes, Emilio. To make of our story the great circle it should be.”
“But what will the Nicchio do now? Who will ride for them?”
The priest answered for her. “There is a boy, Iacopo, who is blessed by the Madonna. You can see it in his eyes. He was too young to race three years ago when Caterina began riding for us. He is old enough now, and he is gifted. It is his time...or so the Madonna told me in a dream a year ago.”
“He will win next year,” Caterina said quietly. “He will win for four years,” she went on, “and then another young man will begin to ride for the Nicchio. He will be tall and loud, but a good rider, and he will dream of the Madonna every night, as we all do in Siena, whether we know it or not....”
I could only stare.
When we parted Siena the next morning, the road to Assisi was packed with travelers, many of them bleary-eyed and uncoordinated in their steps from the previous night’s carousing, and more than a few quite irritable about the work they needed to resume in the grain fields and mills and vineyards. As a consequence, few were in any condition to pay attention to our little troupe—three boys and a dog—pretty as one boy was, pink-cheeked as another, and rash-decorated as the third.
Just before Montepulciano we heard the hooves of horses, and a group of fifteen soldiers road by. Whether they were looking for Bonifacio and me, there was no way to know. Later, in Cittapieve, and after stopping to eat and drink, thanks to the florins that remained in my pouch, we found ourselves exposed in front of a church as another complement of soldiers road by; but, again, we were not noticed. Was La Compassione watching over us, or was it simply not our time?
Assisi lay before us—Caterina had seen it—but what lay beyond Assisi’s pink-marble face remained a journey of fog and doubt whose footsteps we could not see even as they took us inexorably to the shores of a distant lake and the future of the world.
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India may miss the solar and wind energy auction target in the current fiscal, mainly due to rupee depreciation, safeguard duty and grid connectivity, India Ratings and Research said.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has set a target of auctioning 34 GW of solar energy projects and 10 GW of wind energy projects.
The solar auction target for FY19 may be missed on account of frequent changes in the implementation of safeguard duty, apprehensions about grid connectivity and land acquisition-related bottlenecks. Also, a depreciating rupee compared to USD poses a threat to economical solar tariffs," Indian Ratings and Research said in a statement.
According to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), a sense of cautious optimism is spreading across renewable projects, with bidders and lenders going circumspect around low margin of error owing to the steep fall in tariffs since the start of auction regime.
It said that recent scrapping of solar auctions around tariff concerns can derail the ministry's target to achieve 100GW of solar capacity by FY22.
On the positive side, solar projects in Ind-Ra's portfolio demonstrated stable generation levels with improving grid availability in FY18.
Also, major state distribution utilities, including Solar Energy Corporation of India, demonstrated a stable payment history in FY17 and FY18. Stable generation nature of solar power compared to other renewable sources remains a major advantage for solar power projects.
On wind side, grid connectivity related concerns have forced bidders to skip auctions in the past, and the ministry target to conduct 10GW of auctions in FY19 may be missed, it said.
The FY18 was a year of underperformance for wind power projects, with generation lagging P90 levels.
Ind-Ra considers the unpredictability of wind resource a major risk for wind projects.
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Hanged as a lad for stealing food, Gregor, the notorious Sinclair Hound, was spared by a merciful laird. Although emotionally damaged and forever scarred and very silent, his devotion to Clan Sinclair, and especially the laird, is unwavering... until one of the Sinclair Jewels, the youngest daughter, Pearl, challenges that devotion and forces the Hound to make a fateful choice.
Pearl is a priceless lass…
As the youngest of the Sinclair Jewels, Pearl has made a place for herself among her clan, serving her people and doing her best to care for those who need help. Unlike her sisters, she has no interest in ever leaving her family. But when she’s forced to choose between an unwanted marriage or taking holy vows, she makes a fateful mistake.
If she can’t stay with her clan, she’ll become a nun.
But once her sire tasks the Hound to escort her to the abbey, Pearl is forced to admit two things: she never really wanted to take holy vows and her fascination with the Hound can no longer be denied.
As love becomes the greatest treasure of all, can Pearl and her Hound find a way to stay together, or will violence and family secrets keep them apart forever?
The Mackenzie Regent
Four years ago, Jamie Mackenzie lost everything - the woman he loved, the use of his hands, and his honor.
Alcohol became the only thing which offered solace to Jamie and he was satisfied to drink himself into an early grave… until his older brother died, leaving his clan without a leader, and his young nephew Callan without a regent. Reluctantly, Jamie steps into the role, little realizing it would include a marriage contract.
Her mission is returning her clan’s honor.
A year ago, Agata, the oldest of the Sinclair jewels, thought herself satisfied. She was married to a cruel man, but at least he—as the Mackenzie laird—had given her a precious stepson Callan and hope for future children. Now widowed and returned to her clan, Agata has given up on her dream of a family until she finds a new mission with her sisters: finding and restoring the ancient Sinclair jewels.
Stolen generations ago from the brooch which marked the Sinclair lairds’ power, these jewels are more myth than reality, even to the Sinclair sisters who were named after the stones. When they find evidence the stones are hidden in the Mackenzie holding, Agata jumps at the chance to see little Callan again. But her mission conflicts with her personal dream when she discovers she's been contracted to marry the lad’s drunken uncle.
Is Jamie as cruel as his brother? Can Agata help him overcome his dependence on ale and learn to see himself as strong and capable…or will he spend the rest of his life focusing on what he lost?
And where exactly are the missing Sinclair jewels?
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Steven Chu
Francis Collins
Yves Coppens
Suzanne Cory
Paul Crutzen
Edward De Robertis
Albert Eschenmoser
Elaine Fuchs
Antonio García Bellido
Theodor Hänsch
Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Stefan W. Hell
Michael Heller
Yuan-Tseh Lee
Jean-Marie Lehn
Pierre Léna
Jane Lubchenco
Juan Maldacena
Yuri Manin
Beatrice Mintz
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Erna Möller
Mario Molina
Sergey Novikov
Ryoji Noyori
John Charles Polanyi
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Roald Sagdeev
Maxine Singer
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Hans Tuppy
Edward Witten
Shinya Yamanaka
Chen Ning Yang
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Place Yerevan (Armenia)
Nomination 16 October 1994
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Lenin Prize for Physics, 1988; National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan (1986); Pontificia Academia Scientiarium (1994).
Rudolf Muradyan was educated at Moscow University and received his doctoral degree from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna. His work has covered a wide range of topics in elementary particle physics, mathematical physics, and cosmology. For discovering the Dimensional Quark Counting Rules he shared the 1988 Lenin Prize for Physics. The main results of Prof. Muradian's research can be summarized as follows: 1) Description of bound states and scattering amplitudes in the framework of Quantum Field Theory. 2) Construction of the Mandelstam double spectral function for 6th order diagram using the analytical properties of partial wave amplitudes in the complex angular momentum plane. 3) Investigation of the three nucleon forces in light nuclei in the framework of Quantum Chromodynamics. 4) Exact solution of the random walk problem on a sphere and in the Lobachevsky space. 5) Direct method of constructing irreducible representations for finite rotation groups - tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral - based on the extraction of roots from unit matrices in a definite direction. 6) He is one of the authors of the Dimensional Quark Counting Rules for exclusive processes. This formula provides direct information about the composite quark structure of matter and has a wide application in modern particle and nuclear physics. 7) An important contribution was made by Prof. Muradian to the solution of the old and most difficult problem of cosmogony - the problem of the origin of the rotation of planets, stars and galaxies. 8) By means of Mathematica, the computer algebra system, the package Diana was designed and implemented for making automatic and quick dimensional analysis of a broad range of problems in physics, engineering, and economics.
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Ghana's Major Mobile Operators Name New CEOs
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There are new names at the helm of Ghana's two top mobile operators, with both market leader MTN and the number two service provider AirtelTigo having named new CEOs in recent days.
Selorm Adadevoh is the new CEO at MTN Ghana, replacing Ebenezer Asante, who is now the Vice President of the MTN Group. Adadevoh, previously CEO of Digicel Haiti, takes over as the market leader, with more than 16 million customers and a market share of about 42%, moves to become a listed company. (See MTN Ghana Launches IPO Process.)
Selorm Adadevoh is the new CEO at MTN Ghana.
At AirtelTigo, which has a market share of more than 32%, Mitwa Kaemba Ng'ambi took over as CEO this week following the resignation last week of Roshi Motman to "pursue new opportunities." She was formerly the CEO of Tigo Senegal, which was sold in May by Millicom to a consortium called Saga Africa Holdings for an undisclosed sum.
"I'm extremely excited to be joining AirtelTigo… we will deliver better and more innovative products and services that address the dynamic needs of our customers," noted the new CEO. "With investment in infrastructure, our customers' digital experience will improve significantly. We will continue to nurture and develop our talent and expand our corporate social responsibility programmes for the benefit of our customers across rural and urban communities," she added.
Mitwa Kaemba Ng'ambi is now the CEO at AirtelTigo.
AirtelTigo was formed in November 2017 when Bharti Airtel and Millicom combined their operations in Ghana. (See Bharti Airtel, Millicom Combine Operations in Ghana.)
Since then the operator says it has combined its previously separate customer care centers and unified its SIM card and top-up voucher management systems.
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After Lying About His Wealth on National TV, Michael Moore Admits He's A One Percenter
By Noel Sheppard | October 28, 2011 | 14:40
On Wednesday NewsBusters exposed Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore for lying on national television about his wealth.
Clearly feeling the pressure to come clean, the schlockumentary filmmaker took to his blog Thursday to set the record straight - kind of:
Twenty-two years ago this coming Tuesday, I stood with a group of factory workers, students and the unemployed in the middle of the downtown of my birthplace, Flint, Michigan, to announce that the Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., had purchased the world rights to distribute my first movie, 'Roger & Me.' A reporter asked me, "How much did you sell it for?"
"Three million dollars!" I proudly exclaimed. A cheer went up from the union guys surrounding me. It was absolutely unheard of for one of us in the working class of Flint (or anywhere) to receive such a sum of money unless one of us had either robbed a bank or, by luck, won the Michigan lottery.
After all, in 2005, Peter Schweizer in his book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" included a copy of Moore's schedule D from one of his tax filings showing that the schlockumentarian at one point owned almost 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 shares of Sonoco, more than 4,000 shares of Best Foods, more than 3,000 shares of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 shares of Bank One, and more than 2,000 shares of Halliburton.
As Schweizer told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on November 3, 2005:
PETER SCHWEIZER: Well, Michael Moore has said at least half-a-dozen times, I don`t own a single share of stock, because he considers investing in the stock market to be dirty money.
Well, I guess he is technically correct. He doesn`t own a single share of stock. He owns tens of thousands of shares of stock. And what is interesting is, is looking at the portfolio.
Michael Moore, yes, the same Michael Moore, owns shares in defense contractors like Boeing. He owns...
JOE SCARBOROUGH: No. Well, hold -- hold on. No way. You are telling me...
SCHWEIZER: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: ... that Mr. "Fahrenheit 9/11" profits off of the war, because Boeing profits off the war, that he despises?
SCHWEIZER: Yes, that`s exactly right. He owns shares in Honeywell.
And, believe it or not, Joe -- it`s on the back cover of the book -- he, in recent years, has owned shares in Halliburton, the Darth Vader of corporate America.
SCARBOROUGH: OK. Hold on. I got to stop you, Peter...
SCARBOROUGH: ... because this guy said that he doesn`t invest on Wall Street. Are you telling me that he just is just lying to us?
SCHWEIZER: It`s a flat, bald-faced lie. When he says that he doesn`t own shares, I pulled IRS forms from a tax shelter of his. And he has hundreds of thousands of dollars on the stock market.
Right now, for example, he is preparing a film on pharmaceutical companies, attacking the health care industry. In recent years, he has owned shares in Tenet Healthcare, which runs HMOs, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly. He is a complete hypocrite on this front.
Just something we've all known for years, but nice to know for sure now :D
Link to his blog (http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/life-among-1)
SarasotaRepub
OMG...and here I thought MM only invested in Rainbows & Ponies!!!!:D
noonwitch
He has a house on Torch Lake. Property on Torch Lake is more expensive than even property on Lake Michigan (although I would prefer the latter). Not to mention that anything built on Torch Lake after around 1985 or so is a tacky McMansion. The cool homes up there are the rustic cottages with feldstone fireplaces.
The entire OWS movement is a lie. Why rail against corporate CEO's when Hollywood actors, movie makers, and pro athletes, most of whom are decidedly left, make considerably more and live a more affluent and spend free lifestyles than any CEO could ever dream to do? Reason? Politics. Nothing more, nothing less. It's OK to be wealthy as long as your political ideology jibes with the leftist moonbats.
Zathras
The only rainbows Moore the Hutt would invest in is Skittles candy...
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Yeaterday was the anniversary of the Heidi Bowl
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#1 Yeaterday was the anniversary of the Heidi Bowl
Banacek
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On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets–and no one sees it, because they’re watching the movie Heidi instead. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, a made-for-TV version of the children’s story about a young girl and her grandfather in the Alps. Viewers were outraged, and they complained so vociferously that network execs learned a lesson they’ll never forget: “Whatever you do,” one said, “you better not leave an NFL football game.”
The game between the Jets and the Raiders was already shaping up to be a classic: It featured two of the league’s best teams and 10 future Hall of Fame players. By the game’s last minute the two teams had traded the lead eight times. The game’s intensity translated into an unusual number of penalties and timeouts, which meant that it was running a bit long.
With a little more than a minute left to play, the Jets kicked a 26-yard field goal that gave them a 32-29 lead. After the New York kickoff, the Raiders returned the ball to their own 23-yard line. What happened after that will go down in football history: Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica threw a 20-yard pass to halfback Charlie Smith; a facemask penalty moved the ball to the Jets’ 43; and on the next play, Lamonica passed again to Smith, who ran it all the way for a touchdown. The Raiders took the lead, 32-36. Then the Jets fumbled the kickoff, and Oakland’s Preston Ridlehuber managed to grab the ball and run it two yards for another touchdown. Oakland had scored twice in nine seconds, and the game was over: They’d won 43-32.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...the-heidi-bowl
Unknown philosopher at a St. Patrick's Day celebration 1967
1 beer between 3 guys is better than no beers between no guys
Festivus Moderator
Springfield, USA
Wasn't born quite yet, but have heard about that infamous incident.
Thanks for the reminder!
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I came to Texas as soon as I could
That little incident rattled the airwaves for weeks! Heads did roll but they were too far down the food chain to be meaningful.
The one that got me was college ball inside the two minute warning with Oklahoma hitting 5-6-7 yard plays to the eventual winning touchdown and the network #1 hero commentator demanded air time from the field sidelines and talked through the final whistle. I was steamed!!!
It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
. If you ain't havin' fun, it's your own damn fault
cadillac shark
I 'saw' it/didn't see it...
NBC had been building-up Heidi all week... and my sister's friends were raving about it at church that morning. -Or the subject was central, let's say. Little-girls had virtually zero primetime television aimed at them.
I was pulling for the Jets anyways.
We were sitting at my uncle's house, eating... and the game just cut-off. Voila! The NBC-peacock and the Heidi-intro... My cousin Dave and I left the living-room, but the girls and parents watched it.
My sister got a pink Mattel Showboat-theater toy that Christmas and I ended-up helping her stage Heidi, among other plays. Probably karma for my leaving the living-room.
Freedomnut
I think my pet peeve with ESPN et al are those announcers that THINK (by actions anyway) that THEY are the attraction rather than whatever game is being played. Seems that every time the ref is calling a penalty, they are discussing some unrelated topic, so many times I never know what the ref is saying especially if it's some type of explanation instead of signaling the infraction.
Doesn't happen real often, but it's enough to be highly aggravating!!
The funny thing is that this game had no other significance other than the came being cut off for a movie.
Progressivism is a bottomless pit of absurdity.
Originally Posted by NJCardFan
In the sports-context, true. In the cultural/social context, it was massive.
The powers that be learned that the 'sleeping giant' will rise-up and start bashing heads if a random event motivates them to.
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What to Know: Marquette’s First Weekend Matchups
Liam Rohan
Marquette has broken a three year tournament drought and will face the South Carolina Gamecocks on Friday. Marquette got a tough draw in the sense that, although this is nominally a neutral court game they will be taking on the Gamecocks in Greenville, South Carolina. Gamecock fans will likely flood Ben Secours Wellness Arena as South Carolina hasn’t been to the big dance since 2004. For all intents and purposes this is a road game for Marquette. The Golden Eagles were 4-6 on the road this year in conference play; their lone impressive road win was at Creighton, who they beat 102-94 back in January. This is the first trip to the tournament for these coaches with each of their respective teams.
The Gamecocks are coached by Frank Martin who has turned around a moribund program that went 9-27 in conference play his first two years as head coach. The Gamecocks reached the tournament on the strength of their conference play, particularly in January when the Gamecocks won 7 out of 8 conference games highlighted by a win over the then #19th ranked Florida Gators. Since February 17th however South Carolina has lost 5 of their last 7. Marquette Coach Steve Wojciechowski and the Golden Eagles enter the tournament as winners of 4 out of their last 7 with wins over fellow tournament teams Creighton and Xavier. Despite Marquette finishing a little stronger neither team has a lot of momentum heading into the game as both teams dropped their opening quarterfinal conference tournament games.
On the court the Gamecocks are led by SEC conference player of the year Sindarious Thornwell. Thornwell is a 6’5 guard who averaged 21 points per game to go along with 7.2 boards and almost three assists. Thornwell also led the SEC in steals. Needless to say stopping Thornwell will be Marquette’s number one defensive priority. Marquette will also have to contend with PJ Dozier, a 6’6 sophmore guard that averages 13.6 points per game which makes him their second leading scorer. The size of Dozier and Thornwell could give Marquette problems if they are allowed to get to the basket as Marquette is very thin up front and does not have a lot of rim protection. A third guard, Duane Notice, a 6’2 senior from Toronto led the team in mins and chipped in 10.1 points per game. Like most teams in the tournament South Carolina is very guard heavy and gets a large portion of their scoring from the backcourt.
The S.C. front court is young and the minutes are dominated by freshman Maik Kotsar and sophomore Chris Silva. Silva will most likely matchup against Luke Fischer as Silva is the most talented big on South Carolina’s roster. Silva is a significant defensive presence with his length and motor. Espn.com’s scouting report on Silva is effusive in their praise of his athletic ability “Silva is an absolutely explosive athlete. He runs the floor like a deer, bounces off the ground like it’s a trampoline, and plays at the top of the box. He’s got an equally long build which makes him a constant threat to come up with momentum changing plays on both the offensive and defensive sides of the floor.” Like many young bigs however Silva struggles with getting into foul trouble and he led the SEC in fouls while only logging the 81st most minutes per game in the conference. If the experienced Fischer can get Silva into foul trouble early the gamecocks would not be able to replace his defensive prowess and athleticism.
As important as it is for Marquette to contain Thornwell and to attack Silva to get him into foul trouble this game will most likely come down to how well Marquette shoots the three ball. South Carolina has been excellent in defending the arc as they are ranked 5th in the nation in terms of opponent three point field goal percentage. They also do a great job of preventing three point attempts and rank 37th in the country by that metric. This is matchup of strengths; Marquette’s adjusted offensive scoring is 120.9 per 100 possessions good for 8th in the country while South Carolina’s defensive adjusted efficiency is 88.5 which is third in the nation. In layman’s terms Marquette can score, South Carolina stops you from scoring. The bookmakers have pegged this as a very close game and I believe it will be. In the end Marquette should have just enough offense to get past the Gamecocks in round one and move on to face the Duke Blue Devils in round 2.
I don’t think I’m really going out on a limb here saying Duke should dispatch the Troy Trojans on Friday with relative ease and set up a very interesting round two matchup with Marquette. As many basketball fans know Steve Wojciechowski played for Mike Krzyzewski then apprenticed under him for years as an assistant coach. Coach K has his Duke Blue Devils on a hot streak as they enter the tournament winning four games in four days to capture the ACC tournament. The last three wins came against Louisville, North Carolina and Notre Dame, teams that sit on the 2, 1 and 5 line to begin tournament play. As always, Duke is supremely talented and supremely confident entering the tournament.
Most conversations about Duke this year have revolved around the always controversial Grayson Allen but Dukes leading scorer is actually the sharpshooting Luke Kennard. Kennard averages 20.1 points per game shoots 50% from the field and 44% from behind the arc. Marquette will have to contain penetration as Dukes drive and kick offense can be devastating. Aside from dealing with Kennard Marquette will have to stop the aforementioned Grayson Allen. Allen only leads the team in one major category (assists) but that doesn’t tell the whole story. He is third in points, third in steals and fifth on the team in rebounds and he is an excellent defender. The impact he has on the team is best shown in the 12.5 win shares (win shares is the estimated number of wins contributed by a player due to his offense and defense) he has in his career at Duke. Basically he does a little bit of everything for the Dukies. Another shooter Marquette will have to be aware of is Frank Jackson, another guard who contributes 10.7 points per game and shoots it at 39% from deep. Marquette will have a tough time helping off any one of these guards as all three can bomb away from downtown.
The Duke frontcourt is also loaded with talent and again a large onus will be on Luke Fischer to play well and stay out of foul trouble when facing the likes of Amile Jefferson and possibly Jayson Tatum. When Fischer and Jefferson do matchup it is a rare instance of impact seniors playing against each other. Jefferson has had a very good year averaging 10 points and 8 boards and putting up a very impressive 62.1% effective field goal percentage (this statistic adjusts for the fact a three point field goal is worth more than a two point field goal) while not even attempting a single three pointer. Dukes other forward Jayson Tatum has been scorching hot as of late and could provide a major matchup problem for Marquette. Tatum averaged 16.9 points per game during the season but is averaging 22 per game in his last four. Tatum is a slasher who can get to the hoop, a plus defender who can get out and run but also has an effective jump shot that defenders have to respect. Marquette may have to try a variety of defenders on Tatum to see who is most effective at slowing him down.
This possible second round matchup would be very difficult for Marquette in the fact that Duke can match Marquette’s strengths in being able to score and shoot the three. Marquette has been in plenty of shootouts but will need to play better defense than they have for most of the year. Marquette has occasionally gone to zone to throw a different wrinkle at teams and they may look to sporadically use this to create turnovers and give the Blue Devils a different look. As much as I would love to see the Golden Eagles advance to the sweet 16 I can’t see them getting past this red hot Duke squad.
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The New Labour years saw sweeping cultural change designed to replace the traditional internal Labour party democracy with a new organisational culture. Its effects are still felt today. Emmanuelle Avril explains how the struggles in today’s Labour have their roots in Blair’s brand of party management and Labour’s continuing (dys)function as an organisation. Similar PostsLabour’s century-old problem: Leadership performanceLabour has been too slow […]
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New Solution For Tooth Decay
By Dentavision | April 4th, 2011
The main treatment for cavities - drill and fill - has given the dental profession a bad rep. Ask people what they hate to do most, and I bet half of them will say "Going to the dentist." But now, French researchers at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in Paris have developed a painless and simple method that could very soon put an end to fillings. You know - Novocaine, water, air, drilling, sore mouth, and chemical taste?
Fillings are used to fill holes left by tooth decay. (Do yourself a favor and don't check out Google images for 'tooth decay.') Decay is caused by bacteria called streptococcus mutans, and yes it does feed on sugar in the diet. The French team, rather than identify other fillers for the holes, tried to find a way to make the tooth grow back to fill in the hole.
They made a gel substance from MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone) with poly-L-glutamic acid, a strong survivor often used to transport drugs through our bodies because it can fight off stomach acids that might destroy the medication. The researchers rubbed the gel on dental pulp fibroblasts taken from human tooth tissue and found that the gel triggered growth of new cells and adhered to each other.
MSH is a substance that is naturally produced by the pituitary gland and it is active in determining the lightness or darkness of our skin color. But recently, MSH has been identified as playing a crucial role in bone regeneration, which is what gave the researchers the idea to try it for tooth regeneration.
The researchers experimented with the gel on mice with dental cavities and the cavities disappeared within one month. It took the same amount of time to restore the human samples to form healthy new tooth tissue. Though it won't be available to dentists for 3 to 5 years, there's one thing you can count on: there won't be a hole in your tooth any more. That tissue you identify as "tooth" will come back and look just like your original - a brand new tooth.
The complete study is published by the American Chemical Society in its journal ACS Nano.
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Oceanside by Land, Sea and Air
By Greg Aragon on October 11, 2018
Oceanside is awesome from land, sea or air. – Photo by Greg Aragon / Beacon Media News
By Greg Aragon
A highlight of my recent trip to Oceanside was being able to see it from different angles and speeds. Besides the fascinating walking tour I discussed last week, I also experienced the town by kayak, Batman-type car, and via a fat-tire electric scooter.
The kayak adventure began shortly after a delicious dinner at Masters Kitchen & Cocktail Restaurant (mastersoceanside.com). From here our group drove to Oceanside Harbor (oceansideharborvillage.com), where we embarked on a Full Moon Guided Kayak tour. The nocturnal paddling sessions take place on full moon weekends during warmer months and allow visitors to revel in the beauty and romance of Oceanside’s quaint harbor under a moonlit sky. Tours include kayak, paddle, life jacket, headlamp and a knowledgeable guide who will prepare newbies and experienced kayakers for the excursion.
Our paddle was a wonderfully serene trip across calm, moonlit water that took us past a herd of barking seals and sloops filled with million-dollar yachts, old junkets and the twinkling lights of the Harbor Village. Along the way, our guide told us about the rock jetties that protect the harbor and pointed out interesting harbor facts. For more information on the Moonlight Paddle, call the City of Oceanside Parks and Recreation at (760) 435-5041
Back ashore, I headed back to The Fin Hotel for a restful night’s sleep. In the morning I walked to Petite Madeline Bakery and Bistro (petitemadelinebakery.com), where I enjoyed a smoked salmon croissant and a cup of coffee a couple blocks from the beach. From here it was off to Oceanside Municipal Airport, where I got to climb in a helicopter and ride in a futuristic Batman mobile-looking, three-wheeled car known as a Polaris Slingshot.
Driving the car was Kurt, founder and owner of Waverider Helicopter Tours. A Coast Guard veteran and a dual-rated commercial pilot in helicopters and airplanes, Kurt loves to show people Oceanside by land and air.
Kurt’s company provides a memorable experience for those looking to view the beautiful beaches and captivating backcountry of San Diego County, coastal Orange County, and Temecula Wine Country from a unique perspective. Waverider Helicopter Tours offers several tours, ranging from 10 minutes to over one hour. The Robinson R44 helicopter seats four and each passenger gets a Bose noise-canceling headset to listen to the pilot and talk while flying.
The company is now taking reservations for its new Holiday Light Tours, which offer a bird’s eye view of San Diego’s coastal light displays along the coast from Oceanside to Del Mar. The 30-minute light tours run Dec. 8 through Jan. 1. For more info call (760) 691-9144 or visit waveriderhelicoptertours.com.
And then there is the Slingshot mobile. During our trip in the space age convertible, we cruised down Coast Highway by the beach and pier, listening to the Beach Boys and turning heads. If you like flashy cars, with high-powered engines and jet-like feel, this is a great way to see Oceanside.
The last adventure on my tour of Oceanside was a ride to Mission San Luis Rey in an electric, fat-tire scooter provided by Ride O’side (rideoside.com). Designed for active and eco-conscious guests, the scooter are “100 percent electric and 1000 percent fun.” The new 2018 model, like the one I rented, has a 20Ah battery a top speed of 20 miles per hour. It includes Bluetooth for listening to cell phone music, boasts 18-by-9.5-inch fat tires for added stability, and a front hydraulic shock that yields an unbelievably smooth ride.
My 13.9-mile round trip ride to Mission San Luis Rey began near Oceanside Pier, where I picked up the San Luis Rey Bike Trail, a Class 1 bicycle trail completely isolated from motorized traffic. Along the way I passed memorable natural scenery and a variety of bird species while following the San Luis Rey River. At the Mission, I opened my sack lunch and read about its history.
The largest of the 21 California missions, Mission San Luis Rey was built in 1789. Its grounds feature hand carved wooden doors, bright and colorful hand painted walls and murals, and a mixture of Classical and Baroque reredos.
For more information on visiting Oceanside, visit visitoceanside.org. For information on staying at The Fin Hotel, go to thefinhotel.com.
Greg Aragon
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Mission Impossible: Are Plant Based Foods Going to Substitute Meat?
By Terry Miller on April 25, 2019
Conceptualized by founding partner Hagop Giragossian, along with Würstmacher Adam Gertler (pictured) and Chef Ilan Hall, Dog Haus is one of many restaurants now offering plant-based food items. – Photos by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
By Terry Miller
You may have heard of the latest trend in food: ‘plant based.’ But do any of us really know what it is and how the food industry is initiating a meat mutiny, if you will.
“Beef: It’s what’s for dinner” the late legendary actor Robert Mitchum proclaimed in 1993 as he touted the ad campaign funded by the “Beef Checkoff Program” with “creative guidance” of Leo Burnett Worldwide advertising agency.
There are other, earlier classic television ads peddling beef. Remember 81 year-old Clara Peller’s famous line, “Where’s the beef?” That catchphrase in the United States and Canada, introduced in 1984, originated as a slogan for Wendy’s. Since then it has become an all-purpose phrase.
Experts have proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that too much red meat can increase your risk of everything from heart disease to certain cancers, and the beef industry has a huge impact on the environment. Methane gases and massive slaughter houses contribute serious side effects to our air quality, let alone the inhumane conditions under which animals are treated.
However people devour, dare I say, crave and consume meat by the ton every day of the year. But, as Bob Dylan said, “The times they are a changin’.” And, my goodness how times have changed.
Two influential companies have coerced the restaurant business into changing the way they not only look at food but also the potential to get plant based foods to be the new “meat.”
Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have, essentially, started a revolution with plant based foods that actually taste like meat.
Beyond Meat, was created by vegan Ethan Brown in 2009 and although still very popular with millions of people worldwide, animal meat is taking a back seat due to plant-based foods insurgency that mimic meat, complete with the “bleeding” of rare cooked meat.
Beyond does not try to market to vegans and vegetarians, who account for less than 5% of the U.S. population. The Beyond Burger is now available at about 11,000 of its 17,000 grocery-store customers in the U.S.
And since their debut at Whole Foods in May 2016, Beyond Burger patties have made their way into tens of thousands of supermarkets (from Kroger to Safeway), restaurants (from TGI Friday to Carl’s Jr.), hotels (like The Ritz Carlton, Hong Kong) and even sports stadiums (like Yankee Stadium).
Impossible Foods says that “using animals to make meat is a prehistoric and destructive technology. Animal agriculture occupies almost half the land on earth, consumes a quarter of our freshwater and destroys our ecosystems. So we’re doing something about it: we’re making meat using plants, so that we never have to use animals again. That way, we can eat all the meat we want, for as long as we want. And save the best planet in the known universe.”
Heme is what makes meat taste like meat. “It’s an essential molecule found in every living plant and animal — most abundantly in animals — and something we’ve been eating and craving since the dawn of humanity. Here at Impossible Foods, our plant-based heme is made via yeast fermention, and safety-verified by America’s top food-safety experts and peer-reviewed academic journals.
“Our original recipe is primarily made from soy and potato protein. It also contains coconut and sunflower oil (which gives it its sizzle) and heme (which makes meat taste like meat),” Impossible Foods claims.
Last November, Dog Haus, the gourmet hot dog, sausage and burger concept, launched custom plant-based sausages and burgers, expanding their offerings “to meet every guest’s needs and taste. With the help of plant-based powerhouses – Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat – four new menu items are now available at all 30-plus Dog Haus locations nationwide, enticing vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.
“We have always offered vegetarian-friendly options to ensure there is something for everyone at Dog Haus, but we knew we could take these offerings to a new level, especially in the context of today’s plant-based market,” says Hagop Giragossian, Dog Haus partner.
We at Beacon Media sampled The Impossible Burger at the Alhambra Dog Haus recently and were stunned by not only the flavor but the look of the food. One would be hard pressed to believe this is plant based. As a vegetarian, this reporter found it rather odd that vegans/vegetarians would want to eat something that tastes like meat! But then, these companies aren’t aiming their corporate crosshairs on non-carnivores; the opposite is true.
Looking at key ingredients in Impossible Burgers, GMO Science found the following:
“A key ingredient of the Impossible Burger is a protein called soy leghemoglobin (SLH) derived from genetically engineered yeast. SLH contains an add-on component known as ‘heme.’ In its natural form, SLH is found in the root nodules of soybean plants. Impossible Foods has taken the SLH gene from the soybean and used genetic engineering technology to insert it into a strain of yeast. The resulting genetically modified (GM) yeast is grown at an industrial scale in vats, a process known as fermentation. The SLH is then isolated from the yeast and added to the Impossible Burger.
“The heme component of SLH (soy leghemoglobin) in the Impossible Burger gives it a meat-like taste and makes it ‘bleed’ like rare meat. This component mimics the effect of heme in natural meat such as beef, where it is principally present as part of two proteins, hemoglobin in red blood cells and myoglobin in the muscle of the meat.
“The Impossible Burger is not made from organically sourced or Non-GMO ingredients, so there are other substances present in this product that in all likelihood are also derived from GM organisms (GMOs) – namely soy protein isolate and a number of vitamins … So overall, the Impossible Burger is a GMO food.
“Dr. Michael Hansen, senior scientist with Consumers Union and member of the GMO Science advisory board, agreed, telling Wired Magazine: ‘Just because proteins have similar functions or similar three-dimensional structures, doesn’t mean that they’re similar. They can have a very different amino acid sequence, and just slight changes can have impacts.’
Such impacts could include unexpected toxicity or allergenicity.”
However in January 2019, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that Impossible Foods’ key ingredient soy leghemoglobin is safe to consume, following an extensive review. The meat alternatives firm said scientists had previously questioned whether soy leghemoglobin would have “adverse effects” for those who suffered from allergens. However, they revealed a search of allergen databases found that soy leghemoglobin had a very low risk of allergenicity, and had shown no adverse effects in exhaustive testing.
Despite the GMO controversy, 2018 data from Nielsen and the Plant-Based Foods Association show sales of plant-based meat alternatives increased during 2018 by 24% to $670 million, while sales of animal-based meat only rose 2% during that same period. Having to get the FDA’s approval for a color additive isn’t likely to adversely impact Impossible Foods’ popularity nor that of plant-based products in general as long as the company is transparent about the process.
Terry Miller
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First U.S. LED Cinema Screen Now Running
Saturday, April 21st 2018 11:29 am
The first-ever LED cinema screen in the United States is now up and running at Pacific Theaters Winnetka in the Los Angeles suburb of Chatsworth.
The new screen, which measures 34 feet wide and 17 feet tall, is essentially a massive television screen which can display content in much greater detail and High Dynamic Range – boasting greatly improved color quality and true blacks. It also is far brighter – a typical projector screen can get up to a luminance measurement of 14 foot-lamberts, while this LED screen can get up to 300 nits/88 foot-lamberts.
It does not require a projector, eliminating the need for a projection room. It does require a whole new design for a sound system so Harman International developed a JBL Professional cinema sound audio system that can accommodate up to 7.1 Surround Sound. Samsung says the cost of a screen could run anywhere from $500,000-$800,000.
The Samsung LED cinema screen supports 2K or 4K resolution and can also play 3D content. It begins screenings for the public from today with “Ready Player One” the first film being offered, there presently will be no premium ticket pricing.
Samsung expects to have at least ten installed worldwide by the summer, and roughly thirty by the end of the year which is when a 46 feet wide 4K LED screen is expected to debut. Sony will show off its rival Crystal LED cinema screen during CinemaCon next week.
.@Samsung boasts the screen can show true black, a much brighter screen. In person I can vouch for the improved color quality, even before the start of the screening. pic.twitter.com/slvriwgFXN
— Ricardo Lopez (@rljourno) April 20, 2018
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About EFLI
Youth Ambassador Board
50 North Buckhout Street
Irvington, NY, 10533
2016 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN & NEW NATIONAL PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED!
January 22, 2016 Antoinette Klatzky
After six full and fulfilling years hosting programming in its hometown of Irvington, NY, the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute is expanding to run youth leadership programs across the country.
"What makes us unique is our founding story - we're a relatively new organization, but are built on practices that have been tried and tested for over thirty years at EILEEN FISHER Inc.," says Program Director, Antoinette Klatzky. "Eileen's story - one of entrepreneurship, reflection and collaboration - is at the heart of what we do and we know that it's inspiring beyond our hometown community."
Through the 2016 year, EFLI will hold residential programs in the DC, NY and Seattle regions, allowing participants from across the country to come explore creativity, confidence, connection and community and discover their own leadership style. "EFLI is my home," says Youth Ambassador Board member, Sonali. "The community makes me feel like I am strong enough to conquer the world."
EFLI will continue to run programming throughout summer 2016 in the EILEEN FISHER Learning Lab in Irvington, NY. "We don't want to forget where we came from," says Klatzky. "This expansion is about building on what we've learned in Irvington and answering the call from young people all over the country." Over the last few years, EFLI has had participants join their Irvington, NY, programs from Michigan, California, Florida, and Canada, to name a few.
Click a photo below to learn more about EFLI's regional programs and apply now to start your leadership journey!
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The Tarot of Eli-Key 4-The Emperor
Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 4-The Emperor & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 4-The Emperor
· tarot comparison,Thoth tarot
The Thoth Tarot- Emperor-Key 4 & The Night Sun Tarot-key 4-The Emperor:
Are both representative of the Warrior force, Mars, and the letter- Tzaddi-meaning fish hook. The Hebrew letter, Tzaddi (shown on bottom left of card), refers to the sign of Aries in the Zodiac and the ruler of Aries which is Mars. The resulting combination exalts the Sun. All of which implies that Aries and Mars is a combination of energy in its most material form with the idea of Authority. Tzaddi is also the traditional Path Of the Star Tarot Card. The Great She that connects the above Unconscious to the below consciousness . Therefore, both Robert Wang, the author of The Qabalistic Tarot, and myself, believe that Crowley made a mistake in assigning the Hebrew letter Tzaddi to this card and the Hebrew letter, Heh-meaning window or sight, to the Star card. For the Emperor is actually the First Sight, as the astrological sign Aries, which is assigned to this card, is the First House of astrology. While the Star card is the sight that connects Personality to the Higher Self.
The Thoth Tarot Emperor is illustrated as an imperial figure bedecked with crown and imperial vestments.
His throne shows capitals, behind him, that are representative of Himalayan Ram heads which also represent Aries the Ram. The Aries Ram is depicted on both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot-Emperor.
The blazing golden-exalted- Sun Disk, is also represented behind the Emperor of both cards; However, the Night Sun Tarot shows solar radians that are embellished with angelic names.
The couchant lamb and upright flag at the Thoth Emperor's feet, represent his domesticated attribution on the lower planes. As is noticed in both government (the flag) and Rams, if untamed they both are wild and courageous, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tame they both are made to lie down in green pastures becoming docile and cowardly.
The golden ribbon draped across the Night Sun Tarot's Solar Disc, partially displays a sentence beginning with Dominico, which is Spanish for the Latin-Dominicus, meaning-Lord and Master.
Both wear imperial vestments of Red, representing Mars and Aries.
The Crown of Thorns on the Night Sun Tarot's spread, reminds us that the power to rule, comes with self-sacrifice and often suffering.
The Emperor also represents the alchemical chemical, Sulfur, as shown by The Thoth Tarot's Emperor's posed head and arms, forming a triangle; below his crossed legs form the cross, making a complete sigil of the alchemical sulfur. In the Gnosis of Alchemy, Sulfur is the male creative fiery energy of the Universe and corresponds to the Qabalistic Fiery- swift creative energy, the initiative of all Being. [From the Symboldictionary.net]
Sulfur (“Leviathan Cross”)
A symbol for the alchemical element Sulfur, (Brimstone) which is spiritually analogous to the human soul. Alchemical, sulfur has the qualities of masculine, hot and dry. Combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist), the pair were considered the parents of all metals. Alchemical drawings often portray Sulfur as the sun. (In some views, sulfur and salt are the parents of Mercury) The symbol of sulfur is often used as an identifying symbol by Satanists, due to sulphur’s historical association with the devil. The above black glyph is often referred to incorrectly as the “pontifical cross of Satan” by Christian tract writers, due to its adoption as an emblem of Satanism by Anton LaVey in the 1960s. The emblem has no history as a symbol of Satanism outside of LaVey’s usage, and the attribution is most likely a product of anti-Catholic sentiment, as it is often compared in this context to the Catholic Pontifical Cross. A more common symbol for sulfur is a fire triangle surmounting a cross of earth:
The Bee and Fleur-de-Lys, depicted on the Thoth Emperor's robes and bottom of the Card, both support the Imperial image as ancient signs of imperial power. The quality of this power is prone to sudden, violent but impermanent activity, so this fiery power must not persist for too long or it burns and destroys.
The Rams head scepter is a obvious continuance of authority and Aries. The Orb with the Maltese cross and the Aries scepter, on both Cards, imply that his authority and power are now established governance. The shield at the feet of the Thoth Tarot Emperor, represents the two headed eagle crowned with a crimson disk which is symbolic of the Alchemist's red tincture or the nature of gold. The golden eagle, the Sun, is consort to the white eagle, the moon, and/or silver, of the Empress. The Night Sun Tarot-Emperor, has an Eagle perched on his left arm.
In the final observation of this Thoth Emperor card, the white light descending upon his head is the 2nd Sephiroth-Chokma, Wisdom, and symbolizes Chokmah's authority of creative wisdom, the Logos, and that it is exerted upon Tiphareth (Beauty), the organized man build of the Whole Soul Collective. As stated the Alchemical Sulfur, also represents the soul. This makes sense, if you understand that Beauty is a perfect organization of opposites; a Jungian synchronicity.
There is much about the collective of "I Am", the Divine Creative, to explain but words are not the true explanation of "I's" union/hook with "Am" which is represented by the Hebrew letter Tzaddi, that is shown on the lower left of the Thoth Emperor card and the upper right on the Night Sun Tarot Emperor, which is a stretch of reason. In truth, the Hebrew letter Heh, better represents the Emperor card.
In fact the Biblical story of the Hermetic Qabalah's Path of Heh ( Hebrew word: Hinenni which is a composite of Heh means "Here I Am") is known as Moses and the burning bush (Exodus:3:1-4) which tells us of a great miracle of enlightenment, where Moses mentally and physically climbs to new heights and witness a miracle beyond his normal perceptions of sight. To sum up this story, at first he can't believe his eyes, but after God spoke from the burning bush, and called Moses's name twice---Moses responded with "Here I Am'. Thus showing that he has heard and is ready to do as bid by God. The Emperor card-Key 4, is the first Conscious sense---the first enactment of Willed energy on form. it is the eye (I) sight of conscious energy. It is the Fire that is seen-Light from Darkness. It is the Window that looks out onto form. But this is not understood by worded definitions alone. Moses had to go through many actions before he could "See the Light":
(A). He had to go out into the wilderness; seek solitariness of self contemplation leaving behind the definitions of society.
(B) He sees an angel; through meditation processes that take us out into the unexplored areas of our consciousness(wilderness) where we find our inner "Holy Guardian Angel").
( C). He notices that a bush is burning but is not consumed; our perspectives of sight, change through greater awareness and we see the spiritual fire or as I see, the Human Aura which is a "solar Fire" around the human body that doesn't consume.
(E). And after all this, is when he hears the Voice of God but he must hear it twice to be sure its real.
This is obviously a story about the inner path journey, as depicted on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, that we all must take to be able to claim our inheritance as "Children of God:" and our purpose is then made clear. On the Path of Heh, we now have a Window, in which to see through illusion and view the Real.
In order to get a glimpse of understanding about the Emperor Card, we have to Know the Empress. I know this sounds odd, but realize for a moment that Binah (The Great Mother) is a Yod unconscious energy that crosses over to the Heh conscious energy, thought the Path of the Empress; the Empress being the balance between Chokmah and Binah. The Empress is the growth process that comes from the union and/or the interaction of male and female as the fertilized cell. She is fruition, The Emperor, although he is a potent masculine energy, is Heh on the Paths, meaning that its function is determined by Binah. In fact, Chokmah (Wisdom); the primary quality of maleness (electric force) is a female noun in Hebrew. Often Chokmah is considered feminine in action, because we have taken the point of view that whatever gives birth is exercising a primary female quality at the moment of birth. To make a long story short, the male is inherent in the female and the female is inherent in the male, which is a real transformation function of a given energy consciousness. Therefore, they are viewing each other which is implied by the Hebrew letter Heh. That is also why if you lay the Empress card-Key 3 next to the Emperor card-Key 4, you will see that they face each other.
We may understand this inherited androgyny, as the "contra sexual component" postulated by Carl Jung which states that in the unconscious the male harbors the perfect female image and the female harbors the perfect male image in her unconscious. Dr. Carl Jung, called them, the Animus (male-Soul) and Anima (female-Spirit). In truth for one energy to not be created nor destroyed, it only transforms, is both a process of male-electric dynamic motion and female formation (magnetic form). It may boggle the Mind, but there really isn't a separation of male and female. We are both conscious (male) and unconscious (female) because she produces the "form" that he must act on. Imagination, is both active idea and form, therefore it is the Divine Creative who is both She and He! I have already described the Emperor card in
detail, and have covered the path of Heh extensively. However, to reiterate, we know that the Hebrew letter, Heh, represents a window: a Path to a window of "insight" about Union rather than the "outsight" of division-ism. And without this window of insight. we can't see God-Logos! The Emperor is "I" sight of the "I AM", the first sense enacted on Form.
Again, THE Qabalistic Tarot, EMPEROR-Key 4, is the Path of Heh, Window, that runs between Tiphareth (Beauty-the Solar Logos) to Chokmah (Wisdom-Lesser Creator who rules over manifestation) and is known as the Constituting Intelligence ( Dr.Paul Foster Case).
Because of our Divine Inheritance from the Demiurge (Lesser Creator) and the Great Mother (Binah-Female aspect of the Demiurge) we are all a Psyche composed of the "Shades" of consciousness.
Modern psychology has called these Shades of Consciousness, the Unconscious (Universal Collective Unconscious), the Sub-conscious (the body collective unconsciousness) and the Consciousness (Self-conscious) which just about every elementary school child has heard of; However, hearing of a thing is not knowing the thing. Because of the evolution of subjective thought, from Mythology, to fundamental Religions, and now to the modern science of Psychology, and Parapsychology we are beginning to easily deal with the shades of consciousness within ourselves and are experiencing a New Age (The Age of Aquarius or Aeon of Horus) of enlightenment.
The Higher we realize ourselves on the Self Tapestry of the Tree of Life, the more the student understands that the Trump or Cards of the Major Arcana, only point the way towards understanding concepts that the human objective pattern seeking-mind cannot otherwise grasp.
By just beginning to understand the next Five Trumps/Paths, [THE EMPEROR, THE EMPRESS, THE HIGH PRIESTESS,THE MAGUS, THE FOOL], the initiate will be developing the consciousness of the Horus; what Crowley called, the 22nd century human psyche.
Because of Modern Physics, we know that there is only One Energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed (and transmitted), and the student of the Tarot knows that all the 78 cards of the Tarot deck represent Transformations of the One as Self. From the One, emergence the opposites, which are activating the formative, that is the Male (Electric) and Female (Magnetic) communion. Thus it is accurate to state that all Male figures in Tarot are Chokmah (Jah) and Binah (YHVH Elohim) is that of all Female.
The robes they wear, represent the different planes and/or dimensions of our mufti-verse, which are actually vibratory rates that are either "will to force" (male) Kether or "will to form" (Female) Binah, and/or their intertwining of vibration (The Divine Union of Goddess/God) that makes all things possible.
The Qabalist knows that the "Big Bang" came from what is the Source, Kether, thus the ejaculation of Energy, making the Action of Kether -male( Male is not a sex here, but an action) and therefore defining the Divine Feminine as "Formless" (virgin dark energy- magnetism) in the three formless states of Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Ur.
The One became Two, Androgynous, when I became Am , which is known as Chokmah and Binah, which should be stated Chokmah/Binah, just as Yin/Yang or Time/Space are known to be inseparable and established at the same moment. Thus, with some authority we can say that the I is male and the Am is female, for one is Wisdom (Chokmah) and the other is Understanding (Binah) and we can't experience one without the other! Representing this union of Empress and Emperor, on the Night Sun Tarot, is the other half of the green venus curtain that was shown on the High Priestess, Night Sun card and as stated before, they both face each other. The four belts that the Night Sun Emperor wears, are symbolic of his rule in the 4 worlds of the Qabalah.
In the Tarot, THE FOOL represents the One Energy, THE MAGUS and the HIGH PRIESTESS, are the Macrocosm into Microcosm; first differentiation of Male and Female electromagnetic energy polarity. Pure Consciousness, known as the "root of Water" is represented by the HIGH PRIESTESS and Her consort, THE MAGUS, is considered psychologically as the Will. Thus the term I Am, is understood as the intercourse of consciousness and will, i.e "existence" which is Life but not yet alive, therefore, "will to force" and "will to form". Like I've said before, I AM is your Real Psyche Birth name. One might say, that our self-definitions, and/or "I Am Me's", are definitely a window into our Soul.
The mating of the HIGH PRIESTESS, to the MAGUS, is described in Robert Wang's book: THE QABALISTIC TAROT as, ".....the activity of the directing Will of the One on the Great Ocean of undifferentiated consciousness [Binah] which It has Itself projected [Big Bang] ( The bracketed words are my own).
Here we begin to think of the reflexive qualities of the Divine Creative; The Divine Feminine/Masculine creates, idea/thought, then the mind/understanding to hold that thought in a "net of magnetism" and then give them "life"(emotions). Thus we have the concept of the Universe as a Mirror, where everything is the perception and activity of the Divine Spirit, reflecting on Itself, a process which the various and varying symbols of the Tarot are attempting to suggest.
The reason Crowley has positioned THE EMPEROR , so that the body forms a triangle and a cross. is because he is representing the alchemical symbol of Sulfur. This representation is because of the Alchemical explanation of the Divine-Self Interaction in terms of Sulfur, Salt and Mercury. In Tarot, Mercury is THE MAGUS, THE EMPRESS is Salt and THE EMPEROR is sulfur. This may seem as little more than obscure abstraction: However, when we consider that THE MAGUS, (Philosophic Mercury) acts upon THE HIGH PRIESTESS (Pure Consciousness) and by Union they are transformed into THE EMPEROR (Sulfur) and THE EMPRESS (Salt), we are actually considering the quite basic attributes of our own consciousness.
As stated before,THE EMPRESS is on a Path of Daleth (meaning door) which is above the Path of THE EMPEROR, simply because without her manifestation of form, he would have nothing to rule. Therefore, on the Path of Heh, the Emperor is a transformation of the MAGUS (Will). Basically, when we are classifying images according to color, subject, or other criterion, we are calling THE EMPEROR into play. As does THE EMPEROR, we are acting upon form as a Psychosomatic entity. Another way to see this exercise of rule, is that if the subconscious didn't send up form from its depths, as a stream of images to be classified by the differentiating exercise of reason, consciousness would have nothing to control or transform. Thus THE EMPEROR, albeit a potent masculine force, functions as determined by THE EMPRESS.
When the Emperor Tarot card is thrown during a reading, it implies:
War, strife, conquest, victory and ambition; all the martial arts.
But these traits aren't always so destructive as the Emperor also implies, personal power and leadership; power from insight, possessing a global sense of issues and serving those around you.
The character of the Emperor is Patriarchal, which could also implies that the querent is up against an angry patriarchal structure of some kind, which includes rigidity and maybe even nastiness.
A confrontation with authority or even with some part of ones self which is feeling rigid and afraid. Interpretations of which depend on the dignity of the accompanying cards.
For the student of Higher Magic, the septure in the Emperor's right hand also represents:
The Lightning- Phallus of Shiva, giving rise to the Tarot Wand. This was originally the Trident (ternary Phallic symbol of Father, Son and Holy Ghost) born by the Western gods, Neptune, Jupiter, Hades, Poseidon, Pluto and Lucifer. Also the Trident was associated with Osiris and later on, to the Guardian of the Holy Grail.
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English Department E-News - Summer 2018
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Colleagues,
As we approach the general election on November 8th, we write to provide a reminder of University guidance regarding permissible political campaign-related activities on campus.
Because the University encourages freedom of expression, political activities that do not reasonably imply University involvement or identification may be undertaken so long as regular University procedures are followed for use of facilities and for conduct by faculty and staff in their official University capacities. Guidelines for student activities are also provided here.
The enclosed memo details University guidelines, and offers resources for use by our community. Please review it and distribute it to your faculty and staff members, as appropriate.
Geovette Washington, Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Legal Officer
Paul A. Supowitz, Vice Chancellor for Community and Governmental Relations
http://www.universityannouncements.pitt.edu/Campaign-Related Activities Memo.pdf
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The Dietrich School announces a two-year program to fund efforts to improve our undergraduate curriculum, especially efforts that support School-level initiatives to enhance departmental advising, develop innovative majors, enrich large-enrollment and introductory courses, or scale-up mentored research, scholarly, and creative arts experiences for undergraduates.
Funds must be requested by department chairs or program directors on behalf of a full time T/TS or NTS faculty member or group of faculty members within, and in some cases also outside, their department or program. Funds can be used to assess and/or purchase materials, including software that might augment teaching, learning, assessment, or grading; support travel to visit colleagues at institutions with curricular programs being considered at Pitt; convene workshops or retreats for sustained faculty consideration of curricular changes, especially those that cross departmental or School lines; or similar purposes. In exceptional cases that involve complex departmental or program changes, funds can be requested for limited summer salary support. No funds are available for course releases or salary support during fall or spring terms.
There is no minimum or maximum request limit, but, as funds are limited, most successful proposals will have budgets less than $10,000 in one-time (non-recurring) funds. Proposals should contain a short (1-3 page) description, a 1-page letter from the chair or program director that details the faculty involved in the project and their respective responsibilities, a 1-page timetable for the expenditure of the funds and the testing and/or implementation of the project, and a 1-page budget that should be reviewed in advance by the department’s fiscal administrator.
All funds must be allocated by the end of the spring 2019 term. Proposals can be submitted anytime and will be considered until the fund is expended. Please send proposals as a single PDF document to j.seemann@pitt.edu.
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an EdChange project by Paul C. Gorski
Equity Case Studies
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Getting Started: Respect Activity (Introductory Level)
Ask everyone to find someone in the room who they do not know. Instruct them to introduce themselves to that person, and spend five to ten minutes talking about respect. What does it mean for you to show respect, and what does it mean for you to be shown respect? After the allotted time, ask the participants to return to their seats, and open the discussion. What ideas did people discuss?
Common responses include the "Golden Rule," looking somebody in the eyes, being honest, and appreciating somebody's ideas even when you do not agree with them. Each of these responses offers interesting points of reflection. They each are informed culturally and hegemonically. So once people have returned to the big group for processing the activity, be sure to inquire where people's notions of "respect" come from and who those notions serve and protect. Does everybody really want to be treated the way you want to be treated? Is it respectful in every culture to make eye contact with whomever is speaking? What if somebody's ideas are oppressive--should we still respect them? And to whose benefit? It is important to mention that respect is a crucial ingredient in any discussion, but especially in a discussion of often-controversial issues such as racism, sexism, and economic injustice. The point is to learn from our differences--to understand each other's understanding. The point is not to agree. But the point, as well, is to reflect critically on our assumptions and socializations around the concept of respect.
This activity touches many bases. First, it starts the crucial path toward building a community of respect. This is the first step in maintaining a constructive exchange regarding issues related to equity and social justice. At the most basic level, participants meet someone they did not know and exchange ideas with that person. Second, the community is built through an understanding of how the group perceives respect and how we negotiate its meaning. Third, the similarities and differences in participants' ideas about respect begin to show the first signs of similarities and differences within the group on a larger level, often in ways that reflect power and privilege.
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"Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment."
- Dr Maria Montessori
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth."
- The Absorbent Mind p.4, Chap 1.
"It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was."
- Maria Montessori
"Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs towards the infinite future."
"If we could say "We are respectful and courteous in our dealing with children, we treat them as we should like to be treated ourselves" we should have mastered a great educational principle and be setting an example of good education."
"The technique used to educate children must be one of love."
- Montessori, Mario Education for Human Development p 55, Chap 5
"We must not interfere with a concentrating child, because something is happening inside that child."
- The Child, Society and the World p.14, Chap II
"The essential task is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality."
- The Absorbent Mind p.188, Chap 19
"Without concentration it is the objects about him which possess the child. He feels the call of each, and goes from one to another. But once his attention has been focused, he becomes his own master and can exert control over his world."
- The Absorbent Mind p 198, Chap 21
"The first essential for the child's development is concentration. It lays the whole basis for his character and social behaviour. He must find out how to concentrate, and for this he needs things to concentrate upon. This shows the importance of his surroundings, for no one acting on the child from outside can cause him to concentrate."
"Impressions do not merely enter his mind; they form it. They incarnate themselves in him. The child creates his own 'mental muscles' using for this what he finds in the world around him. We have named this type of mentality The Absorbent Mind."
- The Absorbent Mind p.24, Chap 3
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Luke Sital-Singh
Album: A Golden State
Label: Raygun
Website: http://www.lukesitalsingh.com
The third studio album from new LA resident Luke Sital-Singh is a thing of beauty. Moving from Bristol to Los Angeles, and changing his local beach from Western Super Mare to Malibu, has given him a bit of a lighter and sunnier disposition. Sital-Singh has spoken honestly about the darker themes that permeate through his music, and while he does not shy away from the heavier themes, there is something almost optimistic about A Golden State.
Los Angeles is perhaps the best example of this lighter touch; a radio friendly track full of warmth and doubt, but with a thick vein of hope running through. His last two singles also feature here. The Last Day is simple and full of tenderness, pondering mortality and the fragility of humanity. It's one of the highlights on the album, lyrically and musically. Love Is Hard Enough Without The Winter does not sound the most joy-filled track, and there is darkness in the tale of the difficulty in keeping a relationship going.
In truth it's hard to pick standout tracks on an album rammed full with great songs. The opening of the album is a strong start. Lover and Raise Well feel well paired up, both being about change and improvement. Silhouette is wonderfully produced and sung, and while introspective songs are not exactly rare on the record, this one is carved from hope. It's not always easy, but every day we can get a little stronger.
A Golden State is a gorgeous album full of wonderful contradictions. It's hopeful and hopeless; full of sadness and bliss. The record is so full of emotion that it cannot help but strike a chord in those that listen. Life recently may have featured quite the change in location for Luke Sital-Singh, and while his music has not changed as drastically, A Golden State deserves to take him to the next level.
Adam Jenkins
The Cranberries: In The End John Paul White: The Hurting Kind
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30Kim Kardashian at Charles de Gaule Airport in France - 6th March, 2012
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Completed Series:
Pat Novak: Meet Jack Webb’s original hard boiled private eye, Pat Novak who fires off some of the most amazing similes and one liners in Detective Fiction. (RSS) (Itunes)
Box 13: Dan Holiday needs some plot ideas for his novel, so he advertises for adventure-and gets it. (RSS) (Itunes)
Jeff Regan: Jeff Regan is the lyon’s eye and gets paid $10 a day to risk his life for anyone who gives the Lyon a good check. (RSS) (Itunes)
Father Brown: G.K. Chesterton’s priest sleuth solved mysteries over Mutual in the Summer of 1945. (RSS) (Itunes)
Nero Wolfe: Corpulent genius Nero Wolfe solves cases by rarely leaving the house with the help of his faithful legman, Archie Goodwin. (RSS) (Itunes)
The Thin Man: Nick and Nora Charles were the original romantic couple of mystery. (RSS) (Itunes)
The Abbotts: Pat Abbott is a tough San Francisco Private eye whose loving and jelaous wife Jean helps him solve cases. (RSS) (Itunes)
Rogue’s Gallery: In the original hard boiled eye radio show, Dick Powell plays the rogueish Richard Rogue in this pre-Richard Diamond series. Later incarnations featured Barry Sullivan and Paul Stewart. (RSS) (Itunes)
Candy Matson: San Francisco’s original female private eye solves cases with the help of sidekick Rembrandt Watson. (RSS) (Itunes)
Hercule Poirot: Appearance by Agatha Christie’s detective with the little gray cells in his 1945 Old Time Radio series as well as appearances on the Mercury Radio Theater and Murder Clinic. (RSS) (Itunes)
Barrie Craig: Premiering during the decline of the golden age of radio, William Gargan portrayed easy going hard boiled private eye Barrie Craig. (RSS) (Itunes)
The Fat Man (US): J. Scott Smart plays Brad Runyon, a hard boiled private eye that weighs in at 240+ pounds and has a heart of gold. (RSS) (Itunes)
A Life in Your Hand: Jonathan Kegg serves as Amicus Curiae and pursues justice representing neither prosecution or defense. (RSS)
Let George Do It : Bob Bailey’s first detective role was as private detective George Valentine who advertised to handle any problem too tough for you. (RSS) (Itunes)
The Adventures of Frank Race : Frank Race was a lawyer before the war, but after his time in the OSS became a freelance troubleshooter working in case of insurance and international intrigue. (RSS) (Itunes)
Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes spent more than a decade on radio, adapting both the classic Holmes adventures as well as new stories. We covered them all. (RSS) (Itunes)
Mr. Moto: In the 1950s, this Japanese-American secret agent fought communism and prejudice. (RSS)
The Line Up: In this 1950-53 Police procedural, William Johnstone plays Lieutenant Guthrie and investigates a variety of crimes in a “great American city.” (RSS) (Itunes)
Amazing Mr. Malone: These US and Australian stories feature John J Malone, an attorney at law who is never heard appearing in court. (RSS) (Itunes)
Casebook of Gregory Hood: Art dealer Gregory Hood gets into all sorts of strange adventures and mysteries.(RSS) (Itunes)
Manhunt: Police criminologist Andrew Stevens solves tough cases in fifteen minutes or less. (RSS)
Police Headquarters: From 1932, one of the earliest police dramas. (RSS)
Pursuit: Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard pursues criminals in post-War England. (RSS) (Itunes)
Crime and Peter Chambers: Harry Kane’s Private Eye comes to radio and solves crimes with the help of his friend on the force, Lieutenant Louie Parker. (RSS)
The Saint: The debonair Simon Templar solves crimes in New York City and around the world. (RSS)
Ellery Queen: The son of Inspector Queen challenges you to solve the crime of the week before him. (RSS)
Michael Shayne (RSS): Michael Shayne solves cases in San Francisco, New Orleans, and Miami depending on which of his three radio series you listen to.
Philip Marlowe (RSS) (Itunes): Raymond Chandler’s tough talking but compassionate PI features in one of the best-written radio dramas of all time.
Nick Carter (RSS) (Itunes): Nick Carter is viewed as the greatest detective in the world and proves it while putting the lives of his assistants in peril every week.
The Avenger (RSS): In this Shadow-inspired series, Jim Brandon solves crimes and uses his invisibility technology to give him an edge.
Private Files of Rex Saunders (RSS): A Rex Harrison vehicle featuring an amateur detective and his assistant Alex solving crimes and helping women in distress all around the world.
Completed Short Series
Johnny Madero: A 1947 clone of Pat Novak, starring Jack Webb, its archives are located on the Pat Novak page. (RSS)
San Francisco Final: Reporter Mike Rivera investigates mass extortion in Chinatown. (One Episode Only)
I Deal in Crime: Before Barrie Craig and Martin Kane, William Gargan was hard boiled private eye Ross Dolan. (RSS) (Itunes)
Christopher London: This Glenn Ford vehicle features a globe-trotting private detective based in San Francisco. (RSS) (Itunes)
Crime on the Waterfront: Mike Wallace recorded two pilots for this proposed 1949 radio series starring him as Police Lieutenant Lou Kagle. (RSS) (Itunes)
Pete Kelly’s Blues: Jack Webb is hard boiled coronet player Pete Kelly, trying to survive during the roaring twenties. (RSS) (Itunes)
Leonidas Witherall: Walter Hampden plays Shakespeare lookalike and amateur detective Leondias Witherall. (RSS) (Itunes)
Call the Police: Police Commissioner Bill Grant solves mysterious crimes in this series that ran as a Summer Replacement over NBC. (RSS) (Itunes)
Cases of Mr. Ace: Private Eye Eddie Ace relays his adventures to a psychologist for profit. (RSS)
Policewoman: Lt. Mary Sullivan was a pioneering female New York City police detective. This radio series told her story. (One Episode)
The McCoy: Howard Duff plays a private detective in this post-Spade drama. (One Episode)
Dr. Tim Detective: Dr. Tim solves mysteries while teaching kids lessons in 1940s medical science. (RSS)
Mr. Chameleon : Mister Chameleon solves crimes with the aide of his silly accents. (RSS)
Police Blotter: Sergeant Sam Willoughby investigates a variety of crimes in this procedural. (RSS)
Here Comes McBride: Frank Lovejoy portrays Private Detective Rex McBride. (One Episode)
Homicide O’Kane: O’Kane solves crimes while mouthing off at his police superiors. (One Episode)
The Man from Homicide: Lt. Lou Dana has no time for niceties as he talks tough to everyone. You see he hates murder. (RSS)
Dyke Easter: A typical hard boiled private eye.
A Johnny Fletcher Mystery : A wandering vagrant and his pal get into trouble and solves mysteries.
Hearthstone of the Death Squad: Inspector Hearthstone solves strange crimes in this Hummert Produced series. (RSS)
Crime Files of Flamond ): A rare Chicago-based detective series features a psychologist that uses his knowledge of human behavior to solve mysteries. (RSS)
Tales of Fatima: Basil Rathbone plays the world’s greatest amateur detective…Basil Rathbone. (RSS)
Defense Attorney: Attorney Martha Ellis Bryant dedicates herself to defending the innocent. (RSS)
Mark Sabre (ABC Mystery Theater): Inspector Mark Sabre solves murders for the homicide squad. (RSS)
Audio Specials:
Call Northside 777: In our premiere episode, Jimmy Stewart gets us started off with a tale of a cynical journalist turned crusader trying to free a man wrongfully convicted of murder. Also, a long introduction to our show. Emphasis on long.
The Immortal Sherlock Holmes: We take a trip to the Mercury Theater where the great Orson Welles pays to tribute to the recently departed William Gillette and then presents a Mercury Theater presentation based on Gillette’s plays about the Master Detective.
The Maltese Falcon: It’s the original hard-boiled private eye novel that became a silver screen classic. In this 1943 episode of Screen Guild Theater, the original cast reunites. This episode was in of our 100th daily episode.
The One Way Ride to Nowhere: Alan Ladd, in an early radio role, plays a private detective from Chicago trying to solve a murder done on a roller coaster in California.
The Khandi Tooth Caper: In this made-for-radio sequel to the Maltese Falcon, Casper Guttman (Joseph Kearns) returns, but this time he’s seeking a piece of dental work.
Chicago Deadline: A reporter (Alan Ladd) finds a woman dead of TB and is determined to find out why she died. From the 1951 Season of Screen Director’s Playhouse.
The Man Who Was Thursday: Orson Welles stars in G.K. Chesterton’s classic story of anarchists and spies in turn of the Century London.
The Mask of Demetrios: A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).
DOA: An accountant (Edmond O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.
World War II Special: This Suspense doublebill features two episodes of CBS’ signature anthology series. First, a reporter is summoned to a wax museum and finds a code that could spell trouble for a war plant in Great Britain. Then, the great Lena Horne plays a talented singer who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in Brazil and employed by rough characters with hidden motives.
To the Ends of the Earth: Narcotics Commissioner Michael Barrows (Dick Powell) witnesses a Japanese sea captain throwing 100 slaves overboard to cover up a narcotics ring. Barrows is determined to get justice and sets out on a globe trotting adventure to break the ring and capture the murderous captain.
Norman Corwin Special: On the passing of the Great Norman Corwin, we take a look at one of his series of 26 plays from the classic series, “26 by Corwin” featuring a murder mystery in a radio station with a rare radio appearance by Ruth Gordon.
A Scrap of Lace: Murder Clinic: A charming young woman is murdered and Madam Rosika Storey is called in to find out who did it and save a prominent family from scandal.
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Studio One): A Canadian (Glenn Ford) finds himself drawn into a world of mystery and intrigue when a beautiful woman stumbles into him at a theater and winds up dead in his apartment. He has to flee to the Scottish Countryside and uncover a plot that threatens British national security.
The Murder of Roger Akroyd: While trying to retire, Hercules Poirot investigates the murder of a rich man in the country.
The Tragedy at Marsden Manner: Poirot is called upon by the insurance to investigate the apparent natural death of a wealthy man who just passed a physical for a life insurance policy for his young wife.
Screwball Division: The youngest and oldest detectives on the force turn to a drunk former detective to solve three murders that occurred at the same time.
Captain Carey USA: A former O.S.S. Officer (Charlton Heston) returns to Italy to locate the person who betrayed him and his compatriots to the Nazis.
The Quick One:With permission of Colonial Radio Theatre, we bring you one of their new Father Brown mysteries. At a hotel, Father Brown (JT Turner) tries to find out who killed an outspoken local man in a hotel bar.
Deadline at Dawn: A couple has until dawn to find out who killed a rich socialite or one of them will have to answer to the police.
The Holloway Flat Tragedy: Max Carrados doesn’t buy an obvious explanation that a man was murdered by the boyfriend of his lover.
Protective Mimicry: In the 25th Century, a Treasury Agent seeks to find the truth behind the re-appearance of counterfeit currency.
Call Northside 777: A replay of Call Northside 777 episode from the first episode.
Death Blew out the Match: A woman visits a peaceful Maine town, only to find herself prime suspect in a rival’s murder.
The School for Men: A vacation police officer helps his brother (who is a police officer in another town) catch a serial killer using skills acquired in an FBI training school.
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Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works: Eddie is hired by a wealthy woman to recover a watch that could reveal an indiscretion. Along the way, Eddie runs into murder.
My Favorite Brunette: Baby Photographer Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) dreams of being a private detective. He gets his chance when Detective Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd) steps out and a mysterious woman (Dorothy Lamour) comes into McCloud’s office looking for help against a gang of desperate criminals.
D.O.A.: Frank Bigelow (Edmond O’Brien) is doomed to die after being poisoned. He’s determined to find out who killed him and why.
Murder with Pictures: Intrigue abounds as ace newspaper photographer Kent Murdoch (Lew Ayers) finds himself up to his neck in intrigue trying to solve the murder of a mobster’s lawyer and he’s in love with the chief suspect (Gail Patrick).
Burke’s Law: Who Killed Jason Shaw?: A man is found dead, sitting in a running shower. Captain Amos Burke (Gene Barry) begins the case with no suspects and ends up with a colorful batch before it’s all said and done.
Behind Green Lights: A private detective is killed on the police department’s doorstep. Lt. Sam Carson (William Gargan) faces political pressure to frame the daughter (Carole Landis) of a reform candidate for Mayor. Carson, however, is determined to find the truth.
General Electric Theater; Committed: An ad seeking adventure lands author Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) in a sanitarium where everyone keeps calling him “Stokes.”
Nancy Drew, Reporter: Nancy Drew (Bonita Granville) tries to clear a woman accused of murder in her effort to win a prize for her efforts as a junior reporter.
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The Fatal Hour: An undercover police officer investigating smuggling is killed and Mr. Wong is on the case.
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Hey Adam! I have to say that I absolutely LOVE listening to your podcast while I am working. I make furniture and cabinetry and on those long days when I am sanding and sanding and sanding I think I’d go crazy without your podcast! I finally got caught up on all of your shows, except, on I Tunes I can only access back to episode number 245. Is there a way I can access the first 244 episodes? Thanks for all you do!! -Derek
Thanks for what you do. My dad served in WWII, in Africa, Sicily, and mainland Italy in a support role. I love what you are doing with remembering WWII and also the AF radio broadcasts especially the ones from 42-46 when my dad was serving. He gave me a great love for old time radio, and I like to think I am hearing a broadcast that he might have heard.
Thanks to all your listeners who have served from WWII to present.
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I’ve been listening to a few of your podcast entries (The Fat Man, Let George Do It, Pete Kelly’s Blues, Johnny Madero) and while I already have most of these shows archived at home on reel to reel, cassette, and MP3 downloads, while on the road I really enjoy listening to your intros and background info on the episodes.
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We’re still doing it. Only shows we’ve finished end up here.
Will we get a Yours Truly Johnny Dollar archive now, as the series is compete? Actually I think there are some other missing too: Richard Diamond for one. Now you are rerunning I can understand not keeping the archive but its a bit of a shame, On the app I cant get back to the earliest show. Rgds
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Alaeddini, Z., Kajbaf, M., Molavi, H. (2629). The Effects of Group Hope Therapy on Depression, Hopelessness and Hope of Female Students in Isfahan University. International Journal of Psychology (IPA), 2(1), -.
Zohre Alaeddini; Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf; Hosein Molavi. "The Effects of Group Hope Therapy on Depression, Hopelessness and Hope of Female Students in Isfahan University". International Journal of Psychology (IPA), 2, 1, 2629, -.
Alaeddini, Z., Kajbaf, M., Molavi, H. (2629). 'The Effects of Group Hope Therapy on Depression, Hopelessness and Hope of Female Students in Isfahan University', International Journal of Psychology (IPA), 2(1), pp. -.
Alaeddini, Z., Kajbaf, M., Molavi, H. The Effects of Group Hope Therapy on Depression, Hopelessness and Hope of Female Students in Isfahan University. International Journal of Psychology (IPA), 2629; 2(1): -.
The Effects of Group Hope Therapy on Depression, Hopelessness and Hope of Female Students in Isfahan University
Article 2, Volume 2, Issue 1 - Serial Number 3, January 2008 PDF (198.61 K)
Zohre Alaeddini; Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf; Hosein Molavi
Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan
Receive Date: 12 May 2015, Revise Date: 19 July 2019, Accept Date: 15 January 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of group hope therapy on depression, hopelessness and hope of female students in Isfahan University. 26 female students who had referred to the counseling center of Isfahan University and had been diagnosed with depression were invited to participate in this study. Participants were assigned to the control and experimental groups, randomly. Hope, depression and hopelessness were measured by Snyder’s Hope Scale, Beck’s depression Inventory and, Beck’s hopelessness scale. It was hypothesized that hope therapy can decrease depression and hopelessness and increase hope and its components in the experimental group. The results of analysis of covariance showed that, after 8 session of group hope therapy, depression was significantly lower (p) and hope was significantly higher (p) in the experimental group than the control group. The follow-up data showed that these effects have remained for one month (p). The results also showed that hope therapy didn’t reduce hopelessness, and its effects on agency thinking did not continue for one month. It was concluded that as a useful method of intervention, hope therapy can be applied to clients with depression.
group hope therapy; depression; hopelessness; hope; Female Students
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Year : 2018 | Volume : 6 | Issue : 4 | Page : 115-122
Study of coronary angiographic correlation with electrocardiography in patients of acute coronary syndrome-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Rohit Prabha Gaude1, Deepak Kumar Gautam1, Dharmendra Jain2, Gyan Prakash Singh3, Pritam Das1, Ashis Kumar Choudhury1, Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti1, Kailash Kumar1, Indrajeet Singh Gambhir4
1 Department of General Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Cardiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
4 Department of General Medicine (MD) and Former Head of Division of Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Web Publication 17-Dec-2018
Dr. Deepak Kumar Gautam
Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
DOI: 10.4103/heartindia.heartindia_41_18
Background: Abnormalities in the 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) are often used to localize the anatomic site of myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease. The same ECG findings are often assumed to correlate with anatomy of coronary arteries as well as the site of occlusion. Unfortunately, there is only limited documentation for correlation between the location of coronary artery occlusion and the finding of Q-waves during MI, thus tending to compromise the predictive value of ECG.
Aims and Objectives: The objective of this study is to correlate the accuracy of ECG in localization of culprit coronary vessels involved in acute coronary syndrome-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (ACS-STEMI) and to combine various ECG criteria for localization of culprit vessel and the occlusion site to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ECG as compared to coronary angiographic findings.
Materials and Methods: ECGs of patients with MI events, symptomatic or silent, were analyzed for STEMI or non-STEMI. One hundred patients with STEMI satisfying the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included as participants for the study. Coronary angiography was done after an event of acute MI or within 3 months after an event. ECG changes in various leads were used to localize the vessel involved and were correlated with dominant vessel involved in coronary angiography in development of MI. ECG criteria were used to localize the vessel involved. The statistical analysis was done using SPSS for windows version 16.0 software.
Results and conclusions: We found that anterior wall myocardial infarction was more common than inferior wall myocardial infarction. Incidence of MI correlated positively with age. Acute MI was more common in males than females. Diabetes was more common risk factor for acute MI. ECG criteria utilized in our study were found to have high sensitivity and specificity, when combined together, in localizing culprit vessel in ACS-STEMI in left anterior descending artery, right coronary artery, and left circumflex coronary artery and this is in accordance with the studies conducted in other populations.
Keywords: Coronary angiography, correlation, electrocardiography, localization, predictive value, sensitivity, specificity, ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Gaude RP, Gautam DK, Jain D, Singh GP, Das P, Choudhury AK, Chakrabarti SS, Kumar K, Gambhir IS. Study of coronary angiographic correlation with electrocardiography in patients of acute coronary syndrome-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Heart India 2018;6:115-22
Gaude RP, Gautam DK, Jain D, Singh GP, Das P, Choudhury AK, Chakrabarti SS, Kumar K, Gambhir IS. Study of coronary angiographic correlation with electrocardiography in patients of acute coronary syndrome-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Heart India [serial online] 2018 [cited 2019 Jul 19];6:115-22. Available from: http://www.heartindia.net/text.asp?2018/6/4/115/247576
Abnormalities in the 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) are often used to localize the anatomic site of myocardial infarction and ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease. This practice is based largely on autopsy series correlating the site of myocardial infarction with the location of Q-waves on ante-mortem ECGs. Q-waves in the precordial Leads V1–V4 appear to reflect anterior wall infarction; in Leads II, III, and aVF inferior wall infarction; and in Leads I, aVL, V5, and V6 lateral wall infarction. The same ECG findings are often assumed to correlate with coronary artery anatomy as well. Anterior wall infarction is usually attributed to disease of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. Inferior wall infarction is attributed to disease of the right coronary artery (RCA) except in patients with left-dominant systems and lateral wall infarction in whom it is due to disease of the left circumflex (LCX) coronary artery. Unfortunately, there is only limited documentation for these correlations between the location of coronary artery narrowing or occlusions and the findings of Q-waves during myocardial infarction. Studies are often confounded by the inclusion of patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease, which makes it difficult to determine that the symptoms are due to which vascular distribution. Nonetheless, patients who develop ST depression (STD) in Leads II, III, and aVF during angina are commonly referred to as having “inferior wall ischemia” and are often presumed to have RCA disease. Similar associations are often drawn between STD in anterior precordial leads and LAD artery disease and between STD in so-called lateral Leads I and aVL and LCX disease.
To correlate the accuracy of ECG in localization of culprit coronary vessels involved in acute coronary syndrome ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)
To combine various ECG criteria for localization of culprit vessel and the occlusion site and to assess its diagnostic accuracy as compared to coronary angiographic findings.
One hundred patients with STEMI satisfying inclusion and exclusion criteria were included as participants for this study.
Population on which study conducted
The study was conducted on patients visiting Cardiology Outpatient Department (OPD) or Inpatient Department (IPD) and General Medicine OPD or IPD of Sir Sunderlal Hospital, BHU, Varanasi, India, during June 2017 to July 2018. The newly diagnosed patients of acute coronary syndrome with ST elevation (STE) in their ECG were included in the study. Written and informed consent was taken. Patients were subjected to detailed clinical examination. ECG of these patients was taken, and on the basis of ECG, patients were differentiated into STEMI and non-STEMI. The coronary angiographic study of patients with STEMI was analyzed.
Patients satisfying the following inclusion criteria were included in the study.
Newly diagnosed patients
Chest pain lasting more than 30 min or patients having symptoms of angina equivalents accompanied by ST-segment elevation
Patients with confirmed enzymatic changes
Patients suitable for angiography having no contraindications to the administration of iodinated contrast
Patients without implanted pacemakers or valve prostheses.
Exclusion criteria
Those with evolving MI defined by established pathological Q-waves
Patients with signs of reperfusion by negative or biphasic T-waves were excluded
Previous angioplasty of coronary vessels
Prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Presence of right or left bundle branch block
Patients with severe valvular heart disease other than ischemic mitral regurgitation and congenital cardiac anomaly
Patients with implanted pacemakers or valve prostheses.
Details of procedures and methods used
ECGs of patients with MI events, symptomatic or silent, were taken and analyzed whether STEMI or NSTEMI. Only the STEMI patients fulfilling inclusion criteria were included in the study. These patients were evaluated for risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and other addictions. Percentage of association was seen with risk factors in the development of STEMI. Coronary angiography was done after event of acute myocardial infarction or within 3 months after an event. ECG changes in various leads were used to localize the vessel involved and were correlated with dominant vessel involved in coronary angiography in development of MI. ECG criteria were used to localize the vessel involved [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3].
Table 1: Electrocardiography criteria to identify site of occlusion in left anterior descending (in anterior wall myocardial infarction)
Table 2: Electrocardiography criteria to identify whether site of occlusion is in right coronary artery or left circumflex (in inferior wall myocardial infarction)
Table 3: Electrocardiography criteria for site of occlusion in right coronary artery
In inferior wall myocardial infarction (IWMI), several ECG criteria identify RCA or LCX as the artery containing the culprit lesion. Each of these criteria is based on one of two anatomic facts.
Patients were divided into three groups, namely Groups I, II, and III according to the localization of occlusion site in LAD, RCA, and LCX coronary arteries, respectively. Group I was further divided into four subgroups: Ia, Ib, Ic, and Id according to whether occlusion in LAD was proximal to S1, LAD proximal to D1, LAD distal to S1, and LAD distal to D1.
Group II was further divided into two subgroups: IIa and IIb according to whether occlusion in RCA was proximal or distal to right ventricular (RV) branch, respectively.
Statistical analysis of study
The statistical analysis was done using SPSS for windows version 16.0 software by IBM Inc., Armonk, New York, US. For categorical data, Chi-square, and Fischer's exact test was used. For comparing mean of two groups, Student's t-test and, for comparing median, Mann–Whitney U-test were used. For paired samples, paired t-test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test were applied. One-way analysis of variance test was used to compare differences among group means. The critical value of “P” indicating the probability of significant difference was taken as <0.05 for comparison.
Demographic profile of participants is depicted in the form of graphical representations in [Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4], [Figure 5].
Figure 1: Age distribution of patients with acute myocardial infarction
Figure 2: Sex distribution of patients with acute myocardial infarction
Figure 3: Distribution of patients with diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in acute myocardial infarction
Figure 4: Distribution of patients with positive family history and addiction in acute myocardial infarction
Figure 5: Distribution of anterior wall myocardial infarction and inferior wall myocardial infarction in acute myocardial infarction
ECG is one of the most convenient, noninvasive, and inexpensive tools widely available even in rural areas and peripheral health care. It is highly sensitive for detecting acute myocardial infarction. Majority of ECG changes correlate well with coronary angiographic lesions in accordance with basic physiology and the principles of ECG. However, there can be false-positive and false-negative ECG findings due to wrong placement of leads, limb movements, hairy chest, and lack of electrolyte gel between electrode and skin and in conditions of severe dyselectrolytemia causing muscle twitching and fasciculation including motor neuron disease. In addition, there can be ST-T changes due to nonischemic conditions such as acute pericarditis and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Apart from these modifiable factors, noncorrelation between ECG and coronary angiography is also due to anatomical variation in branching pattern of coronary arteries, and ethnic or racial differences can play a role in it. This study was planned in North Indian population to study and re-establish sensitivity and specificity of ECG with coronary angiography in cases of STEMI.
In this study, it was found that in cases of anterior wall myocardial infarction (AWMI), the occlusion is in the LAD coronary artery which is in accordance with the study conducted by Engelen et al.,[1] Ghosh et al.,[2] and Gorgels et al.[3] With IWMI, occlusion can be either in the RCA or the LCX coronary artery, and this is in accordance with a study conducted by Gupta et al.,[4] Kosuge et al.,[5] Verouden et al.,[6] and Ghosh et al.[2] In AWMI, ST-segment elevation in precordial leads (mainly V1, V2, V3, and V4) indicates occlusion of the LAD coronary artery. ST-segment elevation in precordial leads (mainly V1, V2, V3, and V4) and in Lead aVL in association with ST-segment depression of >1 mm in Leads II, III, and aVF indicates occlusion of the LAD artery proximal to first septal branch and first diagonal branch. In this case, the ST-segment vector is directed upward, toward Leads V1, V2, V3, V4, aVL, and aVR and away from the inferior leads. Hence, ST-segment elevation is present in leads V1, V2, V3, and V4, aVL, aVR, and ST-segment depression in inferior leads, i.e., Lead II, Lead III, and Lead aVF. ST-segment elevation in Leads V1, V2, V3, V4 with absence of ST-segment depression in inferior leads, i.e., Lead II, Lead III, and Lead aVF suggests occlusion of the LAD artery distal to first septal branch and first diagonal branch.
According to a study conducted by Verouden et al.,[6] the myocardial distribution of the RCA is slightly rightward in the frontal plane, and consequently, the current of injury resulting from its occlusion will be reflected more in Lead III than in Lead II and STD will be more in Lead aVL than in Lead I. Similarly, the distribution of the LCX is slightly leftward in the frontal plane, and the current of injury from its closure will be seen more in Lead II than in Lead III. As per a study conducted by Bairey et al.,[7] an injury vector leftward causing ST-segment elevation in Lead I is common with LCX occlusion but rare with RCA occlusion.
Mortality and morbidity in part are determined by the location of the occlusion. For example, in patients with inferior wall MI who have RV infarction, the culprit artery virtually always is the RCA. Such patients, including those in whom ECG evidence of RV MI is masked, are at increased risk of death, shock, and arrhythmias, including atrioventricular block. Thus, identifying the culprit artery in acute IWMI helps define those in whom aggressive reperfusion strategies are likely to yield the most benefit. Coronary angiography is the best means of determining the culprit artery in acute IWMI. When both the RCA and LCX are severely diseased, however, deciding which one is the culprit can be difficult and having an independent predictor of the culprit artery such as the ECG can be very helpful.
In a study conducted by Engelen et al.[1] entitled “Value of the ECG in localizing the occlusion site in the LAD coronary artery in acute anterior myocardial infarction,” published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in August 1999, the following results were obtained [Table 4], [Table 5], [Table 6], [Table 7].
Table 4: Predictors of left anterior descending occlusion proximal to S1
Table 5: Predictors of left anterior descending occlusion proximal to D1
Table 6: Predictors of left anterior descending occlusion distal to S1
Table 7: Predictors of left anterior descending occlusion distal to D1
Electrocardiographic predictors of LAD coronary artery occlusion proximal to the first septal perforator (S1) and/or the first diagonal branch (D1) are shown in [Table 4] and [Table 5].
Electrocardiographic predictors of LAD artery occlusion distal to S1 and/or D1 are shown in [Table 6] and [Table 7].
In our study, to diagnose a lesion proximal to S1, we used ECG criteria – STE in aVR and STD in Lead II >1 mm – which had sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive accuracy (PPA), and negative predictive accuracy (NPA) of 43%, 95%, 86%, and 70% and 36%, 100%, 100%, and 68%, respectively, according to Engelen et al.[1] study. We found ECG criteria – STE in aVR and STD in Lead II >1 mm to diagnose lesion in LAD proximal to S1 – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 50%, 77%, 45%, and 87.3% and 33%, 60%, 5.1%, and 93.4%, respectively. Specificity and NPA of our study were similar to a study done by Gorgels et al.[8] published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 but sensitivity and PPA were low.
In our study, to diagnose lesion proximal to D1, we used STD in Lead II >1 mm to diagnose lesion in LAD proximal to D1 which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 34%, 98%, 93%, and 68%, respectively, according to Engelen et al.[1] study. In our study, we found ECG criteria – STD in Lead II >1 mm – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 57.1%, 68.3%, 10.25%, and 95.08%, respectively. Sensitivity and specificity in these two studies varied widely, one of the reasons being – only ten patients had coronary angiography showing occlusion in LAD proximal to D1.
In our study, to diagnose lesion distal to S1, we used ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III and Q-wave in V5 – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 34%, 86%, 77%, and 49% and 24%, 93%, 82%, and 47%, respectively, according to Engelen et al.[1] study. We found ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III and Q-wave in V5 – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 57%, 81%, 19%, and 96% and 50%, 95%, 42%, and 96%, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA varied in these two studies.
In our study, to diagnose lesion distal to D1, we used ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III and STD in aVL – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 41%, 95%, 92%, and 53% and 22%, 95%, 87%, and 46%, respectively, according to Engelen et al.[1] study. We found ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III and STD in aVL – which had sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of 50%, 82.2%, 23.8%, and 93.6% and 40%, 61.1%, 10.25%, and 90.1%, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA varied in two studies. Most likely reason for variability in results could be ethnicity and racial differences. Engelen et al.[1] study was conducted in American population whereas our study was conducted in Indian population. There could be anatomic variation in branching pattern of left main coronary artery in two populations.
In a study conducted by Gupta et al. entitled “Electrocardiographic differentiation between right coronary and LCX coronary arterial occlusion in isolated IWMI” published in Indian Heart Journal in July 1999, with the objective to study ST-segment elevation in Leads II and III, in order to differentiate between RCA and LCX coronary artery with inferior myocardial infarction who subsequently underwent coronary angiography, results showed that ST-segment elevation was greater in Lead III than in Lead II when the RCA was the culprit vessel and vice versa when the LCX was the culprit vessel (P < 0.001). ST-segment elevation in Lead III was higher than in Lead II with a sensitivity of 99% and a specificity of 100% for diagnosing RCA as the culprit vessel. ST-segment elevation in Lead II was higher than in Lead III with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 100% in identifying the LCX as the culprit vessel. In our study, we found ECG criteria – STE in Lead III > STE in Lead II for diagnosing RCA – which had sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98.6%, respectively. Similarly, ECG criteria – STE in Lead II > STE in Lead III for diagnosing LCX artery – had sensitivity and specificity of 100%. Our study agreed with results of Gupta et al.[4]
In a study conducted by Kosuge et al.,[5] entitled “New electrocardiographic criteria for predicting the site of coronary artery occlusion in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction” published in December 1998 in American Journal of Cardiology, standard 12-lead ECGs were used to identify the site of coronary artery occlusion i.e., a site proximal to the origin of the RV branch of the RCA, a site distal to the origin of the RV branch of the RCA, or a site in the LCX. The ratio of STD in Lead V3 to STE in Lead III (V3/III ratio) was evaluated. Results of the study were following: V3/III ratio <0.5 identified proximal RCA occlusion, 0.5<V3/III ratio < or = 1.2 identified distal RCA occlusion and 1.2<V3/III ratio identified LCX occlusion with sensitivities of 91%, 84%, and 84%, and specificities of 91%, 93%, and 95%, respectively. In our study we found that, V3/III ratio <0.5 identified proximal RCA occlusion, 0.5 <V3/III ratio < or = 1.2 identified distal RCA occlusion, and 1.2<V3/III ratio identified LCX occlusion with sensitivities of 100%, 100%, 100% and specificities of 95%, 95%, 100% respectively. Our study agreed with the results of Kosuge et al.[5]
A study was conducted by Verouden et al. entitled “Distinguishing the RCA from the LCX coronary artery as the infarct-related artery in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute inferior myocardial infarction” was published in August 2009 in EP Europace. The objective of this study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of ECG criteria – STE in Lead III > STE in Lead II for identification of lesion in RCA. This ECG criteria in localizing RCA had sensitivity of 70% and specificity of 72%. We found that this ECG criterion has sensitivity and specificity both of 100%, which were higher than that found in the study by Verouden et al.[6]
In a study by Ghosh et al.[2] entitled “ECG-a simple noninvasive tool to localize culprit vessel occlusion site in acute STEMI” published in Indian Journal of Clinical Practice in March 2013. In this study, combination of ECG criteria was used to localize LAD territory. Results of this study are given in [Table 8].
Table 8: Correlation of electrocardiography criteria with coronary angiography
In our study, we found the results [Table 9] which were similar to the one mentioned above.
Limitations of this study
The present study has two major limitations. Its sample size is small and coronary angiography was not done immediately on presentation but at a later date. It may be sometimes difficult to attribute a lesion as culprit lesion if angiography is done later in the course after thrombolytic therapy has been given or if multivessel disease is present.
Sixty-three percent (n = 63) patients had anterior wall MI; 37% (n = 37) patients had inferior wall MI
Incidence of MI correlated positively with age
Most of the patients were male (n = 82) as compared to female (n = 18). In our setting, male: female disparity is commonly seen for most disease conditions suggesting a gender bias in health-care-seeking behavior of population
Forty-nine percent (n = 49) had diabetes, 44% (n = 44) had hypertension and 30% (n = 30) patients were obese
Twenty-four percent (n = 24) were smoker and 42% (n = 42) had family history of similar illness
Eighty-eight percent (n = 88) presented with chest pain and 41% (n = 41) with breathlessness
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in IWMI involving RCA is 100%, 98%, 96.5% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in AWMI involving LAD artery is 100%, 98%, 98.41% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in IWMI involving LCX is 100%
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in IWMI involving distal RCA is 100%
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in IWMI involving proximal RCA is 100%, 95%, 83.3% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in AWMI involving LAD distal to D1 artery is 70%, 90%, 43.7% and 96.4%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in AWMI involving LAD distal to S1 artery is 66%, 96%, 43.7% and 96.4%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in AWMI involving LAD proximal to S1 artery is 76%, 75%, 45.7% and 92.3%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG in localizing culprit vessel in AWMI involving LAD proximal to D1 artery is 0%, 96.6%, 0% and 89.6%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STD in Lead II for AWMI involving LAD proximal to S1 artery – is 33%, 60%, 5.1% and 93.4%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STE in Lead aVR for AWMI involving LAD proximal to S1 artery – is 50%, 77%, 45% and 87.3%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STD in Lead II for AWMI involving LAD proximal to D1 artery – is 57.1%, 62.3%, 10.25% and 95.08%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III and STD in aVL for AWMI involving LAD distal to D1 artery – is 50%, 82.2%, 23.8% and 93.67%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STD in aVL for AWMI involving LAD distal to D1 artery – is 40%, 61.1%, 10.25% and 90.16%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – absence of STD in Lead III for AWMI involving LAD distal to S1 artery – is 57.1%, 81.7%, 19.04% and 96.2%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – Q-wave in Lead V5 for AWMI involving LAD distal to S1 artery – is 50%, 95.7%, 42.8% and 96.7%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STE in Lead III > STE in Lead II for IWMI involving proximal RCA – is 100%, 98.6%, 96.5% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – STE in Lead II > STE in Lead III for IWMI involving LCX coronary artery – is 100%
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – ratio of STD in Lead V3 to STE in Lead III ≤ 0.5 for IWMI involving proximal RCA – is 100%, 95.0%, 83.3% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA and NPA of ECG criteria – ratio of STD in Lead V3 to STE in Lead III = 0.5–1.2 for IWMI involving distal RCA – is 100%, 95%, 100% and 100%, respectively
Sensitivity, specificity, PPA, and NPA of ECG criteria – ratio of STD in Lead V3 to STE in Lead III >1.2 for IWMI involving LCX coronary artery – is 100%.
Engelen DJ, Gorgels AP, Cheriex EC, De Muinck ED, Ophuis AJ, Dassen WR, et al. Value of the electrocardiogram in localizing the occlusion site in the left anterior descending coronary artery in acute anterior myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;34:389-95.
Ghosh B, Indurkar M, Jain MK. ECG: A simple noninvasive tool to localize culprit vessel occlusion site in acute STEMI. Indian J Clin Pract 2013;23:590-5.
Gorgels AP, Engelen DJ, Wellens HJ. The electrocardiogram in acute myocardial infarction. In: Fuster V, Alexander RW, O'Rourke RA, editors. Hurst's The Heart. 11th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2004. p. 1351-60.
Gupta A, Lokhandwala YY, Kerkar PG, Vora AM. Electrocardiographic differentiation between right coronary and left circumflex coronary arterial occlusion in isolated inferior wall myocardial infarction. Indian Heart J 1999;51:281-4.
Kosuge M, Kimura K, Ishikawa T, Hongo Y, Mochida Y, Sugiyama M, et al. New electrocardiographic criteria for predicting the site of coronary artery occlusion in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1998;82:1318-22.
Verouden NJ, Barwari K, Koch KT, Henriques JP, Baan J, van der Schaaf RJ, et al. Distinguishing the right coronary artery from the left circumflex coronary artery as the infarct-related artery in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute inferior myocardial infarction. Europace 2009;11:1517-21.
Bairey CN, Shah PK, Lew AS, Hulse S. Electrocardiographic differentiation of occlusion of the left circumflex versus the right coronary artery as a cause of inferior acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1987;60:456-9.
Gorgels AP, Engelen DJ, Wellens HJ. Lead aVR, a mostly ignored but very valuable lead in clinical electrocardiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;38:1355-6.
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The Winery Dogs, featuring Richie Kotzen, Billy Sheehan and Mike Portnoy, have released a new music video for the track “Fire”, featured on the band’s new album, Hot Streak. Watch the new clip below:
The Winery Dogs are set to play a string of UK shows in early 2016 in support of their second album, Hot Streak, which was released in the UK via earMUSIC in partnership with Loud & Proud Records.
Mike Portnoy comments: “Yay!! We’re so excited to bring the three-ring circus that is The Winery Dogs to Europe and the UK! We did our best to hit as many places as we could in the available window… but fret not, if we’re not hitting your country just yet, as we hope to come back in the summer as well to play as many places as we can! C’mon and join the fun!!”
Singer/guitarist, Richie Kotzen echoes the sentiment, saying: “We are super psyched to have the opportunity to return to the UK and Europe for a string of live shows supporting our new album, Hot Streak. Thank you all for making this release a success and we will see you from the stage real soon!”
UK dates:
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4 – Manchester, England – O2 Ritz
5 – Birmingham, England – O2 Institute
In the video below, Nights With Alice Cooper presents The Winery Dogs exclusive acoustic version of “Captain Love” from Hot Streak.
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Radamel Falcao close to Chelsea move
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Re: Radamel Falcao close to Chelsea move
by RED on Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:24 pm
Stating facts my friend.
I can sense it that you know once we click, we'll be a force. I can tell from the tone of your recent posts.
by B-Mac on Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:25 pm
all this gloating, and you haven't won anything
being mediocre for so long as made every win vs relegation teams like a trophy for u
going to be hilarious when you get battered in europe
and can't quite understand how Rickie Lambert and Lallana couldn't find the 18 yard box at the Bernabeu
B-Mac
by MJ on Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:27 pm
"I thought football's greatest honour was representing your country. I was wrong. It was playing for Arsenal." - Joe Mercer
by DeletedUser#1 on Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:34 pm
@B-Mac wrote: all this gloating, and you haven't won anything
Well, coming from someone who got battered at BASEL, you should well know what being battered in Europe means
Don't worry about us at Bernabeu. We've won there with Yossi Benayoun scoring a header.
Rickie Lambert bicycle kick winner this time hopefully.
Get a Win (in any competition) this season before all of you acting like you're the best/back/amazing/title chasers etc....
It's like they've given a woman who is at hospital for a heart stroke, a pair of fake tits and she's jiggly forgetting that she's at the freaking hospital for another reason
DeletedUser#1
Natalie Portman wrote:
I love Twitter too mate
stealing jokes off twitter....bad ones at that
you're arguments and jokes are on the same level it seems
gosh. you guys are something else. No banter at all. p.s. I was one of the creators of that joke on twitter on RAWK.
I'm off arguing with you guys until December 11th when we play each other. It's like arguing with Mao about democracy and he says China is the most democratic country on earth because we are the most populated one and have the most people. Just pointless
Hope by the time we play you, you're at least top half or have a win by then, so the banter will be decent.
Natalie Portman wrote: gosh. you guys are something else. No banter at all. p.s. I was one of the creators of that joke on twitter on RAWK.
by CBarca on Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:28 am
wtf is all this crap
by VendettaRed07 on Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:47 am
Goal legacy..
VendettaRed07
by mr-r34 on Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:27 am
Or day time depending on your time zone.
mr-r34
by Helmer on Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am
fffs...its like, banter has become my morning browsing-breakfast...banter is just a sophisticated name for trolling imo
by Gil on Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:11 pm
@Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
@Gil wrote: Can't wait for this *bleep* to finally get exposed. He's going to flop so hard this season lol.
There's no hiding place this time around. He's playing for the biggest club in the World where all eyes will be on him.
Costa vs Falcao will finally be settled.
Falcao since moving to Europe: 104 goals in 134 games
Costa since moving to Europe: 82 goals in 231 games
There is nothing to be settled only you make it something everyone else knows who the better player is.
Falcao 0
Lampard 4
by Kaladin on Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:16 pm
This is why Gil is a top 2 poster
Kaladin
Stormblessed
by Glory on Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:00 pm
@Gil wrote:
falcao is not fit and has started only 2 games for us (and finished neither, as in both the games he was taken off early) where as in the third he just played some 20 odd mins coming in as a sub. As far as stats goes, He has 2 assists to his name until now.
So kindly wait before you run away into absurd conclusions. At least let him get ready for the head to head comparison.
by Great Leader Sprucenuce on Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:29 pm
So the rest of his career before his ACL injury doesn't count? Ok then.
If that's the case I'm counting every year Costa was a scrub who was loaned out to Sporting Gijon he was so bad then.
Even if Costa scores 30+ this season he'll still never be as good as Falcao was at Atletico and Porto.
I had my bases covered which is why I added Lampard into the equation. He's also made just 2 starts and 2 sub appearances yet he's already got 4 despite being 36.
Fitness is a shit excuse after Mourinho revealed this the other day
Costa's eighth goal of the season set up Saturday's 3-0 win over Aston Villa, but hamstring problems are said to have limited his involvement in training. "He cannot be on top of his game," said the Portuguese boss. "He's doing almost nothing in training. He's just resting and recovering from the tight muscle he has." Mourinho added: "I don't care about Diego's goals. For me it's important that the team score enough goals to win. "I know a striker scoring goals is always nice for him and for his confidence, especially for a player like him who is not training as he should, because we are protecting him in certain situations."
8 goals already and he can't even train. Imagine what crazy, insane numbers he'll be putting up if he's ever 100%.
According to known liar Mourinho lol.
Keep moving the goalposts brehs. I was told how much better Falcao was than Costa for over a year now you're all looking like fools at the moment. Diego isn't even able to train yet he's destroying these pathetic defenders in the PL while Falcao is being comfortably outscored by a geriatric Lampard.
Face it. Falcao is a career loser while Costa in on course to lead another club to a League title.
Anyway it's much easier to score goals when you are the lone striker having the entire box to yourself with midfielders around you feeding you.
Than it is playing alongside two other CFs taking up your space in the box and linking with those two CFs. It's really no surprise he isn't scoring in that environment and it's also no surprise he's got more assists in that environment.
I don't care anyway what he does for Man Yoo, rest of his career is proof enough to what standard of player he is but apparently it doesn't count.
@Gil wrote: Keep moving the goalposts brehs. I was told how much better Falcao was than Costa for over a year now you're all looking like fools at the moment. Diego isn't even able to train yet he's destroying these pathetic defenders in the PL while Falcao is being comfortably outscored by a geriatric Lampard.
Nope.... Fabregas is destroying those defenders in conjunction with Hazard etc
Do you really think Remy wouldn't score from those chances Costa is getting?
by sportsczy on Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:54 pm
I agree... as a pure CF, Falcao has nothing to prove. He's one of the best. Last season and this one so far, however, show that he's not a very adaptable one. He can't do too many different things and does rather poorly if he's not the lone striker. He was playing in a 442 at Monaco and he had a hard time.
That said, i don't think Costa would do anything either if he's not alone on top of the food chain. I think his 20 goals total output (all comps) when paired with Falcao is a good indication of what Costa would be if he wasn't alone.
by Zealous on Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:05 pm
I'd argue that being adaptable is overrated sometime though. Falcao is a godly CF so if you don't use him in that role then it's your own damn fault not Falcao's.
I mean just because Elvis was in a couple of movies doesn't mean we should seriously rate him as an actor. It would have been cool if he was any good but ultimately no one cares because he's a singer first and foremost.
It's makes no sense to me to ask a player to do something other than his best skill. I mean it's great if you can help out in other areas when needed but for me at least it doesn't make you any less of a player if you are elite in one thing.
Having said all that both Falcao and Costa are great CF's in their own way. Both have proved themselves to some degree.
by RED on Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:34 pm
He's link up play, movement, technique and hold up play, clinical ability in front of goal>>>>> Costa.
He has displayed already, while not being a 100% fit, just what a class player he is. The goals will come in time.
Also, he's not an absolute c**t like Costa is, which is an added bonus.
by sportsczy on Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:55 pm
oh i don't know about that. Unless you're Messi or Ronaldo, you better be adaptable if you want to play at an elite club otherwise you will either fail hard or your time there will be extremely short.
With super teams, you need players that are capable of fitting in with each other. One dimensional guys get found out fast.
by windkick on Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:10 pm
@Zealous wrote: I'd argue that being adaptable is overrated sometime though. Falcao is a godly CF so if you don't use him in that role then it's your own damn fault not Falcao's.
I agree. Look at Cavani when alone at Napoli and his form when paired with Ibra or Suarez
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Unity Raceway ~ 8/6/11
Bourgoine Dominates For First Win At Unity
As the season heads into its final run to decide the champion, the Amsoil Nelcar Legends tour was back at Unity Raceway this past weekend for another thrilling event. As many of the top drivers in the series were set to start from the rear of the field, others who have yet to win were running out of time to do so, and tonight was a perfect opportunity to shine in the Unity lights. With 14 Legends Cars taking to the rough and tough track, the fans were treated to another great race.
For the first heat race, it was the 2 of Ryan Hammar on the pole with the 10 of Ed Getty to his outside. On the start, Getty used the preferred high line to his advantage as he grabbed from Hammar. As Getty pulled away, the 27 of Kevin Hutchens was on a march to the front and he took second from Hammar with just a handful of laps to go. He got to the back bumper of Getty and made a bid for the lead with one to go, but it wasn’t enough as Getty held on and took the first heat victory. Hutchens was second at the line with Hammar rounding out the top three.
In the second heat race, the 33 of Alan Smith was on the pole with the 38 of Matt Bourgoine on the outside. Once again the outside groove was the place to be, as Bourgoine drove to the lead with the 56 of Evan Beaulieu right behind. Bourgoine was able to drive away with the second heat win as Beaulieu finished second with the 30 of Ed Field in third.
As the sun set over the 3/8th mile track, the field took to the track for their feature event. It was an all rookie front row with the 81 of Dan Winter starting on pole with Ryan Hammar on his outside. As the field went green, Hammar got the early lead, but Bourgoine came from his fifth starting spot to take the lead early as he began to pull away from the field. As he was pulling away, Hutchens lead Beaulieu, Field and the 399 of Bob Weymouth on their way up through the field from the rear. When they got into the top five the first caution fell around the half way point for a solo spin from the 59 of Reid Lanpher in turn four.
When the field got back to racing, Bourgoine got just enough of a jump on Hutchens to clear him going into turn one and took the outside groove. It was a spectacular race up front as Bourgoine tried to hold off both Hutchens and Field as Weymouth and Beaulieu sat behind ready to pounce on a mistake from the top three. As Hutchens worked the bottom groove, Bourgoine was able to use the outside line and fend off the challenges, as he took the checkered flag for the first time in his Legends Car career. Hutchens made him earn it and wound up second, with Field in third, Weymouth fourth and Beaulieu in fifth. Bourgoine’s first victory comes after finishing right behind the drivers he was racing with tonight many times at Unity, as he had been so close to victory lane, making his first win just that much more special.
The points race is very tight with as the season is now in its closing stages and there are not many opportunities left to come out and see the best racing in New England with the Amsoil Nelcar Legends Tour. The next stop for the tour will be at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Thursday, August 11th. Hutchens and Beaulieu are locked in a heated point’s battle for the Thursday Thunder championship and with five points separating them with two races left, it is set to go right down to the final lap to decide the champion. For more news, info and how you can get into the fun atmosphere of Legends racing, visit Nelcar.net.
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Inspire Possibility
What’s Possible
Meet Mark
Discover What’s Possible
by inspirepossibility on July 14, 2017 in Dancing on the River, Mark Susnow, The Soul of Uncertainty, Uncategorized
Throughout the years we’ve heard the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s time to Discover What’s Possible.
A few days ago I was making a few changes to my website. While searching on the internet, I came across this image that hit home.
I mean where would you see something as spectacular as this, unless you were fortunate enough to have been the one to have taken the photo. It reminds you of how much beauty there is in the world, especially when we are bombarded by the negative messages in the media, which have a way of affecting our ability to be hopeful and optimistic.
It’s unfortunate that it’s the negative that gets our attention. For many, it’s like a magnet, an irrepressible force that pulls you in and affects your moods, your thoughts and your sense of what’s possible.
For me the above image is a portal into an amazing world full of wonder, of joy, and of possibility—a world that has always existed, yet one in which we were unaware
David Hobbs says it in this way:
“The compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean—or this planet—is a defining part of human identity and success.”
There is much more out there to explore. For various reasons, we won’t we able to explore everything that we would like to, but we can decide to make what we do explore, an exciting adventure of discovery.
Perhaps the greatest adventure and most rewarding is changing our paradigm about living. Waking up each day—excited, with a smile on your face, even in the midst of uncertainty is what real success is. In this paradigm, the shift from the physical world of accomplishment and achievement to the inner world of being and wonder has the potential to transform your relationship to life itself.
In your life what lies beyond that far ridge or that glass ceiling which was once a barrier?
Who is that person inside of you waiting to emerge? May this image be an inspiration for you to keep exploring.
Embrace this Great Mystery, this Great Adventure, called, “Life,”
You know I like to hear from you. Feel free to share this message with those in your circle.
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Human Rights, Migration & Refugees
Myanmar must give Rohingya ‘pathway to citizenship’: UN investigator
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Amir Ali, 75, plays a violin in front of his house in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Reuters file photo
Jun 27 2019 - Myanmar must grant citizenship to stateless Rohingya with roots in the country, a senior UN investigator said yesterday, as she urged the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to “be the democrat she once told us she was”.
Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognise the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long history in the country.
Hundreds of thousands fled to neighbouring Bangladesh following a 2017 crackdown by the military, which UN investigators say was executed with “genocidal intent”.
“I have seen much brutality in the different parts of my career but the rape and forced eviction of the Rohingya shook me to my core,” said Radhika Coomaraswamy, a member of the UN fact-finding mission that gathered evidence on the violence.
Coomaraswamy said statelessness was at the root of the “horrific” Rohingya crisis, which was among the worst she had seen, second only to the Rwandan genocide.
He told how soldiers shot at fleeing villagers, gang raped women and burned down houses with children inside.
Myanmar has rejected a report by the United Nations investigators calling for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community is making “false allegations”.
Coomaraswamy was speaking after addressing a global conference on statelessness in The Hague where the plight of the Rohingya is in the spotlight.
The Rohingya are among an estimated 10 to 15 million stateless people in the world who are not recognized as citizens of any country.
Sometimes called “legal ghosts”, stateless people are deprived of basic rights from education to employment and vulnerable to exploitation, violence and arbitrary detention.
“These are heartbreaking issues and one is never quite the same after … seeing the impact that forced statelessness has,” Coomaraswamy told delegates.
Bulldozed villages
The Rohingya are the world’s largest stateless population. About 900,000 are in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands remain in Myanmar and others are scattered throughout Asia.
Coomaraswamy said she was struck by one elderly refugee she met who showed her a dirty plastic bag of papers.
These included the citizenship document her grandparents had received at independence, a paper from 1982 denying her citizenship, and a card she had just received stating she was a “Bengali Muslim” which gave her access to some services.
“She was holding it like this was her life. She had left everything behind (when she fled) including even her jewellery. She said she sleeps with this bag under her pillow,” Coomaraswamy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Myanmar has said it will take back some Rohingya who can show they have a long history in the country. But many fled to Bangladesh with nothing, and many do not want to return without full citizenship.
Coomaraswamy urged the international community to stop pressuring Rohingya to return and ensure those behind the violence are brought to justice.
“Before you force people to go back into Myanmar you must make sure the conditions are right and the Rohingyas will have … a clear pathway to citizenship,” she said.
“The problem is their villages have been bulldozed — without a tree standing.”
She said those still in Myanmar were in decrepit camps with severe restrictions on their movement, limited access to food and healthcare and sky-high malnutrition rates.
Subterranean world
The mission will hand its evidence to a new prosecutorial authority in September so that it can build cases against the generals behind the atrocities, she said.
Coomaraswamy said the desperation and sadness was overwhelming when investigators met refugees immediately after the August 2017 violence.
When the team returned to Bangladesh last month the Rohingya were “much more organized, much clearer on what they want and deeply disappointed in the international community,” she said.
“They would like to see justice and citizenship.”
She said the continued defence of the military by Myanmar’s civilian leader and Nobel peace prize winner Suu Kyi posed serious concern.
“We would hope she would change and be the democrat she once told us she was and have … the Rohingyas (who lived there) come back … with a guarantee of full rights.”
Coomaraswamy told the conference that increasing numbers of people globally were ending up stateless after “falling between the cracks”.
They lived in a “subterranean world” without formal rights, documents or sense of belonging, at risk of violence and easy prey to traffickers.
“Statelessness is no longer the exception in the world – it has become endemic,” she said.
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1st Place Seahaks countinue Winning Streak
By Super User / Local Sports / الثلاثاء, 16 شباط/فبراير 2016 05:00
Streaking Seahawks Dump Dukes For 20-Win Season
WILMINGTON, North Carolina – UNCW's steamrolling men's basketball team continued its torrid run on Saturday, cranking out its school-record 11th consecutive victory with an 86-78 pounding of James Madison before a sellout crowd on Saturday at Trask Coliseum. The Seahawks maintained their hold on first place in the Colonial Athletic Association standings and stand 20-5 and 12-2 in the conference. It marks the first 20-win season for the program in eight years and the sixth in school history. The Dukes had a three-game winning streak halted and owns a 19-8 overall record and 9-5 league mark. UNCW's registered its fourth conference sweep of the season to complement sweeps of Delaware, Drexel and Elon.
Senior guard Craig Ponder anchored three players in double figures for the Seahawks with 19 points, while junior guard Chris Flemmings scored 17 and grabbed 11 rebounds and sophomore playmaker Jordon Talley contributed 15. Flemmings notched his fourth double-double of the season and added three assists in another all-around effort. Junior forward Tom Vodanovich paced JMU with 17 points and senior guard Winston Grays added 15 points off the bench for the Dukes, who were playing without injured star Ron Curry. Curry suffered a bruised knee in JMU's 56-52 win at Charleston last Thursday at TD Arena.
"James Madison is a scrappy bunch," said Kevin Keatts, UNCW's second-year coach. "They did a very good job on the defensive end. They made us work for every basket that we got. We got some stops in the second half. I thought our press came into play."
UNCW raced out to a 42-29 lead at intermission and withstood a brief charge by the Dukes before cruising down the stretch for its 14th home win in the last 15 games spanning over to last season. It was UNCW's 10th double digit victory of the season and the 21st in Kevin Keatts' two seasons.
After Paulius Satkus scored on a post move with just over 15 minutes remaining, the Seahawks kept on the pressure and led by as many as 19 points in improving to 11-1 at Trask Coliseum this season.
The Seahawks registered their largest lead of the game, 75-56, on a pair of free throws by reserve forward Marcus Bryan. JMU never got closer than eight points in the second half. "All the credit goes to Wilmington at both ends of the court," said eighth-year JMU Head Coach Matt Brady. "You have to be poised for 40 minutes against this group and I think we lost our poise for four or five minutes and that cost us the game. They play with speed, quickness and tenacity and you have to match up with them…it's a little bit uncomfortable. In the first half, JMU forged out to an 18-16 lead midway through the period when Satkus tossed in a pair of free throws with 8:09 left to give the Dukes some early momentum. But the Seahawks answered with a 26-6 run to take control, including an 11-0 spurt that was capped by a three-pointer from the acrobatic Flemmings that gave UNCW a 42-24 cushion at 1:43.
Talley turned in a solid first half, scoring nine points, while Ponder, Flemmings and Ingram each contributed eight points in a balanced attack as the Seahawks scored 10 points off seven JMU turnovers to set the tone early. The Seahawks return to the court on Thursday, Feb. 18, with a matchup against second-place William & Mary at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Va. The Dukes, meanwhile, return home to entertain Northeastern on Thursday at 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES: The Seahawks won their fourth in a row over the Dukes and now lead the all-time series, 37-33; UNCW stands 20-11 against JMU at Trask Coliseum; The game was UNCW's second sellout in the last three games; Jordon Talley fouled out with 4:33 remaining after scoring 15 points, grabbing five rebounds and dishing out five assists; The teams battled to a 38-all draw on the boards; UNCW forced 18 turnovers by the Dukes…There were four ties and six lead changes; UNCW had 13 offensive rebounds; The Seahawks went 10-of-28 from long distance and JMU was 4-of-10 from deep; Each team attempted 27 free throws in the contest.
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FVC adds new vendor to stable
Network applicance vendor Packet Design added to FVC portfolio to extend regional distribution
By Julian Pletts Published April 28, 2008
Networking appliances vendor Packet Design has made a move to tackle the Middle East market through a regional distribution alliance with FVC.
As Packet Design's channel representative in the Middle East, FVC will distribute and support the provider's IP routing and traffic analysis solutions through its network of authorised partners. Packet Design has also appointed Brett Holmes, to be based in Dubai, as sales manager for the MEA and India region to oversee the distributor's work.
K.S. Parag, regional director of FVC, feels that the appointment will add a valuable resource to his company's portfolio and together the pairing will be able to effectively answer what he describes as the increasingly sophisticated needs of the enterprise and services sector in the Middle East.
"As these organisations invest in their infrastructures, it is becoming crucial that their network managers have access to in-depth information that will allow them to make informed decisions," asserted Parag. "Packet Design's solutions provide information that is crucial to saving time and ensuring high availability of networks in critical environments."
Steve Ruddock, sales director for EMEA at Packet Design, says his company's decision to launch in the Middle East is a result of recent deregulations that have spurred the emergence of new ISPs and mobile operators which present it with obvious sales opportunities.
"We feel the time is right for us to build on our success in Europe and make our first foray into the Middle East, where we are already seeing significant sales opportunities," said Ruddock.
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'Paradigm Grey': Groundbreaking Sci-Fi / Horror Series. World Premiere
IMPAKT STUDIO ANNOUNCES ITS WORLD PREMIERE EVENT OF “PARADIGM GREY”, A BLACK SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY
Sci-fi and horror fans are starved for authentic films that depict black characters in non-stereotypical ways. Year after year, the Academy is getting in trouble for overlooking achievements of black artists. The Academy, in turn, points at the presumed lack of strong films.
Even those films, that portray black characters, and / or written and produced by black artists, are often built on certain tropes.
One of such tropes is represented in "12 Years A Slave" (2013), a brilliant film that won three Academy awards, including the Best Picture. A deserving film all around as it is, it demonstrates that the mainstream consumer sees black characters mostly in the context of oppression. Other black mainstream successes are Color Purple, Precious etc.
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Another trope is portraying black characters as 'Redshirts', disposable characters that are easy to kill off as a plot device. Paradigm Grey creator, producer, and director Christopher Adams reflects on it in the above featured video (at the 8.08 min mark), citing a black character being killed off in the very trailer of "Life" (2017).
One famous example of a film that received a lot of heat for introducing a disposable black character was Star Wars: The Force awakens.
When the news of John Boyega playing a stormtrooper Finn broke out, there was much excitement. Finally a black lead character! To much disappointment, Finn dies in the film, while other white lead characters carry on.
'Madea' is another film trope. Although made by the black artists, it is also made for the black community. As awesome as the films are, they offer one-dimensional perspective that does not translate well outside black Christian viewer.
"Boyz n the Hood" (1991) is an iconic film, a classic of it's time, but over 25 years later, films still follow its trope in portraying black characters in association with drugs and crime, and in best case scenario, with sports.
Paradigm Grey departs from all of those tropes, following in the footsteps of science fiction / horror classics like the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, and new smash hits like the Black Mirror.
"Black Speculative Fiction, Horror and Sci-Fi represent a vastly underserved segment in cinema that is begging to be explored. African Americans fully support these genres but constantly complaining about the lack of quality representation. With the runaway success of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” the world saw that there is a huge market for Black genre films. And with the massive anticipation of Marvel's “Black Panther”, Paradigm Grey is poised to be a groundbreaking new chapter in Black Cinema." - stated in the Paradigm Grey press-release.
Paradigm Grey is also a victory of collaboration and local production, so rarely seen these days in the film industry. Six Chicago-based Black Production Companies (IMPAKT STUDIO, SEI STUDIOS, BRIGHTSEED COLLAB, FILM BARREL STUDIOS, CASSANDRA BELL STUDIOS, 21H2), along with outstanding Chicago talent, have come together, pulling on shared resources and expertise. The Paradigm Grey features content from various genres: post apocalyptic, sci-fi futuristic, supernatural horror, political horror, social thriller to name a few.
For more information, go to www.ParadigmGrey.com or follow on Facebook and Instagram.
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Joy Preble is a Texas girl who was born and raised in Chicago and a former high school teacher who now writes full time, which means she gets paid for making up stuff. She earned an English degree from Northwestern University and speaks and teaches widely on writing and literacy at libraries and schools, as well as SCBWI, NCTE, AWP, and other conferences.
Joy is the author of THE SWEET DEAD LIFE and its sequel, THE A WORD(May 2014), both from Soho Press. Kirkus hailed THE SWEET DEAD LIFE with "Hallelujah! A paranormal tale of angels…that breaks the mold."
She is also the author of the DREAMING ANASTASIA series (Sourcebooks) that combines paranormal romance with Russian folklore. DREAMING ANASTASIA was nominated for a Cybil Award in the Teen Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category in 2009. It was named an ABC Best Book for Children, Teen Category in 2009, and was featured in Justine Magazine.
Joy also has a contemporary mystery/romance on the way: FINDING PARISwill be out April 21, 2015 from Balzer and Bray/Harper Collins. Another paranormal mystery/romance, IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THIS, pitched as Tuck Everlasting meets Veronica Mars, arrives from Soho Press in Spring 2016.
In no particular order, Joy loves guacamole, pizza, banana bread, red wine, books, boots of all shapes and sizes, TV, movies, and crazy road trips so she can see the world. She is also fond her family and her dog, in case you were wondering.
Series: A Sweet Dead Life Novel (Book 2)
Publisher: Soho Teen; Reprint edition (September 15, 2015)
Praise for THE A-WORD
“Light, snarky, and heartfelt... The A-Word rolls along cheerfully through Halloween pranks, high school football, investigative reporting, angel-powered action, and a very realistic amount of aimless driving around.” —School Library Journal
“Sassy, smart-mouthed, cowboy-boot fan Jenna Samuels is back once again, fighting evildoers with the aid of her angelic cohorts..... has many of the elements that made its predecessor, [The Sweet Dead Life], so much fun.” —Kirkus Reviews
"[The Sweet Dead Life series] presents a fresh and humorous look at angels, sibling relationships, romance and the paranormal." —The Woodlands Online
“The earthbound angels are as authentic as the down-to-earth people in The A-Word, but where the book really spreads its wings is in the interaction between the two. Resourceful teens and heavenly beings team up to get to the roots of a very modern mystery, and the big questions of the universe share space with first dates and football games. The result: a smart, original (and slightly celestial) mystery with a distinctly Texan flavor.” —Michael Northrop, author of Trapped and Surrounded by Sharks
"Joy Preble gives it all! Humor, wit, emotion, and romance! Fabulous fun!" —New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan
“Romance, sassy humor, and a pain-in-the-rear brother … Who knew having a guardian angel could be so hard and so much fun to read?” —New York Times Bestselling Author C.C. Hunter
Last year when THE SWEET DEAD LIFE came out, one of my favorite review quotes was from Kirkus, who said, “Hallelujah! A paranormal tale of angels that’s not a romance, making it a novel that breaks the mold.” I danced happily over that line for weeks!
I appreciate that Kirkus ‘got it,’ that they knew there could be an angel story that was a sibling book and a main character who didn’t have any special powers at all, who in fact wasn’t the angel. I, too, love the tension that comes from Jenna being wholly human and having to navigate the world of angels, especially when she catches her brother Casey trying to research the word on Google, which doesn’t give her much hope for whoever Upstairs is running the show.
Still. It’s a year later when THE A-WORD opens up. Jenna is turning 15. And her mild but mentioned interest in one Ryan Sloboda from book 1 has developed into a full-blown crush. Which I for one had very much been looking forward to writing and hope that you all are very much looking forward to reading!
I don’t want to give away too many details, but let’s just say that Jenna has met her match in Ryan Sloboda. He’s athletic and sweet and she delights in the small, goofy things, like how he spells out all the words when he texts her. She thinks there’s something special in the fact that he TAKES HIS TIME about things. She thinks he’s smart and funny and loyal and cute as can be. Of course the problem is: Jenna’s got this huge A-Word secret hanging over her head and driving her to school every day and still sharing the bathroom with her. Her lunkhead brother Casey. And it’s kinda hard to have your first real boyfriend when you can’t tell him the most basic of truths about your life.
I hope everyone enjoys the Ryan/Jenna romance. I also love that I get to spin it out in contrast with all the book’s other not so good or doomed relationships—and there a bunch of them! Makes it that much sweeter, I think, knowing that not everyone is lucky in love, at least not all the time.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite, not too spoiler-y Jenna quotes in regards to Ryan: “A million thoughts had been dancing in my brain: Did he like me? Was my breath fresh? Was that really Axe he’d spritzed on himself?”
Jenna Samuels is about to turn fifteen. It's been almost a year since her stoner brother, Casey, bit the dust. Almost a year since he returned as her guardian angel, along with his "angel boss," Amber Velasco, the hot twenty-something former EMT. Almost a year since Casey and Amber used up their one-time-only angel power of flight to save Jenna from the evil Dr. Renfroe, swooping down to catch her as she tumbled off the balcony at the Houston Galleria. In short, a lot of A-word shenanigans and a mostly happy ending.
Except now Casey's begun to wonder why he's still hanging around—not that he minds protecting Jenna. She's a handful, but there's got to be a bigger picture, right? Something to distract him from his on again/off again, doomed relationship with cheerleader Lanie Phelps, who has no idea her boyfriend is, well, dead. After all, he can't use his angel wings anymore. Neither can Amber.
Enter Bo Shivers, Amber's "angel boss"—a mysterious A-word guy Jenna and Casey didn't even know existed. Whiskey-guzzling. Handsome in a grizzled way. Unpredictable. Okay, make that crazy. Bo lost his angel wings in an earthly flight a long, long, long time back—and he's been a thorn in Angel Management's side ever since. But Bo knows something is coming. Something big. Something that was worth forfeiting wings for Jenna... something that might just change everything for everyone.
Although Jenna Samuels has her share of normal teenage issues, the past year of her life has been anything but normal. Her brother came back to her life as her guardian angel and used his one-time only power of flight to save her. But that was a year ago. Although Casey is enjoying playing the ultimate protective brother role, he is puzzled as to why he is still here. Along with his “angel boss” Amber, the two may just find out from Amber’s “angel boss”, Bo Shivers. He foresees an event that will ultimately change everything. Joy Preble’s The A-Word is the second book in the Sweet Dead Life series where she takes the angel world into an entirely different aspect.
Fifteen-year-old Jenna may be young but she’s already been through a lot. On top of the fact that her family is broken and her brother came back as her guardian angel, she can’t vent out her problems to her best friend. She tries to live a normal life and pursues a relationship with Ryan. Written in her POV, she has definitely grown since the last book and has developed more self-confidence. She’s more aware of what is stake and is more willing to stand up for herself and say what’s on her mind.
Preble’s storytelling is absolutely wonderful. The amazing character building enhances the story as she brilliantly takes you into a familiar world laced with unique twists of her own. The writing delivered a steady pace and never ran into a dull moment. The excellent buildup to the climax will have readers on the edge. As answers are delivered, more questions will arise. The A-Word is a unique twist in the angel world with tremendous excitement, fun, and heart-stopping adventure.
You can purchase The A-Word at the following Retailers:
And now, The Giveaways.
Thank you JOY PREBLE for making this giveaway possible.
1 Winner will receive a The A-Word by Joy Preble.
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Carl Scott May 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM
Nope, not me. I know people who had imaginary friends but mine were all actual people. Thanks.
Merisha Abbott May 21, 2014 at 2:43 PM
yes although got teased and forgot about her
Mary Preston May 21, 2014 at 7:44 PM
No imaginary friend.
Carolyn Song May 24, 2014 at 1:10 AM
I actually didn't have an imaginary friend :)
swimwriteliv May 24, 2014 at 4:07 PM
Yes, she use to play Lego with me but she didn't have a name.
Cozycomfycouch May 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM
I never had imaginary friends.
Tina Deeds May 27, 2014 at 12:41 PM
I don't remember having one. I had a huge imagination, but it went more into artwork and building stuff.
Anubha May 31, 2014 at 9:36 AM
never had any imaginary friend :)
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The Lego Movie 4D-A New Adventure. Red Carpet Premiere. 2/5/16 Carlsbad, CA
By Julie Anderson
The evening was filled with celebrities and a beautiful red carpet as LEGOLAND® California Resort welcomed VIP guests to a gala event Feb. 5 for the grand opening of "The LEGO Movie™ 4D A New Adventure." The theatrical attraction reunites Emmet and friends in an all-new short story combining dazzling 3D computer animation with "4D," real-world effects such as wind, water and fog. The entire audience young and old was completely mezmerized!
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Lego Movie 4D
The night included festive music, a taco bar and the introduction of new Park costume characters: Unikitty and Benny. Celebrities walked the red carpet before entering the theater to celebrate the return of Emmet, Wyldstyle, MetalBeard, Benny and Unikitty in the new Lego 4D MOVIE.
The Red Carpet.
The Mariachi Band was amazing!
Actress Emmy Perry on the red carpet.
"The LEGO Movie™ 4D A New Adventure" was directed by Rob Schrab, who is making his feature film directorial debut with "The LEGO Movie Sequel," set to open May 18, 2018. When it came to designing the attraction, he said a strong story was critical to its success.
Actor Austin Anderson on the red carpet.
Musician WillOvid on the red carpet.
Celebrities voicing the movie include: Elizabeth Banks (Wyldstyle), Nick Offerman (MetalBeard), Charlie Day (Benny) and Alison Brie (Unikitty). Actor, writer and comedian Patton Oswalt voices the scheming Risky Business, brother of movie villain President Business, a new character created exclusively for the attraction.
Yummy eats!
Developed in collaboration with LEGOLAND owner Merlin Entertainments Group and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, the attraction was created by Los Angeles-based Pure Imagination Studios with input from Phil Lordand Christopher Miller, the talented writer-directors who brought "The LEGO Movie" to hilarious life, along with producer Dan Lin.
Inside the theater.
The new attraction is a delightfully clever blend of the same humor and LEGO visuals that made the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO film a global hit among young and old alike.
"The LEGO® Movie™ 4D A New Adventure" opens on Feb. 6 at LEGOLAND California Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., following its debut in Florida on Jan. 28, and will soon be playing at all other LEGOLAND theme parks and LEGOLAND Discovery Centers worldwide in 2016.
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About LEGOLAND® California Resort:
LEGOLAND® California Resort includes LEGOLAND® California, SEA LIFE® Aquarium, LEGOLAND® Water Park and LEGOLAND® Hotel, all are geared for families with children between the ages of 2 and 12. At LEGOLAND California, you'll find more than 60 rides, shows and attractions including LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Model Display, Pirate Reef and LEGO Legends of Chima Water Park presented by Cartoon Network. New this year is The LEGO® Movie 4D A New Adventure™! Emmet, Wyldstyle, Unikitty, MetalBeard and Benny band together to face an evil plot created by Risky Business, a new villain. Also opening is NINJAGO™ The Ride where guests experience 3D imagery, high-tech sensors and use hand movements in a striking motion to master their skills before battling the Great Devourer. SEA LIFE Aquarium is home to more than 5,000 living creatures and incorporates LEGO® models into a child's voyage to the depths of the ocean featuring play zones, fun facts and quiz trails. LEGOLAND Water Park features more than seven slides, sandy beaches and the unique Build-A-Raft River. The nation's first LEGOLAND Hotel features 250 rooms, all themed either as pirate, adventure, or kingdom and new in 2016, LEGO Friends rooms! For more information, visit www.LEGOLAND.com or call (760) 918-LEGO (5346)
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Created a game to raise awareness of the motherhood penalty
The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that does not guarantee paid time off to new parents. In addition, child care costs are outrageous - in many states day care is more expensive than community college.
This is the motherhood penalty. New mothers drop out of the workforce to care for their children and lose years of wages and experience. When they return to work, they find themselves making substantially less money and at a lower level than their former colleagues.
Hackthepaygap challenged teams to use data to design tools that demonstrate the gender pay gap in the United States and take steps to reduce it.
Myself, Gina Kim, designer at USDS, and Pragyansmita Nayak, data scientist.
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We interviewed mothers of toddlers and infants, both working and not working, to understand their struggles and personal experiences with the gender pay gap and gender bias at work.
"I felt like I didn’t really have a choice. I was overwhelmed by everything that I couldn’t think clearly about what my options are. It’s a very emotional time. This is when you’re redefining yourself."
We also talked to a few non parents who didn’t have any personal experience with the gender pay gap or gender bias at work. We encountered a lot of one dimensional thinking.
“A person who walks away from their job doesn’t get any special benefits.”
In addition to interviews we analyzed data on parenthood, child care cost and labor statistics. We read papers and spoke to experts in the field.
Bump Ahead is a game that takes players through a story of a new mother. It mixes personal choices with situations out of the players control mimic the unpredictability of life. Data is mixed into the game so that players zoom into their story and zoom out to understand the overall problem.
The game ends with a call to action to challenge their Congressional Representatives to play the game. Our theory of change is that prompting representatives to play the game can help hold them accountable to changing the status quo and pass the FAMILY Act.
Bump Ahead was selected as a hackathon finalist. I presented our game to Presidential Innovation Fellows, the Secretary of Commerce, and the White House CTO.
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Multi borough clampdown on Wimbledon touts
June 19, 2009 - Staff
A partnership which includes the Metropolitan Police, Merton and Wandsworth councils and the Lawn Tennis Association is promising action to tackle touts selling tickets at this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships.
The agencies are looking to improve on last year’s successful implementation of a dispersal zone around The All England Lawn Tennis Club which they say led to a 97% decrease in the number of stolen and forged tickets sold.
Wandsworth Council’s community safety spokesman Cllr James Cousins said the council “are confident that this year’s initiative will build on the great success of the first zone.”
The Police are able to take action against the touts using powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. Anyone suspected by police of ticket touting can be ordered to leave the zone and not return for 24 hours. Those who refuse to comply can be arrested and officers warn that anyone caught selling tickets faces immediate arrest.
Superintendent Graeme Thomson of Merton Police said: “We are working hard to make sure this year we reduce the levels of ticket touting and eliminate the sale of any forged or stolen tickets.”
Police say they have written to known touts advising them to stay away from the area for the duration of the championships.
Cllr Henry Nelless, Merton Council’s cabinet member for community safety and engagement, said the partnership “are committed to putting residents and visitors first and this means ensuring the tennis championships are a safe, crime-free event that everyone enjoys.”
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Published February 6, 2018 | By admin
Mecklenburg County deputies kept busy Sunday responding to area breaking and entering incidents, while most enjoyed the big game.
Deputy Cameron Hatcher was called to a residence the 500 block of Bailey Dr. in the Chase City area just before 3 p.m. after a resident reported the home broken into.
Hatcher arrived at the residence and spoke with the victim ho advised that after returning home from church, it was discovered that that forced entry had been made into the home.
Investigation confirmed forced entry through a side door and it was learned that a .38 caliber revolver and some change was stolen.
Also on Sunday, Corporal Travis Baisey was called to a residence in the 300 block of Hemlock Drive in the Tanglewood subdivision in Bracey, in reference to a reported breaking and entering.
Baisey responded and met with the victim who advised that sometime between 7 p.m. on Saturday night and 8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, someone had broken into the residence and stolen a black and red Milwaukee work light with LED bulb and battery, two black and red Milwaukee saw-zalls and eight lithium batteries.
Anyone having any information regarding these thefts is asked to call Mecklenburg County Crime Solvers at 1-877-676-8477 , or you can download the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office/South Hill P.D. app and submit a tip. All calls and tips are anonymous and information can lead to a reward.
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Hello, dear friends!
I would like to invite each of you to consider attending our pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi, and Medjugorje or passing along the information to someone you know would like to make a pilgrimage. Our final deadline for registration is February 1st, 2014.
Our chaplain, Fr. Angelo, would like very much to return to Medjugorje in thanksgiving to God and the Blessed Mother for his vocation. After his first trip to Medjugorje, he received his call to the priesthood. I would really love to give him the chance to go!
Please consider taking our pilgrimage itinerary to your prayer group or Bible study. Many college students I know love to take pilgrimages in the summer. You never know who God may be calling...
Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rome and Assisi, Italy
May 20th - 30th
$3,199 from Pittsburgh (pilgrims can leave from ANY airport, but price may vary)
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MAY 20th USA - ROME Depart in the evening on a transatlantic flight to Rome, Italy.
MAY 21st ROME - ASSISI Arrive Rome in the morning, transfer to Assisi. Enjoy an orientation to the Piazza Commune. Strolling the tree lined street toward the city gate. We’ll appreciate the stunning vistas of the Spoleto Valley and watch the Assisi sing as the swoop toward the valley below. At the Piazza Vescovado visit the ancient fountain near the Bishop’s residence where St. Francis stripped himself of all worldly possessions and gave himself only to God. Celebrate Holy Mass at the Chiesa Nuova, marking the site where Francis was imprisoned by his father. Dinner.
MAY 22nd ASSISI Breakfast. Visit San Damiano Church where Jesus came to life from the crucifix and spoke to Francis. From here we'll visit the Portiuncola Chapel in the Basilica Our Lady of the Angels, where Jesus and Mary appeared to Francis. A Plenary indulgence blessing is granted for pilgrims who pray there. Holy Mass in the ancient Chapel of Tears. Afternoon visit to the Family Home/Birth Place of St. Francis and to the Basilica of St. Clare to see the still incorrupt body of St. Clare. We will pray in front of the same crucifix from which Christ spoke to Francis. Visit the Basilica of St Francis and the Crypt Tomb of St Francis. Dinner.
MAY 23rd ASSISI - ROME Breakfast. Depart for Rome, stop at the Portiuncola Chapel for Mass. We take a tour of some of Rome's Major Bascilias: St Mary Maggiore, St John Lateran, a visit to the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Anthony Basilica, Santa Scala (Holy Steps) and a short stop at the Roman Coliseum. Dinner.
MAY 24th ROME Breakfast. Visit the Vatican Gardens behind the Pope’s residence with our private guide, tour of Sistine Chapel and a St. Peter Basilica. Afternoon SCAVI tour below the crypt of St. Peter Basilica, walking below the ancient Roman necropolis where the bones of St. Peter were discovered. Few pilgrims make this tour! Free time and the possibility of ascending the Cuppola Rotunda of St. Peter’s. Dinner.
MAY 25th ROME - MEDJUGORJE Breakfast. The group will go down into the catacombs of St. Peter’s Crypt for a private Mass near the bones of St. Peter the Apostle. At noon the Holy Father, Pope Francis will greet the pilgrims on St. Peter’s Square with a special blessing. After lunch transfer to Rome’s airport to catch a flight to Croatia. Upon arrival, transfer by bus to Medjugorje and check-in at the Two Hearts Hotel, Dinner in Medjugorje.
MAY 26th - 29th MEDJUGORJE Medjugorje is a simple mountain village. During our stay, we will share our faith with people from all over the world. Each morning at 10:00am, we meet at St. James Church for the English language Mass. Our tour guide will escort us to “Podbrdo” Hill. Pray before the statue of Our Lady The Queen of Peace. In 1933 the villagers built a 30’ high cross on the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion on top of Cross Mountain. We will climb the mountain through the Stations of the Cross. Also, visit and pray at “Blue Cross”, a place of prayer at the foot of Podbrdo. We will have the chance to attend meetings and talks with parish priests (subject to their availability and health during our trip). We will also visit the community of Cenacolo (a rehab center). In the evening, join the villagers at 5:00pm (or 6:00pm daylight savings time) to pray the rosary. Followed by Croatian Mass during which there is the blessing of the items you have with you. Adoration takes place on Wednesdays and Saturdays later in the evening, and veneration of the Holy Cross takes place on Fridays later in the evening. We will have time for personal prayer and re- flection.
MAY 30th MEDJUGORJE – USA Early morning departure to the airport, arriving back home in the evening.
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The UK's property market is in a "far stronger"position than it was 12 months ago, according to the president of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).
Gary Smith has suggested that the sector has shown "continuous improvement"over the last few months, ahead of an expected summer dip in activity.
Private landlords and other homeowners may also have benefited from the record low interest rate of 0.5 per cent since March.
His comments come after the NAEA revealed that the difference between asking and selling prices was 1.9 per cent in June, meaning original valuations were much closer to being met than in May.
It also found that the average agent sold ten properties for the third consecutive month in June.
Mr Smith said there are a number of ways to boost the housing market and explained: "The government should scrap home information packs and must pressure banks to ensure lending is available."
He added that "there is demand for property"and the NAEA's members are finding homebuyers for their individual clients' properties.
UK property market ‘over the worst’
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Mathew Jonson, Ghosts In the AI
[Wagon Repair]
If one were to single out an overarching narrative for the trajectory of electronic music in 2009, it would surely be the emphasis on the past — on the founding myths and legends that electronic music emerged out of — as a source of inspiration. With disco breaking out from small-scale revival to established Room Two, even Room One fare, with deep house announcing itself as the heir apparent to the ubiquity of mid-decade minimal, and with the cavernously retrospective, Detroit-flecked techno of the Berghain/Hard Wax crew dominating tracklists, it seems that in 2009, the only way to look forward, was to look back. Accordingly, Mathew Jonson chimed in with his take on the theme for Ghosts In the AI, his last Wagon Repair release of the year and the decade.
The EP is the first solo production to come out of Wagon Repair’s new Berlin studios. The eponymous opener couples handclaps with a disconcerting electro warble that aims to growl you into submission. Unlike “Marionette,” which played an elegant game of cat and mouse between the ascending chords and the descending beat, a ruse that was wholly of its time (think James Holden’s “Sky Is Pink” remix), “Ghosts” posits no internal dialog, but instead searches for a middle ground between Drexciya-era electro and late-00’s techno. On the flip, “Technology” is also at once old and new, which is fitting given its curious back story. Apparently created around the time of “Octagon”‘s release in 2004 on It Is What It Is, it has only seen the light of day now following a gentle push from Jonson’s brother, Nathan, better known as Hrdvision. The elusive is grounded only by a repetitive synth pattern that seems to hint just as much at the dawn of a new age, as the closing of an old one. This unresolved dichotomy is further muddied by the beatless track “The Alchemist,” taken from Jonson’s score to the silent film “Faust,” a fitting companion piece no doubt, but unlikely to give the headphones, let alone the dance floor any cause for concern.
Admirable as Jonson’s endeavour is, the legacy of the past year has shown that creating something new out of something old, and doing it well, is no easy feat. Although the electro Jonson favours here seems more than due a comeback, the EP as a whole feels less like a statement of intent for next year than a footnote to this one.
» Gabriel Stargardter | January 7th, 2010
Tags: gabriel, mathew jonson, review, single, wagon repair
rubin on January 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM
footnote or not, this track is rude as fuck
Anton on January 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Yeah, I have to say I’m digging on this EP. Electro-geared stuff often fits really nicely with UK bass music as well.
HISSNLISSN on January 15, 2010 at 4:29 AM
holy loud. love this.
briank on April 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM
the title track is siiiiiiick. was hoping MJ would drop this in his live set when he visited chicago earlier this year but alas i did not hear it in the storm he created…
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Jade in Upper Burma • Heaven and Hell • Lotus Gemology
by Richard W. Hughes & Fred Ward
The authors give an account of their epic 1997 visit to Burma's jade mines.
…and for to seeke out gemmes and some little stones, we strike pits deep within the ground. Thus wee plucke the very heart-strings out of her and all to weire on our finger, one gemme or pretious stone, to fulfill our pleasure and desire. How many hands are worne with digging and delving, that one joint of our finger might shine againe. Surely if there were any devils or infernal spirits beneath, ere this time verily these mines for to feed covetousness and rowt would have brought them up above ground. C. Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, 23–79 AD
In a remote corner of Upper Burma, thousands are busy, seeking, searching, clawing at a mountain, prying loose boulders from the compact brown soil. Jack hammers pound out a rat-a-tat beat, punctuated by the occasional cymbal crash of pick and shovel, while a choir of coolies stand behind with baskets to carry the debris out of this earthen tomb. As each boulder is turned over, it is quickly examined, then discarded. Over and over the process is repeated. It is a study in patience. Patience, patience – those who hurry lose, they make mistakes, they miss the prize, they don't go to heaven.
The construction of the Great Pyramids in Egypt was a study in patience; that in Upper Burma today is on no less a scale, but involves deconstruction, the dismantling of entire mountains, step by step, bit by bit, stone by stone, one pebble at a time. Like the builders of pyramids, all involved share a single-minded devotion to the task. Patience, patience – those who hurry lose, they miss something, they don't go to heaven. Those who hurry don't find jade.
The imperial jade ring of a Hpakan laopan. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Building a bridge to heaven
In humanity's entire recorded history, there has never existed a more intimate relationship between a culture and a stone than that between the Chinese and jade. To the people of the Middle Kingdom, jade was not simply hardened earth – but, instead, solid magic – a tiny piece of heaven bequeathed by the gods to those of us destined to suffer here on earth. It was literally the link between heaven and earth, the bridge that allowed mortals to cross into immortality.
Up until the 13th century, "jade" was nephrite, a tough, white-to-green amphibole rock that was the ideal canvas for China's stone carving artists. Then, according to local lore, a Yunnan trader traveling through northern Burma picked up a boulder to balance the load on his mule. The stone proved to be jade, of a quality such that Chinese connoisseurs were sent into ecstasy. He had found jadeite, a brown-skinned mineral whose creamy insides combined the toughness of nephrite with the vivid green of emerald. The Chinese were smitten, head-over-heels in love with a stone found only at one locality in northern Burma.
When this more attractive form of jade appeared, the first order of business was to find the source. Yunnan's governor immediately dispatched an expedition to search for the mines, but it returned empty-handed, unable to locate the source. A second group was sent in the 14th century, but none returned, all perishing from malaria or at the hands of hostile Kachin hill tribes. Thus the source of the vivid green stone eluded even the Chinese. Every now and then small pieces of jadeite would appear in China, but their origin was to be an unsolved mystery for the next 500 years.
A handful of jade in one of Hpakan's jade markets. Photo: R.W. Hughes
The breakthrough came in 1784, when the emperor, Qianlong (1736–96), of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) extended Chinese jurisdiction into northern Burma. Adventurous bands of Chinese soon discovered the source of the green stone, and from this date forward, considerable amounts of jadeite were transported from the mines to Beijing, where the world's finest jade carvers were located. Qianlong preferred the rich hues of this "new" jade (jadeite). By the 19th century, the top quality, with its combination of high transparency and rich fei-ts'ui ('kingfisher') green color, was designated "imperial jade."
By 1798, a well-established route for jadeite from Burma to China existed. Although it had to be altered several times to avoid bandits and political changes, the jade road through Yunnan operated throughout British colonial times, right up until World War II.
The Second World War brought an end to colonialism and, in its aftermath, the rise of a communist regime in China. Hard-core communists had no need for "bourgeois" vanities such as jade. Thus, for the first time in over five millennia, China turned its back on the Stone of Heaven. Thereafter, the trade of jade burrowed underground, largely shifting to Hong Kong, where carvers from Beijing and Shanghai soon followed.
But the communist regime was to be an aberration. Not long after Mao was safely in his grave, whispers about jade soon became an open craving – and again mules plodded on their tortuous journey from Burma's mines to the markets and workshops of China. Once again, the famous jade road was open.
Burma's Kyaukseinmyo (literally 'Jade Land') is located about 350 km north of Mandalay. The administrative and trading center of the district is the small town of Hpakan, which lies amidst some of the planet's most inhospitable jungles. Sandwiched as it is between India's Nagaland (famous for headhunters) and China's Yunnan province, and with the Himalayas to the north, the country surrounding the mines has at times been described as "rugged."
Sketch map of Upper Burma, showing the authors' route to the jade mines at Hpakan. Illustration: R.W. Hughes
"Rugged" is a laugh. Rugged is for wimps, namby-pambies who run amuck with swagger sticks and flower-bedecked pith helmets. No, these jungles are not "rugged," they are a bad dream, a feverish Colonel Kurtz nightmare, an Apocalypse Now outtake best left on the cutting-room floor.
The mining district has but two seasons – mud and dust. Having experienced both, we must say it's a toss-up, like choosing between AIDS and the ebola virus. Pick your poison: the May-October monsoon turns everything in sight either green or brown, with all getting a thorough soaking. Roads morph into the wallowing mudholes of pigs, mosquitoes take flight carrying deadly strains of malaria and the most basic vehicular travel becomes a Homer-like odyssey where miles are measured in days. Leeches produce festering "Naga sores," and soon even the most gung-ho Rambos are reduced to blubbering heaps begging "God, gimme just one dry day, just one &%!#@#$ moistureless day!"
Dust never sleeps
But the dry season is no better. Whereas by January the roads again become motorable, the brown goo has now transformed into a hair-trigger combustible powder, requiring only the slightest breeze or movement to explode it airborne. Entire valleys are cloaked with a dust cloud that dissipates only with the onset of the rains, and every surface is caked with the stuff. Coal miners have their black-lung disease, Jade Land's dry-season residents a beige first cousin. When the monsoon has spent its force, once-raging rivers turn into excrement-filled trickles as weary travellers cry out with emphysemic bleats: "God, gimme me just a taste, just one bit of rain, just one &%!#@#$ wet day!"
No, in visiting the jade mines, the journey is not the reward. There is no thrill of victory in getting there and back, only the bittersweet knowledge that, upon returning home alive, one has avoided the agony of defeat.
In the dry season, the Hopin-Hpakan road is relatively benign, but a bit of rain turns this into an impassible obstacle (see inset for the exact same spot in the rainy season). Inset: Andy Kaufman's paradise Elephants shriek and strain to pull a stranded truck from the mire of the Hopin-Hpakan road during the rainy season. Photo: Olivier Galibert
Nobody dreams of retirement in Hpakan. Only of making their fortune and getting out. Of the hundreds of people to which we spoke, we did not meet a single one who had spent more than a decade in the jade mines. The vast majority had been there less than a year. Not one of the government military officials we'd met on our first trip was there upon our return nine months later. A Burmese friend stationed there during the mid-1960s told us: "It was the worst year of my life."
So, we have a place that, while being mining heaven, is, by all accounts, hell on earth. Why do people come here? There is but one reason. Jade. This is the planet's sole source of imperial green jadeite. And it draws fortune-seekers like moths to a flame. A few make it big; most simply sear their wings in the heat of the fire and drop helplessly to the ground, buried beneath the mud, or covered by the dust that is Jade Land.
Monsoon madness: Reaching Jade Land in the wet season
Caution? He missed the train in Mandalay. So for the monsoon trip between Hopin and Hpakan, we are saddled with a beetle-nut fueled speed freak who is obviously being paid by Toyota to determine the amount of side torque a wheel can take before shearing from its axle.
In the dry season, mud turns to dust, a fine powder that coats every exposed surface and makes life miserable. Road between Hweka and Hpakan. Photo: R.W. Hughes
As a sop to safety, our vehicle does have one of those fancy do-hickies on the dash, the kind of level that tells you when you are leaning, and when you are leaning too much. Useless, as we soon learn, since every time we get several degrees off the scale, we still remain upright.
At Nyaungbin, we get our first glimpse of things to come. The small, L-shaped town is basically a staging point on the Hopin-Hpakan road, where vehicles gear up for the push into Jade Land. Our driver begins to strap on chains. Interesting. Next to us, another vehicle is removing them. What makes it notable is that it is a motorcycle. The mud-spattered rider tells us it took ten hours to come down from Hpakan and he only fell five times. Yes, this is looking interesting, indeed.
Outside Nyaungbin, the road changes, twisting and turning like a long brown snake, while the forest creeps ever closer. Everywhere there is jungle, green, jungle, green, ubiquitous. This is obviously the road less traveled, but it's clear that when Robert Frost penned the bit about being better for the experience, he wasn't referring to this particular boulevard.
Cresting a hill, a giant mud hole awaits, with a stuck truck right in our path. It is here that we see our first elephants, a common sight in the days ahead. All along the road, the giant beasts tug stranded vehicles from the mud, at a cost of 1,500 kyat ($12) per pull. But their services are not yet needed, as our driver is able to squeeze by.
The bottom of the next hill reveals the mother of all bogs, a scene straight out of Dante's Mudferno. Here, a ten-wheeled truck lies like a beached whale, submerged up to its windows in the slimy goo and it looks as if only the onset of the dry season, eight months ahead, will liberate it from its brown tomb.
Until recently, the only way Hpakan could be supplied was by convoy -- fifty or more trucks – along with a large helping of Burmese military might. Although fighting between the Burmese army and the KIA is now over, the struggle continues. But today, the enemy is nature, as this photo of the "good" road between Mogaung and Hpakan shows. Some trucks along this road had been stuck in the same spot for ten days. Photo: R.W. Hughes
While elephants make ready to free the vehicle, three vendors sit on the sidelines selling refreshments. The implication is clear – "You're gonna be here a while." And we will be. Andy Kaufman would have loved it.
First up is a single elephant, whose chain is strapped around the truck's bumper. When everything is secure, the signal is given. Thwack! The rider gives the elephant a sharp smack on the head with the back of his machete and all hell breaks loose. Trumpeting roars rock the forest as the great pachyderm strains to tug the truck free. Again and again it pulls, yanking, screaming, seething, while the truck's engine shrieks and moans. Black clouds of diesel cloak the participants as both engine and elephant whine in agony. All to no avail; the truck has sunk deeper still.
Observing the proceedings, our driver asks if driving a truck is like this in America. Sadly, we reply in the negative. Driving a truck is like this only in this valley. And we expect, some 200 millennia later, an anthropologist will dig up the fossilized remains of just such a truck in one of these mud holes and declare it to be the missing link between savage and civilization. We just hope it's not our skeletons in it.
A second elephant is now brought to the fore and chained to the stranded vehicle beside the first. Again, machetes flash and the jungle seethes with the sounds of the straining beasts. Slowly, as the truck rocks and whines, red tears trickle down the brow of one elephant – blood from the beating it is taking. But again, the truck refuses to budge.
Refusing to admit defeat, our driver grasps the nettle directly. Gunning his engine, he makes a desperate dive into the hole, trying to pass alongside the truck. But it is not to be. Now two vehicles are hopelessly mired in the muck. As the sun slowly sets on this forlorn corner of the globe, its fading light carries with it our last hopes and, in its place, a grim realization descends – no Hpakan tonight, no miniskirted girls, no cold beer, no little Hong Kong. We now understand – we are gonna be here a while…
Little Hong Kong: Town at the end of the universe
Considering the difficulty in getting there, what awaits the visitor in the valley of jade is all the more amazing. Amongst locals, Hpakan is known as "Little Hong Kong" because, like the former British Crown Colony, you can get anything you want. Whatever the apple of your sweetheart's desire, they sell it in Hpakan. French perfume, champagne and cognac, Swiss watches, Japanese electronics, it's all here. Just be prepared to pay the price, which is two to three times that found elsewhere in Burma. But exorbitant prices matter little at Hpakan, a topsy-turvy town in a topsy-turvy country, where today's taxi driver just might be tomorrow's tycoon.
Sectioned jadeite boulder on offer in the jade market at Hpakan. Photo: R.W. Hughes
The wild, wild east
Driving into the towns and villages of Jade Land is like stepping into an oriental version of the old American mining town. Picture Cripple Creek, Virginia City, Fairbanks and every other wild-west town in its heyday and you have some idea of this place. Makapin, Hweka, Sate Mu, Hpakan, driving down their dusty boulevards, one almost expects to hear a honky-tonk piano or see a whisky bottle come flying through a saloon window. All have a temporary air – many dwellings being little more than makeshift shacks.
Along their bustling main streets one sees signs for Rolex watches and Hennessy cognac, testifying to the tremendous wealth simmering just beneath the dull exterior. Above the tin roofs are satellite dishes; beyond that lie the green hills, splattered everywhere with the brown of mining activity. In places, entire mountain tops are eaten away, as the human quest for the green stone oozes deeper and deeper into the surrounding jungle.
The small village of Makapin lies on the southern edge of Burma's jade-producing area. Because it is a mining town with a strong Chinese influence, the main nightly entertainment is gambling. Mah-jongg might be expected since Makapin is so close to the Chinese border; the betting game certainly is popular. Unexpected was a huge roulette wheel marked with Chinese animal symbols and crowded with a group of anxious bettors. All these activities are lighted by candles or by small generator-powered fluorescent bulbs. Photo: R.W. Hughes
And like the old mining towns of the American West, gambling and prostitution are the preferred leisure-time activities. Makapin's main street at night is a miniature Las Vegas strip, albeit with a wicked Macau twist. Crowds of gamblers line the muddy lane, shouting, pushing, hoping to coax their luck to the surface at games of chance, while painted ladies wink coquettishly at passersby from behind the curtained doorways of their "beauty parlors." Along with the dust, lust is in the air, so long as there is money in your pocket.
In the past few years, government liberalization of the mining and trading sectors has brought renewed vigor to the quest for jade. Long-abandoned mines are being reclaimed, and everywhere one looks signs of the current renaissance are on display. Jade Land, with its broad array of goods, wears the new prosperity openly, shamelessly.
The business of jade
From the time jade is won in the Jade Mines area until it leaves Mogaung in the rough for cutting there is much that is underhand, tortuous and complicated, and much unprofitable antagonism. In my opinion the whole business requires cleansing, straightening and the light of day thrown on it. Major F.L. Roberts, formerly Deputy Commissioner, Myitkyina
It is said that the jade business involves "luck." That's like calling a lottery ticket an investment in the future. The jade business is not about luck, it's about strapping your hopes and dreams straight onto the rim of the roulette wheel and letting the creator give it a long, hard spin.
Figure 9 A room with a view
U Tin Ngwe, who went from taxi driver to jade kingpin almost overnight, stands atop a small fortune of jade at his Hpakan home. Photo: Olivier Galibert
Just how much joss is involved is illustrated by the tale of U Tin Ngwe, one of Hpakan's many laopan (kingpins). He got his start behind the wheel of a large piece of rolling Japanese steel with a "taxi" sign on top. One day, a local jade trader he picked up offered him a spin of the green wheel, in the form of a grab bag of jade boulders. Picking up each piece, he studied them carefully. "Why not," he thought, as he forked over 3,000 kyat ($23 @ 130 kyat per dollar) for the heaviest boulder in the lot, "I feel lucky." He felt even luckier after selling the piece to another trader for 650,000 kyat ($5000). And that trader felt even luckier still after selling the exact same piece for over 3,000,000 kyat ($23,076). "Hmm," he thought to himself, "this jade stuff is interesting." It was so interesting that, today, U Tin Ngwe owns several jade mines and is one of the biggest traders in the valley. When the steel ball finally came to rest, it had stopped at his number.
Snake-eyes
Of course, every crapshoot has its losers, as well as winners. None who lived in Bangkok in the late-1970s can forget the story of… let's call him Sia Poh, who had invested a small fortune in one promising jade boulder. Many others were also eager to possess it; one went so far as to offer him several times his money. But Sia Poh refused to sell. He would cut it himself and, in the process, squeeze every possible drop of profit from the green stone. Alas, it was not to be. Cutting open the stone revealed only a cheap, ornamental-grade lump, worth perhaps $50. Lady luck had passed him by. In Sia Poh's case, the steel ball eventually stopped right between his eyes – exiting from the muzzle of the weapon with which he blew out his brains.
Jade on offer at Mandalay's open air jade market. Much of the material is treated or imitation. The stones shown here are white jade coated with green plastic. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Judging quality: smoke and mirrors
Much of the mystery about the jade trade concerns just how a trader judges the quality of something encased in a rust-like oxidation skin so dense it hides all traces of color.
Traders will often wet the surface of a boulder to better see the color lurking within. They also utilize small metal plates and penlights. The plate is placed on the surface at a likely spot and a penlight shone through from the side furthest from the eye. This reveals color in the absence of glare from the light.
Traders and miners look for something they call pyat kyet (literally 'show points'), which are areas where the skin is thin enough to see through. And if there are no such show points? Heh, heh, heh. If we could answer that one we wouldn't be telling you now, would we?
Sectioned jade boulder at Hpakan. The thick brown skin typically hides all traces of color inside. Only cutting reveals the true value. The pictured stone contains jade of both green and lavender colors. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Desperately seeking green
In an effort to get right down to brass tacks, much jade is simply sawn open; this is the approach used at the government sponsored auctions in Yangon. But as owners don't particularly like their boulders defaced in such a manner, one has to pay to play that game. Parting a boulder down the middle has the added danger that one may cut right through a good area.
Experienced jade traders are said to be able to predict, by studying the outside of the boulder, what the inner color will be, but anyone who has ever seen boulders sawn open can prove the lie in that old wives' tale. Even for experts, much guesswork is still involved.
Before sawing, the surface is carefully examined to select the best place. There is no specific formula for cutting – it all depends on individual judgement and the rough's features. And let's not forget luck. In buying, say, a five-piece lot, sometimes all are good, and sometimes all are bad. As the great 11th-century gemologist, al-Biruni, put it: "God grants honor to some and disgrace to others."
According to one source, mining concessions in the Hpakan area are granted according to the projected value of the jade in the ground. Of course, the best spots cost lots of money, which the (mostly) Chinese mine owners pay to the central government. According to this source, only those with mighty deep pockets get involved, which in these hills usually means opium merchants.
A miner takes a break to have a cigarette at Hpakangyi. Such Chinese bamboo water pipes (bongs) are also used for smoking opium, to which many miners are addicted. Inset: Despite its toughness, much jade is polished on bamboo lathes, such as this one in Mandalay's jade market. Photos: R.W. Hughes
This source, who is quite close to one of Burma's top jade traders, told us that the jade business is often simply a sideline. Those in the drug business don't mind putting up a billion kyat (about $7.7 million) and only getting half back, because that half is now "clean" money. They can also afford to stockpile jade, giving buyers the impression that fine stones are more rare than is actually the case.
Those in the drug business also have a ready means to control the miners, many of whom are opium or heroin addicts. Diggers believe the drug will help prevent malaria and other diseases, but it's more likely the opium dreams just block out the nightmare that burrowing for jade entails. In any event, once addicted, the bosses can then easily control their workers, by regulating the supply of the drug.
The cocktail of opium and jade is a highly inflammable one and mafia-type gangland violence occasionally erupts. A few weeks before our first visit, a major miner (and also, reputedly, a drug dealer) was murdered in Myitkyina. The official version of the killing was that it was the work of a "mad man." Yeah right, him and JFK. One week prior to our second visit, a director of the Burmese military's "corporate" arm was gunned down on the doorstep of Hpakan's government guest house.
While the peace agreement was being negotiated in the early 1990s, soldiers from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) were legally allowed into Hpakan for the first time. They didn't like what they saw. Heroin was being sold on the street, almost like Coca Cola, and junkies were shooting up right under the bridges in the middle of town. But the KIA solved that problem. Rounding up both heroin addicts and dealers, they took them down to the river, put a few bullets into them and dumped the bodies into the Uru chaung (river). Heroin is no longer sold openly in Hpakan. For those who are interested, the KIA made a videotape of the event. It is something to be viewed only on an empty stomach.
Be all you can be
For Burma's military, the jade mines represent a big fat pot of green gold at the end of the rainbow. And a stint at the mines is the payoff for a job well done. The rewards for being stationed there are many, for, in a district where coin flows like water, those positioned directly at the well get to drink to their hearts' content. During our time in the jade mines district, we came in contact with countless military officers but did not meet a single one who had spent more than six months in the area. You see, when it comes to jade, others must also get their chance to quench their thirst.
Our military escort radios headquarters from Namlam, deep in Burma's Kachin State. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Taxing questions
In all good businesses, it is inevitable that the government should want a piece of the action and so it is with the green stone. Many boulders have writing on them. This is a registration number, along with the weight, signifying that tax has been paid. Tax is paid in Hpakan, after evaluation by a government-appointed committee. The levy is 10% of the appraised value, but since many who sit on the committee are traders themselves, valuations tend to be "generous" to the seller.
Without paying tax, it is theoretically illegal to cut a boulder. But it does not take too great a leap of faith to see people simply cutting boulders without paying tax. In any event, today, almost all the boulders are said to be "legal," meaning that tax has been paid. And there are still some people who do write letters to Santa.
Malaria is a major concern for anyone living or traveling in the jade-mines area. In this land of animism, the preferred local solution is embossing the skin by pinching it with a coin. Here Richard Hughes has the treatment applied. The efficacy of this bug protection was made crystal clear in Mogaung, where Hughes and French gem dealer, Olivier Galibert slept side-by-side in the same bed. Come morning, Galibert's body was covered with bedbug bites, while Hughes was untouched. Photo: Mark Smith
The Maw-sisa miner above is prepared for any kind of flying pest. Photo: R.W. Hughes
A mining we will go
Maw-sisa, just outside of Lonkin, is, in many respects, the quintessential mine, with jade recovered from alluvial deposits in the Uru river conglomerate. This formation is as much as 1000-feet deep in places, and present mining has just scratched the surface. Thus jadeite hoarders should take note – from what we could see, there is a good millennia or three's worth of material remaining to be extracted.
Each mining claim is just 15-feet wide; to keep from encroaching into the neighbor's area, a rope or thin wall of earth and boulders is left as a partition. When seen from above, the result is spectacular – several square miles of stair-step like benches, resembling nothing so much as a massive archeological dig. But diggers here do not search for mere bones or shards of pottery. Instead, they seek the Chinese holy grail, small pieces of heaven.
Dig it
At Maw-sisa, diggers were mining a black layer, locally termed ah may jaw. While jade is said to be richest in this layer, it can occur anywhere in the conglomerate.
The first step in mining is removal of the overburden, taung moo kyen (literally 'head cap removal'). Since the overburden is also conglomerate, it may also contain jade, so the workers must search this, too. We saw people working about 50 feet into the conglomerate, which they have stripped away with primitive tools.
Miners were asked how often they find jade. They said it depends on – guess what – luck. While some days they might find up to 25 pieces, other times they may go for days without finding anything. In terms of size, some boulders are 200–300 kg, some even as big as a house, but most are less than 1 kg.
At Tawmaw, miners tunnel directly into hard rock to win the jade. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Greenhorns in Greenland
Upon reaching the mines, the first question any self-respecting person asks is: "By Jove and George, how in the heck do they do it?" Meaning, how do miners separate the quite occasional jade boulder from the thousands of others they also dig up that look so completely similar? If you or I had found it, we would simply have chucked a potential fortune straight into the neighbor's back yard.
Our investigations did put the question to rest, somewhat. Repeated questioning of various and sundry jade traders, cutters and miners yielded the following pearls of wisdom: jade boulders ring like a bell when struck with a pick. They feel heavier than ordinary rocks, have a fibrous texture and lack mica-like reflections. Jade also feels slightly sticky when wet. But most importantly, the miners look for "show points," areas where the green color shows through the skin.
At one spot, we saw miners carefully washing a blackish boulder, apparently to see if it was jade. When approached, they quickly tossed it aside, but then went back to it after we left. From a distance we watched. Brows furrowed as they scraped at it, only to throw it away in the end. Apparently even the miners themselves sometimes have difficulty identifying the look of heaven.
Dike mining
It is said that to find a dike is to become an instant millionaire. For while ordinary miners flail away in the common soil, they only rarely turn up a boulder of jade. The dike is the mother lode itself, a bridge straight to heaven.
In the jade mines district, several primary outcrops of jadeite have been located, the most famous of which is at Tawmaw. Formerly, miners employed fire and water to break away pieces of the jade. Today, peace has another dividend – dynamite – a godsend when dealing with a rock so tough that a day's worth of drilling might only penetrate 12 inches (30 cm).
Slowly down the river
For over 200 years, man has scoured the banks of the Uru river in search of jade. The keepers are quickly put away, with the others discarded, giving the area the look of a large ant hill. Centuries of labor has piled the banks high.
Jade is not the only treasure the river yields. Much gold mining is also in evidence, with the miners utilizing small portable sluices featuring ingenious bamboo riffles.
During seasons when the river is high, particularly at Mamon and Maw-sisa, men dive for jade. They breathe via crude air pumps, something akin to a triple bicycle hand pump. While a man on land furiously works the pump, the diver hops into the water and searches for jade with the plastic hose between his teeth, all the while praying those up top don't forget who's down there.
Jade is not the only valuable mineral found in Jade Land. Here a miner at Maw-sisa shows off the gold he has found. Photo: R.W. Hughes
The color of luck
Of all the mines in Jade Land, none is more impressive than that at Hpakangyi. Here, on the outskirts of Hpakan, lies the most important source of the green stone. As one crosses the rise separating Hpakan from Hpakangyi, all becomes clear. More than 10,000 workers coat an excavation several hundred feet deep, digging, carrying, shifting, loading, delving their way to heaven. For it is here that the green stone is found in its finest quality.
Building the pyramids Over 10,000 miners snake up the hillside at Hpakangyi. Photos: R.W. Hughes
Patience, patience. So the Chinese bosses exhort their workers. For the laopans, patience is a virtue. But the coolies, who are paid only by how much earth they carry, have no time for patience. For the laborers, the goal is mere wealth. They care little for jade itself, seeing the green stone only as a road to gold – an escape from the poverty endemic to most of Burma. As one miner declared in broken English: "I am fortune seeker!" He made no mention of seeking jade. Patience? For the coolies, too much patience only prolongs their stay in hell.
Sectioned jade boulder at Hpakan. The think brown skin typically hides all traces of color inside. Only cutting reveals the true value. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Gambling fever At nightfall, many of the towns of Jade Land morph into miniature Las Vegases. Here an entire family watches a roulette wheel anxiously at Makapin. Note the small child asleep. Photo: R.W. Hughes
Waste is piled into waiting trucks. As the trucks leave Hpakangyi, they need travel but a short distance to disgorge their loads. Crossing the bridge, they empty their waste directly beside the Uru river, right in the midst of Hpakan, center of the jade universe.
Patience, patience – those who hurry lose, they miss something, they don't find heaven. But at the river there are no Chinese bosses, no onlookers, no audience, only the search and the searchers. While trucks dump their loads, jade pickers scramble over the river bank looking for jade. Here there is no price per load, nobody to pay. Only the search in its purest form.
The diggers examine the boulders, give each a sharp rap with a hammer, then discard the unworthy. Patience, patience, clank, clunk, hammer against stone, patience, patience, hurry, hurry, discard, discard, and so it goes, hundreds of times. This is the Jade Land symphony, the imperial green of fei-ts'ui – the kingfisher.
In a corner of the dump, the drama climaxes. There it is – a trace of color – jade, stone of green, stone of wealth. This is luck, joss, fortune, the very essence of the jade business, something wrapped so tightly round the Stone of Heaven and its dancing partners that even the diamond-laced saw blade used to part the boulders cannot separate them.
The stone is quickly taken by motorcycle to an anonymous concrete house on the outskirts of Hpakan – no time to spare, hurry, hurry. Up a flight of stairs, where a laopan sits, waiting. Patience, patience – he knows those who hurry lose, they miss the prize, they don't find heaven.
After a brief examination, a bid is offered, refused, then accepted. As a wad of mud-stained bills changes hands, the laopan smiles to himself, content with the thought that he, the patient one, is now one step closer to heaven. As for the digger, he also smiles. For he, the one in a hurry, is now one step further from hell.
Richard W. Hughes is one of the world’s foremost experts on ruby and sapphire. The author of several books and over 170 articles, his writings and photographs have appeared in a diverse range of publications, and he has received numerous industry awards. Co-winner of the 2004 Edward J. Gübelin Most Valuable Article Award from Gems & Gemology magazine, the following year he was awarded a Richard T. Liddicoat Journalism Award from the American Gem Society. In 2010, he received the Antonio C. Bonanno Award for Excellence in Gemology from the Accredited Gemologists Association. The Association Française de Gemmologie (AFG) in 2013 named Richard as one of the fifty most important figures that have shaped the history of gems since antiquity. In 2016, Richard was awarded a visiting professorship at Shanghai's Tongji University. 2017 saw the publication of Richard and his wife and daughter's Ruby & Sapphire: A Gemologist's Guide, arguably the most complete book ever published on a single gem species and the culmination of nearly four decades of work in gemology. in 2018, Richard was named Photographer of the Year by the Gem-A, recognizing his photo of a jade-trading market in China.
Fred Ward, a gemologist, writer, and photographer, owns Gem Book Publishers, Malibu, CA
Author's afterword
Written April 1997. This article was published in Asia Diamonds (Vol. 1, No. 2, September-October, pp. 42–53).
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Lowenstein’s 2019 promotion of seven lawyers to partner and six to counsel (including three women in each category) is noted in Bloomberg Law – Big Law Business. These promotions are also highlighted in LawFuel, The Deal, and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey’s (CIANJ) Business Beat newsletter, with Lesley P. Adamo, Dmitry Andreev, Marc S. Kurzweil, James B. O’Grady, Eileen Overbaugh, Peter Slocum, and Julie Levinson Werner highlighted as newly elected partners and Brandon Fierro, Joseph G. Jones, Robert Lynn, Brianne Perlman, Nedda N. Salehi, and Leah Satlin listed as promoted to counsel. Gary M. Wingens is quoted regarding the critical role these lawyers will play in the firm’s continued success. Law360 notes our partner elevations in an article highlighting firms' Q1 promotions. (subscription required to access certain content) View Lowenstein’s news announcement about these promotions.
Lowenstein Sandler was featured prominently in Diversity in Action magazine in a piece focused on opportunities in tech law for diverse people with backgrounds in STEM. Madhumita Datta, Ph.D., discusses her transition from engineer to patent agent to intellectual property lawyer, finding satisfaction in working with inventors by “giving voice to their invention, protecting their legal rights, and bringing their inventions closer to market.” Kathleen A. McGee considers lawyers working the area of tech law “to be some of the luckiest because we get to shape the law in the way that very few practices do.”
The article also highlights the work of Ed Zimmerman, Chair of Lowenstein’s Tech Group, on behalf of LGBTQ rights and against gender bias in the tech field. Ed comments on how recent law school graduates are attracted to tech law because “they grew up in the space and are early adopters.” A. Faith English, the firm’s Manager, Diversity & Inclusion, adds that her early experiences in private practice, public policy, and social justice have enhanced her ability to develop successful diversity initiatives, remarking on the importance of “having someone who looks like you at the power table.”
Matt Savare is quoted in ComputerWorld and The Economic Times regarding IBM’s new blockchain initiative with Stellar and the increased usage of blockchain in fin tech and cryptocurrencies in consumer transactions.
Ethan L. Silver is quoted in ComputerWorld and The Economic Times regarding blockchain and the possibility of cryptocurrencies eventually becoming a platform for consumer transactions. Silver asserts that companies must be aware of existing regulations for financial networks and how they may be applied to evolving technologies.
Lowenstein's having received top rankings in several categories in the Patexia 2019 Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report is highlighted in the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey’s (CIANJ) Business Beat newsletter.
Ethan L. Silver is quoted in Financial Planning discussing the Securities Exchange Commission’s increased enforcement of regulations for robo-advisory firms. Silver affirms the necessity of strong, ongoing compliance programs as a key to minimizing the risk of penalization. He stresses the importance of firms to enhance disclosures and limit claims on social media, to ensure that they are “delivering on what was promised through marketing channels.”
February 21-March 7, 2019 February 21-March 7, 2019
Matt Savare and Bryan Sterba address the major elements of open-source software (OSS) and how it is being utilized by fund managers, in an interview with the Hedge Fund Law Report. In the first of a three-part series, Savare explains blockchain’s relation to open source, and how it can facilitate the settlement of international transactions in a fraction of the standard time. Sterba provides insight into the workings of copyleft licenses, including how some organizations navigate stringent licensing requirements. In part two, Savare and Sterba discuss the benefits of OSS, including its proper use and how it can equal cost savings if implemented correctly, as well as the security risks and license restrictions. In part three, Savare and Sterba evaluate actions fund managers can take to mitigate OSS risks, including policies, procedures and controls to adopt; ways to deal with third-party vendors; and due diligence.
Lowenstein’s representation of Dataiku its $101 million Series C funding round is profiled in the Global Legal Chronicle. The write-up notes the Lowenstein team: Ed Zimmerman, Evan M. Bienstock, Dotan Barnea, and Laura Cicirelli. View Lowenstein’s news announcement about this representation.
Kathleen A. McGee is quoted in CNET discussing the rising popularity of smart homes and internet-of-things (IoT) devices among apartment landlords. The article analyzes the benefits and risks that face landlords and tenants when it comes to the use of these innovative products. McGee notes that “landlords are, in theory, in your apartment every day collecting information; tenants suddenly have to choose between no home and a place where they perceive themselves to be spied on.”
February 14-15, 2019 February 14-15, 2019
Ethan L. Silver was featured in both American Banker and Interactive Investor, commenting on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) reticence to approve new cryptocurrency, despite encouraging more discussion. Silver states that: “the practical realities are that there has been a lot of meetings and discussions that have yielded little progress." He agrees with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce that the Howey Test – used by US regulators to determine what should be considered a security – is “overly broad.” Silver asserts that until the SEC provides clarity on how digital assets should be custodied under its existing rules, a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will never be approved.
Valeska Pederson Hintz is quoted in Forbes in which she discusses Slack, a work-messaging tech unicorn, and the company’s plan to forego a traditional initial public offering (IPO) in favor of a direct listing this year. The article describes this as an unconventional move that could encourage other tech unicorn companies to consider a direct listing in lieu of an IPO, though this isn’t likely to become a mainstream trend. Pederson Hintz suggests that large tech unicorns are uniquely positioned to take advantage of a direct listing for their market debut because they are often well-capitalized and have brand recognition (Wealth Daily also quotes Pederson Hintz on this point). She states that direct listings are faster and cheaper than traditional IPOs. (subscription required to access article)
Matt Savare is quoted in Bloomberg BNA in an article discussing how online advertisers are utilizing blockchain to fight fraud. Savare, who is noted as a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s blockchain working group, recommends the tactic and comments that blockchain “dramatically reduces the incidence of fraud.”
Billboard magazine mentions the role Lowenstein Sandler’s Tech Group Chair, Ed Zimmerman, played in producing a song by four-time Grammy Award winner and blues legend, Keb’ Mo’. In discussing the song “Put a Woman in Charge,” Billboard quotes Keb’ Mo’ as he explains how he and his co-writers were working on the song:
“[T]hen we realized that we needed a guest. So I called my friend, Ed Zimmerman, in New York and was telling him about it, we needed a guest. He said, “I know somebody that might want to do it.’ And I’m like, ‘Who?’ He said, ‘How about Rosanne Cash?’ And I went, ‘Holy Moly, that’s perfect.’ We called her up and she said yes and we sent her the files. She sung the song. We put her on the record and got some backgrounds going, and we had a record.”
Rosanne Cash, a best-selling author, is also a four-time Grammy Award winner. The song was released to great reviews. Zimmerman, who is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, published a case study about Keb’ Mo’ in September 2018, and the artist came and lectured at the Venture Capital class that Zimmerman teaches there. Mo’ ultimately performed the song for the class, so it premiered before 80 or so MBA students a few days prior to the song’s release.
In an article noting that Massachusetts-based companies accounted for nearly half of all 2017 biotech industry investments, BioPharma-Reporter reprints a quote from Steven M. Skolnick, who stated in the publication’s August 20, 2018, article that a strong market and economy have been drivers behind investments and M&A activity, leading to a large number of successful biotech IPOs.
Steven M. Skolnick is extensively quoted in BioPharma-Reporter regarding potentially record-breaking numbers in biotech initial public offerings in 2018. Skolnick notes the strong market and economy are drivers behind investments and M&A activity, leading to a large number of successful biotech IPOs. While the first half of 2018 started off strong, Skolnick cautions that the political climate and normal market indicators may cause volatility in the latter half of the year.
CNBC highlights Intapp’s acquisition by DealCloud. Lowenstein was counsel to DealCloud for this transaction. View Lowenstein’s news announcement about this deal.
The Global Legal Chronicle notes Lowenstein Sandler's representation of Safe Banking Systems (SBS) in its acquisition by Accuity. The write-up lists the Lowenstein team: Raymond P. Thek, Alex D. Leibowitz, Pooja Patel, Mitchell McDonald, and Zarema A. Jaramillo. View Lowenstein’s news announcement about this transaction.
The Global Legal Chronicle notes Lowenstein Sandler’s representation of Integral Ad Science in an article discussing Vista Equity Partners’ majority-stake acquisition of the company. The article notes that the Lowenstein deal team was led by Raymond P. Thek and included Peter H. Ehrenberg, Ed Zimmerman, Colin J. Kirby, Shimite Obialo, Sarah Gore, Elias Kwon, Alex Galev, Christina Lee, and Kristen Nicol, as well as support from specialists in Tax: Brian A. Silikovitz and Sophia Mokotoff; Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: James E. Gregory, Darren Goodman, Megan Monson, and Eric Margulies; Intellectual Property Litigation: Mark P. Kesslen and Lisa A. Harvey; Antitrust & Trade Regulation: Zarema A. Jaramillo; and Privacy & Cybersecurity: Mary J. Hildebrand. View Lowenstein’s news announcement about this transaction.
Bloomberg Law – Big Law Business cites Mark P. Kesslen and his team members for tying in third place at the Diversity in Law Hackathon at Harvard Law School on June 22, 2018. Kesslen’s team proposed In.C—short for “inclusive culture”—which aims to help employers track and measure employee feedback on diversity and inclusion factors such as a sense of belonging and shared trust. Used broadly enough, organizations can cite their In.C score to demonstrate to clients, customers, competitors, and the public that they are serious about diversity and inclusion.
The Global Legal Chronicle profiles Lowenstein's representation of Dreams, a cutting-edge mobile application, in the negotiation of various content licensing agreements with BBC, Discovery, Bloomberg, and other major content licensors. The article also notes our firm's representation of Dreams in its Series A financing. The write-up lists the Lowenstein team: Eric J. Weiner, Matthew N. Holbreich, and Christopher C. Henry on the Series A financing and Matt Savare on the content licensing transactions. View Lowenstein’s news announcement about this transaction.
MarTech Series, Markets Insider, 4-traders.com, The PE Hub Network and citybizlist highlight Lowenstein Sandler as legal counsel to global software company Integral Ad Science in its majority-stake acquisition by leading private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.
Cosmetics Technology and Business Wire note Lowenstein Sandler as legal counsel to New Mountain Capital and portfolio company Topix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in their acquisition of DERMA E. (Lowenstein deal team: Marita A. Makinen, David L. Goret, Matt Savare, Michael Walutes, Darren Goodman, Eric Jesse, Manali Joglekar, Marc S. Kurzweil, Kimberly E. Lomot, Justin Gindi, Tim Janas, Megan Monson, Leah Satlin, and Jacob D. Unger.)
The Buffalo Law Journal notes Lowenstein Sandler as counsel to a company discussing its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance efforts. The article quotes Mary J. Hildebrand, who notes many companies’ confusion as to whether and why GDPR applies to them. Hildebrand explains that GDPR has expanded the definition of personal data, that it applies depending on where data is processed (not just on where it “sits”), and that GDPR compliance obligations will involve careful judgment calls.
Radio program 1A interviews Kathleen A. McGee and other experts regarding the Supreme Court's May 2018 decision permitting states to decide whether or not to legalize sports gambling. 1A is distributed by NPR and produced by WAMU 88.5. Listen to the program.
Law360 quotes Ed Zimmerman on the pent-up demand for IPOs by an increasing number of venture-backed technology companies. (subscription required to access article)
Law360 notes Kathleen A. McGee's joining Lowenstein after serving as Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Internet & Technology for the New York State Attorney General’s Office. (subscription required to access article)
The Global Legal Chronicle notes Lowenstein Sandler’s representation of General Assembly in an article discussing Adecco’s $412.5 million acquisition of the company. The article lists Ed Zimmerman, Anthony O. Pergola, Eric Weiner, James E. Gregory, Brian A. Silikovitz, Lisa A. Harvey, Darren Goodman, Yvonne Elosiebo, Pooja Patel, Philip Mackson, and Mitchell McDonald as members of the Lowenstein team.
The New York Law Journal notes Kathleen McGee’s joining Lowenstein Sandler after serving as Chief of the Bureau of Internet & Technology for the New York State Attorney General’s Office. (subscription required to access article)
Law360 quotes Mark P. Kesslen on obviousness as a barrier to patentability in an article exploring hurdles to securing patents related to distributed ledger technology and blockchain.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Ed Zimmerman on the challenges of starting new business lines in the context of Airbnb’s efforts to launch their new Experiences offering. (subscription required to access article)
In The Deal: Movers & Shakers, Anne Milgram is highlighted for her affiliation with Lowenstein Sandler LLP as special counsel to the white collar and tech groups, enhancing the firm's expertise at the cross section of big data and law.
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Mark P. Kesslen comments in Technology Transfer Tactics' monthly newsletter on the various approaches TTOs may consider for managing patent annuity.
Mary J. Hildebrand comments in Law360 on the risks created by an expanded definition of personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Matt Savare is quoted in Communications Daily Newsletter on establishing a real-world claim for virtual-world torts.
In Corporate Counsel, Matt Savare comments on the dilemma that offensive speech creates for social media channels such as Twitter.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in The Cybersecurity Law Report on the importance of proper cyber due diligence and how companies can mitigate cyber risks.
Mary Hildebrand comments in an SC Magazine article on a decision by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granting victims of the Nationwide Insurance data breach standing to sue.
Mary Hildebrand comments in The Wall Street Journal on a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in AT&T Mobility v. Federal Trade Commission, which held that the FTC does not have jurisdiction over common carriers, clouding privacy regulations for telecommunications, cable, and internet companies.
Mary Hildebrand comments in SC Magazine on adoption rates for the Privacy Shield among companies that transfer data from the EU to the U.S.
Bloomberg View cites a Forbes Tech article by Ed Zimmerman, Peter Ehrenberg, and Valeska Pederson Hintz on SEC Rule 701 in its discussion of robot funds and bank regulation.
Mary Hildebrand gets the last word in a Law360 article on the Privacy Shield and what U.S. companies can expect over time.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in The Wall Street Journal regarding the European Union's decision to adopt the Privacy Shield agreement.
Daniel Ovanezian comments in Law360 about the tide-turning reversal of the Enfish decision and its impact on software patent eligibility.
Mary Hildebrand has been recognized as a power player and one of the top 10 women in the IT security space by SC Magazine for her thought leadership on privacy and IT security. She shares this honor with top female executives from Microsoft, Google, Uber, and other cutting-edge tech companies.
Mary Hildebrand comments in Bloomberg BNA on guidance companies need on fines imposed by the new EU privacy law.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in The Wall Street Journal on how data localization services enabling the transfer of data stored in Europe to a U.S. server may not be a viable option.
Mary Hildebrand comments in Bloomberg BNA on the GDPR's high-risk processing requirements and the challenges they pose for U.S. companies.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in an Investor's Business Daily article that discusses the legal limbo facing tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google resulting from ongoing deliberations regarding the proposed EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
Mary Hildebrand comments in SC Magazine on a leaked excerpt from the Article 29 Working Party Opinion on the EU Privacy Shield, the content of which points to further delays in the finalization of the agreement.
Mary Hildebrand comments in The Wall Street Journal regarding the Article 29 Working Party assessment of privacy protections in the Privacy Shield agreement.
Mary Hildebrand comments in Bloomberg BNA on possible outcomes should the Article 29 Working Party issue a negative opinion on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arrangement.
Mary Hildebrand comments in The Wall Street Journal on the regulatory and compliance requirements companies will have to manage under the new Privacy Shield.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in The Wall Street Journal and Law360 on the issues companies face in light of the new Privacy Shield announced by EU and U.S. authorities.
Mary Hildebrand comments in USA Today on new data privacy protections proposed by the European Union and their effect on transatlantic business.
Sharon L. Levine, S. Jason Teele, and Shirley Dai were cited by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) as members of the team of restructuring professionals in the bankruptcy case of Hedwin Corporation, which was recognized by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) as a 2015 Transaction of the Year Award on December 9, 2015. Lowenstein Sandler represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the matter.
Mary Hildebrand is quoted in The Wall Street Journal on the alternatives companies are using in place of Safe Harbor, while the European Court of Justice negotiates a new agreement.
Ed Zimmerman's third installment of his series on bicoastal venture funding in Forbes features an interview with ActionIQ's founder Tasso Argyros, a successful Silicon Valley startup founder. The article discusses why Argyros relocated to NYC to start a deeply technical enterprise company and whom he tapped for venture funding.
Ed Zimmerman's second installment of his series on bicoastal venture funding in Forbes provides advice for East Coast founders seeking successful bicoastal Series B venture funding. In this article, Ed profiles the successful approach taken by Hicham Oudghiri, co-founder/CEO at Enigma.
Ed Zimmerman's first installment of his series on bicoastal venture funding in Forbes talks about how startups can find the right investor even if they're 3,000 miles away.
Mary Hildebrand provides insight in a Corporate Secretary article on how U.S. companies must rethink compliance with EU data privacy laws.
Mary Hildebrand comments in CIO Magazine regarding the Court of Justice of the European Union's ruling declaring the Safe Harbor agreement invalid and how this could result in the loss of uniformity for privacy investigations throughout many European countries.
Ed Zimmerman's column in Forbes guides VCs and founders on recent Delaware law developments in how startups should handle board minutes.
Ed Zimmerman's article in Forbes discusses the process of bridge funding for startups.
Matthew Savare comments in Law360 regarding the Federal Trade Commission's social media promotion guidelines for paid product reviews.
Ed Zimmerman's article in Forbes discusses product quality strategies for startups drawing from the success of Chateau Margaux.
Ed Zimmerman's article in Forbes discusses how and when to tell your startup or growth company's investors the deep dark secrets about your company – before the term sheet or before the pitch meeting.
Fortune reports on Lowenstein Sandler Tech Group Chair Ed Zimmerman's #GenderBiasPledge supporting women in startups and tech. Read the original Gender Bias Pledge Ed published on the Accelerators page of The Wall Street Journal last year after announcing it onstage at last year's VentureCrushNY event.
Peter J. Fusco comments in Forbes concerning common mistakes often made by startups in formation and specifies the importance of legal documents indigenous to the process.
In The Daily Dot, Matt Savare comments on copyright laws surrounding compilations of materials on viral content websites.
Manali Joglekar has been named to the Lawyers of Color 2014 Hot List, which salutes early- to mid-career minority lawyers who have achieved prominence and distinction in their fields of endeavor–whether it be the practice of law, academia, business, civic and charitable affairs, the judiciary, or politics–and who have demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing diversity in the legal profession. The honorees were recognized at an event on July 17 at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.
VentureCrushSF, Lowenstein Sandler's The Tech Group, San Francisco, CA, June 27, 2019
Privacy and Cyber Security Breakfast Roundtable: Assessing the Impact of New and Amended State and Federal Laws, Duff & Phelps, New York, NY, June 26, 2019
VentureCrushParis, Lowenstein Sandler's The Tech Group, Paris, France, May 29, 2019
VentureCrushFG, Lowenstein Sandler's The Tech Group, New York, NY, May 22, 2019
2019 NAAG Consumer Protection Spring Conference, National Association of Attorneys General, Washington, D.C., May 20, 2019
VentureCrushFGX, Lowenstein Sandler's The Tech Group, New York, NY, May 8, 2019
Reputational Risk, 100 Women in Finance, New York, NY, May 7, 2019
Roadmap to Billions: 2019 Conference, Black Women Talk Tech, New York, NY, February 28, 2019
Government Investigations 2019: Investigations Arising From Data Breach and Privacy Concerns and Parallel Proceedings , Practising Law Institute (PLI), New York, NY, February 1, 2019
National Society of Inventors, December 11, 2018
Deploying State Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices Statutes in Business-to-Business Litigation, American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law, November 29, 2018
CCPA Demystified: California's Privacy Legislation Explained, IAB, November 15, 2018
Case Closed: Cell Phone Privacy in the Modern World, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, November 8, 2018
Administrative Law: "Pardon the Disruption", New York Law School, New York, NY, November 7, 2018
Lowenstein Sandler and ACC New Jersey's 4th Annual Cyber Day, Lowenstein Sandler; ACC New Jersey, Roseland, New Jersey, October 10, 2018
Data Privacy Issues Across the Digital Ad Ecosystem, Privacy + Security Forum, Washington, D.C., October 3-5, 2018
Women, Influence & Power in Law: The Original Global Forum Facilitating Women-to-Women Exchange on Leadership and Legal Issues, Corporate Counsel, Washington, DC, October 4-5, 2018
Big Data and Advertising – The Current Practices and Legal Issues, Practising Law Institute (PLI), New York, NY, October 4, 2018
The Global Challenges of Cybersecurity and Digital Terrorism, World Services Group Annual Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, September 20, 2018
VentureCrushGalvanize: Let's Talk Food, AgTech, and CPG, Lowenstein Sandler LLP , New York, NY, September 13, 2018
A Global Perspective: What You Need to Know About New U.S. Federal & State Data Protection Laws & How They Align With GDPR, Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), September 11, 2018
Financial Services and GDPR: The Next 60 Days ..., BrightTALK, August 14, 2018
Navigating a Post-GDPR Business Landscape: What You Need to Know, Lowenstein Sandler, Roseland, New Jersey, August 1, 2018
Investing in Blockchain, New York Fintech Week Conference, New York, NY, August 1, 2018
Cryptocurrency and Token Offerings, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab, BUIDL: State of Blockchain in Advertising Conference, New York, NY, July 17, 2018
VentureCrushATX, The Tech Group, Austin, TX, June 20, 2018
Privacy Thru the POC Lens: Exploring Data Privacy and Security From the Perspective of Communities of Color, Hispanic National Bar Association, New York, NY, June 19, 2018; 6:30-9:00 p.m.
VentureCrushAV, The Tech Group, June 6, 2018
Wanna Bet? The Supreme Court Says You Can, 1A (distributed by NPR; produced by WAMU 88.5), radio program, May 21, 2018
Structuring and Financing a Reg D Security Token Offering, The Block's "The Internet of Trust and Money", New York, NY, May 16, 2018
VentureCrushSF, Lowenstein Sandler Tech Group, San Francisco, CA, April 26, 2018
Unpacking the Blockchain, Advertising Research Foundation Young Pros' Blockchain: Beyond Bitcoin, New York, NY, April 25, 2018
The Evolving Landscape of Data Privacy and Security, Chief Legal Officer Leadership Forum (Argyle Executive Forum), New York, NY, March 2018
VentureCrushFG, The Tech Group, March 7, 2018
VentureCrushAV, The Tech Group, New York, NY, February 1, 2018
The ABC's of Blockchain: Altcoins, Bitcoins, and Coin Offerings, Lowenstein Sandler , January 30, 2018 (Palo Alto)
The ABC’s of Blockchain: Altcoins, Bitcoins, and Coin Offerings, Osborne Clarke Conference Center, January 30, 2018
Top Four Marketing Privacy Issues for 2018, Association of Corporate Counsel's (ACC) Advertising & Marketing Practice Group, New York, NY, November 2017
Altcoins, Bitcoins, and Cryptocurrencies – Unpacking the Blockchain, Flashpoint’s First Annual Conference, October 24, 2017
How LPs Are Thinking About the VC Landscape, VentureCrushSF, San Francisco, CA, June 22, 2017
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Implementation Update Series, Roseland, NJ, February 1, 2017
Advanced Venture Capital Seminar, San Francisco, CA, December 6, 2016
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Mini Series, Roseland, NJ, October 6, 2016
Seton Hall Law Review Symposium, Newark, NJ, September 29, 2016
Women, Influence, & Power in Law Conference, Washington, D.C., September 21-23, 2016
Insurance Issues in Commercial Contracts, Webinar, September 21, 2016
Strategies for Managing Cyber Risk and Maximizing Insurance Recoveries: Rapid-Fire Case Studies, ACC - New Jersey and Lowenstein Sandler's Cyber Day, Parsippany, NJ, June 2, 2016
Insurance Concerns in Commercial Contracts, Webinar, October 21, 2015, February 4, 2016, May 18, 2016
Wearable Tech - What Is It? What Privacy Professionals Need to Know!, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) KnowledgeNet, Roseland, NJ, March 3, 2016
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Home News Acer once again becomes the No.1 PC Gaming Brand in India
Acer once again becomes the No.1 PC Gaming Brand in India
Acer, one of the world’s leading gaming PC makers once again attained No.1 spot in the Indian PC gaming market as per IDC’s Q1 2018 report. Acer has proved leadership in India with 37% market share in gaming laptops and 21% share in PC gaming segment as per IDC’s Q1 2018 report, outpacing competition by a significant margin.
Acer gained the top spot in the gaming market with its critically acclaimed and widely popular Predator and Nitro gaming series. Acer in India has the widest portfolio of PC gaming products, which includes laptops, desktops, monitors and accessories specifically designed for beginners to professional gamers.
Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO & Consumer Business Head, Acer India said, “It gives us immense pleasure to announce that once again Acer has retained No.1 position in the Indian gaming market by growing the market share across our gaming products. This is a result of Acer’s strong focus on innovation and commitment in offering cutting edge gaming products to Indian customers.
Acer India has been at the forefront of pushing PC gaming envelop with our Predator and Nitro series and we are grateful to our fans, our partners and our customers for their constant support that has helped us achieve this milestone once again.”
Acer has shown consistent growth over the last few quarters in their gaming segment to successfully capture the top spot consequently in Q4 2017 and Q1 2018.
Acer has been working towards building strong foothold in the Indian gaming industry. The company has achieved many milestones in the gaming industry by launching an array of innovative gaming products in India. Recently at Acer Global Press Conference 2018 in New York, the company introduced exceptional powerful gaming laptops, desktops and accessories like Acer Predator Helios 500 laptop, Predator Orion 5000 desktop, Cestus 510 gaming mouse and Predator gaming chair.
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Odegbami Becomes UN Agency’s Ambassador
News of the People July 11, 2018
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A United Nations Agency, Non Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance, has appointed Nigeria’s popular newspaper columnist and ex-national team captain, Chief Segun Odegbami, MON, as Ambassador of its global campaign: ENOUGH.
In this role, Odegbami is expected to play a lead role in raising advocacy and widespread support for more realistic and sustainable government attention to NCD related issues at all levels in the country’s health sector; especially in areas of funding, equipment and manpower development. Founded in 2009, the NCD Alliance has developed a robust global network of more than 2000 organizations in 170 countries.
Senior Policy and Campaign Officer at NCD Alliance, Ms. Lucy Westerman, in an electronic mail communicating the appointment, expressed the organization’s pleasure in having Odegbami’s engagement in the ENOUGH Campaign as a widely – acknowledged NCD Champion. “We are pleased to hear of your experience and work with the youths and concerns in health. This makes you a most suitable champion and it will be good to learn more about this work and the experience”, she wrote.
The NCD Alliance is a United Nations recognized global thought leader on NCD policy and practice; convener of the civil society movement; partner to governments and UN agencies; and advocate for people at the risk of; or living with NCDs. This year, the alliance has launched a global advocacy campaign with the theme: ENOUGH. Our Health. Our Right. Right Now!
According to details on the Alliance website, NCDs such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, account for 68% of global mortality; or two out of every death in all parts of the world. A total of 39.5million deaths are recorded every year arising from NCDs, according to statistics published on the website,
Odegbami, an international sports school proprietor in Ogun State and strong campaigner for healthy living habits, will be recalled, had written several articles calling attention to the state of healthcare in Nigeria in the past few decades. He had been a consultant for the Nigeria Heart Foundation (NHF) since year 2003; and is on record as a member of a research team working on active transport amongst youths in five African countries. In 2013, Odegbami was invited as a resource person to the 13th Public Health Congress for over 4000 medical personnel from 157 countries in Ethiopia for his work in youth education and sport. Five years ago, Odegbami was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Sport by Bradley University, Ohio, USA.
According to Ms. Westerman, Odegbami, through his writings and public engagements, is considered a highly valuable partner and is being engaged as an NCD champion to play a strategic role in the agency’s 2018 global advocacy campaign. This is in line with the organization’s vision which is to strive towards engendering a world where everyone has the opportunity for a healthy life, free from preventable suffering, stigma and death caused by NCDs.
Currently working with several thousands of youths, community leaders, political leaders, various sectoral groups and other compatriots to lead his home state, Ogun, in the 2019 governorship elections, Odegbami has consistently played up the agenda of a much expedient radical intervention in the state’s health sector as a major reason for seeking to govern. “I’m excited and at once, humbled by this global recognition. There’s so much work to do in our health sector. The easiest place to die in the whole world today is Nigeria. Government at all levels must adopt a new attitude to funding and managing our hospitals; investing in medical research and keeping our qualified manpower in our hospitals all over Nigeria; instead of the current trend of losing our best hands in medicine to Europe and Asia”, Odegbami said.
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Home » Latest News in Nigeria » Angry soldiers ground Maiduguri airport, threaten to shoot superiors
Angry soldiers ground Maiduguri airport, threaten to shoot superiors
9:45 AM Motunrayo Ogundipe 0 Latest News in Nigeria
There is currently tension at the Maiduguri international airport in Borno state as angry soldiers are shooting indiscriminately to protest their deployment from the state capital to another local government.
The aggrieved soldiers reportedly arrived at the airport at 6pm ahead of their posting to Marte local government area.
But trouble started when they regrouped and refused to board the aircraft which ought to convey them there.
The soldiers who are of the special forces said after spending over four years in Maiduguri, they ought to be sent back to their families and not to be posted to face death.
An officer who witnessed the incident said superior officers, including Bulami Biu, general officer commander (GOC) of 7 division, were asked to stay off the airport or risk being shot.
“The second batch of pilgrims going for hajj from Borno boarded their flight amid the commotion,” the source said.
“The special forces are ready for trouble. They are really angry. The superiors were asked to stay off or be killed.”
Texas Chukwu, army spokesman, said he could not confirm the development.
“I don’t know about this, let me call an officer there,” he said.
Disobedience is a punishable offence in the army just as mutiny could attract a heavy penalty such as death sentence.
Some soldiers who were court martialled for disobedience under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan are still in detention up till date.
Many officers involved in the anti- Boko Haram war have accused the military authorities of falling below the expected standard in terms of welfare.
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Cancer Survivor, 75, Skis to North Pole
Tue, May 8, 2007 - By Meghan Barr
Barbara Hillary completed the trek to the world's northernmost point last month at the age of 75. She is one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole, and is believed to be the first black woman on record to accomplish the feat.
Over 800 Doping Tests at 2007 FIS World Championships
Tue, May 8, 2007 - By FIS
A total of 827 doping controls were carried out at the four FIS World Championships held in Arosa (SUI), Åre (SWE), Sapporo (JPN) and Madonna di Campiglio (ITA) this winter.
Need to Know the Percentage of Graphite in your Ski Bases?
Tue, May 8, 2007 - By Joe Gollinger
Here's for the skier who has everything: a small gadget to take the exact measurements of the percentage of graphite present in ski bases.
Hanson Hills Announces Summer Activity Program
Mon, May 7, 2007 - By Justin Andre
Hanson Hills has a full summer of events including paddling, running, biking.
Rossignol Announces RED-WHITE-BLUE Support Program
Mon, May 7, 2007 - By Mike Muha
Rossignol has announced a new program for top juniors who are serious about their racing.
Q&A with Sverre Seeberg or Norway
Mon, May 7, 2007 - By FIS
Norway topped the 2007 FIS medals tables for both the FIS World Championships and the Junior World Championships across all FIS Olympic disciplines. What is your secret?
GRNST Member Louise (Elle) Herrick's son, Tyson Herrick, Dies in Accident
Sun, May 6, 2007 - By Carole Mueller-Brumbaugh
More information regarding the funeral arrangements for Tyson Herrick, youngest son of Louise (Elle) Herrick. The visitation for Tyson is on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon and evening. The funeral is on Tuesday morning.
Valaas joins Randall and Mannix at APU
Fri, May 4, 2007 - By Van Williams
Laura Valaas has announced she will join Kikkan Randall of Anchorage and Tazlina Mannix of Talkeenta at Alaska Pacific University.
A Note from Pete Vordenberg, Head Coach of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team
Fri, May 4, 2007 - By Pete Vordenberg - TeamToday.org
It is Light Bulb Time. If we want to win medals internationally two basic things are true and vital. One – this task rests on us. We are the solution; there is no one else. Two – Now is the time. There is no tomorrow; it is all about what we do today.
Team Today and U.S. Ski Team announce the 2007 Club Kilometer Competition
Making training hours count. Team Today and the U.S. Ski Team announce the 2007 Club Kilometer Competition for all junior skiers in the nation. The competition runs from May 28th to November 30th, 2007.
May brings Free 'Get Your Nordic On' Clinics to Wisconson
Thu, May 3, 2007 - By CXC Skiing
Central Cross Country Ski Association is pleased to announce the early May series of free “Get Your Nordic On” Cross Country Ski clinics.
What went Right: Part II
Tue, May 1, 2007 - By Mike Muha
A good base, not training too hard, intervals during race season, some snow time, and training nutrition made the race season go great!
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Home » Entertainment » TVS Classic Sports Network Adds College Basketball Games to It’s 24/7 Streaming Channel on Giniko USA.Com
TVS Classic Sports Network Adds College Basketball Games to It’s 24/7 Streaming Channel on Giniko USA.Com
The free to view, advertising supported TVS Classic Sports Network is the home to the 10,000 title TVS Classic Sports Library, which includes classic TV sports from 1947 to 1990.
Bullhead City, AZ, April 28, 2019 –(PR.com)– TVS Classic Sports Network, the free to view, ad supported post cable network, has added the classic basketball games from the TVS Classic Sports Library to the channel. TVS Classic Sports Network can be found on the Giniko USA.Com platform, and on ROKU, Android, Amazon Fire and Apple mobile platforms.
TVS Television Network was a major producer of college basketball games from it’s founding in 1960 through the 1980’s. These games are now being reprised on the TVS Classic Sports Network. Also appearing on the network are games from TV syndication pioneer C D Chesley, Mizlou, TCS Metrosports, Sports Network Inc. and other independent TV networks from the era who produced and distributed college basketball.
Classic announcers on these games include Jim Thacker, John Ferguson, Jim Carvallis, Les Keiter, Jay Randolph, Frank Sims, Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, Frank Gleiber, Bob Costas, Barry Tompkins, Eddie Doucette, Howard David, and Don Criqui. Color commentators include Joe Dean, Jeff Mullins, Al McGuire, Billy Packer, Tom Hawkins, Bill Raftery, Bob Pettit and Digger Phelps.
The TVS “Game of the Century,” the 1968 Houston Astrodome encounter between UCLA and Houston, is also included on TVS Classic Sports Network.
Other sports on TVS Classic Sports Network include NASL Soccer; WFL Football; IWA Wrestling; LPBT Bowling; MISL Indoor Soccer; Championship Boxing; PBA Regional Bowling; LPGA and Senior PGA Golf; WCT Tennis; Major College Football Bowl Games; Pro Rodeo; NASCAR, Indy Car and Grand Prix Racing; and AIAW Championships.
TVS Television Network is the fourth oldest commercial broadcast TV network in the USA. Founded in 1960, TVS produduces and distributes free to view, ad supported programming for broadcast TV, cable TV networks, IPTV, Mobile, and OTT platforms.
TVS Television Productions is located in the Greater Los Angeles area. TVS Operations is located in Bullhead City, AZ. TVS Radio Network is located in Las Vegas. TVS Magazines is located in Atlanta. TVS Ad Sales, headed by Jerry Wolff, is located in Miami and New York.
Published at Sun, 28 Apr 2019 07:00:00 +0000
Source: https://www.pr.com/press-release/783645
Announcing the Epic New Single by Evie Clair of “America’s Got Talent”
Evie Clair, of “America’s Got Talent,” has released an epic new single
The 2019 Thomas and Barbara Hughes Business Legacy Impact Award Honors Inaugural Recipient Rose Battle, Founder, UMMI Agency/Ultimate Model Management Inc.
The U.S. Women’s Business Network and The Edge, in partnership with the
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This is how we do action in Uganda.
Who Killed Captain Alex?
“Uganda’s first action movie”, Who Killed Captain Alex? is a cheerfully ultra-low budget, wholly amateur picture made by Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey. It’s the kind of thing you and your mates would make and (rightly) expect no one else to ever watch (aside from a few hundred hits on YouTube). But stick a frequently hilarious running commentary over the top from VJ (video joker) Emme, and it this home-ish move takes on something approaching the spoofy quality of What’s Up Tiger Lilly?
You can see the whole thing on YouTube and judge for yourself. Admittedly, my goodwill began to run thin towards the end of its 68-minute running time, but VJ Emme’s sometimes random, sometimes critical, but always eccentrically essential comments see you through. “This is how we do action in Uganda” he advises, as the Tiger Mafia, “the most deadliest gang in Uganda” goes up against Captain Alex and his team of crack troops. When Captain Alex gets offed, his Kung Fu kicking brother arrives, out for justice (“Everybody in Uganda knows Kung Fu”).
Geoffrey’s picture includes some hilariously boisterous sound effects and digital blood squibs, along with some truly amazing helicopter special effects. Much of the proceedings consist of his cast crawling around in muddy ditches and the Tiger Mafia boss calling for revenge (“You killed my brother!” repeats VJ Emme at regular intervals, mirthfully mocking his agenda). Occasionally the actual soundtrack includes a decent line or two (“The city is completely safe. Ugandans enjoy martial law”), but 99% of the appeal comes from Emme and his incredulous responses to the onscreen narrative (“Crocodile? Dinosaur?” he ponders as Captain Alex’s brother discovers a Tiger Mafia wife in the shrub).
His “excitement” when action scene starts up is infectious (“This movie’s on!”; “Jesus!” when someone is stabbed in the throat) and his response to the soundtrack delightful (“And now Captain Alex: The Musical” as some randomly inappropriate scoring starts up; “Sing Dolly Parton. We want Dolly Parton” he instructs a singer at the café). In response to slow motion, Reservoir Dogs-style, he notes, “They walk slow because they think slow”.
There’s a steady stream of quotable lines, such that this will probably become a stoner classic (not my method of viewing it, I hasten to add); “Even Mafias need to relax”; “But I want to beat the rat, serious”; “Next time, bring me sweets”; his repeated references to the “Ugandan Mata Hari”; “Welcome to Uganda” in response to a flashback where a Tiger Mafia wife is tied up and invited to “become my wife or die”. He says of the same scene “She was caught watching Nigerian movies”, which is funny even without context. The military commander: “He fights drugs and uses drugs”.
More than likely you won’t care Who Killed Captain Alex?, and you might not even get through the entire thing, but you’re sure to find something to tickle you courtesy of VJ Emme. Perhaps he could provide similar commentaries for some of the Hollywood set? I'd like to hear him demolish the oeuvre of Peter Berg.
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Historic Tour of the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights
United Palace of Cultural Arts 4140 Broadway New York, NY USA (map)
Join the NYFVC for a look at the United Palace of Cultural Arts, past and present!
The United Palace of Cultural Arts began its life as an opulent cinema palace, the
Loews 175th Street Theater. The New York Times declared the “style of
architecture…Indo-Chinese”, but when the doors opened on the Lamb and Rambusch
gem in February 22, 1930, filmgoers were greeted by the mural of an art deco goddess
atop the deep red carpet and gleaming gold columns. After a ceremonial parade led by
a thousand Boy Scouts, who raised the American flag over the building, the audience
was invited in to admire the décor and watch Norma Shearer in Their Own Desire.
When the Loews’ last screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey concluded in 1969, the
theater reemerged as the United Palace, led by televangelist Frederick J.
Eikerenkoetter II (Reverend Ike). The Eikerenkoetter family and the congregation raised
funds to restore the interiors to their original beauty and, in 2012, created the United
Palace of Cultural Arts, an independent nonprofit. The UPCA provides “cultural events
from local, national, and international artists; arts education and mentoring for young
people; and space as a community resource.” After a 44 year intermission, cinema has
returned to the United Palace in 2013, with a screening of Casablanca.
Tour begins at 4pm. Arrive early - around 3:15 - for a special opportunity to see a
short youth orchestra rehearsal with members of the New York Philharmonic.
... And stay after for refreshments and socializing at a neighborhood spot!
NYFVC members: Free!
RSVP to NYFVCrsvp@gmail.com
Experimental Television Center (ETC) at the Hunter College Art Galleries
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Home /Lorenzo feeling good after first test
MotoGPJanuary 31, 2018
Lorenzo feeling good after first test
Jorge Lorenzo says that he “couldn’t be happier” after the first pre-season test.
The Spanish rider set an unofficial lap record to set the fastest time of the test and afterwards said that he was very happy with how the test had gone.
He feels that the bike has improved in key areas, making him feel better and able to push more. Lorenzo’s key strengths lie in his smooth style and maintaining high corner speed. The new Desmosedici enables him to carry more corner speed, leading to lower lap times.
Whilst fast times in testing don’t always translate to fast race pace, Lorenzo is confident of challenging for the world title this seaon. He struggled to adapt to the Ducati during 2017, though by the end of the season was regularly in podium contention. Whilst winning the world championship requires a lot of things to go in a rider’s favour, Lorenzo feels that if he can maintain this early pace he has a chance.
Further Upgrades for Thailand
To further cement his good feeling, Ducati are due to have an upgraded chassis at the next test. Both riders will have a chance to try the chassis at the Thailand test which begins on February 16th. With Ducati leading the way on aerodynamics, an upgraded chassis may enable the bike to be even quicker. Lorenzo seemed in a happy mood when discussing the improvements that can still be made to the bike, which should enable him to challenge for race wins during the new season.
With Andrea Dovizioso finishing runner-up to Marc Marquez in 2017 and Yamaha showing good pace at this test, there could be a six way fight for the world title in 2018.
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Thank U, Next: Which Prospective Partner Would The Challenge Veterans Reject?
Because when you're fighting the 'War of the Worlds,' it matters. A lot
The Prospects held some special power during the premiere of The Challenge: War of the World: The reality titans from around the globe got to select their Veteran teammate based on their individual ranking. Ashley got the first pick on the guy's side and wanted Kam, while "Ninja" Natalie was the top lady and named Paulie as her partner. But what if the shoe was on the other foot -- and the seasoned competitors had this opportunity? First up, the reigning winner (and $1 million richer) Ashley's dream scenario.
"I really didn't want to be partnered with any of the new kids, because they're new and they don't know what the hell they're doing," the Invasion of the Champions and Final Reckoning victor reveals in the clip above. Well, that ain't exactly an option, because the show will feature pairs!
But Kam had a more direct answer -- and Chase would not be getting Killa Kam's rose vote.
"He just seemed like he really didn't have that much to offer," the Vendettas finalist dished about the Bachelorette/Ex on the Beach alum.
Why did Hunter and Zach have the same choice? And who did Bananas call out? Watch the familiar folks offer their take, and be sure to keep watching The Challenge: War of the Worlds on Wednesdays at 9/8c.
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The Mary Baker Eddy Peace Flag, Part IV
The reinstallation of the Mary Baker Eddy Peace Flag went off without a hitch on Monday, March 30th, despite President Obama being in town and the flurries that reminded us of all the snow that fell while the flag was under our care.
Newly dyed silk borders are pinned to the fringe border.
The final week of conservation was not without some drama. After deciding that the original ivory silk borders were unsuitable for continued display, new ones had to be made. Camille set about dyeing 16-mm Silk Habotai using Jacquard acid dyes, both purchased from Dharma Trading. After one test bath that produced too dark a shade of ecru, she was able to dye the final four strips of silk the perfect color. After washing and ironing, they were laid out and pinned to the original fringe border.
Corner miters are aligned and pinned.
Seams are blind stitched with a curved needle.
Seams are top stitched with cotton thread.
Each of the four mitered corners had to be aligned perfectly to meet the corners of the flag, as well as the corners of the fringe. We pinned the seams open, blind stitched with a fine curved needle, and then top stitched in two rows. Sewing through multiple layers of silk was a bit like sewing through Jell-O®! This was only slightly preferable to stitching through the thick trim around the flag and the fringe, which broke several of our larger curved needles.
Megan Creamer and Cara Jordan stitching the flag into its new border.
Megan Creamer trimming the back of the new ivory silk borders.
After we attached all of the original elements, we gently flipped the flag over and trimmed the new ivory silk borders. A dust cover made of cotton plain weave was constructed, to which we machine sewed a strip of Velcro-compatible fabric. We pinned the dust cover to the top edge of the flag and hand stitched through the machine stitching holes using straight needles. Because the ivory silk borders are semi-transparent, we made a deep turnback in the dust cover, which ended just below the top of the central flag. By mitering the turnback to follow the corner border seams, we avoided any distracting shadows.
Adjusting the invisible Velcro slat.
Camille Breeze carefully sliding the rod through the silk bows from which the flag originally hung.
We carefully rolled the flag up for transport to the Mary Baker Eddy Library, taking special care to keep the fringe tidy and not to crease the central flag. Upon arrival, we unrolled the top edge of the flag in order to press the Velcro slat to the Velcro on the back of the flag. Library staff lifted the roll up to Camille and another staff person, who hung the slat off of the four original hooks inside the case. The flag was unfurled and small adjustments were made. The visible ends of the slat were camouflaged with beige cotton caps. Finally, the original brass rod from which the flag had hung was threaded through the silk bows and placed on the hooks.
Peace Flag before conservation, inside its case.
Peace Flag after conservation, in the lab.
The success of this project came from the Mary Baker Eddy Library's willingness to allow conservators to make decisions in the best interest of the flag that will permit continued display in its historic location. The end result is a cleaner, more stable, and less distorted flag that preserves the appearance of the original while making much-needed improvements.
Camille Myers Breeze founded Museum Textile services in 1999. She is a prolific author, and educator of museum personnel and emerging conservation professionals in the US and abroad.
The Mary Baker Eddy Peace Flag, Part III
In Part II of the Mary Baker Eddy Blog, we discussed several tough decisions we had to make to ensure that this fragile silk flag would be able to hang safely in its original display case along the second floor mezzanine at the Mary Baker Eddy Library. This blog is all about the difficult task of stabilizing, stitching through, and supporting the 100-year-old artifact.
The Peace Flag without the ivory silk border and fringe.
Before we stitched the flag to the muslin lining, a single piece of ivory nylon net was laid on top. This barely alters the brightness of the flag and is key to its long-term display life. A team of conservators hand stitched all three layers together--net, flag and muslin--along every seam and star. Now all of the silk is encapsulated and the job of fighting gravity is shared by the sturdy muslin. The lined flag was clamped in pant hangers and allowed to hang out for the weekend.
Once the flag was surface cleaned and the shattered ivory silk border and heavy fringe were removed, we laid the flag out flat on a piece of washed cotton muslin. The relative humidity was increased in the vicinity of the flag and then we very gently pressed it with a warm iron through a damp piece of cotton. After modest improvement was made in the wrinkles, we gently pinned the flag to the muslin, avoiding the multitude of splits and tears hidden along many of the seams and old creases.
One of several splits found along the 80-year-old hard creases.
The Peace Flag seen from behind after attaching the muslin lining and nylon net overlay.
Conservator Cara Jordan maneuvering among the many flags at MTS.
With one week to go, we still need to construct the replacement ivory border from our new, custom-dyed silk; sew the original fringe to the new border by machine; attach the new border to the flag by hand; and then attach the dust cover and Velcro header with hand stitching. The Velcro header will attach to an aluminum Velcro slat manufactured by Small Corp., Inc. The slat will be suspended with wires from the existing brass rod/cup system from which the flag hung for 80 years. No one but us will know it's there.
Stay tuned for the final installation of the Mary Baker Eddy Blog series, in which we share the reinstallation of her newly conserved Peace Flag.
The Mary Baker Eddy Peace Flag, Part II
Conservation of the Peace Flag from the Mary Baker Eddy Library got off to a quick start, here at Museum Textile Services. As our previous blog mentioned, we were able to transport the flag to our studios just before the string of winter storms. The first treatment, as always, was surface cleaning the flag to remove airborne pollutants. Although the flag was sealed in its case for 80 years, the gasket had deteriorated, allowing soot, dust, and other air pollutants to permeate the flag.
Cotton ball, chamois, and cosmetic sponge were all ruled out in favor of surface cleaning with vulcanized rubber sponge.
In the end, after gently surface vacuuming the flag with a micro-suction attachment, we decided to remove the remaining surface soiling using vulcanized rubber sponges. As the picture of dirty sponges indicates, we removed not only dirt but some red fiber as well; therefore, sponging was kept to a minimum and required a great deal of attention and delicacy, which Cara Jordan accomplished with great success.
As you can clearly see from our cleaning tests, the flag was filthy. We tested four materials to aid in removing the deposits: cotton balls, chamois, cosmetic sponge, and vulcanized rubber sponge. Although cosmetic sponge and chamois pulled a lot of dirt, we felt there was too much drag between them and the silk. Cotton ball were judged the least effective, and seemed to be embedding debris further into the silk.
Vulcanized rubber sponges were chosen to delicately reduce soil deposits while endeavoring to abrade the silk as little as possible.
The silk fringe has already been separated and next the ivory border will be removed from around the central flag.
A difficult decision came next. After nearly a century of display, the condition of the ivory silk border was so poor that the only remaining treatment option was a full adhesive lining. We were concerned about returning the flag to its case by the April 1 deadline without allowing the adhesive to off-gas; however we were also unsure if the ethyl vinyl acetate adhesive film would would continue to release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) inside the sealed case.
Instead, the library staff gave us permission to instead replace the ivory border with a new piece of custom-dyed silk. We cut away the original border from the outer fringe, then the inner flag, before archiving in an acid-free box. We pirchased yardage of 16mm silk habotai from Dharma Trading, which we will hand dye using Jacquard acid dye. ( We had used this combination before with excellent results.) The new border will provide the longevity and neutrality necessary for extended exhibition in the flag's display case.
Supplies for the new border came from Dharma Trading.
The next difficult decision we faced was whether to exhibit the flag with the same side outward, or to show the original colors preserved on the reverse. We considered two factors went into the decision to continue to show the same side: First is the congressional report entitled, "The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions," updated in 2008. Section 7.i states that, "When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union [star field] should be uppermost and to the flag’s own right, that is, to the observer’s left." Equally importantly, there was no guarantee that the back of the flag would not fade sometime in the future, and if that were to happen, no evidence would remain of its original vibrancy.
The side of the flag that was on exhibit for eighty-plus years.
The original colors preserved on the other side of the flag.
Stay tuned for the next installment to see how dyeing of the new ivory border went, and learn how we plan to make the central flag strong enough for another century of display.
The Mary Baker Eddy Peace Flag, Part I
by Megan Mary Creamer
Museum Textile Services recently spent a pre-blizzard Monday morning in Boston alongside the Mary Baker Eddy Library staff de-installing the famous century-old Peace Flag. Since 1936, the flag has been hanging in its custom-built bronze and glass case made by the Gorham Company of Providence, RI, on the second floor mezzanine at the Mary Baker Eddy Library. Below the flag is a painted plaque reading, “This flag was made by 400 workers for World Peace and presented to Mary Baker Eddy as a tribute to her efforts in behalf of World Peace." It was given by Eddy to the Christian Science Board of Directors with the words “For the mother Church with love.”
MTS Director Camille Myers Breeze points out the flag's weak points to Mary Baker Eddy Library staff. Photo by Museum Textile Services.
Walking through the deinstallation steps ahead of time reduces the likelihood of damaging the delicate silk flag. Photo by Museum Textile Services.
Camille and MBE Library curator Pamela Winstead had been discussing this project for several months, and each arrived with a team to get the flag out of the case and safely rolled for transport to MTS for conservation. With plenty of staff on hand to document and assist, Camille laid out the plan for safely removing the flag, accounting for all the variables and potential issues to look out for to get this large, delicate flag off of the wall. The custom case had done an excellent job over the years, but the gasket had failed, allowing dust to work its way in. The ten individual bows of red, white and blue silk tying the flag to a brass rod were now causing the flag to sag under its own weight. Other issues, such as possible breakdown of the silk, light damage, accretion of other substances, and structural issues would be fully assessed after the flag was removed.
Camille Myers Breeze and MBE Library curator Pamela Winstead open the flag onto a prepared surface prior to rolling. Photo by Museum Textile Services.
Taking down the flag went off without a hitch as two Library staff slowly lowered the brass rod, allowing the flag to accordion itself on a muslin sling. Camille and Pamela then carried the sling over to where clean muslin was laid out onto the floor and gently unfurled the flag. It became immediately apparent that the flag has retained more of the vibrancy of the original dyes on the reverse, though it is unknown whether this occurred while in the case or in the roughly twenty years between its creation and subsequent installation at the library.
Assessing the structural integrity of the flag, its surrounding silk, and the heavy silk fringe. Photo by Museum Textile Services.
Camille inspected the flag carefully and planned for the best way to pack and transport it. To keep the aged silk from shattering, and not introduce any more fold lines or other stress, the flag was rolled onto a padded archival tube with additional padding between the layers, making a soft and secure package for transport. Over the next two months, MTS staff will conserve this historic flag before returning it to its custom case. Be on the lookout for the next MTS Blog detailing conservation treatments, a new hanging system, and re-installation at the Mary Baker Eddy Library.
Megan Mary Creamer has a BFA in industrial design from Massachusetts College of Art, and is completing an ALM in museum studies at Harvard University Extension School.
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Effects of LPS injection on the hypothalamic and testicular mRNA expression levels of reproductive factors in male rats.
Iwasa T, Matsuzaki T, Tungalagsuvd A, Munkhzaya M, Kuwahara A, Yasui T, Irahara M.
Journal Article 2015; 36(3): 193-195 PubMed PMID: 26313382 Citation Keywords: Animals, Hypothalamus:drug effects, Kisspeptins:metabolism, Lipopolysaccharides:administration & dosage, Male, Neuropeptides:metabolism, RNA, Messenger:metabolism, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Testis:drug effects,.
OBJECTIVES: In the hypothalamus, kisspeptin and RFamide-related peptide (RFRP) regulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone expression. Kisspeptin and RFRP are also found in the testes and might play roles in steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis.
DESIGN AND RESULTS: The present study demonstrated that the hypothalamic mRNA expression level of the kisspeptin receptor was decreased by the injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (500 μg/kg) in male rats, and it was suggested that such changes might contribute to reductions in serum luteinizing hormone levels. Contrary to our expectations, hypothalamic RFRP and testicular GPR147 (the RFRP receptor) mRNA expression were also decreased by LPS injection.
CONCLUSIONS: We speculate that changes in hypothalamic RFRP expression might represent a protective response aimed at attenuating LPS-induced anorectic responses....
Iwasa T, Matsuzaki T, Tungalagsuvd A, Munkhzaya M, Kuwahara A, Yasui T, Irahara M. Effects of LPS injection on the hypothalamic and testicular mRNA expression levels of reproductive factors in male rats. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2015 Jan; 36(3): 193-195
Evidence for the existence of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) with and without abdominal discomfort (irritable bowel) syndrome.
Maes M, Leunis J, Geffard M, Berk M.
Journal Article 2014; 35(6): 445-453 PubMed PMID: 25433843 Citation Keywords: Adult, Antibodies, Bacterial:blood, Bacterial Translocation:immunology, Cluster Analysis, Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic:complications, Female, Humans, Immunoglobulin A:blood, Immunoglobulin M:blood, Irritable Bowel Syndrome:complications, Lipopolysaccharides:.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is accompanied by gastro-intestinal symptoms; and IgA and IgM responses directed against lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of commensal bacteria, indicating bacterial translocation.
METHODS: This study was carried out to examine gastro-intestinal symptoms in subjects with ME/CFS versus those with chronic fatigue (CF). The two groups were dissected by dichotomizing those fulfilling and not fulfilling Fukuda's critera. In these groups, we examined the association between gastro-intestinal symptoms and the IgA and IgM responses directed against commensal bacteria.
RESULTS: Using cluster analysis performed on gastro-intestinal symptoms we delineated that the cluster analysis-generated diagnosis of abdominal discomfort syndrome (ADS) was significantly higher in subjects with ME/CFS (59.6%) than in those with CF (17.7%). The diagnosis of ADS was strongly associated with the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). There is evidence that ME/CFS consists of two subgroups, i.e. ME/CFS with and without ADS. Factor analysis showed four factors, i.e. 1) inflammation-hyperalgesia; 2) fatigue-malaise; 3) gastro-intestinal symptoms/ADS; and 4) neurocognitive symptoms. The IgA and IgM responses to LPS of commensal bacteria were significantly higher in ME/CFS patients with ADS than in those without ADS.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings show that ADS is a characteristic of a subset of patients with ME/CFS and that increased bacterial translocation (leaky gut) is associated with ADS symptoms. This study has defined a pathway phenotype, i.e bacterial translocation, that is related to ME/CFS and ADS/IBS and that may drive systemic inflammatory processes....
Maes M, Leunis J, Geffard M, Berk M. Evidence for the existence of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) with and without abdominal discomfort (irritable bowel) syndrome. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2014 Jan; 35(6): 445-453
Protective role of indomethacin on lipopolysaccharide-stimulated fever induction and cerebral catecholamine biosynthesis in Wistar rat.
Adham K, Al-Humaidhi E, Daghestani M, Aleisa N, Farhood M.
Journal Article 2012; 33(7): 713-721 PubMed PMID: 23391884 Citation Keywords: Acute-Phase Reaction:chemically induced, Animals, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal:pharmacology, Body Temperature:drug effects, Brain:drug effects, Dopamine:biosynthesis, Fever:chemically induced, Indomethacin:pharmacology, Lipopolysaccharides:toxi.
OBJECTIVES: The antipyretic and neuroprotective potential of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug "indomethacin" was tested against lipopolysaccharide-produced hyperthermia and biosynthesis of norepinephrine and dopamine, in six brain regions of male rat.
METHODS: Observations were based on a single intraperitoneal injection of each of lipopolysaccharide (250 µg Kg-1 body wt) and indomethacin (20 mg Kg-1 body wt) followed by sampling and assaying of brain specimens after 2, 8, 12 and 24 hrs. lipopolysaccharide induced a general hyperthermia (8-24 hr) that was completely abolished by pretreatment with indomethacin.
RESULTS: In virtually all brain regions tested, lipopolysaccharide stimulated the biosynthesis of norepinephrine and dopamine. Yet, pretreatment with indomethacin provoked substantial mitigation predominantly after 24 hrs. A time-based manner attended by a regionally nonselective manner characterized lipopolysaccharide-induced monoamine biosynthesis; whereas, indomethacin alleviation seems to proceed in a time-dependent and regionally-selective pathway since the pons proved the fastest and/or most responsive brain region to indomethacin action. A role of prostaglandin synthesis in the development of lipopolysaccharide-induced fever and catecholamine biosynthesis was suggested, given that both responses were abolished by the cyclooxygenase-inhibitor indomethacin.
CONCLUSION: Accordingly, our data verified the potent therapy potential of indomethacin in protecting cerebral noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems against lipopolysaccharide-induced acute phase reactions....
Adham K, Al-Humaidhi E, Daghestani M, Aleisa N, Farhood M. Protective role of indomethacin on lipopolysaccharide-stimulated fever induction and cerebral catecholamine biosynthesis in Wistar rat. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2012 Jan; 33(7): 713-721
Stimulation of nitric oxide, cytokine and prostaglandin production by low-molecular weight fractions of probiotic Lactobacillus casei lysate.
Kmonickova E, Kverka M, Tlaskalová-Hogenová H, Kostecka P, Zidek Z.
Journal Article 2012; 33(Suppl 3): 166-172 PubMed PMID: 23353862 Citation Keywords: Animals, Bacterial Proteins:chemistry, Cells, Cultured, Chemical Fractionation, Cytokines:biosynthesis, Dinoprostone:biosynthesis, Female, Lactobacillus casei:metabolism, Lipopolysaccharides:chemistry, Molecular Weight, Nitric Oxide:biosynthesis, Peptidog.
OBJECTIVES: Major medical indications of probiotic bacteria are conditions associated with the gastrointestinal tract. They exhibit not only the local but also systemic effects, the molecular mechanisms of which are poorly understood. We hypothesized that the action at remote sites of the body could be at least partially attributed to substances of the low molecular mass released from digested bacteria and able to cross the intestinal barrier. The aim of the study was the analysis of immunobiological properties of bacterial lysates and characterization of chemical constituents participating on this mode of action.
METHODS: Lactobacillus casei probiotic strain DN-114001 was employed. Lysates were prepared by passing bacteria through a French press (1500 psi) followed by lyophilisation. The fractions were prepared by the microfiltration of the crude lysate using the 3-, 10-, 30-, 50-, and 100-kDa cutoff filters (Amicon® Ultra 0.5 ml, Millipore Corp.). This procedure completely removes biologically active bacterial macromolecules such as peptidoglycan (PGN), lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Effects of microfiltrates on the in vitro production of nitric oxide (NO), cytokines, and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) were investigated in rat peritoneal cells.
RESULTS: The original crude lysate (≤10 µg/ml) activated the biosynthesis of NO, PGE2, and secretion of cytokines. The amount of the lysate needed for the preparation of microfiltered fractions exhibiting immunostimulatory effects was 10-fold higher (100 µg/ml). The molecules with the molecular mass ≤3 kDa were responsible for approximately 45% and 83% of the NO- and PGE2-enhancing activities of the crude lysate, respectively. The microfiltered fractions of the lysate also enhanced secretion of interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α but not that of interleukin-10 and interferon-γ.
CONCLUSION: The Lactobacillus casei probiotic strain DN-114001 contains low molecular mass (≤3 kDa) molecules possessing immunostimulatory properties. Their chemical nature remains to be identified....
Kmonickova E, Kverka M, Tlaskalová-Hogenová H, Kostecka P, Zidek Z. Stimulation of nitric oxide, cytokine and prostaglandin production by low-molecular weight fractions of probiotic Lactobacillus casei lysate. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2012 Jan; 33(Suppl 3): 166-172
Caco-2 cell monolayer integrity and effect of probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 components.
Stetinova V, Smetanova L, Kvetina J, Svoboda Z, Zidek Z, Tlaskalova-Hogenova H.
Journal Article 2010; 31(Suppl 2): 51-56 PubMed PMID: 21187838 Citation Keywords: Adenocarcinoma:metabolism, Caco-2 Cells, Carbon Radioisotopes, Cell Membrane Permeability:drug effects, Cell Survival:drug effects, Colonic Neoplasms:metabolism, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Escherichia coli, Humans, Lipopolysaccharides:pharmacology,.
OBJECTIVES: Different probiotic strains used in clinical trials have shown prophylactic properties in different inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. This study was aimed to investigate the influence of Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (EcN) components on the integrity of the Caco-2 cell monolayer (human adenocarcinoma cell line).
METHODS: The effect of supernatant of EcN suspension and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) isolated from EcN (in concentrations from 0.001 to 1 000 µg/ml) on paracellular transport of 14C-mannitol marker through epithelial cell monolayer was estimated.
RESULTS: Both LPS and EcN supernatant exerted almost the same effect; whereas no effect was shown using high concentrations (100 and 1 000 µg/ml), low concentrations (0.001, 0.1 and 1 µg/ml) significantly decreased permeability of 14C-mannitol. Concentration (0.001 µg/ml) decreased 14C-mannitol permeability approximately about 20% (LPS) and 30% (EcN supernatant). To elucidate the observed changes in monolayer permeability ("tighter monolayer") induced by concentrations of LPS or supernatant, media able to open epithelial intercellular junctions were used. The effects of Ca2+-free transport medium and of medium containing 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100% of Ca2+ on the 14C-mannitol transport in the presence of the lowest (0.001 µg/ml) and high (100 µg/ml) concentrations of LPS were studied. Using Ca2+-free medium both concentrations of LPS significantly decreased apparent permeability coefficient (Papp) of 14C-mannitol indicating that changes of 14C-mannitol permeability are independent of dimensions of paracellular spaces.
CONCLUSION: The decrease of 14C-mannitol permeability caused by EcN LPS indicates the ability of components of probiotic EcN strain to restore disrupted epithelial barrier....
Stetinova V, Smetanova L, Kvetina J, Svoboda Z, Zidek Z, Tlaskalova-Hogenova H. Caco-2 cell monolayer integrity and effect of probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 components. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2010 Jan; 31(Suppl 2): 51-56
Different effect of two synthetic coumarin-stilbene hybrid compounds on phagocyte activity.
Drabikova K, Perecko T, Nosal R, Rackova L, Ambrozova G, Lojek A, Smidrkal J, Harmatha J, Jancinova V.
Journal Article 2010; 31(Suppl 2): 73-78 PubMed PMID: 21187835 Citation Keywords: Adult, Animals, Cell Line, Coumarins:pharmacology, Humans, Lipopolysaccharides:pharmacology, Macrophages:cytology, Male, Mice, Middle Aged, Models, Animal, Neutrophils:cytology, Nitric Oxide:metabolism, Phagocytosis:drug effects, Reactive Oxygen Species:m.
OBJECTIVE: Activated phagocytes, generating a variety of powerful inflammatory mediators, such as oxygen and nitrogen species, may participate in oxidative stress-mediated inflammation and organ toxicity. At present, great attention is devoted to the important class of phenolic compounds - coumarins - due to their antiinflammatory/antioxidant activities. We compared two synthetic phenylcoumarins: 7-hydroxy-3-(4´-hydroxyphenyl) coumarin (HHC; 0.01-100 µmol/l) and its hydrogenated analogue: 7-hydroxy-3-(4´-hydroxyphenyl)-3,4-dihydrocoumarin (HHDC; 0.01-100 µmol/l) as their ability to inhibit reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in human neutrophils and nitric oxide (NO) production by RAW 264.7 macrophages in vitro, with respect to some of their physicochemical characteristics.
METHODS: ROS production was measured with luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (CL) in the microplate luminometer Immunotech LM-01T, nitrite formation was determined by the Griess reaction - spectrophotometrically. The radical scavenging assays were employed to assess the antiradical activity values. The relevant physico-chemical parameters of the compounds tested, electronic and hydrophobic, were determined experimentally as well as by suitable computational programmes.
RESULTS: Both HHC and HHDC were found to decrease significantly (p<0.01) CL of whole blood stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) from the concentration of 1 µmol/l. While HHC significantly inhibited CL stimulated by A23187 and opsonized zymosan (OpZ), HHDC was ineffective. Unlike HHDC, HHC in the concentrations of 10 and 100 µmol/l significantly (p<0.01) reduced NO formation in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) -stimulated murine macrophages RAW 264.7. HHC possessed the higher free radical reducing efficacy in accordance with its more favourable values of electronic parameters in comparison with HHDC.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results show the different inhibitory effects of HHC and HHDC on phagocytic activity that might be the result of their diverse free radical scavenging properties and lipophilicity features....
Drabikova K, Perecko T, Nosal R, Rackova L, Ambrozova G, Lojek A, Smidrkal J, Harmatha J, Jancinova V. Different effect of two synthetic coumarin-stilbene hybrid compounds on phagocyte activity. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2010 Jan; 31(Suppl 2): 73-78
EM66-containing neurones in the hypothalamic parvicellular paraventricular nucleus of the rat: no plasticity related to acute immune stress.
El Yamani F, Yon L, Guérin M, El Ouezzani S, Alaoui A, Chartrel N, Anouar Y, Magoul R.
Journal Article 2010; 31(5): 609-615 PubMed PMID: 21173750 Citation Keywords: Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Immunohistochemistry, Injections, Intraperitoneal, Injections, Intraventricular, Interleukin-1beta, Lipopolysaccharides, Male, Neuronal Plasticity, Neuropeptides:biosynthesis, Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus:immunolog.
OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Neuropeptides, as the main neuroendocrine system effectors, regulate notably the response to different stressors via a secretory plasticity within their respective hypothalamic neuronal populations. The aim of the present study was to explore by immunocytochemistry the occurrence and the potential expression plasticity of the novel neuropeptide EM66 in the CRH neurones of stressed rats.
RESULTS: The secretogranin II (SgII)-derived peptide EM66 is strongly expressed within hypothalamic neuroendocrine areas such as the parvocellular aspect of the paraventricular nucleus (pPVN) as well as the median eminence, suggesting a probable hypophysiotropic effect of this peptide. As a first approach to investigate such a role, we evaluated by immunohistochemistry EM66 expression within the pPVN following acute immune stress induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or interleukin-1β (IL-1β) injection in rat. This study showed that EM66 is present in the pPVN but the number of EM66 immunolabeled cells did not fluctuate in this structure following LPS peripheral injection. In line with this observation, an intracerebroventricular injection of IL-1β did not provoke any significant variation of the number of intraparaventricular EM66 neurones.
CONCLUSION: The present data revealed for the first time that EM66 expression would be insensitive to the central and peripheral cytokines within the neurosecretory hypothalamic pPVN. This result indicates that EM66 does not participate to the phenotypic plasticity of hypothalamic parvicellular neurones in response to acute inflammatory stress....
El Yamani F, Yon L, Guérin M, El Ouezzani S, Alaoui A, Chartrel N, Anouar Y, Magoul R. EM66-containing neurones in the hypothalamic parvicellular paraventricular nucleus of the rat: no plasticity related to acute immune stress. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2010 Jan; 31(5): 609-615
N-acetylserotonin reduces lipopolysaccharide-induced lipid peroxidation in vitro more effectively than melatonin.
Stuss M, Wiktorska J, Sewerynek E.
Journal Article 2010; 31(4): 489-496 PubMed PMID: 20802448 Citation Keywords: Analysis of Variance, Animals, Brain:drug effects, Kidney:drug effects, Lipid Peroxidation:drug effects, Lipopolysaccharides:pharmacology, Liver:drug effects, Male, Malondialdehyde:metabolism, Melatonin:pharmacology, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Serotonin:analogs .
OBJECTIVE: Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) causes lipid peroxidation (LPO). We have found that LPS induces LPO in vitro, in tissue homogenates in a concentration-dependent manner, the concentration of 400 µg/ml demonstrating the most efficient lipid damaging effect . Both melatonin and its precursor, N-acetylserotonin, must possess antioxidant activities, both in vivo or in vitro, however, following some claims, N-acetylserotonin is a more effective extra- and intracellular antioxidant than melatonin. The aim of our study was to compare the effects of melatonin and N-acetylserotonin on the LPS-induced LPO in vitro.
METHODS: Malondialdehyde (MDA) plus 4-hydroxyalkenal (4-HDA) concentrations were measured as the indices of induced membrane peroxidative damage in brain, liver and kidney homogenates. Both melatonin and N-acetylserotonin were used at increasing concentrations, starting from 0.01-5 mM, together with LPS at one concentration level of 400 µg/ml.
RESULTS: In all the examined tissues, LPS stimulated LPO, while both melatonin and N-acetylserotonin decreased LPS-stimulated LPO. Furthermore, the capacity of N-acetylserotonin reducing LPO was higher than that of melatonin.
CONCLUSIONS: The results of the reported study clearly indicate that N-acetylserotonin is a much stronger antioxidant in vitro than melatonin in terms of reducing oxidative damage to lipid membranes. However, it remains still unclear how the features relate to in vivo circumstances....
Stuss M, Wiktorska J, Sewerynek E. N-acetylserotonin reduces lipopolysaccharide-induced lipid peroxidation in vitro more effectively than melatonin. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2010 Jan; 31(4): 489-496
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Front Range Urbanism and Hydro-Sustainability
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Easing Aquifer Use
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Published on: November 8, 2011
[synthesized notes from contemporary print media articles – living document]*
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* all notes are either verbatim quotes or close reductions of reporters original articles. Quotations are only used in reference to subjects interviewed by reporters or white paper “sound bytes” that we intend to use in our research publications
“Water plan recycles new idea (Bruce Finley), The Denver Post, October 5, 2011
(the cooperative deal maximizes resources and eases aquifer use)
Front Range water authorities have “floated” a deal to wean the south metro suburbs (SMS) off dwindling aquifers with billions of gallons of “painstaking purified surface water.” The first of its kind in the nation, the deal would pay Denver and Aurora Water utilities $17.4mm per year and allow water agencies to share resources without merging and sustain more water users without diverting more water from “over-subscribed” Western Slope rivers. Praised by environmentalists and state leaders, this type of water-sharing agreement is a critical first step towards a sustainable water management policy in the state. (Plan is not without critics – see summary of article entitled “Colorado Rivers are big losers at the end of this summary of contemporary articles)
Denver and Aurora would funnel as much as 1.6bn gallons of “purified (treated)” water to the SMS by 2013, increasing to as much as 3.2bn gallons by 2020. Engineers say improved infrastructure (pipelines & hook-ups) could eventually supply as much as 19.5bn gallons (60,000 acre-feet) to the SMS.
Denver and Aurora Water and 13 participating suburbs would have to “replumb” before the first “purified” water could be delivered, which could lead to increased costs for residents of Castle Rock, Parker, and other communities who already need more than the maximum amount of water deliverable under current agreements (Peak Water).
For about five (5) years Denver, Aurora Water, and the South Metro Water Supply Authority have been hashing out the proposed agreement, and the SMS must now decide whether to approve the agreement, which was submitted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. We’re talking about an “incremental step” according to Aurora Water director Mark Pifher, this could evolve further. Money from the SMS would help to pay down the $532mn Aurora owes for building “state-of-the-art” water treatment system. Denver Water planning director Dave Little said his utility’s 1.3mn customers would gain anew source of purified water from Aurora – extra protection from emergencies and droughts – and make it easier to comply with the new agreement with Western Slope communities (Colorado River Cooperative Agreement) that limits Denver’s ability to divert more water from Colorado rivers.
The proposed “Water Infrastructure and Supply Efficiency (WISE)” agreement would use water drawn from the South Platte River just downstream from where Denver’s treated wastewater flows back into the Platte. That water would be piped 34 miles through Aurora’s $653mn Prairie Water Systems. To a purification plant north of Aurora Reservoir. The replumbing would include a $412K hookup between Aurora and a East Cherry Creek Valley (ECCV) pipeline and storage of water at Parker’s new Rueter-Hess Reservoir. To receive water, SMS would have to install additional pipelines to “hook-up” at a cost of $80mn and would have to agree to stop diverting water from Colorado’s Western Slope.
(TEAM – SMS are still looking into Million’s pipeline project, but said if the WISE project help them to meet their demand that Million’s RWSP may not make sense)
“Elbert Freezes Water-District Plans (Karen E. Crummy),” Denver Post September 15, 2011
Elbert County commissioners (3 member board) approved a one-year moratorium (2 to 1)
on reviewing any new or amended plans from districts seeking to provide water services in response to the Elbert County Water District (ECWD) seeking to expand its power statewide - The ECWD suddenly withdrew its request for expanded powers. The Elbert Highway 86 Commercial Metropolitan District and a private company has proposed a 150 mile pipeline from Lamar to Elbert. The plan included exporting water from the County (Elbert) from the County’s underground aquifers to other counties and angered County residents.
“Water Pipeline Under Review (Bruce Finley),” Denver Post September 15, 2011
Colorado water authorities (?) trying to prevent projected shortages have resolved to look further into a proposed multi-billion dollar “Flaming Gorge Pipeline Concept (FGPC)” to import water from Wyoming. A private developer (Aaron Million of Ft. Collins) has proposed the 570 mile pipeline to move water from the Upper Colorado River Basin to expanding Front Range suburbs has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a license to build the pipeline. A new poll shows that Wyoming residents heavily oppose (79%) the pipeline.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) – charged with protecting and developing water resources for the state – voted unanimously to fund a $72K (6 month) study to explore legal, cost, and environmental aspects of the FGPC plan plus an additional $100K more if the first study finds the project to be promising. A previous CWCB commissioned study estimated that the pipeline would cost $9bn and would make the delivered water the most expensive in Colorado history.
“A new water supply is needed to alleviate environmental issues on our rivers and protect our agricultural base, and, otherwise, we would be letting California and Arizona benefit because the Colorado River System has always been over-delivering to those lower basin states. This isn’t about the upper basin states – Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico – versus California and Arizona. We need to use the water resources we’ve been allocated under the “Interstate Compact.” — Aaron Million, Ft Collins entrepreneur and developer of the “Flaming Gorge Reservoir on Green River.
“Denver Water to vote on rate hikes (Karen E. Crummy),” Denver Post, September 15, 2011
Denver Water is looking to vote on a 5.5% rate hike in October to pay for infrastructure repairs and improvements. If approved, rates will increase for the 21st year in a row. Last year the rate went up 5%. Mark Wagge (DW) said that Suburban customers pay more – WHY?
(RT – graph DW’s rate hikes over last 25/50 years to correlate to metropolitan growth)
“Green with envy over brown (Juan Carlos Lioerea),” Associated Press), August 8, 2011
“El Paso (Texas) decades of water saving gives it a lush future amid drought.”
For decades El Paso (West Texas) defined the look of most desert communities with neighborhoods with lush green lawns and residents freely running sprinklers. A 1979 study showed how close the city was to a crisis (Peak Water Event – Project Team) at its then present rate of consumption. The city would run out of water in 36 years. The city took drastic action over the next couple of decades to stabilize its water supply, undergoing a philosophical (Cultural – Project Team) and physical face-lift that involved ripping up grass from many public places, installing rock and cacti, and offering financial incentives for residents to do the same.
Today, El Paso is among the few cities in the drought-stricken state not worrying about water – civic leaders attribute this to a conservation plan. But even in El Paso, the changes have been a tough sell. In school, when they told us to draw a house, you would draw a house that had grass said Fred Fierro (75) who wakes up early to water his turf. The Fierros moved into their home in the Cielo Vista neighborhood and fell in love with the grass, but now its (neighborhood) is all rocks said Fred’s wife Soledad.
Over the past 20 years El Paso has paid its residents a combined $11 million – $1/Square Foot – to remove their grass and replace it with gravel, concrete, or desert plants (DS – ask Martha to help us identify a Colorado landscape architect that we can interview as an SME about desert plant options in Colorado). The city has permanent restrictions on watering days and reduced water consumption by offering special showerheads and rebates for water-efficient toilets. The conservation plan helped the city avoid a water crisis that other towns across West Texas now face. The city averages less than 10 inches of rain annually (What’s average rainfall for Front Range Cities?). The city’s “Hueco Bolso” aquifer (city’s main water source) has stabilized since the plan was implemented in 1991 and according to the El Paso water utility, the city will have a steady water source for the next century. The city’s annual consumption has dropped by 1.6% since 1990 while its population has increased by 36%. The El Paso utility claims that the city saved more than $460 million that would have been needed for more pumping and treatment plants to accommodate higher water useage.
Team – Western States (horizontal growth patterns) versus Easterm/Coastal metropolises (vertical growth pattern). Do Western cities have unique, higher water distribution costs over their higher-density urban counter-parts in that water needs to be distributed over greater distances while higher-density cities distribute vertically requiring higher pressures. That is , is there a cost differential between the two city profiles (Check with hydrologist Rick Hirsch).
“Israel’s water plan creates a stir (Ben Edwards),” Bloomberg News, August, 16, 2011
(Big name investors get behind developments aimed to save energy and treat sewage)
Israel’s water industry is attracting funds from GE and Conoco Phillips (Conoco Phillips is developing or has developed it’s international R&D and training facility in Louisville, and we should make some effort to contact them given their Colorado presence and find out what they are doing relative to energy saving technology, water purification research, etc.) to develop energy saving technology to treat sewage as part of a $5bn program to clean up water supplies by 2016. Emefcy, Ltd. is building a “fuel cell” that uses bacteria to break-down waste in water, and has raised more than $10mm from investors including GE, NRG Energy, and Conoco Phillips. Emercy CEO Eytan Levy thinks the industry will grow to $100mm by 2017.
The bacteria project is a small part of Israel’s effort to alleviate a water shortage (Peak-Water Event) without straining limited energy supplies. The Country’s dry climate and lack of desalinization capacity has put it at the forefront of a global increase in water scarcity, which the UN says will extend to 30 countries by 2025, a gain of more than 50% from 1990.
“Water Power added to plan (Bruce Finely),” Denver Post June 27, 2011
(Colorado officials review a 560 mile pipeline that has both kinks and rivals)
The architect (Aaron Million) of a plan to pipe water 560 miles from southwest Wyoming to Colorado’s booming Front Range is expanding his vision to encompass hydo-power ($3bn project). (We need to pin down cost. Is this just for the power or does it include pipeline too? CWCB study estimated total project cost (?) at $9bn). Skepticism, environmental issues, and uncertainty surround the project. A south-metro group is simultaneously pursuing a rival effort to sustain future growth through a proposed diversion project from the Green River fed Flaming Gorger in Wyoming before the water flows into the heavily subscribed Colorado River Basin. This effort is being led by the South Metro Water Supply Authority led by Frank Jaeger (SMWSA board member) who heads the Parker Water & Sanitation District . (Team – We see a trend whereby the individual municipal and county water authorities join forces to pursue water supply acquisition efforts – strength in numbers/jockeying for control. Also, what are the legal differences in obtaining approvals between piping water from the Flaming Gorge (Million’s plan) and diverting water flows before they enter the Colorado River Basin (Jaeger’s Plan)?) Colorado government officials have called for a “stakeholder dialogue” to explore the overall concept more carefully. “New supply is certainly one of the legs of the stool” for meeting the state’s water needs said John Stulp, Governor Hickenlooper’s senior water advisor.
Aaron Miller said, “when we started the project nobody had ever considered the Flaming Gorge options … we’ll do everything we can to facilitate discussions. Million Conservation Resources Group (MCRG), founded by Aaron Million says he has received offers of several 100 millions of dollars of equity capital in support of the project, and that he wants to assist state municipalities and the agricultural industry sector by generating new sources of water for Colorado. He also believes that by moving water he could help to generate electricity for the nation’s power grid. He has asked the Army Corp of Engineers to “suspend” their work on environmental review (which they have agreed to do until July 5, 2011) of the project initiated by the agency (Rena Brand, Army Corp of Engineers) . He wants to pursue “permitting” of the project through the Federal Regulatory Commission instead because it’s (FRC) is more “structured.” (TEAM – Is this true? If so, why? So he could meet the 2.5 year permitting time table? Seems that one recommendation in our paper could be to find ways to “streamline approval process that involve multiple levels of government and bureaucratic regulatory agencies – can we find a graphic flow chart that explains process for reservoir and pipeline approval process and timeline?). Million said that elevation changes between Wyoming and Colorado enable generation of 70 megawatts of power that could be increased to 500 to 1,000 megwatts. (Cadillac Desert – elevation changes worked for LA allowing them to build a 250 aqueduct from the Otis River Basin in the 1940’s?). Opponents, (Boulder based Western Resource Advocates – WRA) to Million’s plan have raised concerns that proposals to divert 250K acre-feet (by comparison, Cherry Creek Reservoir is about 900 acre-feet) would hurt fish and other aquatic life in the upper river basin (we need to contact Trout Unlimited and Colorado Division of Wildlife for specific SME input). As an entire pipeline, the project would be a “net” consumer of energy because diverted water would have to be pumped across the Continental Divide, said Stacy Tellinghuisen of the WRA. (we need to check back with Rich Hirsh – SME Hydrologist to confirm this assumption).
Million said further that “collaboration on a project like this is critical” (TEAM – because political power struggles to control water and the amount of money involved in these projects is overwhelming) And both the Parker Water & Sanitation District and the South Metro Water Group has been meeting with municipal authorities in Wyoming and Colorado in their competitive effort to get their diversion concept plan approved. Among major water providers, Northern Water Conservation District Mangers (TEAM – I’ve noticed that all these special interest stakeholder groups pick really attractive names for their organizations like “Conservation,” but that’s not really what they are about – it’s always about their own agenda and serving their constituency. How can politics be overcome for the “greater and balanced good?” What is the greater and balanced good when it comes to Colorado and Front Range water Management? “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try some time, you get what you need”) A delayed state study intended to find out how much water may be available for diversion (from where?) under the “Interstate Compact” that governs use of the Colorado River, California, Utah, and Nevada count on it. Strikingly, current estimates for Colorado’s unused allocation range from zero to 800,000 acre-feet. (TEAM – how much you want to bet that the zero estimate comes from the environmental stakeholder analysis and the 800K estimate comes from Million’s group analysis?) Million’s closing quote in the article is, “the reality is that we’ve over-delivered to the lower basin since 1922 (what’s CadillacDesert have to say about this – “Interstate Compact” agreement?) Those surplus waters that actually belong to the upper basin have been used to generate economic development in the lower-basin states.” (TEAM – as a side note to economic development, all high-tech chip development and telcom hotels require massive “cooling” and water is a significant component of cooling. Therefore, without water, it would seem that significant high-tech production and data facilities cannot be “grown” in Colorado (Boulder corridor and Ft Collins) without more water. What are the economic development implications if we can’t source or recycle more water?)
(TEAM- as much as I’m loath to say it, but should the Governor’s office and state legislature create a single authority with legal powers to consolidate these individual water authorities and sort out concept plans as one single voice at state levels or allow the free market to competitively negotiate solutions on their own? What does history tell us about this via CadillacDesert?).
Briefs (Washington), No Source Quoted (WH Press Release?), June 29, 2011
Obama administration officials defended their plan for studying how drinking water may be affected by the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract natural gas from underground rock formations. The EPA’s congressionally mandated probe is set to conclude with a final report in 2014 and an interim one at the end of 2012. John Deutch (MIT Professor) heading the Energy Dept. Task Force studying natural gas drilling said that the EPA is taking too long. EPA officials said they were examining ways to speed up the process, but insist it would be impossible to move more quickly to wrap up such a study. (RT – in engineering there is a concept known as “Design-build or Build Design,” Kewit Construction used it in the I-25 highway expansion under former Governor Bill Owens to accelerate the construction project – they actually designed the project as they were building it. Could this concept play into paper recommendation to streamline and compress these approval and development timeline hurdles. Water solutions simply appear to take too long and be thwarted by fragmented political stakeholder disputes and may cause solutions to be developed too late – Peak Water)
“Planes, cold clouds can trigger rain, snow (Randolph E. Schmid),” Associated Press, July 1, 2011
Airiplanes flying through super-cooled clouds around airports can cause condensation that results in more snow and rain nearby, according to a new study. The current conditions for this study occur about 5% of the time – but 10% to 15% of the time in winter according to Andrew Heymsfield of the NationalCenter for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, the lead author of the story, which appeared in a recent edition of the Journal of Science. (TEAM – implications for improving “cloud seeding” to increase rainfalls?)
“Water Pipeline still on tap (Karen E. Crummy),” Denver Post, July 28, 2011
Elbert County plan put off to allow public meetings. County resident’s concern focuses on lack of info on project and “fear” that the district intends to use water for oil & gas companies that use millions of gallons of water for exploration.
“Water Rights ruling upheld (Bruce Finely),” Denver Post, June 1, 2011
(State Supreme Court sets limits on transfer of water use from farmers to suburbs)
Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld a state water court’s ruling limiting the amount of water that the East Cherry Creek Valley Water Authority & Sanitation District (ECCVWA) can deliver from the South Platte River Drainage to the southeast Denver suburbs. The case reflects increasing scrutiny – driven by scarcity and increasing water prices – given to deals that transfer ownership of water rights from farmers to the expanding suburbs. The ruling (Judge Gregory J. Hobbs) emphasized that agricultural water rights purchased by suburban water providers must be limited to the “200 feet/second” historically diverted from the South Platte River and used for irrigation above Barr Lake. The suburbs are applying in water court (Colorado has a specific water court? Research further; identify water SME at Sturm) to “convert” agricultural water to “municipal use designation” must show that their use of water will not hurt other users’ water rights.
Once a water provider acquires water from farmers, the utility “runs a real risk of re-quantification of water right based on historic use (Hobbs).” Hobbs case arose from a 2003 deal between ECCV, the Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Company, Henrylynn Irrigation Districtunder a deal where United was to acquire agricultural water from Burlington and Frisco and then petition the court to convert it for municipal use by the ECCV’s suburban clients. The ECCV planned to move as much as 6,000 acre feet/year through a 31 mile pipeline it built to move the water. The decision limited its use of 6,000 acre feet by 800 acre feet/year. Sources at the ECCV would have liked to have seen a better (more favorable decision).
The case consolidated several disputes and resolved an appeal that followed the trial in 2008. The “state water court” sharply reduced the “historical consumptive use” used to calculate the amount of previously agricultural water that the municipalities can use (this appears to be a landmark ruling that will significantly impact such agriculture conversions of water use moving forward, and we need to identify an SME at Sturm for a better understanding of this legal precedent). Transfers of agricultural water rights – dating back 150 years – are the “primary way” growing cities acquire water, said University of Colorado (CU) Law School professor David Getches, “old decrees were imprecise; measurement was imprecise . As the value of water increases, the challenge of finding just how much a person’s or districts water right in the past may have been is more difficult.
“Water Project Backed,” The Denver Post (Bruce Finely), August 13, 2011
(The plan to divert treated wastewater from Denver & Aurora gets a Federal Nod)
Federal water authorities gave initial approval to the “Wastewater Infrastructure Supply Efficiency Project,” which would divert treated wastewater from Denver and Aurora to supply the south metro suburbs through 2030. Suburban water authorities said the project designed to reduce reliance on dwindling underground water, will cost about $558mm. US Bureau of Reclamation (spokesperson Peter Soeth) officials said “rural water supply funds” may be available for the project, if it survives a detailed feasibility review. Meanwhile, a crucial wastewater purchase deal with Denver and Aurora has yet to be done. How much; how often?
The “Wise Project” would deliver 5,000 to 11,000 acre-feet a year for the first 5 years, then as much as 37,000 acre-feet/year. Fed officials appraisal report describes a complex system for rerouting wastewater drawn from the South Platte river by Denver and Aurora, then treating it to drinkable levels. Federal funds can be used because suburbs with under 50,000 in population according to Mark Shively, executive director of Douglas County Water Resources Authority, and they (DCWRA) are aggressively pursuing this opportunity and are about 20% into the feasibility study. A previous South Metro Water Supply Authority study estimated that “shifting” 11 suburbs from wells to renewable surface water would cost at least $2bn. Dave Little, Denver Water’s chief negotiator said “current talks contemplate delivery of 10,000 acre-feet/year for ten years, with Denver and Aurora able to keep their treated wastewater in dry years. We want to ameliorate groundwater over-drafting in the south metro area that’s in the best interest of the state.” Price is still being negotiated. Beyond pipeline construction, the proposed project involves new storage of treated wastewater in surface reservoirs and by injecting into depleted aquifers. Shively says they are looking at Chatfield and Rueter Hess reservoirs (but not building new surface water facilities?)
(Team – buzzword is that in water parlance “sustainable” = “renewable water sources”)
“Developers pull plug on Penley Reservoir (Carlos Illesecas),” Denver Post, July 29, 2011
(no reason offered for scrubbing Douglas County project)
Developers of a proposed $105mm reservoir for which they had no water (supply) have pulled their application to build it according to Douglas County officials. Penley reservoir was planned to inundate 306 acres southwest of Sedalia and hold up to 22,500 acre feet of water. 18 pipeline companies formed to move water from the reservoir to Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, and other cities. (RT- linear acreage to acre-feet storage, what is considered cost-effective in terms of price? Contact hydrologist Rick Hirsh?) The withdraw of the application ends the “review process,” and if developers decide to resume work, it will require a new application. (what does is cost on average for due diligence to gain approval for a new dam?). (Is it possible that the project was pulled as a result of NIMBY pressure from the Indian Creek homeowners who opposed the project? Could it not be financed given that they had no source of water? S the SME’s what they think the reason was for project being pulled.)
“Abundant snowpack a small blip (Joey Bunch),” Denver Post, June 10, 2011
Rocky Mountain winter snow is gradually being replaced by spring rain and it’s likely to get worse in the decades to come according to a recent government survey found Rocky Mtn. snowpacks have declined 3 % to 60% over in parts of the Rockies over the past three decades, bucking a century long trend. This year’s gains (2011) are only a “small blip” a century long snowpack decline according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It’s too early to say if it means less water overall – we could be compensating for snowpack with rain according to Mark Wagge of Denver Water. Denver Water supplies 1.3 million people in the Denver metro area. (Mark – what do you think about cloud seding as a legitimate science and drought mitigation tactic?)
In most western states snowpack provides 60% to 80% of the year round water supplies. Ken Salazar (US Interior Secretary) provides a “guide to deal with climate change (KC to order guide). While snowpack has fallen since the 1980’s, forest fires have grown more frequent and difficult to fight according to Gregory Pederson, Lead author of the USGS study who works at the Bozeman, Montana office.
“Rain spurs huge cuts, (Colleen O’Connor)” Denver Post, July 22, 2011
(Turning off sprinklers in July slashed Denver usage by 34%)
Severe thunderstorms in July resulted in Front Range water customers turning off outdoor taps cutting consumption by as much as 50%. Denver Water customers tightened spigots by 34%, dropping daily usage to 242 million gallons from the July average of 368 million.
Water consumption dropped by nearly half in Aurora, where consumers typically run through 80 million to 85 million gallons a day, in July, Aurora water use ran at about 45 million gallons.
It’s the lowest July we’ve had in the past 5 years according to Aurora Water spokesman Greg Baker. This week last year, Boulder used about 28mm gallons/day compared with 19mm/day this year.
“Water leaders float accord, Bruce Finely, Denver Post _________, 2011
(If ratified, the deal would resolve age-old disputes, but more challenges loom)
Colorado water authorities turn attention to another looming challenge, storing more mountain water before it flows out of the state. But rather than a massive new reservoir, like the I’ll fated Two-Forks Dam decades ago, they (water authorities) are leaning toward a strategy of enlarging existing reservoirs. Governor John Hickenlooper said that a strategy of expanding existing reservoirs is less expensive and less controversial. “Inundating a large area as Two-Forks would have been a 25 year battle that really ends up with no winners,” he said.
(TEAM – paper sizzle (add color) might be to somehow parallel the failed Two-Forks Dam effort to the movie “Deliverance” that ends with the inundation of such an area in the creation of a dam – just a thought. Additionally, even though as Gov. Hick suggests, that getting large projects like this approved is a tedious, prolonged and difficult process, let’s check with our SME’s because it may really be one of the only L-T solutions in western states. Would Chatfield, Cherry Creek, Dillion, Boulder, Pueblo, and Halligan & Seaman (Ft Collis) dam projects get approved today? What does Mark Wagge of Denver Water think?)
Hickenlooper also suggested that aquifers depleted by the South Denver Suburbs also could serve as a reservoir if “recharged.” (Better idea but requires a lot of energy/power and is costly to achieve. Check with Rick Hirsch regarding practicality and cost benefit versus surface water storage w/ “time-to-fill” and “evaporation issues).
“Colorado River Cooperative Agreement” (34 parties?), if approved, would push Colorado away from “Traqns Basin” water diversions to “sustain growth and compel reuse of Denver’s treated wastewater.” The deal is designed to settle stalemated legal disputes that pit Western Slope “environmental” (agricultural interests were not named in article – why?) against “utility behemoth Denver Water.” Denver would need approval from Colorado River Basin Counties and River managers in order to draw more water through its diversion tunnels under the Continental Divide except for Gran County, would stop opposing Denver’s proposed “Moffat Project” to move 18K acre-feet of river water to an expanded “Gross Reservoir” west of Boulder. Denver would agree to share its treated wastewater with “ground water dependent” South Metro Suburbs (SMS) on the condition that they abstain from diverting Colorado River Basin water on their own. (How do they currently do this? Mark Wagge & Rick Hirsch SME’s) Denver would impose a 12.5% surcharge on wastewater sales and use of some of the proceeds (vague comment – what’s this really mean?) to increase an overall $25mm contribution to Western Slope communities for water facilities and “environmental restoration (specifically – what is environmental restoration – ID Colorado Division of Wildlife SME and find out).”
(TEAM – after 150 years of competitive adversity for water between Western Slope interests and Front Range interests why are we able to possibly reach agreement now. Is it because the Western Slopes infrastructure is deteriorating and without selling some of their water they can’t finance the need facilities repairs and improvements? Check with Gov. Hickinloopers senior water advisor for an informed SME opinion)
Western Colorado leaders recognize that “politically powerful SMS” likely will turn to Denver Water to help reduce their dependency on groundwater. (one thing seems certain in all of this dialogue and that’s that the SMS cannot meet future demand from groundwater sources alone and risk draining/depleting their aquifers in the near to intermediate term – we need to get a timeline on this potential “PEAK WATER” event as it relates to groundwater depletion – Mark Wagge Denver Water SME?) “Denver (is Bruce Finely referring to Denver Water) becoming the SMS water supply rebounds all the way to the Western Slope according to Eric Kuhn, manager of the “Colorado River District.” Colorado’s water calculus is complicated by “climate change.” Warmer temperatures “will lead to earlier runoff and more water loss from evaporation according to Marty Hoerling of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
Sportsman groups question a reservoir expansion strategy
The agreement refers to potential cooperative water projects between the Front Range and Western Slope parties, though storage projects aren’t specified, Denver Water manager Jim Lochhead said. Any reservoir expansion would have to be reconciled with Colorado’s obligations to deliver water downriver to states such as California (Interstate Compact agreement). “Moving ahead to address looming water shortages could not be done without a new “collaborative framework,” according to Governor Hickenlooper. (Is the Governor talking about Metro/Western Slope or Colorado/California – downriver states?)
“Water District soon could reach across Colorado, (Karen E. Crummy)” Denver Post, July 27, 2011
A controversial proposal to expand the reach of a small local water district (Elbert & Hwy. 86 Commercial Metro District – Karl Nyquist District Director) to the entire state (How is this possible – check with Mark Wagge and/or legal/Colorado water court SME’s to see how a given Water Authority can usurp such control?) - a move potentially benefiting the oil & gas industry and changing the regions (water management) landscape to be voted on by Elbert County commissioners (we know this vote has since been postponed). The county has recommended that the commission approve the expansion without gathering info about the project’s impacts on its citizens or specifically how the water will be used. Elbert County lacks renewable water resources and it relies on underground aquifers (just to be clear, check with Mark Wagge/Rick Hirsch SME’s to be clear that “underground aquifers” are not considered a “renewable resource). The decision to put this to a vote has stirred controversy with the perceived speed and secrecy at which the district and commissioners are trying to accomplish this (check with Karen E. Crummy Denver Post reporter on who exactly is behind this and what she believes they are trying to accomplish).
In the past 15 months, gas & oil companies have paid out $25mm for mineral leases and are expected to pay out an additional $25mm by the end of 2011 as the industry (specifically natural gas?) expands in the county. Oil & gas exploration requires millions of gallons of water. (ID and oil & gas SME to determine if the water used in these processes including fracking drain back into the aquifers and whether or not they are a clean renewable water source or require increased treatment) Because the water district asked to expand its service rather than create a new entity (the district currently provides both residential and commercial service – is this common for water authority districts; is it relevant?) the proposal is not “legally” required to go through the county’s planning department (where it would require public review/input and approval?) This is not the first time that Elbert County has tried to create and approve a “statewide” water district. The County tried this once before in 2002 when it endeavored to create the “United Water & Sanitation District” that owned a one-acre patch of land.
The current plan involves the construction of 150 mile pipeline to pump water (divert) from the Arkansas River that would be financed through bonds, mil levies, and (special district) fees. The plan could result in private property owners having water pumped out of the aquifer (ElbertCounty’s?) that supplies their wells.
“Western Slope water deal surfaces (Bruce Finley),” April 23, 2011
(plan hashed out with Denver Water embraces partnership with statewide benefits)
Denver (DenverCity or Denver Water – ask Mark Wagge) is proposing a deal with Western Slope communities to try to allay concerns about increased diversion of water to “sustain Front Range growth.”
The emerging deal, “Colorado River Cooperative Agreement (CRCA),” requires Denver Water to:
Leave sufficient water in Dillon Reservoir for recreation in SummitCounty
Reuse and share mountain water by metro area suburbs supplied from the Western Slope
Limit future diversions of water by metro area suburbs from the Western Slope
Contribute about $22mm for water plants (treatment?) and to maintain ecosystems (what exactly is involved in maintain ecosystems – Colo Dept. of Wildlife SME’s and ID DU environmental ecology SME)
The proposed CRCA establishes a new approach Mark Wagge – how? What was old approach?) to managing water in Colorado. The most important part of the agreement is “that it looks at the Colorado River Basin from the “headwaters” to the state line as a whole,” according to Colorado River District general manager Eric Kuhn. The deal is a great, innovative, and the way of the future,” said Drew Peternell, director of Trout Unlimited Colorado Water Project.
Fracking disclosure to rise (Ben Casselman), Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2011
(Gas drillers begin supporting laws requiring them to list chemical they use)
The natural gas industry bowing to longtime pressure will disclose more info about the chemicals it uses in the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing.
Governor Rick Perry signed a bill into law requiring disclosure. A handful of other states (Does Colorado? ID a local Colorado oil & gas SME). Environmental groups say the law doesn’t go far enough. The industry resisted disclosure arguing that the chemicals they use are “trade secrets.”
Hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. “fracking”) involves blasting millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals into the ground to break up oil & gas bearing rocks. The process has been used for decades but has been used more frequently in recent years to open huge new gas fields in Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and other states (how much has the industry grown in Colorado since the price of oil has risen significantly?). Environmental groups and residents in drilling areas fear that the chemicals from the process are seeping into drinking water supplies (aquifers). They want oil & gas companies to disclose chemical used in the process so that they can test wells underground for contamination.
The industry argues that contamination is impossible if the wells are constructed properly (really? I don’t think most older wells were ever designed to contemplate the kinds of pressures that fracking invlovles, but we need an expert’s opinion on well design and best practives). Oil & gas firms say that the chemicals compose one percent of the volume of most fracking jobs and are “mostly benign.” Environmental groups say the law doesn’t go far enough and have called for a mandatory, national chemical database.
“Water plans skirt studies (Karen E. Crummy),” Denver Post, April 25, 2011
(Specifics – cost, needs and even designs – for a flow-project reservoir are lacking)
Arapahoe County water officials are paying $4mm for a reservoir now under construction but didin’t do the customary studies showing it was needed (Team – Is here any doubt that more facilities are needed? If you can build it; build it. They will come is my thought. Given the economy, the cost of construction must be very competitive these days. Additionally, given NIMBYism resistance, is there value in building surface water storage facilities on a speculative basis if you can get it approved? I think so! What say you guys?)
Gary Atkin, GM of Arapahoe County Water & Wastewater Authority (ACWWA) has not yet generated plans or cost estimates on how and where the water will leave the reservoir and be delivered. Nor was there an analysis on what sources of water will be stored there or how they will be used. The article suggests that water could be stored a few miles south of the current site (under construction) for half the price, but the ACWWA doesn’t have documents showing any comparisons were made. The effort is criticized by Dick Wolfe, state engineer and director of Colorado’s Water Resources Department.
The reservoir under construction at South Chambers Road and E-470 in Douglas County is a component of the ACWWA “Flow Project,” a $153mm renewable H20 and infrastructure endeavor. The Denver Post reports that there are significant problems with the project including that ACWWA paid the going market rate for “municipal water” but has only received “agricultural rights.” (there must be a reason for this. i.e. they need to have some verifiable source of water to get the permit and whomever they acquired the agricultural water from was the only game in town – check with Mark Wagge Denver Water) Additionally, the ACWWA is paying $14mm to United Water & Sanitation District (governmental entity or competing water authority?) to build the reservoir and after completion United will hand over ownership to ACWWA. District taxpayers are on the hook for the bonds. (TEAM – as mentioned in prior article notes, there seems to be a trend toward water authority “teaming” and in this case some sort of incestuous relationship)
The Denver Post found in a review of this reservoir planning process (doers this new ArapahoeCounty reservoir have a name yet?) that:
ACWWA never formally studied the need for the reservoir – initial needs analysis done by Cherry Creek Project Water Authority (ACWWA is one of four members)
ACWWA has no records showing a comparison of its reservoir to Rueter- Hess reservoir a few miles south in Parker. ACWWA is paying $10,000 an acre-foot for storage, while Rueter-Hess pays $5,000/acre-foot according to Frank Jaeger, Director for Parker Water & Sanitation District
Robert Lembke, head of United Water & Sanitation District, appears to have done well on the deal. In addition to the contract with the ACWWA, Lembke’s private company, Chambers Reservoir Equities, LLC, which he says is an “enterprise” of United, has contracted to receive $2mm from another company for the dirt dug up for the reservoir. Atkin told the Denver Post in an email that “review comparisons of Chambers to R-H including the price of constructing pipelines to R-H, additional evaporative loss due to R-H’s larger footprint, and advantage of ownership and operational flexibility, made the decision for a vessel such as Chambers a good one.” (TEAM – seems that municipalities/water districts are like hospitals in that they want their own water storage facilities much like many hospitals want their own MRI’s. The question is whether or not such “redundancies” are good. I’m inclined to think that they are in the Front Range but at what cost? What say you?)
ACWWA hasn’t determined what water is going into the reservoir. Some from junior rights on the Cherry Creek. Water from the South Platte (part of the Flow Project) may also be stored after being treated to drinking water standards.
Water experts say that it’s typical that “raw water” is stored in open reservoirs, but it’s “unusual” to store treated water in open reservoirs where it will get dirty. I cannot recall seeing that (treated water) in an open reservoir – Jerry Pena, VP at the Denver office of MWH – a worldwide engineering company. Atkin said that one reason not to use R-H was because the Army Corp of Engineers requires that the agency review renewable sources of H20 stored in R-H to determine the impacts of transferring and storing it (water). (We need to find a flow chart that explains all the bureaucratic agency levels of the aggregate approval project as they relate to water storage and pipeline projects in the state).
“Big water users get flak in drought (Arian Campos-Flores), Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2011
(calls for surcharges as vast amounts consumed by wealthy Palm Beach residents draw ire of neighbors)
A record dry season left West Palm Beach, Florida with just 22 days worth of fresh water in June (2011) prompting new rules restricting residents to once-a-week watering schedules for lawns and plants. But with a 2.6 acre estate in neighboring Palm Beach featuring a 37,000 square foot home, pool, and lush landscaping, the homeowner is using more than 120 times the amount of water consumed by the average water customer in the region. Some of the owner’s neighbors in this tiny island enclave – whose water is supplied by West Palm Beach – use more than one million gallons of water/month to keep their properties green. This has led to calls for water pricing structures that include surcharges during droughts and spurred “class tension” between tract-homeowners and the affluent.
People living on a 19 acre estate can afford to pay a lot more for water said Drew Martin, who has seat on the Palm Beach Soil & Water Conservation District. If they were paying a significantly more for water that might encourage them to be more efficient (conservation). The excess water usage is not just for grass said a theater producer and heiress, I do have guests. I do have 19 bathrooms. Though her property consumed more than 13mm gallons of water from June 2010 through may of 2011, the most of any Palm Beach resident, she said she didn’t plan to reduce her usage. “The town should invest in a desalination plant which would ensure enough water for everyone,” she said.
Palm Beach county has endured the most parched dry season on record (climate change again?) and parts of Eastern Palm Beach county are suffering “exceptional” draught conditions – the highest classification to the NationalDroughtMitigationCenter. As a result, WPB officials tapped an emergency well field, bought water from the county, and obtained permission to draw off a reservoir owned by the South Florida Water Management District. They also limited landscape irrigation, which accounts for almost half of total water consumption, to a day a week for all utility customers including those in Palm Beach. Yet there is no “cap” on the volume of water a resident can consume and “no surcharge” for excessive use (TEAM/DS – Culture of Excessive Use).
Given the need to conserve, some residents ask why the owners of large estates are allowed to continue “soaking up” as much water as they want. It’s appalling, said one Palm Beach resident who has kept her water use in check by cutting back on laundry and planting native species in her garden. “They should be fined.”
Code enforcers in Palm Beach have been cracking down on violators since the water restrictions were put in place. The town has issued 283 written warnings and 116 violations including to the former president of Goldman Sachs and co-founder of The Blackstone Group. Some residents argue that officials should crack down more vigorously – but WPB leaders say there are no plans to change the pricing scheme. The PB civic association has been encouraging homeowners to invest in more efficient systems.
Drought damaging Southern Colorado wheat (Justin T. Hilley), The Denver Post, July 22, 2011
(months of little moisture has farmers preparing for reduced harvest)
Farmers in Southern Colorado are bracing for a diminished winter-wheat harvest as of July as a nearly year-long drought squeezes the region. Conditions are as bad as the last drought in 2002 according to Jim Miller, of the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Colorado’s SanLuisValley. Water flows in Colorado in 2002 were the lowest on record according to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While Southern Colorado hurts, more than average rainfall in Northern Colorado makes up for the water loss. In July, the US Department of Agriculture (identify SME) raised Colorado’s “winter-wheat” estimated yield to a total production of 72mm bushels, above the ten year average of 67mm bushels.
Governor Hickenlooper said that the drought has resulted in the loss of up to 75% of the “cool-season grass (raw stock of wheat)” throughout the San Luis Valley.
“Conservation Innovations (Bruce Finley), The Denver Post, June 25, 2011
(State makes gains, rushes to sustain them with projects, policing)
Colorado’s latest tactic in the struggle to forestall water shortages: retrofitting suburban lawns with high efficiency sprinklers. Government backed installation of special nozzles at 1,000 Douglas County homes is part of a broadening campaign that also includes intensified water policing of neighborhoods, a shift toward denser development (TEAM RT – here is one of the key elements where we can introduce our case study The Sterling Ranch Development), and the recruiting of neighborhood kids as water conservation ambassadors (TEAM DS – example of cultural behavioral approaches to change).
Denver water authorities this week revealed that they are considering paying residents to rip-out lawns and replace them with landscapes better suited to the semi-arid environment (El Paso Model adopted by DC 20 years later!). All efforts aim at making “blue grass” watering-as-usual more difficult for homeowners including those who do so in violation of city imposed water budget restrictions and pay monthly fines of $150/violation, but continue to violate restrictions nonetheless. Compounding the problem is that most homeowners associations (HOA’s) require that lawns be kept green and impose fines if they are not – often putting homeowners between a rock and a hard place (modifications of HOA watering guidelines should definitely be a recommendation of our paper). The Douglas County Water Resource Authority (Douglas Shively) officials have outfitted neighborhood teenagers under a state-financed $250,000 nozzle initiative (TEAM – excellent example of a State program to encourage Front-Range conservation – let’s find out when this program was created and who introduced it. Contact Hickenlooper’s senior water management advisor). Teen workers have retrofitted about 180 sprinkler systems per week in the state thus far and have set a long-term target of 107,000 lawns.
Douglas County is also teaching High School and Elementary School students to be “water-ambassadors” through special school seminars that address water scarcity, culminating in the signing of a “family water commitment” contracts that obligate student’s families to adopt water saving measures (TEAM DS – cultural behavior modification – socialization techniques – to foster positive change. Do we believe that in the final analysis this is a critical component of paper in that more responsible water-management will have the most impact at the individual level? I think so, what say you?) The result (thus far) is that Castle Rock residents use 84 gallons today down 8% from the 92 gallon average in 2003. Water use in Douglas County overall has decreased by 32% from 215 gallons per person per day to 146 according to state data. Castle Rock is ahead of Denver in water saving measures where utility officials have said that residents decreased water use to 86 gallons/person/day from 114 gallons in 2000.
By comparison, Europe and Australia municipal water use is down to 40 gallons/person/day. (TEAM DS – good statistic for your review of American water consumption culture – let’s get sources from reporter for these statistics).
The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)financed the South Metro nozzle retrofits because “water dilemmas” (interesting term – is this a specific term used in water management circles – nomenclature?) in that area are urgent according to Veva Dehaza, CWCB’s chief for conservation and drought planning. Along the Front Range, water cops with mobile access to databases search for water-use violators and some utilities have set-up hotlines for for neighbors to report violators. Denver Water deploys 15 monitors who patrol in trucks and by bicycle. Denver’s enforcers detect about 4,000 violations per year – yet have only given 17 fines of up to $100 since 2008. Denver Water (DW) believes that the greatest water savings will come from “Denser Development,” (TEAM RT – Sterling Ranch reference) and not water enforcement according to Greg Fisher, manager of demand planning at DW.
Castle Rock (CR) water authorities are more aggressive avout water enforcement and collected $12,800 in fines in 2010. CR water cops place “gray flags” near leaky sprinklers, advising homeowners to “repair” them immediately to avoid penalties. CR officials believe that the flags create a “social stigma/embarrassment” and result in timely repairs and grater self-awareness (TEAM DS – cultural behavior modification). In CR, homeowners who attend a half-day seminar called “water-wise” can choose their watering day. Watering past 10 AM is illegal. Exemptions can be obtained for “new sod” and “seeding” and goes into a database that the water cops use to check on violations.
The Big Losers: Colorado Rivers (Kendrick Neubecker), The Denver Post, May 21, 2011
The rivers of the Western Slope, especially the Colorado and Yampa basins, look like they will flow this spring like they haven’t since 1984 – more than 25 years ago!
The snowpack water levels from the Roaring Fork up are near record levels throughout the northern mountains, this year’s snowpack has been well above normal. Periodic high flows like this year (2011) can scour the river beds, flush away accumulated sediment and flood the adjacent riparian areas and are essential to the river ecosystem.
The other big water event this year is the historic agreement being forged this year between Denver Water and Western state stakeholders that is intended to benefit water users on both sides of the Continental Divide.
But the agreement falls short: the river(s) are the losers in this agreement according to the author of this article, Kendrick Neubecker, director of the Western Rivers Institute. Why?
Agreement doesn’t address or acknowledge that more than 60% of the Fraser and Upper Colorado are already being diverted to the Front Range
The “Moffat Expansion” will take an additional 15% from western slope rivers and divert water flows to the Front Range. The total amount of “flows” removed from the Western Slope rivers leaves about 1% available for “environmental enhancement.” Contact Kendrick to get a better understand of what he means by this term) This agreement won’t go far to help the much less improve it
The agreement does not deal with the impacts from the Moffat and Windy Gap expansion. Future diversions are not ruled out. Even with cooperation, the Upper Colorado and Fraser Rivers could still be drained of their last drop
The agreement nor the mitigations proposed by the Division of Wildlife (contact DOW to find out what the mitigations specifically are) deal with the ecological damage already done from more than 100 years of diversion
Kendrick claims that the “environmental enhancements” are nothing more than “River Hospice” – making us more comfortable with the advanced stages of ecological decay. Kendrick does believe that the agreement is historic in that both sides of the Continental Divide stakeholders are working as partners instead of throwing lawyers at each other.
There’s more to a healthy river than that it just flows with water. (l;et’s get a short list of examples from an SME)
Coloradoans and much of mainstream media assume all is in good order and that the “water wars are over.” We think we have negotiated a fair truce balancing healthy rivers, farms, and growing cities. The “Colorado River Cooperative Agreement (CRCA), is historic in many ways (ask Mark Wagge of DW how?), but not in our ability to manage or see rivers as rivers (what does Kendrick mean by this?). Until we do that, the rivers will continue to lose. So will the people of Colorado on both sides of the divide.
“Million water pipeline plan sets wrong precedent (John Berggren), The Denver Post, May 21, 2011
Colorado is still one of the fastest growing states in the country. With growth comes increased demands for secure, reliable freshwater supplies. As water budgets tighten, municipalities and developers look to water supply projects and agreements that were once considered impossible. For example:
A $2.8bn pipeline that can potentially over 250,000 acre-feet of water annually for 578 miles across state lines that at one time would have been deemed logistically and financially impossible is currently being reviewed under a National Environmental Policy Act (Aaron Million’s Regional Watershed Supply Project (RWSP – if approved expected to be “flowing” by 2020)
A cooperative agreement between Eastern & Western Slopes that both parties tout as beneficial with compromises made by Denver Water and Western Slope entities seems like a longshot at best
According to a CU environmental studies PhD. Student Million’s RWSP plan sets the wrong precedent while the “Colorado River Basin Agreement (CRBA)” does. Million’s plan suggests that water can be secured at a price, while the CRBA says that water sources are finite and we must share.
Diversion projects in the Colorado basin are nothing new. Development in the southwest would not be where it is today without numerous canals, ditches, pipelines, dams, and reservoirs.
Agriculture in southern California would not be able to supply a majority of the country’s wintertime produce without the “All American Canal” transporting Colorado river water to the Imperial Valley.
Front Range cities such as Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs would not thrive without The Big Thompson project piping Colorado river water under the Continental Divide. Few would argue that these developers were not acting in the best interests of southwest citizens when they were designed and built.
What has changed and why the RWSP proposal is flawed is that there is no more Colorado River water left to develop. Looking at the “Basin’s budget” as a whole, and taking into account average supply and demand – including reservoir evaporation and treaty obligations to Mexico – there is only a 400,000 acre-feet difference between water that’s available and water that is consumed every year. Taking an additional 250,000 acre-feet out of the “Colorado River Basin” for consumptive use in Colorado like the RWSP proposes, takes the water budget from being on “a knife’s edge” to all but breaking down.
In an era of “constrained water supplies and climate change,” the precedent should not be more diversions via pipelines, but more prudent water governance. Limitless water supply is a thing of the past. The Colorado Basin Agreement is a “step in the right direction.” It includes increased conservation and reuse by Denver Water and water planning that includes “environmental needs” (such as – have not heard any environmentalist expound on these variables in detail – check with appropriate ecological and wildlife SME’s) and collaboration on both sides of the divide.
The agreement is not perfect:
It leaves the possibility for additional development of “trans-basin” diversions across the divide
Parts of Gunnison and the YampaRivers are still available for diversion
It leaves the Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming open for additional development – what the RWSP proposes
Rejecting the RWSP would promote the water planning model and set the right precedent for Colorado Water.
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State Of The Storm: Part One
Saturday’s 2-3 shootout loss versus the Huntsville Havoc was game number fourteen for the Storm in their inaugural season that spans fifty-six regular season games. For those of you, like me, whose math skills lack so greatly it sometimes takes a calculator to count your fingers, that means we are a quarter of the way through the franchise’s first regular season.
To honor this milestone we will not be doing our regular look at the Quad Cities’ States of Hockey this week, but instead taking a look at The State Of The Storm through the first quarter.
Opening night fans saw a win they will never forget. Facing off against their rivals Quad City learned early the largest obstacle they would face to begin the season would be their lack of experience playing together. Throughout the game the Storm showed flashes of cohesion and skill but were more often than not on their collective heels handling the onslaught of the Rivermen’s offensive attack.
After Joe McKeown scored the first goal in franchise history to tie the game at one the visitors rattled off two unanswered goals and it seemed the game would proceed in their favor.
Immediately after the game (and still today) I thought a single shift from Mitch Mueller, Al Graves and John Scully turned the game. The Rivermen avoided fights and physicality all night long which allowed their game plan to be executed fairly flawlessly. During the aforementioned shift that occurred about halfway through the third period the physicality was cranked up. Each guy got in at least a lick or two and Al Graves attempted to square off with Alec Hagaman who wanted no part of the action. Out of the scrum Graves and Mueller were both assessed roughing minors, as was Peoria defenseman Domenico Argento. Despite being short-handed it felt as if momentum was up for grabs. The Storm took it.
Dalton Mills made it a one-goal game with a wicked wrist shot on a short handed 2-on-1. Quad City continued to rally and tied the game when Taylor McCloy made it 3-3 on the power-play with 2:26 remaining in regulation.
In one of the strangest overtimes you’ll see Peter DiSalvo continued to shine, shutting down a penalty-shot try from Alec Hagaman for his 31st save of the night. Just over two minutes later Vladimir Nikiforov ended the game with a PS of his own by going forehand, backhand, five-hole for the win.
The game solidified the feeling that hockey was back in the Quad Cities and the team on the ice was one the community could rally behind.
Then the Storm lost seven-straight games. Not great, to be sure, but it was a streak that in reflection is not only understandable but a valuable early learning experience for a new team. In my mind the streak can be easily divided in two phases:
1.) The bad phase: yes, everything about a losing streak is bad but the first two games of the seven-game skid were especially nasty. The Storm simply did not play well, losing 6-1 and 6-2 to Peoria. They looked uncertain, uncomfortable and were unable to adjust to the Rivermen’s speed and stretch passes which resulted in a number of breakaway chances and put Quad City, again, on their heels for most of the game both nights. Bad, yes, but also to be expected with a brand-new franchise playing together for the first time. Another incredibly bad part of this bad phase is that the Storm lost defenseman Kristaps Nimanis to injury. Nimanis played very well before being injured and the team is hopeful he will be able to rejoin the roster some point late in the season.
2.) The learning phase: the next five games were losses as well, but very different in appearance. Processes were being learned and chemistry was starting to be seen. Was it perfect? No. But there was enough to be confident this team would start competing night in and night out. Four one-goal losses and a two-goal loss that included an empty net goal came at the hands of Birmingham, Peoria and Pensacola. The Rivermen and Bulls had separated themselves as two of the top teams in the league and remain in the one and three spot today. The last loss came on the road versus Pensacaola after an irksome bus trip.
After half a day of rest and recovering in the Florida sun the Storm took it to the Ice Flyers 5-1. Not only did the game end the losing streak, it birthed a four-game win streak. Quad City squashed Pensacola again, this time at the TaxSlayer Center and defeated Evansville twice after that. Evansville got revenge with a road win against a short-handed Storm team and most recently the Havoc scraped two points out of a hard-fought shootout win 3-2.
Currently the Storm are positioned in 8th place, the final playoff spot in the SPHL. That positioning has been earned despite playing the least amount of games this season of any team, having at least three games in hand with four of the other nine teams in the league.
The Storm roster has evolved through the first fiftyish days of this season. Less penalties, more discipline and more speed have created a fast and physical roster that is tough to play against. Eric Levine and Peter Di Salvo have allowed the guys upfront to play with confidence and know that they have a guy protecting the net on the other side that will make the saves he needs to and get some of the ones he shouldn’t as well. Joe McKeown leads Quad City in all major offensive categories with five goals, five assists and a +6 rating. The Storm blue line is fairly solid top to bottom, which is somewhat miraculous with the amount of turnover there has been at this position. Kristaps Nimanis, Troy Henley, Jake Schultz, Junior Harris and Don Olivieri are all defenseman who started the season with the team and are now playing in the ECHL, off the roster or on IR. Of all the items Storm head coach Dave Pszenyczny should be given credit for, this may be highest on the list. The additions of Cody Walsh, Tyler Minx, Sean Kacerosky and most recently Ondrej Misovic (who played very well Saturday) have made the frequent defensive departures go relatively unnoticed on the ice.
The management of the locker room through a seven-game losing streak is another item Coach Chezy should be credited for. It is uncommon to see the quality of play improve through a skid like that. Aside from the 6-5 OT loss to Birmingham, play did improve, and despite obvious frustration the team kept working very hard and broke through in a big way. Give the players credit for the wins but recognize that it takes guidance through those valleys to come out of them.
So here we sit, preparing to fire up the #ColdWarOn74 again tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM in Peoria. Starting the second quarter of the season the same way we started the first. As the broadcaster of the team, I see it as a couple of my responsibilities to remain relatively unbiased on the air and keep a realistic view of how things on the ice are proceeding. But I also want this team to win and succeed! With both those factors in mind I am pleased with what we saw from the Storm in the first fourteen games of the season and I expect things will continue to gel and improve. Additionally, for all the good things these guys have done on the ice, they have been phenomenal off the ice as well. Every player on this roster has done what has been asked of them and more as it pertains to getting out in the community and being an ambassador for the team and an example for kids and young adults who look up to them.
The first part of this inaugural season has been a blast. Let’s keep it going. Go Storm.
Brian Rothenberger December 12, 2018
Rivermen Hang On To Win Morning Game At Home
Harrison Added To Bolster Blue Line
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Friday Summer Craft
Summer is hot, but you can enjoy a cool craft here at the Children's Library Discovery Center. There is something different every week for children ages 5-12. No registration is required; however, space is limited. Don't miss it!
Jul 19 @ 3:00 PM, Jul 26 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 2 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 9 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 16 @ 3:00 PM
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission: What We Learned from the Moon Landing
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon walk, join aeronautical engineer Nik Moiseev for a talk about the role of the Apollo program in the technological progress of space suits and other technology that enables space flights, and what we can learn from one of the greatest endeavors in the history of science and ...
Creative Writing Workshop for Teens
Have you ever wanted to write a novel, a comic, or both? Do you find yourself thinking about different characters and the worlds they belong to? Not sure where to start? Join us for our creative writing workshop! Each week, we will cover a different topic in creating your novel, from literary devices to character development. Space is ...
Discovery Team Summer STEM: Shine a Light
Kids will learn the basics of how light works with lenses, including our eyes. We’ll dissect sheep eyes and compare biological lenses to glass lenses. Extending this exploration, kids will learn how the physics of light and lenses is applied to visual aids – eye glasses, microscopes and telescopes. For students in grades 6 to 8. Space is ...
Quetzalcoatl Against Black Snake: Environmental Awareness through Dance and Storytelling
This Native American dance performance, created by choreographer Cristina Cortes and the art organization Coopdanza, explores environmental themes and the cultural heritage of First Americans through the story of Quetzalcoatl, a hero from the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec traditions. The performance will fetaure Taino/Quechwa rap artist Akapa ...
An Afternoon of Jazz with Kelly J. Fallon
Kelly J. Fallon is sweeping through NYC with her beautiful renditions of classic jazz standards, and will now be sharing her talents with Queens Public Library! With her soft vocal lines and captivating energy, she will take you back to a simpler time to when music was evolving into the most influential movement in America. Kelly has worked ...
Monday Summer Craft
Join us for our Monday summer crafts and start your week off right. There is something different every Monday for children ages 5-12. No registration required; however, space is limited. Don't miss it!
Aug 5 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 12 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 19 @ 3:00 PM, Aug 26 @ 3:00 PM
Stop Making Sense: Lulu Lewis Music with Veterans of Tom Tom Club and Urban Verbs
Lulu Lewis is a rock band founded by husband and wife duo Pablo Martin (Tom Tom Club, The Du-Rites) and Dylan Hundley (Metropolitan: Directed by Whit Stillman, 1990), Lulu Lewis have established themselves as one of New York’s most prolific and versatile underground rock bands over the past three years, whether collaborating with artists ...
Dylan DeFeo Trio
Come hear Dylan DeFeo and his wonderful trio featuring Arthur Sadowsky on bass, Andrew McAuley on drums, and Dylan on keys. They will play a variety of classic standards, Latin grooves, new original tunes, and some swingin’ surprises!
Favorites from Opera & Broadway
Please join us for a fabulous program of musical favorites from the opera and Broadway stages! Stefanie Izzo (soprano), Gilad Paz (tenor), and Catherine Frank (piano) will perform solos and duets from popular classical and musical theatre productions. Come in out of the heat to hear selections from Sweeney Todd, Les Mis, La Boheme, ...
The Central Library in Jamaica has:
100 public computers in the Cyber Center
18 computers in the Children's Library Discovery Center for children 12 and under
4 computers for toddlers
The Central Library @ Queens Library contains nearly one million volumes of materials in comprehensive subject collections, and more than 800 titles of academic and professional journals and magazines, as well as professional indices and abstracts. For more information, see:
The Archives @ Queens Library
Central Library Collection Development
Circulation Services
Information Access Services
Programming & Outreach
A Special Place for Kids
89-14 163rd St
Afro American Parents Day Care Center Incorporated
117-16 Sutphin Blvd
All My Children Day Care
175-44 Mayfield Rd
All Our Children Family Daycare
148-07 111th Ave
Early Sunrise Daycare
161-06 89th Ave
Kids Circle Daycare
164-04 Goethals Ave
Queens Child Guidance Center
Sensational Kids Incorporated
176-21 Wexford Terrace
Allen Christian Pre-School
114-32 Merrick Blvd.
Gil-Blu Nursery - Kindergarten
120-02 Merrick Blvd
Kids Porta Bright Horizon Center
Bldg 350 JFK Airport
Little Flowers Early Childhood
23410 Merrick Blvd
Rochdale Village Nursery & Kindergarten
Treehouse Day Nursery
168-40 127 Ave
Community Board District #12
90-28 161st Street
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
Jamaica Chamber of Commerce
90-25 161st Street, Suite 505
Jamaica Business Development Center
90-33 160th Street
Community Mediation Group
89-64 163rd Street
BFFY Jamaica Family Youth Center
90-11 160th St
Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning
York College Performing Arts Center
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
King Manor Museum
King Park, 153rd Street and Jamaica Ave.
Afrikan Poetry Theatre
176-03 Jamaica Ave.
Black Spectrum TheatreRoy Wilkens Park
177th St. & Baisley Blvd.
Chung-Cheng Art Gallery St. John's University Visual Arts
Sun Yat Sen Hall
Engine 275, Battalion 50:
153-11 Hillside Ave.
Engine 315, Ladder 125, Battalion 50:
159-06 Union Tpke.
Ladder 127, Battalion 50:
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
8900 Van Wyck Expressway
Queens Hospital Center
82-70 One Hundred Sixty-Fourth Street
Jamaica Times
Queens Chronicle
Rufus King Park
Jamaica Avenue from 150th to 153rd Street
Major Mark Park
Hillside Avenue, from 173rd to 175th Street
Captain Tilly Memorial Park
Bordered by Highland Ave, Upland Pkwy, Gothic Pkwy
Harvard Playground
179th Place, north of Jamaica Ave
103rd Precinct
168-02 Police Officer Edward Byrne Avenue
Jamaica Post Office
Jamaica NY , 11432-9997
Allen Christian School
171-10 Linden Blvd
Archbisop Molloy High School
83-53 Manton Street
Bethel Mission Junior Academy
Ideal Montessori School
Immaculate Conception School
179-14 Dalny Road
Jamaica Day School of St Demet
84 35 152nd St
Jamaica Montessori
90-01 Merrick Blvd
Jamaica Seventh-day Adventist Busy Bee Learning
New Dawn Elementary School
Nativity B V M School
92nd St & Rockaway Blvd
St Clement Pope School
120-27 141st Street
St Peter Claver School
149-18 Jamaica Ave
St Nicholas of Tolentine School
80-22 Parsons Blvd
The Mary Louis Academy
United Nations International School
173-53 Croydon Road
PS 086 Queens (Q086)
PS 131 Abigail Adams (Q131)
PS 095 Eastwood (Q095)
Hillcrest High School (Q505)
160-05 Highland Avenue
Jamaica Educational Campus
167-01 Gothic Drive
Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School (Q620)
165-65 84th Avenue
Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School (Q680)
60-20 Goethals Avenue
Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults, Inc.
162-04 Jamaica Ave.,
Robert Couche Senior Center
137-57 Farmers Blvd
123-10 143rd St
Hon. I. Daneek Miller
IDMiller@council.nyc.gov
District Office 172-12 Linden Boulevard
St. Albans NY, 11434
Manhattan Office 250 Broadway, Suite 1810
New York NY , 10007
Hon. Alicia Hyndman
HyndmanA@nyassembly.gov
District Office 232-06A Merrick Boulevard
Springfield Gardens NY, 11413
Jamaica was a former town and capital of Queens County. The first European settlers were probably New Englanders from Hempstead. They were granted a patent by Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New Netherland, on March 21, 1656. The settlement was initially called Rusdorf. After the English conquest in 1664 the name was changed to Jameco, after the Indians who were the earliest inhabitants of the area. In 1680, the present name was adopted.
On May 17, 1686, New York governor Thomas Dongan issued a charter to the landowners of Jamaica. The Dongan Charter consolidated the various hamlets into the town of Jamaica and set its boundaries. (The Dongan Charter is on display in the Long Island Division of the Central Library.)
In 1702 Jamaica briefly served as the capital of the New York Colony during a Yellow Fever outbreak in Manhattan.
Important to the history of Jamaica is Prospect Cemetery. The cemetery, which is the oldest cemetery in Queens, dates back to 1668 and includes the graves of some of the earliest inhabitants of Jamaica.
Two of Jamaica’s important landmarks are King Manor and Grace Episcopal Church. King Manor is named after Rufus King, a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress, one of the two first New York Senators to Congress, a diplomat, and anti-slavery advocate. Grace Church was founded in 1702 and served as the official church of the British colonial government during the Revolutionary War. Rufus King is among those buried in the Church’s graveyard.
In 1898 Queens became part of the City of New York of which Jamaica was the county seat.
Jamaica owes its strength as a major shopping area to transportation. Jamaica Avenue was once a toll road between the ferry in Brooklyn and Hempstead. The Long Island Rail Road in Jamaica developed into a major hub. King Kullen, the first self service supermarket in the U.S., opened on Jamaica Avenue in 1930. In the 1960s, interest in Jamaica as a major shopping district began to decline. However, in recent years there has been a coordinated effort, through the work of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, to revitalize Jamaica.
The first Central Library was located on Parsons Boulevard. It opened in 1930 and was expanded with WPA funds in 1941. The current building on Merrick Boulevard was dedicated on April 11, 1966. The new building was the result of the unwavering efforts of Library Director Harold Tucker. It was designed by the architects York & Sawyer, Kiff, Colean, Voss and Souder. The new Central Library was the first major branch of an urban library to place all public services on one floor. The library cost $5,700,000 and contained 195,000 square feet of floor space. The library was renovated and expanded in 1989. Additional renovation and expansion has begun and is expected to be completed in the next few years, and will include the new Children’s Library and Discovery Center.
The Queens Library’s online catalog, InfoLinQ (Information online at Queens Library) was unveiled at the Central Library in October 1993. In January 1999 the Cyber Center opened at the Central Library. The Cyber Center has 48 computers for customer use, allowing access to the Internet and word processing. The Cyber Center, along with additional computers in the library, has helped to close the gap between the technology “haves” and “have-nots.”
“Libraries” by Phyllis Dan in The Encyclopedia of New York City.
Lighting the Way: The Centennial History of the Queens Borough Public Library 1896-1996 by Jeffrey A. Kroessler.
Suggested Reading on Jamaica’s History (available at the Central Library)
“Jamaica” by Vincent Seyfried in The Encyclopedia of New York City.
The Origin and History of Grace Church, Jamaica, New York by Horatio Oliver Ladd.
Recollections of Old Jamaica: 1655-1887.
Records of the Town of Jamaica Long Island: 1656-1751 edited by Josephine C. Frost.
Queens Poet Laureate 2007 – 2010
The Queens Borough President’s Office has announced the Fourth Poet Laureate to serve from 2007 to 2010:
Julio Marzan
Queens Poet Laureate
An honorary position, the Queens Poet Laureate promotes an appreciation of poetry throughout the borough and writes poetry that is inspired by, or relate to, the borough of Queens.
To learn more about the Queens Poet Laureate, go to http://www.queensbp.org/content_web/cultural_affairs
/cultural_poet2007.shtml
89-11 Merrick Boulevard
Metered parking is available near the library on Merrick Boulevard, 89th Avenue and 90th Avenue, as well as other streets in the neighborhood.
Public parking is available at Jamaica First parking lots on 90th Avenue between Merrick Blvd and 168th and 169th Streets.
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August 22, 2016 By Quotes for Bros
Boy did Frank ocean deliver in his promise to release his new music. While it was not titled, Boys Don’t Cry, both Endless and Blonde feature some of his best music yet. So, to celebrate the joyous moment for music fans, we decided to create the 15 Greatest Frank Ocean Quotes Of All Time.
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It looks like Ocean had the ability to have Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé play huge parts on his album, however, he decided to have them provide a little backup instead, completely owning his craft and showing his confidence will not be weakened.
Thanks to artists like James Blake, Andre 3000 and many more, Ocean was able to deliver some of his greatest pieces of work in a grand fashion that no one expected at all. So congrats to Frank and check out our 15 Greatest Frank Ocean Quotes Of All Time.
“In art, at a certain level, there is no ‘better than.’ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognized.”
“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”
“I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.”
“No, I don’t like you, I just thought you were cool enough to kick it/Got a beach house I could sell you in Idaho”
“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.”
“Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
“This unrequited love, to me it’s nothing but a one-man cult. And cyanide in my styrofoam cup”
“I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.”
“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.”
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.”
“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”
“The best song wasn’t the single, but you weren’t either. Livin’ in Ladera Heights, the black Beverly Hills. Domesticated paradise, palm trees and pools. The water’s blue, swallow the pill.”
“Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.”
“You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.”
“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.”
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(No.115) Somewhere Towards The End
(No.114) Canadian banks: mistakes & excessive prai...
(No.113) Manulife & Sun Life: a safety parallel?
(No.112) Gaming the system in hotels & life insura...
(No.111) Did the critics see the same "What The Bu...
Since beginning RickardsRead.com I have from time to time recommended books and authors whose work I have found rewarding. I do so because I assume that many readers of these columns are likely to share my enjoyment of good writing, fiction and non-fiction.
I very much enjoyed several volumes of memoirs by a fascinating Englishwoman, Diana Athill, who is now 93. An Oxford University graduate, raised in a problematic upper middle class home, she worked as a literary editor and herself wrote both novels and memoirs, retiring from her career in 1993 at the age of 75.
She spent 50 years in London publishing including helping Andre Deutsch build his British publishing house. She never married but had affairs, several long term relationships but no children.
Of several volumes of memoirs her first, published in 1962, Instead Of A Letter [Norton], is like all her non-fiction: still in print and available in softcover. It is about her youth and young adulthood including a broken engagement with a member of the RAF who later died during World War II.
It was for her one of a series of formative events and years later, writing this volume ca 1960, she said prophetically that "I see my story, ... sad though much of it was, as a success story. I am rising forty-three, and I am happier in the present and more interested by the future than I have ever been since I was a girl .... But is it a story which will seem worth having lived through, of value in itself, when I come to die?"
Doubtless Athill at age forty-three would never have predicted that she would still be alive and writing in her nineties -- but she is, and the reader is the more fortunate because of it.
During her career in publishing Athill worked with many well-know authors about whom she has interesting insights, including Philp Roth, Mordecai Richler, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Rhys and V.S. Naipaul. Her 2000 memoir, Stet: An Editor's Life [Grove] is a refreshing look at the reality of literary publishing in post-war Britain. But she is not one one to look to the past as a literary golden age.
"It is, of course, true that reading is going the same way as eating," she wrote,"the greatest demand being for the simple, instantly recognizable flavours such as sugar and vinegar or their mental equivalents: but that is not the terminal tragedy it sometimes seems to the disgruntled old. It is not, after all, a new development: quick and easy has always been what the majority wants."
The Athill book which had the most impact on me (as I suspect it might on anyone who thinks about the end of life, including their own) is her prize-winning Somewhere Towards The End [Granta] written mostly when she was 90 and published in 2008. In all her books she writes not just well but with a pleasing clarity. Her use of the English language is so pleasing that one stops and rereads paragraphs to savour both a thought and its expression.
In this, her last book, she looks back with a complete absence of sentimentality and no hint of an aged curmudgeon. "It seems to me," she writes,"that anyone looking back over eighty-nine years ought to see a landscape pockmarked with regrets. ... Regrets? I say to myself. What regrets? This invisibility may be partly the result of a preponderance of common sense over imagination: regrets are useless, so forget them."
Athill offers views which will resonate with many readers and for different reasons. For example, with those who devoted their working lives to the service and interests of one or two employers and did so loyally, only to be tossed aside by the employer because of this merger or that corporate expense reduction. "Loyalty unearned," she concludes, "is simply the husk of a notion developed to benefit the bosses in a feudal system." Amen.
If only the average 50 year old CEO could think half as clearly and express himself or herself half as well as this 93 year old Englishwoman.
Somewhere Towards The End is an extraordinary book by an amazing woman who has lived a thoughtful and interesting life -- and has thought about that life in a serious way and shared those thoughts over several volumes.
It is both timely and welcome that Athill has written this volume now when popular culture still too often portrays people who reach age 80, much less 90 as little more than child-like, if not gaga. Her book thus provides the reader with a welcome antidote to the toxicity of pop culture. Just as, in the realm of Canadian politics, 89 year old Hazel McCallion does as mayor of Mississauga, one of Canada's largest cities.
Diana Athill has written an impressively thoughtful volume about approaching the end of life, the most affecting I have read on the subject. She has lived a long and worthwhile life that began during the First World War, reaching her old age with mental acuity intact in the second decade of the 21st century.
Nearing the end of her life she concludes that "digging out past guilts is [not] a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so very little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present."
In 2009 a 670 page volume of memoirs selected from four of her books was published by Granta: Life Class:The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill.
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(No.114) Canadian banks: mistakes & excessive praise
Earlier this month I spoke to a conference of life insurance brokers at the Crowbush Resort on Prince Edward Island. The meeting was organized by the MGA firm Younker and Kelly. What follows is taken from that presentation.
In the wake of the financial services meltdown in the U.S. and Europe I have read and heard much praise heaped upon Canadian banks for their admirable strength and stability during the international financial crisis. The credit actually belongs mostly to strong Canadian federal banking rules (about which Canadian bank executives have periodically pissed and moaned) and even more important, to strong federal regulators who enforced the rules whether the banks liked it or not. Both of these key regulatory elements were deficient in the U.S. and Europe.
Those were the factors that had most to do with preventing Canadian banks from following some of the worst of what their American and British peers were doing in their pursuit of the financially ridiculous. Nor is it true that the Canadian banks received no crisis-related financial backing from Ottawa unless one excludes a $200 billion low interest line of credit.
In any case it is interesting that the big Canadian banks, despite their supposed superior management, in the three years 2007 through 2009 wrote off an estimated $21.5 billion they would otherwise have recorded as profit because of their exposure to bad bets they made largely on U.S. 'investments' that went down the porcelain convenience. [For other comments on this subject in RickardsRead.com, see column No.90: "Banks, stability & insurance: the silly & the wise".]
Still, not to worry; the huge profits the banks make quarterly from the Canadian retail banking customer serve as far more than an adequate offset for these and other losses in their non-Canadian adventures. It reminds me of the profits Sun Life derives from -- as its corporate perspective would have it -- its 'small population market' Canadian operation (compared with Sun Life in China, India, Indonesia and the U.S.). Funny thing though, these Canadian dollars serve as a predictably reliable financial foundation supporting the company in the absence of sufficient profits from its international operations.
In terms of government expansion of the big Canadian banks' still limited ability to retail insurance (life as well as property insurance) in their branches I do not look for any change, at the very earliest, before the election of a majority federal government, and probably not then. Keeping the status quo is a political reality that has been reconfirmed by federal finance Minister Jim Flaherty, in major part because no federal government (including his) wants another political fight with insurance agents, and all the more so if it is a minority government.
If it is also a government, like Prime Minister Harper's Tories, whose core political support is in areas of the country like the prairies where historically dislike for the big eastern banks is almost bred in the bone, it will not be seeking ways to accommodate the Bay Street banks' insurance wish list no matter how fervent their desire for change.
Even if the feds decided to change the rules for bank branch retailing of insurance (something they could do tomorrow by regulation rather than statute) it would still be a matter for each province to decide on what basis they would permit expansion of bank insurance retailing. Remember: which individuals can sell insurance, where and how has been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada to be a matter of provincial jurisdiction.
I confess that for more than two decades I longed both privately and publicly for the big banks to make the mistake to which I believed their unique combination of size, arrogance and ignorance might eventually lead them: to challenge in court provincial jurisdiction over insurance distribution as it involved federally chartered and regulated banks and how banks could and could not go about selling insurance.
I published (in a series of articles by the late life insurance company general counsel Benson Rogers in my Canadian Journal of Life Insurance) the definitive treatment, then and now, of the legal and regulatory history of the Canadian federal/provincial constitutional divide in insurance. I was confident that the bankers would lose, blinded as they were by their Pavlovian view that whatever banks do (including selling insurance) is banking and therefore excluded from provincial regulation even when it involved agency insurance distribution. And they did lose -- big time, to quote former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.
The mistake I had long awaited was made by the banks in challenging Alberta insurance legislation. The banks lost their challenge in Alberta court, lost again on appeal and then compounded their mistake (God bless their arrogance and high-priced legal advice) by appealing the Alberta case [Western Bank v. Alberta] to the Supreme Court of Canada --- where in a May 2007 SCC precedent-setting decision they lost on all important counts, as I had predicted they would.
As for what the big banks can hope for in terms of provincial regulation, provincial governments have shown little affection for them and their persistent efforts to get their own way, not least because lobbying by p&c and life insurance agents can be even more politically potent at the provincial level than it has been in Ottawa. In fact at both the federal and provincial levels the p & c side of the insurance business has become the strongest element in the political fight over expansion of bank branch retailing of insurance.
When I think of the big Canadian banks' indefatigable commitment to getting ever larger as well as their dependence on the Canadian retail banking customer to bankroll their extra-Canadian financial adventures, I recall a comment made by K.R. MacGregor, Canada's federal Superintendent of Insurance and later CEO of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada which he said "is not seeking growth merely for the sake of growing, but rather growth in order to serve better and more completely. The dinosaur's lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better."
While that seems today both wise and prescient it also sounds quaintly old-fashioned in an era when the pursuit of inflated executive compensation ensures that ramping up short term corporate profit through questionable activity (leveraged and otherwise) is too often the guiding light for senior management. Consider what has happened since 2007 in North American financial services and the economy (indeed the western world's) and one appreciates not only the foresight of Mr. MacGregor's observation but its relevance today to the largest Canadian banks and life insurance companies.
[For background on the reality of banks and insurance in Canada see also, for example, in RickardsRead.com: column nos. 33, 34, 47, 48 & 69.]
Posted by Alastair Rickard at 9:00 AM
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In the Globe and Mail's Report on Business (Sept.9) financial services reporter Tara Perkins wrote about her conversation with CIBC World Markets analyst Robert Sedran.
The premise of this "Tip Sheet" column was that while "the Street is concerned that Manulife Financial Corp might have to raise common equity capital yet again, ... Sedran sees a potential alternative: regulatory forbearance." Postulating his potential avenue of relief for Manulife Mr. Sedran pointed out that " Easing the regulations wouldn't be without precedent. In the early 1930s more than 40% of Sun Life's assets were common stocks. The insurer could have been in hot water were it not for a decision by regulators to allow a more generous interpretation of market values when marking assets to market, Mr. Sedran says. 'As a result the company survived a terrible environment throughout the Depression'."
Sun Life's financial situation following the Wall Street crash in 1929 was not just strained it was dire; in fact Sun Life was under water. Called upon in the Globe article as a parallel to Manulife's current financial challenge Sun's financial situation 80 years ago is, I suspect, one that Manulife's current CEO would not welcome.
Not incidentally both Sun and Manu have for most of their corporate lives operated as stock companies (except for a period of 40 years or so after they became mutual companies in order to avoid foreign takeover and then demutualized a decade ago).
At the time the Great Depression arrived in Canada Sun Life's czar was Thomas Bassett Macaulay who, since 1908 when his father handed him the reins of Sun Life, exhibited a self-confidence that makes the arrogance of some current and recent CEOs look almost reticent. The relevance here is to his conviction that, unlike other Canadian life companies, Sun was going to achieve major success based on highly risky investing of an ever greater proportion of its assets in the stock market. As I recall he ended up taking the proportion of Sun Life's assets invested in the stock market to well above 40%.
When the stock market crash occurred Sun Life did not go publicly to "regulators" in Ottawa in the modern fashion (as when Manulife's former CEO went publicly to Ottawa seeking regulatory relief on reserve requirements for the guarantees on its variable annuities). Sun Life quietly sought help from the key person -- the federal Superintendent of Insurance. The Sun Life episode occurred long before this senior and prestigious role was eliminated in the bureaucratic creation in 1987 of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Indeed the Superintendent of Insurance had long enjoyed deputy minister rank and reported to the Minister of Finance.
As former federal Supt. of Insurance K.R. MacGregor related the episode to me:
Sun Life's liabilities far exceeded its assets after the crash and it came quietly but desperately seeking the Superintendent's help (that was how regulatory problems were handled in those days). The other Canadian life insurance companies feared for their reputations with the Canadian public for safety and solidity and, while very angry about Macaulay's recklessness and the potential for collateral damage, wanted Sun rescued.
Out of the public eye the federal Supt. of Insurance had already rescued (and would again) smaller life insurance companies by quietly insisting that larger life companies take them over and assume their business. That method of preventing public insolvencies and losses to policyholders was a major reason why the industry could claim, pre-Confederation Life debacle, that no policyholder of a federally regulated life company had ever lost a dime. Sun Life was too big for that course of action.
What happened was that Ottawa shielded Sun Life from a public insolvency until Sun had time to recover its financial equilibrium. In fact this protective action went well beyond "easing capital requirements" and lasted until Sun had time to climb out of the financial hole Macaulay had dug for it in the stock market and reach a point at which its assets exceeded its liabilities.
Footnote: some years ago I was told by a reliable source that decades later Ottawa quietly assisted several life insurance 'brokerage' companies for a time on what had become their serious capital deficits in the level of reserving required for the billions of dollars of badly under-priced risk (and therefore under-reserved) 'first generation' lapse-supported Term-to- 100 business.
This is a subject I addressed occasionally during the years in which I published and edited The Canadian Journal Of Life Insurance. I also emphasized, as I do again now, that Sun's near death experience had a profound cultural influence down the years on Sun's senior management. In the post-crisis years it seemed that Sun Life could never have too much surplus. Sun Life's senior management style was very firmly on the side of conservative financial management. 'Safety first' became a part of Sun Life culture, one that has continued to this day.
Case in point: in contrast with Manulife whose former CEO, in the interests of jacking up company profits, ceased in 2004 to hedge its risk on the truckloads of guaranteed variable annuity business it was selling, Sun Life did not cease its hedging.
Another footnote -- on life company investments in Canada: the risk to the entire Canadian life insurance business in terms of public confidence by what Sun Life had brought down on itself ca. 1929 ff. and -- by inference -- on other Canadian life insurance companies was a major issue for the industry. The result was that the major companies went to the federal Supt. of Insurance (sotto voce, of course) and made clear that they wanted action taken that would prevent a Macaulay-like aberration occurring again. They requested a low limit be put in place severely capping the % of a life company's Canadian assets that could be placed in stocks. And it came to pass.
Many years later when I joined the industry I found it mildly amusing, as did K.R. MacGregor himself, that senior managements of federally regulated life insurance companies were by then pissing and moaning about the federal restriction on a company's stock market investments, a limitation the companies themselves had requested.
The reality of the life insurance industry's history was by then as much a blank page to the CEOs of that day as it is to most of their successors today.
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(No.112) Gaming the system in hotels & life insurance
An article I saw in an economics journal looked at how companies hide fees and costs. The two authors (economists) concluded that sophisticated consumers have learned how to 'game the system' by having enough consumers around to subsidize them.
For example: you are attracted by an offer for a room at Hotel Nirvana for $75 a night, a room which costs the hotel $100 to provide. The person checking in behind you will rack up $70 in fees from the mini-bar, the phone and hotel parking (all of which cost the hotel $20 to provide). You used none of these. Hence the other person subsidized your room.
But getting cheaper goods and services subsidized by the uninformed consumer works as long as the sophisticated consumer knows what he or she could be charged. And it does not pay if too many people know the same thing.
But that may not be as big a problem as one might think since research has shown that even the most knowledgeable people can make dumb decisions although they have been provided with all the information they need to avoid doing so.
How does gaming the system play out in the life insurance business? Let's use first generation Term-to-100 policies as a case in point.
When T-100 policies based on lapse-supported pricing were introduced in Canada, the pricing badly over-estimated the level and rate of policy lapses that would occur. These policies were sold on the basis of offering lifetime protection but assumed -- indeed demanded from the perspective of the issuing life insurance company's financial interests -- that many Term-to-100 policyholders lose their lifetime protection and the sooner they lost it the better.
The sophisticated consumer held on to these policies -- and if you dear reader have an early Term-to-100 policy, hold on to it; it is worthy of Mark Twain's advice about land ("they are not making any more"). This created real challenges for those life insurance companies which had jumped into this market with what turned out to be seriously under-priced policies and thus tried to promote lapses of these policies or had to increase reserves on them or both.
Who were the life insurance consumers most likely to have held on to these policies, to have been sufficiently sophisticated to have refused to replace or lapse them? In my experience it was most likely to have been those policyholders who had career agents and brokers who were not only professional and gave good advice to clients but who themselves were sophisticated enough to appreciate what was happening with the companies and these policies.
In terms of this under-priced first generation T-100 business the better-managed companies pulled back. Great-West Life even pulled out of T-100 altogether providing an admirably frank explanation to their sales people of why the action was being taken.
A few companies tried to address insufficient lapses of their policies by going beyond promoting replacement of their T-100 policies by sales intermediaries to a tactic such as failing to send out an annual premium notice/reminder in the hope that the policy would lapse for lack of a timely payment of the annual premium.
A very successful and experienced Toronto life insurance broker, the late David Cowper, told me of a case where a client had a large T-100 policy (one sold to him by another broker). Cowper advised him to diarize when his policy anniversary date was and be sure to pay the annual premium promptly since he might not receive a timely premium notice if the company sought to have him (inadvertently) lapse his policy. Sure enough the policyholder received no notice but, thanks to Cowper's warning and advice, paid his premium on time anyway.
In this example, in terms of gaming the system -- and dealing with a company trying to game the system in its own interests -- both the policyholder and the broker understood that the price of this particular policy would have to be subsidized by other policyholders of the company and therefore that the company might seek to generate relief for itself.
And this fact underlines a reality of the life insurance market-place as real today as ever it was: some of the policies sold by life companies designed and priced to compete for market share and impress the financial services paparazzi with the company's volume of new business actually return low or no profit.
The premiums charged for such policies are, like the hotel room in my example, subsidized by (among others) the purchasers of life insurance policies priced by the company to actually return an adequate profit, say, a 15% ROE.
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(No.111) Did the critics see the same "What The Butler Saw"?
The previous column on RickardsRead.com (No.110) dealt with Englishman Joe Orton's 1969 play What The Butler Saw now being performed (through Sept 18) in Toronto by the Soulpepper Theatre Company. Last summer Soulpepper had presented a production of the Orton play Loot.
Our column reviewing What The Butler Saw was posted Aug.25. We prepared our review before the publication of those of the theatre critics of the major daily newspapers in Toronto.
It is sometimes interesting for us to compare our views of a play with those of these critics as well as comparing their reviews (see for example "Duelling critics over An Ideal Husband", Column No.96 on RickardsRead.com, posted June 3, 2010).
While Pat and I agreed that What The Butler Saw "is a worthwhile evening at the theatre", she "liked it somewhat more than I did." Among the trio of Toronto theatre critics, two liked it less than we did and one perhaps somewhat more.
Here are some illustrations excerpted from their reviews:
Robert Crew in The Toronto Star, Aug. 26, 2010:
"Back in 1969, when it first produced, ... it was hailed (by a few) as a black farce par excellence, an outrageous peek at modern society at its most insane.
"Forty years on, the same material does not play well at all. What once seemed cutting-edge and daringly shocking now seems distasteful and jejeune.
"And right from the get-go, the cast seems struggling to find the seam of humour that everyone assures us make this play Orton's masterpiece. ...
"The cast is a good one and the director, Jim Warren, usually has the surest of touches with this kind of comedy. But everyone -- without exception -- is pushing too hard to find the humour and put it across. There is lots of shouting and squawking and slapstick but to little avail."
[The Star's rating of the play was 1 1/2 stars out of 4 ]
J. Kelly Nestruk in The Globe and Mail, Aug.27, 2010:
"Following up on his popular production of Loot at Soulpepper last summer, director Jim Warren is taking another stab at the outrageous oeuvre of Joe Orton. But while he gts a few satisfying spurts out of What The Butler Saw, Warren misses the major arteries this time around. ...
"More than 40 years on, What The Butler Saw's grotesques retain their ability to entertain and outrage on the page. But this dark comedy is difficult to transfer effectively to the stage. Not only do Orwell's epigrams run the risk of sounding overloaded when spoken, but they must be delivered in the midst of farcical physical comedy. ...
"Warren's production is probably still worth a visit ...."
[The Globe's rating of the play was 2 stars out of 4]
Robert Cushman in The National Post, Aug. 31, 2010:
"Joe Orton [is] the young playwright famously dubbed 'The Oscar Wilde of the welfare state' .... The play ... reached the stage in a posthumous unrevised state, the source of some of its charm and some of its untidiness.
"Jim Warren's Soulpepper production is very lucid, which in this play is both a virtue and a vice. .. Warren gets the Orton tone more consistently than in last year's Loot, but not the tempo ....
"There is one triumphant performance: Graham Harley, resisting all temptation to play for eccentricity, makes [Dr.] Rance the ultimate civil servant. ... Blair Williams [as Dr. Prentice] exemplifies the good and bad in the production."
[ The National Post does not use star ratings in its theatre reviews]
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Parents of pupils at the Five Islands School will be consulted tomorrow on proposed changes to the school day.
School headteacher Bryce Wilby says timetables will be realigned to take into account the single school site on St Mary’s next school year.
At the moment lessons are held at different times on the two St Mary’s bases which means some teaching staff waste time if they finish lessons on one site and there’s still time before the next lesson starts at another.
The school won’t start much earlier than now but on Fridays, secondary pupils will be in lessons until 3.30pm instead of finishing at 2.40pm as they currently do.
Some parents have requested that the school calendar could be changed to allow for a shorter Summer holiday, because of parents working through the busy Summer tourist season, and a longer half term in February.
Bryce says it could be looked at in the future but that’s another discussion and the calendar has been set through to 2013 already.
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September 19, 2018 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
At Indian Springs School in Birmingham, Alabama, the first phase of a three-phase construction plan included building three new classroom buildings and a new administration building, as well as re-roofing the library. The roofing portion of the project included 45,000 square feet of 18-inch-wide, 24-gauge PAC-CLAD roof panels manufactured by Petersen. Photos: Petersen
When founded in 1952, the master plan for Indian Springs School in Birmingham, Alabama, called for campus development to maintain focus on the lake at the center of the school’s wooded 350-acre property. During the past 30 years, however, focus was lost, so a new plan was made to demolish some existing structures and construct buildings that re-establish a connection to the lake. The school enrolls 280 students in grades 8-12.
Phase one of a three-phase construction plan consisted of constructing three new cypress-clad, single-story classroom buildings and a new administration building, plus a re-roof of an existing library building. Oversight of design and construction was handled through a partnership of Lake Flato Architects in San Antonio and ArchitectureWorks in Birmingham. The first phase utilized 45,000 square feet of Petersen’s 18-inch-wide, 24-gauge Snap-Clad and Tite-Loc roof panels in Cool Color Zinc. The new buildings, which added 18 classrooms and 18 administrative offices, achieved LEED Silver status.
Installation of the PAC-CLAD roof was completed by Quality Architectural Metal and Roofing in Birmingham. The combination of panels was determined by the roof pitch, according to Eddie Still, the company’s vice president and project manager. “We used the mechanically seamed Tite-Loc panel on a few areas with pitches that required that profile, which amounted to less than 2,000 square feet,” he notes.
The roof systems were designed to extend over covered walkways, blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor areas. Photos: Petersen
Some of the buildings feature monitors, which provide daylighting to each classroom, onto which QAMR installed PAC-CLAD flush panels for both the vertical and horizontal sections. This was a big job, Still notes. “Installation went smoothly, but finding manpower to get it done was the problem,” he says. “The job was big with multiple buildings, and I wasn’t able to stop all of our other projects for this one job. So, we approached it like four small jobs. This sounded good in theory, but there were delays with the work in front of us which impacted my schedule. This meant I had to put two crews out there to catch up. And then I had to call one of my friendly competitors and put one of his crews out there to help out. I’ve never done that before, but it worked out. Plus, these architects were good to work with. We had no issues at all on this project. We worked smoothly together.”
Still notes he frequently uses Petersen’s Snap-Clad panel. “The panel performs well and we’ve never had problems with it,” he says. “You don’t need to reinvent the wheel; you just need a product you can depend on. We have a 30-plus year relationship with Petersen and they’re great to do business with.”
ArchitectureWorks, which was first to join the project and managed the construction portion, formed a partnership with Lake Flato because of its focus on school design. “In general terms, Lake Flato was the design architect doing the master planning, and ArchitectureWorks was the architect of record, or executive architect, that completed construction documents and oversaw the construction phase,” says Greg Papay, FAIA and partner at Lake Flato. “We get asked to team up on jobs all the time, but they don’t all go as smoothly as this one did. ArchitectureWorks was great to work with.”
The design team sought to respect the school’s original structures’ simple forms and materials while opening the new buildings to nature. “Our notion was that 21st century schools could actually feel more like 19th century schools,” Papay explains, referring to the firm’s back-to-basics approach.
Focus on the Roof
All new buildings feature a roof that extends over covered walkways. “The roof shape allowed us to create transition spaces around each building that blur the lines between indoor and outdoor areas,” Papay says. “We chose a metal roof for longevity, attractiveness and efficiency properties. Plus, Birmingham used to be the steel capital of the South, so to have it on the buildings was a subtle reference to that local history.”
The new buildings at the school achieved LEED Silver status. Photos: Petersen
The school’s Southern U.S. location was also taken into account, notes Papay. “It was important to find balance between heat gain and glare inside from reflectivity off a neighboring roof, so we had to find the right color that addressed those issues,” he says “In the end we chose PAC-CLAD’s Cool Color Zinc.”
Lake Flato’s approach to building materials is to allow each to express its nature, where steel and wood in this application remain light in appearance. “We want a metal roof to look thin at the edge, so we don’t use heavy fascia. Some people wrap roof edges with fascia and don’t care if its appearance is thick or heavy, but fascia is not part of our approach; we were mindful of the details,” Papay says.
Papay points out that these buildings have subtle geometry shifts to accommodate natural rock groupings on the land. Therefore, he notes, “there was some roof detailing required where it was not turning at 90 degrees with a simple ridge/valley, so there was some metalworking trickery required at that point. Also, we created roof monitors which are smaller elements that required refined metal work. The roof looks great thanks to a great installation job.”
Architects: ArchitectureWorks, Birmingham, Alabama, www.architectureworks.com, and Lake Flato Architects, San Antonio, Texas, www.lakeflato.com
General Contractor: BL Harbert International in Birmingham, Alabama, www.blharbert.com
Roofing Contractor: Quality Architectural Metal and Roofing, Birmingham, Alabama, www.qualityarch.com
Metal Roof Panels: 18-inch-wide, 24-gauge Snap-Clad and Tite-Loc PAC-CLAD panels in Cool Color Zinc by Petersen, www.pac-clad.com
Filed Under: Education, Projects Tagged With: 24-gauge Snap-Clad, ArchitectureWorks, BL Harbert International, Indian Springs School, Lake Flato Architects, petersen, Quality Architectural Metal and Roofing, Tite-Loc PAC-CLAD
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Underrated Film Series - Horror
Well, it's about that time of year folks. Time when my thoughts and fancies drift towards the macabre side of cinema. This is a series I've run before, but who among us can get enough of horror movie lists? Certainly not me. I realize it's only September, but I plan to run this series all through this month right up to Halloween. I personally need a big ramp up when it comes to Halloween and horror movies. I start watching them at the end of the summer and carry on past Thanksgiving sometimes. Heck, I watch horror year-round, but I certainly get more fixated on horror movies around this time of the year. Horror was one of my first darlings as far as movie genres go. It was the kind of movie I was most into in high school and most often rented on VHS. Horror movies for me were a kind of gateway into loving movies in general and they will always have a special place for me.
With this list, I tried to run the gamut a bit with a range of older stuff. thriller-y stuff, animals attack(a genre very close to my heart), some classic films and straight horror. Hopefully you enjoy this list and keep watching Rupert Pupkin Speaks for more horror recommends in the next few months!
P.S. - here's my list from last time:
http://rupertpupkinspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/10/underrated-horror-perhaps-films-you.html
PRIVATE PARTS(1972; Paul Bartel)
Weird, sleazy, atmospheric 'horror hotel' story with more than a little bit of PSCYHO in it. Deserving of cult status. Might be my favorite Paul Bartel film. The atmosphere he creates here is fantastic and I wish he'd attempted more films along these lines for that reason. The lead girl (Ayn Ruymen) reminds me of a cross between Christina Ricci and Karen Allen. Cute and great in the role. Sadly she didn't do too many other films(mostly a lot of TV in the 70s and 80s).
THE MAD MAGICIAN(1954; John Brahm)
If you don't adore Vincent Price then I really just don't know what to tell you. I used to not totally understand Tim Burton's fascination with him, but as I've seen more and more of his work over the years, I've come to truly cherish him all-around. You'll notice that this movie has a kinship with HOUSE OF WAX(which was released the year prior) when you see it. Some similarities along plot lines and both films were exhibited in 3D. Apparently THE MAD MAGICIAN was the first movie to be broadcast on Television in 3D. Why this film is better known is a little baffling to me. The only DVD release it's ever gotten is a Sony MOD. It deserves more. There's some truly vintage Vincent Price here. Also, I wonder if Chris Nolan watched this before working on THE PRESTIGE. Not that the stories are all that similar except for the idea of stealing magicians competing and stealing tricks from each other. Fun flick. Would make an interesting double with CONFESSION OF AN OPIUM EATER. While we're on the subject of underrated Vincent Price movies, I have to recommend THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS as well. Probably my 2nd favorite Invisible Man film after the definitive one with Claude Rains. It is quite solid and folks don't talk about it nearly enough.
OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN(1983; George P. Cosmatos)
Next to DEADLY EYES, I always say this is the best killer rat movie out there. A powerhouse performance from Peter Weller(pre-ROBOCOP and BUCKAROO BANZAI) is what carries this thing as it's all about a man who becomes obsessed with killing a large rat that is fucking up his townhouse. Director George Cosmatos does a fine job here and shows great chops just before he would become known for 80s action classics such as RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II and COBRA(and later TOMBSTONE). A really fantastic little psychological horror film.
THE INCUBUS(1982; John Hough)
From the director of THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE(and also WATCHER IN THE WOODS and DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY) comes this very unsettling and disturbing film about a demon creature that rapes women in a small town. John Cassavetes plays the town doctor. All the performances have this sort of "dead inside"quality that gives the movie this sense fear and dread. Almost like the characters are from a slightly alternate dimension or something. Very effective horror. Some freaky stuff. This was the farewell film that Zack Carlson programmed at the Alamo Drafthouse so I know he's a fan as well:
http://drafthouse.com/movies/terror_tuesday_the_incubus/
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE(1964; Mario Bava)
This was the movie that really got me into Bava. I think I saw it because Quentin Tarantino had bought it on Laserdisc from a video store I was working at. I had heard Bava's name mentioned before(by Tarantino and others), but I think I had only heard of(but not seen) PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES and BLACK SUNDAY. After I saw this crazy giallo predecessor I had to check out more of his stuff. This film is just dripping with style. There's even a shot that I think Sam Raimi stole for EVIL DEAD II(blood on swinging lightbulb). The killer also has great mask that makes him look faceless, which is quite memorable. Also memorable is a dude who looks like the Italian Peter Lorre. Love that guy.
MIDNIGHT OFFERINGS(1981)
One of the better witch-related TV-movies I've ever seen. Melissa Sue Anderson(of Little House on the Prairie) is a deadly evil bitch in this show(and a witch to boot). I was so used to her role on Little House that this caught me off guard. She's really great.
Was turned onto this one by Jeff Nelson over at Scream Factory. Hadn't heard of it before he mentioned it.
THE REFLECTING SKIN(1990; Philip Ridley)
Creepy, David Lynch-ian horror film. The first time I saw it on VHS it kind of knocked me for a loop as it was quite strange and unique in it's vision of what is ostensibly a vampire film(though it's not 100% clear what it is). It got me interested it Philip Ridley for some time afterwards though I've yet to find a film of his I like quite as much as this. Always hoping for a domestic Blu-ray of this one.
MARTIN(1976; George A. Romero)
My favorite Romero film and one that though it has some notoriety among hardcore horror fans, is not known enough. When I heard Romero speak of Hitchcock being a big influence on him, I didn't see it as much in his films as I did when I saw this one. This feels like an artsy, low-budget Hitchockian take on a vampire tale. Nice mix of B&W and color.
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960; David Miller)
This probably falls closer to the thriller side of the line, but it can pass as horror I think and few people ever talk about it. Doris Day is plagued by disturbing phone calls and her husband Rex Harrison is skeptical it's not all in her head. Also stars Myrna Loy, John Gavin and Roddy McDowall. Shot by the great Russell Metty (who was cinematographer on many Sirk films among tons of other good stuff).
PHASE IV (1974; Saul Bass)
Sadly, this is the only feature that Saul Bass ever made. That makes me crazy because I would have loved to have seen what else he would have come up with. With this film he created what is basically an art house take on an animals attack movie. Some ants lay siege to this small desert town and a couple scientists (Michael Murphy & Nigel Davenport) must do their best to combat them. This is one of those movies that is sort of a spellbinding watch. The style and pace with which Bass made it really make it feel unlike most films I've seen. I know it was a big influence on director Panos Cosmatos and his film BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (which is also quite spellbinding). Needs a Blu-ray with the option of seeing the recently found "freak out" ending.
DEATH VALLEY (1982; Dick Richards)
I like to call this movie "THE HITCHER JR", which I think sums it up pretty well for the most part. This was a very early film for the great Peter Billingsley, but anyone expecting a warm-hearted CHRISTMAS STORY-type flick will be in for a rude awakening. This movie puts a kid in peril in a big way! Not that I am in favor of such things, but it is sad to me when we find ourselves in an era where certain films just wouldn't get made, especially on a studio level. Well worth tracking down the Scream Factory Blu-ray on this one.
OGROFF aka MAD MUTILATOR (1983; N.G. Mount)
One of the most hypnotic, mesmerizing pieces of horror what-the-fuckery I've seen in a long time. Sick, trashy killer-on-the-loose stuff. To reductively label it a 'poorly made horror film' does an injustice to not only the film, but to you the potential viewer. Must be sought out. Phil Blankenship (who programs the amazing Heavy Midnites series at Cinefamily) turned me onto this one and I am forever in his debt for it.
BUG (1975; Jeannot Szwaarc)
I think we can all agree that cockroaches are pretty gross and annoying. Well, they're even more so when they are a foot long and can spontaneously start fires. That's what Bradford Dillman (who I always refer to as the poor man's Heston) has to contend with in this William Castle produced nightmare (that uses the Brady house set as one of its locations). Directed by Jeannot "JAWS 2 & SUPERGIRL" Szwarc.
CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957; Jacques Tourneur)
Have you seen DRAG ME TO HELL? Well if you see that film and then watch this one you may notice that Sam Raimi may be a fan. I can't blame him though, it's a great movie and surprisingly affective for the time it was made. I'll bet this movie scared some folks pretty good in 1957 with its special effects. It's expertly directed by Val Lewton alumni Jacques Tourneur and he brings his usual striking visual flair and creepy mood to it in a grand way. Dana Andrews plays a skeptic doctor who must come around to a new belief in the supernatural via his dealings with an evil man called Karswell (a name I've always loved). Also features the lovely Peggy Cummins (of GUN CRAZY fame) which is a nice bonus. French Blu-ray coming later this year.
DAGON (2001; Stuart Gordon)
When you say the word's "fish people" it doesn't necessarily inspire dread or terror. In fact, some of us may think back on comic book ads for sea monkeys and giggle to ourselves. This movie brings respectability back to fish people. They are creepy as hell and truly scary in this movie. One of the lesser exalted Stuart Gordon film adaptations of Lovecraft and that's a shame as I am a big fan.
VENOM (1981; Piers Haggard)
The child-kidnapping plans of a chauffeur (Oliver Reed) and a housekeeper(Susan George) go horribly awry when they are trapped in a house by police with a deadly Black Mamba.
Also headlining: Klaus Kinski as a terrorist and Sterling Hayden (with a full-on LONG GOODBYE beard) as a grandfather. It's a treat to see Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski yelling at each other (I get a sense they perhaps didn't care for each other). This film also has some fun 'snake vision' and snake terror moments peppered throughout. Very much a hybrid of the 'animal attack' and 'siege film' genres.
Edgar Wright discussed this movie for Trailers from Hell a while back:
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958; Arthur Crabtree)
Herbert J. Leder (the writer of this film) must have had a thing for brains. About 10 years after this film, he wrote and directed another brain-related movie called THE FROZEN DEAD about Nazis being unfrozen after 20 years. That film is not nearly as interesting or successful as this one. When you hear about a movie with flying brains attacking people, you probably won't think much of it beyond it being some kind of a joke movie. Brad Bird's film THE IRON GIANT even features an old sci-fi movie about brains attacking people and it is understandably played very much for humor. That's what I thought of when I first sat down to watch this movie, but it surprised me. It is very well made and has moments of genuine scariness that were a pleasant revelation. The brains themselves kill by wrapping their little tentacles around people's throats and choking them. Oh and they fact that they fly around is much freakier than some little crawling creature on the ground. I put this film right up there with the heavyweight sci-fi horror films of the 1950s like CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, THE BLOB and THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD . Truly a good time.
THE CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND (1967; Alfred Vohrer)
Quentin Tarantino programmed this movie on the short-lived Trio Channel when they gave him cart blanche for a week some years ago. I wish someone would have hung onto his little intros and outros for each film because they were of course fascinating. All that I can vaguely recall from his intro for this film is some tidbit about him calling the director Alfred Vohrer the German Hitchcock or something. It's kind of a mystery, creepy-house kind of movie with Klaus Kinski (more Klaus for my list!), but one I enjoyed a good deal.
BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951; Curt Siodmak)
A brawny, evil Raymond Burr works a rubber plantation and decides to off his boss when he is fired. The boss is watched over by an old gypsy woman and she puts a curse on him that turns him into a gorilla. This is a cult favorite of sorts I guess (at least according to Danny Peary's books) which is why I sought it out. The presence of Lon Chaney Jr., Woody Strode and Tom Conway (the Falcon himself) give it a boost too. Written and directed by Curt Siodmak who also wrote THE WOLFMAN, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE and the above-mentioned INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS as well as many others. The film is short and sweet at about 65 mins. Nice double with ISLAND OF LOST SOULS. Appears to be public domain so can be found easily on cheapie dvds and YouTube. I believe Joe Dante is a fan of this one as well.
HOTLINE (1982; Jerry Jameson)
Wonder Woman herself (Lynda Carter) plays a bartender who takes up a job answering phones for a crisis center and finds herself stalked by riddling a serial killer. Nice little mystery thriller with some kills and creepy voices. With any luck, this may show up as a release from the fine folks at Scream Factory some day (I heard Scream's Jeff Nelson mention it as one he'd like to put out in a recent podcast interview).
TENTACLES (1977; Ovidio G. Assonitis)
TENTACLES is pretty much exactly what you might expect from an American International Pictures knockoff of JAWS. Instead of a shark, you've got a rogue octopus of course and it's far from being on the upper tier of JAWS knockoffs, but there's still something fun about it for me. The cast (who must have just wanted an Italian vaction) helps in that it includes John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda and Claude Akins. AIP really wanted to try to make people think this movie was in league with JAWS though - check out the trailer as they even got the same narrator as JAWS (the amazingly iconic Percy Rodriguez):
THE CHILDREN (1980; Max Kalmanowicz)
Some would certainly call this a guilty pleasure, but I have genuine affection for it. Sure, it's a bit silly - a school bus passes through a radioactive cloud and the kids on board become zombie-ish beings who hug to kill. I still think it's a hoot to watch.
THE BEASTS ARE ON THE STREETS (1978; Peter R. Hunt)
Also tepid "horror" at most, this is still a fun 'animals attack' TV movie from the late 70s that I think we can all relate to. Weren't you ever at the zoo looking at the lions and thinking to yourself "what would happen if any if these guys got loose??". Well that's what happens in BEASTS and the animals cut loose on lots of innocent folks on the freeway and it rocks.
MOTHER LODE (1982; Charlton Heston)
Heston directs himself here and teaches us a valuable lesson: Don't Mess With His Gold! I've heard it said that this is basically a Heston slasher film and I kind of agree. It's certainly the closes thing he ever did to one. He plays this kind of half-crazed, grizzled mountain man pretty well for sure.
Labels: Rupert Pupkin Speaks, underrated horror, Underrated Horror Films
Will Errickson said...
Fantastic list! I also developed my love of movies through horror as a teenager. Glad to see REFLECTING SKIN, MARTIN, DAGON, & OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN here - so so good. I haven't seen INCUBUS but I'll tell ya, the original novel, by Ray Russell - he was fiction editor for PLAYBOY back in the day - is outrageously sleazy fun.
http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2011/09/incubus-by-ray-russell-1976-aint-no.html
Tommy Ross said...
Great post! You did it again Rupert. I had not heard of "Martin" by George Romero before, just ordered on Amz, thanks...and Bug is a major 70's classic, actually quite good and very scary, my stepmom was an extra in the first scene inside the church, she's seated on the aisle in pink top...also recently acquired and watched Beast On The Streets from one of your previous posts, classic 70's Television movie, great to see mostly for the locations...thanks again for all your great work!
Really hit-and-miss list, I think. Guess I'll just have to make my own list!
Curse of the Demon may be underseen, but hardly underrated. The Reflecting Skin is a favorite of mine and Fiend Without a Face is truly surprisingly good.
Fun story about Bride of the Gorilla: the actress billed as Giselle Werbisek's real name was Gisela Werbiserk-Piffl. People made fun of her name all the time (a lot of prank calls) and she never understood why.
Torei said...
Great list. Can't believe I've never seen Private Parts.
The Creature With the Blue Hand is what is commonly called a "Krimi," and Germany cranked out dozens of them in the Sixties. The ones Vohrer directed tend to be good, and I'd say the one listed here is one of the best.
I skimmed through my copy of Blood and Black Lace, but couldn't find that pesky light bulb....
The Collector said...
I have been trying to get hold of Incubus since reading the book years again, another on my list of films I need!
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Azerbaijani Helicopter Company approved for external load OGP operations
Posted on April 19th, 2016 by Russian Aviation Insider in Air Transport, Azerbaijan
SWHS is ready to offer new services not only in Azerbaijan, but also in Russia and in South East Asia and Africa (Photo by Silk Way Helicopter Services)
Azerbaijani commercial helicopter operator Silk Way Helicopter Services (SWHS) has reported on its newly received status of official service provider for external load operations involving a cargo sling on offshore and onshore oil and gas platforms, according to Oil &Gas Producers Standard (OGP).
The new status approval enables the company to expand its range of services. The most in-demand services include the replacement of flare stacks on oil and gas platforms and the transportation of oversized loads using a cargo sling to hard-to-reach spots. The works will be performed with the use of a medium-lift helicopter type Sikorsky S-92A.
As was explained to Russian Aviation Insider at SWHS, the helicopter operator had already been licensed by authorities to provide this type of services. A final release for works was obtained by SWHS only after it received a special approval from a client, British Oil&Gas company BP.
“We received an official permit for these works with the use of Mil helicopters long ago and with the use of Sikorsky helicopters not so long ago, but in order to work according to OGP standard, you need to have approval from one of OGP members,” explained a SWHS representative.
Previously, foreign helicopter companies were invited to Azerbaijan to replace flare stacks—from now on, these tasks will be undertaken by SWHS. The operator is ready to offer new services not only in Azerbaijan, but also in Russia, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Along with S-92As, the fleet of the SWHS, based at Zabrat Airport near Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, includes such rotary-wing aircraft as Airbus Helicopter AS332L1 Super Puma, H155 (formerly EC155B1), H135 (EC135P2) and Mi-8 MTV-1/Mi-171. The operator fleets also includes aircraft Cessna Skyhawk 172S.
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Furies, Goddesses of Vengence
The Furies are three terrible ancient Greek goddesses with wings and serpentine hair who pursue and punish people who have done evil and not been punished. In Greek they are called ‘Ερινυς, Ερινυες’. The Eumenides is a euphemism for them. The word ‘Eumenides’ means ‘kindly, well disposed and is from Indo European ‘eu-2’, ‘lacking’ and ‘men-1’, ‘To think’. The word ‘Erinys’ does not seem to have an Indo-European derivation. Eumenides may be a Mycenaean name for Minoan goddesses.
The Furies were just the opposite of rebellious women. They fought
for law and order and punished criminals. They hounded many criminals to their death. Sometimes they are referred to as the Nameless goddesses. The Erinyes, or Furies, were horrible according to Orestes. He said they were all black with long hair like snakes and eyes dripping of blood. Since the Furies are women the religious ceremonies for them must be performed by women. Pausanius (1.28.1) says that the Athenians had a temple to the goddesses which they called August or Venerable but Hesiod calls the Erinyes
or Furies. He says it was Aeschylus who first represented them with snakes in their hair. He also refers to them as underworld deities.
Pausanias says (8.34.1) “XXXIV. As you go from Megalopolis to Messene, after advancing about seven stades, there stands on the left of the highway a sanctuary of goddesses. They call the goddesses themselves, as well as the district around the sanctuary, Maniae (Madnesses). In my view this is a surname of the Eumenides; in fact they say that it was here that madness overtook Orestes as punishment for shedding his mother’s blood. [2] Not far from the sanctuary is a mound of earth, of no great size, surmounted by a
finger made of stone; the name, indeed, of the mound is the Tomb of the Finger. Here, it is said, Orestes on losing his wits bit off one finger of one of his hands. Adjoining this place is another, called Ace (Remedies) because in it Orestes was cured of his malady. Here too there is a sanctuary for the Eumenides. [3] The story is that, when these goddesses were about to put Orestes out of his mind, they appeared to him black; but when he had bitten off his finger they seemed to him again to be white and he recovered his senses at the sight. So he offered a sin-offering to the black goddesses to avert their wrath, while to the white deities he sacrificed a thank-offering.
It is customary to sacrifice to the Graces also along with the Eumenides.”
Hesiod says: “(ll. 802-804) Avoid fifth days: they are unkindly and terrible. On a fifth day, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of
Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bare to trouble the forsworn.”
Hesiod says: “(ll. 176-206) And Heaven came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Earth spreading himself full upon her (7). Then the son from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and
swiftly lopped off his own father’s members and cast them away to
fall behind him. And not vainly did they fall from his hand; for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Earth received, and as the seasons moved round she bare the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming armor, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphs whom they call Meliae (8) all over the boundless earth.”
Homer says: (Odyssey, Book XX) “It should be even as when the
storm winds bare away the daughters of Pandareus. Their
father and their mother the gods had slain, and the maidens
were left orphans in the halls, and fair Aphrodite cherished them with curds and sweet honey and delicious wine. And Here gave them beauty and wisdom beyond the lot of women, and holy Artemis dowered them with stature, and Athene taught them skill in all famous handiwork. Now while fair Aphrodite was wending to high Olympus, to pray that a glad marriage might be accomplished for the maidens,–and to Zeus she went whose joy is in the thunder, for he knows all things well, what the fates give and deny to mortal men–in the meanwhile the spirits of the storm snatched away these maidens, and gave them to be handmaids to the hateful Erinyes.”
Homer says: (Iliad, Book IX) “But my father soon came to know, and
cursed me bitterly, calling the dread Erinyes to witness.”
Homer says: (Iliad, Book XV) “Sensible people are open to argument, and you know that the Erinyes always range themselves on the side of the older person.”
Homer says: (Iliad, Book XIX) “I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely,…”
Homer says (Iliad Book XIX) “that Achilles’ horse responds to his taunt “When he had thus said the Erinyes stayed his speech,…”
In Aeschylus, Eumenides Orestes is tried for murder and Athena states: (line 752) “This man is acquitted on the charge of murder, for the numbers of the casts are equal.” to which the furies reply: (line 778) “Younger gods, you have ridden down the ancient laws and have taken them from my hands!1 And I—dishonored, unhappy, deeply angry” Athena replies to this (799) “Do not be angry, do not hurl your heavy rage on this land, or cause barrenness, letting loose drops whose savage spirit will devour the seed. For I promise you most sacredly that you will have a cavernous sanctuary in a righteous land, where you will sit on shining thrones at your hearths, worshipped with honor by my citizens here.” Then she changes their goals when she says: (line 866) “It is possible for you to choose such things from me: bestowing good, receiving good, well honored in this land that is most beloved to the gods.” and so Athena has changed the Furies to the Eumenides.
Pictures of Furies:
Adolphe William Bouguereau (French 1825-1905)
(German, 1863-1928)
Furies
Orestes and furies
Boris Vallejo
Orestes judged by Athena
Furies and Orestes
Apollo purifies Orestes with blood of a pig at Omphalos of Delphi while Clytemnestra seeks to awaken sleeping furies
The Oresteia Two of the Furies. Costumes by Ricola Wille
Gustave Klimt
Aeschylus, Eumenides, trans. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D., Ed.
Furies, in the Perseus Encyclopedia.
To ask a question about this topic note the topic (Furies) and
Question: names of furies?
Answer: Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto
Question: mother of the furies ?
Answer: The myths have assigned several possible mothers to the Furies including Gaea, Euonyme, Nyx, and Persephone.
Question: what is the story all about
Answer: The ancient Greeks went beyond divine retribution in Hell and included punishment of souls while they were still alive.
Question: Is the death of Agamennon an act of the Furies?
Answer: No. Agamemnon was not pursued by the guilt and torture that the Furies used. The deaths that the Furies caused were self-inflicted.
Question: how many
Answer: 3
Question: Who is the Pholosifer of the Greek play, The Furies?
Answer: The Furies (“Eumenidae”) by Aeschylus.
Question: What did the furies wear?
Answer: Any of the goddesses can wear anything or nothing depending upon their task and mood. There is no stigma against a goddess going nude even in a situation that a human would be humiliated. In the case of a goddess nudity symbolizes purity. For this reason goddesses are often portrayed nude. But the ancient Greeks usually portrayed them in the garments of their civilization, the peplos or chiton. But most of the myths portray them during Mycenaean times. During that time there are more likely to have appeared in Minoan garb. This would have included a fancy flounced skirt, girdle, and vest that revealed the breasts.
Question: were the furies good?
Answer: The furies were just. It is an oversimplification to call them
good, but justice is thought to be good for society.
Question: What story do the Furies come from and where can I buy it?
Answer: The Orestia contains a lot about the Furies.
Question: what is justice in the trilogy
Answer: You should specify which Trilogy but the Greek concept of justice is so general that it will apply to all the trilogies.
Within Divine law there is Natural law and Moral law. Natural laws involve natural events with natural consequences. Examples include heavy things fall toward the center of the earth; fire will burn you; and water will put out a fire. There is nothing to enforce here because the consequence always follows the event. There are other laws that are less certain: grease your wheels or they will fail; do not beat your wife; to avoid sickness dress warmly. Perhaps the gods decide whether to punish if you break on of these laws. Then there
are other laws with uncertain consequences: bury the dead; be kind to strangers; Say a prayer to Demeter before you plant your grain. If the gods don’t enforce these laws, who will? Natural laws have natural consequences while Moral laws are enforced by divine judgment. The Greeks felt that once a divine moral law is identified its enforcement is pleasing to the divinities to enforce it. Human law involves the identification of laws pleasing to the divinities as well as a system of enforcement.
Justice for a divinity is fairly easy. A divinity is all-knowing and
infallible. It is simply a matter of comparing acts with laws and logically determining consequences.
Justice for humans is much more difficult. Deities cannot communicate with humans directly or the humans would become all-knowing like the gods. Rather deities must speak in an encrypted way that must be decoded, often by special priests. This rule applies not only to laws, but also to prophesy. Humans must struggle to know the law, know the facts of an event, and to know what consequences to enable to redress a wrong.
Question: who is the Furies father
Answer: Possibly Uranus, Cronus, or Hades depending on which myth was consulted.
Question: What are The Furies’ symbols?
Answer: Blood and snakes (blood-shot eyes and snakes in the hair)
Question: What is the erynies or furies (tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto) family background….physical description of the family….symbol or representation and summary of related myth…my other questions are the strengths and weaknesses of the furies or erynies, human characteristics, interesting facts. is tisiphone (Furies) a guy or not?
Answer: As with other monsters the Furies are female although their nature is not clear. They are described as disgusting, loathsome creatures, dripping with blood and crawling around on all fours to scent their prey. They also drink blood. Their purpose seems to be to punish those who swear falsely or to punish those who violate family rights. This punishment takes the form of a pursuit rather than any act. They are said to be the daughters of Nyx.
The furies are goddesses and so they should not be said to have strengths and weaknesses. Each has a realm. About this see: http://www.fjkluth.com/power.html
JAkie
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By June Thomas
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Before the Polaroid Co. introduced the Model 95 camera in November 1948, photography was a slow process. Photographers who didn’t have access to a dark room had to send their exposed films away for processing and wouldn’t see their photographs for at least a week. In Instant: The Story of Polaroid, New York magazine’s Christopher Bonanos discusses Polaroid’s visionary founder, Edwin Land; the company’s amazing string of inventions; and its gradual decline. The interview lasts around 30 minutes.
The Afterword, which appears in the Slate daily podcast feed every other Thursday, features interviews with the authors of new nonfiction books. The next guest will be Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. That podcast will be available on Oct. 25.
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Don Ellis Electric Heart DVD 2014: A Must Have Document of Musical Genius
October 17, 2014 | Posted in JAZZ, ORCHESTRAL MUSIC | By Jason Sositko
Underrated Big Band Leader and Film Score Composer
Donald Johnson Ellis was one of the most underrated musicians of the 20th Century. Don unfortunately passed away at the age of 44 during the year 1978.
His early death more than anything else, robbed him of being a household name as a band leader along the lines of Buddy Rich or Maynard Ferguson. Don Has several albums that belong in every Jazz Collection.
When you listen to Don speak at his concerts, which is demonstrated on this DVD, Don’s jovial personality would have worked great on The Tonight Show or some other late night show, perhaps a push into the mainstream like that might have happened had Don lived?
Don ultimately may have had a vision too large to bring to forward, big bands were expensive to keep running, and record labels were about the bottom line, so perhaps Don wasn’t given the push he should have from those record labels?
I admit, I don’t personally know too many people who like large band orchestra music, so that element has a smaller interest to begin with.
Don was a fine trumpeter and a restless musical spirit, who drew inspiration from a range of interests, including but not limited to various word music styles, theirs, and his use of unusual time signatures, became his own signature attribute, and a driving force behind his music.
Don was also one of the first to use electronic instrumentation in a big band, his use of effects like echo on his trumpet in the late 60’s was also a brave move, Don was a real fusion pioneer.
The original 2009 DVD Electric Heart was a long time coming, and a real prize to own in its own right, because of extra bonus documentary footage, and 40 plus minutes of the Don Ellis Reunion Band are included. Personally I think you should just get both. I will concede the 2014 version pictured here is the definitive one to own because of the Ellis San Francisco concert and the new wide-screen transfer, if you can only afford one get the 2014 edition.
Don has a loyal cult following, and they have always believed Don was underrated as it was, but it seems Don is becoming less than even a mere footnote today, he’s almost known more for his work on “The French Connection” than anything else within the mainstream, and most wouldn’t even know that.
Those of you who enjoy band leader Maynard Ferguson will also like Electric Heart, as archival footage is used of Maynard offering some opinions and stories about Don during the time he was in the Ferguson band. Maynard died himself in 2006.
If you’re an Ellis fan, you will be very happy with the documentary, we owe Director John Visuzzi a debt of gratitude.
What you get in this new 2014 DVD
The Feature Documentary.
57 minute bonus concert “Music Art San Francisco”, the 2009 edition only has “Turkish Bath” from this concert.
New widescreen 16:9 presentation. The original 2009 DVD is full screen.
New 16 page booklet, and Arthaus trailers.
Electric Heart DVD Trailer
Photo Credit: Via Amazon.com- Don Ellis Electric Heart 2014 DVD
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J.E. Vizzusi
per: Don Ellis – Electric Heart
“It is of great sadness to report the passing of Gunther Schuller, the Pulitzer Winning Musical Artist, Composer-Arranger-Writer and creator of the term “The Third Stream” in Jazz.” If there is a single person responsible for the Discovery of Don Ellis it would be Schuller whom recognized Don’s talents when Ellis was at Boston University and got him to be hired for The Young Peoples Concerts and Schuller’s -Journey into Jazz-. In 2006 I interviewed Gunther for my Film Electric Heart. It was a amazing experience to see and hear first hand a true genius of jazz speaking in those same terms about Don Ellis. Schuller gave jazz the opportunity to expand itself into a new art form. He wrote compositions that merged Jazz-Classical and very odd metered arrangements. And it was Ellis that was able to learn from Schuller and adapt that same assignment to move ahead the genre. Gunther Schuller is the foundation of the music of Don Ellis. See my Tribute to Gunther Schuller of the entire sequence from Don Ellis – Electric Heart DVD from Arthaus Musik.
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Thanks for the comment John: It was indeed sad news the passing of Gunther Schuller. Thank you for your Brilliant DVD, One of the few DVDs I return to on a regular basis.
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The New Toyota Supra: A Styling Analysis
January 20, 2019 by Matt
I have thoughts about this.
So many thoughts.
As a former Mark 3 (’86-’92) Supra owner, I feel like I have some purchase here, a little more skin in the game, so to speak, with respect to the new (A90) Supra’s design. So here goes:
1) The nose is aggressive and beautiful. The grille-less treatment reminds me of two cars: The facelift (’89-’92) “Klingon nose” Mark 3 Supra, and, weirdly, the first-generation Lexus SC—one of the loveliest cars to come out of Japan.
2) The headlights are distinctively-shaped (more on that later) and have the potential to become a Supra trademark should the lineage continue.
3) The large center grille opening is just begging for an intercooler to show behind the black mesh.
4) These cuts atop the fenders are a little fussy, but they take some visual weight out of the area and carry hints of the Ferrari F12’s “aero bridge” in the same region.
5) Overall the car looks much smaller than it is. Credit the relatively high fender line and tucked-in fastback shape for that.
6) The car’s signature styling element is the way the fastback is pulled in to expose the rear wheel arches. Brilliantly, the S-line from the base of the front wheels, through the cut on the door and up over the rear fenders is echoed in the shape of the DRLs and tops of the headlights. It’s a perfect way to make the car’s design more cohesive.
7) The greenhouse, with its double-bubble roof, blacked-out A-pillars and quarterlights that taper to a point, is pure Toyota 2000GT.
8) I’m surprised but glad Toyota decided against bringing back the Mark 4 Supra’s four “pool ball” taillight treatment. It wouldn’t jive with the A90’s themes and I’m happy they moved on with a more understated look.
9) The ducktail hints at the shape of the Mark 4’s hoop spoiler without being nearly so tacky. I’m sure special editions of the A90 and tuners will stack an additional spoiler on top.
10) Bonus points for wheels that aren’t totally black, even if the alternating black-silver spoke pattern is a little strange.
11) Really wish Toyota had put a some effort into distinguishing the engine cover from that of its corporate cousin, the BMW Z4. A little more homage to the 2JZ (the Mark 4’s legendary mill) would have gone a long way here…
12) In contrast to the exterior, the interior appears a rather dour and conservative place, like Toyota ran out of styling capital with the car’s inside incomplete, so they just tweaked and dressed up the Z4’s cabin (which is probably close to the truth). That said, the Mark 4’s interior always struck me as plasticky and haphazard, so at least the A90 improves on its predecessor a little.
13) The Toyota emblem looks lost in the middle of a giant round airbag cover, like a “shoebox airbag” from the ’90s.
14) This element is on the wrong side of the console; it actually separates the driver from the console’s controls in favor of the passenger. Very odd. Both the A70 and A80 Supra’s consoles swoop around the driver and create a “cockpit” environment—the opposite of what’s going on with the A90. One thing’s for sure: If Toyota ever decides to fit the new car with a manual (here’s hoping), that little buttress is going to get in the way when shifting. A statement of intent perhaps?
Overall, I love the A90’s design; it’s forward-looking while drawing on Toyota’s styling heritage. I still think the exterior styling is more resolved than the interior, but in any case, I can’t wait to see them out on the road.
Image credits: netcarshow.com
Transcending Badge Appeal: Kia Stinger
January 2, 2019 by Matt
I want one. I don’t even care that it’s a Kia.
It’s almost like a latter-day Pontiac G8 or Chevy SS: A good-looking, well-executed sports sedan with the ingredients in all the right places (longitudinal engine, RWD or AWD, great proportions and distinctive details) but doomed to irrelevancy because of the market’s enduring obsession with SUVs and crossovers.
As usual, it’s a shame, since Kia deserves to be rewarded for their daring attempt to take on the upmarket cadre of established sports sedan players. It’s a smarter move than meets the eye, also; instead of copying to a tee something like the BMW 3-series (see: Cadillac ATS), Kia went for a more classically American feel, like a hybrid of the larger BMW 5-series and a Dodge Charger. With the latter at the bitter end of its life cycle, assuming buyers are willing to consider the Kia (and that’s a big assumption), the Stinger would seem to be well-poised to capture a chunk of that market niche.
Sadly, what with the aforementioned fixation on Sitting Up High™ (read: SUVs and crossovers), I just don’t see the Stinger gaining any appreciable traction in the market. It certainly doesn’t help that sister brand Genesis has just released the G70, built on the same platform, but more dynamically polished and available with a manual transmission (though not with the twin-turbo V6 engine option). The Stinger is much nicer to look at than the G70, but the latter has landed not only a spot on Car and Driver‘s annual 10Best list, but also been named Motor Trend‘s Car of the Year. The automotive world just isn’t fair.
The upshot for an enthusiast like myself is that depreciation will probably be very high, especially considering the lack of badge cachet, so a used purchase in a few years could be a realistic proposition. I’d love a slate gray RWD GT model with the twin-turbo V6. The lack of a manual option is a debit, but the compelling design makes up for it. Add the inevitable rarity caused by its position as the black sheep of the sports sedan marketplace, and the potential exists for the Stinger to remain a special car.
For a great review, check out Doug DeMuro’s thorough rundown on the car and all its quirks and features:
No Stickshift for New Z4:
What is BMW thinking?
December 23, 2018 by Matt
Buried in Car and Driver‘s report on the new BMW Z4 is this little gem of a statement:
Sadly, there is no manual-transmission option; a ZF eight-speed automatic will be the only transmission…
It’s not entirely unexpected given that the upcoming BMW 3-series, the G20, is equally bereft of a manual transmission option, but the fact that it isn’t even an option for the Z4 is utterly baffling to me. The new BMW roadster is positioned as the most driver-focused, most “compromised” car in the automaker’s lineup, so why shouldn’t every option that fosters driver engagement be at least available? Especially if the car’s primary targets—the Porsche 718 Boxster/Cayman twins—practically flaunt their third pedals by comparison…
What if tomorrow Mazda announced it was discontinuing the manual option on the MX-5 Miata? Or Toyota decided to pull the plug on the 86’s stickshift? I understand rowing your own gears is a dying art, and completely void of any kind of performance advantage the way it used to be. Still—if an automaker positions itself as the enthusiast’s choice; offers a model purporting to carry the top-down, classic roadster torch; and wants to maintain any kind of enthusiast cred whatsoever, it should develop a manual option for that model, even if the take rate is too low to make sense economically. Sell a few more X5s and you’ll break even, BMW.
The other thing that confuses the hell out of me is the fact that BMW offers a manual option with all 2-series models—an arguably less driver-focused and certainly more practical car than the Z4. But that could just be a “legacy transmission” BMW keeps on the option sheet until the next-generation 2-series bows a year or two from now…
The new Z4’s performance is irrelevant. I don’t care if it laps the ‘Ring five minutes faster than the old car, the steering brings back the classic BMW feel and the (admittedly turbocharged) I6 under the hood sings from the classic BMW engine hymnal—without a manual transmission option, it’s nothing more than a boulevardier, a car for retirees to cruise along the A1A at sunset with the top down. It’s a shame.
An Update on E46 Life
May 2, 2017 by Matt
Well into my 16th month of BMW 330i ownership, and things are as rosy as ever.
Over the past year and a bit and 17K miles, the car’s thrown a bunch of issues at me, but nothing too difficult to diagnose or solve. And it drives as well as ever—better in fact, since a number of parts such as cracked intake boots were replaced, and they were likely in the process of failing when I purchased the car.
The two biggest game-changers when respect to diagnosis and repair are the OBD2 app I purchased for my iPod, along with a transmitter interface that connects to the car’s OBD2 port; and the smoke tester I used to locate the vacuum leaks that were the source of a number of issues a month ago. The E46’s M54 engine is very sensitive to vacuum leaks, and if one is present, it can throw a variety of lean and misfire codes that make no sense as the DME (ECU) tries to adjust various parameters to compensate for the unmetered air. Hence the first course of action once the “check engine” light illuminates is usually to hook up the smoke tester and try to suss out a leak. I bought the $90 model from this site and couldn’t be happier. The only alternatives are the cheap YouTube method using a cigar and a hand pump, or shelling out many hundreds of dollars for a shop-quality smoke tester. The Stinger unit is very easy to use and does exactly what I need it to do. Highly recommended for anyone who drives a car with a mass airflow sensor or air flow meter and depends on a leak-free intake.
There are still a number of outstanding issues to tackle in the coming months, as time and finances allow:
I put a nice little crease in the driver’s rocker panel when the car slipped off the jack cradle when I was replacing the shift bushings last year. So that’ll need to be replaced.
The cowl piece surrounding the base of windshield wipers is crumbling. No leaks; just an eyesore.
The whole car could use a good detail. Finding time to do it properly is probably my biggest challenge.
Another E46 owner very generously gifted me an adapter to connect an AUX input to the factory wiring for a CD changer. Need to install.
The AM (and FM) radio reception is marginal. Need to diagnose and fix.
The passenger-side front inner fender liner is still missing. It’s tough to find a replacement compatible with the rare-ish MTech1 bodykit.
Long-term, I’d like to replace the shift pin detents inside the transmission in order to cure a persistent notchy shifting issue, but that will require dropping the trans. Maybe when the clutch goes…
Would like to install an M3 steering wheel. This is a direct replacement, is more attractive than the Sport wheel, and it has molded-in hand grips, which I like.
There’s a small A/C leak somewhere. I recharged the system last summer, and when the weather turned warm again this spring, I discovered the A/C was warm again. A couple of cans of R134a later and it’s ice-cold, but it still means I have a leak somewhere.
I still love driving it, even if it’s my daily driver. It still turns my head when I’m walking away; the proportions are dead-nuts perfect. My automotive promiscuity still rears its ugly head from time to time, but a quick reminder of what I’m driving and the desire to acquire something else subsides. On that last point, one mental technique that works especially well is to remind myself of how much I miss various car’s I’ve owned and sold, and then to extrapolate that to imagine how much I would miss the E46 if I sold it. It’s a safe bet that the feeling of regret associated with unloading the 330i would trump that of any other car I’ve sold. She’s still a keeper.
Boring or Brilliant? Ferrari 456
November 20, 2016 by Matt
Is it an understated study in minimalism and proportion, or an overly-timid effort by a design house whose visual currency is Italian passion? The Ferrari 456, produced from 1992-1997, and from 1998 to 2003 in upgraded 456M guise, was the automaker’s top-of-the-line grand tourer, designed to convey two occupants (and their small children in the occasional rear seats) across continents in peerless style at breathtaking speed. Capable of cruising effortlessly for hours at triple-digit speeds, Ferrari equipped the 456 with its most powerful non-supercar mill, a 5.5l, 442-hp V12, and the car could be specified with either a 6-speed gated manual or a 4-speed automatic. The cabin is supremely comfortable and the chassis brilliantly capable, especially considering the car’s two-ton curb weight.
All that said, is it exciting enough to warrant a place alongside Ferrari’s greatest? There’s little dispute the car the 456 replaced in the automaker’s lineup, the unlamented yet underrated 412, is generally considered a sub-par effort, so the 456 arrived unburdened by the expectations inherent in following a truly outstanding Ferrari. Also, the market niche the 456 occupies is slightly different than that targeted by Ferrari’s bread-and-butter models like the contemporary F355, with a prospective buyer a bit more reserved, perhaps less interested in a hair-raising joyride than drivers of the smaller Ferraris.
Still, the idea of a Ferrari means something to enthusiast community, and given the strength of the brand, to the wider public as well: Speed, passion, excitement and a touch of flamboyance. Does the 456 live up to that preconception? I think it does, but it takes patience to extract those qualities from its shape and demeanor. The dramatic side cuts on the flanks of the car, for instance, and the way the character lines on its flanks change from concave to convex as they move back toward the rear—these elements admirably bridge the design gap between Ferrari’s outré ’80s and more restrained ’90s visual vocabulary. I love the way the 456’s proportions are allowed to come to the fore, accented with touches like the fender-top vents (sadly eliminated for the 456M) and the very obviously staggered 5-spoke wheels.
Above all, the 456 looks timeless and tailored, like an Armani suit, a shape with far more longevity than either the 412 that preceded it or its successor, the truly awful 612 Scaglietti. Would it look out of place in Ferrari’s current lineup? Perhaps—but the 456’s owners can rest easy knowing they have the pleasure of driving one of Ferrari’s truly classic shapes. And given my penchant for big GTs, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t more than a bit jealous.
Image credits: classicandperformancecar.com, sportscarbible.com, autozine.com, autowpaper.com
Movie Stars: The McLaren P1
October 22, 2016 by Matt
Editor’s note: Content advisory (language) in the clip above.
McLaren’s P1 hypercar is featured in the music video for The Weeknd’s new single, but it’s not the only piece of high-dollar machinery name-dropped by the Canadian R&B artist.
Overlaying the insistent beat, the singer seems to simultaneously flaunt and lament his fortune and what it’s turned him into. The video mirrors this concept, showing The Weeknd at first reveling in the tokens of his fame before systematically trashing them after the first chorus. The cars escape the carnage, and it’s a good thing, too, since the singer shows excellent automotive taste. He mentions his Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, Bentley Mulsanne and of course, the aforementioned P1 in the song, and gives us a glimpse of the first two before a lovely nighttime montage of the McLaren driving down Mulholland Drive with The Weeknd at the wheel. The nighttime setting gives the P1 an opportunity to display its quasi-alien lines and driving light arrangement to good effect, and nicely compliments the surreal tone of the video. Billboard reports the British carmaker was unaware the singer would include the car in his video, but was pleasantly surprised at the free publicity. All-in-all, it’s a worthwhile fusion of visuals and music, with some very heavy-hitting automotive iron thrown in.
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series discussing cars which featured prominently on film or television. Read the other installments here:
McLaren P1 (The Weeknd’s “Starboy” music video)
Ferrari 328 (Sleigh Bells’ “Infinity Guitars” music video)
Maserati Biturbo 425i (Licence to Kill)
The cars of Back to the Future Part II
Aston Martin DB5 (James Bond franchise)
Sunbeam Alpine Mark I (To Catch a Thief)
Adams Probe 16 (A Clockwork Orange)
I Hate Black Wheels on Cars
It’s over. Done. Played. The party’s over. The fad has reached its tipping point, its 15 minute of fame are up, etc etc.
Black wheels, I mean. Cannot stand them. I maintain that they were never attractive to begin with, but even allowing for the ebb and flow of popular taste, the trend is decidedly far past its expiration date.
Why the hate? Simple: When the wheels are painted black, the wheel design does not stand out and does not complement the car’s lines. Might as well be running steelies with no hubcaps. Especially complicated wheel shapes, which otherwise would harmonize with the styling of the vehicle to which they’re fitted simply disappear in a mass of black nothingness.
This epidemic is present everywhere, from expected places like wheel-and-tire ads in magazines to muscle cars even to factory fitment on $100K luxury SUVs like Jaguar’s new F-Pace (above). Visually, it does not work and has never worked. The design intent may be to make the car seem more badass and muscular, but the effect is to erase any visual gains by making the car seem like it has an egregious brake dust problem on all 4 wheels.
It’s time for a de-escalation of the wheel size arms race anyway, and a side effect of black wheels is to camouflage its true diameter. Perhaps if a car’s wheels flaunted a brighter finish, people would recoil in horror at their vehicle’s stonking rollers and demand a bit more tire sidewall. One can only hope…
Image credits: autocar.co.uk, bauercdn.com
Local Finds: 1974 Opel Manta Rallye
October 7, 2016 by Matt
It’s always nice to see an example that’s obviously received some care and feeding during its lifetime. Most Spannerhead readers know I have a real soft spot for the Opel Manta, so I was pleased when this ad popped up.
The seller is asking $4,200, an entirely reasonable price for a Manta in the condition shown, especially since—by the seller’s description—there’s very little rust, and none of it structural. The color doesn’t really appeal, but the paint appears to be in good nick. If I bought it, I would consider painting the hood to match; the black hood was part of the “Rallye” trim package and doesn’t really jive with the brown.
The above really represents the Manta’s best view. The mini-pony car proportions are shown to good effect and the simple, cohesive lines draw together nicely at the rear. I don’t even mind the federally-mandated crash bumpers. Are they big? Sure. Would I prefer the thin chrome bumpers fitted to the 1970-1972 cars? Yes I would. But they’re not a dealbreaker.
I believe the seats are aftermarket pieces, or at least not original to the Manta, although they look period and quite comfortable to boot. The aformentioned Rallye trim package includes a tachometer and additional auxiliary gauges.
The car is equipped with a 1.9l CIH 4-cylinder engine and a 3-speed automatic transmission. As much a fan as I am of rowing my own gears, I’d gladly make an exception for the Manta, since the whole point of ownership isn’t about performance so much as style and presence. When it was first released, the Manta boasted very competent handling, but nowadays an average modern family sedan could wipe the asphalt with it in the corners. Owning and driving one, then, would be about cruising and enjoying the elemental feel of a little gem of a car from the 1970s.
Datsun 240Z Restoration: Dashless
September 8, 2016 by Matt
The dash came out a few weeks ago with little drama. After unhooking the HVAC ducting and removing (what I thought) were all the fasteners, I disconnected the cables from the heater box and tried to pull it out. No dice. Turns out there are a pair of bolts at the very corners of the dash pad up near the base of the windshield that I had missed. These removed and a little elbow grease brought the whole assembly out the passenger door without much trouble.
Once out, I took out the heater box. Many of the flappers were rusted in place; will have to go over this, free them up and recondition. I removed the firewall insulation, fresh air ducts and hooked up the steering column again. The brake and clutch pedals and a few other things are attached to the column mounting bracket. Once it’s removed they’ll come down too.
All the car’s wiring harnesses converge behind the glovebox area, so it took a fair amount of labeling with blue tape to keep everything straight. I’ve been religious about keeping fasteners in labeled bags, but it occurred to me that I’ve been neglectful in simply keeping a record of the sequence in which components have been removed from the Z. Without this, it’s going to be a real mystery come reassembly time as far as what gets reinstalled first. Beyond the remaining few bits I need to remove under the rear of the car, my task now, before too much time passes, is to go over the car and remember the order in which I removed bits. Shouldn’t been too hard, and even if I’ve forgotten a thing or two, whatever I have should be a good guideline to go by.
Editor’s note: This post is Part 24 of an ongoing series chronicling my efforts toward the restoration of my 1972 Datsun 240Z, originally my father’s. Read the other installments here:
Part 23: Gutting the Interior
Part 22: The Teardown Begins
Part 21: …And the Engine Comes Out
Part 20: Treasure Hunting
Part 19: Beginnings
Part 18: VIN Discoveries
Part 17: The Bad News
Part 16: On The Road
Part 15: Getting It Back On The Road
Part 14: It Lives!
Part 13: Restoring the Fuel System
Part 12: Meat on the Wheels
Part 11: Inspiration (Sort Of)
Part 10: Carbs’ Return
Part 9: First Triad Z Club Meet
Part 8: Wheel Work
Part 7: Tactical Changes
Part 6: Little Things
Part 5: Coming Home
Part 4: The Rollout
Part 3: Confessions of a Poor Car Enthusiast
Part 2: Opening the Tomb
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Second-Hand Hearts: Hal Ashby’s Total Heart Failure
May 13, 2014 · by Evil Genius · in Hal Ashby Fan Club. ·
This is the only poster that exists for the theatrical release of Second-Hand Hearts
I once knew a guy who had his whole set of viscera scraped out and replaced with canned pears. You’d be more likely to see him smiling at the cinema than Second-Hand Hearts—the first of Hal Ashby’s films to suffer total heart failure.
Forget second-hand, you couldn’t grow a pristine heart in a lab from the tears of angels that could salvage this turkey. That is totally fascinating given who Hal Ashby was and what he’d accomplished—both before and after Second-Hand Hearts.
Cracking the Rib Cage
I am massive fan of Ashby’s—so much so that I’ve studied not only his mind–flogging masterpieces but also his D.O.A. collection: 8 Million Ways to Die, Lookin’ to Get Out, and the truly abysmal The Slugger’s Wife. This one, his first failure, Second-Hand Hearts, was the last one of Hal Ashby’s features I needed to see. It was difficult to get ahold of and for good reason.
Second-Hand Hearts is not a good film. Upon release in 1981 it played briefly in New York and Los Angeles and then got buried by Lorimar. The film has only been available on home media since 2013, and then only as a print-on-demand title.
So I demanded.
Ashby and Blake on the Second-Hand Hearts set
After killing it throughout the 1970s, Ashby’s career tanked in the ’80s. People attribute this decline on many things—antiestablishmentarianism, drug abuse, early family trauma—but the fact remains that Hal Ashby made some of the world’s best and worst films. Not only that, but, in the specific case of Second-Hand Hearts, he made them consecutively. Good. Bad. Good.
Coming Home came out in 1978 and won three Academy Awards. Undisputed masterpiece Being There hit theaters next in 1979. But in between those two cinematic gems Hal Ashby shot Second-Hand Hearts. It just didn’t come out—such that it did at all—until 1981.
Those extra two years weren’t enough to salvage the patient. The film is a tone-deaf calamity, not as horrid as The Slugger’s Wife, but so ill-judged as to raise serious questions:
How can the same man who made Harold & Maude and Shampoo helm such a rancid turkey and then go on to make what may be his best film?
Much of the film is hard to discern, visually and intellectually
Ashby had always been a director with a light touch; he allowed actors room to find their own footing, encouraging exaggerated takes to find focus, and then applying his mastery of editing to draw out quirky, humanist tales from the subtler material in between. Scuttlebutt from the Second-Hand Hearts set reported, however, that stars Robert Blake and Barbara Harris loathed each other.
Not good news for an off-beat romance.
Second-Hand Hearts was written by Charles Eastman, based on his own shorter script filmed for television in 1968—then called The Hamster of Happiness. It aired as part of the NBC Adventures in Television anthology series, so one must presume both that Ashby saw it and that it contained something compelling.
I’d like to say that Second-Hand Hearts likewise contains something compelling, but you’ve been so nice to me and I’m not comfortable lying to your face.
Second-Hand Hearts starts with an early warning sign of impending doom: a crawl of explanatory text. Text like this is usually either totally superfluous (Star Wars) or a desperate attempt to give the viewer a leg up onto what is an otherwise unintelligible slog. What we have here is both:
You are about to meet…..
LOYAL MUKE…a man at the end of his rope, a drifter, a boozer, a bum! Loyal’s been lookin’ for somethin’ for so long, he’s forgot that’s what he was doing. At the moment, Loyal, is the triple threat man at a local, El Paso, car wash.
Then you will meet…..
DINETTE DUSTY…Mother of Jim Bob’s brood. Also, his widow. Necessity left Dinette’s kids – HUMAN, IOTA and SANDRA DEE – over in New Lizard, with Jim Bob’s folks VOYD and NELL DUSTY. And it left Dinette in El Paso, a woman desperate to be with her children.
And this is a story about…..
What happened after Loyal and Dinette, who didn’t know each other, went over to Juarez and got married last Tuesday. Or was it Wednesday? Loyal does remember hittin’ it pretty hard on Tuesday.
See? Not auspicious.
The picture kicks in with a hung over Loyal (Robert Blake) trying to get through a day at the car wash. He doesn’t make it, puking up inside someone’s car exactly as ‘directed by Hal Ashby’ appears on the screen.
Congratulations! You’re married!
Mayhaps we can take that as a sign that Ashby was aware of what a stinker he’d made? Although he’s not credited as editor, and it doesn’t feel like he edited it (the editing sucks), so just as likely it’s someone else’s pre-release review.
Loyal gets canned. He goes to the honky-tonk where he skulks around Dinette (pronounced to rhyme with Betty; Barbara Harris), who is screeching on stage in a big blonde wig. Turns out, they got married. It also turns out that Loyal spent too much time as a kid chewing thermometers or something as he is a bona fide idiot nincompoop. The barely acquainted couple fumble around forever in a scene that establishes that they haven’t had sex yet, that divorce is expensive, and that Dinette will cut Loyal loose if he takes her to get her kids mumble mumble California.
So that’s our premise: mismatched couple on the road. To add spice: it’s difficult to understand what either of them says or why. You’re challenged to deduce why someone as decrepit and moronic as Loyal might enable Dinette to head on over to New Lizard to retrieve her children, but all signs point to ‘he has a car.’
I guess we’re going to California?
After this opening, it is difficult to say what happens, and I mean that literally. I backed up the DVD a few times trying to understand what characters were saying. Here’s what I deduce: Loyal and Dinette go get the kids, who are indeed named Human, Iota, and Sandra Dee—although the oddness of this is never commented upon or explained. Jim Bob’s mom is in the hospital, but his dad, Voyd (Bert Remsen), is hanging about the grocery/lunch counter he operates. Also there is someone shrewish who most likely is Dinette’s sister-in-law, in from Florida. The kids don’t speak much, particularly Human, who never speaks.
It seems his dad got killed in a nasty car wreck in front of him.
Loyal drinks a lot. A scene at a cemetery indicates that Jim Bob’s mom died but this occurrence does not translate into Loyal and Dinette inheriting the lunch counter as anticipated. Loyal puts a gun to his head and Dinette does her best to talk him into not killing himself so he can drive the whole clan to California. He can’t, he says, but who knows why?
That same person, if he or she exists, probably also knows why Dinette wants to go to California, or why she desperately wants to be with her kids, whom she doesn’t speak to much.
Just taking my tire out for a walk.
I do know this, however: watching Robert Blake as Loyal is like trying to discuss advanced physics with Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley. He behaves like a schizophrenic who can’t decide which of the Three Stooges presently controls his consciousness. Most often, it’s Curly or Larry, but Moe is in there, too. To accentuate this, he wears a Jughead-style crown cap and talks in a squeaky voice. Barbara Harris’ Dinette is less horrific, but if you woke up married to her you’d feign an aneurism, and then you’d let them bury you before you admitted you were just faking.
Then there’s a scene in which everyone appears to be on Quaaludes, or maybe it was just me. Loyal waltzes alone around the parking lot at night and that’s obviously a powerful moment for him because in the next scene they’re packing for California. Stretching the limits of my associative powers, I’m guessing his lack of a dance partner suggests loneliness and that in turn indicates a willingness to stick with Dinette?
Anyway, they drive. Dinette flaps her gums a lot. They get a flat. Loyal fixes it but the spare is no good! Wah! He runs far off into the desert like Benny Hill. Then there is another scene.
I don’t think this shot was in the movie but I may have fallen asleep and missed it.
In this other scene, they eat some food or something. Loyal says he needs to check on the car and then there’s a shot of the car driving away. Did he ditch them as Dinette anticipated? Nope. There was just a scene missing or something. Get used to it. Or don’t. It doesn’t seem like anyone much cares what the hell you understand, or feel, or think about this film.
Finally, after about an hour, the film settles into a little bit of drama. Our proto-family runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere at night. Loyal wants to walk into town to get gas but Dinette is terrified he’ll abandon them. He goes anyway, hitching a ride when a truck pulls over, and Dinette literally lies in the road to stop him—but behind the truck? This may be intended to be comic? Was this one of Ashby’s exaggerated takes that he never intended to be included but which the editor stuck in anyway?
That sort of thing happened a lot when Ashby didn’t get to edit his own stuff. A majority of 8 Million Ways to Die is explained by it.
I dunno? Third base!
After some rigmarole, Loyal ends up in the home of a Latino family, trying to mooch a ride into town. They offer to call their brother to take him, but Loyal gets spooked and flees. This is one of two inexplicably horrible things in Second-Hand Hearts. The Mexican-Americans aren’t threatening in any way. It’s an older mother on the couch with a passel of young kids. A young adult male is helping to translate and offering to call his brother. This terrifies Loyal so much so that he hides from passing cars as he runs into town—but then he is a moron and his racism isn’t too hard to believe.
It’s only later that the film approves his racism. But first there’s a wacky scene in which Loyal fails to buy gas from a man whose hearing aid doesn’t work. He finally makes it out back to where he left Dinette only to find her and the car gone. Drunk, he goes to the police station where he reports his family hijacked by the Latino family. So the police drive him out there so they can be accused of a crime that doesn’t even make sense. All that’s pretty believable, actually. So is the cops driving Loyal and a bunch of (presumed?) illegals from the family to the edge of town to get lost.
What’s ugly is the fact that then a bunch of young men—brothers in the family?—pile into a beat up truck to chase Loyal down for the affront. Seriously? Is there a reason to justify Loyal’s racist terror of an amicable family of Spanish speakers? I’m going to go with: no.
Meanwhile, Dinette and her kids have been rescued by Maxie (a lonely, middle-aged woman who was abandoned as a child by her parents) and her creepy teenager. Dinette thinks Loyal ditched them, but he just got delayed by his idiocy. Maxie takes them all to church, tries to convince them to stay on with her, and is generally pretty nice. Her son, on the other hand, molests Human in the back of a junked car.
I had to rewind the disc to make sure that that’s what really happened. Yep. That’s what happened. The boy who doesn’t talk is sexually assaulted and that leads to absolutely nothing. Is Ashby commenting on the abuses silently endured by ‘humanity?’ How this nastiness relates to what is supposed to be a romantic comedy—granted one devoid of either romance or comedy—escapes me.
What are we kidding? We got us a family here!
On a basic character level, this is the bottom falling out of the film. Dinette’s whole motivation is love for family, but she hasn’t shown much love or awareness for any of them. All she’s displayed is erratic neediness. Here, her emotionally traumatized son is further assaulted and she doesn’t even notice.
Dinette and Loyal finally get reunited at a rustic rest stop, with the Latino boys still in pursuit. The couple reconciles and then attempts to flee. Driving down the highway, with the truck close behind, we find the film’s climax. Dinette urges Loyal to drive faster. He cannot. She asks him to try, to put his foot down on the gas pedal, but he cannot. Then, miraculously, he can. He tries! They leave the truck and the Latinos in the dust!
That’s it. That’s the happiest moment in Loyal’s life thus far. He achieved something, that thing being applying increased weight to his right foot so as to exceed 60 mph. In the film, this changes everything. Loyal can now imagine not being such a total loser. Dinette rests her head on his shoulder and their affection for each other finds tangibility.
At a roadside zoo, Loyal buys the family a hamster, which gift makes Human smile for the first time in the film. They make it to California and, driving through the mountains, are happy.
I’m sorry. We tried everything we could. This film just couldn’t be saved. Its heart was too damaged. We attempted to transplant a second-hand one, but the body of the work rejected it completely. We even had cinematographer Haskell Wexler shoot the film full of whatever he could scrounge, but it wasn’t enough.
Second-Hand Hearts died, really, before it even made it to post-production. It was too weak to live.
One might surmise that Ashby, a hands-off leader, needed talent and chemistry to foster—talent that was simply lacking here. Maybe he allowed his predilection for chemicals to run him too far off course, or he chose source material that he couldn’t make congeal. He may even have been confronted with antagonistic oversight that he chose not to fight—keeping him from editing his own work.
Whatever happened, it wasn’t a permanent deterioration. Hal Ashby came back from Second-Hand Hearts with Being There. I think that—if it weren’t for his early death—he would have come back from his later, more prolonged slump as well.
What Ashby needed was the support and trust of his team. With that, he worked wonders. Without it, we get Second-Hand Hearts.
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4 responses on “Second-Hand Hearts: Hal Ashby’s Total Heart Failure”
Ahjones November 8, 2018 at 1:23 pm · · Reply →
Can’t argue with this review, but I cut this film and you’re insane if you think anyone ever had a moment of control over it but Hal. He was passionate about the highly flawed script, used the same top production team he used on Being There, and cut both films simultaneously in the house, which he owned. We did everything a human could do to suck blood from this stone. It was hopeless. The film got off on the wrong foot from the first day of dailies. Hal knew it and didn’t come to the room for months. He went on to Being There, prepped and shot it without facing what was then the first of his colossal failures. It was, I believe, an effort to return to the territory of Harold and Maude. He was a stylist who needed a great script, well cast. He had neither in this case. Barbara Harris was crazy, couldn’t hit a mark or take direction. Robert Blake was the same take after take, mannered and overacting. I’m curious why you think it incomprehensible a great director can follow good films with bad ones. Have you never seen “Bringing out the Dead,” or “Always?”
Evil Genius November 8, 2018 at 3:32 pm · · Reply →
THANK YOU Amy for writing.
You’re well within rights to suggest I’m insane, and I do apologise for the crack about the editing — although I did also guess that the film was a wreck well before it made it to post, so I feel slightly less horrible. But: as an outside observer with practically zero evidence to go on beyond what made it to the screen, all I can do is try to understand. Make hypotheses and see if, upon reflection, they make sense.
Here, I see I was wrong in at least some regards, so I’ll apologize again.
I’ve been fascinated by Hal Ashby and his work for years. If you read other stuff on this site, you’ll see that affection is genuine. I desperately want to understand not how a great director can make a bad film, because that’s obvious, but how Ashby fell so far so fast. There’s a lot of dubious rumor out there and the recent doc Ashby was helpful, but still: I feel in the dark. Knowing that this one was completely in his control is new information to me, and that’s information that’s fascinating.
I’d love to hear more of your story. If you wanted, I’d love to tell it, too. This isn’t a great film, but it is one that can illuminate what has been, to me at least, a mystery.
You were there. You know. You don’t owe me anything, but if you wanted to reach out, I’d love to talk with you. If not, thanks for sharing and putting another piece in this puzzle for me.
csellman February 13, 2019 at 8:21 pm · · Reply →
I played Human as a kid. Barbara Harris definitely had some issues. I remember Robert Blake being the cool 80’s guy as he would bring his dirt bikes to the set. I remember Hal Ashby being nice and patient. Thanks for writing this, it brought back a lot of memories!
Evil Genius February 13, 2019 at 7:49 pm · · Reply →
Hey Collin, you’re very welcome. I must admit I’m amused that this post has become the clearing house for memories about this otherwise-forgotten film. Can I ask how you ended up with the role? What you thought of the finished product?
If you have any substantial memories of the production, I’d love to hear them. Since this article appears to be the resource on Second-Hand Hearts, we might as well be thorough! I don’t suppose you have any photos you could share?
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Strong quake hits off Tonga; no injuries reported
November 10, 2018 — 4:30am
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong earthquake has hit off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 6.2 quake hit Saturday evening at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
The quake struck 98 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Pangai, Tonga.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not issued a warning.
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Tim EllisCEO
With a degree in Psychology and a MSc in Neurophysiology, Tim is passionate about value proposition design, marketing, technology and digital transformation particularly the opportunities offered by Big Data. He’s also former lead guitarist of the renowned Sultans of Tring.
Ian ReidClient Services Director
A career recruiter who started in the business in 1996. I’ve built up a strong network of candidates and clients and I’ve concentrated on mid to senior roles over the last ten years. Used to race on the UK Windsurfing circuit as a teenager!
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I’m firmly entrenched in the recruiting world, have specialised in a number of technologies and verticals, and believe in this time I have developed quite an eye, or ear, for talent! Only winner of the renamed Lefevre Cup for U11’s Individual Medley (Swimming!) 3 years in a row and a keen golfer.
Jeremy ThorpeOffice Administrator
Joined Synapps in 2010. My role is to manage the office, ensure all the paperwork is 100% accurate and assist the team where possible. In charge of the Engine Room of Synapps if you like! My interests are in music and have made a short film of a song taken from a self-penned musical. Search “Dial M for Millicent” on YouTube!
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As a practising accountant, my role is to provide the company with an efficient and effective accounting and tax support to the board on a non-executive basis. My firm provides the back office support to Synapps.
My experience in the contractor service industry goes back to 1987 and during that time have seen many changes in the way contractors have provided their services. I also specialise in UK and International tax.
Interest include travel, aviation and sport. Tennis was my game!
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With over 7 years’ experience, and a fully qualified technician with the Association of Accounting Technicians. I am also a student member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants working my way towards professional accreditation. I love Football (life long Rangers and Nottingham Forest fan), rugby, golf, weight training, and of course family!
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With 5 years experience and AAT qualified, I am looking to progress on to the professional exams for the ACCA qualification. I play football 4 or 5 times a week and used to play for Millwall Football Club in my younger years.
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With 18 years of recruitment experience, I am passionate about delivering a quality service to both candidates and clients. In recent years, I have focused on recruiting for mid to senior level IT roles, both permanent and contract. Outside of work, I love sport, play cricket in the Bedfordshire League and enjoy going on family walks.
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About the topaz museum
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Plans for the Topaz Museum began in 1991, when a local Delta family donated half of an original Topaz recreation hall they had purchased after Topaz closed. Since 1945 they had used it as a storage shed. An ad hoc committee, now known as the Topaz Museum Board, was formed to restore the building to its original wartime condition.
After sending requests for donations and receiving a gratifying response, work began on preserving and restoring the recreation hall which had been on Block 42 and was used as the Boy Scout meeting lodge during camp.
The restored recreation hall was dedicated in 1994 during a ceremony that included former Topaz internees, former Topaz administrative employees, and local Delta residents.
From those early years, the work continued with the Board buying 634 acres of the Topaz site that became a National Historic Landmark in 2007. The Board also bought land for the museum in Delta.
The Topaz Museum Board was incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit Utah corporation and adopted its mission statement to preserve the Topaz site and establish a permanent museum. The Topaz Museum opened in 2015 with an exhibit of artwork and then the historic exhibits opened in 2017. Thousands of visitors have come to the Topaz Museum to understand this bleak chapter in American history.
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Dallas Stars Reassign Chris Mueller to Texas Stars
CEDAR PARK, Texas – The Texas Stars, proud American Hockey League affiliate of the Dallas Stars, announced today that Dallas has returned center Chris Mueller to Texas.
Mueller, 28, leads Texas with 14 power play goals this season and ranks fourth overall in point scoring with 54 points (24-30=54) in 59 games played in the AHL. The native of West Seneca, New York has posted seven shots in eight games for Dallas this season.
The 5-foot-11, 210-pound forward was signed by Dallas as a free agent on July 8, 2013.
The Texas Stars will continue their homestand today against the Lake Erie Monsters with a 5:00 p.m. face off at Cedar Park Center. Pro-rated full and partial 2013-14 Texas Stars Season Tickets are on sale now. For more information on Texas Stars season tickets call (512) GO-STARS (467-8277) or visit www.TexasStarsHockey.com.
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Inside Battersea Power Station
Architecture, Industrial, London, Power Plant, Rooftops, UK, Urban Exploration
Brooding ominously on the riverbank of southwest London sits a relic of a former age. Battersea Power Station, with its sleek, dark brickwork and noble chimneys, has made a defining mark on the city’s skyline for almost a century. Now however, after decades trapped in a limbo of failed redevelopment plans and gradual, creeping decay, the power station is finally being brought back to life as the heart of a new urban regeneration scheme.
With the help of a few friends, I managed to take an unofficial tour of the place as it stands today – a colossal ruin, a hulking remainder of Britain’s past, poised now on the eve of its glittering rebirth.
London’s ‘Temple of Power’
I was in love with Battersea Power Station since long before I knew what I was looking at.
I’d listened to the Pink Floyd album Animals [below right] at least a hundred times before I ever glimpsed the building in the flesh. But even then its shape was familiar – from the PC game Red Alert, with its power station units unmistakably modelled on the Battersea design.
I guess back then, I’d just assumed all power stations looked that way… but they don’t, far from it, and that’s what makes this structure so very special.
The exterior of Battersea Power Station was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Britain’s iconic red phone boxes. The station belonged to a time when civic architecture took pride of place in urban centres; when the finest architects in the land were commissioned to build schools, bridges, pumping stations, hospitals and city infrastructure. Battersea belonged to an era in which even the London sewers were embellished with elaborate brickwork flourishes; an industrial society that raised power stations like the new cathedrals.
To borrow the cliché, they don’t make them like they used to. In post-war Britain, civic buildings were reduced to function without form. The new power stations built in the 1960s and 1970s were little more than grey boxes: just look at Heysham, Wylfa, Hartlepool and Dungeness; or Sir Basil Spence’s concrete cubes at Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station.
Battersea Power Station on the other hand – once described as a ‘Temple of Power’ – was a world-class monument in the service of the people. It embodied the strength and power of British industry; it catered to one-fifth of London’s electricity needs and at a height of 370 feet, it didn’t so much look down on the capital, as watch over it.
As the twentieth century rolled on however, coal-burning stations like this gave way to a rise in gas and nuclear power; and in 1983 Battersea Power Station was finally shut down. Its generating capacity had decreased with age, while the cost of maintenance soared. No longer economically viable, the power station would be saved from demolition only by its status as a Grade II listed building… not that it made it any easier to work out what to do with the place.
For decades the station sat inert, as it slipped into an increasingly derelict state. Meanwhile, half a dozen redevelopment proposals came and went. Amongst them was the plan to turn the site into a theme park: the scheme received planning permission and large segments of the station’s roof were removed in preparation, though by 1989 the project was called off over funding problems. In 2008 there was even talk of Chelsea FC converting the site to a football stadium – but nothing ever came of that, either.
These two proposals had at least one thing in common: they would have offered an opportunity for the people of London to physically reconnect with the building that had become such an integral component of the urban landscape. These ideas were inclusive, and invited public participation with the space – but ultimately, they just weren’t cost effective. With London property prices climbing out of control, it would take a more aggressively capitalist approach to secure a guaranteed return on such an investment.
In 2012 Battersea Power Station was put on the open market, and subsequently bought up by a consortium backed by the Malaysian government and the world’s largest palm-oil producer. The building and its surroundings are to be thoroughly redeveloped, according to the architect’s vision, to create a new 40-acre urban ‘village’ fitted with restaurants, shops, office space and thousands of new homes… homes that will typically cost in the region of £1 million and upwards.
Inside the power station itself meanwhile, penthouse suites will go for as much as £30 million. The iconic chimneys are to be replaced with clean modern replicas. Prada and Burberry stores will both get floor space inside the station building, and already some are referring to the project as ‘Dubai-on-Thames.’
On 21st September 2013, the people of London were invited to take one last look inside Battersea Power Station; before the heavy machinery rolled in to commence an £8 billion redevelopment project. That open day attracted 18,000 people, many of whom reportedly queued for up to five hours before being ushered inside. I would have been there too, if I could – but on that particular date I was looking at a very different power station, on a tour of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
After that, I thought I’d missed my chance to ever see inside Battersea Power Station. I knew plenty of people who’d snuck in, back before all the attention that came with the Malaysian deal – during those three decades when it stood dark and abandoned. Now buzzing with the lights, life and security cameras of its latest billionaire owners though, for me it looked as though Battersea was always going to be ‘the one that got away.’
And then, this happened.
Inside the Power Station
We arrived on the roof of the power station after dark. Two of our group had been inside Battersea before; but I wasn’t the only one who would be seeing all this for the very first time.
After climbing the scaffold staircase (floor after seemingly endless floor of it), the night air came as a welcome relief. I stepped out onto the asphalt roofing, flashlight at the ready – though I needn’t have bothered. The red lights tipping each of the nearby cranes bathed the rooftop in a peculiar, ruddy glow.
I crossed immediately to the inner barrier, the balcony overlooking the central space of the power station – my first ever glimpse inside the behemoth. It was like looking into a quarry: ladders and support structures zigzagging down the pit, a dark, gaping chasm hollowed out between walls of soot-stained brick. Tiles still clung to the faces of lower floors in pearlescent clumps. Tarpaulin hung from steel like pale snakeskin, while the ground beneath was a maze of pipes and girders, raw materials piled in stacks between the bulldozers and heavy machinery.
Somewhere far beneath us, inside the old turbine halls, the heavy engine noise of a generator rose into the night as it powered the countless spotlights hanging from bricks and scaffold bars. The place felt alive with energy… just not of its own making. How humiliating for Battersea – once ranked amongst the most efficient power stations in the world – that these days it couldn’t even power its own lightbulbs.
Beside me, peering over that same balcony, stood a stranger. It was a plastic mannequin, dressed up in a high-vis jacket and tethered to the railing. A scarecrow glaring down from the rooftop.
We didn’t linger long up there. The night was short, and we had a lot to see; so we made a line straight back to the stairs, and then down into A-Station in search of its cold, dead heart.
Battersea Control Room A
Battersea Power Station is formed from two near-identical halves that were built on either side of World War Two. The first of these, Battersea A Station, went into construction in 1929 and was generating electricity by 1933.
According to a 1937 issue of Wonders of World Engineering, the six boilers in Battersea’s A-Station were fed by furnaces that burned 17.5 tons of coal in a single hour. The three turbines could rotate at speeds of up to 1,500 revolutions per minute, and between them generated an electrical output of 243 million watts. The last turbine, installed in 1937, was the most powerful in Europe – running at 140,000 horsepower.
All of this machinery fed back into the power station’s nerve centre: a lavish Art Deco control room full of cranks and dials and gauges. Above the instrument panels, illuminated diagrammatic plans gave station officers a visual systems display – while engine telegraphs were installed so that orders could be transmitted directly from the control room to the turbine engineers down in the hall below.
Having always pictured the control room as the beating heart of the power station, I naively assumed that it would be easy to find; as if any path we took would lead us there eventually. I was wrong. We had more than a dozen floors to choose from on this A-side station block, each one the length of three Olympic swimming pools. More challenging still, most of the internal corridors were locked.
The A-Station turbine hall was filled with a scaffold frame, and so we started working our way down the bars. Layer after layer of steps and gantries, weaving our way through a three-dimensional industrial maze… until at last, we found the entrance.
If Control Room A felt somehow familiar, it was likely because this space has been so thoroughly embedded into the fabric of British culture over the decades; starring in music videos, and countless TV cameos from Sherlock to Monty Python. The lights inside were already burning bright, which only added to the surreal sense of welcome.
Time stopped as we explored the control room, its archaic dials and displays all crafted with the lavish decadence of a palace ballroom. The scale, complexity, and effect of the place is difficult to put into words… so instead, I’ll simply let these pictures speak for themselves.
After taking my fill of photos, I cracked open a pre-mixed gin and tonic – then drifted with it from one console to the next, playing with switches and dials. This control room was like nothing I’d ever seen.
When at last we all felt satisfied, we finished up in Control Room A and showed ourselves back out. It was time to go and repeat the process all over again, as we searched the opposite station for the famous ‘Switch Room B’… but before we could do that though, we would need to get across the wide open space of the turbine halls below.
Crossing No Man’s Land
Climbing down from the scaffold we eventually set foot on solid ground inside the gutted centre of Battersea A Station. Where once the turbine halls had featured floors of compressed mosaic, now we were walking through earth and mud, churned up into waves by the tracks of heavy machinery.
On the ground floor we passed beneath a couple of large wall-hangings, Art Deco prints suspended in alcoves several floors up. They looked almost authentic here, flanked between fluted columns, though I’d later read they’d been fitted for a party held sometime in the 1990s. More recently, the station floor doubled up as a warehouse for a scene in The Dark Knight.
Before we left A-Station behind, we had a quick go at finding the ‘White Room’: a showroom built for the benefit of an earlier redevelopment project. The photos I’d seen showed a minimalist mock-up of a luxury flat – double bed, lots of mirrors and a tiled hot tub – all decorated in sterile white and hidden away down some dark corridor in the rusty bowels of Battersea. We seemed to be getting close to it; until we met a series of corridors plastic wrapped for fumigation, someone said asbestos, and I think we all just decided against pursuing it.
Instead we headed over to B-Station – crossing the open, floodlit space of the turbine halls, an area that my comrades referred to as ‘No Man’s Land.’
From A-side we passed under brickwork arches, and stepped out into some kind of space-age cathedral. An intricate skeleton of steel bars lined every inch of the B-Station turbine hall, lit by hidden spotlights and rumbling with the bassy thunder of industrial generators.
Mesmerising as it was, we tried not to linger in No Man’s Land; heading instead for the scaffold at the station’s eastern wall, scrambling up the bars until we were able to melt back into the shadows of a recessed gantry. Soon we had disappeared inside the old fabric of the station itself, into an industrial labyrinth of corridors and pipes. We climbed, one floor after another, mirroring our ascent of the A-Station – until eventually we squeezed past a wire-mesh gate, through a dark corridor heavy with the acidic stench of birdshit, and from there into Switch Room B.
Battersea Switch Room B
Battersea B Station was brought online between 1953 and 1955. The power station’s second phase had always been intended to duplicate the first; but by the end of WWII the UK’s electricity supply had been nationalised, and the post-war budget simply didn’t allow for the same Italian marble and Art Deco stylings.
Instead, the interiors of B-Station received a different treatment altogether. Staircases and corridors were decked out in minimalist grey-white tiles, while its nerve centres were fitted with slick stainless steel consoles. At the time it probably looked futuristic; though now it conjures images of a B-movie sci-fi film set, the era of flying saucers and ray guns.
I had seen it in pictures before, and had always assumed this place served as the B-side control room: though my learned colleagues told me otherwise. Its official designation was ‘Switch Room B.’ The real Control Room B had been located on the floor immediately above, but was stripped out in the late 1980s; there wasn’t anything to see there now.
I flicked some switches, cranked some levers – they moved with a satisfying thunk – then brushed the dust from a silvery display panel. Though neither as large nor as grand as Control Room A, this space had its own unique ambience; while these two brains, taken together, made for a fascinating comparison. Each seemed so perfect for its time… yet what a radical change in design they marked for a period of just two decades.
In the corner of the switch room I lifted a sheet of tarpaulin to find yet another bank of gauges and dials. Meanwhile the two free-standing ‘synchroscopes,’ with their anthropomorphic faces, watched us like a pair of sad robots.
Auxiliary Control Room B
Back down in No Man’s Land, as we had run the gauntlet from one hidden corner to the next, one of our group had spotted something interesting on a higher wall. It was a balcony that jutted out from the tilework perhaps some eight-or-so floors above us, a windowed observation deck overlooking the length of the B-Station turbine hall.
We’d passed it by in our hurry to get to Switch Room B; but now, roughly four hours in and with two of our main targets already under our belts, we decided to investigate.
Getting up there proved easier said than done, however.
Through the tiled corridors we went, into the eastern block of the power station. These opened up soon into halls and girder-lined chambers, great big spaces that felt like warehouses or underground car parks. Pipes ran this way and that through the semi-darkness. We followed the stairs up through more levels of the same, until we reached an area already in the process of redevelopment.
On these higher floors a new infrastructure had been juxtaposed against and between the old walls, scaffold bars threaded through every possible space. New floors of stamped steel sliced through the headroom, segmenting each level into smaller strata. The higher we climbed, the harder it became to move – ducking beneath low ceilings while hopping over, or under, the poles that cut our path – and when someone pointed out what looked like asbestos sheeting up ahead, we decided to give up. Back down into the bowels of B-side we went, to start from the ground up in search of another route.
Behind the bulldozer, across a treacherous stack of slippery pipes, we made for a scaffold staircase set into the northern end of the station. Maybe half a dozen floors up, the stairs folded around into a long, pillared gallery overlooking the River Thames: a space reserved for future penthouse flats.
At the far end a sheet of plastic hung in place of a collapsed wall – and ducking under, onto tiled steps perched precariously high above the turbine floor, we followed the ledge around and into Auxiliary Control Room B.
This room had contained a copy of the main B-side control room, and served as a back-up control suite for B-Station. Not that there was any evidence for it left. This auxiliary control room was converted to office space in the mid-1960s, its equipment was removed and now there was nothing to see but tiles and broken glass. Set in the north wall, a small window looked down across the Thames to the lights of residential blocks on the far bank: a view now valued at £30 million.
It was the southern aspect that interested me, though. Through the shattered glass of the observation window, the B-Station turbine hall fell away like some great steel-ribbed tomb. Its dimensions, the radiant light that flooded it, felt anything but accidental – more like sacred architecture than the byproduct of some mundane construction process.
It was hard to believe that such sights could exist in secret, hidden away here with no intention of it being seen or appreciated by anyone. We drank in the view until we were heady with it; and then we made our way up to the chimneys.
The Chimneys of Battersea Power Station
By the time we got back to the rooftop, it wasn’t that long before dawn. Those labyrinthine staircases were such a challenge to navigate that we ended up getting lost on the way – at one point finding ourselves walking over the scaffold roof at the very top of the A-Station turbine hall, a 160-foot drop just visible between the bars under our feet.
We crossed the rooftop, through puddles of rainwater illuminated by the cranes’ red light; and reached the inner edge, where the familiar scarecrow waited like an old friend. Above us, four pale chimneys reared up into the night sky.
It’s easy to take these chimneys for granted, when you’re so used to seeing them up there on the London skyline; but experienced this close, they really are quite enormous. At 28 feet in diameter, each chimney is large enough that it could be turned on its side to create a new tube station, with space inside for tracks and trains and platform.
We headed for the southwest corner: to the new chimney, recently erected after the 2015 removal of the oldest – and most decayed – of the four. I have to admit, I could barely tell it apart from the others. The problem however, I thought as we climbed, was that these new chimneys would never have known the purpose of the building to which they were attached. The chimneys they’re raising now are a visual gimmick, for branding purposes only; a familiar symbol to justify the price tag.
We ascended the southwest tower from inside, at first, before following the stairs back out; onto the scaffold that wrapped itself around the exterior of the stack. Moving under the skin of the tower, beneath red-lit canvas that crackled in the wind, we rose high above the roof of Battersea A-Station.
At the top of the stack, where square red brick gave way to cylindrical concrete, we came to a dead-end. The hatch above us was locked: the final access to the chimney itself, bolted shut. It was as far as we were going to get tonight, so we settled here to appreciate the view… looking out across the power station to the half-built shells of the surrounding residential blocks, to the River Thames at their feet, and the city of London beyond that.
One day, I thought, all this will be deposit boxes: the empty flats of foreign investors, riding the tide of London’s property market. There’ll be exclusive boutiques laid out like supermarket aisles around the tethered titan; the power station itself, a taxidermy in brick and glass and steel, a monument no longer dedicated to the People but to black gold and palm-oil.
I’m just really glad I got to see it before any of that could happen.
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Control Room B seems to me to be a cross between the machinery on the movie Metropolis and the works of the Krel on Forbidden plane! I hope they keep all those control rooms intact as museums. Or at least not scrap the equipment – there are many people who would love to have some of those items. A real work of engineering beauty. Would like to have seen the whole thing. … Have you more photos or videos?
Jim Dickenson 4:41 pm | December 14, 2018
Had the pleasure of working in this iconic building in the late eighties, wont forget it in a hurry.
Patrick Mc Laughlin 2:48 pm | October 21, 2018
Is it easy to access now? I was planning to go next week but I don’t want to travel that far if i can’t get in… thanks!!
Alicia 8:48 am | April 6, 2018
It was very hard to go inside when I visited, and it’s impossible now – the apartments have been built, and many are already sold. I’m glad I saw this when I did, but unfortunately, it just wouldn’t look like this anymore.
You’re a terrific writer! The adventures are so engrossing. Keep it up!
Tom 3:43 am | July 8, 2017
Thank you, Tom – that means a lot.
Darmon 8:43 pm | July 14, 2017
Is it still possible to gain access to the battersea power station? I’m in London in march and would love to check it out
Ben 10:18 am | January 23, 2017
Hi Ben. It seems unlikely – the construction project is moving on quite fast, and visitors are not welcome. But saying that, we still managed…
Darmon 8:15 am | February 1, 2017
What a well researched report on your adventure, I didn’t know much of Battersea’s history but you’ve included some great details. I’d have thought if JG Ballard were alive he’d have written about how close this building has become to his own imagery created in High-Rise.
Timothy Steer 7:35 pm | August 3, 2016
Yes, there is something very Ballardian about the concept, isn’t there? I wonder how it’ll all turn out there. Anyway, thanks for the comment Tim!
Darmon 2:30 pm | August 18, 2016
You’re photographs are stunning. It looks like a really beautiful place there. God I’d love to go and take some of my own photos… Mesmerizing…
Castaway with Crystal 1:24 pm | May 8, 2016
Thank you so much! It’s a super photogenic place – really fun to explore with a camera. You’d love it. Maybe you’ll get there yet…!
Darmon Richter 1:59 pm | May 17, 2016
So it’s still worth doing? I assumed that time had long gone.
James 10:49 am | April 18, 2016
Yeah, I had assumed the same thing. As it turns out though, it’s definitely still worth a visit.
Epic. Just epic. Friggin love the photography…
Ken 3:50 pm | March 30, 2016
Cheers Ken. To be honest, it was kind of difficult to take a bad photo of the place…
Darmon Richter 11:27 am | April 1, 2016
Fantastic post! Am unbelievably jealous you got in. Love reading your blog.
Andrea 8:39 pm | March 29, 2016
Thanks a lot, Andrea. Glad you enjoyed this one!
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Published by Atria Books on June 13, 2017
Genres: contemporary, fiction, historical fiction, romance
Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn’s Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn’s life unfolds through the decades—revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love—Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn’s story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
Catfairy’s Booktape
Here is my glamorous Spotify playlist with some classic hits by the starlets of the time and some modern songs mixed in there as well!
Catfairy’s Starlet Thoughts
If I had to sum up my feelings after reading Evelyn Hugo, I would say that it completely destroyed me! I never thought I would have so much sympathy for a fictional character and after I finished reading about Evelyn Hugo’s life I just wanted to reach out and hug her. Although I know if I tried to hug her she would probably reach out and slap me for even showing an ounce of sympathy towards her!
Before Evelyn Hugo, she was born Evelyn Elena Herrera in 1938 and she is the daughter of Cuban immigrants. From a young age, Evelyn learned to fend for herself. She learned to fight and manipulate others through her bombshell looks to achieve ultimate stardom.
“And I didn’t say I was confessing any sins. To say that what I have to tell is a sin is misleading and hurtful. I don’t feel regret for the things I’ve done—at least not the things you might expect—despite how hard they may have been or how repugnant they may seem in the cold light of day.”
-Evelyn Hugo
Evelyn Herrera became Mrs. Diaz and she began to climb her way up the ladder. She married a man involved in the movie industry named Ernie Diaz. Evelyn lived a mediocre existence as a waitress but had greater aspirations than anyone thought possible…
Once the Hollywood lights shined down on Evelyn she dropped her last name, divorced Ernie, and quickly became the iconic Evelyn Hugo. More than anything, Evelyn Hugo wanted to be the brightest star in Hollywood and she was going to claw her way to the top no matter what. She made no apologies for herself and always did what she had to do even if it meant hurting the people she loved.
Not only is her life chronicled through her rise to fame as a classic Hollywood actress, the gossip magazines also obsessively chronicled her love life. (Obvi the title speaks for itself.) Evelyn did, in fact, marry approximately seven times although some of these marriages take an unlikely turn. There is also a bi-sexual romance in the story that has a significant effect on Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn Hugo is a woman that really lived her life with reckless and wild abandon.
Now in 2017, Evelyn Hugo is a woman that has lived her life and she is ready to reveal a tell-all to a woman that is in the low totem pole when it comes to the journalism world. Monique is a bi-racial woman who is in the process of a divorce and is struggling with getting good stories. Evelyn Hugo gives her the opportunity of a lifetime and she pushes Monique to see her inner strength and talent she didn’t know she had. Although Evelyn has hired Monique to write her tell-all story there may be more to the story for Monique than she ever thought imaginable…
Meet Evelyn Hugo (Played by Eva Mendez)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has to be a movie right now because Eva Mendez is perfect for this role! She is a talented Cuban-American actress who has done her fair share of major motion pictures! I couldn’t have picked a better actress for this role!
Meet Celia St. James (Played by Emma Stone)
Celia St. James is described as America’s Sweetheart who is described as a gifted actress. She is sweet, accessible, unassuming, and Emma Stone could play into this role perfectly!
Meet Harry (Played by Kevin Connolly)
I was so touched by the friendship between Evelyn and Harry! Kevin just has that old Hollywood Andy Rooney kind of appeal. I think that Kevin Connolly would capture the sentimentality between Harry and Evelyn’s relationship perfectly.
Meet Monique (Played by Princess Meghan)
Yes, guys, I went there! I mean I am all about Princess Megan these days and she fits the bill perfectly for Monique even thought summoning her out of Buckingham Palace to do movies probably wouldn’t happen! Oh well…a girl can dream…
Pop Culture Reference
I grew up watching Elizabeth Taylor and since this book is partly inspired by Elizabeth Taylor (And mostly Rita Hayworth) I couldn’t help but mention her. I was completely mesmerized by Elizabeth Taylor’s acting and her striking violet eye color! I remember watching Elizabeth Taylor movies every morning as a little girl and being captivated by her otherworldly beauty!
Which Dawson’s Creek character would read this book?
Andie McPhee would totally read this book! Even though, she is a type A student who is all about the books Andie has a fun side to her and seems like the type to completely fangirl all over this book!
I loved this book so much and it indulged all my guilty pleasures! Anything that has to do with celebrities, fame, glamour, love, and absolute drama is like crack for me! I couldn’t help but indulge in other guilty pleasure while reading this book like many glasses of wine and bags of chips! (My butt didn’t thank me for this.) It was just such a fun book to read but at the same time so gut wrenching and emotional! Frankly, this book just messed me up and gave me a huge book hangover when it was all over!
Being a Cuban-American, I love that the book has a MC with a Cuban background although I would have liked to have read more about her background. There were some hints of her heritage peppered throughout the book but she hid her background due to the fact that Hollywood was kind of racist at the time.
This is the kind of book that I will never forget about. I have to say this book left a profound effect on me. Mrs. Reid’s book made me realize the fragility of life and that we must live our lives now. This book taught me to hold the people that I love close and to never take them for granted because even though we all want to be successful in life it shouldn’t be in the expense of others.
Evelyn Hugo taught me that we must take chances in our lives and that we don’t get many chances to make a mark in this world.
Evelyn Hugo is more than Evelyn Hugo the starlet and the one that America worships in cinematic history. She is Evelyn Herrera. This is about a woman that literally grabbed life by the balls and made incredibly hard decisions. She hardly apologized for the choices that she made in her life and she has ne regrette…(No regrets)…
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By Hannah Geller May 13, 2019 13:10
‘Cowcatcher’ Enzyme Catches Mutations Red-handed
Intentionality and Morality in Human Judgment
It is not too difficult to see how an organism develops on a macro scale. Depending on the subject, it can be as simple as placing an embryo in a petri dish and peering at it through a microscope every few hours. However, there comes a point when individual cells become difficult to separate from the rest and tracking the movement and transformations of specific cells or cell types becomes nearly impossible–even with traditional genetic sequencing.
Unlike these methods, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a recently developed next-generation method of analysis. As the name suggests, scRNA-seq involves sequencing the transcriptome (mRNA) of individual cells, providing information about the genes that are being expressed in each cell. Why use this method? “We all develop from a single cell, and this cell divides and differentiates into different cell types,” Junyue Cao, a graduate student at the University of Washington, explained. “Everything…can be traced back to [those cells’] dynamic changes of state and composition.” A recent study by Cao and other researchers at the University of Washington improves upon a variation of scRNA-seq called single-cell combinatorial-indexing RNA-sequencing analysis (sci-RNA-seq) and uses the resulting method–sci-RNA-seq3–to analyze the transcriptional dynamics of mouse organogenesis between 9.5 and 13.5 days after gestation. With sci-RNA-seq3, those cells can be traced throughout the entire mouse.
Broadly, sci-RNA-seq3 is a novel high throughput scRNA-seq technique based on combinatorial indexing. Researchers accomplish this by isolating the nuclei of embryos, depositing those nuclei into individual wells, performing reverse transcription with barcoded primers (turning mRNA into single-stranded DNA), followed by multiple rounds of pooling and redistributing the nuclei into multiple wells and tagging the DNA with a well specific barcode, and finally, amplifying samples with PCR before sequencing the resulting library. This new method can profile two million cells in two weeks, with more than a one-hundred-fold improvement in detection capacity and lower cost compared with conventional scRNA-seq techniques.
To create their mouse organogenesis cell atlas (MOCA), researchers used t-SNE visualization (a method of visualizing high-dimensional data) and annotated cell type clusters using marker genes. The resulting data set gave new insights into developmental trajectories. “I never expected to see that there are over five hundred different cell states that comprise this data set…and the result that’s so neat is these five hundred different cells can be organized into ten trajectories that mapped to all major systems and organs in mammals” said Cao. In the process of identifying these cell types, researchers identified 2,863 cell-type-specific marker genes–many of which were novel.
However, sci-RNA-seq3 also has its drawbacks. Many cells are lost during the journey from nuclei isolation to profiling–some rare cell types could be missed. Furthermore, additional experiments are required to confirm the assignment of anatomical specificity.
Despite these limitations, sci-RNA-seq3 holds incredible promise. Cao envisions his method being used beyond embryonic stages of mouse development. “To categorize later development, for example, aging…[we] need to improve the efficiency,” Cao explained. When this is achieved, sci-RNA-seq3 could be used to improve phenotyping–cell-level analyses can reveal small perturbations that would otherwise be overlooked. In the end, this work has one major goal: “to understand how we are formed.”
TAGS: Health and MedicineMolecular Biology
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