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Maren Morris Brings Her ‘Church’ to ‘Fallon’
Annie Reuter
Maren Morris made her late night television debut on Monday night (June 6) on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
Performing "My Church," the hot newcomer began the soulful song alone quietly on acoustic guitar before her band joined in once she began singing the opening line. Donned in a fringe top and snakeskin skirt, Morris belted the chorus much to the approval of host Jimmy Fallon.
"Even though I didn't write it from a particularly religious standpoint that day, I was talking literally about music being my version of church," she tells Rolling Stone Country. "I'm not dogging it by any means, but for me, even I had gone to church, it was always the music portion that I woke up for. People are always going to talk some sort of s--t, or find something negative to say, but I don't think there's one person on this planet that doesn't like music or has not had an experience where you feel that connected to something through music."
"My Church" was recently certified gold by the RIAA. Morris revealed the good news on Instagram.
“When you’re recovering from your tonsillectomy and you get the best news ever,” she captions a photo of the single artwork. “‘My Church’ went officially gold this week! Can’t thank the fans enough for owning my music like a BOSS.”
In an interview with ToC Nights host Sam Alex, Morris explains that she named her major label debut album Hero for one of the album's tracks.
“I actually named the record based off of one of the songs off the record called ‘I Wish I Was,’ and it says in the chorus of that song, ‘I’m not the hero in this story.’ I just think about the headspace I was in the day I wrote that song, where I’m basically having to end a relationship and be the bad guy and how far I’ve come since that day,” she divulges. “It’s really been this long journey to be able to say that I’ve become my own hero. This album really reflects every moment of that journey.”
Hero was released on June 3 and has already been marked a Taste of Country Critic's Pick.
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This Could Be Goodbye
By Robert Spencer - on March 16, 2019
Freedom of Speech in the Age of Jihad
This could be goodbye, my friends. Leftist and Islamic groups have been trying for years to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others, and in the New Zealand massacre they see the best chance in a long time to move in for the kill. I (along with other foes of jihad terror) could be banned from everything and rendered a non-person, a la Alex Jones, any day now.
This is no exaggeration. Meeting in Istanbul, the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on non-Muslim countries to ban “Islamophobia,” which means criticism of Islam, including analysis of the motivating ideology fueling jihad terror. IUMS President Ahmed al-Raisouni said Friday: “IUMS calls on non-Muslim countries to ban the spread of hatred against Islam and Muslims.”
Since analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror is routinely smeared as “hatred of Islam and Muslims,” this will likely outlaw all such analysis and make opposition to jihad terror effectively impossible.
And these bans are very likely coming. In America, they won’t take the form of actual laws forbidding criticism of Islam (although remember that Tom Perez, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, refused to rule out the implementation of such laws a few years ago, when he was Assistant Attorney General in the Obama administration). They’re more likely to take the form of a complete deplatforming. We will be able to speak, but no one will be able to hear us, as we won’t be allowed on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest.
IUMS was not alone. Saudi King Salman tweeted: “The heinous massacre that targeted worshippers in the mosque in New Zealand is a terrorist act, and it reaffirms the responsibility of the international community in combating hate speech and terrorism that is not condoned by religions or the values of tolerance.” Apparently terrorism that is condoned by religions is fine with him, as in “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). But by “hate speech” he almost certainly means honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence.
Domestically, the call for censorship came from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has for years been trying to shut down all opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. They have succeeded in fooling many people into thinking that it is “bigotry” and “racism” to oppose jihad terror, and have made those who discuss the motivating ideology behind jihad terror toxic in the public square. Now Hamas-linked CAIR is attempting to use the New Zealand massacre to achieve total victory: the complete closure of all media platforms to foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression.
In its press conference on the New Zealand mosque shootings, CAIR top dog Nihad Awad named Donald Trump as responsible for the massacre, despite the fact that in the murderer’s insane “manifesto,” he asks himself: “Were/are you a supporter of Donald Trump?,” and answers: “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.” The “symbol of renewed white identity” part is all that the media is quoting. He never says he was incited to violence by Trump, or says anything about Trump and Muslims at all.
Awad also named Pamela Geller and me: “Years ago when another terrorist attacked in Norway he quoted Islamophobes like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.” Yes, he also quoted Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy and Charles Darwin and a host of others. He said he was inspired to violent actions by al-Qaeda. Awad does not, of course, say anything about that.
Anyway, CAIR’s press conference was a full-court press for censorship, and it painted, yet again, a large target on our backs for increasingly unhinged and violent Leftists, as well as jihadis. CAIR calls for a total silencing on all platforms of so-called “hate groups,” i.e., those who dare to note that jihad terrorists are inspired by Islamic texts and teachings. It is likely that the social media giants will comply; it will not be at all surprising if they succeed in getting us completely silenced.
If and when we are, however, the jihad will not stop. There just won’t be anyone around who dares to oppose it.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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Mustangs Win Third Straight in 8-1 Decision Over Lycoming
STEVENSON, Md. - The Stevenson women's tennis team picked up its third-straight victory in an 8-1 rout of visiting Lycoming at the Greenspring Tennis Courts.
Juniors Kelsi Mentzer and Jenna Skove notched their third-straight victory in No. 1 doubles after defeating their opponents by an 8-5 score. In No. 2, senior Kirstyn Davidson and sophomore Megan Waskiewicz picked up their seventh win of the year in an 8-4 triumph. The other doubles match was won by the Mustangs via forfeit.
Davidson earned her third-straight win in singles play after defeating her No. 2 opponent by a 6-0, 6-3 margin. Waskiewicz picked up her sixth win on the season after taking her No. 3 match in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.
Junior Nina Bretz was a 6-4, 6-4 winner in her No. 4 match, giving her five wins on the year. Senior Christina Endy cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win in No. 5 for her third singles win this season.
Stevenson won the No. 6 match by forfeit.
The lone setback for Stevenson came in a hard-fought 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 loss in No. 1 singles for Skove.
The Mustangs (6-3, 2-0) will head to Hood for a MAC Commonwealth matchup on Tuesday, April 9. First serve is set for 3:30 p.m.
Sat, 04/28 | Women's Tennis at Arcadia L, 6-3 (Final) RC | R
Sat, 04/21 | Women's Tennis vs. Lebanon Valley L, 7-2 (Final) RC | R
Thu, 04/19 | Women's Tennis vs. St. Mary's (Md.) L, 8-1 (Final) RC | R | PH
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Name dropping: Rebeca Gerschman, a pioneer in the study of ROS* and free radical toxicity
By Dr. Hannah Sivak | July 11, 2019 | 0
How come Jonatan Funtowicz is so interested in ROS*? Maybe by osmosis? He does not remember it but he was a quasi godson of a pioneer of the ROS* toxicity field, Dr Rebeca Gerschman,
Dr Gerschman (1903-1986) was an Argentinian scientist who, together with Daniel Gilbert, discovered oxygen toxicity, a problem that later developed on a whole new field of research, that of reactive oxygen species and aging. She helped me when I was a budding scientist doing research with Rodolfo Sanchez on the effect of oxygen on seed germination
At the time (after Second World War II), oxygen was believed to be benign and only benign, but Dr. Gerschman found the commonality between the deleterious effect of oxygen and that of X-rays. Her work led to her nomination to a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine but she died before she could be considered (the Nobel Prize is only awarded to the living).
The Free Radical Theory of Ageing, was first proposed by Denham Harman in the mid-1950’s based largely on work conducted by Rebeca Gerschman and Daniel Gilbert. At its core, the Free Radical Theory of Ageing posits that free radical and related oxidants, from the environment and internal metabolism, cause damage to cellular constituents that, over time, result in an accumulation of structural and functional problems.
Reactive oxygen species and their effect on skin aging are central to our work at Skin Actives, and we use many low and high molecular weight antioxidants to disarm dangerous ROS*. It is nice to know that the research of Dr Gerschman is applied to benefit our customers.
Gerschman R., Gilbert D., Nye S., Dwyer P. y Fenn W. (1954) Oxygen poisoning and X-irradiation: a mechanism in common. Science 119, 623-626 (doi: DOI: 10.1126/science.119.3097.623)
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KETR-FM 88.9
P.O. Box 4504, Commerce, TX 75429-4504
Genres: Americana • Big Band • Bluegrass • Blues • Country • Folk/Acoustic • Jazz • New Age • Polka • TejanoAAA, AC, CHR/Top 40, College Radio, Dance, Gospel/Christian, Mainstream Rock, Modern Rock, News/Talk, Oldies, Public Radio, R&B/Hip Hop, Texas Music
KETR (88.9 FM) is a 100,000-watt public radio station featuring: Light AC, a Texas Music Program, News, and Sports. We are a proud NPR member station and American Public Media affiliate, offering programs such as "A Prairie Home Companion", Car Talk", "Symphony Cast" and others. Texas Artists are asked to send CD's for air on our Texas music Program, Notably Texan, to the address above, attention: Matt Meinke. Notably Texan also conducts interview with Texas artists. KETR public radio is a 100,000 watt station serving the Northeast Texas area from the campus of Texas A&M University - Commerce.
KGVL-FM 105.9
1517 North Wolfe City Drive, Greenville, TX 75401
Genre: CountryOldies, Texas Music
KGVL (105.9 FM) Friendlee - Texans, Legends & Outlaws. Simulcast on 1400 AM.
KYJC-FM 91.3
35200 Cathedral Canyon Drive Unit 53, Cathedral City, CA 76117
Genre: SILENT
KYJC-FM, "Your Station For Life," is a Commerce, TX-based broadcast of KDKR-91.3 FM, a Christian radio station serving the Dallas / Fort Worth area. Offers Solid Bible Teaching, Interactive Talk Programming, and Inspirational Praise and Worship Music.
KNGR-AM 1560
5904 South Cooper Street, Suite 104, Arlington, TX 76017-6600
Genre: CountryGospel/Christian
KNGR (1560 AM) "King Country Radio" The music is country...the message is CHRIST Dedicated to local involvement in the surrounding community with live personalities, unique features and programing on the air.
KATH-AM 910
8828 North Stemmons Fwy, Suite 106, Dallas, TX 75247-3720
Genre: Gospel/Christian, News/Talk, Catholic Radio
KATH (910 AM) In today's world, possibly the greatest battles are fought in the arena of personal faith. The "Guadalupe Radio Network" provide teaching that strengthens confidence and faith in God. The power of the Gospel through the media of radio is that it literally changes lives. It is a heart to heart ministry. Visitors to the Center and listeners to our Network of Catholic Radio Stations discover that God is alive and active and cares about every aspect of their life.
KAWA-FM 87.9
11061 Shady Trail, Dallas, TX 75229-5603
87.9 WAY-FM: Influencing this generation to love and follow Jesus through culturally relevant media.
KBFB-FM 97.9
13760 Noel Road, Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75240-5207
Genre: AC, Rap, R&B/Hip Hop
KBFB (97.9 FM) "97.9 The Beat" is a 100,000-watt station playing hip hop and R&B.
KCBI-FM 90.9
750 North St. Paul Street, Suite 1050, Dallas, TX 75201
Genre: ChildrensCollege Radio, Gospel/Christian
KCBI (90.9 FM) is a 100,000-watt contemporary Christian music station programming Christian teaching and worldview programs. To call in to our studio, you may dial (817) or (214) 787-1909 or Toll Free (800) 223-5224. KCBI is simulcast on 93.9 KCRN San Angelo.
KDFT-AM 540
Genre: Gospel/Christian, Spanish AC, Texas Music
KDFT (540 AM) "La Nueva Ponderosa" is a 1,000-watt station programmed by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc., a Spanish Christian program.
KDGE-FM 102.1
14001 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75240-7369
Genre: Modern Rock
KDGE (102.1 FM) "The Edge" is a 100,000-watt new rock and alternative radio station targeted to adults 18-34 years old and serves the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The station features Texas-based acts in Best of Texas concert series and the annual Tales From The Edge compilation CDs. Local bands also receive airplay on Allen Ayo's The Local Show which airs from 9pm every Sunday.
KDMX-FM 102.9
Genre: AC
KDMX (102.9 FM "Music Variety for DFW" is a 100,000-watt hot adult contemporary music station.
KEGL-FM 97.1
Genre: Mainstream Rock, Modern Rock
KEGL (97.1 FM) "Rocks" is a 100,000-watt station playing hard rock.
KERA-FM 90.1
3000 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201
Genre: News/Talk, Public Radio
KERA (90.1 FM) is a 95,000-watt station programming music weekend evenings. The station is the primary public radio station in North Texas. We air NPR and PRI news and information programs during the day and adult album alternative music. Programming includes Morning Edition, Diane Rehm, Fresh Air, All Things Considered and Marketplace. KERA-FM produces Think (Mon.-Fri, 12-2 p.m.). We also do in-studio interviews with selected artists performing in the area. On the weekends, KERA 90.1 produces two 3-hour blocks of locally produced music programming.
KESS-FM 107.9
Genre: Regional MexicanAC, Spanish AC
KESS (107.9 FM) "La Que Buena" is Spanish soft adult contemporary. We play romantica.
KEXB-AM 620
6400 North Belt Line Road Suite 110, Irving, TX 75063-6065
Genre: News/Talk, Business News
620 AM KEXB the Business Experts of North Texas! KEXB is operated by Salem Media Group, America’s largest radio operator specializing in Christian, Family Themed, and Business Formatted Radio Stations. 620 AM KEXB broadcasts 24 hours per day providing the Dallas/Fort Worth and North Texas areas with credible business news and valuable information. Our programming includes daily shows hosted by some of the most respected business talk personalities in the industry.
KFCD-AM 990
KFCD (990 AM) "La Mitotera"
KFLC-AM 1270
Genre: News/Talk, Spanish Language
KFLC (1270 AM) "La Voz Del Pueblo" is a 5,000-watt Spanish language talk station.
KFXR-AM 1190
Genre: CountryOldies
KFXR (1190 AM) "Classic Country" is your 50,000-watt source for Fox Sports, News Talk.
KGGR-AM 1040
Genre: Gospel/Christian, Texas Music
KGGR (1040 AM) "Great Gospel Radio-The Station That Never Stops Giving" is a 3300-watt urban contemporary Christian music station.
KGPF-FM 91.1
P.O. Box 271333, Dallas, TX 75227-9533
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I heard the scream at almost the same time I heard the crash. Joan, my next-door neighbor was unusually clumsy but I wasn’t surprised to hear my phone ring a moment later. I answered it, reluctantly.
“Get over here.” Joan’s voice was full of pain and panic. “There’s been a terrible accident.”
A moment later, I was in her apartment and we were both looking down at the recently deceased lying prone on the floor. Joan was sobbing.
“She had a good life,” I said. I bent and picked up the Kindle, which Joan had named Bethany. Its screen was cracked and a jagged circle like a bullet hole was bleeding out high-tech ink into the rest of the screen.
Joan buried her face in my shoulder and shook with a pathos that rivaled the ending of Old Yeller.
“You can get another one,” I said, patting her awkwardly on the shoulder.
“But it takes . . . two days to ship with . . . Amazon Prime,” she gasped between sobs.
Joan was a reader in the same way the sun was a tad warm. She told me once she usually read over 400 books a year. Looking around her living room, I saw only one bookshelf, mostly covered in knickknacks. Her whole library had been transferred years ago to the flatlining piece of tech in my hands.
“Maybe you can read on your phone until then.”
She wiped her eyes and looked at me morosely. “The screen’s too small. It hurts my eyes.”
“You could read on the computer,” I said. She wrinkled her nose with a look of such revulsion you would think that I had suggested pooping on the welcome mat.
I helped her order a new Kindle and offered to drive her to the library. Then I remembered that it was Sunday and it was closed. I didn’t really read myself and I didn’t think that inviting her up to play Fortnite would help much. I left her clutching a dictionary and rocking back and forth slowly.
Joan and I weren’t much more than acquaintances, but I felt I should check on her after supper, just to make sure she was okay. She didn’t answer her phone, so I went next door and knocked. There was no answer, but I saw that the lights were on. Finally, I tried the door. Thirty seconds later, I called 911.
“She was just lying on her couch, staring at the ceiling,” I told the doctor at the hospital. “Maybe I panicked.”
“No, it’s good you brought her in,” the doctor said, shining a light into her eyes. “Did she have any trauma or shocks recently?”
“She broke her Kindle today,” I said.
The doctor looked pensive and puckered his lips in a way I found disconcerting. “Let me run some tests,” he said.
He left me in the waiting room wishing, ironically, that I had something to read, but he was back in twenty minutes.
“It’s a rare condition called a bibliophilic comatose state,” he said. “It’s caused by a sudden lack of reading material. We’ll try to draw her out of it. We’ve got a medical grade e-reader set up, but we need to know what she usually reads.”
“History, I think?” I usually tuned Joan out if she started talking about what she was reading. “She likes British history. I think.” She had said something about British history, I remembered.
“Okay, we’ll start her out on a regimen of historical fiction. I’ll try twenty pages of Philippa Gregory and see how it goes.”
The doctor assumed that I wanted to see Joan, so he led the way back into the newly constructed Injuries of the Arts wing to her room. I looked through the window at her lying in bed, monitors strapped to her arms. Her eyes were open and an e-reader was set up in front of her. A little robotic finger flicked at the screen every ten seconds to flip the page, making a beeping noise as it did.
I woke up in a chair in the hallway of the hospital with a nurse leaning over me.
“I thought you’d want to know about your friend’s progress,” she said. “We’ve switched to Alison Weir. If that has no effect, we’ll have to try something harder, maybe even David Starkey.”
I didn’t know what that meant, but I left my number and went home to sleep. The next day as I was returning from work, I saw that Joan’s new Kindle had been delivered and was sitting outside her door with the usual lack of security that delivery companies reserved for expensive high-tech devices. I took it to the hospital to see if she was awake.
Joan seemed responsive when I got to her room. I knocked on the window and she looked my way. I pointed at the package and her face lit up with relief. I went into the room and gave it to her.
“Thanks,” she said, “and thank God it came so fast. I’ve been reading nothing but British history for the last day. I don’t know what idiot thought I liked that stuff.”
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What the Donkey Saw
copyright J Hardy Carroll
The blindfolded child tottered towards the two-dimensional donkey, another victim of her uncle’s over-enthusiastic spinning.
The point of the pin swayed. Then, with a deft thrust, she skewered the animal’s eye.
In a bunker near Pyongyang, technicians watched the screen turn to static.
“Sir, camera destroyed.”
“Clearly,” the captain said. “Well, Operation Birthday Party was yielding less intelligence than anticipated.”
“Sir, I was wondering—”
“For the last time, no bouncy castle!” the captain shouted. Twelve faces drooped. “Well, maybe for the Dear Leader’s birthday. Now, switch to Operation Chucky Cheese. That mouse has some dark secrets. I guarantee it.”
36 Comments | tags: birthday party, espionage, fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, funny, hidden camera, humor, North Korea, pin the tail on the donkey, spy | posted in Friday Fictioneers, Light
Starring in the Very Special Olympics
I will admit, I was in kind of a weird mood when I wrote this. But it makes me laugh, so I make no apologies.
copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
It was like a nightmare, standing before crowds of drunken fans, naked, but for a Speedo. How had he gotten here?
The gun fired. Six people dived, followed by six wet slaps.
The water was Jello.
The crowd whooped. They’d known.
He pulled himself along, wallowing like an epileptic badger. Some got in his mouth: Tropical Fusion flavor, damn them.
He woke with a start in the locker room. It was a dream.
“Harrison, there you are!” the coach said from the door. “You got your 10-meter maple syrup dive in five minutes. Come on!”
He pinched himself.
No luck.
35 Comments | tags: diving, dream, fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, funny, humor, Jello, maple syrup, swimming | posted in Friday Fictioneers, Light, Uncategorized
Moaning the Lonely Ghost Blues
Copyright Jean L. Hays
The late Johnny White sulked. He barely had enough spirit to make the temperature dip.
“Hey, Boo!” Jessica said, sliding through the wall. “How’s the haunting?” She looked around the empty ruined house. “Oh.”
“You’re lucky,” Johnny said. “Your house gets lots of visitors. Nobody even knows I died.”
“My husband did brutally murder me,” she said sympathetically. “Look, if I ever manage to write in blood, I’ll say ‘Go down the road three miles. It’s super scary.’”
“You don’t think we could . . . co-haunt?”
Jessica looked skeptical. “That’s sweet, but I’ve only known you a few centuries. Maybe next millennium.”
36 Comments | tags: fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, funny, Ghost, Haunted house, haunting, lonely | posted in Friday Fictioneers, Light
The Lost Tribe of Levy
Benjamin Levy eased the Model T onto the berm next to the sign for First Mountain Baptist Church. He tried to remember whose idea it had been to spend their honeymoon exploring the hinterlands of Appalachia. He blamed his wife—privately, of course. They had spent the last few hours jolting along on dusty mountain roads and now it was mid-afternoon, and they were low on gas and thoroughly lost.
“You sure this is a good idea?” Miriam asked, peering out at the picnic.
“We have to ask someone.” He could feel his heart beat faster. Looking around, the people seemed normal. No white hoods, not even any guns in sight.
A rotund man in a brown suit had spotted them and was ambling over. Ben rolled down the window.
“What town is this?” Ben asked when the man was close enough.
“This here’s Vicco. Where y’all headed?”
“We don’t know exactly. We’re just exploring. Is there a town near here with gas and a hotel?”
“Sure, sure. There’s a couple. Hey, ya hungry? We got lots of food here.”
“No, that’s fine—”
“Oh, come on,” the man said, opening the car door. “You must be famished.” He stuck out his hand. “Name’s Bobby Lindon.”
“Benjamin Levy,” Ben said, climbing out and shaking the man’s hand.
Bobby nodded, pumping Ben’s hand in unison with his head. Then his eyes widened. “Hey, are y’all Jews?”
Here it comes. “Uh, yeah.” Ben’s eyes swiveled, looking for pitchforks.
“That’s great! Come on and meet everyone. There’s no Jews in these parts, but the pastor talks about them nearly every Sunday. Hey Pastor, come meet the Jews!”
A moment later, Ben and Miriam were surrounded by a crowd of eager faces, looking at them like a pair of recently arrived angels. They were seated at a table and plates of food were heaped up in front of them. They looked at each other and started eating. Ben tactfully avoided the pork ribs, even though they been piled extra high on half his plate.
“So, have you been to the Holy Land?” Pastor Gorton said as he sat down across from them, apparently starting a second meal to keep them company. “I’ve studied Palestine for years but it’s a long way away.”
“I’ve never been there,” Ben said. “I’m from New Jersey.”
“Do you know Hebrew?” The pastor’s eyes lit up. He jumped up and returned a minute later with a battered commentary. As Ben ate, Pastor Gorton peppered him with questions about the translations of various words in the Old Testament and Ben wracked his brain to remember Hebrew lessons from a decade before.
Meanwhile a group of young people were trying to get Miriam to sing and dance with a tambourine like the Miriam in the Bible. One went and got a tambourine and set it on the table near her just in case she changed her mind. They seemed disappointed, too, that neither she nor Ben knew how to play a shofar, but they were fascinated with her descriptions of Hanukkah. A few of the boys pulled out jackknives and started whittling dreidels as if they were going to play then and there.
Pastor Gorton brought Ben in to see a Star of David he had on the wall of his office. He came back out to find Miriam surrounded by a group of children, all making choking sounds as if they had fishbones stuck in their throats.
“They wanted to learn some Hebrew words,” she said. “They’re fascinated with that one sound.”
She stood up and grabbed his lapel, pulling him closer. “They want us to stay here tonight,” she said in a fierce whisper. “They’re talking about having a seder supper and making a replica of the Tent of Meeting.” He saw the panic in her eyes. “We gotta get out of here,” she said. “I don’t think I can take much more of this pro-Semitism.”
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Torahman
copyright Roger Bultot
“I want something like Bibleman, but cooler. And for Jews.”
Jeff wasn’t sure how the rabbi had heard of Bibleman. “So, you want me to create . . . Torahman?”
“No, that’s too stereotypical. I want something original. And tougher. How about The Maccabee?”
“Okay.” Jeff didn’t know how to draw a Maccabee. “Does he throw stars of David?”
“And his sidekick could be Dreidl Boy.”
The rabbi frowned. “That seems stereotypical.”
“Does he kill people?”
“No! He just teaches kids about Judaism.”
“He teaches? So he’s basically. . . Torahman then.”
The rabbi looked deflated. “Fine, Torahman. And stick Dreidl Boy in there too.”
When I finished writing this, I did a Google search and apparently there is a Torahman already, although his sidekick is called Mitzvah Boy. It seems you can’t make this stuff up.
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Rare Steaks
I got this idea for last week’s Friday Fictioneers, but couldn’t fit it satisfactorily into 100 words, so I am posting it as a stand-alone with a different picture.
The driver backed the truck inexpertly up to the loading dock of the meat market. The manager was waiting when he got out. “I got a shipment for you,” the driver said.
The manager nodded. “You’re not the regular guy. Where’s Todd these days?”
“This is a special load. I thought I’d come by and see if you were interested in it.” The driver fumbled with the latch and opened up the back.
“Hey, it’s all fresh. Is this locally sourced?”
“Yep, it’s from the area.”
The manager picked up a package and inspected it. The meat was cut into irregular pieces. Whoever processed it must have been new on the job. “You know, we usually cut it up here. What is this, veal?”
“Uh, yeah. Veal.”
“Sure, I’ll take it. I can sell it at a discount. Lemme get some guys to unload it. Just hold on.” The manager called for a few employees to start unloading the truck, then sat down and picked up a newspaper. The driver stood by uncertainly.
“What do you think about that boy scout troop that disappeared a few days ago?” the manager asked conversationally. “Crazy, eh? You think they’ll find them soon?”
“I’m sure they’re fine. They’ll turn up,” the driver said.
The manager pointed to the picture of the missing troop in the paper. “You know, you kind of look like their troop leader.”
“My . . . twin brother. We’re all shook up about it.”
“Well, thoughts and prayers and all that.” The manager looked up and pointed. “Geez, what’s that?”
A strip of dark green cloth lay on the floor of the truck, uncovered as the men unloaded the truck. The driver stepped over and snatched it up. The manager caught a glimpse of merit badges sewed in rows on it as the driver pushed it into a plastic bag.
“My nephew’s,” the driver explained. “He was going to a scout meeting when I was loading the truck. Must have left it.”
“Well, he’s going to miss his sash,” the manager said. “You’d better wash that good before you give it back. It looks pretty fouled with blood and juice.”
“So, how can I get paid?” the driver asked tentatively.
“We’ll send it to you by next week,” the manager said, going back to his paper.
“Could I get it now, in cash?”
The manager looked up, frowning. “In cash? No, that’s not how we work.”
“Oh. Okay. Well, they’ve got the truck unloaded. I’ll just go now.”
“See ya.” The manager flipped a page. What a weirdo, he thought.
Breaking News! The local TV station’s chyron screamed the next day. Carnage at Santa’s Village!
“Police uncovered a grisly scene this morning at the local Santa’s Village which is closed for the season,” the reporter said. “The entire herd of reindeer that is housed on the grounds was found slaughtered. The culprits were soon found in the area, the missing scout troop 3245. Their leader has been arrested for child endangerment, theft, and illegally trying to sell the meat to a local market. He insists it was all for a fundraiser so the boys could attend the national jamboree.
“Scout officials confirm that the boys have been reprimanded, but will also receive their merit badge in poaching.”
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Symbols, shorthand, signs — Ashley Hay
All the things I should've given — Miriam Sved
Fantasias for flute — Lucy Neave
Poster boy — Holden Sheppard
Paper moon — Victoria Carless
Shanghai wedding — Daniel Young
Distance — Erin Gough
Three poems about my son, who has autism — Anthony Macris
Hillock of peace — Rosie Funder
My life with the wave — Ronnie Scott
Demonstrating defiance — Anne Richards
Symbols, shorthand, signs
The narrative spectrum of freedom
by Ashley Hay
IN THE WINTER of 2018, the National Gallery of Victoria’s ground floor was given over to the MoMA at NGV exhibition, arranged across two suites of galleries in its iconic St Kilda Road site. The first run of rooms held a cornucopia of famous images from Matisse and Van Gogh to Warhol, and two installations of Tomohiro Nishikado’s pioneering Space Invaders game, complete with consoles. Beyond which a small dogleg of space displayed two wall paintings – a giant recycling symbol, and a giant @ – and, around the corner, the ‘Rainbow Flag’, sewn by its original designer, US artist and activist Gilbert Baker. These three pieces were drawn from MoMA’s design collection, a broader assemblage of ‘universal symbols’ that also includes the ampersand and the creative commons logo.
Baker created the first striped rainbow flag using huge swathes of purpose-dyed organic cotton fabric for the Gay Freedom Day Parade held in San Francisco on 25 June 1978. ‘I thought that we needed that kind of symbol,’ he said many years later, ‘that we needed as a people something that everyone instantly understands.’ His team of some thirty volunteers ran late-night guerilla raids on public laundromats to ‘fix’ the strips of brightly dyed fabric in their washing machines, loading bleach into the machines when they were finished so that subsequent customers wouldn’t leave with coloured smalls.
Originally made up of eight bands of colour, the flag now boasts six: red for life; orange for healing; yellow for sunlight; green for nature; blue for serenity; violet for spirit. The hot-pink stripe (originally signifying sex) was dropped when the flag went into commercial production because fabric that colour was both rare and expensive; the turquoise stripe (signifying art) was dropped to give the flag an even number of stripes that could be split in two for the 1979 Gay Freedom Day Parade. ‘I realised I would have to make some compromises in order for this to really function as a symbol,’ Baker explained.
Baker refused to apply for a trademark for the design, telling friends he saw it as his ‘gift to the world’. Four decades later it is universally recognised not only as the standard of the LGBTQI community, but also, as Baker’s obituary in The New York Times noted in 2017, as ‘a universal symbol of peace, inclusion and love’.
A symbol, a shorthand: a sign.
In one of the satisfying loops that makes for a good story, Baker gifted this flag to MoMA in 2015 and it was unfurled there for the first time on June 25 that year – the thirty-eighth anniversary of its first appearance and the day that the United States’ Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage in that country. On that day, more than twenty-six million Facebook users worldwide altered their profile pictures to include Baker’s rainbow flag.
In the NGV in Melbourne, the flag was almost tucked away and its positioning required viewers to pause and stand with it; it transformed its corner of the gallery into a meditative space. Hung high on the wall, in the still and quiet of the gallery’s air, it was a rainbow at rest, its silken drapes folding those six bands of different colours into a kind of embrace.
To stand in its presence in the Australian winter of 2018 was to feel an extra sense of its power, and an extra sense of all that might be bound in it. By 1 June 2018, six months after the legalisation of same-sex marriage here, almost 2,500 of these unions had been registered across the country’s states and territories, according to figures on the pop-culture website Junkee. This flag nodded to those stories also.
This year’s annual novella edition of Griffith Review acknowledges, in part, these symbols and the narratives that hold them. Its theme – ‘All Being Equal’ – was conceived in late 2017, partly as a response to the resounding ‘Yes’ vote recorded in that year’s postal survey. Its call for entries pondered ‘appetites for equality’ and ‘the primacy of love’, and many of its submissions spoke directly to the idea of marriage equality.
This year’s winners of the novella competition are Erin Gough, Lucy Neave, Holden Sheppard, Miriam Sved and Daniel Young, and they were selected from an outstanding field of more than sixty entries by a judging panel comprised of Dennis Altman, Benjamin Law, Melissa Lucashenko and Aviva Tuffield, as well as the staff of Griffith Review. They hold elements of celebration and lamentation, of moments caught and moments missed. The intense intimacy of each is a vivid reminder of the many ways in which individuals and their stories often disappeared beneath the broad political sweep of the campaigning around the postal vote. These are windows into individual lives, with all their complexities and choices.
THIS ISSUE OF Griffith Review also includes three pieces written under the auspices of last year’s Queensland Writing Fellowships, with memoirs by Rosie Funder and Anne Richards, and fiction by Victoria Carless. In different ways, they open out ideas of equality in family relationships and their intersections with wider political and philosophical worlds. They occupy three distinct landscapes: the closed space of a yogic community in south-eastern Queensland, the explosions of youth and protest in Brisbane around the Vietnam War, and the dangerous reality of desertion on the Western Front in World War I. Two of these writers, Funder and Richards, are emerging writers: this is the first time either has begun to explore the telling of their stories, and these add to Griffith Review’s long history of opening space for new voices. It includes, too, Ronnie Scott’s lyrical meditation on the changing nature of queer public spaces and the lives that change within them. It’s a beautiful adjunct to this year’s novella themes.
What all these stories have in common are determined kinds of love. And it is a ferocious determination to love that sits at the centre of Anthony Macris’ triptych ‘Three poems about my son, who has autism’. It’s a suite that speaks about the power and creativity of each individual life. And it’s another story about people, and purpose, and love.
THERE’S A PHOTOGRAPH of Gilbert Baker taken back in 1994. The photographer is perched high up above Baker as he leans forward over the tiny glowing light of a sewing machine. He’s surrounded by yards and yards of rich red fabric – perhaps it’s the red stripe for the mile-long flag he made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall riots that year. The image captures him as a shimmer of presence and movement: this instant of the next incarnation of his rainbow as it comes into being.
Walking the other morning, I passed a house not far from mine and saw, hanging from its gutters, a vast rainbow flag that reached all the way to the ground. I don’t know who lives there, or why the flag was flying. But it was impossible not to smile to see it. It was exuberant and enormous, and it shone. It was a moment in somebody else’s story, and its brilliance made it everyone’s to see.
Coming into this collection of writing, coming into the role of editor of Griffith Review, I have an image of each piece in each edition shining like a dot-point in a shifting constellation. Each works among the others to make a slightly different whole. Those conversations between words reflect the conversations these words themselves might spark, which might spark another set of stories in the world. And these processes of making and creating are as important as the stories that they tell.
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UITH management orders striking doctors back to work or face sanction
05 August 2017 | 5:33 am
It said the commencement of the strike on August 2, barely 24 hours after serving the notice, remained a “malicious action” and a deliberate step aimed at shunning duties.
The management of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, has sharply criticised members of the hospital’s chapter of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) for non-adherence to the rules of industrial relations in their ongoing five-day warning strike, which today entered its second day.
Besides, the management threatened to invoke the ‘no work, no pay’ directives of the Federal Ministry of Health on the doctors if they failed to call off the strike.
According to the management, at the end of its emergency meeting yesterday, following the commencement of the strike, the doctors, in their letter ARD/UITH /SEC/OUT/17/56, dated August 1, premised their action on the decision reached at its emergency meeting of July 31, thereby depriving the management the statutory adequate notification period before the declaration of any form of industrial disputes.
“The management wishes to register its displeasure of the short notice of this current strike, which gave no window of engagement, and to remind the association of the ‘no work, no pay’ directive of the Federal Ministry of Health.
“Management, however, remains open to negotiations aimed at stopping the present strike and preventing a recurrence of same.”The local ARD, through its Chairman, Dr. Kolawole Ige, had cited non-payment of certain emoluments of members by the management as the main reason for the strike.
But Head, Corporate Affairs Unit, of the hospital, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Omojasola, insisted that management had always paid all the resident doctors complete salaries as at when due, except on a few occasions when funds were remitted late.
Despite the industrial disharmony, normal activities were still going on unhindered at the hospital, as consultants, who have firmly taken over the duties of the striking doctors, were attending directly to all the patients.
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You Should Kiss At Every Opportunity: Here’s Why
13 Jan 2018 Wellness
Do you remember your first intimate kiss? For a moment, you were convinced you were high on something exciting you could not explain. The lips, the tongue, and the brain were exchanging chemical messages so fast you felt you were on cloud nine and for a minute (probably until now) you forgot about the exchange…
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Most people can recall their first kiss. There's an electrifying feeling of excitement when two people kiss for the first time, as it Is recognised as the first intimate physical connection, which sometimes determines compatibility. While many believe kissing to be natural and intuitive, other anthropologists argue the practice is derived from "kiss feeding", an…
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Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India
Pharma industry
Government Assures All Help to Boost Pharma Exports
New Delhi Government on Tuesday assured the pharma industry of "every possible help" in resolving its issues related to exports and said efforts would be made to expedite work on different proposals to realise the full potential of the sector.August 19, 2015, 04:00 IST
This is the first time in the recent years that the Indian pharma exports saw single digit growth in dollar terms.
New Delhi Government on Tuesday assured the pharma industry of "every possible help" in resolving its issues related to exports and said efforts would be made to expedite work on different proposals to realise the full potential of the sector.
An assurance to this effect was given by commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a meeting attended by representatives of Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) and officials from different ministries. Observing that Indian pharma sector can help the global community in its fight against various life threatening diseases, Sitharaman assured the industry of government's help "in every possible manner in resolving various issues faced by the industry".
A 'think tank' consisting of senior pharma professionals, CEOs, government officials, scientists and researchers can provide an ideal forum to identify bottlenecks and resolve various issues for overcoming challenges and promoting hassle free exports, an official statement said. Sitharaman also directed senior officials to speed up the work on various proposals . " PTI
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The Enduring Glow of Neon Art
An exhibition at the Grundy Art Gallery looks at how artists have used neon and elements on the periodic table for the past 50 years.
Mark SheerinNovember 28, 2016
Installation view of NEON: The Charged Line at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (all photos by Phill Heywood, all images courtesy Grundy Art Gallery)
BLACKPOOL, UK — In White Noise, novelist Don Delillo imagines an American university where professors in the popular culture department devote their energy to reading cereal boxes and the like. Thirty years after this satire, we not only have real academics writing about the history and utility of neon as an advertising medium, but exhibitions dedicated to it. In the UK, the Grundy Art Gallery has, according to them, just mounted the island’s most extensive survey of neon as art to date.
Neon first appeared in Paris in 1910, and before World War I there were already more than 160 neon advertisements throughout France. Along with neon, argon and sodium were also found to glow, due to the introduction of an electrical current. It was the French physicist and chemist Georges Claude who first stabilized and patented the process of neon and brought it to the world at large.
The first grand-scale use of neon in the UK occurred in a seaside resort in the northwest known as Blackpool, which has long used light to drum up the tourist trade. In the 1930s, amusement arcades and dance halls introduced neon to their storefronts; the local spectacle became known as the Illuminations. Now the town enjoys a nightly clash between its luminous promenade and the dark roughness of the Irish Sea.
Installation view of NEON: The Charged Line at Grundy Art Gallery
Such is the context for the Grundy’s exhibition, which looks at how artists have used neon and elements on the periodic table for the past 50 years. In fact, the history of the noble gasses in art is as long as the history of neon in Blackpool; we learn from the catalogue that it was a Czech artist called Zdeněk Pešánek who first made art with neon in 1934, if not earlier.
But NEON: The Charged Line begins its chronology much later, with Joseph Kosuth, who worked with bold text signage. In 1965, he gave us a conceptual icon with a tube of glowing whiteness that simply spells the word “neon.” This electrifying work fuses the distance within words, between signifying and signified elements, which characterized the structuralist thought at the time. In a 21st-century landscape in which lexical slippage is the norm, this piece (also called “Neon”) looks even more like a lightning strike on the English language.
Fiona Banner, “Beagle Punctuation” (2011), installation view
Thirty years later, Fiona Banner seemed to want to put a full stop to the use of neon with her single illuminated period dot. The young British artist took minimalism to an extreme with a light piece measuring just 1cm squared. Dangling from the wiring that climbs some 8 feet up the gallery wall, the work only just holds the attention. It may have seemed, in 1997, that the history of neon in art was coming to a close. But no matter how witty, the prediction could not have been more wrong.
Indeed the majority of works in this show are from the 21st century, which is something of an imbalance. Among them is Tracey Emin’s 2002 piece, “I know I know I know,” which carries those very words in fiery red. The second “I know” is crossed out in electric blue. After working through the piece’s teen-like angst, you can marvel at Emin’s neon manufacturer. The words have been rendered in fine tubes that resemble her handwriting. If not set in stone, the result is at least set ablaze. Like the embroidery in Emin’s best work, neon is still a craft.
Betrand Lavier, “Telluride II” (2005), installation view
Though it tends to shout in the visual landscape, neon comes to us in delicate glass tubes and some ingenuity is required to achieve all but the simplest of designs. This fragility is exposed further into the show, by a pimped-up cement mixer, which contrasts with its acid green trim. The mixer found its way from a building site to an art gallery via an intervention by David Batchelor, who frequently works with light and unlovely industrial objects or refuse vessels. It seems important that the machine is clearly used and clearly filthy. But the dried cement fades into darkness, just as soon as the piece is switched on. So there is nothing that art, light, or color cannot sex up.
Sex is certainly on the agenda in a pair of vaulting sculptures by contemporary French artist, François Morellet. Red neon comes away from the wall to spell out three slender ‘X’s which reach from floor to ceiling. No wonder that neon was once thought to be morally suspect. In the 1920s, the writer G.K. Chesterton felt that it misused the “two most vivid and most mystical gifts of God, color and fire.” Batchelor’s cement mixer and these two works by Morellet stretch the range of neon, and are for me the highlights of the show.
Opposite this, the Morellet has teased up a few neon plumes into a tower of blue light, which here expresses a spiritual yearning to contrast with the earthy triple X. It is true that the material speaks to both the body and the soul; neon is a crowd pleaser and this show has something of the good cheer of the Blackpool seafront about it. The Grundy’s director and the show’s curator Richard Parry told me there was a moment of magic when the gallery first switched on the show.
“There is something immediately engaging and kind of uplifting about neon and some of the works are just good fun in a way because of that,” admitted Parry when I spoke to him at the launch. But, he also says that the show has a serious intent. “There’s a lot of thinking and ideas … lots of depth and layers.”
Tim Etchells, “Lets Pretend (Large)” (2014), installation view
“In many respects its quite a vintage material, and outdated,” said Parry. “But it seems to have this continuous draw and I think there is something the sheer brilliance of the color, which is not like any other material.” Being hand-blown glass objects, he adds, these neon artworks look backwards and, thanks to their association with bright lights and big cities, forwards.
So, despite the somewhat limited scale of the exhibition, NEON: The Charged Line remains the UK’s largest exhibition dedicated solely to the medium. It should inspire even more art historians and historians to study the subject of neon. But beyond that, it must be said, there is indeed a magic about neon, and it works as well in a pristine white gallery as it does on a seedy seaside promenade.
NEON: The Charged Line continues at Grundy Art Gallery (Queen St, Blackpool FY1 1PU, UK) through January 7, 2017.
David BatchelorFiona BannerFrançois MorelletGrundy Art GalleryJoseph KosuthneonTracey Emin
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Textual Healing
A guide to writing smokin’ hot erotic sex scenes
Abigail Licad
Illustration by Michael Park
The Asian American literary community has got to bring its sexy back. The sad truth is that there is not much Asian American erotic literature published in the mainstream. The only established work of erotic lit by Asian Americans in existence is On a Bed of Rice, an anthology of fiction and poetry edited by Geraldine Kudaka and published in 1995 — pre-Facebook, pre-sexting and even pre-Sex and the City.
One theory to explain the dearth of Asian American erotic writing points to the great risk involved, at least when Asians first arrived in America. In the foreword to On a Bed of Rice, writer Russell Leong observes that important books like the Asian American Studies 101 primer Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki neglect to explore Asian American eroticism, likely because of silences imposed by exclusion acts and anti-miscegenation laws during the early waves of Asian immigration. How, indeed, could early immigrant writers (mostly men who were not allowed to bring spouses or were legally prevented from dating other races) speak about their sexual experiences (racy, forbidden intercultural experiences with white, black, Latina or Native American lovers at that) when in danger of severe punishment? Another theory is that in many Asian cultures, sex is simply not discussed openly and freely.
Not all hope is lost. Up-and-coming young writers have been furiously making up for lost time. One exciting writer of erotic literature is Teresa Lo, author of the series The Red Lantern Scandals about 20-something Angelenos on the cusp of sexual awakening. The book is not just about sex but about discovering and celebrating one’s independence.
Teresa and I sat down over apple martinis and had a long, delicious chat about what makes for quality sexy reading. We came up with the following guidelines in the hopes that you, dear reader, will seize the opportunity — nay, heed the obligation — to take up some erotic writing yourself and spread the sexual healing among your largely repressed kin.
Lose the hang-ups. As Asian Americans, we have a lot of them. Unfortunately, it’s not just about shedding inhibitions or ignoring what our mothers will think. As already mentioned, the lack of an Asian American erotic writing tradition has a lot to do with historical and legislative encumbrances placed upon our ability to express freely. Celebrate our historical and social leaps and bounds — express yourself freely! If you really can’t ignore what your mother will think, then write under a pen name. Most importantly, DO NOT JUDGE en route to shedding your inhibitions. Period. Don’t judge yourself, your readers, your characters or anyone else. Just develop the characters and go with the actions that unfold naturally.
Don’t go there. By “there,” we mean geishas, weird anime fantasies, china dolls or whatever popularized Orientalist conceptions that have made Asian Americans “objects, rather than the subjects” of sexual exploration, to quote Russell Leong. Let go of the fetishes and played-out stereotypes. Haven’t we had enough of soldier-prostitute tales, war bride tragedies, Asian men who prey on white women and dragon ladies? Much sex-scene writing out there is dreadful enough — hence the existence of the Bad Sex in Fiction award given by The Literary Review. So dare to be brave — cast stereotypes aside and plow virgin literary soil.
Get in the mood. The proper mood must be set for the mental foreplay to begin. Play sexy music (D’Angelo would be my recommendation) and wear lingerie. Heck, why not go all the way and write naked (naked = vulnerable, vulnerable = higher stakes, higher stakes = charged writing). At the very least, light a scented candle. Or, and a few writer friends have seriously sworn by this, try to stop having sex for days or weeks before writing the sex scene in order to transmit your own pent-up horniness onto the page.
Know your characters. “When I write, I get into my characters’ heads, and I let their personalities dictate what they will do and how the scene will play out,” Lo says. Before writing a sex scene, you must fully develop the characters. So do an interview in your head with your characters. What are their beliefs and motivations? What makes them vulnerable? What internal and external conflicts are they undergoing? There must be something at risk so that the sex scene reveals a new side to the character. Ultimately, your reader must be able to immerse themselves in the characters and feel how they are feeling so that the sex has emotional weight.
Set the scene. Unless you’re writing about paranormal characters, the logic must be believable, so be aware of spatial or temporal limitations. For example, having sex outdoors in the snow during an earthquake is not very believable no matter how taken by the moment — or flexible — your characters are. As a rule of thumb, try something new. Usually, the more common the setting, the less interesting the scene. Other places to avoid include elevators, airplane toilets, car backseats, office desks and hot-air balloon rides. More importantly — details, please! Guide readers in using their imaginations by being as suggestive as possible. How to do this? Easy — just engage all the senses. How do things smell, feel, taste and sound as the characters progress to the moment of truth?
Have a plot. You must build anticipation and intensity. Don’t just fast-forward to the humping like in your younger brother’s cheap porn flicks. The sex scene should have a purpose in advancing the story or relationship between the characters. In romance novels, there is usually conflict between the characters that turns into attraction and culminates in the act, which then reveals hidden truths or previous misguided beliefs. The best orgasms involve emotions — not just “ooohhh baby” and “give it to me” accompanied by some spanking and lip-locking.
We said erotic, not pornographic. As Lo puts it, “sexual tension needs to be built for a sex scene to actually be sexy. Otherwise, they’re just sentences about penises and vaginas. Something erotic, on the other hand, is supposed to be sensual. The journey that gets you to your climax is just as important as the climax itself. That’s why most books that have graphic sex can never be ‘pornographic’ because writing is supposed to have developed characters and plots.” To create tension, you must tantalize and provoke the reader. Linger on foreplay. Be subtle. Allude rather than be graphic. Focus on body parts that are largely ignored: the small of her back, the base of his neck, the luminous scars acquired after a bout of adolescent chickenpox and so on. Don’t make up new sex positions as though you’re trying to rival the Kama Sutra. Be romantic and sensual. Don’t overdo anything. And try to leave biting or scratching out.
Watch your language. Avoid clichés like sexually transmitted diseases. Clichés make scenes laughable. Don’t say “she saw fireworks” or “felt waves of ecstasy.” Nothing should be described as “hot and heavy.” Furthermore, don’t dwell on bodily fluids or anatomy. Clinical or mechanical descriptions are not sexy. Avoid using euphemisms for genitalia. And for God’s sake, do not mention love rocket, cock, maidenhead or beaver. Rather, show. Don’t tell. Use strong verbs. Be suggestive rather than overly descriptive. Do this by using metaphors, similes and imagery. Finally, don’t be redundant — readers’ eyes will roll if you use “throbbing” more than once.
Rewrite and rewrite! As with any writing, you must edit, rewrite, edit and rewrite again. In the end, the scene should turn you on when you read it. You should not be laughing at what you wrote (unless you were intentionally trying to be funny).
Keep improving by learning from others. “Having a lot of sex, unfortunately, will not make you a great erotica writer,” Lo says. “But reading a lot of romance or erotic literature and seeing what’s sexy or not will give you the best idea of how it’s done.” Lo recommends that aspiring erotica authors check out the e-books section on Amazon rather than look for hardcovers. “A lot of writers self-publish dirty stories, and most are actually pretty good,” Lo says. “The best way to find them is to read the samples or download a free promotional copy.”
And there you have it. We urge you to put these tips into practice. As further incentive to serve our literary community, Hyphen is holding an erotic sex-scene writing contest. For details, please go to hyphenmagazine.com.
Abigail Licad is a books editor at Hyphen. She last wrote about authors who self-publish.
Read more from Issue 27: The Sex Issue, available now. Subscribe to Hyphen or pick up a copy at a newsstand near you.
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Abigail Licad is one big FOB and damn proud of it. She grew up in the Philippines and immigrated to San Leandro, CA at age 13. She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree in literature from Oxford University. Her poetry and book reviews have appeared in Calyx, Borderlands, The Critical Flame, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She is Hyphen's Books Editor.
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Experts tell Gawker: Hillary’s shoddy private e-mail security is a potential national security disaster
AllahpunditPosted at 3:21 pm on March 5, 2015
We already knew it was bad. Not until you read this will you understand how bad. In fact, I debated with myself whether to even include the word “potential” in the headline. The reason it’s there is because cybersecurity experts can’t say for an absolute fact that foreign governments infiltrated her server. All they can say is that it’s a virtual certainty given how high a priority she is for enemy hackers and how clumsy her defenses were. It’s like a business owner knowing that his store is being cased and choosing to leave the vault unlocked anyway.
You need to read it all to appreciate the extent of the failure. The threshold problem with using private e-mail is that your own cybersecurity is only as good as the company you’re using. If hackers know a way into a commercial server — and Hillary’s e-mail apparently used three different servers — then they have a way into your account potentially. That’s not a major problem for average people but it’s huge when the target is someone being watched by the most sophisticated cyber outfits in the world. Instead of conducting State Department business behind one very well fortified door, i.e. the federal government’s, Hillary placed it behind three less fortified ones. The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing.
But even that doesn’t fully explain the security lapse. If you’re going to hide behind three less fortified doors, you should at least want to make sure those doors are as fortified as possible. Hillary didn’t:
Security researcher Dave Kennedy of TrustedSec agrees: “It was done hastily and not locked down.” Mediocre encryption from Clinton’s outbox to a recipient (or vice versa) would leave all of her messages open to bulk collection by a foreign government or military. Or, if someone were able to copy the security certificate Clinton used, they could execute what’s called a “man in the middle” attack, invisible eavesdropping on data. “It’s highly likely that another person could simply extract the certificate and man in the middle any user of the system without any warnings whatsoever,” Hansen said.
The invalid certificate would have also likely left Clinton vulnerable to widespread internet bugs like “Heartbleed,” which was only discovered last spring, and may have let hackers copy the entire contents of the Clinton servers’ memory. Inside that memory? Who knows: “It could very well have been a bunch of garbage,” said Hansen, or “it could have been her full emails, passwords, and cookies.” Heartbleed existed unnoticed for years. A little social engineering, Hansen said, could give attackers access to Clinton’s DNS information, letting them route and reroute data to their own computers without anyone realizing. “It’s a fairly small group of people who know how to do that,” Hansen noted, but “it’s not hard—it’s just a lot of steps.”
And that’s not all. Hillary’s server appears to be configured with a public login page, allowing her — or anyone else — to access the server from anywhere in the world with the right login and password. In other words, not only was she beaming confidential information out onto the Internet, where it could have been intercepted at various points, instead of routing it through secure federal government servers, she actually placed a doorway into the server on the Internet so that people with the right key (namely, her) could access it easily. That’s “pretty much the worst thing you can do” to a network that’s meant to be private, let alone sufficiently top secret to serve a cabinet member, said one security expert to Gawker. And on top of all that, there’s a chance that by using a .com domain, Hillary may have inadvertently steered classified government info to innocent people who had no intention of receiving it. From Gizmodo:
He pointed out that there is another valid domain, clintonmail.com, owned by somebody else with the last name Clinton since 2002 (note the lack of an “e,” which is the only difference between it and Hillary Clinton’s domain). “How many emails meant for the Secretary of State has the owner of clintonmail.com received?” Nielsen asked, adding that this isn’t a problem with .gov domains since only the government can register them.
The question is why. Why, if she was resolved to use private e-mail, wouldn’t she pay some cybergenius a half million dollars or whatever rate the Clintons get for an hour’s work these days and get him to build one of the most tightly secured private e-mail servers in the world? We all understand why she wouldn’t want American voters being able to sift through her correspondence at State. What I don’t understand is why she wouldn’t take precautions to keep them away from prying Russian/Chinese eyes too. Remember, she was warned by State’s IT people that private e-mail wasn’t secure. Even if she was a total tech ignoramus, that was her wake-up call to pay someone to secure this server. She didn’t. Even if you think, as I do, that most voters won’t care about this, it’s still a major unforced error by someone who’s been planning to run for president in 2016 since before she became Secretary of State. As it is, imagine President Hillary arguing with Putin over Ukraine circa 2018 and him warning her to stand down or else a few damaging e-mails from her time at State might just end up mysteriously being leaked to the New York Times. She’s left herself wide open to foreign blackmail. Inexplicably.
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And, of course, the Dems continue covering up for Pelosi on waterboarding...
Cong. Report Says Government Caused Financial Crisis; Sessions’ Questions on Sotomayor
And, of course, the Dems continue covering up for Pelosi on waterboarding…
Connie Hair
In a stunning report (pdf) released yesterday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the current financial crisis was traced back to government intervention in the U.S. housing market. Yes, you read that right.
The report issued by the Republican minority didn’t disclose the names of the culprit individuals, but it sure pointed a lot of fingers at organizations, politicians, lobbyists and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.
According to the report, government intervention “created ‘affordable’ but dangerous lending policies which encouraged lower down payments, looser underwriting standards and higher leverage. Finally, government intervention created a nexus of vested interests — politicians, lenders and lobbyists — who profited from the ‘affordable’ housing market and acted to kill reforms.”
Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the committee, released a summary of key findings from the report that included:
• Political pressure led to the erosion of responsible lending practices:
In the early 1990s, Fannie and Freddie began to come under considerable political pressure to lower their underwriting standards, particularly on the size of down payments and the credit quality of borrowers. (p.6)
• Lower down-payments led to housing prices that outpaced income growth: Once government-sponsored efforts to decrease down payments spread to the wider market, home prices became increasingly untethered from any kind of demand limited by borrowers’ ability to pay. Instead, borrowers could just make smaller down payments and take on higher debt, allowing home prices to continue their unrestrained rise. (p. 11)
• Members of an “affordable housing” coalition shared profits with political allies to help legitimize their business practices: Fannie Mae created and used The Fannie Mae Foundation to spread millions of dollars around to politically-connected organizations like the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. It also hired well-known academics to give an aura of academic rigor to policy positions favorable to Fannie Mae. (p.7)
• The Government Sponsored Enterprises led the way into the housing crisis: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were leaders in risky mortgage lending. According to an analysis presented to the Committee, between 2002 and 2007, Fannie and Freddie purchased $1.9 trillion of mortgages made to borrowers with credit scores below 660, one of the definitions of “subprime” used by federal banking regulators. This represents over 54% of all such mortgages purchased during those years. (p.24)
“The spin on the financial crisis by those who favored government efforts to erode lending standards is that the housing bubble didn’t cause this recession,” Issa said. “The findings in this report should remind this Congress that ignoring the role of politics and government in causing the housing crisis and the economic collapse while pursing other regulatory reforms will not fix the underlying problem.”
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Sessions Raises Red Flags over Sotomayor Impartiality
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has uncovered more troubling commentaries by Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor which raise doubts about her ability to serve as an impartial jurist on the highest court in the land. Sessions raised red flags in a speech from the Senate floor on Tuesday. Some excerpts:
“On a number of occasions, Judge Sotomayor delivered a speech entitled: “Women in the Judiciary,” in which she emphasizes that she accepts the proposition that a judge’s personal experiences affect judicial outcomes…
“In the same speech, which she has given numerous times, Judge Sotomayor goes one step further: ‘I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt… continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.’
“[In the New Haven firefighters case], Judge Sotomayor’s panel held the firefighters who worked hard and passed the test did not even deserve a trial on this issue…
“I would just point out that she spent a number of years working on litigation with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (PRLDEF), where she spent much effort challenging exactly these types of objective tests…
“So under her leadership, PRLDEF litigated a series of cases designed to attack promotional exams because the group decided after-the-fact that not enough minorities were being promoted… As a result, we are left to wonder: What role did Judge Sotomayor’s personal experience play when she heard this case? … We are left to wonder, and will need to ask her about this at her hearing…”
Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing begins Monday, July 13th.
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House Democrats are gearing up this week to pass legislation that focuses on political cover for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the expense of CIA and other intelligence community professionals.
The FY 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act contains a watered down version of the disclosure and oversight language authored and passed by the Democrat majority setting standards for the Bush administration last year. Democrats diluted the disclosure requirements for fear that the application of the disclosure standards required of the Bush administration would allow for the release of an unclassified version of CIA briefing notes at the center of the Pelosi controversy.
These notes, if released, could disprove Pelosi’s allegations that the CIA engaged in a systematic pattern of lying to Congress.
Pelosi at first agreed the notes should be released but has since fallen silent on the issue, hiding behind Democrat maneuvers to block their disclosure.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican member of the House Committee on Intelligence, expressed concerns over the bill up for consideration on the floor this week.
“The committee had a strong, bipartisan notification provision in last year’s intelligence bill and it should have been reintroduced this year,” Hoekstra said. “Unfortunately Democrats felt they needed to propose new legislative language in response to the deep, political troubles caused by the Speaker’s still unsubstantiated claims against the CIA. They did nothing, however, to address or follow-up on her claim that the CIA lies to Congress ‘all the time,’ which was echoed again in committee deliberations by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.”
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César Azpilicueta is Chelsea F.C. and Spanish National Team player.
Chelsea and Spain defender has become a benchmark thanks to his professionalism, dedication and his eagerness to succeed. His excellent physical condition and his talent for choosing the best option always makes Azpilicueta key player for all coaches.
Based in his work on the pitch and increased by his social network channels, César Azpilicueta´s image conveys closeness and empathy with the fans. The Navarre player is one of the most beloved players by Chelsea supporters. Well known is his successful and funny video explaining the fans how to pronounce his name. Between Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the player from Navarra has more than 6 million followers.
In 2016-17, Azpilicueta produced two goals and 7 assists in 47 official matches. He plays all minutes in the Premier League (4th player in Premier’s history -non goalkeeper- that achieves it the same year as he conquers the League).
César was among the 8 nominated players to become Premier’s best player in 2016-17. A fact that proves his importance in the conquering of the league title. Also, he was the player with the most amount of completed passes (nearly 2500), in front of Xhaka, Fernandinho, Pogba, Kanté or Ander (who are all midfielders).
Career as a player
2006-07. Osasuna second team
Debut with Osasuna first team in Spanish League. 8th of april in 2007 (Santiago Bernabéu). Days before he played with Osasuna first team at Spanish Cup.
2007-10. Osasuna
Europe champion U-19 with Spanish Team in 2007.
He played 100 games with Osasuna before his 21 birthday. He got over Iñigo Larrainzar as younger player that play 100 games before 21.
20010-12. Olympique Marsella
Season 2010-2011:
France Supercup and Ligue 1 Cup runner-up.
Ligue 1 runner-up.
Champions League debut on 15th september 2010.
Europe champion U-21 with Spanish Team (2011).
France Supercup and Ligue 1 Cup Champion.
He played 68 games with Olympique Marsella.
2012-today. Chelsea F.C.
Season 2012-13:
UEFA Europa League champion.
Debut with Spanish Team on 6th of february 2013. A match against Uruguay in Doha.
Champions League semifinalist.
Premier League and Capital One Cup Champion.
He’ ve played 180 official games with Chelsea (3 goals and 19 assists).
He’ve reached 16 games with Spanish Team during France Eurocup.
Premier League Champion.
Others awards
Golden lineup in ‘Futbol Draft’ 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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Chelsea player of the year (season 2013-2014).
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Nathuram Godse and Karunanidhi
VEDAPRAKASH
Godse and Dravidian leaders: Very often the DK-protagonists[1], Communist and the like just blurt out that that RSS killed Gandhi[2]. We do not know why they remember very often or like Godse (1910-1949) like this. Now, Karunananidhi cries that “the killers of Gandhi should not come to power” right inside the TN Legislative Assembly. “The sinners of Gandhi-killers should not come to power again. Again one Ayodhya, one Rama Ratha, journey of Advani and such things happen, the country would become a jungle“[3]. “Another Ayodhya or Rathyatra by BJP’s L.K. Advani would turn the nation into a grave,” he said. UPA allies should ensure that the “followers of killers of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, should not rule the land,” he told the Tamil Nadu assembly[4]. This way he responds to the Communists and others who raised the issue of price rise! Why this crack-pot again and again target Rama?
DMK and BJP: We have to deal with all the points raised by the CM in the Assembly, as every citizen has a right to discuss about what C. M talks officially in the assembly. How he was hobnobbing with the Gandhi-killers for five years (1996-2001) without shame, disgrace or mortification? At that time what he was doing? Even T. R. Balu was hobnobbing with BJP-RSS volunteers for his Central Madras Constituency election.
His anti-BJP tirade could not have been made right inside the Assembly, as it is not Panagal Park or Mayilai Mangollai to talk in Tamil anything he likes.
When Murasoli Maran was proposed as Minister, nationalists raised questions, as he had been anti-nationalist and proven ideologist of Tamil separatist movement[5]. Was was writing in “Murasoli”, the DMLK mouth-piece arguing for “Dravidasthan”. He also recorded in his introduction that Karinanidhi encouraged him to write and accommodated in the paper. However, he assured BJP leaders that hereafter, he would not talk anything against nation, as he would become a “Central Minister”!
The same thing happened with PMK and MDMK. The PMK again surrendered and agreed to bury all its ideologies of separatism, self-determination and LTTE support. In fact, it had carefully withdrawn all its anti-Indian books, booklets and propaganda literature.
As for as MDMK was concerned, Vaiko never minced his words for his sympathy and ideological support to and for LTTE or trans-territorial Tamil movement[6]. So he decided to keep outside the ministry and support.
Dravidian leaders sand Mahathma Gandhi: The Dravidian leaders of all sorts had / have been totally against Mahathma Gandhi. They had scant regard for him and talked and wrote disrespecting him in their propagandist literature and papers[7]. EVR, Annadurai and Karunanidhi have been very much against Mahathma Gandhi and they always used to talk in a very scurrilous, derogatory and debasing manner with sarcasm and ridicule. The way in which they talk in Tamil could be understood the real inner meaning only by the Tamil-knowing people. Just remember how Karunanidhi asked about Rama with his arrogant sarcasm, malicious derision and blasphemous mock with his body language. Thousand times more derogatory attitude would be there when they talked during 1940s. They used to address him as “Gandhiyar”, “Parppana adigoli”, “Varnashrama vithagar” and such words and expressions in a scornful way.
Karunanidhi’s official involvements in murders and assassination, acquitted later: People generally forget the recent past. In how many murders and assassination, Karunanidhi was officially involved?
In fact, people, particularly, the non-Tanilnadu citizens know very well that he was one of the accused in the Indira Gandhi attempted murder along with 6 others in 1969. Indira Gandhi gave relief to him by withdrawing the case.
He has been also under the suspicion of assassination Rajiv Gandhi, as he was / is having links with LTTE. Even when Priyanka met Nalini one of the offenders and undergoing punishment in Vellore jail, she was asking as to any political parties were involved in the assassination plot of his father?
He was also involved in the cold-blooded murder of the Tiruchendur temple priest and people might have forgotten the Justice Paul Commission Report. The report itself was made disappeared ad the Judge made kept quite.
Karunanidhi and Commissions: Karunanidhi has always been a man of two faces, many tongues. He keeps harping publicly that he is willing to face any inquiry against him. But when an inquiry commission is instituted, he always runs away from it. He tried to run away from the Justice Sarkaria Commission constituted to inquire into corruption charges against him. Another example is the case where the Justice Paul Commission Report was stolen. A case was registered and in this connection in the Madras High Court his attitude of non-cooperation was heard by Justice Singaravelu. Karunanidhi, the fourth accused in the case, refused to cooperate. In fact, the learned Judge observed that “Even if the 4th accused is brought to Court through some coercive steps, it would be futile and the proposed remedy would only aggravate the malady…”
How sins are different? But, now right inside the TN Assembly, he talks about the so-called killers of Gandhi. Nathuram Godse was already hanged for killing the Gandhi. But can he absolve from the above sins? Though, with his power and manipulations, he has covered up, how the facts could be erased from the minds of TN people or Indians?
Karunanidhi and Terrorism[8]: In 1976, Gandhi’s federal government dismissed Karunanidhi’s government on the charges of corruption. A year later, MGR won local elections and sent Karunanidhi into political wilderness until MGR’s death in 1987.
After a year of direct rule by the federal government, the DMK party regained power in Tamil Nadu in 1989. Two years later the federal government dismissed Karunanidhi for a second time, accusing him of not doing enough to crack down on the Tamil Tigers in his state.
Further, the Jain Commission said, the LTTE was getting its supplies, including arms, ammunition, explosives, fuel and other essential items from Tamil Nadu to continue its fight against the IPKF that too with the support of the DMK Government, State Administration and connivance of the law enforcement agencies.
The report said that soon after the DMK Government took over the reins of power in Tamil Nadu, “the LTTE slowly began to consolidate itself in the State and their clandestine activities, heretofore dormant, became more and more pronounced. All the activities of the LTTE at this stage towards resource mobilisation, propaganda and treatment of their wounded cadres, had taken an anti-national dimension.”
The Commission noted the visit of the then DMK MP, Mr. V. Gopalaswamy, MP (DMK) to Northern Sri Lanka and his reported meeting with Prabhakaran between February 8, 1989, and March 3, 1989.
“This visit by Mr. V. Gopalaswamy, and the manner in which this entire episode was dealt with by the DMK party sent clear signals to the pro-LTTE anti-IPKF elements in the State as well as LTTE itself that the newly-elected Government would not resort to any drastic action against such elements; on the other hand, the impression that the entire episode created was that pro-LTTE gestures, even if they were illegal, would be tolerated by the Government.”
The Commission’s report said the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was keen that “some satisfactory solution be arrived at with the LTTE so that the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord could be implemented in letter and spirit. He discussed this concern with Mr. Karunanidhi and sought his assistance.” After Mr. V. P. Singh became the Prime Minister on December 2, 1989, it was spelt out that if no solution came, India would no longer give any military or monetary help to any of the groups, nor allow its mainland to be used for militant activities. “The LTTE remained adamant during their parleys with Mr. Karunanidhi, and continued to demand the formation of Eelam,” the report noted.
The interim report said that credible reports existed of “active connivance of some DMK leaders with the LTTE. The LTTE was in continuous interaction with Mr. Karunanidhi, primarily to ensure that their activities continue unhindered even after the Padmanabha killing.” The ATR “noted” the observation of the Commission that there was a nexus between the LTTE and the ULFA and their combined endeavours in Tamil Nadu had also been confirmed.
The Commission’s report ponders over questions of aid to the LTTE in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi. “Were there other forces behind the LTTE involved in the conspiracy for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi? These are questions requiring a deep and anxious probe,” the report said referring to conspiratorial aspects which were yet to be dealt with by the one-man probe panel.
Soon after the DMK Government took over the reins of power in Tamil Nadu, the LTTE slowly began to consolidate itself in the State. During 1990, a growing nexus between the LTTE and DMK and its repercussions on the local law enforcement machinery were discernible. The assassination of EPRLF leader K. Padmanabha and others at Madras on 19th June 1990 was a shocking reminder of the impunity with which the LTTE could operate in India.
The case assumes significance due to the fact that striking similarities were found in the Padmanabha assassination and the case relating to the assassination of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. It can, therefore, be safely concluded that the growing connivance of the DMK Government with the LTTE having been brought to the knowledge of the National Front Government, effective steps were not taken by the Central government to check it, whatever may be the reasons.
From the evaluation of the material, the conclusion is irresistible that there was tacit support to the LTTE by Shri M. Karunanidhi and his Government and law enforcement agencies.
The charges, put together as long quotations from the report, include: that the DMK provided a safe sanctuary for the LTTE cadres and activists, it gave advice, active assistance, finance and security cover to LTTE operations, and that the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi would not have been possible the way it happened without the nexus between the LTTE and the DMK, a nexus which started a chain of events which led to the survival and growth of the LTTE in Tamil Nadu long after the Government of India’s attitude had changed towards the LTTE and hostilities had broken out between the Indian Peace Keeping Force and the LTTE in Sri Lanka, and finally that the DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, had “himself been instrumental in ensuring that things went smoothly for LTTE” and that the cadres of the LTTE had little fear of the security agencies in India “thanks to the patronage of the DMK Government”.
Mahathma Gandhi and Karunanidhi: Karunanidhi’s Tamil usage would very caustic, sarcastic and hurting with double-meaning. That too when he talks with vengeance, hatred and attacking mood, his Tamil would be very very sharp and killing. He has been capable of converting a good word into a bad or even vulgar word in Tamil connotation. He never cared for Gandhi or respected Gandhi. He even does not want to call his name “Mahathma Gandhi” and changed his name as “Uttamar Gandhi” when the name of Nungambakkam Road was changed to Mahathma Gandhi Road , he ordered that it should be ” Uttamar Gandhi Road “. Such has been his love, respect and what not for “the Father of Nation”, but now he talks about the killers of Gandhi!
Dr. Subramanian Swamy[9], President of the Janata Party has said: ?It is abominable for Priyaranjan Das Munshi to compare Karunanidhi with the Father of Our Nation. Karunanidhi is the anti-thesis?in letter and spirit?of Mahatma Gandhi. Karunanidhi was a primary accused in the murder case relating to the beastly attack on Smt. Indira Gandhi during her visit to Madurai in 1979. Moreover following the indictment by the Jain Commission, the Multi-disciplinary Investigation Team and the CBI initially viewed Karunanidhi as a prime suspect in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi?.
Killing of many Tamil leaders and the nexus: The LTTE assassinators have been the DK-sympathisers, they have been maintaining close relations with the DK-DMK-PMK-MDMK and other anti-Indian political parties (all TNLA, TNMK, and such other splinter groups). So we can always say like Karunanidhi, the killers of so-many Tamil leaders have been the DK-DMK-PMK-MDMK and other anti-Indian political parties. In fact, Tamils themselves know very well how the liberal, democratic and reasonable Tamil leaders were hunted and killed mercilessly.
[1] “Viduthalai” Rajendran, RSS A danger, Dravida Kazhaga Publication, Madras, 1982.
[2] Nathigam P. Ramasamy, RSS Hindu Fascism, Nathigam Press, Kodambakkam, Chennai, 1991.
[3] Reported in local vernaculars and broadcast in TV channels also on 17-04-2008 evening.
[4] http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080418/nation.htm#7
[5] Murasoli Maran, En Vendum Intha Inba Dravidam? (Why we want the ecstatic Tamizh State?), Muthuvel Pathippagam, Tiruchitrappalli, 1957.
[6] V. Kopalswamy has been very open in his Parliamentary debates also. The Communists used daunt him to come out with views on “nation” and “country” and so on. Thus, he got exposed about his anti-national ideology.
[7] Kazhanjur Selvaraji, The Meeting of Gandhi by Periyar EVR, S. Ramanathan M. A., B. L., and S. Neelavathi Amnmaiyar, Kuthusi Gursamy Pathippagam, Vellore, 1985.
The Meeting of S. Ramanathan, Kuthosi Gurusamy and K. M. Balasubramaniam with Gandhi on 21-12-1933, Purathchi, dated 14-01-1933.
The Meeting of S. Neelavathi ammaiyar with Gandhi on 10-02-1934, Puratchi, dated 18-02-1934.
[8] For more details, see: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG06Df06.html
[9] V. Sundaram, Priyaranjan Das Munshi’s Mahatma Gandhi! http://newstodaynet.com/2007sud/oct07/021007.htm
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Karunanidhi – the Aurangazeb in action, demolishes a temple mantap
via VEDAPRAKASH published on July 28, 2008
Note: As I have already mentioned, many of my articles disappeared when http://www.indianinteracts.com website disappeared or closed down. This has been one of them.
Karunanidhi ordered for demolition: It is not at all surprising that Karunanidhi, the hidden Aurangazeb has been in action acting against Hindus in his present reign[1]. Under the guise of renovation, a temple mantap was demolished in Kancipuram. What is surprising is that it is not all reported in the media, though it started in April 2008. When a 1000-pillared mantap was demolished at the Tirumala, at least some people objected to it, though the historians, archaeologists and other monument experts, saviours and protectors were sleeping. Now also, the same thing has happened, but for Dr. R. Nagaswamy[2].
500 years old monument demolished: The mantap with carved sculptures braved the vagaries of nature for 500 years, but now, human hands are bringing down the massive mandapa situated in the famed Varadaraja Perumal temple at Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu[3]. Built by the Vijayanagar king Achyuthadevaraya around A.D. 1530, it was known for its few hundred pillars covered with beautiful carvings of dancers, musicians, floral motifs and gods. All these are now smashed to pieces with crowbars. The demolition, which began in April, has picked up pace with a bulldozer being pressed into action.
“Uliyin Osai” in reverse – Sastriyar[4] behaves differently: The Kalainjar was planning for “Uliyin osai”, the sound of chisel – carving sculptures out of stone, but, in action, he ordered to demolish such sculptures. Note, how iconoclasm works against iconogenesis! Hussian painted Hindu Goddesses and Gods in the name of expressing artistic talent of expression, but he actually tried to demolish and blaspheme Hindu Goddesses and Gods with the perverted psyche. The Mohammedan demolition frenzy acted psychologically, as in the cases of Khiljis, Malik kafur, Aurangazeb, Tipu sultan etc. Karunanidhi, the moder-day manipulators does it in his 83 years age.
Rennovation or demolition? Temple officials said it was “not a demolition but dismantling of the mandapa” to assemble it again to house vahanas (vehicles) of the deities. “A donor” was apparently financing “the project” to “dismantle and re-assemble” the mandapa so that the “vahanas can be displayed openly”. The temple comes under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of the Tamil Nadu government. However, no details are known to the public. In fact, the Christian Rajasekhara Reddy also gave similar apologia for his renovation carried on in front of the Tirumala temple.
Dr. R. Nagaswamy says it is total destruction: However, Dr. R. Nagaswamy, former Director of the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department, called it “a thoughtless act of destruction and renovation“. The mandapa could have been cleaned easily, conserved and preserved. “What is happening now is total destruction. They are not dismantling it. They are smashing it with a bulldozer,” he said. The temple was earlier subjected to a bout of vandalism when the murals of Vishnu, Lakshmi and other gods in the Hindu pantheon were whitewashed. The surviving paintings have faded or peeled away. They have not been preserved. Thus, the atheist government may be working in a phased manner, but these devils are posing as savious of Tamil culture and so on! Better, the Tamil lovers, Tamil protagonists and others at least now recognize the iconoclasts and act so that whatever left could be protected.
Demolition carried with the instance of DMK government: These demolitions are done at the instance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government in the State[5]. Many times, our Dravidian and Tamil friends used to accuse or even shout at me for always attacking “Karunanidhi”. But, note my dear friends, what has been happening. As now our Maharaja or Chakravarti has been Karunanidhi, as a citizen, I could blame only my ruler. I cannot complain to the ruler of Pakistan or Afganisthan! Therefore, they should not pretend hinding the truth or the heinous crimes of the ruler of Tamilnadu, misusing his status.
The origin of the Mantap and temple: The origin of the Varadaraja Perumal temple at Kancheepuram goes back to about 1,200 years. Nagaswamy, who is also a scholar in Sanskrit, calls it “the most beautiful Vishnu temple at Kancheepuram”. The temple originally consisted of an image of Narasimha at the foot of a small rocky boulder. Later, a standing form of Vishnu was installed on top of the rock. It was then called Arulalar temple. The village was called Athiyur because there were a number of “athi” trees around. The temple began to gain prominence in the 11th century, during the period of the Cholas. Kulotunga Chola encased the rock and built a structural temple around the standing Vishnu circa A.D. 1100. The temple expanded with the construction of several shrines, prakaras (corridors) and gopurams. Vijayanagar emperor Krishnadevaraya built the present sanctum sanctorum, the vimana above it and covered it with gold sheet around A.D. 1525, said Nagaswamy. He also rebuilt the sanctum of Thayaar (Vishnu’s consort) and the vimana, and covered this vimana also with gold. Krishnadevaraya’s successor Achyuthadevaraya built the kalyana mandapa on the left side beyond the western entrance to the temple. This mandapa is known for its several hundred pillars with intricate carvings of horse-riders, dancers, musicians, and gods and goddesses.
Act and Rules violated – the principles of archaeology forgotten: On the right side, “as if to strike a balance”, he built another mandapa with a few hundred pillars, all hewn out of granite. This was used for conducting temple festivals in the past. Later, it was used as a goshala, or cow shed. It is this mandapa that is being pulled down now. It originally encased a central mandapa with carved pillars. This has already been demolished. Broken pillar-members, some of them numbered, lie in a heap. “The entire mandapa is in good condition…. The walls are in perfect alignment. It has survived for 500 years without tilting or developing cracks. Except that it has not been cleaned, it is in good shape,” said Nagaswamy, adding that it could have been easily preserved without demolishing it. No technical report on the mandapa’s condition was prepared before the demolition began. Although some of the pillars that have been pulled down are numbered, it would be impossible to reassemble the mandapa because they are lying in a heap in different places and in broken pieces, he said. Temple officials claimed they would rebuild the mandapa with original pillars as a gallery to house the temple’s vahanas. They claimed they were using the bulldozer only to remove the lime mortar on the ceiling of the mandapa. They would replace the ancient lime mortar with cement mortar. However, the use of cement mortar would be a blatant violation of the canons of conservation, asserted archaeologists[6]. These are the photos of demolition squad in action[7].
Why historians, archaeologists and others are keeping quite? The proverbial, phenomenal or tactful silence maintained by the present-day historians, archaeologists of all categories, secular, progressive, eminent, elite and what not – is understandable. As they expect benefits from the Maharaja Karunanidhi, they do not ask whatever he does. In fact, with sycophancy, they may prise for his sound or nise of chisel that has demolished the monument! As the conferences of TNHC, IHC, APHC, SIHC etc., are coming in the order, let us see whether these people have any guts or sense f their profession to pass any resolution etc., or the K. Veeramanies, Ramasamies and other oldmen would be invited to talk nonsense.
[1] Perhaps, the instances have been well recorded in the internet groups, the people forget the happenings.
[2] Dr. R. Nagaswamy has been the former Director of State Archaeological Department, Tamilnadu and active defender of Indian culture, tradition etc., he has many times tried to refute the anti-historical writings of Micheal Witzel and Company of Harvard University.
[3] T.S. Subramanian, Assault on heritage, The authorities of a temple in Kancheepuram are “dismantling” a 500-year-old structure, ostensibly to reassemble it. Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 15 :: Jul. 19-Aug. 01, 2008. See at:
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20080801251512900.htm
[4] Recently, I came to know that the iconoclast assumed this name just like Suryanarayana Sastri imitating him by having the title of “Kalainjar” i.e, Sastriyar. Remember, how Anna used to ridicule one “Sastriyar” in his “Ariya Mayai”!
[5] Ibid. Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 15 :: Jul. 19-Aug. 01, 2008
[6] Here, unfortunately, the names of the archaeologists have not been mentioned. Perhaps, they are afraid as they are government servants and the rulers can take any action with their vested powers.
[7] Courtesy: Dr. R. Nagaswamy and Frontline.
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EVR’s Hindutwa or Hindutwa of Periyar: RSS’s comparison of ideologies of Periyar and Hindutwa!
Much in common between Periyar’s Dravidian principles and the RSS ideology[1]: RSS joint general secretary Dr Manmohan Vaidya on 17-05-2018, Thursday expressed confidence that the Sangh would able to strengthen its base in Tamil Nadu, explaining that there is much in common between Periyar’s Dravidian principles and the RSS ideology, as both advocate equality in society without caste and communal differences and class distinctions. “Periyar had campaigned for a society where everyone, particularly the poor and the backward castes, have equal rights and could live in dignity. He had worked tirelessly towards creating a casteless society. RSS too advocates and practises the same ideology”, Dr Vaidya said at a select media interaction here. He admitted that the RSS work in Tamil Nadu could be a bit more divisions created by vested interests”. However, the Sangh would emerge successful in winning the Tamil hearts as the “great unifying factor is spirituality, that’s just the way of Indian living over centuries, marked by kindness, sharing, mutual respect and tolerance, and such other virtues”, Dr Vaidya said[2].
Muslims and Christians in RSS[3]: Elaborating on the RSS ideology, he said the Sangh has several Muslim and Christian members attending the shakhas, which number over 57,000 spread across the country. There is neither religious preaching nor any political discourse at the RSS meetings and shakhas. “We have Dr C I Issac, a renowned history professor, as an important member in Kerala. He has written several well-researched articles on being Hindu”, he said. “A Dravidian leader, who presided over a RSS conference in Tamil Nadu a couple of years ago, had said in his speech that he had actually come to close down the shakhas because he was under the impression that extreme Hinduism was being preached there, but after seeing that the shakhas practiced no class/caste/religious distinctions, he was going back happy that his mind has changed and he now knew the truth about RSS”, Dr Vaidya said. Dr Vaidya is here to be part of the faculty at the RSS summer camp, being attended by over 300 members from all the southern states. There are 80 such camps happening across the country. “There are lectures on spiritualism, clean living, social issues and ways of bringing about positive change among the people, apart from physical training”, explained the RSS leader[4].
Mayawati and Jayalalita: Evidently, either he does know the “Dravidian ideology” or the TN BJP or Hindutwa ideologists have not briefed him properly about the Dravidian ideology and polity. It is definitely incorrect to compare or equate Periarist ideology with that of RSS ideology, as both would not match with each other on many accounts. Incidentally, BJP suffered heavily because of two Lady-politicians Mayawati and Jayalalita. During 1995, Mayawati and BJP experimented coalition rule in UP, but failed, because of the inherent fissures. Though, Periyar was an anti-Hindutwa voice, the Dravidian parties DMK, AIADMK, MDMK were trying to align and aligned with BJP for political compulsion, exploitation and profiteering. The BJP could not forget about the fall because of one vote and it was approaching cautiously with Jayalalita. Now, AIADMK has been with BJP and hence, BJP tries to get benefit out of political confusion prevailing in Tamilnadu, after the demise of Jayalalita.
“Periyar’s Hindutwa” as perceived in 2004: Ravikumar asked, “In such a context, intellectuals who write about Tamil society and polity in the English-language media continue to posit Periyar as an important anti-Hindutva voice. If that were to be true, how/ and why is it that we see Dravidian parties like the DMK, AIADMK and MDMK vying with each other to be seen in the company of BJP? Also, why is it that these Dravidian formations brazenly attempt to implement an agenda over which even states ruled by the BJP would hesitate?,” and then, went on to reply. In the context of “Paraiyar / SC / now mentioned as Dalits”, he pointed out[5], “Periyar was someone who was jealous of the constitutional safeguards that were given to the dalits. Having repeatedly spoken of dalits as a people who don’t have a history, who don’t have a political movement, who don’t have leaders, Periyar even made them believe this. Having used the dalits to serve his political ends, he asked them: ‘Asking the government for jobs, education, duties, huts and housing; and seeking from the Mirasdars two extra measures of paddy will not help in anyway…….Of what use are you to us?”. Periyar worked solely for the cause of the non-brahmin, non-religious minority, non-dalit backward and upper castes. He deployed the concept of ‘majority’ for this purpose. There’s only one difference between the majoritarianism that the hindutvawadis propound and that of Periyar’s: that is, over the exclusion of brahmins from this majority[6]. Then, he concluded[7], “Dravidian parties allying with the BJP even as they praise Periyar is no different from Mayawati’s praise for Periyar even as she rules in alliance with the BJP. There’s always a scope in Periyar’s ideas for such possibilities. This is Periyarism”. Perhaps, “Hindutwa” expression used in 2004 shows the change taken place[8].
“Karnataka” would be repeated in Tamilnadu?: Whatever the nuances are appreciated, filtering out the differences, the anti-Hindu, anti-Sanskrit, anti-Brahmin, anti-dalit, pro-mohammedan, and above all anti-Indian ideology of EVR changed to Periyar could not be coped up with the RSS idelogists. In fact, the hard-core Periyarist, anti-Hindu Dravidian cadre and pro-Tamil ideologists would not accept such proposition, on any account. Therefore, the Hindutwavadis / RSS / BJPwalas should understand the Dravidian mindset. How Jayalalita was treated by them till death and even after hould bge an eye-opener, just because, she is a Brahmin, Pappathi, Aryan and so on. The Hindutava ideologists could get along with AIADMK but not with DMK and therefore, thinking about “Periarists” is redundant, futile and worthless. Though, BJP did not pose as “anti-dalit,” its inaffective campaign in Karnataka produced negative impact, where SC and ST constitute 19%. Even Hindutwa failed with Lingayats and Vokkaligas, as Congress played the “communal card” effectively, spending crores. In Tamilnadu, the higher caste Mudaliyars, Chettiyar, Pillais and others vote for DMK traditionally, because of their affiliations since 1960s. Muslims and Christians do not vote for BJP or BJP aligned AIADMK faithfully. In that manner, Congress plays a trick of “Karnataka” in Tamilnadu, by spitting the votes of AIADMK. The background of Kamal Hassan and Rajinikantha, though not clear, their politics affect only the interests of BJP alliance in Tamilnadu. They can better concentrate to analyze critically as to why RSS could not grow ideologically influencing others.
How to counter Dravidian ideology?: Dravidian Ideology has been powerful, attractive and alive in the minds of crores of people of Tamil speaking people. Many times, majority of them could be brought together or influenced with emotional appeal or threat that “Tamils are targeted, Tamil is danger, Tamil is suppressed by Hindi, Hindi is imposed to deprive out cultural rights” and so on. Though, they have been becoming pious, religious and believing, not because of “Hindu binding,” but, their traditional Tamil rituals, rites and ceremonies. Their caste-politics has been so dominating to capture, keep and enjoy power with economic superiority. Even, today, the TN-BJP has been divided on dravidian fault-lines which could not be cemented with “Hindutwa” as could be clearly observed in the followers, meetings held and social media. Their nuances of “inner-outer” dramatic twists, diplomatic duplicities and dogmatic digs are not learned. First of all, no effective speaker has been produced and the borrowed ones are always drifted to other parties or started their own splinter groups.
In TN-BJP, the leaders have been operating on caste based groupings and followers impacting others.
The second rung leaders have been divided among themselves, depending upon the power, wealth and other factors.
The third level leaders have been divided among themselves as usual division, zone, group, RSS-non-RSS, and such factors.
These three divisions have been further divided based on egoist groups, envying enemies, caste and other factors.
Most of them have been appearing and active only when NDA is in power.
Besides, social media struggle and group rivalry exhibited, there have been flooding of anonymous letters written to Modi down to local office.
Without understanding the nuances of “Secularism” and “communalism,” they go by blind faith of calling it as “Hindutwa”!
Though negative suggestion, propaganda etc., are not advisable, they always indulge in such activities, exposing themselves.
They advice with arrogance as if they are only next to Modi and Amit shah!
Treating, commenting Dravidian leaders, parties etc., in a bad language.
Without having any political base, dreaming for power.
Do not understand and realize the nuances of Dravidian alliances.
Getting votes in the range of 3,000 to 20,000, but, not planning any strategy to increase votes to 50%
©Vedaprakash
[1] DECCAN CHRONICLE. RSS will strengthen roots in Dravidian turf: Dr Manmohan Vaidya, Published May 18, 2018, 6:13 am ISTUpdated May 18, 2018, 6:13 am IST
[2] https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/180518/rss-will-strengthen-roots-in-dravidian-turf-dr-manmohan-vaidya.html
[5] Ravikumar, Questioning Periyars legacy, Mar 12, 2003 at 0000 hrs IST
[6] http://archive.indianexpress.com/oldStory/20003/
[7] Ravikumar, Periyar’s Hindutva,10 SEPTEMBER 2004 Last Updated at 12:00
[8] https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/periyars-hindutva/225056
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Copper Fox Announces Initial Phase II Analytical Results from Van Dyke Oxide Copper Deposit
Nataly Cure - July 9th, 2019
Copper Fox Metals Inc. (TSXV:CUU, OTC Pink:CPFXF) (“Copper Fox” or the “Company”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Desert Fox Copper Inc. (“Desert Fox”) are pleased to announce the initial results (469 samples) from the Phase II analytical program on the Van Dyke In-Situ Leach oxide copper deposit (see news release May 28, 2019).
DDH-OXY-17B returned an average of 0.297% acid soluble copper (“ASCu”) over a 137.40m core interval including a 14.93m interval grading 1.022% ASCu.
DDH OXY-29 returned an average of 0.362% ASCu over a 144.48m including a 25.64m core interval grading 0.839% ASCu.
7 of the 8 drill holes reported in this news release returned significantly thicker mineralized intervals compared to the historical mineralized intervals.
The ASCu/TCu ratio for holes reported in this news release averaged 73.1% compared to 60.7% in the historical database.
Elmer B. Stewart, President and CEO of Copper Fox, stated, “The Phase II analytical program continues to return higher concentrations of acid soluble copper over significantly thicker mineralized intervals compared to the historical database. Updating of the geological model for the Van Dyke oxide copper deposit has significantly increased confidence in understanding the controls on the mineralization. Contingent on receipt of all analytical results from the Phase II analytical program, Copper Fox will assess the possibility of completing an updated resource estimate for the project.”
The weighted average acid soluble copper concentrations using a 0.05% ASCu cutoff for the drill holes reported in this news release are shown below. To compare the weighted average grades between the historical and 2019 analytical results, the analytical results from the historical database were weight averaged over the same interval corresponding to the 2019 interval.
TCu= total copper, (%) = percent, (m) = meters, ASCu = acid soluble copper, the above mineralized intervals do not represent true widths.
*partial results reported in 2014.
The following table compares the thickness of the 2019 mineralized intervals (based on 0.05% ASCu cut-off) to the reported historical mineralized intervals for the eight holes reported in this news release.
TCu = total copper, (%) = percent, (m) = meters, ASCu = acid soluble copper, the above mineralized intervals do not represent true widths. NR = no analysis above 0.05% ASCu. *partial results reported in 2014.
The weighted average grades for the mineralized intervals were estimated using a 0.05% ASCu cutoff, in line with the cutoff grade used in the maiden resource estimate for the Van Dyke project completed in 2014. A maximum interval of three meters grading less than 0.05% ASCu within the mineralized interval was tolerated when estimating the weighted average.
Analytical Procedures:
Sample preparation and analytical work was completed by Skyline Assayers & Laboratories located in Tucson, Arizona. Skyline’s package codes CuT, CuSeq and CuCn were used to determine total copper, sequential copper and cyanide soluble copper. Sequential copper analysis uses a 0.25-gram sample digested (at room temperature) in 5% sulfuric acid and the solution is then diluted to 100 mL with deionized water. The residue from the sample is digested in 10% sodium cyanide solution and diluted to 100 mL. Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (“AAS”) was used to determine copper concentrations. Skyline has an ISO/IEC 17025/2005 accreditation.
Quality Control:
A total of 15 blanks and 28 certified reference standards were inserted (insertion rate 1:11) with the samples for which analyses are being reported. The Skyline results for the blank and standards were within +/-5% of accepted value for the blank and standards.
Elmer B. Stewart, MSc. P. Geol., President and CEO of Copper Fox, is the Company’s non-independent, nominated Qualified Person pursuant to National Instrument 43-101, Standards for Disclosure for Mineral Projects, and has reviewed and approves the scientific and technical information disclosed in this news release.
About Copper Fox:
Copper Fox is a Tier 1 Canadian resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: CUU) focused on copper exploration and development in Canada and the United States. The principal assets of Copper Fox and its wholly owned Canadian and United States subsidiaries, being Northern Fox Copper Inc. and Desert Fox Copper Inc., are the 25% interest in the Schaft Creek Joint Venture with Teck Resources Limited on the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project located in northwestern British Columbia and a 100% ownership of the Van Dyke oxide copper project located in Miami, Arizona. For more information on Copper Fox’s other mineral properties and investments visit the Company’s website at http://www.copperfoxmetals.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Elmer B. Stewart
Copper Fox Metals Inc.
Lynn Ball: investor@copperfoxmetals.com
www.copperfoxmetals.com
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and forward-looking information within the meaning of the Canadian securities laws (collectively, “forward-looking information”). Forward-looking information is generally identifiable by use of the words “believes,” “may,” “plans,” “will,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “budgets”, “could”, “estimates”, “expects”, “forecasts”, “projects” and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this news release includes statements regarding: higher acid soluble copper concentrations and thicker mineralized intervals than the initial analytical results; the geological model has significantly increased confidence in understanding the controls on the mineralization and the possibility of completing an updated resource estimate.
In connection with the forward-looking information contained in this news release, Copper Fox and its subsidiaries have made numerous assumptions regarding, among other things: the geological advice that Copper Fox has received is reliable and is based upon practices and methodologies which are consistent with industry standards and the reliability of historical reports. While Copper Fox considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies.
Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause Copper Fox’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: additional sampling may not located significant concentrations of soluble copper; the possibility that an updated resource estimate on the Van Dyke project may not be completed within a reasonable time frame or at all; the possibility that the update geological model may not be completed within a reasonable time frame or at all; uncertainties relating to interpretation of the analytical results; the geology, continuity and concentration of the mineralization; the financial markets and the overall economy may deteriorate; the need to obtain additional financing; uncertainty as to timely availability of permits and other governmental approvals.
A more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties facing Copper Fox is disclosed in Copper Fox’s continuous disclosure filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and Copper Fox disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
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May 16 Adobe joins IPTC as member
After 12 years of collaborative work on establishing and implementing photo metadata standards, IPTC, the global technical standards body of the news media and related industries, announced Adobe Systems Incorporated is joining as a Voting Member. Adobe’s membership was announced at IPTC’s Spring Meeting today in London.
“Adobe is a key player in the media production ecosystem, so we are thrilled to welcome them as a member of the IPTC,” said Stuart Myles, Chairman of the Board of IPTC, and Director of Information Management at Associated Press. “We look forward to working together with Adobe on driving continued improvements in the workflows of photo and video creators around the world.”
“Adobe has a long history of working informally with the IPTC, and we look forward to further success as we participate directly and contribute as a Voting Member,” said Dr. Scott Foshee, Principle Scientist, Adobe. “Our close involvement will not only enable greater coordination between Adobe and the IPTC, but will also allow Adobe to facilitate better coordination across the photography standardization community.”
Photo metadata is key to protecting images’ copyright and licensing information, and for managing digital assets. IPTC’s Photo Metadata Standard, created with contributions by Adobe, is the most widely used because of universal acceptance among photographers, distributors, news organisations, archivists, and developers. Adobe’s metadata management software, which supports the IPTC standard, is used by Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Premiere.
“Adobe’s implementation has made IPTC photo metadata very popular,” added Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing Director. “For 12 years we have been collaborating on fostering professional use of IPTC photo metadata by photo businesses – building on our success by conducting research and incorporating feedback from users. This membership will open yet more opportunities for better tagging of photos and videos.”
Adobe first adopted IPTC IIM metadata in Photoshop around 1994 and later created the metadata format XMP. In 2004 IPTC and Adobe joined forces to support a consistent use of metadata: The first IPTC Photo Metadata Standard was created jointly. A main goal of the standard was to provide support for photographers and photo editors to use the fields in correct and consistent ways.
Adobe will be a Voting Member of IPTC, signifying Adobe as a key player and industry leader. IPTC currently has about 60 members. Its voting members take part in all decisions regarding IPTC standards. Delegates can participate in working parties and groups, may request changes, and make contributions to standards’ development.
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Youth Violence Prevention Task Force News
Venessa Collins-Smith & Wendy Flora co-chairs
As part of our listening campaign, the Youth Violence Prevention Task Force is hosting two round table discussions around the topic of bullying. One of these will be held at Galilee Baptist Church on Saturday, March 12 from 12-2 p.m., and the other at Unitarian-Universalist Community Church in Portage on Saturday, March 26 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Both round tables are open to all Kalamazoo County Youth. Last Saturday, a group of young people from Gull Lake, Portage and Kalamazoo Schools were trained to be facilitators at these round tables. We are excited to have these young leaders participate in an active way. They are Future Leaders For Peace. Your youth are invited to the next training:
Youth Roundtable Leadership Training
Saturday, March 19, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
247 W. Lovell Street (entrance also on S. Park St.)
The Task Force is also making plans for Youth Violence Prevention Week, April 5-9. Watch for details to follow on events for that week. Contact the ISAAC office for our task force meeting dates/times.
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Aspirin may fight cancer by slowing DNA damagehttps://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/aspirin-may-fight-cancer-by-slowing-dna-damage/
Aspirin may fight cancer by slowing DNA damage
Scientists said that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells.
Written by PTI | Washington | Published: June 19, 2013 4:03:16 pm
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Aspirin can lower risk for some cancers by slowing DNA damage,scientists,including one of Indian-origin,have found. The study led by a University of California,San Francisco scientist found that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition.
“Aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,which are commonly available and cost-effective medications,may exert cancer-preventing effects by lowering mutation rates,” said Carlo Maley,a member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In the study,published in the journal PLOS Genetics,Maley working with gastroenterologist Brian Reid,of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,analysed biopsy samples from 13 patients with a pre-cancerous condition called Barrett’s esophagus who were tracked for six to 19 years. DNA mutations Some patients started out taking daily aspirin for several years,and then stopped,while others started taking aspirin for the first time during observation. The goal was to track the rate of mutations in tissues sampled at different times.
The researchers found that biopsies taken while patients were on an aspirin regimen had on average accumulated new mutations about 10 times more slowly than biopsies obtained during years when patients were not taking aspirin. Maley now plans to test a hypothesis that may explain that aspirin’s lowering of mutation rates is due to the drug’s effect of reducing inflammation.
Inflammation,a response of the immune system,in recent years has been recognised as a hallmark of cancer. Maley said that less inflammation may result in less production within pre-cancerous tissue of oxidants known to damage DNA,and may dampen growth-stimulating signalling.
For the duration of the study,the rate of accumulation of mutations measured in the biopsied tissue between time points was slow,even when patients were not taking aspirin,with the exception of one patient.While mutations accumulated at a steady rate,the vast majority of mutations arose before the abnormal tissue was first detected in the clinic,the researchers concluded.
These findings are consistent with the fact that although Barrett’s esophagus is a significant risk factor for esophageal cancer,the vast majority of cases do not progress to cancer,Maley said. In the one patient who later went on to develop cancer,a population of cellular ‘clones’ with a great number of mutations emerged shortly before he started taking aspirin. Rather than aiming to kill tumour cells,it may be better to try to halt or slow growth and mutation,Maley said. Additional authors include Amitabh Srivastava and Robert Odze from Harvard University.
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Home Music Features Tunes on the Terrace
Tunes on the Terrace
Thursday is the day to hang out at UNC
by Chris Toenes
The new fall tradition at UNC-Chapel Hill is "Thursdays on the Terrace"--a series of afternoon concerts at the Graham Memorial building (near Morehead Planetarium) on campus from noon to 2 p.m. This series sets itself apart through its recruitment of musicians of all stripes from our area. Thus far, this year there's been a great diversity of talent with appearances by bluesmen John Dee Holeman and Billy Stevens, a show with the duo Work Clothes along with The Ghost of Rock and Portastatic, and a show by Southern Culture on the Skids. Contrast that with how this semester winds out: This Thursday features Sons of New Bethel, an a cappella African-American gospel group, then in the remaining weeks, a variety lineup on Nov. 11 with Bob Carlin, The Joe Thompson Band and The Hillbilly Pals, including old-time banjo and African-American fiddle players, and on Nov. 18 Jacqui Malone, an African-American jazz dancer, dancing to choreography by the legendary Cholly Atkins. The series is organized by the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, the Office of the Provost and the departments of history and music .
in/Audible
The latest newsletter of WXYC 89.3, UNC's student-run freeform station, in/Audible, is now available, and this one's a real doozie. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the station breaking the stream barrier with the first-ever Web broadcast, the handsome zine-style tome covers a lot of territory with DJ's musings on under-exposed artists and music cultural criticism, like Todd Ito's "15 Slept-On Hip-Hop Albums," "Keep Your Cassettes" by Andrew Penland, and Sarah Carrier's "Sister Posse Forward," a missive on the misappropriation of feminism and empowerment by "women in rock" with Courtney Love and Camille Paglia in the trenches. Roundups of local releases and a profile of "Hell or High Water," the show that culls from the UNC Southern Folklife Collection, also appear. Print copies are available at Chapel Hill area independent businesses, or you can download the whole shebang as a PDF here: wxyc.org/inaudible.pdf.
Remembering two rock renegades
Within a week of each other, two of underground music's champions passed away. British DJ John Peel and Bomp! Records founder and publisher Greg Shaw both died in the last week, leaving behind them immeasurable influence on modern music's shape. Each followed their individual tastes and was affected by little else, cheering to the public their own current heroes and remaining largely untouched by industry sways. Their singular visions will be missed.
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An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller! Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!
In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters—such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme—in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos:
· Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in “Red Eye,” by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly
· John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in “In the Nick of Time,” by Ian Rankin and Peter James
· Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in “Gaslighted,” by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child
· Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in “The Laughing Buddha,” by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner
· Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in “Surfing the Panther,” by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein
· Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford
· Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in “Infernal Night,” by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson
· Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in “Pit Stop,” by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay
· Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in “Silent Hunt,” by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker
· Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in “The Devil’s Bones,” by Steve Berry and James Rollins
· Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in “Good and Valuable Consideration,” by Lee Child and Joseph Finder
So sit back and prepare for a rollicking ride as your favorite characters go head-to-head with some worthy opponents in FaceOff—it’s a thrill-a-minute read.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014
Additional Contributors: Baldacci, David - Editor
OverDrive, Inc. - Distributor
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Potash (palaeolakes Of The Arid Southern Hemisphere) Workshop
2017 Workshop for Palaeolakes of the Arid Southern Hemisphere
Oxford University (United Kingdom)
Sep 19th - 19th, 2017
Oxford University, (United Kingdom)
As potential archives of Quaternary environmental and climatic change, dry lake basins are extremely important repositories of palaeohydrological/palaeoclimate information in desert regions where organic records are often lacking. By dint of the distribution of landmasses and their interaction with present day circulation systems, dry lakes are particularly prevalent in the arid zones and desert margins of the Southern Hemisphere across Australia, southern Africa, and South America. Dry lake basins however also represent especially challenging environments from which to obtain palaeodata, requiring a variety of research approaches and disciplines. Investigations however, are often influenced/limited by existing regional collaborations and expertise. This project aims to build a long-term pan-hemisphere network that will build collaboration between palaeodata scientists and modellers, bringing together a diversity of approaches and methods to dryland palaeolake investigations. The project will also strive to build strong links with scientists working on contemporary southern hemisphere playa processes to strengthen existing and future palaeodata interpretations. Members will build a database of southern hemisphere palaeolake records. The structure of the database will be determined during the course of the project but metadata will include chronological resolution, assessment on the level of agreement between multiple proxies (where available), and lake status (relative to present day), with the potential to significantly update the Oxford Lake Level database held by NOAA (Street-Perrott et al., 1989). The data will be mined for evidence of perturbations, transitions and abrupt events and an assessment will be made as to whether these signals are localized, regional, or global responses. The project will also seek to compare model outputs (e.g. Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison Project 3 simulations; PMIP3) and the synthesised palaeodataset across the southern hemisphere, in order to identify viable hypotheses for the mechanisms driving hemispheric change in the southern hemisphere drylands.
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Home » News » Koen De Bosschere receives ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
Koen De Bosschere receives ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
June 6, 2018 by staff Leave a Comment
Today ACM announced that Koen De Bosschere from HiPEAC has won the Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award. Recognized for outstanding service in the field of computer architecture and design, Professor De Bosschere was nominated for structuring and connecting the European research community in computer architecture and compilation.
Leading the HiPEAC community, contributing to the HiPEAC Vision and observing the its impact has always been a very rewarding experience for me,” said De Bosscher. “I feel very honored to receive the Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award and I would like to dedicate it to all our members and the staff, without whom there would be no HiPEAC.”
In 2008, Koen De Bosschere took over the leadership of the HiPEAC network. Under his leadership, the network transformed from a small academic network into the largest such network in Europe, engaging around 2,000 computing experts and organizing major annual events like the HiPEAC conference and the ACACES summer school. Professor De Bosschere strongly believes in the power of networking and collaboration and in the importance of investing in young talent. He has also been involved in co-editing the biennial HiPEAC Vision, the project’s roadmap document, since its inception in 2008. The HiPEAC roadmap has become one of the key strategic documents steering the European research agenda in computing systems.
Professor De Bosschere was nominated by Professor Lieven Eeckhout, who comments: “I’m so proud that the Distinguished Service Award got granted to Koen, my former PhD advisor and life-time mentor. Koen really brought the systems community together in Europe, creating critical mass and putting systems research on the map in Europe. This has had massive impact at the political level with significantly increased funding for systems research in Europe. Koen’s very generous and effective service work has had tremendous impact on many students and researchers in Europe and beyond.”
The ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award is presented annually at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. This year Koen De Bosschere accepted the award at ISCA 2018, the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Los Angeles. He is the first European to receive this award.
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Introducing 200G HDR InfiniBand Solutions
As the first to 40Gb/s, 56Gb/s and 100Gb/s bandwidth, Mellanox has both boosted data center and cloud performance and improved return on investment at a pace that exceeds its own roadmap. To that end, Mellanox has now announced that it is the first company to enable 200Gb/s data speeds with Mellanox Quantum switches, ConnectX-6 adapters, and LinkX cables combining for an end-to end 200G HDR InfiniBand solution in 2018. Download the new report, courtesy of Mellanox Technologies, to lean more about 200G HDR InfiniBand solutions.
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Is Randy Gregory Worth The Wait For Dallas?
The final two regular season games for the Dallas Cowboys were "meaningless." Going into their week 16 Monday night game against the Detroit Lions, Dallas had already wrapped up both the NFC East and the number one seed in the NFC.
Though they went full-throttle against a playoff-caliber opponent that night, they decided to take their foot off the gas this week against the lowly Philadelphia Eagles. With many of the team's stars not seeing much, if any, action at all on Sunday, other players were able to get extra opportunities to play. Some of those aforementioned players made the most of their opportunities over the final two weeks, not the least of which was defensive end Randy Gregory.
The former second round pick was suspended for the first fourteen games of the 2016 season, but was finally cleared prior to the team's home finale against Detroit. Over the final two weeks, Gregory tallied 9 tackles, one for a loss, and his first career sack.
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While it did seem that on most snaps, Eagles' left tackle Jason Peters got the better of Gregory, the flashes of burst and impact which Gregory showed were certainly promising.
No, he didn't beat Peters with some fantastic move for the sack, but his relentlessness, motor, and ability to stay on his feet and defeat the cut-block are all superb here.
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Gregory's get-off is arguably the best on the entire team. What he lacks in size or stature, he certainly makes up for in speed. Here we see him get off the ball with a purpose, splitting the blockers and stopping Darren Sproles for a four yard loss.
Randy Gregory's quickness off the ball gives Peters trouble here, as he is unable to step backside and hinge before Gregory blazes by him. (Okay, maybe blazes isn't the best adjective for Randy).
Peters is taught to step down and help out the center, who is trying to make a key back block, before hinging backside to protect against anyone trailing the play. Usually, the offense doesn't expect a backside defensive end to get off the ball like this, and make the play in the backfield. But Randy Gregory does it here.
Another area which impressed me was Gregory's conditioning. The Cowboys normally go with an eight or nine man rotation on the defensive line, but due to injuries and rest they were down to just five defensive linemen over the last two games. This meant that Gregory, who hadn't played a snap of football all year, was forced to play just about every play in Philadelphia. The fact that he was able to last through that speaks volumes about his preparation.
It is hard to get too excited over Gregory's performance, however, as we know that a longer suspension still looms large. There is reason to believe that when his appeal is heard, he could get off scot-free, but the inconsistencies of the NFL and Gregory's history, should make any fan nervous.
Hopefully, Randy Gregory can avoid another suspension, and can be available for the Cowboys playoff run.
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Connor Hellebuyck named Vezina Trophy finalist
April 17, 2018, 6:36 PM | Cam Lewis
After playing a huge role in helping the Jets to a 52-win season, Connor Hellebuyck has been named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy. Hellebuyck joins Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy and Nashville’s Pekka Rinne as the three finalists for the league’s top goaltender.
And your Vezina Trophy finalists are…
We'll know the winner in @Vegas! #AwardWorthy #NHLAwards pic.twitter.com/2o2KSGKNJU
— NHL (@NHL) April 17, 2018
This, of course, is Hellebuyck’s first nomination for the award as 2017-18 has been the 24-year-old’s breakout season in the NHL. Hellebuyck posted a .924 save percentage and won a league-high 44 games. While we all know wins aren’t a very good way of measuring a goalie’s skill, voters are going to be into that sort of thing.
Rinne posted a .927 save percentage, tops of any full-time goalie (50+ games) in the league, but played eight fewer games than Hellebuyck. Vasilevskiy put up a .920 save percentage and tied Hellebuyck with 44 wins.
The decision really is completely up in the air as any of these three goalies, who unsurprisingly happen to be on the league’s top three teams, could easily be given the award. Regardless, it’s a great and well-deserved honour for Hellebuyck to earn the nomination. Hopefully it’s the first of many Vezina nominations for Winnipeg’s franchise goalie.
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The Misguided Movement To Have Bert And Ernie Get Married On Sesame Street
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There's a new petition on Change.org to "Let Bert & Ernie Get Married On Sesame Street." The petition reads as such:
In this horrific age of LGBT kids taking their own lives, they need to know that they ARE BEAUTIFUL and their lives are worth living. Aside from those that are committing suicide, the bullies that facilitate these tragedies need to learn that homophobia is NOT okay. They need to know that acceptance of their fellow human beings would indeed plant a seed of peace that will reverberate throughout the world. We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful. Only that they allow Bert & Ernie to marry or even add a transgender character to the show. It can be done in a tasteful way. Let us teach tolerance of those that are different. Let Sesame Street and PBS Kids be a big part in saving many worthy lives.
Okay, sure, we understand where the petition is coming from. And yeah, children absolutely need to be told that they are loved regardless of their sexual orientation, height, weight, sex, and so forth. But a big gay wedding on Sesame Street? Why are we assuming Bert and Ernie are gay in the first place? (Related: Why are we looking at two felt puppets as sexual beings?) Also, we've been told repeatedly by people at the show that Bert and Ernie are just friends! The New York Daily News reports,
Getting hitched would change things for Ernie, who has long sang about how his bath toy, Rubber Duckie, "was the one." A debate over the sexuality of Sesame Street's most famous duo has dogged the show since Bert and Ernie first appeared in 1969. The puppet pair sleep next to each other and bicker almost as much as a married couple.
But the producers of Sesame Street say Bert and Ernie's relationship is purely platonic. "Bert and Ernie are best friends," the non-profit Sesame Workshop said in a statement. "They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. "Even though the Sesame Street Muppets ... possess many human traits and characteristics, they have no sexual orientation."
Right, because these two puppets aren't actually people, remember? Moreover, is it even worth showing a gay marriage to kids if it's not even real? Maybe we should try to concentrate our efforts on allowing gays to legally wed throughout our entire country.
Online push for Bert, Ernie to have gay wedding on 'Sesame Street' [NY Daily News]
Bert And Ernie Aren't Not Married Because Of Intolerance [Videogum]
Let Bert & Ernie Get Married On Sesame Street [Change.org]
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davidgerard on April 25, 2014 at 2:57 am said:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/nokia-with-broken-screen-is-best-phone-of-all-time-2013040464681
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Geiziane on April 25, 2014 at 7:01 am said:
Parabéns pelas palavras!
Geiziane Pereira-Atendente TIM.
Flaviano Tarducci on April 25, 2014 at 7:43 am said:
The Nokia 3310 was my first mobilephone… 🙂
Andrew Zolnai (@azolnai) on April 25, 2014 at 8:10 am said:
thanks for those touching words. I live in a village N of Cambridge UK that had a Symbian then a Nokia building, all gone today. And I still have my Nokia phones (cell phone and smartphone).
“Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son…”
(same speech further up)
John Kneeland on April 25, 2014 at 8:30 am said:
” Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day “
asdf332 on April 25, 2014 at 9:30 am said:
“literally, forever” ‘literally’ is one word that shouldn’t ever be used figuratively.
tolos on April 28, 2014 at 1:43 pm said:
And he means that literally.
Madhumita on April 25, 2014 at 10:37 am said:
I am moved by your words and totally agree with u that not many people catn say that they worked with a company which connected, moved and excited so many people at a time in the world consistently for so many years.
I am moved by your words and totally agree with you that not many people can say that they worked with a company which connected, moved and excited so many people at a time, consistently for so many years.
fmatic on April 25, 2014 at 11:27 am said:
Well I’m from Finland and surely it’s sad that our national “tech-icon” is gone forever. Damn you Microsoft!
Ishwor Gurung (@badbug0101) on April 25, 2014 at 11:52 am said:
I remember my first mobile phone a Nokia 3310 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310).
Loved that phone..
Thanks to the folks at Nokia. Good luck on your future endeavours.
Merito Kousaki on April 25, 2014 at 1:09 pm said:
very sad. I always used Nokia, started with my mom , and then i bought one, 3310 was Awesome and problematic but i was with him everyday, now i have Nokia N8 and still difficult to leave it. I almost cryed when i knew about the sell, most people don’t know tha Nokia is more than a phone company for us Nokian, but some people just care about money. Sad 😦
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Ashish Bhatia (@ashbhatia) on April 25, 2014 at 5:51 pm said:
Thanks John for excellent write, a lot of us in Nokia share the same sentiments as you. Good luck mate, keep the Nokia flag high.
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton on April 26, 2014 at 2:51 am said:
the heart of a company is its people, what they have achieved, and how they achieved it. this one persons message shows us the spirit behind nokia, for which they can – could – be loyally rewarded by the man on the street by buying their products in support of those efforts and ethos.
by complete contrast, the microsoft corporation has consistently over the past couple of decades hired the best people in the world and bought the best companies in the world not so that their efforts may be put to good use but to prevent other companies from having access to those people. in addition to that, the products that they have released have, by virtue of having access to the amazing technology, been superior or just simply brought out faster to market than anything else… but *only* within the microsoft eco-system. stack the technology levels up one on top of the other ten to twenty layers deep, in inter-dependent but importantly *monopolistic* ways and there is absolutely no way in hell that any other company could even remotely consider joining in or duplicating such efforts without at least a thousand man-years of development effort.
the U.S. Dept of Justice and the EU Commission simply do not comprehend the enormity of the problem here, but the average person on the street does: they can feel it, and they are fed up – sick to the back teeth in fact – of being forced to buy microsoft, microsoft, microsoft year after year, knowing full well that despite the technical advances in *some* areas the fundamental bedrock is insecure, unstable, and leaves them with the constant nagging worry that their data will be lost, destroyed, stolen, hijacked or ransomed and there is nothing they can do about it…. except to throw away absolutely everything.
the shareholders who approved this merger between nokia and microsoft simply do not comprehend the enormity of the mistake that has been made, starting with the elop decision to go with microsoft microsoft microsoft. that should have told them everything that they needed to know, but there is something else going on here which the facts tend to point towards.
so i think the only thing that we can say, really, is that microsoft and its shareholders are about to find out just how badly they have underestimated the back-lash that users can inflict on a company if it is not delivering what people want. microsoft has a hidden agenda, the effects of which are beginning to come to light. people pay money only if the product or service has value to them. except in certain twisted or naive circumstances people *do not* pay money to be abused or taken advantage of. i will be watching events unfold with some interest.
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Wayne on April 26, 2014 at 7:46 am said:
Good comments. My wife retired from Nokia here in Dallas, just as they were beginning to fold up shop here. She thought it was a great company to work for, but she saw the handwriting on the wall, and so did most others there. The “Nokia Way” made a great working environment, but Finland people had different ideas of what the American market wanted. One example of this was the Finnish Marketer who didn’t like to fly to Dallas for marketing meetings so he had the Marketing office moved to New York and lost most of the experience marketing people who didn’t move, they went to competitors.
Rahul Dixit on April 26, 2014 at 9:24 pm said:
Nokia still the best……Good luck John…..
fabian rares on April 26, 2014 at 11:43 pm said:
your story is mine as well but on a lower scale 🙂 i had the honor and opportunity to work in this company for 3 years as a production supervisor and vice president of nokia free union romania, i will never forget the people and experience gained during this time, i`m disappointed they haven`t choose android , they would have been in top were they belong by this time… nokia spirit and values will never die. good luck in future and don`t lose hope
i belive that microsoft has a lot to learn from nokia`s experience and values and they will, you shouldn`t fill sorry for nokia but for microsoft :)) nokia changed the world and they will change an already great company as microsoft, i`m happy doe i haven`t been bought by other competitors to build fusions or shut down, look o the bright side is still alive and getting better
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Alex Innemedien on April 27, 2014 at 12:32 pm said:
Reblogged this on owloffline and commented:
Goodbye to Nokia. – “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” (Marshal Mcluhan)
Olav Alexander Mjelde on April 27, 2014 at 10:25 pm said:
This post will be very subjective, as I’m a subject my self!
I will tell you why I stopped considering Nokia as a handset maker.
Having owned several Nokia’s, the E66 was the last one for me.
Before that, I had the E65, the 8850 gold, 3510, 3210 and the 3310.
Between those, I also had some Ericssons like the 768, 788, 7110, etc.
I liked both brands, yet where I personally feel that Nokia failed for me, as a customer, is the lack of innovation. The symbian horse was a dead one already in the E65. That dead horse was ridden way too long. Ericsson and Sony in theiere joint wenture Sony Ericsson, went on the Android bandwagon – which turned out to be a blessing.
Of course Sony had to buy out Ericsson to be able to innovate properly, yet that’s another story all together.
I know most companies want to make theire own pie and bake it, yet it’s not always a viable way, if one wants to keep ahead. Nokia I feel, became like blackberry – old fashioned. Some select few bought into the Windows phone, yet it’s like stepping a few years back. I dont want to time travel with my phone, it has to have the specs and app selection.
Stepping into bed with Microsoft was the mistake number 2, which didnt make matters any better. I’m barely keeping Windows on my PC, so of course I dont want that on my phone or tablets 🙂
If Nokia had done the Android game (and properly), I believe they would be a major player. I dont think they would be as large as Samsung, considering Samsung is a genious when it comes to marketing. Yet Nokia has the build quality that the competitors have had only for a select few years.
Yet now I feel it’s too late. Nokia feels outdated and there are many premium handset makers now. The brand name might be worth a little, it’s a bit like the kodak moment (I still remember kodak, yet they failed to innovate and where are they now?).
PS. I bet there were many great and smart people working at Nokia, yet the boat did not head in the right direction. I dont know who is to blame, if it’s the CEO’s, or the strategy, or maybe people just thought that they could keep the strategy that was once a winning one? I for one would like to see Nokia with a proper OS.
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linda on May 2, 2014 at 10:26 am said:
My first three cell phones were Nokia. I was sad when I went to Samsung but it offered what I needed for a reasonable price and Like Nokia, it worked everywhere on all networks. When Samsung introduced Android, I got one and struggled, thinking maybe Nokia will make this easier, and I can get a Nokia. I waited. I am still waiting and now so very sad that this wonderful “family” of brilliant, innovative, creative humans, is gone.
The spirit will live on, and like the Volkswagen Beetle, maybe sometime, sooner rather than later, they will bring the Nokia back to rise to its former glory.
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Tag: Descartes
Trick Photography and Trees
There are, some argue, two forms of life on our planet: animal and plant. It’s generally conceived that only animals have consciousness, but not all of them. When Descartes said, “I think; therefore I am,” he may have ruined possibilities for a lot of potential ams.
“The unconscious passes into the object and returns,” Robert Bly says (213), discussing Francis Ponge’s prose poem, “Trees Lose Parts of Themselves Inside a Circle of Fog” (217).
Yet Joyce (XXXIII) says:
A rogue in red and yellow dress
Is knocking, knocking at the tree;
And all around our loneliness
The wind is whistling merrily.
The leaves – they do not sigh at all
When the year takes them in the fall.
The “rogue” is nature, nature falling, falling kicking, yet the wind “merrily” whistles, anticipating the irony of winter’s undressing summer, when the leaves can no longer feel. Bly would argue that the leaves do sigh, and that we can hear them sigh, if we learn to listen. But earlier, Joyce had already (XV) said:
From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
From love’s deep slumber and from death,
For lo! the treees are full of sighs
Whose leaves the morn admonisheth.
The tree of the avenue, particularly at night, dressed in dappling neon or enamored moonlight, suggests another kind of consciousness for Joyce’s (II) trees:
The twilight turns from amethyst
To deep and deeper blue,
The lamp fills with a pale green glow
The trees of the avenue.
For in the catechism of Episode 17, “Ithaca,” in Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloom and Stephen are apparently discussing the ability of trees, or leaves, to turn toward or away from light (paraheliotropism, or tropism):
“Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative?
The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.”
The ideal photograph captures not necessarily the object, though the object must at least be attracted, or the light, which the photo must also catch, but the perfect photo snaps Bly’s passing and returning “into the object,” the epiphanic journey. This is the trick of photography, the lure.
Bly says Ponge doesn’t “exploit things [objects], either as symbols or as beings of a lower class.” Yet the desert creeps closer and closer. “The union of the object with the psyche moves slowly, and the poem may take four of five years to write,” Bly says.
Pieter Hoff, talking to Burkhard Bilger in “The Great Oasis” (New Yorker, Dec. 19 & 26, 2011), says, “A seed can afford to wait. Encased in dung from a passing bird or other animal, it can survive for months without rain. If the soil is dry, it can put all its energy into sending a single taproot in search of groundwater…It can worm itself into the tiniest crack, then expand a few cells at a time, generating pressures of up to seven hundred and twenty-five pounds per square inch – enough to split paving stones or punch holes through brick walls” (114).
The desert of the human imagination also creeps, reasoning against its very nature that it is the only perspective that matters, that is aware of itself. Bly says: “Descartes’ ideas act so as to withdraw consciousness from the non-human area, isolating the human being in his house, until, seen from the window, rocks, sky, trees, crows seem empty of energy, but especially empty of divine energy” (4).
Bly, Robert. News of the Universe: poems of twofold consciousness. [Chosen and introduced by Robert Bly] San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980.
Joyce, James. Collected Poems [Chamber Music]. New York: Viking Press, Compass Book Edition, 1957 [eighth printing, July 1967].
Photos in this post were taken this week in Mt. Tabor Park, in SE Portland, with a Canon PowerShot A560, set on Auto – no tricks, but the top photo was “enhanced” using iPhoto.
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New digital manga: Nihei’s APOSIMZ, House of the Sun, Peach Heaven, and The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Kodansha Comics is proud to announce the debut of science-fiction manga master Tsutomu Nihei’s newest manga serial, the highly anticipated follow-up to his cult-hit Knights of Sidonia: APOSIMZ. You can read the opening prologue to APOSIMZ (previously only available as part of last January's Tsutomu Nihei’s Humble Bundle offering) for free, below!
The first chapter of APOSIMZ will be available on February 24th as a digital edition only on comiXology and Kindle. New chapters will follow on the 24th of every month thereafter—the same day they appear in Japan. Chapters will be priced at $1.99 each.
With APOSIMZ, Nihei takes us into at-once familiar and disorienting territory: a towering “City” built upon the ruins of a mysterious device from the distant past, a “Country of Dolls” of people afflicted with a disease that slowly turns them into machines.
More digital shojo manga debuts for February! Adding to our aggressive digital manga ramp-up for 2017, we've also a trio of highly anticipated shojo manga making their debuts on February 28th. Check out Chapter 1 previews at the cover links below.
House of the Sun (aka Taiyo no ie) is Taamo’s moving account of a young woman who reconnects with a childhood friend as she puts together the pieces of her life following her parents’ broken marriage.
Peach Heaven is a fun and racy tale from Mari Hoshino, detailing the life of an ordinary high-school teenager with a secret identity as … an erotic novelist! What happens when the new transfer student/male supermodel discovers her secret?
Finally, The Full-Time Wife Escapist (aka Nigeru wa haji da ga yaku ni tatsu) brings us Tsunami Umino’s romantic comedy that was recently adapted into a hit Japanese television drama. Mikuri is a recent grad without a whole lot of job prospects, so out of desperation when her housekeeping gig is about to come to an end, she comes up with the idea of becoming the wife of her single salaryman boss—as a job!
Volume 1s of House of the Sun, Peach Heaven, and The Full-Time Wife Escapist are available for preorder across all Kodansha Comics digital book channels: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook.
Plus more announcements at Emerald City Comic Con! We've been steadily bringing out new manga series in digital format since the start of 2017, and we've got more digital announcements for the spring at the Kodansha Comics panel at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on March 4. The announcements will be made the same day here on kodanshacomics.com. Stay tuned!
Media: read our press release here.
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Climate Sceptics: Is the sky falling?
It seems that the easiest way to get media coverage is to make claims that global warming isn't happening. The climate deniers' claims were aired on The ABC's Lateline and Q&A this week.
What do the scientists say? Ross Garnaut addressed recent claims about lower global temperatures in his draft report.
Is there a warming trend in global temperature
data?
Observations show that global temperatures have increased over the last 150 years (Figure 5.1). The data also suggests that the warming was relatively steep over the last 30–50 years. A comparison of three datasets shows that they differ slightly on the highest recorded temperatures — data from the Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom shows 1998 as the highest year, while data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Climatic Data Centre in the United States show 2005 as the highest year.* All three datasets show that seven of the hottest 10 years on record have been in the last nine years between 1999 and 2007.
There has been considerable debate in recent months on the interpretation of the global temperatures over the past decade. Questions have been raised about whether the warming trend ended in about 1998.
To throw light on this question, the Review sought assistance from two eminent econometricians from the Australian National University to investigate the question. Trevor Breusch and Farshid Vahid have specific expertise in the statistical analysis of time series—a speciality that is well developed in econometrics.
They were asked two questions:
• Is there a warming trend in global temperature data in the past
century?
• Is there any indication that there is a break in any trend present in the
late 1990s, or at any other point?
It is difficult to be certain about trends when there is so much variation
in the data and very high correlation from year to year. We investigate
the question using statistical time series methods. Our analysis shows
that the upward movement over the last 130–160 years is persistent and
not explained by the high correlation, so it is best described as a trend.
The warming trend becomes steeper after the mid-1970s, but there is no
significant evidence for a break in trend in the late 1990s.Viewed from the
perspective of 30 or 50 years ago, the temperatures recorded in most of
the last decade lie above the confidence band produced by any model that
does not allow for a warming trend (Breusch & Vahid 2008). Garnaut Climate Change Review, Draft Report June 2008. page 113
You have to wonder whether it's the global warming advocates or the deniers who think the sky is falling?
Bound to lots more fantasy science in the US election and its aftermath as the successful candidate tries to implement a cap and trade program.
Labels: environment, global warming, US Election 2008
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Black Dahlia Murder signs w/ Metal Blade
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Detroit metal band Black Dahlia Murder has officially signed a multi-album deal with Metal Blade Records, home to The Crown and Cannibal Corpse, among many others. The group recently finished recording their debut full-length, entitled "Unhallowed," at Cloud City Studios in Michigan. Look for the album to be released this Spring in conjunction with touring that will begin in May.
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Moline, Illinois Arbitration & Mediation Lawyers
Andrew Stoltmann Esq.
Barrington, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 20 years experience
(312) 332-4200 600 Hart Rd
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Consumer, Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
Andrew Stoltmann, attorney and investor advocate, exclusively concentrates his practice in representing investors who are the victims of investment fraud. He has represented over one thousand individuals in lawsuits and securities arbitration actions against brokerage firms like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Wachovia, Linsco, Prudential, Baird, Edward Jones, AG Edwards and Smith Barney and has tried approximately 80 cases. Previous to opening the Stoltmann Law Offices P.C. he was a partner in a law firm concentrating its practice in the representation of investors in lawsuits, arbitration claims and class actions against brokerage firms. Mr. Stoltmann is...
Patrick D. Austermuehle
Elmhurst, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 10 years experience
(833) 306-4933 360 W Butterfield Rd
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Legal Malpractice
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Patrick D. Austermuehle, a partner at Lubin Austermuehle, P.C., has experience in complex business and commercial litigation and consumer class actions. He has assisted in the successful representation of a number of state and federal matters, including cases at the appellate level.
Mr. Austermuehle received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and earned a J.D. with Honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he was Notes and Comments Editor on the Law Review.
Prior to joining Lubin Austermuehle, P.C., Mr. Austermuehle served as a law clerk at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and as...
Ryan Moore Esq.
Barrington, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 5 years experience
Ryan Moore focuses his trial practice on litigating commercial, real-estate, and class-action matters, primarily on contingent or other value-based fee arrangements. He has first-chaired over 30 jury trials to verdict in Cook, DuPage, Kane, McHenry, and Will counties.
Ryan graduated cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He competed on the Moot Court Honor Society and wrote for the Seventh Circuit Review. He earned CALI Awards for the highest grade in Legal Writing, Trial Advocacy, and Appellate Advocacy. He participated in a three-week advocacy seminar in St. Andrews and was a teaching assistant for first-year legal-writing students. And he was appointed...
Christopher L. Lufrano
Oak Park, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 7 years experience
(800) 627-2179 818 Harrison Street
Oak Park, IL 60304
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Real Estate
Pace Law School
Christopher L. Lufrano is the managing attorney and principal of Lufrano Law, LLC and has extensive experience in matters involving securities investment disputes, regulatory defense, real estate law and business services. Mr. Lufrano is licensed to practice law in Illinois and New York, and often travels throughout the country to represent aggrieved investors in FINRA securities arbitrations where permitted under state law. Mr. Lufrano is a graduate of Boston University, where he majored in Business Management. Following college, Mr. Lufrano was employed by Morgan Stanley where he worked as...
Antonio DeBlasio
Oak Brook, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 24 years experience
(630) 560-1123 2001 Midwest Rd
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Personal Injury and Probate
The John Marshall Law School
Mr. DeBlasio is the founder and managing member of DeBlasio & Gower LLC. Tony has over 22 years of experience as a trial lawyer and advisor. He has counseled individuals, business executives, for profit and not-for-profit companies and government bodies in complex litigation matters, internal investigations and dispute resolution strategies. Tony has been selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer in Business Litigation on many occasions. Only 5% of attorneys receive this distinction. Tony has represented clients from a multitude of industry sectors, including, health care, technology, communications, financial, education, real estate, manufacturing, construction, management...
Celiza Braganca
Chicago, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 26 years experience
(847) 906-3460 230 South Clark Street, Suite 262
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
Lisa Bragança has decades of experience as a financial and securities litigator. Lisa served as a Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Chicago Office of the Securities & Exchange Commission, where she handled investigations of accounting fraud, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, churning, and unsuitability. While at the SEC, Lisa collaborated with the federal criminal prosecutors in securities fraud investigations at major corporations.
Lisa has recovered millions of dollars for clients including recoveries for investors and insurance policyholders. Lisa has successfully represented corporate officers and directors in SEC investigations and related litigation.
Lisa is a trial...
Hon. Edmund Ponce de Leon (Ret.)
(312) 863-8610 150 N. Michigan Ave
Arbitration & Mediation
Concentrates solely in Family Court Mediation. He is on the “List of Certified Mediators” with the Domestic Relations Division, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois
The Hon. Edmund Ponce de Leon (Ret.) gained a reputation as an eminently qualified and even-handed jurist, who was highly efffective with helping litigants resolve cases through the pre-trial mediation process. While on the bench, Judge Ponce de Leon helped facilitate hundreds of settlements.
He has an extensive 19+ years' experience presiding over a wide array of civil disputes, including divorce cases. He has a combined 33+ years' experience as...
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(312) 236-1207 33 N LaSalle St, #2000
Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Rights and Employment
Hofstra University and University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
David Porter, Esq. is an experienced, dedicated, and effective advocate for Chicago’s workforce.
Mr. Porter received his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1982 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University in New York in 1985.
After law school Mr. Porter practiced law in New York for 10 years. Then he and his family moved to Illinois (to be closer to their family members), where he has been in private practice since 1995 (all at his current location).
For the last 30 years Mr. Porter has devoted himself to the practice of employment law primarily on behalf of employees....
Cary M. Stein
Chicago, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney
(312) 422-0509 134 N LaSalle St
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Carol Coplan Babbitt
(312) 435-9775 35 E Wacker Dr
Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer and Employment
I am a Chicago based litigation attorney who has been practicing law since 1988. I opened my own law firm in 1997 and I have been a successful solo-practitioner ever since. I take a tenacious, results driven, approach to all matters in my practice which makes me a strong advocate and assists in my proven record of success. Because I am a solo-practitioner, I will be directly and personally involved in your legal matters from its inception through its conclusion and together, I believe we will achieve a positive resolve to your legal problems.
The focus of my practice is litigation...
Jeffrey Dorman Esq.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
For nearly 40 years, Jeffrey Dorman has combined experience as a trial lawyer with academic and professional training in econometrics, mathematics, and computer programming to create excellent results in complex litigation. Prior to joining Stoltmann Law Offices, Jeff was a partner at the “litigation powerhouse” Freeborn & Peters. At Freeborn, Jeff specialized in: creation of quantitative evidence based on statistical, mathematical and accounting models; creation of software to estimate expected value of litigation and potential litigation risk; antitrust litigation, and complex civil litigation.
Jeff spent much of his career at one of the world’s largest law firms defending complex class actions...
Anique K Drouin
Wheaton, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 12 years experience
(630) 665-7676 1749 S. Naperville Rd.
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
University of Baltimore School of Law
I have dedicated my practice to family law matters since 2007. In addition to traditional litigation, I am a certified mediator and a fellow of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois. I work diligently and efficiently to help my clients obtain the best possible outcome in their cases.
Douglas B Warlick
Geneva, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 37 years experience
(630) 232-9700 114 East State St.
Ted A Donner
Wheaton, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 28 years experience
(630) 588-1131 Donner & Company Law Offices LLC
1125 Wheaton Oaks Court
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Employment and Real Estate
Ted Donner (Attorney) started his legal studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1987 after a ten-year stint as the box office manager of The Second City in Chicago. His professional experience since then includes work as a law clerk for Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., a summer internship at Welsh & Katz, Ltd., and work as an associate with Rock, Fusco, Reynolds & Garvey, Ltd. Before opening Donner & Company Law Offices LLC, he was an Associate and then Of Counsel to the litigation practice group at Altheimer & Gray, where his practice was concentrated in insurance...
Tony W. Patterson
Lebanon, IN Arbitration & Mediation Attorney
(888) 532-7766 225 West Main Street
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Judy A. Goldstein
Mokena, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 33 years experience
(708) 479-0800 19235 Wolf Rd
Mokena, IL 60448
Arbitration & Mediation, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
DePaul College of Law, University of Illinois College of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
Caitlin M. Fiello Schwartz
Swansea, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 5 years experience
(618) 416-3526 4509 N. Illinois Ave.
Ste., 4
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce, Probate and Real Estate
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Caitlin is a strong and hard-working advocate for her clients. She believes that it is important for her client’s voice to be heard no matter what type of case they have. She is experienced both inside and outside the courtroom, having helped clients negotiate fair settlements when she can and taking their case to court when necessary. Her wide experience includes: real estate, foreclosure, landlord/tenant, and family matters (divorce, custody, support and domestic violence issues).
Caitlin prides herself on listening to her clients so that she knows what is important to them and what their goal is. She...
Adam Marquardt
Chicago, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 8 years experience
(312) 945-6065 318 W Adams St
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Stockbroker Fraud
Adam Marquardt is an attorney representing investors in securities litigation claims. He focuses on claims such as unsuitable investments, negligence, and fraud. In addition to representing investors, his practice includes representing consumers in debt collection matters. Adam has a history of protecting investors and individuals. Adam spent time as a regulator at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), the primary securities regulator of broker-dealers and over 630,000 brokers. At FINRA, Adam helped protect investors by ensuring broker-dealers and their registered representatives complied with federal securities laws and stock exchange and FINRA rules. ...
Emily E. Scott
Swansea, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 12 years experience
(618) 416-3526 4509 N. Illinois St.
Emily is a determined and fierce advocate for her clients. At the same time her welcoming smile and friendly personality will put you at ease when discussing your legal problem. Emily has spent the last 12 years representing clients in real estate, eviction and installment sales contract cases. Whether it is negotiating a settlement or taking a case to court, Emily’s experience allows her to get results for her clients.
Emily has an Urban and Regional Planning degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from Southern Illinois University. While in law school, she worked for...
J. Richard Kulerski Esq.
Oak Brook Terrace, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 55 years experience
(630) 928-0600 1 S 660 Midwest Road
Oak Brook Terrace, IL 60181
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
J. Richard Kulerski is a partner in the Oak Brook (and downtown Chicago) divorce law firm of Kulerski and Cornelison. Richard has over four decades of trial experience in the divorce courts of Cook and DuPage counties, IL. and is a Harvard trained mediator and settlement negotiator. Richard and his partner, Kari Cornelison, are staunch advocates of the settlement approach to divorce and both are active in divorce mediation, collaborative divorce law and in the rapidly growing cooperative divorce movement.
Michael F Roe
St Charles, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 33 years experience
(630) 232-2400 100 Illinois St
St Charles, IL 60174
Trinity College, Dublin Ireland and University of San Diego School of Law
John J. Tully Jr.
(312) 917-2411 33 North Dearborn Street
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Business and Products Liability
Neda Nozari
Evanston, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 6 years experience
(847) 861-7900 1555 Sherman Ave.
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Employment and Real Estate
Neda Nozari is an attorney and mediator with her office based in Evanston, Illinois. Neda’s experience includes but is not limited to the practice areas of business, employment, real estate, fair housing and education. She has experience mediating a vast range of legal, personal and organizational issues. She is a highly skilled negotiator and a trained and proficient facilitator of communication.
She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors degree in Political Science and later from The John Marshall Law School with a Juris Doctorate. Her greatest skill is being able to understand the needs and interests of parties and to...
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Joshua Bradford Kons
(312) 757-2272 939 West North Avenue, Suite 750
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Securities
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
Joshua B. Kons has a breadth of experience in securities litigation and FINRA arbitration proceedings, having or represented hundreds of investors who have suffered significant losses at the hands of their financial advisor, brokerage firm or investment advisor. Mr. Kons also has a depth of experience in the securities industry.
Prior to attending law school, he worked as a mutual fund trader where he learned the securities business from the ground up. After receiving his law degree, Mr. Kons worked as an in-house attorney for a multinational, Fortune 500 corporation where he was responsible for corporate and commercial transactional matters.
Prior to...
Marcia Gerber Cotler
Northbrook, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 30 years experience
(847) 498-6040 5 Revere Dr
Charles V Muscarello
Saint Charles, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 23 years experience
(630) 513-9191 4N701 School Road
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Business and Family
Larry Amoni
Aurora, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 42 years experience
(630) 264-2020 1975 W. Downer Place, STE. 301
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Construction, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
At Amoni Law Offices, P.C., we believe people deserve to have confidence in their lawyer. If you have been injured or lost a loved one due to an accident or act of negligence on the part of another person or corporate entity, you will be facing an uphill battle to protect your financial interests. The truth is, fighting an insurance company for a full and fair settlement is hard work. Having a knowledgeable attorney handling the details is often the only way to get the justice you are entitled to. We Stand Up To Large, National Insurance Companies Fighting an...
Ms. Jennifer Claire Weiss
(312) 636-3810 53 W. Jackson Blvd.
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Divorce and Family
University of Michigan Law School
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Principal of law firm focusing practice on family law, child custody and support, visitation, domestic violence, mental health, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA and wage-and-hour violations, retaliation, civil rights, and juvenile justice. Offers settlement negotiation, litigation, general consulting, mediation, arbitration, and training services.
Susan Shivers
(630) 232-9503 22 South 4th Street
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce, Family and Workers' Comp
Kane County lawyer, Susan D. Shivers, has been practicing law for over 27 years. Susan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University (with a double major in Psychology and English) and her Law degree, with Honors, from The John Marshall Law School. Susan is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
David Arena
Park Ridge, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 22 years experience
(847) 698-9600 216 W Higgins Rd
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Construction and Municipal
David T. Arena joined Di Monte & Lizak in 1996. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in political science from Loyola University of Chicago in 1993, where he was a member of the Phi Sigma Alpha National Honor Society and recipient of the Presidential Scholarship. David received his law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law with honors in 1996. In 1995, David took first place in the Cleveland Marshall College of Law Moot Court Competition, where he received the Dean’s Moot Court Award for Outstanding Advocate and the Hugo Black Award for Outstanding Oralist. David participated in the 1995 ABA...
Thomas Hargrove
Hoffman Estates, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 25 years experience
(847) 310-0025 2300 Barrington Rd
Arbitration & Mediation, Construction, Employment and Insurance Claims
I provide advice and counsel to professionals and businesses in a wide variety of industries. I realize that solutions to many problems require the involvement of others who provide counsel to my clients, and as a result, I often works alongside a client’s accountant, financial consultant, or other professional.
I am an active litigator, and also on employment issues, insurance coverage disputes and business law, including contractual disputes and construction issues. I have many years of experience in analyzing and evaluating contractual, statutory and regulatory rights and obligations in matters that affect most small to mid-size business. ...
Alex Kosyla
(773) 437-0489 1655 S Blue Island Ave
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Family
Alex Kosyla has lived in Chicago his entire life and looks forward to serving future generations of Chicagoans. Alex is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Carthage College, and Von Steuben Metropolitan High School. Alex has demonstrated his commitment to serving his clients while working for the John Marshall Fair Housing Legal Clinic, and has maintained that attitude in his own practice. Alex believes that his clients are more than just a commodity and will do whatever it takes to treat his client as if they were his own family. Alex has gained significant experience and is sincerely...
William Alexander Price
Warrenville, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney
(800) 630-4780 PO Box 1425
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Consumer, Employment and Landlord Tenant
Duke University School of Law and Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg-Im-Breisgau, Germany
Bill Price is an attorney in private practice in Warrenville, Illinois. He served as the Vice-Chairman for the Corporation, Securities, and Business Law Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, and is a member of the Administrative Law Section Council, for which he has edited the Handbook of Illinois Administrative Law. His private practice includes business and administrative litigation. He was appointed by Governor Edgar and confirmed by the Illinois Senate as the state Small Business Utility Advocate. Additional books by Mr. Price include Limited Liability Organizations (Specialty Technical Publications, Vancouver, BC), which covers all forms of business entity...
David V. White
Springfield, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 29 years experience
(217) 726-7540 801 South MacArthur Blvd
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Business and Family
University of Kentucky College of Law
Dave White is a partner with Kopec, White & Spooner Attorneys at Law (telephone 217-726-7540) and has over 25 years experience helping small business owners, families and individuals in Springfield, Illinois and throughout Sangamon County and Central Illinois. Kopec, White & Spooner is a full-service law firm providing cost-conscious representation and legal solutions for its clients.
Peter Zneimer
(773) 516-4100 4141 N Western Ave
Arbitration & Mediation, Animal, Business and Nursing Home
Indiana University School of Law
Samuel Olutola Akeju
Chicago, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 28 years experience
(312) 404-7840 1133 E 83rd St
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Communications and Immigration
Nigerian Law School
Edgar Petti
Geneva, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 61 years experience
(630) 232-9303 22 S 4th St Ste 2
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy, Business and Personal Injury
The University of Chicago Law School
Mr. Petti is a resident of Elburn, IL. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Pittsburgh PA and Evanston IL. He has acted as legal counsel for both small and large businesses. He has been associated with private law practice firms in Chicago and the Chicago Suburban area. For the past twenty two years, he has maintained his principal law office in Kane County, Illinois. Mr. Petti's corporate law work includes serving as staff counsel for Motorola and General Counsel of Andrew Corporation, two international electronic businesses. His trial work has taken him from Connecticut to...
Robert J. Pavich
Joliet, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer with 44 years experience
(312) 690-8400 1000 Essington Road
Arbitration & Mediation, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
Attorney Robert J. Pavich received his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1969 from Harvard College. In 1975, he received his Juris Doctorate degree magna cum laude from the DePaul University College of Law. Attorney Pavich worked as the lead trial counsel at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal from 2001 to 2005. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Pavich was the lead defense counsel in five federal deportation prosecutions in Florida and Illinois—all which resulted in acquittals. Attorney Pavich is a member of numerous bar associations including: the Illinois State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association,...
Theodore G. Karavidas
Barrington, IL Arbitration & Mediation Attorney with 40 years experience
(847) 381-4797 102 N Cook St
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
John J Hansen
Chicago, IL Arbitration & Mediation Lawyer
(877) 205-6625 415 N. LaSalle St
Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy, Collections and Estate Planning
Experienced attorney with highly diverse practice familiarity. Concentration in tort litigation and general contract disputes. Secondary concentration in areas of debt negotiation and relief, domestic relations, estate planning and probate administration. Self-driven and organized with proven ability to manage large, diverse caseload successfully. Familiar with state and federal rules and procedures, mechanics of litigation, case law decisions and jury-verdict trends. Proven courtroom, negotiation, communication, and client interaction skills.
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Tularosa, New Mexico Collections Lawyers
Clarke Coll
Roswell, NM Collections Attorney with 30 years experience
(575) 623-2288 408 West College Blvd.
Roswell, NM 88201
Collections, Bankruptcy, Business and Estate Planning
Jake A. Garrison
Albuquerque, NM Collections Attorney with 12 years experience
(505) 293-2710 10600 Menaul Blvd Ne, Suite C
Collections, Business, Probate and Real Estate
Jake A. Garrison is an Albuquerque, New Mexico attorney with extensive experience representing clients in both litigation and transactional contexts in matters of real estate and land use law, business law, contract drafting or contract disputes, corporate entity formation, collections, and estate administration.
Whether negotiating a favorable resolution, prevailing at trial, or carefully structuring a business or real estate deal, Jake A. Garrison is committed to pursuing successful and cost-effective legal outcomes for his clients.
Daniel A. White
Albuquerque, NM Collections Attorney with 6 years experience
(505) 433-3097 1122 Central Ave SW Ste 1
Collections and Bankruptcy
Mr. White is a bankruptcy attorney and commercial litigator, and primarily focuses on bankruptcy litigation, including secured lender representation, trustee representation, fraudulent transfer and preference litigation, stay relief, and contested matters such as claims objections. Mr. White also has experience in commercial real estate matters, including commercial foreclosures and commercial landlord/tenant disputes. Mr. White is Co-Chair of the Young and New Members Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and Chair-Elect of the board of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the State Bar of New Mexico. Occasionally, he provides pro bono legal assistance to select clients via the New Mexico...
Daniel Behles
Albuquerque, NM Collections Lawyer with 49 years experience
Collections, Bankruptcy and Business
B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1967
J.D. University of New Mexico, 1970
State of New Mexico, 1970
State of Colorado, 1986
U.S. District Court, New Mexico 1970
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981
Recognized specialist, Business Bankruptcy Law, by New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization
U.S. News Best Lawyers, 2014
Southwest Superlawyers, 2016
Member, Bankruptcy Section of New Mexico State Bar
Ms. Lee Boothby
Taos, NM Collections Lawyer with 39 years experience
(575) 751-7415 515 Gusdorf Rd. Ste. 8
Taos, NM 87571
Free ConsultationCollections, Business, Construction and Foreclosure Defense
University of Tennessee College of Law
Lee Boothby has more than 34 years experience as a transactional business and civil litigation attorney. She is admitted to practice in the California, New Mexico and the District of Columbia. She began her career as an expatriate tax attorney for Arthur Young & Company in Athens, Greece where she served as tax advisor to a number of prominent CEOs, Presidents and Vic Presidents of multinational corporations based in the Middle Ease and Northern Africa, including Mobil Oil, GE, Lockheed, First National Bank of Chicago and American Express. After her return to California in 1986, she expanded her practice to...
(505) 242-1979 400 Gold Ave SW
Free ConsultationCollections, Bankruptcy, Business and Consumer
School of Law, UNM
Great results. I return your calls. I give you answers. I work to move your case forward. I can see you on Saturday.
Daniel T. Dougherty
Rio Rancho, NM Collections Lawyer with 18 years experience
(505) 977-1442 544 Eastlake Dr SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-2100
Free ConsultationCollections, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Elder
University of New Mexico and University of Texas - El Paso
Dan Dougherty served 23 years as both an Army and Air Force pilot. He flew Army helicopters in Vietnam and Air Force cargo planes during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. His final AF assignment was as Chief of the branch at the Air Force’s Safety Center conducting and managing aircraft accident investigations and associated AF-wide flight safety programs. After retirement, he became a business owner and consultant to business entities and the Air Force teaching week-long seminars on behavioral safety programs; and also did several accident investigations for both plaintiff and defendant law firms. In 1998, he was accepted...
Valentino C. Messina III
Rio Rancho, NM Collections Attorney with 18 years experience
(505) 994-3505 P.O. Box 45317
Collections and Personal Injury
Texas Tech University School of Law
Chad Mathis
Albuquerque, NM Collections Attorney
Free ConsultationCollections, Business, Communications and Entertainment & Sports
Chad Mathis is the founding attorney at Prometheus Legal. Working out of the Albuquerque office, Mr. Mathis focuses on advising entertainment industry professionals from across the United States and the world. In particular, he assists independent filmmakers in taking their project from development, to financing and production, and all the way through distribution while avoiding the legal pitfalls that plague the film industry. Mr. Mathis also represents business owners across the state of New Mexico and helps them establish solid legal foundations on which to grow their business. His practice is geared toward preventing legal problems for his clients through...
Dylan O'Reilly
Santa Fe, NM Collections Lawyer with 19 years experience
(800) 424-7585 200 W. DeVargas Street
Collections, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Scott E. Turner
(505) 242-1300 500 Marquette Ave NW, #1480
Collections, Business and Real Estate
Denise A. Snyder
(505) 465-9445 4233 Montgomery Blvd. NE
Collections, Consumer, Foreclosure Defense and Real Estate
Matthew Jude Bradburn
(505) 550-2000 820 2nd St NW
Collections, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Steven Tal Young
(505) 247-0007 20 1st Plaza Center NW
Collections, Bankruptcy, Business and Divorce
University of Texas - Austin and St. Mary's University
Thomas Dawe
(505) 764-5427 201 3rd St NW
Collections, Bankruptcy, Business and Construction
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4th & 5th Grade Leagues
THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE - Have fun, watching and playing soccer safely.
Parking: For the safety of the children, please only park in designated parking areas. Do not park or stop on the sides of roads or on the grass.
FIFA Soccer Laws apply except as modified below. Changes compared to 2nd and 3rd Grade are marked in red text.
Game Format: Games use a single field playing 8v8. One of the 8 is a goalie.
Questions: Click here for our contact information.
Law 1 - Field and Goals: Field approximately 240 x 150 feet (80 x 50 yards) with 7 x 21 foot goals and a center line.
Please pick up all trash, equipment and clothing, etc. after your practice or game.
If fields are unlined, please walk off the field marking corners, center line, and goals with flat cones.
Please do not allow playing, climbing or hanging on the soccer goal posts or netting. Goals falling on people can cause serious injury.
Law 2 - Ball: Size 4
Law 3 - Players: Maximum of 12 players per team playing 8v8 games, one of which is a goalkeeper. A team who cannot field at least 5 players within 10 minutes of the kickoff time of the game will forfeit the game with a 1-0 score.
If a team forfeits the game (i.e. can only field 4 or less players), the game is stilled played and, if needed, cones should be used to adjust the field size and coaches can balance the teams from a competitive perspective by either playing both teams with the same number of players on the field, allowing the team that is clearly weaker to play with more players, loaning players to the other team, playing players out of position, and so-on. Coaches should also make these kinds of adjustments if the game is lopsided.
Goalkeepers are used.
Unlimited substitutions with the referees permission are allowed at any stoppage of play:
On any throw-in, goal kick, corner kick or free kick.
On either teams kick off after a goal is scored.
By either team at half time.
By either team if a player is injured and leaves the field.
You may NOT substitute:
To replace a player sent off ("red card"), you have to play with one less player.
All players present, except in the case of injury or red card, must:
Play at least half (50%) of the game
Have as near equal playing time as possible compared to other players
Be given the opportunity to play in each position but not be forced to play in a specific position.
Law 4 - Equipment: Home team wears white and away team wears green. Must wear shin guards under socks. No baseball or football shoes allowed. No jewelry, earrings, or metal hair clips are allowed.
Law 5 & 6 - Referees: WWPSA provides referees. Coaches and referees must meet before the game to clarify rules and appoint parents as assistant referees (linesmen). Coaches officiate the game and should briefly explain calls to players. Coaches and Assistant Coaches may not be on the field during the game without the referees permission and should respect the referee's decision.
Law 7 - Duration of Practices and Games: Practices are held on weeknights and can last up to 90 minutes.
Games consist of 2 equal 30 minute halves with a 5 minute break at half time for a total game time of 65 minutes. Referees and Coaches should only adjust game time in exceptionally circumstance - please let the players play as much as possible.
Law 8 - Start and Restart of Play: Opposing players must be 8 yards (24 feet) from the ball for kickoffs, goal kicks, free kicks, and corner kicks.
Law 10 - Scoring: Let them have fun and score lots of goals. Celebrate and cheer for all goals scored.
Law 11 - Offside: Offside rule applies. i.e. There must be 2 opposing team players (one may be the goal keeper) between the player and the opposing team’s goal when the ball is passed by a team mate of the player and the team in possession gains an advantage by been in the offside position.
Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct: No slide tackling allowed. All other rules apply All other rules apply. Referees will stop play, and apply remedy, including yellow or red cards (including sending off) as appropriate.
Law 14 - Penalty Kicks: Taken 10 yards from goal line. Other players must be 10 yards away.
Law 15 - Throw-in: If the player makes an illegal throw-in, the same player is given a second chance to do the throw in. If second attempt is also illegal the other team gets the ball and does the throw in (ball is throw with 2 hands from behind head with 2 feet on the ground, feet may be on or outside of the touch lines). A useful chant to teach the player is "Both feet on the ground, behind the line, 2 hands on the ball, throw it over my head near a team mate." Opposing players should be 2 yards (6 feet) from the player making the throw-in.
Law 16 - Goal Kick: Players may not touch the ball until it is outside the penalty box.
Law 17 - Corner Kick: Opposing players must be 8 yards (24 feet) from the ball.
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Squandering Aimlessly - Abridged
My Adventures in the American Marketplace
By David Brancaccio
Narrated by David Brancaccio / 3 hours 6 minutes
What would you do if you received a sudden financial windfall? David Brancaccio, whose ability to clarify economic matters has made public radio's Marketplace a hit, set out to discover where, why, and how people are spending their riches -- whether it's proceeds from stock options, profits from the sale of a house, or an unexpected inheritance or bonus.
His journey takes readers from Minnesota's Mall of America to the
financial caverns of Wall Street, to a college set among the oil wells of West Texas. He gathers wisdom on money and its uses from California entrepreneurs, a drifter in the desert, a U.S. treasury secretary, and many others from all walks of life. The result is at once a delightful adventure and an eye-opening report on America's attitudes about spending, saving, and investing.
Author David Brancaccio
Narrator David Brancaccio
Length 3 hours 6 minutes
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition Abridged
Genre Rank #6,966 in Business
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Low n' Away
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand" – Leo Durocher
Spare Change – Week Two Reflections
April 11, 2017 April 18, 2017 hamiltonporterLeave a comment
What We Loved
Wil Myers hitting for the cycle becoming only the 2nd Padre to ever do so. Nice to see the Padres giving their fans something to cheer for.
The Marlins players turning the late Jose Fernandez’s locker into a shrine – http://thesco.re/2oGTAaY
Jharel Cotton’s filthy change-up that even amazed the great Pedro Martinez – http://thesco.re/2oGVGaW – But in all seriousness, let’s get another view of that filth – http://bit.ly/2oj1kiq
The swing on Tulo’s 3yr old son, Taz, Can we say #parentinggoals? – http://thesco.re/2pM37gf
Yoenis Cespedes smashing three ding dangs in four AB’s
Bryce doing his best Enos Slaughter mad dash home to beat the Phillies in extras – http://thesco.re/2oGZdG0
Chris Sale 1149 strikeouts through 150 career starts – most in MLB history
Ender Inciarte opening SunTrust Park with it’s 1st hit, out, run and HR .
Players playing catch with kids. Even Mike Trout is getting in on the fad.
Speaking of Mike Trout, the great Trout will pass Joe Mauer, David Wright and likely Justin Verlander for career WAR before May 1st of this year. To put it into further perspective, Trout has already passed Jim Rice and will soon pass Kirby Puckett (both of whom are Hall of Fame outfielders). Mike Trout is 25 years old.
Zack Britton’s consecutive save streak. The Orioles closer passed Jeurys Famila for 3rd and is now tied with Tom Gordon with 54 saves.
In other Orioles news, Trey Mancini has had quite the start to his MLB career- 7 HR in 12 games.
For the first time in MLB history, their was an outfield entirely comprised of players with the last name Garcia – http://thesco.re/2pvYzLA
Rod Carew receiving a new heart and kidney. The Hall of Famer received the organs from former NFL TE, Konrad Reuland, who passed away at the age of 28 back in December. For further reading check out this link from SI.com – http://on.si.com/2oQNneJ
Aaron Judge’s light tower power. Judge, who looks like a create a player or Vince McMahon’s dream, already has three HR and eight RBI on the young season.
The Mariners unveiling a statue of the Kid. Arguably every kid in the 90’s favourite player growing up, the Mariners honoured their franchise icon by imortalizing him outside of Safeco Field – http://cbsprt.co/2pM1M9m
The Dodgers unveiling a statue of Jackie Robinson. But seriously, how was there not one already there? – http://thesco.re/2pccsSw
Plans for a Jose Fernandez statue. I know that this is a controversial decision because of the circumstances surrounding his death but it isn’t up to the court of pubic justice and outrage to determine if this should take place, it’s up to the Marlins franchise who lost one of their own and have every right to honour him. What happened was tragic all around. It was also very much avoidable and perhaps the Marlins could use this as a chance to acknowledge the very dumb and selfish decision(s) that Fernandez made as well.
Any and all of Vin Scully’s stories. Scully was on hand at Dodger Stadium on Jackie Robinson day and spun this yarn about him and Jackie skating – http://thesco.re/2pvVqvv
*In Jim Ross voice* GOOD GOD, THAT’S THE EASTER BUNNY’S MUSIC!! – http://atmlb.com/2p86kdQ
The absolute arrogance of this bat flip in Japan – http://bit.ly/2oj3lvf
The tribute to Tim Raines during the Blue Jays Home Opener. Not only was it classy because it honoured the recent Hall of Fame inductee but it (further) proved that the Blue Jays are Canada’s team, especially when they honour a great player from another team. Hell, not even the Nationals, who were once the Expos, have given any love to the man they call “Rock.”
The sweet sounds of Dan Shulman in the broadcasting booth. Nothing against Buck and Pat but Shulman’s voice adds 5% more to each game he covers.
The early returns on Kendrys Morales. Sure he’s not Edwin Encarnacion and sure he’s not exactly setting the world on fire, but who the hell cares? All Morales has done so far is create the only two (positive) highlights for the Jays during this dismal start. Last week it was a grand slam for his first HR in a Jays uniform. On Saturday he hit a walk off homer in the 9th inning to give the Blue Jays their 2nd win on the season
What Caused Us to Cringe
Robbie Alomar’s painted on skinny jeans. I mean come on Robbie, we can see your McCain’s frozen punch through them.
The three man booth of Buck, Pat and Dan Shulman. It’s nothing against the talent itself, it just comes across as being forced. I feel bad for Tabby in this scenerio because he really seems like the odd man out. I kind of picture him raising his hand like a child in class when he wants to add something to the conversation.
Edubray Ramos head hunting Asdrubal Cabrera. Last September, Cabrera hit an important homer off of the Phillies reliever. Fast forward to last week when Ramos decided to get even by whizzing a 94mph fastball over the head of the Mets player.
Buster Posey getting drilled in the head by a 94 mph fastball.
Gary Sanchez’s biceps strain – keeps young star out for next 4 weeks.
Jon Gray’s fractured foot keeping him out for the next month.
Sam Dyson closing games – blows 3rd straight save. Although as a Blue Jays fan I can’t help but smile a little bit.
Dale Scott being stretchered off the field. The home plate ump was forced to leave Friday’s contest after taking a foul tip off of the mask. Thankfully, it was only a minor concussion and he should be back soon.
Donno’s calf… again. This time it’s a trip to the DL. The kicker being that it could be 10 days or a month, that’s according to Blue Jays president, Mark Shapiro
The dismal Blue Jays offense. As if it were possible, these guys actually look worse than the guys who got carved up by the Indians in the 2016 ALCS
Aaron Sanchez’s pitching hand. A blister on the righty’s hand will keep him out for the next 1 to 2 starts.
JA Happ’s forearm strain. Hopefully this won’t lead to them cueing up Dr. James Andrews’ music. Although part of me believes that this is karma for all the “classy” Blue Jays fans cheering when David Price went down with an elbow injury in Spring Training.
The Blue Jays Early Season Misery – Where Do They Go From Here?
Sure we’re only twelve games in but at 2-10 how long can we keep making the “it’s still early” argument? It’s not like these have been “good” losses either as the Blue Jays sputtering offense looks completely lost at the dish. Furthermore, the injury bug, something that wasn’t a huge factor last year, has already started to rear it’s ugly head and we’re not even out of April.
This past week alone the Blue Jays have lost the trio of Josh Donaldson, Aaron Sanchez, and JA Happ, and let’s be honest here, we know the durability issues that this team has, how long until something else goes wrong? We’ve already seen the likes of Dominic Leone, Casey Lawrence, and now Chris Coghlan. Who is next? Mat Latos? TJ House? Brian Bolsinger? I mean it feels like this team is a Mike McCoy sighting away from flying the white flag.
So where do they go from here? What are the options? The way I see it, it’s one of two possible outcomes:
The Wait It Out Approach or the (eventual) Rebuild Route
Waiting it out is what is most likely to happen. This is a veteran team that (apparently) knows what it is capable of and knows how to turn it around; they’ve even gotten a vote of confidence from their President. For all you Gibby haters out there you can stop calling for his head now, he isn’t going anywhere, especially not after being just handed a new contract not even a month ago, and if they Shatkins regime won’t release Smoak after giving him an extension than they’re not getting rid of Gibby either. I would also bet that his two trips to the ALCS also get him a stay of execution for at least this year.
What you have to assume is that Hitting Coach, Brooks Jacoby, will be the first up to the chopping block. Despite being the hitting coach for the big bad Blue Jays bats of 2015, the lineups inability to change their approach at the plate could very well see Jacoby in the hunt for a new gig sooner rather than later.
But let’s say that this atrocious start carries on and turns into a disastrous season, would a potential “fire sale” take place? Despite making a statement about “trusting the players track record(s),” you have to think that Shapiro and Atkins are at least thinking about the possibility of selling some players off and building for the future.
It’s no secret that they want to rebuild the farm and put their stamp on the roster, not to mention get younger on the field. All three of these could factor into the decision to become a seller as the trade deadline nears. The brain trust could take a look at what the Yankees did last year – sell off valuable pieces for top prospects and remain competitive with prospects already in place- and hope to replicate it.
Now despite having some big names on the roster, the Blue Jays might find it hard to get the same return as the Yankees got last year mainly because the players they’ll be looking to offload are older and tied to long and expensive contracts. That doesn’t mean that they still won’t try to move them, even for a lesser return. As fans, let’s hope that this stays more hypothetical than a reality.
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Spare Change – Week One Reflections and More
Maddy Bumgarner’s Opening Day performance – 11k 2 HR
Kyle Schwarber in the leadoff position. The big LF is making Joe Maddon look like an even bigger genius with his torrid start out of the one hole.
Stephen Piscotty’s perilous trip around the bases. The Cardinals RF got hit by the ball 3x during the same journey. At least he was rewarded with a spot on Kimmel.
The absurd power throughout the Orioles lineup – Is JJ Hardy the weak spot? He did hit 30 in 2011
Unintentional comedy of the picture of 6’7 Aaron Judge and 5’8 Ronald Torryes
Bryce Harper on opening day… 5th HR in as many Opening Day’s
Not to be outdone, Mike Trout hit his 3rd HR on Opening Day
Albert Almora Jr. in CF – http://atmlb.com/2p4Hybi – http://atmlb.com/2owiSL1
Greg Holland closing out games. Former All Star has looked good upon his return from Tommy John.
Manny Machado’s glove work. Not only (arguably) the best 3B in the AL but also might be the best in the entire business.
The ludicrous power of Joey Gallo. The Rangers 1B caused a glitch in stat cast.
Fans turning Cueto into a horse via photoshop – http://www.thescore.com/news/1272381
The entire toolkit of Francisco Lindor. Add a late game grand slam to take the lead to his already impressive resume.
Eric Thames going yard in the show for the first time since 2012.
Jameson Taillon and Chris Sale lock horns at Fenway.
Bartolo’s return to Citi. Serious goosebumps – http://www.thescore.com/news/1272906
Josh Donaldson’s Barry Bonds earring. The Dangly cross just drips with swag from the late 80s and early 90s.
Manny Margot’s MLB debut. Padres top prospect hit back to back ding dongs in his first two MLB AB’s.
Yadier Molina’s chest protector. No way there isn’t something sprayed on that thing.
Jumbo Diaz jogging in from the pen. I’ll eat my hat if he is actually the 278 lbs that he is listed at.
Andrelton Simmons ridiculous tag – http://on.si.com/2pq8SQz.
The D-Backs red hot start. Last year’s bigger disappointments are already looking better than they did in 2016.
Masahiro Tanaka on opening day. The Yankees ace gave up a career high 7 earned in just 2.2 innings.
Tanaka’s UCL. The 28 year old is still pitching with a partially torn UCL which could possibly snap at any moment.
Waino pulling a 50 Cent but does it to allegedly protect Yadi. The Cardinals righty told reporters that he uncorked the egregiously wild pitch because he noticed that his catcher was set up for a curveball instead of the fastball that Wainwright was throwing. Commendable and all, but still ugly as hell.
Brett Cecil’s introduction to Cardinals fans. The former Blue Jay serves up a moonshot to Kyle Schwarber to give the Cubs the lead and the eventual game.
They aren’t who we thought they were. The Royals bullpen getting shelled for 12 runs through 2 games
Clayton Kershaw making more than the entire Padres roster. How is AJ Preller still employed?
Pretty much everything that the Blue Jays have done so far.
Jason Grilli at Camden Yards – The Grilled Cheese blows his 2nd consecutive save on the Orioles turf.
Josh Donaldson’s calves – why do I get the feeling that this could be a theme all season long?
Casey Lawrence’s introduction to Blue Jays fan (for further reading see below).
Walking in the winning run with the bases loaded and 2 outs. Seriously though, why not throw it right down the cock instead of trying to finesse it in there?
The (New) Golden Age of Shortstops
As baseball fans, we are currently being treated to the best crop of talented, young SS since Jeter, ARod, Alex S Gonzalez, Edgar Renteria and Rey Ordonez were posing shirtless on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
What makes that cover even more ridiculous is that future All Star and AL MVP Miguel Tejada wasn’t even invited; neither was Boston folk hero NOMAH! At the time of posting this, the likes of Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor, Xander Bogaerts, Addy Russell, Dansby Swanson, Trevor Story, Tim Anderson, Trea Turner, Aldames Diaz, Corey Seager, Ketel Marte and Orlando Arcia are all 25 or younger. And that’s not even including the top SS prospects that are still in the minors like Gleybar Torres, Ahmed Rosario, Brendan Rogers, JP Crawford, Nick Gordon, Willy Adames, Kevin Maitan, Franklin Barretto, Jorge Mateo or Kevin Newman. This list also does not include Manny Machado who just turned himself into (arguably) the best 3B in the game. Nor does it include other SS who have changed positions to accommodate their teams needs a la Alex Bregman.
Besides the abundance of young and upcoming SS, we are also still witnessing the play of exceptional talent from those who are 30 and under such as Elvis Andrus, Jean Segura, Brandon Crawford, Jose Iglesias and Andrelton Simmons; Simmons alone being a treat himself and might just be the best defensive SS to ever play the game. I say that with full respect, love and admiration for the Wizard of Oz (Ozzie Smith). Furthermore, Troy Tulowitzki, who has just been the best SS for the past decade, is entering the latter half of his SS career, and although his bat doesn’t seem to be what it used to be, his glove alone is worth the price of admission.
Not only are we experiencing an increase in talent alone, but also one in the power department. In that shirtless shortstop year of 1997, only three shortstops hit 20 or more homers (Nomar, Arod, and Jay Bell), whereas last year ELEVEN different shortstops (not counting Machado) hit 20 or more, including Didi Gregorious and Freddy Galvis! Enjoy it while it lasts. It’s not everyday that you are treated to a renaissance like this.
Games Without G-Ma
I honestly thought that losing Eddy to the Indians would be the biggest loss that I suffered this off season. Little did I know that it would barely be a dent in comparison to losing my grandmother. My grandmother was, and still is, the biggest Blue Jays fan that I have ever known. And I am not saying that because she listened or watched each and every game. I am saying that because like myself, she lived and breathed everything Blue Jays. Even the teams that I could barely talk myself into (I’m looking at you Ty Taubenheim, Terry Adams, and Doug Creek) she would tune in as if it was the hey days of the 80’s or early 90’s. She knew all of the players, coaches, trainers and prospects. She loved the scrappy underdogs like Johnny Mac and Craig Grebeck, and hated showboats or selfish players. Not a phone call between us went by without at least a five minute breakdown of the weeks past games, impromptu scouting reports or prospect profiles. I can’t tell you how many times I tried to talk her into such and such prospect or insert recent addition only to have her rebuff me with a “Ill believe it when I see it” attitude.
Like her favourite coach (Cito Gaston) she was overly protective of her veteran players and would fight with me tooth and nail if I tried to side with any kind of youth movement; especially when it came to her favourite, Jose Bautista. Of all the players whom she claimed as “favourites” over the years (Stieb, Key, Borders, Gruber, Carter, Molitor Delgado, Wells, Halladay), I am certain that Joey Bats was her favourite; she was even cremated with his shersey.
Although she passed away after Christmas, I am starting to feel her loss more now than I did then and that’s because it was during the baseball season that we bonded the most. I can’t tell you how much I wish I had just one more conversation with her about the Blue Jays; even if it was just over the phone for five minutes like we used to. Despite my heart feeling like a million pounds from sadness, I take solace in two things:
Knowing that she got to watch the Blue Jays make the playoffs not only once more, but twice.
Remembering her calling our house after midnight in 1992 when they won their first World Series. I can still remember hearing her gravely voice choking back tears of joy and excitement because her boys had finally done it.
It’s moments like that that will never die and are what will get me through this difficult season ahead. Rest in peace G-Ma, I know you’re up there somewhere cursing this 1-5 start like the rest of us. Hope you enjoy the Home Opener tonight.
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Pillars of Salt: Welcome to the Rebuild
Opening Day 2019 – Quick Picks
Hot Stove, Hot Takes – Part Three
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Sonny Gray
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Texhnolyze (2003– )
TV Series | TV-MA | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to ... See full summary »
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Justin Gross
Ichise
(22 episodes, 2003)
Satoshi Haga
Shizuka Itô
Carrie Savage
30 August 2006 | ryushidude
| A brilliant, yet underrated anime
Texhnolyze is a fantastic, brilliant and unfortunately underrated anime that comes from most of the staff who worked on a similarly dark anime Serial Experiments Lain.
The plot is as follows: Lux, the name of the underground city is ruled by gang warfare, all aiming for more and more control of the decaying city that is Lux, and the technology of Texhnolyze (allowing the use of robotic limbs in humans). The story follows Ichise, a young man who spends his life fighting in underground fight clubs, Doc, the creator of Texhnolyzation, Onishii the leader of Organo, Ran, a young girl who can see into the future and Yoshii, a mysterious visitor from the surface world.
Unlike most anime, Texhnolye is very experimental, (with very little or no fan service whatsoever) and this is often seen in the dramatic angles, fight sequence, explicit violence and even in its soundtrack, which itself, is a mix of acoustic, electronic and orchestral music which suits the show very well.
Texhnolyze is thought provoking series, often characters will talk about the nature of humanity, man's ego, the effects of technology on humanity, power, greed, redemption and salvation. Although you might think the characters talking about these subjects could be out of place in the anime, it is not and fits naturally within the scene.
One of the flaws of Texhnolyze (and this is one echoed by many) is that the first few episodes (particularly the first episode) are not very interesting. For example, in the first episode, barely 3 lines of dialogue are spoken. It's something like that that can turn most people off the anime instantly. Unfortunately for Texhnolyze, it is a slow burner, and it can take a at least four, maybe five episodes before it really draws you in. But when it does, it doesn't let you go.
I encourage everyone to see this series and most of all, give it a chance, because this piece of art deserves to be seen.
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Oscars and Hollywood seems to be playing the rule of diminishing returns each year with more sequels and super hero movies than those pushing the cinematic landscape further. Plus the problem of representation politics seems to compound the list of nominees even further with each passing year. It is no wonder that unlike previous years I do not have very strong feelings about most of the categories. With the exception of Dunkirk, 3 Billboards and Call me by your name there really isn’t a single movie or individual contribution in the entire list that has me willing to pick a fight with anyone who disagrees with my picks. However traditions must be kept alive in the hope that maybe next year’s crop of nominees will be better.
Dunkirk seems to be polarizing people like I couldn’t believe it. I still remember sitting in BFI Imax where the theatre manager came out before the movie and told us that Christopher Nolan had personally adjusted every adjustable control so that the sounds & visuals were how the movie was meant to be seen. I remember a current run through my spine before and after the movie. It is almost unimaginably innovative in how it tells the story of a war, there are no individual characters, there is no glory there is just the oppressing claustrophobia of war. For once a war movie does not glamorize the war. There is tragedy everywhere and in an immersive IMAX experience it puts you on the battlefield.
3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri is a triumph of screenplay and a tour de force of acting in France McDormand. It is such audacious storytelling that it will have you question every character. There are no heroes or villains, there are just real people who make real mistakes to deal with real problems. Frances McDormand is simply Phenomenal.
Call Me By Your Name is in a way the perfect Oscar movie, based on a novel, adapted by James Ivory and an unusual and unresolved love story at the center of it. But where it rises above the Oscar bait category is that this movie has a heart and that too in spades! Timothée Chalamet better beat Daniel Day-Lewis and Gary Oldman for the best actor prize. He is incredible and to anyone who thinks he is only 24 and his time will come I will beat you to a pulp. He shows more range in the final credit scenes than Day-Lewis did in the entirety of the weird Phantom Thread. Gary Oldman has been fantastic in everything up until Darkest Hour. This might truly be his worst turn ever.
And finally The Shape of Water – it deserves to win absolutely nothing – every category it is nominated for has a stronger contender. In isolation too the movie is just not very good. It is poorly written, sluggishly paced, the acting is very average and the story is just bizarre. If I had any power it would be nominated for the razzies and not the Oscars. And I really do not need Guillermo Del Toro’s hype to be validated. Everything he has done has been sub-par. But this is America we are talking about where mediocrity is rewarded so I’ll be hate posting every time The Shape of Water wins anything.
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Makeup and Hair:
“Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick
“Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges
Best Documentary Feature:
“Icarus,” Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
“Dunkirk,” Alex Gibson, Richard King
“Dunkirk,” Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo
“Blade Runner 2049,” Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
Best Foreign Language Film:
“A Fantastic Woman” (Chile)
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
“Dear Basketball,” Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant
“Coco,” Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
“Blade Runner 2049,” John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer
“Dunkirk,” Lee Smith
Documentary Short:
“Heroin(e),” Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk
“Call Me by Your Name,” James Ivory
“Get Out,” Jordan Peele
“Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins
“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan
Lead Actor:
Timothée Chalamet “Call me by your name”
Lead Actress:
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
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Luca Guadagnino directs Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in a James Ivory screenplay based off André Aciman’s novel Call me by your name.
Set in the 1980 in northern Italy it is the story of American Oliver who comes to stay with Professor Pearlman and his Family. How he meets and creates a lasting impression on professor’s young son Elio. One half of the famed Merchant-Ivory duo, James Ivory adapts Andre Achiman’s novel into a narrative that seems to span a lifetime in the searing Tuscan heat but also is encapsulated in a fleeting moment, that ephemeral summer romance. Guadagnino translates this script so beautifully that all you want to do is move to this nondescript Italian village and sip apricot juices for breakfast and go for a swim in the afternoons.
Armie Hammer plays Oliver and Timothée Chalamet plays Elio. Michael Stuhlbarg plays the professor and Amira Casar the fabulous Annella. The story starts with Oliver arriving in Italy to stay with Elio and his family in their Tuscan villa. Elio gives up his room and immediately is resentful of this American who invades his life. How they go from Elio mocking Oliver’s “Later..” to taking a trip with him to Bergamo before Oliver returns home is where the magic unfolds. Hammer is fantastic in Oliver and this might be the first time that he has truly delivered on the potential he has always seemed to possess. The way he chides and teases Elio is indescribably intimate. Stuhlbarg delivers one of the most poignant father-son moments of perhaps all time. It is a crying shame that he has been denied a nomination in the supporting actor category.
But in Timothée Chalamet a star is born, the range he depicts far outshines his peers this year. As 17 year old Elio he lives out every teenage emotion there is and lays bare his heart for the audience in the final few minutes. You watch enthralled every time he is on screen, the infamous Peach scene is not what you must remember this movie for but it is what immediately follows. When he sobs “I’m Sick” you feel his pain, his shame, his desperation. If Chalamet doesn’t win the best actor Oscar this year then the ceremony is not merit based but an exercise in either honouring a swan song (Daniel Day-Lewis) or an attempt at righting past wrongs (Gary Oldman).
Music by Sufjan Stevens is exceptional, in particular the Traitor piece, the use of Piano music to elevate the emotional dynamics of the film is phenomenal. The cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom captures the beauty of northern Italy beautifully. Every scene feels crisp and perfectly drenched in the Tuscan sunshine. Together with Guadagnino, Mukdeeprom manages to create the never-ending heat of summer feel palpable. Guadagnino imbues the scenes with such nuances that you are in the scenes yourself. Every character serves a purpose. Mafalda, Mounir (played by Andre Aciman himself), Marzia, they all exist fully and completely within the film’s grammar. This is exceptional filmmaking.
Watch it because frankly it is perhaps one of the best coming of age movies I’ve ever seen. I saw this and Ladybird on the same day and I have to say that this is a far superior film. Timothée Chalamet is Phenomenal and I’d put my money on him piping both Daniel Day-Lewis and Gary Oldman to the podium – he is that good here.
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Archives of Women's Mental Health
Psychiatric comorbidity and intimate partner violence among women who inject drugs in Europe: a cross-sectional study
Judit Tirado-Muñoz
Gail Gilchrist
Gabriele Fischer
Avril Taylor
Jacek Moskalewicz
Cinzia Giammarchi
Birgit Köchl
Alison Munro
Katarzyna Dąbrowska
April Shaw
Lucia Di Furia
Isabella Leeb
Caroline Hopf
Marta Torrens
Women who inject drugs (WWID) are an especially vulnerable group of drug users. This study determined the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity and intimate partrner violence (IPV), and factors associated with psychiatric comorbidity among WWID recruited from drug treatment services (67%) and harm reduction services in five European regions in Austria, Catalonia, Italy, Poland, and Scotland. Psychiatric comorbidity was assessed among 226 WWID using the Dual Diagnosis Screening Instrument. IPV was assessed using the Composite Abuse Scale and injecting and sexual risk behaviors were assessed using a battery of questionnaires adapted and developed for the study. Eighty-seven percent met criteria for at least one lifetime psychiatric disorder. The most common disorders were depression (76%), panic (54%), and post-traumatic stress (52%). WWID recruited in drug treatment services were almost three times as likely (OR 2.90 95% CI 1.30–6.43; p = 0.007) to meet criteria for a lifetime psychiatric disorder than those recruited from harm reduction services, specifically dysthymia (OR 5.32 95% CI 2.27–12.48; p = 0.000) and post-traumatic stress disorder (OR 1.83 95% CI 1.02–3.27; p = 0.040). WWID who reported sharing needles and syringes were almost three times as likely to meet criteria for lifetime psychiatric comorbidity than those who did not (OR 2.65 95% CI 1.07–6.56). Compared to WWID who had not experienced IPV, victims (70%) were almost two times more likely to meet criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (OR 1.95 95% CI 1.10–3.48). Psychiatric comorbidity and IPV among WWID are common. Drug treatment and harm reduction services should address psychiatric comorbidity and IPV to improve treatment outcomes.
Cross-sectional study Europe Intimate partner violence Psychiatric disorder Women who inject drugs
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-018-0810-9.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethical Committee approval was granted by the relevant university or health service in each country before the study began: Austria (Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna); Spain (Ethics Committee of Clinical Research- Parc de Salut Mar), Italy (Ethics Committee of the Azienda Sanitaria Unica Regionale Marche), Poland (Bio-ethical Committee at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology) and Scotland (University of West of Scotland Ethics Committee). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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During Your MTA Commute...
Submitted by birdie on July 25, 2017 - 12:43pm
...you can now read e-books courtesy of a new program called Subway Library, sponsored by the NY, Brooklyn and Queens libraries and enabled by wi-fi throughout the NYC subway transit system.
A choice of pretty good selections too, many with NYC themes.
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Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available #FASTR
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When you pay for federally funded research, you should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (S.779, H.R.1477), which was just passed out of a major Senate committee. Under FASTR, every federal agency that spends more than $100 million on grants for research would be required to adopt an open access policy. Although the bill gives each agency some flexibility to develop a policy appropriate to the types of research it funds, each one would require that published research be available to the public no later than 12 months after publication.
From Tell Congress: It’s Time to Move FASTR | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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There are always ways to free your work for less money, of course. You could start a Wordpress blog and post the whole thing there, or publish with a print-on-demand independent press, or even self-publish on Amazon. Like the rest of the publishing industry fringe, this is a wild and woolly world where things like review standards aren’t always up to academic snuff. Getting people to actually read your stunning work of self-published genius can be something of an uphill battle because you don’t have a big, well-respected name behind your book to certify that yes, this thinker is thinking worthwhile thoughts. Free open access has potential, of course—scads of it—but until a large institution throws its weight behind the concept, it’s likely to remain a fun social theory set in a hypothetical world where things don’t cost money.
From Libraries are Leading the Charge in Open-Access Publishing Revolution — Blog — Foreword Reviews
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What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
Submitted by Blake on November 11, 2015 - 9:51am
Mr. Eve sees open access as a way to make publishing cheaper by spreading the costs across a large number of institutions. For organizations that aren’t motivated by profit, he thinks the model will work. As universities have faced budget cuts, he said, traditional publishers have continued to collect large amounts of revenue.
"They may have a different idea, in the mind of shareholders, as to what 'sustainable' actually means," Mr. Eve said.
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The Samuelson Clinic releases "Is it in the Public Domain?" handbook - Berkeley Law
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The Samuelson Clinic is excited to provide a
handbook, “Is it in the Public Domain?,” and accompanying
visuals. These educational tools help users to evaluate the
copyright status of a work created in the United States between
January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1977—those works that were
created before today’s 1976 Copyright Act. Many important
works—from archival materials to family photos and movies—were created during this time, and it can be
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The handbook walks readers though a series of
questions—illustrated by accompanying charts—to help readers
explore whether a copyrighted work from that time is in the
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Addressing the resignation of the Lingua editorial board
Submitted by Blake on November 4, 2015 - 9:08pm
We regret the board’s decision to resign, but more so the misunderstandings that have accompanied it. We hope to clarify some of them here
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Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access
Submitted by Blake on November 4, 2015 - 7:41am
The entire editorial staff of the prestigious academic title Lingua have resigned in protest over the high cost of subscribing to the journal, and the refusal of the journal's publisher, Elsevier, to convert the title completely to open access. The open access model allows anyone, whether an academic or not, to read a journal online for free. Currently, most academic journals are funded by subscriber payments; with open access journals, the model is flipped around, with institutions paying to publish their papers.
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Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees Office of Scholarly Communication
Submitted by Blake on October 27, 2015 - 3:06pm
Today the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this new policy enables the university system and associated national labs to provide unprecedented access to scholarly research authored by clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and librarians – just to name a few. Comprising ten campuses, five medical centers, and nearly 200,000 employees, the UC system is responsible for over 2% of the world’s total research publications. UC’s collective OA policies now cover more authors than any other institutional OA policy to date.
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Open Access - Worth the Effort?
Submitted by Blake on April 11, 2014 - 6:48pm
“If we go it ourselves, then the world is our oyster,” said Pamela Snelson, college librarian at Franklin & Marshall College. “We can do what we want. We have the freedom, but we also have the problems, the challenges of getting it going.”
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/11/liberal-arts-college-libraries-mull-establishi...
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OpenHatch brings open source to campus
Submitted by Blake on December 12, 2013 - 4:45pm
Our solution? Open Source Comes to Campus In a Box. We’re carefully documenting every part of our events, from the materials we present to the way we build our publicity websites, from food and space checklists to templates of all the emails we send. Our hope is that local organizers will be able to use our materials to run their own events, as has happened with our Python Workshops.
http://opensource.com/education/13/12/openhatch-brings-open-source-campus
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Little People UK were recently contacted with concerns regarding an advert for entertainment at a nightclub, members of the media team discussed this in great detail and responded with the following statement:
‘Little People UK supports everyone, regardless of their profession, and therefore would not comment on any individual. However, we do feel it is important to point out the offensive language used within the ‘job description’; midget is a highly offensive term and is often misused in society today. Little People UK previously issued a statement regarding this, which we use to make people aware of the offensiveness of the term used. We would also like to show our disapproval of the intention to make someone ‘dance on command’, this we feel is humiliating and degrading to anyone and we would question whether this is acceptable at all.’
Everyone within the LPUK Committee and Media team want to ensure everyone with dwarfism feels supported, regardless. We felt it necessary to comment on the terminology used within this article, to prevent the misuse of these words in society. We also sent on our previously issued LPUK ‘Midget’ Press Release to help raise awareness.
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A Brief History Of LMR
Posted 10/14/2015 by Jeff Oliver
A brief history of the legacy of Late Model Restoration and the progression of our brand transition to LMR!
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Late Model Restoration launched into the late model Mustang aftermarket over 16 years ago in 1999 with the simple stated purpose of providing quality products and services to 1979-Present Mustang owners. While not an entirely new concept, we sought to capitalize on the emerging market that surrounded the restoration and performance hobbies of the late model Mustang. We knew these vehicles would become the new “classics” around us, eventually giving rise to over 3 decades and 4 unique platforms of Ford’s iconic American sports car.
Like any successful business story, LMR began with humble intentions and only a handful of employees. Like you, we’ve worked hard. Over the next decade and a half, we have experienced numerous expansions and exponential growth within the Late Model Restoration family. We aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. We’ve spent years of research and keeping tabs on the ever evolving trends within our market to be able to provide the best selection and pricing on all of our Mustang and Lightning offerings.
Our dedication to our mission, our employees, and our customers has since catapulted LMR to the industry standard in 1979-Present Mustang & 1993-2004 Ford Lightning restoration and performance. We are constantly seeking better ways to bridge the gap between old and new, modified and stock, show car and project; no matter what stage you happen to be in.
LMR.com was established in 1999 with the goal to become an industry leader in 1979-present Mustang restoration and performance parts. Since then, the company has become a trusted leader in Fox Body, SN-95, New Edge, S197, S550 and Ford Lightning parts.
Our goal is to take care of people and grow the enthusiasm that surrounds the Mustang and Lightning restoration and performance hobbies.
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A feature rich website, iOS app and digital catalogs all available at your fingertips. Our staff are focused on making your buying experience easy and enjoyable!
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LRS, LMRS, Late Model, Latemodel, Latemodel Restoration, LMR...Whichever your favorite designation, we've been known by many names and aliases throughout the industry since we first began. While none of them are wrong, LMR lends itself as the dominate acronym that all of our customers can latch onto -- Not to mention, a lot less keystrokes. Utilizing our same recognizable characters, we have shortened and simplified our branding efforts to reflect the will of our consumers and peers, and create an unparalleled shopping experience for any size project!
While the look and feel of Late Model Restoration may have progressed through the years, it’s purpose and what it stands for has remained unchanged. We don’t consider LMR a definition for brick walls and services, but rather a symbol for our customers; a representation of the thrill, passion & lifestyle of the late model Mustang and Ford Lightning. Our roots are as strong as ever, and our thirst to be competitive in the 21st century has given us the opportunity to simplify the entire process for our patrons from dream to purchase. We hope you will enjoy your experience with Late Model Restoration as much as we enjoy providing it! Being Mustang & Lightning lovers ourselves, we hope to supply a memorable shopping experience, talented employees, impeccable service, and have some fun along the way.
Since the beginning, 5.0Resto has been an icon in the industry and to this day remains the only brand dedicated to the Fox Body Mustang. This flagship brand offers an ever-expanding lineup of 1000s of products catered to the 1979-86 and 1987-93 Mustang and continues its ascent as the leading restoration brand for the Fox Body platform. Through our research and development team, we are constantly growing the diverse amount products which carry the 5.0Resto mark and look forward to the vast array of parts we hope to provide in the future!
In addition to 5.0Resto, SVE (Special Vehicle Equipment) has become our go-to offering for performance, styling and custom wheels for 1979-Present Ford Mustangs. Our rendition of this classic brand is a tribute to Ford's own SVE which was the grandfather of both the SVT and SVO programs. With an emphasis on Mustang performance and styling, SVE Mustang Parts has given rise to popular offerings such as aluminum radiators, suspension components, exhaust, lighting, body components, engine dress up, brakes and more!
Our lineup of SVE Mustang Wheels have become one of the most popular mods for the late model Mustang! With a spread including the SVE Drag, SVE Drift, SVE 10th Anniversary, SVE Series 2, SVE Series 3, and the all new SVE Cobra R style -- These wheels provide an impressive array of styles, finishes, & sizes to craft your Mustang with the ultimate look on the streets, on the track, or at the shows! Top grade craftsmanship and materials combine in all of our one-piece, lightweight aluminum wheels. Buy them individually or as pre-packaged wheel kits and wheel & tire kits -- all available with Free Mounting & Balancing & Free Shipping! When looking for your next set of shoes, make sure they wear nothing less than the SVE brand!
We Are LMR
Most of all, we appreciate you, our customers. From the loyal crowds who have spent countless hours under their hoods and out on the streets -- to the wide-eyed teenager who just got handed the keys to their first Mustang. It's our responsibility as fellow enthusiasts to feed the fire that surrounds this lifestyle. Like you, we want to ensure the longevity of these vehicles for decades to come, and to provide the perfect destination to all those who seek to do the same.
This is who LMR is, and what we always will be.
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Ku'ilioloa Heiau At Pokai Bay
4 stars from 2 reviews
85-003 Pokai Bay St, Waianae, HI 96792
Located beside Pokai Bay in Waianae is where you'll find this sacred heiau.
Earn 50 reward points by helping Ku'ilioloa Heiau at Pokai Bay!
Hiking: Length: 0-1 Miles Hiking: Level: Easy
Sightseeing: Dolphins Sightseeing: Great Views
Sightseeing: Whale Watching Cultural & Historical: Heiau / Sacred Site
Matt Anderson's Take
Ku'ilioloa Heiau stands at the end of Kane'ilio Point, which is a small peninsula offering tremendous views of the Waianae coastline and mountains. It stands to the south of Pokai Bay Beach Park.
There are a few coconut palms and grassy areas leading up to the Heiau, which has existed in one form on another for the past 1,000 years. It's thought that in ancient times, the point offered an ideal location for Hawaiians to identify friendly traders from waring marauders as they approached the area by canoe.
The main purpose of the Ku'ilioloa Heiau was to serve as a sacred place where spirits would protect travelers by land and sea. It was thought to also function as a place of refuge for Hawaiians in violation of Kapu or taboo, which were laws often punishable by death. Those violators of the law could seek protection from harsh punishment by remaining here until more favorable terms could be negotiated. A similar "place of refuge" can be seen at Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site on the Big Island.
The word Ku'ilioloa incorporates the Hawaiian God of War "Ku" with "Ilio", meaning "dog". In Hawaiian mythology, tales of half-man creatures and gods came down from the heavens and took a physical form on earth.
There is a small rock arch and a couple of blow holes to check out. Memorials for family members who have passed on and their ashes spread at sea can be seen near the Heiau.
The legend of Pokai The Navigator was said to have brought coconut palm trees to Hawaii. The coconut palms along the peninsula provided both food and shelter to the Hawaiian people, thus Pokai was a revered figure in Hawaiian legend.
Pokai Bay Beach Park beside Ku'ilioloa Heiau is a serene, beautiful area to relax and enjoy the beautiful views of the tranquil bay which is backed by the Waianae mountain ranges.
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This heiau is very easy to get to and worth checking out if you're in the area. The heiau itself is not much more than a few rock walls but there is a lot of history here. Even if you're not into history it's hard to beat the incredible views all around. It's just too bad this area always feels like it's not maintained and usually has some less than desireable folks hanging out to make it feel a little sketchy.
Tom T
Come for the history and stay for the amazing views. Bring a camera because these are some of the best views around.
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April 7, 2019 Markosun Offbeat
Carhenge is a replica of England’s Stonehenge located near the city of Alliance, Nebraska, in the High Plains region of the United States. Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge, Carhenge is formed from vintage American automobiles, all covered with gray spray paint. Built by Jim Reinders, it was dedicated at the June 1987 summer solstice. In 2006, a visitor center was constructed to serve the site.
Carhenge consists of 38 automobiles arranged in a circle measuring about 96 feet (29 m) in diameter. Some are held upright in pits 5 feet (1.5 m) deep, trunk end down, and arches have been formed by welding automobiles atop the supporting models. The heelstone is a 1962 Cadillac. Three cars were buried at Carhenge with a sign stating: “Here lie three bones of foreign cars. They served our purpose while Detroit slept. Now Detroit is awake and America’s great!”
Carhenge replicates Stonehenge’s current dilapidated state, rather than the original stone circle erected between 2500 BC and 2000 BC.
In addition to the Stonehenge replica, the Carhenge site includes several other artworks created from autos covered with various colors of spray paint.
Carhenge was conceived in 1987 by Jim Reinders as a memorial to his father. While in England, he studied the structure of Stonehenge, which helped him to copy the structure’s shape, proportions, and size. Other automobile sculptures were subsequently added to the location of Carhenge, which is now known as the Car Art Reserve.
Reinders donated the 10-acre site to the Friends of Carhenge. In 2011 the Friends of Carhenge listed the attraction for sale for $300,000. In 2013 the Friends of Carhenge donated the site to the Citizens of Alliance.
Carhenge has appeared in film, popular music, television programs and commercials. It is the subject of the 2005 documentary Carhenge: Genius or Junk?, and features in the 2007 travel book 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die.
The path of totality of the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 included Carhenge. An estimated 4,000 people, including Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts, viewed the eclipse from the site. Reinders stated that at the time of Carhenge’s creation, he had not known about the eclipse that would occur 30 years later.
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Unchanged Erythrocyte Profile After Exposure to Cryogenic
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Unchanged Erythrocyte Profile After Exposure to Cryogenic Temperatures in Elder Marathon Runners Jadwiga Szymura 1* , Magdalena Wiecek 2 , Marcin Maciejczyk 2 , Joanna Gradek 3 , Malgorzata Kantorowicz 4 and Zbigniew Szygula 5 1
Department of Clinical Rehabilitation, Faculty of Motor Rehabilitation, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland, 3 Department of Theory and Methodology of Athletics, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland, 4 Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland, 5 Department of Sports Medicine and Human Nutrition, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland 2
Edited by: Robert Aughey, Victoria University, Australia Reviewed by: James Broatch, Victoria University, Australia Ginés Viscor, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain *Correspondence: Jadwiga Szymura [email protected] Specialty section: This article was submitted to Exercise Physiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Physiology Received: 02 December 2017 Accepted: 14 May 2018 Published: 30 May 2018 Citation: Szymura J, Wiecek M, Maciejczyk M, Gradek J, Kantorowicz M and Szygula Z (2018) Unchanged Erythrocyte Profile After Exposure to Cryogenic Temperatures in Elder Marathon Runners. Front. Physiol. 9:659. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00659
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Objective: Endurance runners may experience “sports anemia” resulting from intravascular hemolysis. In addition, aging has negative impact on hematopoiesis and rheological properties of blood, and erythrocyte membranes in older people are more vulnerable to oxidative damage, which together can lead to anemia. Whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) is increasingly used in the elderly as a method of biological regeneration of athletes or therapy and preventive treatment. That is why the aim of the study was to determine whether repeated WBCST had an effect on the erythrocyte system in master marathon runners, compared to non-training men. Methods: Ten marathon runners (men aged 55.9 ± 5.5 years, training experience 6.71 ± 5.79 years) and 10 non-training (men aged 62.0 ± 5.8 years) were subjected to a series of 24 WBCST (3 min, −130◦ C) performed every other day. Erythrocyte levels, interleukin-3 (IL-3), erythropoietin (EPO), haptoglobin, bilirubin, and extracellular hemoglobin (HGBecf ) concentrations were determined in the blood before and after 12, 24 WBCST, as well as 7 days after their completion. Results: The concentrations of EPO and IL-3 were significantly increased 7 days after the completion of WBCST in both groups (P < 0.05). The erythrocyte content and indicators, the bilirubin, haptoglobin, and HGBecf levels in each group did not change as a result of WBCST. In order to document hemolytic changes and/or factors affecting the severity of erythropoiesis, correlations between growth erythropoietic factors, erythrocyte and hemolytic factors as well as mutual correlations between hemolytic indexes were calculated. There was a positive correlation (P < 0.05) between the EPO and IL-3, bilirubin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, and red blood cell distribution width – standard deviation. There was also a positive correlation between the concentrations of bilirubin and HGBecf , and a negative correlation between haptoglobin and HGBecf as well as bilirubin concentrations.
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Whole-Body Cryostimulation in Master Runners
Conclusion: WBCST treatments, repeated every other day, do not cause hemolytic changes in elder men with high or low physical activity. But also, they are a procedure that does not increase the level of erythrocytes or their hemoglobinization. In athletes, it is not a form of doping. The positive correlation between EPO and bilirubin may be indicative of, for example, the mutual antioxidative effect of these factors. Keywords: whole-body cryotherapy, elder men, physical activity, hemolysis, erythropoietin, interleukin-3
kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase, were reduced in athletes after the WBCST series (Banfi et al., 2009a). It was also found that lysosomal enzymes activity and CK activity in the blood were lower when the training was preceded by cryostimulation, which indicates that cryogenic temperatures stabilize the lysosomal membranes and reduce the microinjuries of muscle fibers caused by exercise (Wozniak et al., 2007b). In addition, oxidative stress induced by training is reduced by earlier exposure to cryogenic temperatures, which reduces the susceptibility to microdamage (Wozniak et al., 2007a). The condition for achieving good results by athletes training endurance disciplines, such as marathon runners, is high aerobic performance, expressed as maximal oxygen uptake (Basset and Howley, 2000). While one of the important determinants of maximum oxygen uptake is the oxygen capacity of the blood, which is, among others, dependent on hemoglobin (HGB) content (Green et al., 1999). Thus, maintaining the correct number and morphological characteristics as well as the hemoglobinization of erythrocytes is of great importance for athletes, especially in endurance disciplines, where “sports anemia” is most frequently found (Mairbaurl, 2013). The cause of “sports anemia” is erythrocyte damage due to destruction of cell membranes as a result of compression during passage through capillaries within working muscles, osmotic stress or membrane lipid peroxidation as a result of oxidative stress and post-exercise inflammatory processes (Robinson et al., 2006). Among athletes, endurance runners seem to be the most exposed to intravascular hemolysis in addition due to mechanical damage associated with running called “foot-strike hemolysis” (Shaskey and Green, 2000; Fazal et al., 2017). The primary response to the use of cryogenic temperatures are vasomotor reactions consisting of the contraction of cutaneous blood vessels during WBCST, and then, their vasodilatation after the procedure (Lubkowska, 2012). Erythrocyte membranes squeezing through the blood vessels, contracted by cryogenic temperatures, may undergo mechanical damage (Charkoudian, 2003). This is especially true in case of elder people. Aging has a negative effect on changes in blood rheological parameters, there is an increase in fibrinogen levels, a decrease in deformability and increase in the ability to aggregate red blood cells (RBCs), which contributes to higher blood viscosity and reduced blood flow rate through blood vessels, thus, providing favorable conditions for damage to cell membranes (Kempinska et al., 2017). The aging process may further affect hematopoiesis by altering the production of hematopoietic ILs and decreasing the production of erythropoietin (EPO) in the kidneys as well as increasing the oxidative damage to erythrocyte membranes, which in turn may
INTRODUCTION Currently, whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) is a method being more and more frequently used in sports medicine and in post-exercise recovery in people practicing various sports disciplines (Banfi et al., 2010; Bouzigon et al., 2016). In elder individuals, WBCST is also applied as a supplement to treatment. In clinical practice, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-swelling effects of cryogenic temperatures are used primarily in rheumatology and neurology (rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic lower back pain, multiple sclerosis). Improvement in the mental state of people with depressive and anxiety disorders subjected to a cycle of WBCST treatments was noted (Lubkowska, 2012; Bouzigon et al., 2016). During WBCST, the body is subjected to short-term (up to 3 min) but usually repeated exposure to air cooled down to cryogenic temperatures (−100 to −160◦ C) (Lubkowska, 2012; Bouzigon et al., 2016). WBCST induces multidirectional biochemical changes in the body, depending on the number and duration of treatments (Lubkowska, 2012; Lombardi et al., 2017). As a result of WBCST, beneficial metabolic changes were found, including reduction of triglyceride concentration, total cholesterol, and LDL-cholesterol, as well as increased HDLcholesterol concentration (Lubkowska et al., 2010; Ziemann et al., 2013). Multiple WBCST treatments induce immunological changes. After WBCST, an increase in the level of antiinflammatory interleukins (ILs), such as IL-6, IL-10, IL-1ra, and a decrease in the level of proinflammatory ILs, such as IL1α, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-8, TNF-α were detected (Banfi et al., 2009a; Lubkowska et al., 2011; Pournot et al., 2011; Ziemann et al., 2012; Mila-Kierzenkowska et al., 2013). Cryostimulation also increases antioxidative defense (Wozniak et al., 2007a; Lubkowska et al., 2015). Whole-body cryostimulation is used in athletes to accelerate muscle regeneration as well as to weaken post-exercise inflammatory reactions (Pournot et al., 2011; Ziemann et al., 2013; Ferreira-Junior et al., 2014; Costello et al., 2015; Bouzigon et al., 2016; Lombardi et al., 2017). WBCST causes the interaction of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) on leukocytes to be reduced. As a consequence, less neutrophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes migrate to injured muscles. The release of reactive oxygen species and proinflammatory ILs by leukocytes is reduced. This may be a mechanism by which WBCST weakens the inflammatory response as a result of muscle damage (Ferreira-Junior et al., 2014). The concentration of sICAM-1 and, at the same time, the activity of intramuscular enzymes demonstrating the damage of myocytes: creatine
use dietary supplements and did not take any medication. The participants were asked to maintain their current diet and PA, and not to use any wellness treatments (e.g., hydrotherapy, sauna, massage, cold-water baths, and local cryostimulation). The men did not participate in sports competitions during the study period. The characteristics of the subjects are shown in Table 1. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The methodology of the study was approved by the Bioethical Committee of the Regional Medical Chamber (127/KBL/OIL/2013). Participants were informed about the purpose and the course of the study, and they expressed their consent to voluntary participation in the study. Participants underwent a medical qualification procedure in order to eliminate medical contraindications for the use of WBCST procedures (Lubkowska, 2012). The medical examination included: (1) blood analytical studies (blood morphology, lipid profile, glucose, and percentage of glycated HGB); (2) electrocardiogram analysis, systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements; (3) medical history. Viral hepatitis type B or C and HIV were excluded in the study subjects. During blood collection and analysis, standard procedures while maintaining the safety measures envisaged for working with potentially infectious material were followed.
lead to anemia of a variety of etiologies (Kedziora-Kornatowska, 2005). The results of research regarding the influence of WBCST on the erythrocyte system are not unambiguous. Both a decrease in the number of erythrocytes and reticulocytes, HGB, and hematocrit (HCT) values (Lombardi et al., 2013), as well as their elevated levels (Stanek et al., 2006) or no significant changes in their level (Ziemann et al., 2012, 2013; Sutkowy et al., 2014) have been noted after WBCST. Changes in the number of RBCs and HGB concentration as a result of WBCST may result in a change in the oxygen supply to cells, affecting the aerobic performance (Basset and Howley, 2000). A decrease in RBCs content and HGB concentration can intensify “sports anemia” in training individuals. However, an increase in their level may increase the oxygen capacity of the blood (Banfi et al., 2009b, 2010; Mairbaurl, 2013), which along with exceeding the accepted values, could qualify WBCST as a prohibited doping method in sports. In the case of nontraining elder individuals, damage to erythrocytic membranes as a result of WBCST may cause hemolytic anemia. In turn, in the case of beneficial effects, WBCST treatments could be supplementary therapy in elder people with decreased HGB and HCT levels. There is no scientific research answering the question of how WBCST treatments influence the erythrocytic system in elder individuals of varying physical activity (PA) levels. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to evaluate whether repeated WBCST treatments have effects on the erythrocyte system in master marathon runners, compared to elder nontraining males. It was evaluated whether WBCST undergone every other day, 12 and 24 in total, induce hemolysis and/or have a positive effect on erythropoiesis by increasing IL3 and EPO concentrations. To our knowledge, this is the first study involving master runners. We hypothesized that multiple exposure of the whole body to cryogenic temperature, but applied every other day, does not cause significant hemolysis, but at the same time, it stimulates the synthesis of IL-3 and EPO in elder males, regardless of their level of PA.
Somatic Measurements The height of the test subjects was measured with a Martin (United States) type anthropometer to the nearest 1 mm. Body mass and body composition: lean body mass, fat mass, and percentage of body fat were determined on the basis of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) using the eight-electrode (two electrodes placed in hands and two beneath feet), multifrequency (5, 50, and 200 kHz) Jawon IOI-353 Body Composition Analyzer (Korea). Measurements were performed in accordance with manufacturer guidelines. The BIA reasonably estimates body composition in controlled conditions for healthy and euvolemic adults. It is a high correlation (0.88) between the results obtained by this method, and the results obtained by DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) (Sun et al., 2005). The measurements were taken in a standing position, at the angle of approximately 30◦ between the elbows straightened in the upper limbs and the trunk. The subjects were dressed only in underpants. The skin of the hands and feet were degreased and dried before the measurements, the electrodes disinfected each
MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants The study participants comprised of 20 men aged 50–70 years, divided into two groups differing in PA. The active group was made up of 10 amateur marathon runners [age 55.90 ± 5.51 years, body mass index (BMI) 24.87 ± 1.28 kg/m2 ]. The nontraining group consisted of 10 men leading a sedentary lifestyle (age 62.00 ± 5.75 years, BMI 27.44 ± 2.44 kg/m2 ). Training experience in the marathon group totaled 6.71 ± 5.79 years. The marathon runners declared participation in three to five training sessions per week, each lasting 60–90 min, including approximately 60 min of resistance training. During the running training sessions, the subjects covered the distance of 20– 50 km per week. The men did not undergo WBCST for at least the last 6 months. They were non-smokers who did not
TABLE 1 | Somatic characteristics of study participants (mean ± SD). Variables Age (years)
Marathon group
Non-training group
175.20 ± 6.37
Body mass (kg)
Lean body mass (kg)
Body fat (%)
Body mass index (kg/m2 )
P < 0.05 – significant differences marathon runners vs. non-training men.
consecutive days. Blood pressure was measured in all subjects directly before the WBCST procedure, and the accepted level of 150/90 mmHg to conduct the treatment was not exceeded by any of the participants (Lubkowska and Szygula, 2010). Each treatment started with a 30 s stay in the vestibule at a temperature of −60◦ C. Subsequently, the subjects went directly into the main chamber, where they stayed for 3 min at −130◦ C. During the procedure, the participants walked slowly in a circle, one after the other (without talking, without touching), changing the walking direction every minute. Thanks to the audiovisual system, the physician supervising the course of each treatment had visual and voice contact with the individuals inside. It was possible to abort the procedure at any time. Before going into the cryo-chamber, the participants thoroughly dried off in order to eliminate any sweat, they removed their watches, jewelry, and contact lenses. During the treatment, they were dressed in shorts, wool socks covering the ankle joints and wool pads protecting the knee joints, gloves, a headband or a hat covering the ears, clogs, and a surgical mask with gauze covering the nose and mouth.
time. BMI was calculated for each participant. The characteristics of the somatic build are presented in Table 1.
Physical Activity The PA of the subjects was assessed using the Seven-Day Physical Activity Recall questionnaire (Sarkin et al., 1997). The participants were instructed on how to complete the questionnaire. According to the assumptions, before the onset of WBCST treatments, the participants assessed their PA in three intensity categories: moderate (4 MET), hard (6 MET), very hard (10 MET), qualifying the efforts to the following which elicit subjective sensations accompanying: fast-march, slow run, and fast run. Strength exercises were also qualified into the very hard category (Sarkin et al., 1997). The assumption was made that 1 MET is equal to 3.5 mL O2 /kg/min of consumption, which corresponds to the energy expenditure of 1 kcal/kg/h. The 24 h energy expenditure related to the PA in the group of marathon runners (1041.11 ± 347.90 kcal) was significantly higher (P < 0.05) than in the non-training group (376.16 ± 439.21 kcal). The males from the marathon group devoted 4.06 ± 3.16 and 5.33 ± 3.70 h per week (respectively) to very hard and hard PA. Men from the non-training group did not declare performing any exercise of very hard intensity, and the time spent on PA of hard intensity was 0.7 ± 1.25 h per week and was significantly shorter than in the active group (P < 0.01). The weekly exercise of moderate intensity was not significantly different in both groups and was 6.17 ± 1.92 and 4.18 ± 3.43 h, respectively in the marathon and non-training group.
Blood Collection and Analyses Venous blood was collected four times from the ulnar vessels by a qualified nurse while maintaining aseptic standards (vacuum system Vacutainer BD, United States). The first blood collection was 30 min before the first WBCST treatment. Then, blood was collected 24 h after the 12 WBCST treatment, 24 h after the 24 WBCST procedure, and 7 days after the WBCST treatment was completed. After WBCST treatments, the blood was collected at the same time with an accuracy of 15 min. Each time, the blood was collected in a seated position after 5 min of rest. Using fluorescence flow cytometry (Sysmex XT-2000i, Japan), the following morphological indicators were determined in the whole blood: RBC content, HGB concentration, HCT, RBC indices: mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular HGB (MCH), mean corpuscular HGB concentration (MCHC), RBC distribution width – standard deviation (RDW-SD), RBC distribution width – coefficient of variation (RDW-CV). In the blood plasma, the following were marked: extracellular HGB (HGBecf ) concentration using the cyanomethemoglobin method (Drabkin’s reagent), EPO concentration, and IL-3 concentration by immunoenzymatic assay using the R&D Systems (United States) Quantikine ELISA kits, DEP00, and D3000, respectively. The intra- and inter-assay CV of both R&D kits was less than 10%. The minimum detectable concentration for EPO was 0.6 mIU/mL and 7.4 pg/mL for IL-3. Haptoglobin and bilirubin concentrations were determined in the blood serum using HAPT2 and BILT2 reagents (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany), respectively, with the immunoturbidimetric and colorimetric methods. The intra- and inter-assay CV of both kits was less than 4.5%. The minimum detectable concentration for haptoglobin was 10 and 0.1 mg/dL for bilirubin.
Diet Analysis During the tests, the participants maintained their usual diets without introducing any intentional modifications, they did not use dietary supplements containing macro- and micronutrients, or vitamin supplements. The diet was evaluated in terms of the daily calorie content and percentage of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in the energy demand using the Diet 5.0 computer program (Institute of Food and Nutrition in Poland), based on the 7-day dietary diaries kept by the respondents, based on the atlas of photographs depicting food products and dishes (Szponar et al., 2012). The daily calorific value of the diet and the percentage of individual components did not differ significantly in the compared groups (P > 0.05) and amounted to: in the marathon group 3072.8 ± 382.2 kcal/day, protein 16.8 ± 3.3%, fats 33.7 ± 6.6%, carbohydrates 48.9 ± 7.8%; in the nonactive group 2898.0 ± 338.9 kcal/day, protein 15.3 ± 2.7%, fats 37.3 ± 6.4%, carbohydrates 47.8 ± 6.6%.
Whole-Body Cryostimulation Procedure Each participant was subjected to 24 WBCST treatments over a period of 8 weeks at a certified medical facility. WBCST was performed in a cryo-chamber consisting of two connected rooms (vestibule and main chamber) with controlled temperature and humidity conditions. WBCST was performed three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) in the afternoon (2–4 p.m.), 2 h after a meal. The same four individuals were subjected to single treatments, maintain the same time of the treatment during
Statistical Analysis Data distribution was checked using the Shapiro–Wilk test. The significance of inter-group differences for single measurements,
A significant effect of WBCST on the level of EPO (P = 0.01, F = 4.0) and IL-3 (P < 0.01, F = 4.79) were noted, while no effect of PA (P > 0.05), or interaction of WBCST and PA (P > 0.05) effects were found on these indicators. Before WBCST, the concentration of EPO was 9.70 ± 3.18 and 10.30 ± 4.07 mIU/mL, respectively in the marathon and non-training groups. The baseline level of IL-3 was 15.50 ± 4.32 pg/mL in the marathon group and 15.70 ± 6.95 pg/mL in the non-training group. The EPO and IL-3 concentrations in both groups 7 days after the end of the 24 WBCST treatments were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than before the first WBCST treatment. This level in the marathon and non-training groups was respectively, 14.28 ± 3.50 and 13.99 ± 4.20 mIU/mL for EPO and for IL-3: 19.63 ± 6.57 and 19.26 ± 9.21 pg/mL (Figures 1–3). A significant effect of PA on changes in HGBecf (P = 0.01, F = 8.87) and haptoglobin (P = 0.04, F = 4.97) concentrations were found, but there was no WBCST effect (P > 0.05), or WBCST and PA (P > 0.05) effect. In each measurement, the HGBecf concentration was significantly higher and the haptoglobin concentration was significantly lower in the marathon group compared to the non-training group. There was no PA, WBCST effect, or any interaction of these factors (P > 0.05) on changes in bilirubin concentration (Table 3). There was a positive correlation (P < 0.05) between EPO and IL-3 concentrations (r = 0.35), bilirubin concentration (r = 0.27), MCHC (r = 0.25), and RDW-SD (r = 0.29). There was also a positive correlation (P < 0.05) between the concentrations of bilirubin and HGBecf (r = 0.25) and a negative correlation (P < 0.05) between haptoglobin concentration, HGBecf (r = −0.25) and bilirubin (r = −0.28).
depending on the distribution of variables, was tested with the Student’s t-test for independent trials or the Mann– Whitney U test. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with repeated measurements was performed to compare the posteffort changes in the biochemical and hematological parameters following WBCST, depending on PA. The condition effect influence was assessed (PA), the time effect (stage of WBCST application) and the interaction of the condition and time (PA and WBCST). In the case of noting significant influence of primary factors (PA, WBCST or PA and WBCST), the significance of the differences between specific means using post hoc analysis (Tukey’s test) was examined. The P and F values were given. ANCOVA analysis allows to eliminate the potential influence of the associated variable (in this case, the age differences in the studied groups) on the analyzed variables. In order to document hemolytic changes and/or factors affecting the severity of erythropoiesis, correlations between growth erythropoietic factors, erythrocyte and hemolytic factors as well as mutual correlations between hemolytic indexes were calculated. Pearson’s correlations between variables were determined. For all variables, statistically significant differences were found at P < 0.05. All data are expressed as mean ± SD. Calculations were performed using Statistica 10 (StatSoft, Inc., Tulsa, OK, United States).
RESULTS Prior to WBCST treatments, morphological content and lipid profile were comparable (P > 0.05) in both groups except for the concentration of high density lipoproteins which were significantly higher (P = 0.03) in the marathon group (1.83 ± 0.29 mmol/L) compared to the non-training group (1.41 ± 0.48 mmol/L). No significant effects (P > 0.05) of WBCST, PA or interaction of these factors on RBC content, HGB concentration, HCT value or on the values of characterizing indicators of RBC (MCV, MCH, MCHC, and RDW) were noted. The baseline level for these indicators and the results of statistical analysis are presented in Table 2.
DISCUSSION Our study has shown that WBCST applied in elder men using the 12- and 24-treatment model every other day do not cause changes in RBC and HCT values or HGB concentration, nor do they induce hemolysis in marathoners or non-training individuals. Furthermore, we did not find effects of repeated WBCST on differentiation in the volume of RBCs or their
TABLE 2 | The F and P statistics regarding the influence of physical activity (PA) and whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) on the level of erythrocyte indicators (mean ± SD) in marathon runners and non-training men. Variable
RBC (106 /µL)
F (P) PA
WBCST
PA × WBCST
4.86 ± 0.50
1.42 (0.25)
HGB (g/dL)
HCT (%)
MCV (fL)
MCH (pg)
MCHC (g/dL)
RDW-SD (fL)
RDW-CV (%)
RBC, red blood cells; HGB, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; RDW-SD, red blood cell distribution width – standard deviation; RDW-CV, red blood cell distribution width – coefficient of variation.
FIGURE 1 | The influence of repeated whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) treatments on the blood plasma concentration of erythropoietin in marathon runners and non-training men. Presentation of individual data, mean (---), SE (box), and SD (whiskers).
FIGURE 2 | The influence of repeated whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) treatments on the blood plasma concentration of interleukin-3 in marathon runners and non-training men. Presentation of individual data, mean (---), SE (box), and SD (whiskers).
FIGURE 3 | Concentration differences of erythropoietic growth factors in blood plasma 7 days after completion of 24 WBCST treatments in marathon runners and non-training men. Presentation of individual data, mean (---), SE (box), and SD (whiskers).
increased level after the series of 20 and 30 treatments, but did not affect IL-3 levels. The increase in EPO concentration was approximately 10% in the males after 30 series of WBCST (Szygula et al., 2014a). In the older males in our study, we noted a larger percentage increase in EPO concentration, i.e., approximately 47% in the marathon runners and approximately 35% in the non-training group, but only after a week after completing the WBCST series. At the same time, there was an increase in IL-3 concentration in both groups which equaled
hemoglobinization (mass and HGB concentration in RBC). Despite the lack of changes in the erythrocyte system, we noted that 7 days after the completion of the 24-treatment WBCST series, the concentrations of IL-3 and EPO were significantly higher compared to baseline levels. This was observed in both elder marathoners as well as men with low PA. These changes were insufficient to provoke an increase in erythropoiesis. In the research among young men, the increase in EPO levels was achieved after 10 WBCST treatments and remained at an
TABLE 3 | The influence of repeated whole-body cryostimulation (WBCST) treatments on biochemical hemolytic indicators in the blood plasma of marathon runners and non-training men (mean ± SD). Variable
HGBecf (g/dL)
Bilirubin (µmol/L)
0.20†
Before 1 WBCST
0.52 ±
After 12 WBCST
0.49 ± 0.22†
7 Days after WBCST
After 24 WBCST Haptoglobin (mg/dL)
Significant differences (P < 0.05). † marathon runners vs. non-training men; HGBecf , extracellular hemoglobin.
Changes in IL-3 and EPO concentration in our research did not cause physiological effects or activation of erythropoiesis. Contrary to other researchers, we did not find other significant changes in erythrocyte indicators such as MCV, MCH, MCHC (Straburzynska-Lupa et al., 2007; Lombardi et al., 2013; Lubkowska et al., 2015), or features of erythrocyte anisocytosis (Lombardi et al., 2013; Szygula et al., 2014a). When comparing our results to those obtained by other researchers, it can be concluded that the activation of erythropoiesis is not the result of cryogenic temperatures per se, but is a protective mechanism against cell hypoxia as a result of hemolysis. The cryostimulation model we used did not cause hemolysis. Therefore, hemolysis is not a factor stimulating the increase in IL-3 levels in our study. The most likely cause of the delayed increase in IL-3 concentration as a result of cryostimulation in our research (1 week after the end of use) is activation of the leukocyte system, including CD4+ releasing IL-3 lymphocytes (Lisowska et al., 2009). In young men, the percentage of CD4+ T lymphocytes was increased both after a single cryostimulation and after 12 treatments (Szygula et al., 2014b). In our research, there was a significant increase in the percentage of CD4+ T lymphocytes, analogously to the increase in IL-3 concentration, 1 week after completion of 24 WBCST series (unpublished data). The structure of IL-3 and EPO concentration results in subsequent measurements for individual subjects in our study was not the same, both an increase and decrease in the concentration of these factors were found. The distribution of individual data was varied, which could have resulted in the lack of significant erythropoietic effects in the analysis for the whole group (Weissgerber et al., 2015). In our research on elder marathoners and non-training individuals, in all the measurements, the RBC content, HGB concentrations, and HCT values were comparable in both groups and within the reference range for men. However, in the blood plasma of the marathon group representatives, we found a significantly higher free HGB concentration (HGBecf ) and at the same time, a lower haptoglobin concentration compared to men with low PA. This may indicate intravascular damage to erythrocytes in training men (Robinson et al., 2006). Contrary to studies conducted by Szygula et al. (2014a), we did not find any erythrocyte anisocytosis traits or changes in hemolytic marker concentrations such as HGBecf , bilirubin, and haptoglobin during WBCST as well as 1 week after the end of treatment. The noted differences between the groups do not result from the applied cryostimulation. They may result from changes related to physical training of marathon runners. The degree of hemolysis in our marathon runners was small and did not cause clinical symptoms of anemia, as in previous studies (Fazal et al., 2017).
27 and 22%, respectively. These differences may be due to the different frequency of WBCST and the age of the study participants. In the research by Szygula et al. (2014a), everyday exposure to cryogenic temperatures were used, in contrast to our model – exposure every other day. Contrary to our findings, other researchers have reported significant reductions in RBC content, HGB concentration levels, and HCT values both in young non-training and training people (Lubkowska and Szygula, 2010; Lombardi et al., 2013; Szygula et al., 2014a; Lubkowska et al., 2015). In these studies, cryostimulation was used every day or two times a day, performing a total of 10–30 WBCST treatments. The hemolytic influence of cryogenic temperatures (−130◦ C) was found after single, 3-min exposure (Lubkowska et al., 2009). The damage to the erythrocyte membranes was confirmed by the increase in the concentration of free HGB in the blood (HGBecf ), which lasted 24 h after the end of the procedure. A significant increase in HGB levels in plasma, as well as an increase in bilirubin were also reported by Szygula et al. (2014a) after 10 and 20 WBCST treatments (daily), accompanied by a decrease in haptoglobin. A reduction in the RBC count, HGB concentration, and HCT values indicates hemolysis as a result of WBCST. The lack of hemolytic changes in older men as a result of cryostimulation in our research may be due to the used cryostimulation model. We applied repeated exposure to −130◦ C, but, this was done every other day. Previous studies (Szymura et al., 2016), also with the participation of older training men, showed a positive effect of this model WBCST on the rheological properties of blood, manifested by increase in erythrocyte deformability. After 12 WBCST treatments, used every other day, the elasticity of erythrocytic membranes increased, as evidenced by the higher elongation index (Szymura et al., 2016), which describes the ability of erythrocytes to shift from spherical to elliptical shape, reducing susceptibility to damage (Slowinska and Monkos, 2010). In young subjects, an increase in the average volume of RBCs after the WBCST series was observed, with no changes in plasma volume (Lombardi et al., 2013). The increased value of red target distribution width obtained in this research indicates the presence of young, erythrocytes differentiated by size in the peripheral blood after WBCST, which indicates the activation of erythropoiesis. Similar results were obtained by StraburzynskaLupa et al. (2007). In this study, there was an increase in MCV, MCH, and MCHC also persisting 1 week after the end of the treatments. Also, after applying a series of 20 WBCST treatments over consecutive days, men over the age of 40 who were overweight and obese, activated erythropoiesis occurred (Lubkowska et al., 2015). Under the influence of cryostimulation, there was a simultaneous reduction in mature erythrocytes and in HGB and HCT values (Straburzynska-Lupa et al., 2007; Lombardi et al., 2013; Lubkowska et al., 2015). The values of RBC, HGB, and HCT returned to baseline level only 1 month after the end of exposure to cryogenic temperatures (Lubkowska et al., 2015). These results indicate hemolysis during WBCST and consequent activation of erythropoiesis. These studies, however, do not present the results of changes in the concentration of erythropoietic growth factors.
Limitation of the Study The result of the increase in IL-3 concentrations due to WBCST activity can be the activation of other non-erythropoietic cell lines (Hara and Miyajima, 1996). The EPO receptors also occur in neurons, microglia, and astrocytes of the central nervous system, as well as in endothelial cells, the smooth muscles of vessels and in myocytes and fibroblasts of the heart (Lewartowski, 2007). EPO has multidirectional action (Broxmeyer, 2013). EPO also
plays an antioxidant role by influencing the activity of antioxidant enzymes and the level of Hsp70 (Maiese et al., 2008). The positive correlation found between EPO and bilirubin may be related to the protective and antioxidative activity of both molecules (Maiese et al., 2008; Suh et al., 2018). This, however, requires further research. In our research, all participants were subjected to cryogenic temperatures, the results of marathoners were referred to the non-training group. There were no comparative groups in which the training and non-training older men would not be subjected to cryostimulation. Such a study scheme would enable unambiguous determination of whether cryostimulation activates erythropoietic growth factors. Formulating conclusions on the basis of our findings related to the cause and consequences of increased IL-3 concentrations and EPO levels following repeated WBCST in training and non-training subjects is limited and requires further, detailed research taking a larger group of participants into account.
be used in the elderly because it does not induce hemolytic anemia, nonetheless, the method does not increase the level of erythrocytes or their hemoglobinization. In the case of athletes, it is not a form of doping.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS JS, MW, and ZS conceived the project and procured the project funding. JS, MW, MM, and JG contributed to the collection of the data and reagents for the study. MK analyzed the subjects’ diets. JS performed the data and statistical analysis. JS drafted the first version of the manuscript. All authors contributed in revising the manuscript and gave their final approval of the submitted version.
FUNDING This study has been funded by grant from the University of Physical Education in Krakow, Poland No. 37/BS/KRK/2013 and No. 41/BS/INB/2013. The funder did not have any role in the study other than to provide funding.
CONCLUSION Our study has shown that repeated WBCST treatments conducted every other day and 24 in total do not cause significant hemolytic blood changes in elder men with high or low PA. The WBCST model used in our study does not also result in erythropoiesis stimulation. The presented model of WBCST can
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank all the study participants.
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Tag: future home of the living god
This week in my bookbag I have a novel with an unusual vision of the end of the human race, a coming-to-New-York story with a delicious twist, and an angsty Soviet American love triangle that promises to set me on fire. Let’s dive in!
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
the premise: Evolution has started moving backwards, with women across the world giving birth to what appear to be early versions of humans–and Cedar Hawk Songmaker is pregnant. Caught between a well-meaning adoptive family and her Ojibwe birth family, Cedar desperately tries to keep her pregnancy a secret as martial law descends on the world and pregnant women are registered and interned in a desperate attempt to move evolution forward once more.
why I’m excited: I love when literary authors like Louise Erdrich jump the fence to genre (and vice versa, as you could argue Jeff VanderMeer did with Annihilation). Future Home of the Living God plays in the same sandbox as other sudden evolution/sudden infertility classics like Children of Men and Darwin’s Radio, but where those books are stolid and grim, I’m hoping Erdrich will bring a touch of sly humor to the proceedings. After all, the apocalypse means something different to Indigenous folks who have already seen the end of one kind of world. Plus, that cover is gorgeous. Using an ultrasound image as the background was a stroke of genius.
the premise: From the post I wrote yesterday about this book, restaurants, and other underutilized settings in literary fiction:
“Sweetbitter follows a woman who moves alone from a small town to New York City, where she lands a job at a landmark restaurant as a backwaiter. She falls into a dizzying love triangle with Simone and Jake, two otherworldly-beautiful folks with secrets to keep, and tries to survive New York’s punishing restaurant scene.”
why I’m excited: Well, I’m already halfway through this one, so it seems a tad like cheating to say what I’m excited about now. The reason I jumped this book to the front of my TBR queue was because I wanted a sensual, melodramatic bildungsroman in my life, and boy, does this book fit the bill. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s soapy and funny and loud and sad and beautiful. I’m loving it. It’ll make you hungry, too.
the premise: Zoya Andropova, a Soviet refugee who feels lost and isolated at a New Jersey boarding school, gets swept into a whirlwind affair with Russian author Leo Orlov, only to discover that it’s really a love triangle–his wife Vera lurks ever behind the scenes. As the affair grows more heated and more sinister, Zoya tries to disentangle the heady threads of national and ethnic identity, class lines, and, er…great sex, it would seem.
why I’m excited: Man, I don’t know! This could go either way, from being icky and terrible to being beyond great. Adrienne Celt based the story on the complicated marriage of Vladimir Nabokov, which I freely admit I know nothing about. I’m getting a little bit of a Sweetbitter vibe in that Invitation to a Bonfire seems to be a sensual coming-of-age story. I also love reading refugee stories, and though Soviet refugees constitute one of the biggest chunks of the American refugee population, they don’t seem to get their due in fiction. I’m ready to give myself over to this Soviet-angst-love-triangle drama, whether it lives up to my high expectations or not.
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Tag: literary fiction
Book Review: EVENTIDE by Therese Bohman
Eventide follows Karolina Andersson, an art history professor who finds herself in a personal (and possibly, career) rut after a passionless breakup with a long-term partner, Karl Johan. Drifting aimlessly through life in Stockholm, she becomes involved with several old and new flames, along with a good-looking graduate student who promises to have unearthed a secret for his dissertation that could revolutionize the history of Swedish art. It’s a spare, self-contained novel that feels both achingly melancholy and surprisingly light on its feet. I am always charmed by novels that choose a small story to tell and then execute it perfectly; Eventide is such a novel. At times Eventide feels just a little too small, but its precise prose (translated from the original Swedish) and outsize emotional power make it more than worth the read.
You can read my full review below.
Eventide by Therese Bohman (translated by Marlaine Delargy)
publisher: Other Press
publication date: April 10, 2018 (originally published in Sweden in 2016)
…Karolina liked her new home. It had soon begun to feel like an oasis, a space of her own, maybe somewhere she could make a fresh start, even if that was still some way beyond the horizon. For the moment it was a good location for a period of aimless confusion.
—Eventide, page 5
I am struck, frequently, by how few books we have that are really about women. Not just starring women, not just written by women, but about women. It’s not that books about women are inherently better than other kinds of books. I’d just as soon read books that are about dragons, or sword-fighting, or cold-blooded murder, or pirates, or even about men.
It’s just that there are so many women, and so few stories about them, that the artificial scarcity hurts my heart. It boggles my mind. So when I find a book like Eventide, which is an intimate, specific, compassionate, but not sappy novel that is intensely concerned with the woman at its center, I find myself with an abundance of goodwill towards that book, maybe even unfairly.
Luckily, Eventide deserves that goodwill. It’s a tightly crafted, slim novel about an art professor, generically named Karolina Andersson, who is dealing with personal and professional upheaval. She’s good at her job, as far as the reader can tell, but she finds herself romantically adrift and desperately sad about it. She ends a long-term relationship because she knew it wasn’t the right fit, but endlessly despairs that that relationship, flawed as it was, might have been her only shot.
The novel circles this self-pitying drain for nearly its entire duration, but somehow, it rarely feels stale or overdone. In fact, it’s refreshing.
In a less skilled author’s hands, Eventide might only have been one more novel about the “biological clock.” For Bohman, Eventide‘s basic plot is a probing instrument to get at all sorts of unjust truths about society, even a society as supposedly egalitarian as Stockholm, Sweden’s.
The driving force of the plot is that Andersson’s newly assigned Ph.D candidate, Anton Strömberg, has uncovered a startling connection between an obscure female Swedish artist and a male-dominated German arts movement. If this sounds boring and academic, I understand; I’m not sure how to convince you that it’s not boring, other than to say that it isn’t.
Bohman infuses Karolina and Anton’s interactions with a tautness and sexuality that make the art rather secondary. That’s true of all the art history in the book, in fact. For Karolina (and the reader, at least for Eventide‘s duration), the intellectual and the sensual are inseparable.
I dislike when people try and reduce feminism in fiction to feminist characters. Is Katniss Everdeen a feminist character? Is Lizzie Bennett? Hester Prynne? And so on, and so forth. I think a better question is whether or not a novel fully realizes the power structures that women are subjected to. By expecting perfection from our heroines, I fear that we are doing the opposite of feminism.
In contrast, Karolina’s imperfection was the thing I loved most about Eventide, even when I found her to be frustrating, unethical, and claustrophobically self-centered; even when I found her story to be a bit boring and repetitive. This is a novel that understands that there is no right thing to do or say that makes things fair in a profoundly unfair world. Sometimes things go badly, and there’s little morality (or immorality) to it.
Towards the end of the novel, there’s a long meditation on the fact that no one really “deserves” anything, so you might as well strive for what you want. In a lot of fiction and pop culture, this viewpoint (which is hardly unique) comes across as defeatist or greedy; in Eventide, though, it feels different:
If no one deserves anything, that means you are just as entitled to the good things in life as the rival you hate, as the ex-lover you vilify. There is no need to keep hating them or vilifying them or giving them endless mental energy when you can simply ignore them and pursue your own desires. You are not more, or less, moral for doing so.
Eventide suggests that endlessly sorting ourselves into “deserving” and “undeserving” is a trap we can free ourselves from. It’s a message, without being, in the preachy sense, a Message.
Eventide has a small and perfectly balanced center of gravity. It is not a novel that is explosive, glorious, unforgettable, or even vivid. It is simply a little thing done well, modest and purely itself. It’s the person at the party who’s quiet all night, and then says one tiny thing just before leaving that stays with you forever.
In short, Eventide is lovely. ★★★★☆
My copy of Eventide came from my local library and I was in no way compensated for this review.
Author maggietiedePosted on September 13, 2018 Categories Book Reviews, ReadingTags eventide, fiction, four stars, literary fiction, marlaine delargy, therese bohman, translationLeave a comment on Book Review: EVENTIDE by Therese Bohman
Book Review: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata
In Convenience Store Woman, Keiko Furukura doesn’t fit in–and doesn’t want to fit in–anywhere other than her beloved convenience store, where she works part-time. Keiko is in her 30s, past when she should have been married or found a “real” job according to family and friends, and their attempts to “cure” her gradually alienate Keiko. Convenience Store Woman is a thoughtful, tender, and funny novel that raises the serious point that society is more satisfied with people who are “normal” and unhappy than with people who are “abnormal” and happy. It’s a great read for anyone, but I especially recommend it for people interested in everyday Japanese culture, books in translation, and books with autistic characters. (Keiko’s autism is never explicitly stated, but clearly implied, and sensitively portrayed.)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
publisher: Grove Press (an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
publication date: June 12, 2018 (originally published in Japan in 2016)
A convenience store is a world of sound. From the tinkle of the door chime to the voices of TV celebrities advertising new products over the in-store cable network, to the calls of the store workers, the beeps of the bar code scanner, the rustle of customers picking up items and placing them in baskets, and the clacking of heels walking around the store. It all blends into the convenience store sound that ceaselessly caresses my eardrums.
—Convenience Store Woman, page 1
I felt seen by this book, seen on a level so profound that I’m pretty sure that author Sayaka Murata peered into my soul as she was writing. On the surface, my experience has little in common with protagonist Keiko Furukura in Convenience Store Woman. I’m in my early 20s, she in her late 30s. I work a “respectable” job as a writer, she’s a part-time convenience store clerk. I’m American, she’s Japanese.
But this is the magic of Convenience Store Woman: it is so loving and empathetic, so skillful and funny and emotional and haunting, that I think it’s impossible not to resonate with it.
Keiko is clearly written as autistic, something that’s never stated but easily perceptible through the first-person narration. It’s that first-person narrative that makes all the difference, since autistic and allistic people alike can relate to the pressure Keiko is under to fit in. She’s in her 30s and single–not only single, but working a dead-end job, which seems to be even more of a taboo in Japanese culture than it is here in the U.S. To her friends and family, it doesn’t matter that Keiko is happy: she’s somehow broken, and they make it their mission to fix her.
Whether you’re autistic or not, everyone has been in that position at some point, and that’s what Convenience Store Woman‘s charm hinges on. It asks us why we’re so committed to fitting in, while also acknowledging that we have to fit in to function in society. That contradiction keeps the novel interesting, and far away from “everyone’s special” after-school special territory.
Autistic people are so often used and abused by fiction writers to further plots, be an excuse for an allistic main character to show off their empathy, or to fulfill harmful stereotypes, such as that autistic people lack empathy or are overgrown children. I cannot emphasize enough how much I loved Murata’s approach in Convenience Store Woman. When you read, you don’t feel separate from Keiko. You’re not ogling her or judging her. You’re just experiencing the world through Keiko’s eyes, and if Keiko sees things a little differently than you might in her shoes, so be it.
Murata has a particular gift for descriptions. She engaged all my senses so vividly that I felt like I were experiencing the novel through virtual reality, a jolt straight to my neurons. That’s an especially wonderful feat considering that I’ve never been to Japan and am not particularly familiar with what a convenience store or small apartment might look like there. It doesn’t matter: the taste of a slightly spoiled mango-chocolate bun, or the look of Keiko’s feverish nephew, or the smell of an unwashed incel-like man–Keiko’s terrible sort-of boyfriend–was conveyed to me perfectly.
“Perceptive” is the word that I think describes Convenience Store Woman best. It indulges in all the specificities of Keiko’s life and suburban Japanese culture while still remaining remarkably relatable and accessible. It has sharp satirical elements, but it has a big, gushy emotional heart. It’s a book full of all those little anxieties and behaviors that you thought only you did, that you now realize others might, too. It’s a book to make you feel less alone. And goodness knows we need more of those.
Convenience Store Woman is sometimes quite dark and sad, other times quite joyful and funny, and always as delicious and comforting as hot soup–or the convenience store’s best-selling mayo-tuna rice balls. Highly, highly recommended. Just don’t read it while you’re hungry. ★★★★★
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My copy of Convenience Store Woman came from my local library and I was in no way compensated for this review.
Author maggietiedePosted on September 4, 2018 Categories Book Reviews, ReadingTags book blog, books, fiction, five stars, ginny tapley takemori, literary fiction, sayaka murata, translation3 Comments on Book Review: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata
Book Review: MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation isn’t a novel of either-or’s, but rather of messy middles. It follows a year in the life of a 20-something New York heiress who decides to drug herself into sleep for a year (with the aid of an unethical, conspiracy-addled psychiatrist) because she doesn’t like her life very much. That premise–and Ottessa Moshfegh’s almost gleeful execution of it–will horrify you. It will likely repulse you. And yet, from the first words on the first page, My Year of Rest and Relaxation is hypnotically readable, even enjoyable. My sense of anxiety and distaste never lessened, but it’s still, somehow, one of my can’t-miss novel recommendations of the year.
You can read my full review of this unforgettable novel below.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
publisher: Penguin Press
But coming out of that sleep was excruciating. My entire life flashed before my eyes in the worst way possible, my mind refilling itself with all my lame memories, every little thing that had brought me to where I was. I’d try to remember something else–a better version, a happy story, maybe, or just an equally lame but different life that would at least be refreshing in its digressions–but it never worked. I was always still me.
—My Year of Rest and Relaxation, page 40
From June 1999 to June 2000, the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation decides to sleep. She’s an heiress to a lot of money. She’s a Columbia art history graduate. She has a nice apartment in Manhattan and a cushy job at a pretentiously “edgy” art gallery. Her parents are dead. She hates her best friend. She is an utterly intolerable person and seems to know it. So she sleeps in an attempt to start over, with the help of a psychiatrist so incompetent it’s almost malicious.
You would be forgiven, after hearing the premise, for thinking that My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a magical realist fairy tale. How else could someone sleep for a year? The answer is that the narrator doesn’t, exactly: she naps and sleeps and blacks out and visits the bodega and watches movies and starts the cycle over again. If the plot is dreamy, the novel’s feel is not; in fact, it is almost oppressively real, especially as it’s grounded in the quirks and side effects of psychotropic medications.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation name-checks all sorts of pop and high culture references with the density and playfulness of a Hollywood satire. (In fact, its closest tonal match is probably Netflix’s depressing-but-beautiful Hollywood sitcom Bojack Horseman.) It skewers the art world, skewers wealth, skewers college, skewers dating, skewers shopping, and skewers psychiatry.
It even skewers the omnipresence of 9/11 in pop culture: as the novel progresses, the clock runs ever-closer to September 2001, and Ottessa Moshfegh gently toys with her readers with references to Zeno’s paradox of ever-halving time and an anti-terrorism taskforce that’s quartered in the Twin Towers. I was torn between marveling at Moshfegh’s talented satire and also feeling profoundly rubbed the wrong way by it. I think that’s the point. (To be clear, Moshfegh does not make light of 9/11–quite the opposite–but if you’re disturbed by reading some dark humor about the event, this novel likely isn’t for you.)
The emotional heft of the novel lies in the narrator’s relationship with her best friend, Reva, who visits the narrator frequently while she is “sleeping.” Reva adores her. She loathes Reva. Their push-and-pull–the (unnamed) narrator’s a WASP, Reva is an out-of-place Jew; the narrator is effortlessly thin, Reva is bulimic; Reva’s mother is dying, the narrator’s parents are already dead–allows Moshfegh to ruthlessly probe at the characters themselves and at broader archetypes about women in New York. Neither Reva nor the narrator is a good person. You don’t particularly enjoy spending time with them. Yet I felt an intense, almost mothering connection to both that kept me tethered to the novel no matter how far out it gets.
My biggest discomfort with My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a profoundly personal one. Many of the drugs that the narrator is prescribed for her “insomnia” are drugs I’ve taken myself for my very real bipolar disorder: lithium, Seroquel, trazodone, and Risperdal, for one, though the list goes on a lot further than that. As the narrator describes her weight loss, her wan-ness, her nausea, her atrophy, I became overwhelmingly angry. Psychotropic meds are horrible. If I didn’t need them, I wouldn’t take them. It’s a deep conflict I have within myself that I am an enormous advocate for mental health treatment, and also someone who loathes taking my meds.
In light of that, reading about a privileged skinny white girl taking those meds and dealing with their side effects for fun–or rather, not quite for fun, as she’s clearly struggling, but also not quite because she needs them–made me irritable. It got under my skin. It gave me bad dreams last night, not to mention all of the other disturbing things about the novel that bothered me, too.
And yet I am immensely grateful to have read My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a writer so talented that I felt literally dazzled, like I couldn’t look at a page too long or it might burn me. There is not a word out of place here. There is not a single careless joke or plot point, although the narrator as a character is deeply careless. It’s a marvel to watch the pieces fit together.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is as skillfully, intensely drawn as Escher art. It will befuddle you the longer you think about it, so don’t think: just read. Moshfegh’s protagonist may be busy wasting her life, but while reading about it, I only felt more intensely alive. ★★★★★
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
My copy of My Year of Rest and Relaxation came from my local library and I was in no way compensated for this review.
Author maggietiedePosted on August 30, 2018 Categories Book Reviews, ReadingTags book blog, books, fiction, five stars, literary fiction, my year of rest and relaxation, ottessa moshfegh2 Comments on Book Review: MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION by Ottessa Moshfegh
Book Review: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt
Invitation to a Bonfire is a slow-burning reimagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s marriage, told mostly through the eyes of the fictional Zoya, a boarding school employee who falls in love first with “Lev Orlov’s” (the Nabokov insert’s) books and then with the man himself. Over the course of the 1930s, she finds herself in a vicious–and murderous–love triangle with him and his wife. It’s an extraordinary premise that unfortunately feels sordid in execution. The novel careens from a slow first half, beginning in Zoya’s childhood in the Soviet Union and inching through her time as a scholarship student and greenhouse employee, to a breakneck (and murderous) second half that goes off not so much with a blaze as an incomprehensible flash-bang that left me frustrated and dazed. The novel is full of keen observations (especially about life as a Soviet immigrant to America) and razor-sharp turns of phrase, but as a story, I found it extraordinarily unsatisfying.
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
No one minded theft or inconsistency, even vitriol, so long as it meant you were making a statement. This was my first great lesson in being American, and I took it to heart.
—Invitation to a Bonfire
I’m struck by how much I find my gut creeping into my feelings about books, no matter how hard I try to get my reviewing down to a science. I like this because X, I don’t like this because Y, I’ll tell myself smugly when I’m not reading. The problem is that as soon as I start reading, those lofty theories fly out the window. It’s all about me and the book, and sometimes we hit it off, and sometimes we don’t.
I did not hit it off with Invitation to a Bonfire, and while I have a few inklings as to why, the intensity of my dislike surprises me.
Invitation to a Bonfire follows a young Soviet American woman named Zoya who falls in love with Soviet author Leo Orlov, a stand-in for Vladimir Nabokov. Zoya also falls into a standoff with his calculating wife, Vera, based on Nabokov’s actual wife, Véra. It’s framed as a collection of found papers including journals and love letters, a device that I think works not at all, and it’s about as slow of a slow burn as you’re likely to find in literary fiction.
I enjoyed this book most when Adrienne Celt was writing about Zoya’s experience as the daughter of a Red revolutionary-turned-traitor. The Soviet Union holds such a cartoonishly evil and exaggerated place in American culture that the subtlety Celt brought to its politics was refreshing and welcome. The problem is that as soon as Celt turns to the setting of an exclusive boarding school in 1930s America, where Zoya is sent as a scholarship student and where she works after graduation, the tension pops like a balloon and never comes back.
I hammer on this point to the degree that family and friends roll their eyes when they hear me say it, but historical fiction is never really about the past–it’s about the present, and over and over I found myself frustrated with how little Invitation to a Bonfire seems to be about the past or the present. The supposed “historical” documents Celt uses (including oral histories) feel not at all like something written in the 1930s. The boarding school is about as clichéd and cardboard a boarding school setting as it gets; it could have been set in the ’80s or ’90s instead and I wouldn’t have noticed. There’s so little genuine American historical detail–though the Soviet stuff is well done–that it left me unmoored and uncaring about anything that happened.
The novel seems uncertain if it’s expecting you to know about Vladimir Nabokov’s marriage or not. I’ve never read Lolita or anything else of his work, so I went into this novel pretty cold except for a brief scan of his Wikipedia page. As far as I can tell, Celt has based the novel very loosely on actually events, dropping in wink-wink-nudge-nudge Easter eggs: Felice is the novel’s version of Lolita; in Orlov’s love letters, he refers to names as having colors, and Nabokov himself was a renowned synesthete. The problem is that they felt to me like the literary version of after-credits scenes in Marvel movies: cool bonuses, but utterly unnecessary. In a novel that’s already agonizingly slow, that Celt chooses to devote so much energy to establishing her almost-Nabokov is frustrating.
Celt also spends a lot of time establishing Vera’s background as upper-crust and Zoya’s as a half-step above peasantry; class is a crux of the novel even after Zoya comes to America, a poor student at an overwhelmingly rich school. But in real life, Véra was Russian Jewish and faced overwhelming anti-Semitism that very much shaped her life and Nabokov’s. It’s not so much that I think Celt has an obligation to include every real-world detail–as I said, Invitation to a Bonfire is an extremely loose adaptation–as that I think it’s odd she includes so much peripheral detail about Nabokov and so little about Véra. The imagination of the novel feels lumpy, coming in clumps when I don’t want it there, yet feeling oddly barren when it would be most useful.
I could have forgiven most if not all of that if the core murder mystery were more effective, but it’s not. About halfway through, the novel goes from extremely predictable to off-the-walls nuts. I could see Celt’s motions behind the curtain so clearly that it made me roll my eyes. Zoya and Lev’s love story is as flimsy as tissue paper; there are plot holes so big you could drive a tank through them. I had to read over the final couple of pages several times just to understand what I was reading because it was such a polar flip from what the first half seemed to be leading up to.
I don’t like being made to feel stupid while reading a novel, and Invitation to a Bonfire made me feel somehow simultaneously stupid and overly smart. There’s so much here that I wanted to love: a fascinating history, a fiery love story, crimes of passion. Celt’s prose is perfectly serviceable and sometimes even stunningly beautiful. The DNA is all there. So why didn’t it come together for me?
I think I can place the fatal flaw in the novel, but it might really be in me as a reader, and I hate that. I hate writing negative reviews because they remind me of the subjectivity and mundanity of my own opinions more than anything else, though they’re not fundamentally different than my positive ones: expressions of how a particular book struck me at a particular time, expressions that are affected by a smorgasbord of things that are not actually the book or the author’s fault.
No matter the root cause, for me, Invitation to a Bonfire fizzles instead of blazes. What a shame. ★★☆☆☆
My copy of Invitation to a Bonfire came from my local library and I was in no way compensated for this review.
Author maggietiedePosted on August 7, 2018 Categories Book Reviews, ReadingTags adrienne celt, book blog, books, literary fiction, two stars2 Comments on Book Review: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt
Friday Bookbag, 8.3.18
This week I’ve added two slow-burn, thrilling literary titles to my shelf. Let’s dive in!
November Road by Lou Berney
the premise: Frank Guidry is a loyal mob heavy in New Orleans, but after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, all of his associates start turning up dead. Guidry knows too much about the mob’s role in the assassination, so he hits the road in a desperate attempt to save his own life. There, he meets Charlotte, a housewife who’s mysteriously on the run with her two young children. Each takes advantage of the other on their way to freedom; each tries to ignore their deeper feelings. If they’re not careful, they could both end up dead.
why I’m excited: I love literary thrillers and I love historical fiction (especially mid-century stuff). That makes November Road an easy choice for me to be excited about! I’m not really a Kennedy conspiracy theorist, but I’ll admit I’m intrigued by Berney’s mobster take on JFK’s assassination. I see a few places where this could dip into cliché, but I’m really excited about it and grateful the publisher sent me an ARC. November Road is currently available for pre-order.
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
the premise: Polly and Adam embark on a steamy affair one summer in Delaware, growing more and more entangled in each other’s lives until it all comes apart. Someone ends up dead, and one of them is lying.
why I’m excited: I always have a giant Gillian Flynn-sized hole on my reading list and Sunburn looks like it will fill that right up. Affairs, summers, crimes…I eat that stuff up with a spoon. It helps that this novel is getting glowing reviews across the board. I can’t wait! (Side note: Does anyone know if the character of Laura Lipp in The Mars Room was named after Laura Lippman? It was all I could think about during Lipp’s scenes in that novel.)
Author maggietiedePosted on August 3, 2018 August 3, 2018 Categories Friday Bookbag, ReadingTags book blog, books, crime fiction, historical fiction, laura lippman, literary fiction, lou berney, thrillers2 Comments on Friday Bookbag, 8.3.18
Book Review: SWEETBITTER by Stephanie Danler
Sweetbitter follows Tess, a 20-something who moves to New York in search of…well, New York itself. She miraculously lands a job at a high-end restaurant and begins a life full of heady food, drink, coke, and 3 a.m. benders with coworkers. She also falls hard for Simone, an aloof waitress full of Old World knowledge and mystery, and Jake, an otherworldly-beautiful bartender with secrets to keep. Sweetbitter feels miraculous, a wonderful novel superimposed onto the blueprints of a worse one. Coming to New York stories are cheap and well-trodden, but Stephanie Danler finds all the rough edges worth exploring. As I wrote last month, the novel’s vivid restaurant setting helps freshen it, but there’s other alchemical magic at work too. Danler finds the sweet spot between young adult and adult literature, turning the big swings and harsh failures of Tess’s 20s into a novel that feels decadent and rich, lofty without being bloodless. I loved every minute.
You can read my full review below. Please note that this review is a bit more NSFW than my usual and contains some sexual content and swearing.
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
cover price: $25.00 in hardcover, $16.00 in paperback
Does anyone come to New York clean? I’m afraid not. But crossing the Hudson I thought of crossing Lethe, milky river of forgetting. I forgot that I had a mother who drove away before I could open my eyes, and a father who moved invisibly through the rooms of our house. I forgot the parade of people in my life as thin as mesh screens, who couldn’t catch whatever it was I wanted to say to them, and I forgot how I drove down dirt roads between desiccated fields, under an oppressive guard of stars, and felt nothing.
—Sweetbitter, page 4
20-something Tess comes to New York from Ohio as a blank slate with a vaguely alluded-to education in English literature. She doesn’t come to New York striving to be an actress, singer, writer, or artist; she just arrives for the sake of arriving, hungry for city living. She decides that working as a waitress is her best chance at making life in the city work, so she gets a job at a high-end restaurant in Manhattan and begins an education in good food and something called the 51%–the “something special” about back- and front-of-house staff. From there, she falls headlong into a love affair with food and two of her most mysterious coworkers. Hijinks (and a beautiful coming-of-age story) ensue.
For all the effort we put into getting kids and teens to read, I think that we put very little cultural effort into keeping adults readers during and after college. There’s a massive jump between the work of offbeat YA authors like A. S. King and the cloistered world of adult literary fiction.
That’s what struck me most about Sweetbitter: that it is a young adult novel in the sense that it intimately captures the things I care about as a 23-year-old moving through the world, in a way that very few literary novels (except maybe Nafkote Tamirat’s flawed The Parking Lot Attendant) have captured recently: love, hard work, love, hard pain, love, hard joy, love, with the intensity of it all dialed up to eleven.
Danler’s writing is dramatic, almost to the point of melo-, but not quite. At first when reading Sweetbitter’s mythology-tinged dialogue, I thought, no one talks like that. But because Danler writes a dazzling amount of dialogue for a dizzying array of characters, it works. For every allusion to Greek myth and the terroir of Old World wines, someone’s talking about puking after a night out and the latest girl the office manager is screwing under his desk. It’s hi-lo writing that perfectly captures the hi-lo atmosphere of restaurant work, no matter how “fine” the dining is at a particular establishment.
Sweetbitter hews so close to the border of cliché that it’s a miracle it never crosses into it. For one, a love triangle with an older, mysterious bartender and an icy head waitress is at its center. For the other, it’s a coming-of-age story about coming to New York. But in Danler’s hands those elements have an unexpected emotional immediacy. Tess snorts obligatory coke in a bar bathroom, but she also then buys a leather jacket with a heady (and recognizable to any 20-something) mix of self-consciousness and pride. She has hot sex in the back of a cab but also masturbates, miserably, in her overheated apartment in the middle of a damp December.
Sweetbitter is both archetypal and vulnerable, something in the vein of Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar but also something entirely its own. It’s both claustrophobic and expansive, confined to a restaurant that somehow contains a whole world within it. The tenderness with which the staff treat their regular customers is in sharp contrast to the vicious way they treat each other, yet both feel like manifestations of love. They’re a family. A completely fucked-up family, but still.
Sweetbitter is yet another book about a beautiful, thin young white woman, but it’s perhaps the best one of that ouevre I’ve ever read. It’s a book about the aged optimism–not quite pessimism–of your twenties, and how it mellows and deepens. I want to read more stories that live in that niche, ones with different specificities and desires and homes.
If you’re disaffected and bored and in a reading slump, I couldn’t recommend anything else to shake you out of it more highly than Sweetbitter. It’s sad and thrilling and cathartic at once, both a mirror-image of our world and a bright still life full of artistic license. Get some good grapes and cheese and take a hot bath while you read. You’ll lose yourself and your troubles, too. ★★★★★
My copy of Sweetbitter came from my local library and I was in no way compensated for this review.
Author maggietiedePosted on August 1, 2018 Categories Book Reviews, ReadingTags book blog, books, fiction, five stars, literary fiction, stephanie danler, sweetbitter4 Comments on Book Review: SWEETBITTER by Stephanie Danler
This week in my bookbag, I’ve got a sober meditation on climate change, a literary take on Korea’s Gwangju Uprising from the author of The Vegetarian, a futuristic video game-themed YA adventure, and more. Let’s dive in!
Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore by Elizabeth A. Rush
the premise: Author Elizabeth Rush reports on areas on the East Coast, Gulf Coast, and beyond that are threatened by rising seas and climate change. From worsening natural disasters like hurricanes to islands literally drowning beneath incessant waves, Rising is a polyphonic portrait of a world on the brink of change.
why I’m excited: Excited is perhaps the wrong word for this one, as climate change is an issue I’m deeply worried about, and I think this book will cause me no small amount of anxiety. But I’m looking forward to immersing myself in Rush’s reporting and educating myself on what’s happening on the coasts. I currently live in Minnesota, which is about as far from an ocean as you can get in North America. (We have Lake Superior, but that doesn’t count in this case.) I’m not affected by climate change with as much urgency as the communities Rush documents are, and I consider it a duty to inform myself. Every review I’ve read of this book does praise Rush’s skillful, lyrical writing and interviewing, so I hope it won’t be an entirely self-flagellatory exercise.
Human Acts by Han Kang
the premise: Set against the backdrop of the bloody 1979 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, Human Acts is a series of interconnected stories about people desperately trying to make a difference–and survive. It spans three decades of lead-up and follow-up to Chun Doo-hwan’s declaration of martial law that led to the deaths of anywhere from 160 people to around 2000. (For more information on the premise of the novel, the history of the Gwangju uprising, and Han Kang’s personal connection to both, I recommend reading Min Jin Lee’s excellent article, “Korean Souls,” in the New York Review of Books.)
why I’m excited: I remain obsessed with Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian, which I reviewed a few months ago as “extraordinary and…nauseating, like a spinning theme park ride with its speed cranked up one level past safety.” Where The Vegetarian was almost claustrophobically personal, Human Acts appears to break wide open, encompassing more stories and larger events. Also, I know embarrassingly little about the history of Korea (especially South Korea), and I’ve recently found fiction to be a good way in. From Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum (about Japanese occupation and comfort women) to The Hole by Hye-young Pyun, which I wrote about in a previous Friday Bookbag, I’ve been striving to read more works by Korean and Korean diasporic authors, and I look forward to adding Human Acts to that list.
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back by Melissa Stephenson
the premise: For Melissa Stephenson, cars are (and were) an escape, from her blue collar childhood in Indiana, to her brother’s suicide, to camping trips with her kids in a VW bus. Driven is a memoir of her relationship with her brother and her healing after his death, structured around the cars she’s loved over the years.
why I’m excited: I can’t say that the “cars” part of the premise sets me on fire. My partner’s a mega-gearhead, but I’m not. This memoir seems to be about more than cars, though. It seems like it’s also about family, and healing, and independence, and how sometimes running away from something can also mean running towards our better selves. It’s being billed as similar to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a book I adored. I certainly hope it scratches the memoir itch I’ve had recently.
Warcross by Marie Lu
the premise: Warcross is an immersive international video game sensation: think Fortnite meets Overwatch meets World of Warcraft. Emika Chen is a hacker and bounty hunter who scrapes out a living hunting down people who bet on Warcross illegally, but she risks it all when she decides to make quick cash by hacking into the Warcross championships. She’s caught–but instead of getting arrested, she gets an appointment with the elusive founder of Warcross, who offers her a job in Tokyo as a spy…where she uncovers fortunes and dangers greater than she’d ever imagined.
why I’m excited: It’s hard to beat a good YA sci-fi thriller–they’re like a surprise trip to an amusement park in the middle of a dreary reading schedule–er, work week. I’m especially excited about this one because I loved Marie Lu’s Legend series (Goodreads) when I was a teen, and also because Lu worked in video game design before she was an author, so I think Warcross will be full of cool (and maybe even accurate!) details.
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh
the premise: Two women–Yvonne and Huda–were raised in restrictive households in Lebanon: one Christian, one Muslim. When they meet on vacation in Italy, their complicated pasts threaten to interfere with the powerful and successful professional lives they take pride in now.
why I’m excited: I enjoy fiction that delves into religion and its effects on our lives, and I especially enjoy that one protagonist is Christian and one Muslim. Christianity and Islam are so often set up as an either/or that a novel that deals with their similarities is hugely exciting to me. I also love novels that explore how the values we’re raised with can interfere with the values we wish to have now. This novel could turn out to be sloppy or melodramatic in execution a la The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (which has a semi-similar premise), but I like the idea enough to give it a shot.
Author maggietiedePosted on July 27, 2018 Categories Friday Bookbag, ReadingTags book blog, books, climate change, elizabeth a. rush, fiction, gwangju uprising, han kang, hanan al-shaykh, korea, literary fiction, marie lu, melissa stephenson, memoir, nonfiction, science fiction, warcross, YA, young adult3 Comments on Friday Bookbag, 7.27.18
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What inspired you to write your first book?
As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to write books. I think it was because Nancy Drew was getting so boring. I suppose, too, I was picking up on the formulaic nature of the structure and figured, “I can do better than that!”
How did you come up with the title When the Wheels Fall Off?
It just kind of came to me like a wheel falling off a truck and smacking me in the head. It was perfect since the novel deals with the protagonist’s deep desire to take up drag-racing at the same time that she’s messing up her life with her car-crazy boyfriend.
Is this your first book?
No. My first book is called A Root Beer Season, which is a prequel to When the Wheels Fall Off. A Root Beer Season is told from the point of view of 15 year old Sonja Pfeiffer, who, driven by a surge of adolescent hormones, stumbles through one existential crisis after another.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
I hadn’t planned on any particular message, although the first book might convey to younger readers that even though the kids of the 60s and 70s didn’t spend their days chained to Twitter and Instagram, we did go through much of the same teenage angst that they’re experiencing today. Also, hopefully, it will touch the nostalgic funny bone of a lot of us thick-around-the-middle baby boomers.
How much of your book is realistic?
Although the first book, A Root Beer Season, is based more on real events and the characters are composites of some of the important people in my life at that time, in When the Wheels Fall Off, I found that to move the story in the direction I needed it to go, I had to ‘fictionalize’ almost everything and everyone. And besides, it’s always more fun to make up lies.
Of the characters you have created or envisioned, which is your favourite and why?
Well, after Sonja, who is the protagonist in the series, I think I would have to go with Dagmar. Even though she is as messed up as Sonja, she does manage to portray a strength of character that helps to guide Sonja through her uncertainties. Sonja needs tough love and Dagmar provides it.
Do you have anything specific you want to say to your readers?
Yes. I love you all and if my books take you along that well-travelled road of shared memories of our good-old-days, then I have succeeded. For my younger readers, please know that we old fogies aren’t that different from you. Life is still about figuring things out for yourself, rebelling where rebellion is due and following your dreams.
What do you enjoy most about writing?
On good days, the way the ideas and inspiration seem to flow effortlessly, like waves lapping onto the shore. Sometimes my fingers can barely keep up with the thoughts and ideas coursing through my brain.
On bad days there is always Facebook and maybe even a load of laundry or two. I’ve been writing long enough to know that even when it seems impossible, a jumble of words and a commitment to fifteen revisions can, in the end, be worked into something coherent and maybe even suitably clever. Oh, and wine o’clock. There is always wine o’clock.
What is your favourite part?
I think it would have to be when I’m working on something that is evoking strong emotions and conflict. As every writer knows, conflict is what makes the reader turn the page. Dialogue is easy for me and I always start there, filling in the beats and descriptions later.
What is your favourite theme/genre to write?
What I’m writing now—about growing up. When you’re young you think all your problems will magically be solved when you reach adulthood. Ha! In truth, that’s when you’re only getting started.
Is there one subject you would never write about? What is it?
I can’t think of anything at the moment although I must admit I suck at anything that would require me to get in touch with my inner poet. I don’t have an inner poet. Which is too bad, really because I think writing poetry can make one a better writer.
I always have about three or four books on the go. My bedtime reading is usually non-fiction. I started reading non-fiction many years ago because the fiction was keeping me awake too long and I’d be a complete witch in the morning. That didn’t work. Just ask my kids. Right now I’m reading Joseph Stiglitz’s book called The Price of Inequality. Horrific. It keeps me awake.
For my daily Starbucks getaway, I’m reading Brian Brennan’s Rogues and Rebels and Ahdaf Soueif’s, A Map of Love.
Are there any new authors who have grasped your interest?
I’m always watching and waiting for any new books by local writers whom I know personally. I’ve acquired so many books at book launches and readings that I never have to visit a bookstore again. Of course that’s not even a possibility since, well, you know, Starbucks is located inside mega bookstore, Chapters.
Do you see writing as a career?
No. Not for me. Maybe if I sold books like Margaret Atwood I could call it a career. I certainly don’t do it for the money. I don’t think too many writers do. We write because we can’t not write. It’s like some psychotic illness. We hear voices in our heads. We talk to ourselves—sometimes even in public. We eavesdrop on other people’s conversations—all the more interesting when they’re arguing or coming close to fisticuffs. We write it all down. Is it time for my meds yet? Where are my meds?
Do you nibble as you write?
I do, actually, but only my fingernails. When the writing is going well, I forget about eating until I can’t ignore it anymore. If I won the lottery, the first thing I’d do is hire a cook who can remember to take the veggies out of the microwave before the next morning.
Do you have any odd habits or childhood stories?
I still bite my nails to shreds. No interesting childhood stories come readily to mind but I think, as a child, I would have benefited from a good dose of Ritalin. My fidgetiness was cured with sharp yelling and the odd smack. My childhood was blessedly uneventful, well, except for the smacks.
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Mmmm….that’s hard to know. If I win the above mentioned lottery you can look me up in Tahiti or some other tropical paradise. If I don’t win the lottery, I’ll be here, at home, more than likely taking a nap and feeling guilty about not writing.
Time and endless distractions. For me it’s not just a matter of sitting down at the keyboard and pounding out words. I have to be immersed in the story and know where it has to go next so a lot of my planning and plotting is done while I’m doing things that don’t require concentration. Like many writers I know, the best ideas always seem to come just when I’m about to fall asleep. And all writers know how that turns out.
What reward do you give yourself for making a deadline?
Deadline? No deadlines for me. A deadline would kill me. I’d fidget myself right into an early grave.
Have you ever hated something you wrote?
Daily. First drafts are exceptionally hate-worthy. Thankfully I know that they can be fixed or deleted.
What book do you wish you had written?
Harry Potter because then I could be sending you this interview from Tahiti or Barbados. Or, maybe that 50 Shades of …….No. Not that one. Not ever. I’d rather shovel snow.
What is your best marketing tip?
I’m not sure there is any one tip that is better than another. Some writing gurus will say you need a blog and a lot of Twitter followers and the next guru will say that you don’t. I think if you’re not a Kardashian-spectacle or a bombastic Trump, a lot depends on luck. Which brings me back to the lottery…….
There’s only so much room on top of that mountain and no matter what you write and how well you write it, it is luck that will give you the name recognition necessary to put you on top. Either that or you can do something to become infamous. The press loves infamy. The more the better.
Thankfully, I no longer want either fame or infamy. The Buddhists say that it is only desire that will make you unhappy so you must stop desiring. Easy-peasy!
What genre is your next project? What is it about?
My third book is another instalment in the Sonja Pfeiffer Series and this one takes her to Fort McMurray and into the world of bush-flying. It’s called Winging It and I’m about halfway through. I’m hoping to launch it sometime in 2017.
How can we find your books, blog and bio?
You can find my books at Audreys Books in Edmonton, Shelf Life and Owl’s Nest Books in Calgary, on Amazon worldwide and at my writing collective website, www.crabapplemewscollective.com.
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The Social Media Buzz Behind the Royal Wedding [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Ben Parr 2011-04-29 04:41:02 UTC
With hours to go until the Royal Wedding, online buzz surrounding the big event has surpassed the chatter that surrounded the Egypt uprising and the Japan earthquake.
New stats gathered and analyzed by Webtrends reveal that the world simply can't stop talking about the Royal Wedding (not that you needed us to tell you). According to the web analytics company, people have sent 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days, or just a little more than 30,000 tweets per day, which accounts for 71% of the buzz Webtrends tracked. For comparison, there were approximately 217,000 Facebook status updates and 145,000 blog posts about William and Kate's big day.
And while you may think most of the social buzz surrounding the royal nuptials is coming from the UK, think again. Webtrends says that a whopping 65% of tweets, blog posts and Facebook updates are coming from the U.S., while 20% are coming from the UK. Canada is in third place with a mere 2.6% of social media buzz. This matches stats from Nielsen, which also says that the U.S. is the #1 source of Royal Wedding chatter.
Check out this infographic for more Royal Wedding stats:
Note: this infographic is split into two parts.
All Royal Wedding Day Stories
How Did You Watch The Royal Wedding? [POLL]
Royal Wedding Breaks Live Streaming Records
Google Street View Man & Logo Get Royal Wedding Treatment [PIC]
Royal Wedding Sweeps Trending Topics on Twitter, Facebook & Google
3 Amusing Tumblrs That Poke Fun at the Royal Wedding
For more Royal Wedding coverage, click here.
Topics: Facebook, infographics, royal family, royal wedding, Social Media, social media buzz, statistics, Twitter, webtrends
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HomeIn The OfficeTreat alternative funding arrangement with caution, says SFF board
Treat alternative funding arrangement with caution, says SFF board
October 9, 2015 Editor In The Office, New Zealand
The Silver Fern Farms board is warning shareholders to treat suggestions of alternative funding arrangements with caution.
The recent media statements from shareholder John Cochrane suggesting there is an alternative funding arrangement waiting in the wings should shareholders turn down the Shanghai Maling partnership, is a total unknown and should be treated with extreme caution, says Silver Fern Farms.
Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett says the board remains unanimous in its endorsement of the partnership with Shanghai Maling due the significant value it brings to the cooperative.
“The board is unanimous in our support for the Shanghai Maling partnership. It will bring us a secure future as a co-operative which addresses our long-term financial future, supports our global Plate to Pasture strategy, gives us privileged access to China, the fastest growing red meat market in the world, and provides returns to our shareholders and suppliers,” says Hewett.
“We have met with over 2,000 of our suppliers and shareholders in the last 10 days right around the country. Their support is strongly in favour of the partnership.”
The Board has not been presented with any details of the suggested $100 million underwrite which Cochrane is asking shareholders to back.
“The Board has not received a proposal. We do not know any details, we do not know who the mystery underwriters are, nor who the supposed bank is.
“Going from media reports, the potential underwrite would be significantly disadvantageous to shareholders financially, strategically and very likely from a governance perspective,” Hewett says.
“Mr Cochrane, although well meaning, is playing a very dangerous and irresponsible game in advising shareholders to vote down the Shanghai Maling partnership without providing details of the alternative.”
Hewett says the Board has considered all available alternatives, has provided shareholders with over 100 pages of detail on the recommended investment in the Notice of Meeting, including an Independent Expert Report from a qualified firm in Grant Samuel. “That Report concludes that the proposed Shanghai Maling investment is both fair and reasonable to Silver Fern Farm shareholders.”
“Mr Cochrane states in the media that under his alternative, suppliers will get to retain control of the company. In the Board’s opinion there is no evidence that shareholders will invest all of the $100m in the company. Based on the last time Silver Fern Farms raised capital from shareholders, we sought over $100m and only raised $22m. Therefore, it is misleading to say that supplier shareholder control is retained, as it will be the underwriters that will take control.
“If shareholders do not elect to invest new capital, then the underwriters will own nearly 70 percent of the company. If shareholders invest a similar $22m as last time, then the unknown underwriters would own 57 percent of the co-operative.
“There is no visibility as to who these underwriters are; for all we know, a competitor like Alliance could be in the mix.”
“If the underwriters do end up owning such a controlling stake, they will undoubtedly want the right to influence or control the governance of the company. Currently, shareholders appoint farmers to the majority of the Board, who in turn appoint the independent directors. Will the underwriters require their own directors?”
“Further Mr Cochrane is suggesting the shares are issued at 40c each. This is a share price that is around a seventh of the fair value opined by Grant Samuel, and a seventh of the price being paid by Shanghai Maling. Given the high probability that most of these new shares would end up being taken up by the underwriters, shareholders would be selling control of their company for 40 cents per share. That is clearly not in the best interests of the company. And to who?”
“It is incorrect and totally misleading of Mr Cochrane to say there is bank approval for his scheme. We understand he is referencing a letter of interest from one bank to consider participating in a refinancing. That is not bank approval. Whereas, the Shanghai Maling partnership has the full support of our entire bank group and we have committed facilities for the coming season.“
Hewett says a no vote will place the co-operative’s finances in a very uncertain situation.
“We have financing for the coming season based on a yes vote, but not for a no vote.
“The Board will not play Russian roulette by entertaining a totally unknown option which would take the Co-operative into a period of significant financial uncertainty – especially when there is bank approval for the Shanghai Maling transaction. Whereas, that is exactly what Mr Cochrane is suggesting.”
“The Shanghai Maling partnership is not just about the money. It will give us unique market access into the fastest growing red meat market in the world. That is of enormous value. What value do the mystery underwriters provide?”
“With our Shanghai Maling partnership we have worked together to build a strong package of controls to protect shareholders and farmer supplier interests in the co-op. We have pre-emptive rights around shares, a set of co-operative governance principles, and protections to maintain a 50:50 share in the operating company.
“With the Cochrane option we don’t have these protections– those underwriters would come in at a very low entry price, likely gain control of the company and be able to sell their shares to whomever they like. There are no controls over what happens next.
“There is a lack of accountability from Mr Cochrane – shareholders have not elected him, he has no fiduciary duties to our Company and shareholders. He’s providing financial advice to shareholders when he’s in no position to do so. What if he’s wrong? What do you get as a shareholder – an apology? – this is a dangerous game.”
Dean Hamilton, Silver Fern Farms chief executive says the Shanghai Maling transaction has significant financial upside compared to the sketchy details in the underwrite.
The Shanghai Maling investment values Silver Fern Farms’ equity at $311 million. This equates to $2.84 per ordinary share, which has been assessed by experts Grant Samuel as being fair value.
“Raising $100 million through a share offer at 40cps would require the company to issue 250 million new shares – that is 2.5x the number of shares on offer today. The sheer weight of issuing 250 million shares would mean the Silver Fern Farms share price would be destined to trade at $40c. This is a significant downside for shareholders when compared to the Shanghai Maling partnership.”
“Pro-forma earnings per share under The Maling Partnership (28c per share) are almost twice that of Mr Cochrane’s (15c per share). The dividend return under the underwrite will also be lower for exisiting ordinary shareholders given the 8.25% preferential dividend that will be paid to the underwriters.
“The underwrite suggestion would see shareholders having to put in $1.00 per existing share, whereas the Shanghai Maling partnership will see shareholders actually receive $0.30 per share as a special dividend.”
“The Shanghai Maling Partnership will give us a unique opportunity in the China market, the resources to accelerate our global value added and through these initiatives create additional value for farmers.”
“Mr Cochrane, and his colleagues Messrs Richardson, Shaw and Gardyne are asking shareholders to vote down a game-changing opportunity with a known party that has the unanimous support of the Board, in return for a speculative underwrite, with an unknown group of investors, at a price that is materially below fair value and that does not have a committed banking solution. Their five minutes to midnight suggestion creates significant risk to the company and to its shareholders.”
“Shareholders should read the Notice of Meeting Information Pack and if needed seek independent financial advice.”
Silver Fern Farms is a major New Zealand processor and marketer of lamb, mutton, beef, venison and associated products to more than 60 countries. It is a farmer-controlled cooperative with more than 6,200 Ordinary Shareholders and over 16,000 farmer partners.The company’s vision is “Inspirational Food Created by Passionate People.”
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Spending more on patients lowers doctors' malpractice risk, study finds
by University of Southern California
Rate of malpractice claims and adjusted hospital spending per physician year are shown. Credit: USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
Physicians who spend more money and resources conducting tests and procedures for patients are less likely to be sued for malpractice, according to a new study that indicates "defensive medicine" may work.
Published Wednesday, Nov. 4 by BMJ, the study by researchers at USC, Harvard University and Stanford University noted that doctors in surveys worldwide said they practice defensive medicine - doing more for patients because they believe it reduces liability risk. The study affirms this widely-held assumption, tying higher spending to lower malpractice claim rates through an analysis of Florida physician and claims data.
Researchers also gave special attention to Caesarean deliveries due to ongoing concerns that many C-sections are performed predominantly due to physicians' malpractice concerns. The link was obvious here, too: The more C-sections that an obstetrician performed, the less likely he or she was to face malpractice complaints.
The findings raise concerns that malpractice risk could be an impediment to health care reform.
"More and more we are relying on physicians to help eliminate wasteful spending in health care. However, if physicians perceive that lowering spending will subject them to greater malpractice risk, it will be that much harder to move the needle on health care spending," said Seth Seabury, an author on the study from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
Legislators and federal officials have tried to remove financial incentives for physicians and hospitals to provide excessive treatment through payment reform.
"One of the reasons we are moving away from the fee-for-service model is to remove the incentives of physicians to spend more. But if spending continues to shield physicians from liability risk then that incentive will still be there," said Seabury, who also is an associate professor of research at the USC School of Pharmacy and at the Keck School of Medicine of USC's Department of Emergency Medicine.
A doctor's effort can influence the outcome of a malpractice lawsuit.
"Higher spending may signal to patients, judges and juries that despite an error, the doctor did everything possible to help," said Dr. Anupam Jena, the study's lead author who is a Harvard Medical School associate professor in the Department of Health Care Policy.
The researchers obtained data from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation for the years 2000 to 2009. The databases included 24,637 physicians with a role in an estimated 19 million hospital discharges and 4,342 malpractice claims.
The researchers analyzed the doctors' malpractice and adjusted hospital spending rates in "physician years" - the course of a year in which any given physician appeared in the data. Researchers found an inverse correlation: As adjusted hospital spending per physician year increased, the malpractice rate dropped.
In internal medicine, for example, the malpractice claim rate per physician year was 1.5 percent, when spending was $19,725 per hospitalization. The claim rate was even lower - 0.3 percent - when spending reached $39,379 per hospitalization.
In obstetrics and gynecology, malpractice claim rates were significantly lower when C-section deliveries were high. The malpractice claim rate fell from 5.7 percent to 2.7 percent when the average adjusted C-section rate per obstetrician year rose from 5.1 percent of all deliveries to 31.6 percent.
The researchers acknowledged some limitations that raised questions worth further study:
The data didn't reveal physician motivation or proclivity. Perhaps some doctors were especially precautious to reduce errors in patient care. In those cases, spending might not have been wasteful.
The data couldn't distinguish between whether the increased spending was associated with better outcomes or simply reduced the likelihood of a malpractice claim for a given outcome.
The study utilized only inpatient data; however, half of all paid malpractice claims are for inpatient incidents.
The physician of record might not have been responsible for total spending on a patient.
The study did not account for situations in which a doctor might avoid treating a patient because he or she represents a high liability risk.
The data were from a single state, Florida, whose health care and malpractice systems may differ from other states'.
Possible solutions
Prior studies have suggested that malpractice claims are often filed due to issues with the physician-patient relationship. Malpractice claims also are often based on a doctor's failure to do something that should have been done (an error of omission), or doing something that shouldn't have been done (an error of commission).
"We need reforms that disentangle malpractice risk from spending, so that physicians who practice safe and effective medicine don't feel the need to spend more for defensive purposes," Jena noted.
NIH funds study of malpractice risk, cardiac testing incentives
More information: Physician spending and subsequent risk of malpractice claims: observational study, BMJ, www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.h5516
Journal information: British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Provided by University of Southern California
Citation: Spending more on patients lowers doctors' malpractice risk, study finds (2015, November 4) retrieved 19 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-patients-lowers-doctors-malpractice.html
Looming malpractice: Waiting for claims resolution takes up more than ten per cent of the average medical career
Giving physicians immunity from malpractice claims does not reduce 'defensive medicine'
Physicians' malpractice concerns predict more testing
Aggressive malpractice environment ups hospital LOS
True cost of medical malpractice
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Study pinpoints what makes human neurons unique
by Cell Press
This graphical abstract shows how human cortical neurons exhibit a higher degree of voltage compartmentalization compared to rodent counterparts due to lower ion channel densities across larger dendritic surfaces. Credit: Beaulieu-Laroche et al. / Cell
Human neurons are much larger than those of model organisms mice and rats, so it's been unclear whether it's size that makes a difference in our brain's computational power. Now, in a study appearing October 18 in the journal Cell, researchers show that unlike those of other animals, human neurons employ highly compartmentalized signaling. Human dendrites—the tree-like branching structures that function as neurons' antennas—process electrical signals differently than dendrites in rodents, the most common model systems for studying neuronal properties.
"The human neuron is basically like a rat neuron, but because it's so much longer, signals have much farther to travel. The human dendrites thus have a different input-output function" from rats, says senior author Mark Harnett, the Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Dendrites farther away from the cell body have fewer ion channels, which control signal processing. That was something we absolutely did not expect."
Harnett, who studies how the biophysical features of neurons shape information processing in the brain, believes our longer, bigger dendritic arbors endow human neurons and their respective circuits with enhanced computational abilities.
"Human neurons are more compartmentalized electrically and can exploit this," he says. "We think that having low ion channel density at the ends of dendrites lets the cell have as many subcompartments as possible. The longer the branches, the more independent the units. You have many more units to do computation within a single neuron."
"Integrating different streams of information in this manner could endow individual neurons with the sophistication of small computational networks," says Harnett.
Using a technique called patch-clamp recording, in which tiny glass needles are sealed against the cell membrane to measure detailed electrical properties, the researchers for the first time directly recorded dendritic activity in living brain tissue from humans. The human tissue (from brain surgeries) was obtained from the anterior temporal lobe of epilepsy patients.
The work could also eventually benefit patients with epilepsy, in which small sections of brain tissue are sometimes removed to control seizures that don't respond to medication. "People have used animal models to think about epilepsy for a long time, but clearly, there are some pretty significant differences, at least in the dendrites, between humans and rodents," Harnett says. "The better we understand ion channels and membrane excitability, the more insight we gain into the mechanisms of epilepsy and how to treat it."
Next steps also involve determining the relationship between neuron size and electrical properties in other species to gain insight into the evolution of the cortex.
Researchers shed light on how our eyes process visual cues
More information: Cell, Beaulieu-Laroche et al.: "Enhanced Dendritic Compartmentalization in Human Cortical Neurons,"Cell (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.045
Journal information: Cell
Provided by Cell Press
Citation: Study pinpoints what makes human neurons unique (2018, October 18) retrieved 19 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-human-neurons-unique.html
Autism-linked gene stunts developing dendrites
Biologists show how brain cells get the message to develop a signaling network
How neurons get their branching shapes
Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain
Researchers reveal how the Fasciola parasite causes neurological disorders
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Tag Archives: Oceansize
Just before Christmas, Terry Bickers (evergreen cult guitarist with The House of Love, and one of a slim pantheon of late ’80s/early ’90s Brit-indie guitar heroes alongside Johnny Marr, John Squire, Nick McCabe and a handful of others) is playing a London guest slot with Brightonian psych-rockers ZOFFF. This isn’t the first time he’s done it. A similar collision and happy entanglement is recorded and celebrated on ZOFF’s brand new live album ‘IV’, capturing the September 2017 set in Brighton in which Terry first joined them on stage.
It’s a reconciliation as much as a guesting – after his first spectacular falling-out with The House Of Love, back in 1989, Terry spent four years fronting post-punk psychmonsters Levitation, interweaving his cetacean-contrail guitars with those of former Cardiac Bic Hayes. It’s a period of his career that’s played down now, in the usual, conservative prodigal-son narrative which implies that he was a one-band indie hero who went astray, fiddled about with nothing much, finally saw sense and came back. But while Levitation lasted they were pretty inspirational: a hell-for-leather band of roaring textures and high anxiety which lasted until a depression-fuelled spat saw Terry falling out with the entire band and very publically ejecting himself.
It took a long time – and a long course of growing up – for rapprochement to happen, but happen it did. Bic now strums, wails and noises for ZOFFF (alongside Brighton go-to drummer Damo Waters, modular audio-visual synth maverick Richard Gorbutt and Crayola Lectern duo Chris Anderson and Al Strachan) creating a massive brass-laden textural throb of psychedelic sleet. As part of the renewed friendship, Terry’s increasingly been invited along to ZOFFF shows by Bic to resume their mutually supportive, strange-bedfellow guitar duello. By all accounts, he fits right in. Here’s a preview of all of them, including Terry, raising consciousness and the roof down at the ‘IV’ gig in Brighton last autumn (plus a brief phone clip of Terry in action and in the moment)…
ZOFFF are playing as part of a pre-Christmas bill which maintains a much-missed tradition. Until they were brought to a crashing halt a decade ago, Cardiacs hosted an annual gathering of their diverse fantribe (usually at the London Astoria) at which they’d play their exuberant, noisy, cryptid pop songs (transmissions from some imaginary Atlantic plateau where no musical forms either died out or became incompatible) and, like kind eccentric uncles, fostered support slots for the likes of Oceansize, Goddamn Whores, The Monsoon Bassoon, Sidi Bou Said, Johnny 4 and other acts from off the beaten track. It was one of the most warm and exciting nights in the alt.rock, or alt.universe, pop calendar, and since Cardiacs’ enforced retirement in 2008 (when leader Tim Smith got very sick indeed – see plenty of past posts), it’s been down to people from those bands, and others, to keep the tradition going. Which they have, building up to this biggest-yet post-Cardiacs event.
Nominally headlining are Spratleys Japs – at one time, an obscure Cardiacs/Tim Smith spinoff. In recent years they’ve been resurrected by their co-vocalist Jo Spratley to celebrate this studio-bound hedge-rock corner of Tim’s work: a kind of wild forest variant on Cardiacs (like a series of strange tome pages, faulty language primer scraps and tufts of Syd Barrett’s pubes ritually scattered and hung from briars throughout Mythago Wood). Now, they’re advancing along the neglected but still-open pathways it set up. Joined by her son Jesse on bass, plus ZOFF’s Damo Waters and psychedelic French escapees the Rodes brothers, Jo’s reinvigorated the original knotty/peculiar Japs songs and (over the past year) built some more of them from scratch, much to Tim’s delight. (“You get wisped away round some corner of God knows wot. You knew it was gonna be good, but not this good…”)
A few of these new songs will be made available at the show as the band launch a boutique vinyl single – the usual deal: limited edition, double-yer-action a-side, hand-carved by trained mice, signatures and so forth. For a longer, more fleshed-out story, try here. For a taste of Spratleys old and new, see below.
Also at the party are ever-rising post-Cardiacs crew Knifeworld, led by the irrepressible Kavus Torabi. His ever-broadening string of exploits have included fronting the current Gong and the long-lost Monsoon Bassoon, guitarring for Guapo and the late-lineup Cardiacs, gabbling nonsense in between records on DJ dates with snooker ace-turned-weird-rock patron Steve Davis, and adding a little extra weirdness to the interim-Pogues music of Spider Stacy. Over the course of a decade and four records, his Knifeworld work has spiralled up from a solo project to become a honkingly powerful brass-and-reed-laden all-star octet; interlacing prog, indie rock, psych, experimental tones and cycling minimalism into an exuberant package of lysergic babble and quadruple-ended hookery.
Everything’s being lit by south coast psychedelic illuminators Innerstrings; and for bonuses, Bic’s contributing a DJ set, as are Kavus and Steve Davies. Plus, there’s going to be a jamboree set of Cardiacs covers and reinterpretations. This will feature a pile-on scratch band featuring Spratleys Japs bolstered by members of all three of the night’s other bands, plus yet another former Cardiacs guitarist (wildcard and Wildheart Jon Poole) and former Oceansize frontman Mike Vennart (currently stretching ears and punishing stages with his post-Oceansize projects Vennart and British Theatre, as well as putting big-league time in as a hired-hand guitar ace for Biffy Clyro).
As a low-key taster for what this might be like, here’s Kavus guesting with Spratleys Japs for a couple of Cardiacs numbers in Brighton last year. This month’s full show is likely to be a friendly cyclone full of flying twigs and bright colours. If you want to find out what all the fuss is about, get on down there.
Spratleys Japs + Knifeworld + ZOFFF
The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, Highbury, London, N5 1RD, England
Friday 21st December 2018, 6.00pm – information here, here and here
Tags: Adrien Rodes, Alistair Strachan, Étienne Rodes, Ben Woolacott, Bic Hayes, Biffy Clyro, Brighton (England), British Theatre, Charlie Cawood, Chloe Herington, Chris Anderson, Damo Waters, Emmett Elvin, Jesse Joe Cutts, Jo Spratley, Johnny 4, Jon Poole, Josh Perl, Kavus Torabi, Knifeworld, Levitation, London (England), Melanie Woods, Mike Vennart, Oceansize, Oliver Sellwood, Richard Gorbutt, Sidi Bou Said, Spratleys Japs, Steve Davis, Terry Bickers, The House Of Love, Vennart, ZOFFF
Categories 2018 music, alternative rock, experimental music, experimental/avant-garde rock, noise rock, pop, post-progressive rock, post-punk, previews, progressive rock, psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, rock, space rock
Upcoming gigs – Lite + Knifeworld + Axes in London, August 19th; Vennart in Leicester and Colchester, August 19th & 20th; Vennart + Knifeworld + Cleft UK tour in November
My part of London’s being gradually gentrified. I’m noting the warning signs – the launderettes being replaced by redundant fresh-fruit emporiums, estate agents proliferating even as the street drinkers melt away; the rough-and-ready Irish pub that’s suddenly been boarded up and now waits to became a sandwich outlet. Even the looming black tower block which dominates the district and which once housed the capital’s most brutal social security offices (leading to it being roundly cursed in song by New Model Army) is being stripped down to white bone and built up into luxury homes, yesterday’s painful memories now smothered under today’s property bubble.
Waiting for the next rent rise – the one which might well bump me out of the neighbourhood in search of new roots – I guess that I can console myself with what seems to be a coincidental side effect. The neighbourhood’s also hosting more interesting gigs, with an influx of art rock, post-progressive and psychedelic evenings nudging aside the garage bands. If this is gentrification, I can at least live with that side of it: Tim Bowness playing down the road at the end of the month, and fresh bursts of tone-colour lighting up Tufnell Park junction on a regular basis. Which leads me to the following…
LITE + Knifeworld + Axes (Pink Mist @ The Dome, 2a Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, London, NW5 1HL UK, Wednesday 19th August 2015, 7.00pm) – £12.00
On August 19th Tokyo instrumental math heroes LITE return to London for a special one-off show at The Dome. A mainstay in the Japanese charts and something of an institution in their homeland, LITE released ‘Approaches 4‘ – six new live recordings including a new track called Balloon – for free download on May 19th. They’ll be joined by shape-shifting psych impresarios Knifeworld. Led by former Monsoon Bassoon/Cardiacs man Kavus Torabi, the London based octet have been hailed by everyone from ‘The Guardian’ to ‘Rock Sound’ to ‘The Line Of Best Fit’ to ‘Drowned In Sound’ and back again. And then there’s Axes, who in ‘Glory’ released one of the best math rock records of the last ten years. All three bands are on the same bill, for £12, which is pretty damned amazing.
Please note that there are age restrictions on this gig – there’s a lower age limit of fourteen, and under-sixteens must be accompanied by an adult, so trainee adolescent psychonauts should take note (or take a fake ID). Up-to-date information on the gig is available here, while tickets are available here.
(UPDATE – whoops. I only posted this twelve hours ago, and suddenly the whole gig has been transferred to The Lexington instead – up-to-date and ongoing details here – though hopefully not because some moneyed flashmob’s now opening a craft brewery on the site of the luckless Dome…)
More British psychedelic/post-progressive rock is out on the road at the same time, since former Oceansize and current British Theatre frontman Mike Vennart (also known for putting extra guitar flail into the live lineup of Biffy Clyro) is playing a couple of warm-up gigs for his appearance at the ArcTanGent Festival with music from his solo album ‘The Demon Joke’. ArcTangent has nearly sold out now (though you might still be able to grab one of the last tickets if you head over to the website now) but I’m plugging the other gigs now for the benefit of anyone within running distance.
The Vennart live band features two other former Oceansizers (Richard “Gambler” Ingram and Steve DuRose) plus drummer Denzel Pearson. Support comes, variously, from Mike and Gambler themselves (as British Theatre, who’ve just released their first new music in three years – a free download single called ‘Cross The Swords‘ which I’ll be reviewing shortly), Colchester alt.rock songwriter Christie Isaac and assorted last-minute Leicestrians (ask the promoter).
Vennart + British Theatre + guests (Robot Needs Home @ Firebug Bar, 25 Millstone Lane, Leicester, UK, Wednesday 19th August 2015 – 7:00pm) £10 – info and tickets here.
Vennart + Christie Isaac (Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF, UK, Thursday 20th August 2015 – 7.30pm) £11 – info and tickets here.
You could also set aside some time in the autumn to catch Vennart’s week-long British tour in November, apparently the last of their gigs for some time (after this, Mike and Gambler will immerse themselves in recording a full album as British Theatre). Knifeworld will return as support on this tour, with the third act on the bill being Mancunian “turbo-prog” duo Cleft who encourage you to think of them as “a machine that compresses fourteen minute songs down to three minutes.”
Bodega Social Club, 23 Pelham Street, Nottingham. NG1 2ED, UK, Monday 23rd November 2015
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, London, W12 7LJ, UK, Tuesday 24th November 2015
The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HE, Wednesday 25th November 2015
King Tut’s, 272a St Vincent St, Glasgow G2 5RL, UK, Thursday 26th November 2015
The Hop, 19 Bank Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 1EH, UK, Friday 27th November 2015
A couple of tastes of Knifeworld and Cleft follow. If I’m going to be fiddling while Rome burns, I can’t imagine better company.
Tags: Axes, Biffy Clyro, British Theatre, Cleft, Colchester (England), Glasgow (Scotland), Kavus Torabi, Knifeworld, Leicester (England), Lite, live concerts, London (England), Manchester (England), Mike Vennart, New Model Army, Nottingham (England), Oceansize, the buds and spawn of Cardiacs and Tim Smith, Tim Bowness, Tokyo (Japan), Vennart, Wakefield (England), wretched self-justification
Categories 2015 music, alternative rock, cross-cultural music, experimental/avant-garde rock, hard rock, heavy metal, instrumental music, math rock, post-progressive rock, previews, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, singer-songwriter
EP reviews – British Theatre: ‘EP’ (“a fresh start, but some old pains linger”)
British Theatre: ‘EP’
All rock bands potentially contain storms. Oceansize were one of the few who genuinely sounded as if they did. For twelve years and four albums, the Manchester quintet careened along just at the underside of a breakthrough. They crafted a complex, roaring and passionate music, which took no prisoners but captured plenty of imagination. While they were around, they barrelled the psychedelic back into heavy metal, the dirt back into prog and the starscapes back into grunge. Perhaps it’s not such a surprise that in 2011 they finally (violently, and without explanation) blew themselves out – like a blazing oil-rig, suddenly snuffed.
Maybe we shouldn’t shed too many tears for Oceansize, even though it was a shame to lose them. Sometimes a situation just comes to an end. Sometimes all of that volatile fuel just runs out, and you’re left with dead, falling machinery. Everyone involved has maintained a taut, wounded silence since the split: but now there’s British Theatre, made up of two former Oceansizers: Richard “Gambler” Ingrams and the band’s battered cherub of a frontman, Mike Vennart. Once wrapped inside a romantic name that made you think of heavy mechanisms or naked storms, they’re now hiding behind a monicker that spins off only confusing signals. A rarified, slightly stuffy textbook? A drawing-room comedy? Kitchen-sink bitterness?
More important is what the music contains, and what the changes have churned up. There are strong strands joining British Theatre’s music to what came before with Oceansize. There’s the crooning bawl of Mike’s voice, for one – a perpetually skinned innocence rising to a pitch of blasted, despairing resistance. Having a tormented side comes as standard for the children of grunge: and British Theatre have carried Oceansize’s moody habits along with them. There’s also the flexible guitars (a mass of tones and liquescent washes) and the interest in long, shape-shifting song structures and their connection to expressiveness. The EP’s closing instrumental – Little Death #3 (6th Gen Degrade) – isn’t far off the wordless romantic-industrial pieces which used to complete Oceansize EPs: winding like a bashed-up river though the remains of a factory district. If Manchester were ever pummelled into the ground, this is what the aftermath might sound like – the sound swallowed up in a cocoon, gentle noises of sifting rubble and Mike’s crumpled guitar nosing in on the breeze, delivering misshapen bluesy asides.
What’s changed is working method. Even before Oceansize fissioned, Gambler had been making a separate name for himself as a solo keyboard player and electronica artist. With Mike now also an enthusiastic convert (both men play “everything” in the new band), British Theatre take on a far more electronic approach, abandoning the metallic live-band contortions of Oceansize to take tips from laptop culture and dubstep, pasting and transparentizing layers of shaped instrumentation and sound effects, plunging deeper into the post-rock melt.
ID Parade On Ice sets up what’s different now. Overlapping electronic polyrhythms, twinkling synth patterns, ghostly floating twinkles of piano flown in from distant rooms. Draughty guitar hums smudge into ominous yellow-wallpaper textures. Lopsided creaking sounds stalk through the music (part untended door, part straining hull) as do bony typewriter clacks and clinks of wire: the harp-trembling of guitar harmonics recall John Fahey. The brutal disaffection of the song, however, is pure Oceansize; as is Mike’s yearning scar of vocal and the bursting choruses.
This may be a fresh start but some old pains linger, whether Mike’s still licking wounds from the split, acting out a teeth-baring Vennart snarl at paymasters or even taking a swipe at the controlling appetite of an audience: “Sit down, be the tormenter – make all of us dance / to songs cynical in tone… / Insist this is a cold magisterial charade, / a pornographic paid display… / Well, I’m glad to fake it for our sake.” Certainly the dark undercurrent of violence, desperation and disgust that seeped through Oceansize songs is still present, as Mike mutters “our engine’s thriving on ketamine and mogadon, / cut ear to ear, cut ear to ear. / Our engine’s thriving on violence and bleeding tongues – / let’s bite away, let’s bite our way out,” while riding a winding snare of melody across a landscape of shifting keyboard smears and stretched beats.
While with Oceansize, Mike and Gambler often seemed to be merging the beefiness of Pearl Jam with the ambitious structures and songwriting of new-prog. With British Theatre, they’re as likely to sound like a grunged-up Talk Talk with pattering dance-loops and restless, frowning tattoos. Gold Bruise, a broodingly lovely ballad with ghostly siren sustain, mouthpiece buzz and Rhodes piano touches floating above a subtle dubstep pulse, shows how far they’ve travelled. It echoes the weightless cocooned take on urban melancholia which Bark Psychosis mined in the mid-’90s for ‘Hex’; but the lovely folk melody threading through it (sung by Mike in a heartbreaking murmur) recalls something far older.
So does the subject matter – archetypal flaming youth and violent life, wound down to its fatal conclusion, only seen and mourned from the outside. Mike’s sung words, spacey and elusive, wreath the story in flashes and outcrops, transforming grit into mythology: “The boy that shot the bullet, decked in yellow gold; / pulled out of the river, angel’s hair for rope.” Despite the beautiful flares of lyrical colour, there’s little doubt that this is a mourning: in fact, for all of Mike’s gentle flow, a stricken raging against a waste and a path gone desperately wrong. “All the stranger’s battle cries / are back to front, wrong to right. / Nothing cradles you through all your crimes…. / You should be calling time / and bursting bubbles / but after all this time you couldn’t care less.” This is an aching, stirring return: the staging and the muscle have changed, but there are still deep storms here.
Download-only EP
Released: 25th February 2012
Buy it from:
Bandcamp.
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Tags: British Theatre, Manchester (England), Mike Vennart, Oceansize, Richard "Gambler" Ingrams
Categories 2012 music, alternative rock, dream pop, electronic, electronica, EP reviews, post-progressive rock, post-rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, reviews, rock
Album reviews – Various Artists: ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies – A Tribute To Tim Smith – Songbook 1’ (“an unmapped musical crossroads… one of the most diverse tribute albums imaginable”)
Various Artists: ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies – A Tribute To Tim Smith – Songbook 1’
Listen. They’re singing at his bedside.
In June 2008, en route back from a My Bloody Valentine concert, the world fell in for Tim Smith. A sudden heart attack (and in immediate cruel succession, a pair of devastating strokes) failed to kill him, but only just. Now he’s in long-term recuperation, condemned to that long wait in the margins. With his damaged body now his enemy, his brain’s left to flick over the days until something – anything – gets better and his luck turns. This is a sad story. Even sadder, given that many similar stories must shuffle out of hospitals every month.
There’s an extra layer of pain here in that for over four decades Tim Smith was a dedicated, compulsive fount and facilitator of music. As the singer, composer and main player of some of the most eerily intense, unique and cryptic songs ever recorded, he sat at an unmapped musical crossroads where apparently incompatible musics met. In turn, his songs were hymnal, punky and part-classical; shot through with crashing guitars, keyboard trills and mediaeval reeds; festooned with swings and changes. They were sometimes choral, or full of martial pomp or playground squabble. They were sometimes ghostly. They were a damned ecstatic racket, or a parched and meditative whisper. With what’s now become a brutal irony they also frequently fluttered, quizzically, across the distinctions of life and death; sometimes seeing little separation between the two states, sometimes hovering somewhere in between; sometimes seeing as much meaning in the wingbeat of a stray insect as in the scrambling for human significance.
Tim’s rich and puzzled perspective on life and the weave of the world travelled out to a fervent cult following via a sprouting tree of projects – the quaking mind-mash rock of Cardiacs; the psychedelic folk of Sea Nymphs, the tumbledown explorations of Oceanland World or Spratleys Japs. In addition (and belying the manic, infantile mood-swings of his onstage persona) the man was generous of himself. Via sound production, video art or simple encouragement, his influence and peculiar energy spread from feisty indie rock bands right across to New Music performers and bedroom-studio zealots. It spread far wider than his nominally marginal status would suggest. For all of this, Smith never received adequate reward or overground recognition for these years of effort – another sting in the situation (though, having always been a stubborn goat, he’s probably dismissed it).
Yet if he’s been slender of pocket, he’s proved to be rich in love. His praises may not have been sung by the loudest of voices, but they are sung by a scrappy and vigorous mongrel choir, scattered around the houses. The Smith influence haunts cramped edit suites and backwater studios. It lingers in the scuffed shells of old ballrooms, and in the intimate acoustics of a handful of cramped Wren churches in London: it’s soaked into the battered ash-and-beer-stained sound desks of rock pubs. Most particularly, it lives in the memories of thirty years of backroom gigs where people baffled at, laughed at and finally yelled along with the giddy psychological pantomime of a Cardiacs concert; and where they lost their self-consciousness and finally stumbled away with their armour discarded.
And now, all silenced?
In many cases, these same people who yelled and sang from the audience (or, onstage, from beside Tim) would go on to form bands which demonstrated that three chords and a crude truth was far too blunt a brush with which to paint a picture of the world. All of this outgoing wave of energy comes rolling back with a vengeance on ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies’. Put together by Bic Hayes (best known for galactic guitar in Levitation and Dark Star, but in his time a Cardiac) and Jo Spratley (Tim’s former foil in Spratleys Japs), it’s an album of Smith cover versions in which every penny of profit going back to raise money for Tim’s care. In effect, it’s swept up many of those people who sang along with Tim Smith over the years (all grown up now, and numbering characters as diverse as The Magic Numbers, Julianne Regan and Max Tundra) and brought them back for visiting hours.
And they sang outside his window, and they sang in the corridors; and from the ponds and rivers, from the windows of tower blocks and from lonely cottages…
Given Tim Smith’s own eclecticism, it’s hardly surprising that ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies’ is one of the most diverse tribute albums imaginable. Despite the familial feel, the musical treatments on here vary enormously. Lost broadcasts, festooned in unsettling noise, rub up against stately electric folk. Psychedelic grunge balances out colourful playschool techno. Unaccompanied Early Music recreations drift one way, while centipedal Rock-in-Opposition shapes charge off in another. None of this would work if Tim’s songs – seemingly so resistant – didn’t readily adapt. Anyone can get around the shape of a Neil Young song, a Paul McCartney song or even a Morrissey song for a tribute: but these rampant compositions with their peculiar twists are of a different, wilder order. However, every contributor has managed to embrace not only the unorthodox Smith way with a Jacob’s Ladder tumble of chords but also his dense lyrical babble, which grafts nonsense onto insight and the ancient onto the baby-raw. Everyone involved has striven to gently (or vigorously) tease the songs out of cult corner and bring them to light.
Take, for instance, what The Magic Numbers have done with A Little Man and a House. This anguished Cardiacs ode to the 9-to-5 misfit has never seemed quite so universal, slowly pulling out from one man’s chafing frustration for a panoramic view of a worldful of human cogs. (“And there’s voices inside me, they’re screaming and telling me ‘that’s the way we all go.’ / There’s thousands of people just like me all over, but that’s the way we all go.”) The original’s pained South London squawk and huffing machinery noises are replaced by Romeo Stodart’s soft American lilt, while massed weeping clouds of piano and drums summon up an exhausted twilight in the Monday suburbs. Likewise, when Steven Wilson (stepping out of Porcupine Tree for a moment) sighs his way through a marvelously intuitive and wounded solo version of Stoneage Dinosaurs, he takes Tim’s hazy memories of childhood fairgrounds and incipient loss and makes them glisten like rain on a car mirror while sounding like the saddest thing in the world. Even with Wilson’s own formidable reputation behind him, this is immediately one of the finest things he’s ever done – an eerie ripple through innocence; a sudden, stricken look of grief flitting for a moment across a child’s face.
Three of the covers have added poignancy from being connected to ends, to new beginnings, or to particular paybacks. When Oceansize abruptly split up at the peak of their powers, their final word as a band turned out to be Fear (this album’s loving cover of an obscure Spratleys Japs track). Rather than their usual muscular and careening psychedelic brain-metal, they render this song as a soft-hued exit, a fuzzed-up tangle of fairy lights which wanders hopefully down pathways as they gently peter out. Conversely, glammy Britpop anti-heroes Ultrasound set an acrimonious decade-old split behind them and reformed especially to record for this project. Their whirling clockwork version of the Cardiacs anthem Big Ship is all boxed-in and wide-eyed. It bobs along like a toy theatre while the band fire off first pain (“the tool, the tool, forever falling down / planes against the grain of the wood / for the box, for my soul / and my aching heart,”) and ultimately burst into the kind of incoherent, hymnal inclusiveness which was always a Cardiacs trademark – “All of the noise / takes me to the outside where there’s all /creations, joining in / celebrating happiness and joy; /all around the world, / on land and in the sea.” It seems to have worked for them – they sound truly renewed.
Some of Tim Smith’s songs have a strangely mediaeval tone or texture to them, and some have a twist of eerie folk music. These attract different interpretations. Foundling was once a particularly bereft and fragile Cardiacs moment: an orphaned, seasick love-song trawled up onto the beach. Accompanied by elegant touches of piano and guitar, the genteel art-rockers Stars in Battledress transform it into a heartfelt, change-ringing English bell-round. North Sea Radio Orchestra travel even further down this particular line – their bright tinkling chamber music sweeps up the hammering rock parade of March and turns it into a sprightly, blossoming cortege. Packing the tune with bells, bassoon and string quartet, they dab it with minimalism and a flourishing Purcell verve: Sharron Fortnam’s frank and childlike soprano clambers over the darker lyrics and spins them round the maypole.
Deeper into folk, Katherine Blake (of Mediaeval Baebes) and Julianne Regan (the shape-shifting frontwoman for All About Eve and Mice) each take an eerie acoustic Sea Nymphs fragment and rework it on their own. Julianne’s version of the children’s dam-building song Shaping the River adds rattling tambourine, drowsy slide guitar and a warm murmur of voice: it’s as if the faded lines of the song had washed up like a dead leaf at her feet, ready to be reconstructed at folk club. (“Pile some sticks and pile some mud and some sand. / Leave the ends wide, / three against the side, / plug the heart of flow.”) Katherine’s narcotic a-cappella version of Up in Annie’s Room might have shown up at the same concert. A world away from the pealing cathedral organ of the original, it slips away into empty space in between its gusts of eerie deadened harmonizing and Tim’s sleepy, suggestive cats-cradle of words (“Fleets catch your hair on fire. / The fleet’s all lit up – flags, flame on fire…”)
Max Tundra, in contrast, sounds very much alive and fizzing. His pranktronica version of the brutal Will Bleed Amen re-invents it as delightfully warm and loopy Zappa-tinted techno. Its abrupt air-pocketed melody opens out like a sped-up clown car: when a convoluted cone of lyrics punches his voice up and sticks it helpless to the ceiling, former Monsooon Bassoon-er Sarah Measures is on hand to provide a cool clear vocal balance, as well as to build a little open cage of woodwind at the heart of the rush. It’s a terrific reinvention, but perhaps not the album’s oddest turnaround. That would be courtesy of Rose Kemp and Rarg – one a striving indie-rock singer and blood-heir to the Steeleye Span legacy, the other the laptop-abusing keyboard player with Smokehand. Rose is a Cardiacs interpreter with previous form: this time she’s fronting a forbidding glitch-electronica version of Wind And Rains Is Cold with all of the cute reggae bounce and innocence pummeled out of it. While Rarg flattens and moves the scenery around in baleful planes, Rose delivers the nursery-rhyme lyric with a mixture of English folk stridency and icy Germanic hauteur, uncorking its elliptical menace as she does – “Now you remember, children, how blessed are the pure in heart – / want me to take ’em up and wash ’em good?… / Hide your hair, it’s waving all lazy and soft, / like meadow grass under the flood.”
While most of the musicians on ‘Leader…’ could cite Tim Smith as an influence, Andy Partridge was a influence on Tim himself, way back in his XTC days. Three-and-a-half decades later he repays the appreciation by guesting on the dusky autumnal spin which The Milk & Honey Band‘s Robert White gives to a Sea Nymphs song, Lilly White’s Party. Redolent with regret (for more innocent times, before a fall), it covers its eyes and turns away from the shadows falling across the hillside. Partridge’s deep backing vocals add an extra thrum of sympathy: “Let’s not reinvent the wheel, let’s not open that can of worms, / Let’s not say what we did, and play by ear. / Back to square one…”
The backbone of ‘Leader Of The Starry Skies’ however, comes from the contributions of former Cardiacs players reconnecting with the family songbook. As with any family over time, they’re scattered. One of the earliest members, Pete Tagg, now drums for The Trudy, who take the bucketing psychedelic charge of Day is Gone and offer a more down-to-earth spin on it for the indie disco, keeping that heady chromatic slide of chorus but adding a suspiciously blues-rock guitar solo and Melissa Jo Heathcote’s honeyed vocals. One of the more recent Cardiacs additions, Kavus Torabi, brings his band Knifeworld to the party. He hauls a particularly involved and proggy Cardiacs epic – The Stench of Honey – back through a 1970s Henry Cow filter of humpbacked rhythms, woodwind honks, baby squeaks and rattletrap percussion. Double-strength art rock, it could have been a precious step too far. Instead, it’s triumphant, its skeletal circular chamber music salad-tossed by stomping bursts and twitches of joy.
Onetime Cardiacs keyboard player William D. Drake offers a gentler, kinder tribute, taking the shanty-rhythms of Savour and spinning them out into soft Edwardiana with harmonium, ukulele and a gently bobbing piano finale. Drake’s predecessor Mark Cawthra brings an eerie sense of pain to his own cover version: back in the earliest days, he was Tim Smith’s main foil, playing lively keyboards and drums as well as sharing the bumper-car vocals. Now he sounds like the head mourner, taking on the heavy tread of Let Alone My Plastic Doll and sousing it with Vanilla Fudge-slow organ, doubled guitar solos and sigh-to-wail vocals. The twitchy, baby-logic lyrics are slowly overwhelmed by an undercurrent of grief, but the kind of grief that can only come from a older, wiser man.
Under his Mikrokosmos alias, Bic Hayes takes on Cardiacs’ biggest near-hit (Is This The Life) and subjects it to startling psychedelic noise-storms and industrial drum twirling. In the process, he shakes out and enhances its original pathos. Blown splay-limbed into a corner by a tornado of white noise, plug-in spatters and buzzing malfunctions, Bic’s voice is nasal, lost and forlorn. It sings of split and rootless identity against a wall of forbidding harmonium: “Looking so hard for a cause, and it don’t care what it is; / and never really ever seeing eye to eye / though it doesn’t really mind. / Perhaps that’s why / it never really saw.” Although Jo Spratley coos reassurance under ululations of alto feedback, Bic still ends up cowering like a damaged crane-fly under showers of distorted harpsichords and Gothic synths. Bewitchingly damaged.
The last word goes to The Scaramanga Six, the swaggering Yorkshire theatricalists who were the main beneficiaries of Smith production work before the accident. By their usual meaty standards, the Six’s take on The Alphabet Business Concern (Cardiacs’ tongue-in-cheek corporate anthem, packed to the gunwales with flowery salutes) initially seems cowed, as if flattened by dismay and sympathy at Tim’s misfortune. But it doesn’t end there. Starting tremulous and hushed, with nothing but the embers of faith to keep it up, it builds gradually from tentative acoustic guitars and hiding vocals up through a gradual build of electric instruments, feeding in and gaining strength: “and now the night of weeping shall be / the morn of song…” Over the course of the anthem the Six go from crumpled to straightened to proud cheat-beating life. By the end, the recording can hardly contain their vigorous Peter Hammill bellows, as they sweep out in a grand procession with rolling guitars, pianos and extended Cardiacs choirs. It’s a stirring, defiant finale to an album that’s done everything it could to blow away the ghosts of helplessness and to charge up not just an armful of Smith songs but, in its way, a vivid sense of Smith. He might have taken a bad, bad fall; but the humming and rustling vitality of the music, the way that it’s become a spray of vivid lively tendrils reaching far and wide, is an enormous reassurance.
Listen. He’s alive. He’s alive.
Believer’s Roast, BR003 (5060243820372)
CD/vinyl/download album
Released: 13th December 2010
Genepool (CD) or iTunes (download)
Tim Smith online:
‘Leader Of The Starry Skies – A Tribute To Tim Smith – Songbook 1’ online:
Tags: Andy Partridge, Bic Hayes, Bob White, Cardiacs, Christian Hayes, Craig Fortnam, fund-raising, gestures of faith, glorious twitch, head spins gently, intimations of ancientness, intriguingly mixed bags, Julianne Regan, Katherine Blake, Kavus Torabi, kinda blue, Knifeworld, listening to women, Mark Cawthra, Max Tundra, men and women singing together, Mikrokosmos, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Oceansize, Rarg, rattlebag, Robert White, Rose Kemp, Sarah Measures, Stars in Battledress, Steven Wilson, the buds and spawn of Cardiacs and Tim Smith, The Magic Numbers, The Milk & Honey Band, The Monsoon Bassoon, The Scaramanga Six, The Trudy, Tim Smith, tribute albums, Ultrasound, William D. Drake, word salad
Categories 2010 music, album reviews, alternative pop, alternative rock, crossover, dance, Early Music, electronic, electronica, experimental music, folk music, folktronica, freaktronica, math rock, pop, post-punk, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, punk rock, reviews, rock, sampledelia
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September 2018 – upcoming rock gigs – Rumour Cubes, Agathe Max and Dream Logic in London (14th September); Major Parkinson’s European autumn tour (various dates, 26th September to 6th October)
Like progressive rock before it, post-rock ended up disappointingly short of genuinely inspiring exponents. The blueprint was all very well: retaining rock’s technology and what remained of its countercultural drive while dissolving its rigid methods, its predictable narratives and textures and its conservative exclusions In practise, few could reach (or be bothered to reach) the heights of the movement’s most inspired figures and their new paths: such as Tortoise’s integration of jazz, dub and electronica; Slint’s taut, grinding refusals; Godspeed’s sprawling/brooding scapes of punk-cinema-versus-conservatoire-grandeur; Talk Talk’s mendicant, increasingly hermetic passage from synth-pop to a dissolution of blues, prog and folk into distressed noise and silence; Moonshake’s abrasive post-everything groove and careening samples; Disco Inferno’s angst-ridden music concrete and social challenge. Most post-rockers, then and now, have stuck with a glowering reduction, a boiling-out of rock posturing leaving a glum muted residue of passive riffs and patterns… actually, more of an opt-out than a boil-out; in which say, the impact of Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit Of Eden’ is much-cited but rarely remembered in terms of how it can inform and colour the music, much less for the intimations it can throw up.
Though they’re not overturners – at least, not in the tradition of the bands I’ve cited above – third-generation London post-rockers Rumour Cubes are a welcome exception to the procession of drab refuseniks that make up the bulk of the post-rock movement. It’s probably partly because they’re proud and self-confessed “counter-revolution(aries)”, founded from the start around violin, guitar and electronics and obtaining their rock instrumentation later rather than using and rebelling against it from the start. Their origins, too, stick in post-rock’s teeth. Violinist Hannah Morgan lied about her knowledge of the genre in order to bluff her way into the starting lineup, while guitarist/main composer Adam Stark and drummer Omar Rahwangi were already impatient with its dour restrictions. In an interview with Chaos Theory, Adam’s stated that “as a band we are painfully aware of how boring post-rock can be… what we are trying to do is take what we find amazing about those bands that have influenced us and that are part of our community, and do something new with it.”
What Rumour Cubes have done is in as much in the in the lines of good prog rock as good post-rock – opening the gates to a variety of ingredients and described as a “luminous re-imagining of very many constituent parts” by ‘Louder than War’. As with underrated Aussie unit Apricot Rail, the toned-down interweave of guitars and the Krautrock groove bass often aim for a slow-building pastoral ecstasy while the band seeks a sweet spot that’s more country and roots than graphs and laboratory. The dancing interplay, in particular, between Hannah and viola player Terry Murphy ducks lemony-minimal string textures in favour of something that’s more country hoedown or folk fiddle. Rumour Cubes often hit their own delightful merge-point between the rustic and the highly technological, performing on bowed banjo and (the ubiquitous) post-rock glockenspiel in addition to the guitars, strings, keyboards and percussion, adding brass and harps where they can, and regularly bringing in instruments like the gestural technology of mi.mu gloves, new uses for joystick controllers, software-synchronised video displays and a battery of custom effects pedals to create new textures. Their gigs are, in consequence, joyous and open-ended experiences: collaborations, on and offstage with poets and filmmakers result in the music never stagnating.
Following two years of silence, and four without new music, Rumour Cubes return to live work via a gig at the Underdog Gallery near London Bridge, in order to premiere a batch of new music (including upcoming single ¡No Pasarán!, which will be out in a few week’s time). Meanwhile, here are some previous bits of Cubery to whet the appetite.
A couple of other acts are joining the show – firstly, amplified French acoustic violinist Agathe Max, who fled classical music around twenty years ago in favour of improvised sonic textural music and electrically-enhanced string-drones. Currently playing with Kuro and Mésange, she’s appearing alone on this occasion in order to offer a set of solo violin works. Secondly, Dream Logic: the recent solo project from Adam Fulford (previously known as the guitarist for Bristolian post-rockers This Is My Normal State) It’s pealing, cool-busting stuff which sees Adam all but drowning his own plagent piano lines, guitars and basses in eager tides of yearning orchestral strings and feverish noise clutter, bringing him comparisons to Nils Frahm and to A Winged Victory for the Sullen. This is Dream Logic’s third show (following previous support slots for Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment’s rulebreaking alter-ego the Night Shift and for rebranded ambient post duo VLMV (previously ALMA) and live arrangements usually involve a string quartet: let’s hope he comes up with the goods on this occasion, too.
Echoes And Dust presents:
Rumour Cubes + Agathe Max + Dream Logic
The Underdog Gallery, Arch 6, Crucifix Lane, Southwark, London, SE1 3JW, England
Friday 14th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
A little later in the month, jumpy and unpredictable Norwegian art-rockers Major Parkinson are dipping into England as part of an autumn European tour presenting their new ‘Blackbox’ album (and which also includes Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands). A jaggedly muscular alternative pop proposition, Major Parkinson’s music recalls a host of eclectic forebears such as The Monochrome Set and Faith No More: most notably, they’ve become a hit with the sometimes partisan (and often hard-to-impress) Cardiacs fanbase, who appreciate unrestrained complex melodicism and truckloads of energy, and have been up and yelping about this band for a while now.
I can’t really top this for an intro…
“Major Parkinson write tunes. But with influences from across the rock and classical genres (from The Beatles to Cardiacs) and a warped vision of the musical world, their tunes are like no other. You may hear a snippet of an East European folk song, a nursery rhyme, a stage musical, even a rock anthem, all played out on a range of instruments that a symphony orchestra couldn’t muster – synths, strings, old typewriters, brass and reputedly a decommissioned jet fighter engine. The musical scores behind their songs are both monumental and breathtaking – explosive synth and guitar sections that pound at your heart and then instantly make it melt with beautiful choral harmonies, and then drawn in you will dance and sing along as if centre-stage in a West End show.
“With songs too that cover subjects as diverse as Pavlovian hounds to ducks in the pond, the sheer scale and absurdity of the Norwegian band’s extraordinary musical world can only be truly appreciated by seeing their seven-piece stage performances live.”
All of the upcoming shows appear to be solo flights for the Major, other than London, Berlin and St Gallen. No news yet on the Berlin guest, but in London support comes (bizarrely, but delightfully) from Sterbus, the quirky Anglophile Italian art-popper similarly beloved of Cardiacs fans and who’s sitting on what promises to be one of 2018’s sunniest and most enjoyable rock albums: he’ll be playing with a band including longterm woodwind-and-vocal sidekick Dominique D’Avanzo, Pocket Gods’ keyboard wizard Noel Storey and Cardiacs drummer Bob Leith. In St Gallen, the gig’s being opened by bouzouki-toting Dutch psych-exotica rockers Komodo, whose music also draws on raga, hip hop, desert blues, rumba and ’60s harmony pop and surf rock.
Full dates:
The Hare & Hounds, 106 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ, England, Wednesday 26th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
Exchange, 72-73 Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0EJ, England, Thursday 27th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
The Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross, London, WC1X 8BZ, England, Friday 28th September 2018 7.30pm (with Sterbus) – information here and here
Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1DF, England, Saturday 29th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
Hafenklang, Große Elbstrasse 84, 22767 Hamburg, Germany, Monday 1st October 2018, 8.00pm – information here and here
Cassiopeia, Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin, Germany, Tuesday 2nd October 2018, 7.30pm (with support t.b.c) – information here, here and here
Backstage München, Reitknechtstr. 6, 80639 München, Germany, Wednesday 3rd October 2018, 7.30pm – information here, here and here
Grabenhalle, Unterer Graben 17, 9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland, Thursday 4th October 2018, 7.30pm (with Komodo) – information here, here and here
Orange Peel, Kaiserstraße 39, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Friday 5th October 2018, 8.00pm – information here and here
ProgPower Europe 2018 @ Jongerencentrum Sjiwa, Hoogstraat 1a, 5991 XC Baarlo, Netherlands, Saturday 6th October 2018, 8.00pm – information here, here and here
Tags: Agathe Max, Baarlo (Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Birmingham (England), Bob Leith, Dream Logic, Frankfurt (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Komodo, London (England), Major Parkinson, Manchester (England), München (Germany), Noel Storey, Rumour Cubes, Sterbus, string quartet, violin music
Categories 2018 music, acoustic pop, alternative pop, alternative rock, art pop, art punk, art rock, baroque pop, classical fusion, experimental pop, experimental/avant-garde rock, festivals, pop, post-classical, post-progressive rock, post-rock, previews, progressive pop, psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, rock, singer-songwriter
September 2018 – more Woodburner world/acoustica/pop sessions at Dalston Eastern Curve Gardens – Rum Buffalo Trio, Joe Corbin and Lorkin O’Reilly (4th September); M w S, Boe Huntress and Equal Echo (11th September); The Age Of Luna, Marine and Desert Rain (18th September); Choro Alvorada, Max Baillie and Li Alba (25th September)
More outdoor summer Woodburner gigs at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, as the season moves into its final month: holding autumn at bay while it can.
The 4th September show features festival legends Rum Buffalo, bluesman Joe Corbin, and touring NYC artist Lorkin O’Reilly.
“Rum Buffalo fornicate with forgotten songs. They mingle in many genres but feed off the rich antique roots of swing and moody blues infiltrated with hip hop beats and filthy synth lines. It’s a surreal, vaudevillian show with outrageous costumes, twisted vocal harmonies, powerful beats and outrageous horn sounds. On the night expect a stripped-off trio show, revealing the core of their beastly natures.
“Joe Corbin is a blues and soul musician from South London. An accomplished guitarist, powerful singer, and true performer, watching Joe play is bound to blow you away.
“Since arriving in Hudson, NY from his native Scotland, Lorkin O’Reilly has been making a name for himself on the New York folk scene with his delicate guitar technique and deft lyricism. This year has seen him share stages with the likes of Charlie Parr, Nadia Reid, Willy Mason, Mick Flannery and Ciaran Lavery. His debut album ‘Heaven Depends’ was released on 24th August on Team Love Records.”
The 11th September gig features R&B/soul collective M w S, North London songstress Boe Huntress, and new electronic collaboration Equal Echo.
“M w S is a London-based duo formed in Italy in 2013. Their musical influences are artists from soul, R&B and nu-soul (such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill) mixed with contemporary neo-jazz artists like Tom Misch and Masego and electro-influenced artists like Vallis Alps and Louis Matters. Their first EP ‘Swim’ is a mix of pop, contemporary R&B and nu-soul with lyrics that sometimes recall their home country; their latest release, Island, produced by Grammy-award winning London producer Aamir Yaqub (Rihanna, Ne-yo) is a soulful chilled track full of tropical and summery vibes. M w S are currently working on their next EP, due out in 2019.
“Boe Huntress grew up in Kent, playing and writing music from an early age. Her first job was writing songs for an online magazine, reviewing video games in song-form: a crash course in the art of songwriting, recording and producing, as well as in receiving immediate response to her work online. Studying Literature at university, Boe was inspired by both myth and feminism: beginning to play live, she was soon chosen by the IC Music Network as one of twelve up-and-coming artists to tour across Europe.
“Boe’s debut EP, ‘A Female Power’, is an earthy, epic debut reminiscent of both Kate Bush and Bjork. The EP is inspired by four female mythological figures (“we’ve been deprived of certain ways of seeing woman – this EP is an exploration of the darker, more unexplored aspects…”) and Boe’s taken it one step further by creating an immersive audio-visual show alongside the record. The EP is brought to life onstage by Aletta Dina on drums and Melanie Powell on synths and electronics, while Boe fronts the band with her raw, ethereal vocal and electric guitar.
“Equal Echo is a new collaboration from Londoners Hector Plimmer (DJ and producer/creator of last year’s acclaimed ‘Sunshine’ album of broken beat, trip hop, instrumental soul and field recordings) and Alexa Harley (fellow producer, songwriter and collaborating singer for Hybrid Minds, Tom Misch and Mt. Wolf). The pair initially started working together with a one-off collaboration in mind: however, once they started, it soon became clear this would be more than just a feature project. For the last year-and-a-half Harley and Hector have been meeting two days a week, almost every week, creating music that shares an equal input of musical ideas from one another.
The amalgamation of styles and musical backgrounds blend together to make a sound unlike either Harley or Hector produce alone, whilst still retaining the best attributes from both. Not only are they musical partners, they are also best friends. Over the last two years the dynamic live show has been previewed at Archspace and Ghost Notes, with their premier festival appearances at Brainchild and Glastonbury Festivals.”
The last show, on 18th September, features London-based hip hop/R&B trio The Age Of Luna, sensual pop mythologists Marine and atmospheric Finnish world-folkers Desert Rain.
“The Age of Luna – “average joes with powerful minds” – number Butch Arkas, his schoolmate Kyote Noir and singer/saxophonist Daniella Wizard. Each brings their own influences and sensibilities to the table, and the end results reflect not just the four different musical personalities but the blend of tradition and technology that saw them get together in the first place. Despite their relative youth, the band has played over a hundred shows with festival plays at the likes of Glastonbury, Wireless, Secret Garden party and Live At Leeds. Their debut, self-titled album was released earlier this year to great acclaim and the band are busy working on new music due for release later this year.
“London-based Marine – formed in 2014 by Cara Sebastian (vocals and guitar), Beth Dariti (bass) and Kaja Magsam (drums), and described by ‘The Line Of Best Fit’ as “the musical equivalent of a creamy post-coital blush” – have just released their debut album ‘Fable Electric’, via The Vinyl Factory (following the beguiling singles Mount Olympus and Sirens).
“Produced by Rob Ellis (Anna Calvi, PJ Harvey, Cold Specks), ‘Fable Electric’ is an album that brims with exploratory wonder and bridges the gaps between spectral pop, dreamy grunge and ambient folk. Both wild and elegant, it is framed by intuitive beats, bass hypnosis that playfully counters melody, and a deep love of contrast. The vocal lines braid together over hooky guitar lines in a complex plait of old and new, understated and operatic, light and dark. The songs of Marine crystallized from mythology and fables, mingling with personal words and emotions to form tales of the ordinary and extraordinary. Their songs reference the underworld, seal demons, mighty Kraken, werewolves, witches and Gods, and even question the very nature of storytelling itself.
“Jyväskylä quintet Desert Rain are songwriter Ville Lähdepolku on guitar and vocals, Alex Lee on drums, Farshad Sanati on santour and vocals, Petri Pentikäinen on tabla and darbouka, and Ville Määttä on bass, keyboards, voice and a cluster of international wind instruments including Armenian duduk. They play hypnotic world-folk music that tends towards the mystic. From Finland to Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, just for you.”
The last show, on 25th September, features choro band Choro Alvorada, international violin virtuoso Max Baillie, and the Latin-inspired songwriter Li Alba.
“Choro Alvorada is a London-based group who play Brazilian choro music of all styles, including lesser-known works and original compositions. Choro emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the late nineteenth century as a mixture of European harmony with African rhythm and improvisation, in a similar way to jazz and ragtime. The name comes from the Portuguese verb “chorar”, which means “to cry”, and indeed choro music certainly has its fair share of tear-inducing laments. But choro is mostly known for its lively, playful and syncopated melodies in the traditional setting of a “roda”; that is, with musicians playing informally around the table (drinking plenty of beer – provided by the loving fans, of course!).
“Choro Alvorada have the traditional instrumentation of the ‘regional’ choro ensemble: clarinet (played by Andrew Woolf), flute (played by Rachel Hayter), 7-string guitar (played by Luiz Morais), cavaquinho (played by Jeremy Shaverin) and pandeiro (played by Alua Nascimento). They play a wide variety of styles of choro, exploring influences from all over Brazil (and London). They play with the irresistable swing of samba from the south and baião from the north-east, and even in the style of frevo, a carnival dance from the north-east! Many of the choros they play are their own compositions, so you may find a Cockney twist to them. They famously continued to play through a thunderstorm at the Curve Garden in Summer 2017, bringing a portion of the audience onto the stage with them in the style of the traditional roda.
“Maverick violinist and violist Max Baillie is truly one-in-a-million. Born to the sound of his twin sisters practising scales and argeggios, raised by his concert-cellist father and violin-teacher mother, before travelling the world and gaining a first-class degree from Cambridge University in… Politics. Apart from that short sabbatical, Max’s whole life has been music. Yet when you watch and listen, there is a spontaneity in his playing that makes you realise that in spite of all the history, education, and practise, a Max Baillie has to be born rather than made. Max-in-a-million is an international artist, having performed in Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, France, Australia and many other corners in the last twelve months, both as a concert soloist and with other projects including ZRI, who fuse sounds of Brahms with gypsy and Hungarian folk. Witness.
“Singer. Linguist. Lover of Latin, jazz and folk traditions. Voice of velvet and force of nature. Li Alba grew up in London, listening to traditional Spanish and Greek music whilst training as a classical singer. Graduating from Guildhall juniors in music and RADA in acting, she fell away from opera and into wild Easter European theatre arts, as a professional member of the Gardzienice Theatre Company. Partaking in independent arts projects around the world she has worked through music and staged mediums with global practitioners including Katie Mitchell, Mark Ravenhill, James Brennan and Julian Maynard Smith.
“Li has contributed to London’s night life scene by supporting in the launches of two venues, Kansas Smitty’s and Juju’s Bar & Stage, and is now embarking on her solo career with a plethora of musicians with global flavours and feels. She is accompanied by guitarist Telmo Souza who has played for Rhythms Of The City and Ines Loubet (amongst many others), and who leads the astonishing Afro-samba ensemble Caravela.”
All events are at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, 13 Dalston Lane, Dalston, London, E8 3DF, England on Tuesday evenings. Dates below:
Rum Buffalo Trio + Joe Corbin + Lorkin O’Reilly – Tuesday 4th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
M w S + Boe Huntress + Equal Echo – Tuesday 11th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
The Age of Luna + Marine + Desert Rain – Dalston Curve Garden – Tuesday 18th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
Choro Alvorada + Max Baillie + Li Alba – Dalston Curve Garden – Tuesday 25th September 2018, 7.00pm – information here and here
Tags: Alexa Harley, Alua Nascimento, Andrew Woolf, Boe Huntress, Choro Alvorada, Desert Rain, Equal Echo, Finland, Hector Plimmer, Jeremy Shaverin, Joe Corbin, Li Alba, London (England), Lorkin O'Reilly, Luiz Morais, M w S, Marine, Max Baillie, Rachel Hayter, Rum Buffalo Trio, Telmo Souza, The Age Of Luna, viola music, violin music, Woodburner (event/promoter)
Categories 2018 music, acoustic music, acoustic pop, Afrobeat, choro, club music, cross-cultural music, crossover, dance, dance pop, DIY music, downtempo, dream pop, electro-acoustic music, festivals, folk music, folk-jazz, folk-pop, hip hop, instrumental music, jazz, Latin dance, Malian music, neo-soul, pop, previews, R&B, rapping, rock, roots music, singer-songwriter, soul, trip hop, world & indigenous music, worldbeat
December 2017 – upcoming London classical etc. gigs – Tre Voci’s spacework (3rd); Keith Burstein’s chamber music (11th)
As a matter of course, London-based Anglo-Norwegian cello trio Tre Voci (consisting of Torun Saeter Stavseng, Gregor Riddell and Colin Alexander) sit on a triple cusp. Their work focusses on Early music, contemporary compositions (they’ve premiered work by composers including Mica Levi, Alex Nikiporenko, Bryn Harrison, Kit Downes, Peter Wiegold, Edwin Hillier and Sergei Zagny) and improvisations. Much of this early December concert (played twice in a single day, under the aegis of the Nonclassical organization) sees them explore the third of these directions, creating “meditative” new surround-sound music in combination with outstanding Iranian hand-drummer Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. Laid out in the ICA’s performance space, it will be part gig, part walk-through three-dimensional installation, with further synaesthesic dimensions added by the live visuals from Norwegian artist Henrik Koppen.
For part of the concert’s second half, the trio will play unspecified new compositions of their own as well as teaming up with Norwegian soprano Silje Aker Johnsen to premier a new work by David Stephen Grant. In a recent interview on the Nonclassical blog, Colin Alexander states that the Grant piece will “cover the listeners in thick, interwoven layers of sound… David writes rich, warm and engulfing electro-acoustic music that will fill the space at ICA with shifting harmonies and blurred timbres. My first experience of his writing was through a duo for violin and cello with electronics that I performed with Mira Benjamin in Oslo and London. Although simple and relatively short it was incredibly effective through its nuanced beauty and delicately judged movement.”
Nonclassical & Tre Voci Cello Ensemble present:
Tre Voci: Orbits
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, Westminster, London, SW1Y 5AH England, United Kingdom
Sunday 3rd December 2017, 4.00pm & 8.00pm – information here and here
There was a time when Keith Burstein could barely stay out of trouble. As a conductor and commissioner of New Music, he was a rising pillar of British contemporary classical music during his twenties. However, his discovery of his own composing voice – staunchly tonal, in fervent reaction to the austere high-modernist abstractions of the times – drew him into a series of vicious joustings and spats in the early ‘90s, played out first within the musical community, then in the press, in the concert hall and ultimately in the libel courts. He fought hard. The establishment he’d jilted and criticised fought equally hard. There’s not been much forgiveness on either side.
Ten years later, his opera ‘Manifest Destiny’ (which took a broad-brush metaphysical approach to the War on Terror) was performed in Edinburgh in the wake of the London suicide bombings of 2005. Further spats followed over alleged glorification of terrorism. There was another court case, and a bankruptcy. As before, Keith would argue (and continues to argue) that he was fighting not just for his own right to musical self-expression and political challenges, but for everyone else’s. Subsequent adventures have been quieter (and his rebellions subtler), but even as he approaches his sixtieth year he’s never entirely lost that self-appointed role as vehement high-culture renegade.
With all that said, the ultimate Burstein concerns and preoccupations seem more suited to metaphysical and spiritual realms rather than the political and strategic trappings of the battles he’s fought, and their scale and fervour have tended to overshadow the music: the water-pageant melancholy of ‘Requiem for the Young’, the entanglement of manners and compressed frenzy in his ‘Dance of Love/Dance of Death’ string quartet; the foreboding elegance of his choral Holocaust meditation ‘The Year’s Midnight’ and the lucid romantic panorama of his ‘Elixir’ symphony. When writing to a grander scale, he composes work that in some respects resembles the Whitehall of his beloved London – looming and aspirational; fascinated by the power of architecture and history, yet at the same open to and ownable by passers-by; his structures echoing the antique yet repurposing them to modern ends, and being buffeted and reshaped by contemporary impacts; an meticulous admixture of historicism and retrofitting.
This month’s lunchtime recital, however, provides the opportunity to appreciate his music on a smaller magnitude, at a remove from grander clutter of conflicts and history. Packing various shorter Burstein works for piano, violin and cello into its forty-five minutes, it includes assorted piano preludes and the final movement of Keith’s recent ‘Wiosna’ cello sonata (one of several recent works in which he retraces his family history back through his parents’ work as violinists with the Brighton Philharmonic and Halle Orchestra to their Eastern European roots and Russian/Lithuanian connections). Keith (on piano) is joined by notable solo cellist Corinne Morris – whose ‘Macedonian Sessions’ reached number 2 in the classical charts this year – and by violinist/composer Roland Roberts (Solaris Quartet, City of Oxford Orchestra, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra and many more). Both Corinne and Roland have worked with Keith before; the former premiering ‘Wiosna’… and the latter co-premiering the piano/violin duet Keith composed this year in honour of his late mother Barbara.
Lunchtime Recital of the Works of Keith Burstein (with Keith Burstein, Corinne Morris, Roland Roberts)
1901 Club, 7 Exton Street, Waterloo, London, SE1 8UE, England
Monday 11th December 2017, 12.00pm – information here and here
Tags: cello music, Colin Alexander, Corinne Morris, David Stephen Grant, duo music, Gregor Riddell, Keith Burstein, London (England), Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Nonclassical (event/promoter/record label), piano music, Roland Roberts, Silje Aker Johnsen, Torun Saeter Stavseng, Tre Voci Cello Ensemble, trio music, violin music
Categories 2017 music, 20th century classical music, 21st century classical music, acoustic music, ceremonial music, chamber music, classical (Western art music), classical fusion, cross-cultural music, crossover, experimental music, improvisation, instrumental music, interactive performances, Middle Eastern music, minimalism, New Music, Norwegian music, performance art, previews, psychedelic ambient music, salon events
November 2017 – upcoming London classical gigs – baroque-xplorations with Peter Sheppard Skærved’s ‘The Voice of the Violin’ (21st) and Anette Bjørnenak/Krishna Nagaraja/Masumi Yamamoto’s Norwegian ‘Folk-Barokk’ (25th)
Quick news on a couple of perspective-expanding baroque music events later in the month…
Wilton’s Music Hall presents:
Peter Sheppard Skærved: ‘The Voice of the Violin’
Wilton’s Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, Whitechapel, London, E1 8JB, England
Tuesday 21st November 2017, 7.00pm – information here and here
“Peter Sheppard Skærved, leader of the Kreutzer Quartet, explores the beginnings of the virtuoso violin, playing a series of extraordinary instruments from the 17th century in this intimate solo performance featuring Benjamin Hebbert and including two special world premieres. There’ll be a talk before the concert (at 7.00pm).
“The programme consists of music for solo violin by Giuseppe Torelli, Biagio Marini, Pietro Locatelli, Nicola Matteis, Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, Giovanni Bassano, Carl Heinrich Biber, Thomas Baltzar, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Le Sieur de Machy, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Giuseppe Tartini, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johan Sebastian Bach; and will include music from the Klagenfurt Manuscript. There will also be world premieres of new works by composer Edward Cowie (‘Gad’) and David Matthews (‘Capriccio-Fantasia’).”
Here’s Peter playing some Telemann and a newer piece by David Gorton:
Schott Music presents:
‘Folk-Barokk!’ From Norway: Anette Bjørnenak/Krishna Nagaraja/Masumi Yamamoto
Schott Recital Room @ Schott Music, 48 Great Marlborough Street, Soho, London, W1F 7BB, England
Saturday 25th November 2017, 7.00pm – information
“Anette Bjørnenak (recorders), Krishna Nagaraja (viola/Norwegian hardingfele fiddle) and Masumi Yamamoto (harpsichord) explore folk music of Norway from an eighteenth-century music book, and also look at the way folk music influenced composers of the Baroque era.
“Works by Telemann, Morel, Jacob Mestmacher, C.P.E. Bach and Francesco Barsanti.”
Tags: Anette Bjørnenak, Benjamin Hebbert, Biagio Marini, C.P.E. Bach, Carl Heinrich Biber, Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, David Matthews, Edward Cowie, Francesco Barsanti, Georg Philipp Telemann, Giovanni Bassano, Giuseppe Tartini, Giuseppe Torelli, hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle) music, harpsichord music, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kreutzer Quartet, Krishna Nagaraja, Le Sieur de Machy, London (England), Masumi Yamamoto, Nicola Matteis, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Pietro Locatelli, Thomas Baltzar, viol music, violin music, Wilton's Music Hall (venue) - Whitechapel - London
Categories 2017 music, 21st century classical music, acoustic music, Baroque music, chamber music, classical (Western art music), instrumental music, interactive performances, previews
March 2017 – upcoming gigs – close-quarters Sefiroth Trio concert of Sephardic music at the Green Note (16th)
At pretty short notice, there’s a chance to see a version of guitarist Alex Roth‘s spellbinding Sephiroth project in Camden Town this coming Thursday (while Alex takes a little live-refresher break from recording his debut solo album).
Mosaic Nights presents:
Sefiroth Trio
Basement Bar @ The Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden Town, London, NW1 7AN, England
Thursday 16th March 2017, 8.30pm – information here and here
Sephiroth Trio, 2016
From Alex: “Sefiroth is the group I co-founded with my brother Nick to explore traditional Sephardic (Judeo-Spanish) repertoire. After releasing an EP in 2012 and staging a multimedia theatre show in 2013, we put the project on hold for a while, but I’m really excited to be getting members of the band together to play these achingly beautiful songs again. This intimate trio performance at one of London’s cosiest venues will feature new arrangements of traditional melodies which have been haunting me for years now. Given the intimacy of the venue, booking is highly recommended!”
The trio performing are the same trio who performed at the Play For Progress fundraiser mentioned here last December – Alex on guitar, plus Shirley Smart on cello and Alice Zawadzki on voice and violin. (Shirley is also the woman behind the Mosaic Nights organisation presenting the concert – they put on a variety of monthly folk/jazz/classical fusion events. I’ll need to look out for more of those.)
Here’s more information which I’ve scrounged up on the project:
“Sung in Ladino, these ancient songs weave timeless stories of love, loss and yearning for home, evoking the lands in which the Sephardic diaspora settled: Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The group’s arrangements are as porous and wide-ranging as the history of the Sephardim, combining acoustic and electric instruments, improvisation and trance-inducing rhythms. Following the release of its debut EP… Sefiroth’s multimedia theatre show ‘Arvoles Lloran por Lluvia’ (brought) its experimental arrangements to life through dance, digital projection and production design. It was hailed as “absolutely incredible” (Musicians Benevolent Fund), “striking and innovative” (‘Plays to See‘) and “flawless… an incredibly fascinating collaboration between music, dance and digital media”…”
You might not get the dance and visuals this time, but you’ll get the music up close and personal. Alex isn’t kidding about the intimate venue. Green Note is tiny, and its basement bar more so. At time of posting there were only twenty-one tickets left. Move fast. To encourage you, here are snippets from the EP and the multimedia show, plus the full version of the latter if you want to see and hear more. (And if you miss out on a Sephiroth ticket, there’s always the rather rowdier She’Koyokh Baltic kletzmer gig over in Kings Cross the following night…)
Tags: Alex Roth, Alice Zawadzki, cello music, London (England), Mozaic Nights (event), Sefiroth, Shirley Smart, trio music, violin music
Categories 2017 music, acoustic music, chamber music, cross-cultural music, Jewish music, previews, Sephardic music, Spanish folk music, vocal music
March 2017 – upcoming London classical/classical-experimental gigs, (7th, 16th, 17th) – Kammer Klang (with Klara Lewis/Nik Colk Void, Christopher Redgate, Phaedra Ensemble performing Leo Chadburn and John Uren); Tomos Xerri & Claire Wickes’ rush-hour duets (with a new Liam Mattison piece); Elisabeth Turmo & Elena Toponogova’s Norwegian/Russian celebration
As well as composers ranging from Grieg to Takemitsu, these three upcoming London gigs take in trolls, moths, David Bowie, extended fiddles and oboes, and just a tiny hint of saw abuse. Let’s have a look and listen.
Kammer Klang presents:
Klara Lewis + Phaedra Ensemble (performing Leo Chadburn) + Christopher Redgate + John Uren + Holodisc DJs
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL, England
Tuesday 7th March 2017, 7.30pm – information here and here
From the Kammerers (supplemented by a few text raids from here and there)…
“In our second show of 2017 we are joined by Klara Lewis, the critically acclaimed sound sculptress who has performed in clubs and art galleries around the world. Lewis builds her work from heavily manipulated samples and field recordings, creating a unique combination of the organic and the digital. Klara’s second album ‘Too’ was released in 2016 on Editions Mego to great acclaim. She will be performing with Nik Colk Void, an experimental electronic recording artist who is one part of Factory Floor (an alliance with Gabriel Gurnsey) and one-third of Carter Tutti Void (with former Throbbing Gristle members Cosey Fanny Tutti and Chris Carter). Coming from an English art school background, and an education that was decidedly non-musical in nature, Nik’s work is as conceptual as it is visceral – exploring the out-regions of pushing and manipulating sound (via modular synthesis, extended guitar techniques and vocal processing), and collaborating with contemporary visual artists such as Haroon Mirza and Philippe Parreno.
“We are also joined by Phaedra Ensemble, whose performances explore the spaces between classical, experimental and contemporary music. Phaedra brings together some of London’s most exciting musicians to curate programmes with new collaborations, reinterpretations of well-known modern works and forgotten classics. Its members have a strong intuition for genre-crossing and interdisciplinary work, often in collaboration with artists from other disciplines. This month Phaedra will perform ‘The Indistinguishables’, a 2014 string-quartet-and-electronics work by Leo Chadburn. Leo is a composer and performer of experimental and electronic music, gallery music and (as Simon Bookish) avant-pop. ‘The Indistinguishables’ works through a cycle of seventy names of UK moth species, each accompanied by a chord or phrase, like a fleeting soundtrack to these evocative words. The recordings are triggered by the quartet, so the pacing of the pauses and resonances is under their control, part of their ensemble dynamic.
“Phaedra will also be performing this month’s “Fresh Klang” work, which is from British composer John Uren. ‘A few weeks after David Bowie’s death in January 2016, Dr Mark Taubert, a palliative care doctor based in Cardiff, wrote an open letter to Bowie, posthumously thanking him for the soundtrack he had provided to his life, his dedication to his art, and the inspiration he was, and continues to be, for others also facing end-of-life illnesses. Retweeted by Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, Mark’s letter has gone on to have a huge impact, and has been recited at several Letters Live events by Jarvis Cocker and Benedict Cumberbatch. John collaborated with Mark for this composition, combining a recording of Mark reading his own beautiful letter with fragile strings and electronic timbres; acting as a cushion for Mark’s words to drift across.
“The distinguished oboeist Christopher Redgate will perform his own work ‘Multiphonia’. Since his time as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, he has specialised in the performance of contemporary oboe music. Now the Evelyn Barbirolli Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, Christopher (in collaboration with Howarth of London) has redesigned the instrument. He performs exclusively on his creation, the Howarth-Redgate 21st Century Oboe, which offers extended capability for twenty-first-century music including microtones, multiphonics, extended range and electronics.
“There will also be DJ sets from the people behind British experimental music label Holodisc.”
Fresh Klang: John Uren – Her Own Dying Moments (performed by Phaedra Ensemble)
Leo Chadburn – The Indistinguishables (performed by Phaedra Ensemble)
Christopher Redgate – Multiphonia (for solo oboe)
Klara Lewis + Nik Colk Void – improvised set
South and slightly west, here are a couple of interesting-looking duo shows at the 1901 Club in Waterloo – picked out from the rest of the venue’s busy schedule by dint of having interesting instrumentation, interesting juxtapositions, or the promise of new pieces being premiered.
Hattori Foundation presents:
Hattori Foundation Rush-Hour Recital: Tomos Xerri & Claire Wickes
Thursday 16th March 2017, 6.00pm – information
Outstanding contemporary harpist and Riot Ensemble member Tomos Xerri performs regular duet concerts with English National Opera’s principal flautist Claire Wickes (who also plays as guest principal with most of the big London orchestras, as well as the São Paulo Symphony). Here’s one of those shows – one of the Hattori Foundation’s showcase concerts, nicely timed for the Waterloo homeward-bounders.
While Claire and Tomos will be playing a set of established pieces by Takemitsu, Debussy, Piazzolla and American tonal hero Lowell Liebermann (as well as a sonata by the distinguished twentieth-century British polymath William Alwyn), they are both strong enthusiasts for contemporary music, and are premiering a new composition by Trinity Laban alumnus Liam Mattison (a recent partipant in the LSO’s Panufnik Composers Scheme).
Look out, too, for any mention of Tomas’ upcoming musical-saw-and-electronics project… which at the moment seems to be more of a tingling promise than anything concrete. If any more evidence shows up, I’ll blog it myself.
Astor Piazzolla – Bordel 1900 (from Histoire du Tango)
Lowell Liebermann – Sonata for Flute & Harp
Claude Debussy – La Chevelure (from Trois Chansons de Bilitis), Nuit D’Étoiles
Tōru Takemitsu – Toward the Sea III
Liam Mattison – new commission
William Alwyn – Naiades (Fantasy-Sonata)
1901 Club presents:
Elisabeth Turmo & Elena Toponogova: “Two Journeys”
Friday 17th March 2017, 6.30pm – information
This is a musical celebration of two cultures, Norwegian and Russian, performed by Norwegian violinist Elisabeth Turmo and Siberian pianist Elena Toponogova. Both are recent or imminent Masters graduates from the Royal College of Music, with growing international reputations. Elizabeth has performed as a soloist with the Arctic Philharmonic, the Oslo Chamber Orchestra, the Toppen International Festival Orchestra and the Barratt Due Symphony Orchestra; while Elena has performed as a chamber musician and soloist across the United Kingdom, Russia and Germany.
Already tagged as “conveying the stormful temperament of a northern Norwegian” in her concert performances, Elisabeth is also an up-and-coming exponent of the hardingfele, or “Hardanger fiddle” – the thin-wooded Norwegian violin with additional sympathetic strings which is traditionally used for folk dances and church processionals, and which bridges the gap between Norway’s ecclesiastical life and its supernatural mythology (by way of “troll-tunings” and Robert Johnson-esque myths about music lessons from the Devil).
Several hardingfele pieces will be performed as part of the concert set. I doubt that these will include a solo arrangement of Michael Grolid’s recent ‘Ouverture’ (as played here two years ago by Elizabeth and Barratt Due’s Symphony Orchestra) but I’ve included it in lieu of her having posted up any other recordings with the instrument.
Ole Bull – A Mountain Vision
Selected pieces for hardingfele
Bjarne Brustad – Fairy-tail for violin (solo)
Edvard Grieg – Solveig’s Song (from the ‘Peer Gynt’ suite)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Melody for violin and piano Op.42 No.3
Nikolai Medtner – Sonata Reminiscenza Op.38 (from ‘Forgotten Melodies’
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – (arr. Mikhail Pletnev ) – Intermezzo (from ‘The Nutcracker Suite’)
Igor Frolov (from George Gershwin) – Concert Fantasy on Themes from ‘Porgy and Bess’
Tags: Astor Piazzolla, Bjarne Brustad, Café Oto (promoter/venue), Christopher Redgate, Claire Wickes, Claude Debussy, David Bowie, duo music, Edvard Grieg, Elena Toponogova, Elisabeth Turmo, George Gershwin, hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle) music, harp music, Igor Frolov, John Uren, Kammer Klang (event), Klara Lewis, Leo Chadburn (Simon Bookish), Liam Mattison, London (England), Lowell Liebermann, Mikhail Pletnev, music for electronics, music for string quartet, Nik Colk Void, Nikolai Medtner, oboe music, Ole Bull, Phaedra Ensemble, piano music, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Riot Ensemble, Tomos Xerri, Toru Takemitsu, unusual instruments, violin music, William Alwyn
Categories 2017 music, 20th century classical music, 21st century classical music, acoustic music, ambient music, chamber music, classical (Western art music), cross-cultural music, crossover, DIY music, electro-acoustic music, electronic, experimental music, field recordings, improvisation, instrumental music, musique concrete, New Music, noise, previews, psychedelic ambient music, Romantic music, sampledelia, singer-songwriter, sound collage, soundscapes, spoken word
November/December 2016 – a plague of Charles Haywards in Britain and Ireland – with Samuel Hällkvist and Charlie Stacey in London (Nov 12th); with Phosphene at Xposed Club in Cheltenham (Nov 18th); at Daylight Music in London for Laura Cannell’s ‘Memory Mapping’ (with Mythos of Violins, Hoofus and Jennifer Lucy Allan, Nov 26th); in Dublin with The Jimmy Cake and Percolator (Dec 10th)
“Man with drumkit and nerve available. Works well on his own, but can work with anyone from virtuoso level to raw newbie. Will also travel, though being in the right place is essential.”
Charles Hayward – drummer, songwriter, improviser; patron saint of South London spontaneity. Creator, humble communitarian and sharer. Kit-and-tapes driver for avant-rockers This Heat and Camberwell Now! during the ‘70s and ‘80s; more recently, the curator-enabler of experimental multi-media events such as Accidents & Emergencies. Internationally reknowned but publically anonymous go-to bloke for musical support and thrilling upset. A musician who goes out and does.
Here are four separate upcoming instances of Charles Hayward in the act of doing: all taking place this month or next month. As good a hook as any to hang a ‘Misfit City’ post off.
London EFG Jazz Festival presents:
Hallkvist/Taylor/Goller/Hayward + Charlie Stacey
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo, London, SE1 7LG, England
Saturday 12th November 2016, 8.00pm – information here and here
“The Swedish musician Samuel Hällkvist was given the ‘Jazz in Sweden’ award in 2010. It caused some controversy at the time because Samuel is a guitarist who doesn’t fit comfortably into the template of Scandinavian jazz. Nordic brooding is not his style at all. Instead Samuel brings unsurpassed wizardry to the use of effects pedals, which he deploys with great discretion and aplomb. He has toured extensively in Scandinavia, other parts of Europe and Japan, as well as touring the UK in 2012, where he performed with Yazz Ahmed, Denys Baptiste and Gary Crosby.
“Samuel is joined on this occasion by a carefully selected cast, featuring Ruth Goller (the bass guitarist of Acoustic Ladyland), the wonderful Charles Hayward on drums (This Heat etc.) and free improviser Noel Taylor on bass clarinet. The ensemble is a combustible blend of elements which promises high-energy rhythmic patterns awash with thunderous beats of drum and bass, and surmounted with the languorous, rich tones of bass clarinet.
“Charlie Stacey first popped into the jazz scene when he was featured on UK television as a child prodigy. In 2012, still a teenager, he reached the semi-finals of the Montreux Jazz Piano Competition. Since then he has performed at festivals around the world. Stacey’s tastes range from Keith Jarrett to Sun Ra and Albert Ayler – stir these ingredients together into a swirl of mood and pianistic virtuosity: that’s the unique sound of Charlie Stacey.”
The Xposed Club presents:
Charles Hayward + Phosphene
The Xposed Club @ Francis Close Hall, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ, England
Friday 18th November 2016, 8.00pm – information here and here
“Charles Hayward‘s ‘(begin anywhere)’ is a new project centred around songs performed at the piano, a sequence of betrayal, paranoia, subterfuge, opening out into resistance, hope and humanity, interweaved with sound events, drums, spoken word, performance. Stark, minimal arrangements; an unexpected departure.
“Phosphene is the name Glasgow-based artist John Cavanagh has worked under for his solo music-making since 2000. In that time, there have been three full-length Phosphene albums, featuring collaborations with Lol Coxhill, Bridget St. John, Raymond McDonald, John McKeown (1990s/Yummy Fur), Isobel Campbell, Bill Wells and others. John is also a a member of the duo Electroscope, along with Gayle Brogan (Pefkin) and the more recently formed Sonically Depicting, with Ceylan Hay & friends. He is also known as a radio presenter & contributor, voice-over artist, author of a book on the Pink Floyd album ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’, producer of records/occasional record label operator and organiser of music nights at Glasgow’s Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery.”
Arctic Circle presents:
Daylight Music 240: Laura Cannell presents “Memory Mapping”: Charles Hayward + Mythos Of Violins + Hoofus + Jennifer Lucy Allan
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, England
Saturday 26th November 2016, 12.00pm – free event (suggested donation: £5.00) – information
“The Arctic Circle At Ten celebrations continue courtesy of experimental fiddle and recorder player Laura Cannell, bringing together musicians whose work is both spontaneous and deeply inspired by their surroundings. Using real and imagined memory, ideas are mapped internally and externally and turned into atmospheric, moving and unexpected performances.
“Charles Hayward gives a solo performance of his piano piece (begin anywhere)…” – see the Xposed Club bit for more on that. Also note that Charles and Laura play together in the Oscilanz trio (with Ralph Cumbers of Bass Clef/Some Truths), creating new music by exploding, recombining and reinterpreting the music of twelfth-century composer and polymath Hildegard Von Bingen, in a web of drums, trombone, violin, recorders, singing and electronics. (There’s a clip of them below, for context.)
“Mythos Of Violins is the experimental violin work of Laura Cannell and Angharad Davies, creating new works inspired by location and memory and “puzzling over the unsconcious or conscious effect of place on the creative development of an artist.” ‘The Scotsman’ reviewed their performance at Glasgow University Chapel earlier in April this year as “hypnotic… they made judicious use of the venue as they circled the pew-bound audience, unfurling a tapestry of intense scratches and squeals – as if the cloisters had been infested by an attack of rabid rats – fused with discordant prettiness and yearning hints of Celtic folk.” Laura and Angharad will be performing a special piece inspired by the Union Chapel. Laura will also be performing a solo set of her own.
Jennifer Lucy Allan – former online editor of ‘The Wire’ (and still running their Resonance FM radio show), as well as being the co-runner of experimental record label Arc Light Editions – will be weaving rural and industrial soundscapes through this very special event (possibly including evidence of her ongoing research project on fog horns).” Also to have played was Hoofus, a.k.a. Andre Bosman, an electronic musician based in coastal Suffolk. Focused on live performance, emergence and improvisation, Hoofus uses drifting oscillators, overlapping frequency modulation, ragged percussion and a sense of tactile interaction between performer and machines to create music of wayward eerie wonder. Drawing on ideas of edgelands and peripheries and the intersecting of wilderness with urban/industrial spaces, Hoofus explores the uncanny beauty of the intangible, the occult and the arcane seeping through into the post-industrial 21st century world of reason and corporate compliance. Unfortunately he won’t be performing them here this time around – maybe next time?
The Jimmy Cake present:
Charles Hayward + The Jimmy Cake + Percolator
Bello Bar, Portobello Harbour, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin 6, Ireland
Saturday 10th December 2016, 8.00pm – information
For this December show, Charles heads up an evening of “loud instrumental space-prog-post-apocalypse rock”. There’s no word on what he’s specifically doing, but I’m guessing it’s a return to the furious drums, the disruptive tapes and the man-in-the-moment vocals of his main improvisation style.
Event organisers The Jimmy Cake are sixteen-year instrumental veterans of Irish instrumental rock. Over five albums under the leadership of keyboard-playing main-brain Paul G. Smyth they’ve employed banjos, clarinets, strings and brass – mixing Chicagoan post-rock, European space rock and Canterbury prog with the happysad fiddle-and-whistle uplift of Irish music sessions – or lurked behind gonging walls of noise and synth. Fast friends with Charles already (he guested at their previous annual show, prompting his invite back for this one), they’ve also backed Damo Suzuki – a set of influences and associations which should make their intentions, impulses and credibility clear.
When they’re clicked into “simple” mode, Waterfordian trio Percolator bounce and sing-song like an appealing, easily-approved indie-pop mix of The Stooges, Television, and Pavement influences, with additional craic courtesy of the chatty vocal rapport between drummer Eleanor and fuzz-sliding, odd-angles guitarist Ian. When they pull out the remaining stops on their organism and get more complicated, they transform into something much more remarkable – one of the few bands who can appropriate that lazy “sounds like My Bloody Valentine” tag – or have it foisted on them – and not disgrace it. The wilder tracks on their last EP, ‘Little Demon’ are whirlwinds of biplane-crash guitar drones, road-hammering motorik drums and bass surges. They sound like so much more than a rock trio – virtual unknowns already able to capture the wheeling cosmic dizziness of a full-on King Crimson soundscape or the pre-apocalyptic glower of a Gnod blur-mood as well as the microtonal shear of Kevin Shields.
Tags: Acoustic Ladyland, Angharad Davies, Arctic Circle (promoter), Charles Hayward, Charlie Stacey, Cheltenham (England), Damo Suzuki, Daylight Music (event), drumkit music, Dublin, Hoofus, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Laura Cannell, London (England), Mythos Of Violins, Noel Taylor, Percolator, Phosphene (John Cavanagh), piano music, Ruth Goller, Samuel Hällkvist, The Jimmy Cake, The Xposed Club (event/promoters), violin music
Categories 2016 music, acoustic music, alternative folk, alternative rock, art rock, Celtic music, chaos music, cross-cultural music, dream pop, drone music, electro-acoustic folk, electro-acoustic music, experimental music, experimental/avant-garde rock, field recordings, folk music, freak-folk, glitch music, improvisation, instrumental music, interactive performances, jazz, kosmische & Krautrock, noise, noise rock, outsider music, performance art, post-progressive rock, post-rock, previews, process music, psychedelic ambient music, psychedelic folk, psychedelic rock, rock, roots music, sampledelia, singer-songwriter, song cycles, sound collage, spoken word, tape loops
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Home Blockchain Horizon State ‘flat out with demand’ from secret new clients
Horizon State ‘flat out with demand’ from secret new clients
Australian blockchain based decision-making platform Horizon State was too swamped with demand to attend Consensus in New York this year.
They’re onboarding four new clients at the moment and couldn’t spare the time off work – even though they’d already been announced as part of the 30 strong Austrade mission.
“At the end of the day our focus is to get customers on board and ensure that they have a positive experience” Chief Product Officer, Andy Ellis explained.
“Right now we are flat out with demand,” Head of Research and Innovation Dan Crane told the HS Telegram group during Friday’s AMA.
“There is a lot of interest from potential customers, as well as customers who have decided they want to utilise our system,” Ellis added.
“The sentiment within the team is at an all-time high – just ask our wives/girlfriends!”
Horizon State is providing the tech for community consultation on a massive NZ redevelopment project
Horizon State has been contracted to help gather ongoing community feedback for the NZ Government’s ambitious $1.5B eastern Porirua redevelopment.
The massive 25-year long project aims to revitalise the eastern Porirua area by redeveloping 2900 state houses (with a net 150 home increase) and building around 2,000 affordable KiwiBuild and market homes.
Housing New Zealand subsidiary HLC kicked off person to person interviews with local residents last weekend, recording their thoughts and preferences securely using Horizon State products on a tablet.
“It’s been our biggest opportunity to date,” Ellis said. “We are loving working with this client on such a significant project, and they are extremely happy with the uniqueness of our solution to date.”
Aussie council conducts employee vote
Another ‘hush hush’ new customer is an Australian local council who will be running an internal vote on an Enterprise Bargaining agreement, in what would be a world first.
If this is successful, the system will potentially be expanded to regularly take the pulse of voters on issues and proposals.
It’s not just good for democracy – it’s good for business.
“From a business perspective we prefer ongoing engagements,” said Chief Executive Officer Nimo Naamani.
“I’d rather have 15-20% of the people voting regularly than having 150,000 people vote in a one off election”.
It’s a big potential market, with hundreds of councils already doing community engagement via the web. “We can offer a formal vote that is transparent and auditable,” Naamani said.
Horizon State CEO Nimo Namaani
Councils one of two major verticals
Councils are one of two major ‘verticals’ Horizon State is targeting at present in Australia and New Zealand – the other is cooperative/mutual organisations.
They recently onboarded an insurance company and will be running the votes for their AGM in the coming months.
Horizon State’s tech has been deployed for half a dozen clients so far, including the South Australian Government, the REMTECH awards in Malaysia and a political party in New Zealand, but the pair think it’s unlikely a state or federal government will run a blockchain based parliamentary election anytime soon.
“Governments are trying to use these systems for small scale and easy to control votes to run a pilot to see if it can be used on a larger scale,” Naamani explained.
They’re also in the process of developing a ‘Turnkey’ solution so that smaller customers who can’t afford customised solutions – such as “Surf Life Saving Clubs or body corporates or small competitions” – can design and run their own votes.
It’ll roll out in the next couple of months, although it sounds like the dev team has got its hands full with their new clients at present.
Andy Ellis from Horizon State
ICO a disaster, but company a success
The company held its ICO in late 2017, but only managed to raise $1 million.
Due to the way they’d set up the smart contract, they ended up with 362 million tokens they didn’t need, which they ended up sending on a one-way mission to a wallet from which it can never be recovered.
Naamani said if they had the opportunity to do it over again: “We would definitely take more time to prepare – we only had about three months. The short timeframe definitely wasn’t ideal. But the amount raised was enough to market, build and deliver our product.”
He adds they had some “cash injections” outside of the ICO and were able to sell off tokens afterward.
“We did hunker down and spend as little as possible on outgoings, trying to be as frugal and smart as we can with the money we had,” he said.
They closed the Melbourne office and they’re now headquartered in Wellington with another office in Brisbane. They see themselves as “Australasian”.
“We are an Australian company but because both Andy and myself are in New Zealand it’s easier to get good customers here,” Naamani said. “But we do run the business and pay taxes in Australia.”
Naamani hopes the company will be self sustaining on customer revenue in six to nine months.
World Economic Forum ‘technology pioneer’ award
In June last year, Horizon State was selected from hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s ‘technology pioneers’ for 2018. Previous winners have included Google, Dropbox, and Spotify.
“One of the people in the (HS) community suggested we apply,” Naamani said. “Other companies that have won the award were around for years, but we were around for less than 12 months. It gets us in front of the movers and shakers … and you get exposed to things that happen on levels you didn’t even know existed. ”
Naamani said the organisations and governments in the WEF have timeframes measured in years.
“It’s definitely a long term strategic thing rather than you get five deals in seven different countries straight away.
“I think it’s a bit too early to say what will come out of it.
Horizon State has real world adoption and numerous clients.
What is Horizon State?
Horizon State has built a blockchain based voting and decision-making platform. Blockchain ensures transparency and HS’s secure digital ballot box cannot be hacked. The platform is ‘chain agnostic’ and can run on Ethereum, Halo or NEM.
Horizon State Decision Token
Decision Tokens (HST) are required to get access rights for customers and third-party developers, for permission to submit votes or opinions to the distributed ledger.
Customers don’t need to buy HST themselves as the platform allows them to pay in fiat. HST is available on major exchanges including UpBit, Bittrex, Coinspot, KuCoin. Five percent of turnover goes to charity.
ID decisions left to clients
While blockchain can’t be hacked, it still depends on the accuracy of the data being fed into it. Early on HS took the decision to let clients decide on the ID process required.
A ‘people’s choice’ award may not require as stringent checks as a council election.
“We integrate with the ID scheme the organisation itself uses,” Naamani said. “Some are using text messages, others use full KYC (Know Your Customer ID checks).” If required, people could even attend polling booths for in-person checks before voting on a tablet
The Opportunities Party in New Zealand
A first for New Zealand, The Opportunities Party used Horizon State’s blockchain voting systems in its leadership elections over a week long election in December 2018.
The party has about 4500 members and used a preferential voting system, ranking eight candidates from first to last.
HS ran a simultaneous election for a position on their board.
“It went really well and it looks like we’ll run a few other engagements for them in future, including their AGM,” said Ellis.
Horizon State conducted an election for the SA Government
SA Government
The South Australian Government hired HS to conduct elections for the Minister’s Recreational Fishing Council in March and April last year.
Sure, it may not sound that impressive – a poll open to around 20,000 fisherpeople, with 1450 participating in this engagement – but it demonstrated the technology in action for a client that has plenty of potential use cases.
“We got a foot in the door with a government and proved the security, reliability and user experience of our system,” Ellis said.
The Scottish Referendum
While HS has been approached by a very passionate Scottish organization, seeking to run a referendum to approve a new constitution in Scotland, it’s still at a very early stage.
“It is not a signed customer, we don’t know if it will happen and they have a lot of legal hoops to jump through,” Naamani said.
Not least, getting permission from the UK government to run a referendum.
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Behind the shambolic splendor of a Red Hot Chili Peppers’ performance is a tightly coiled symbiosis of musicianship. The band grapples with themes of life and death on I’m With You, an album born from the ashes of a friend’s fatal overdose. Bringing a subtle style, Josh Klinghoffer has replaced John Frusciante as guitarist, but the band still retains its unmistakable Chili Pepper flavor. The totemic lead single, “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,” soars and bops with magnitude
I'm With You Red Hot Chili Peppers
Monarchy of Roses
Factory of Faith
Brendan's Death Song
Annie Wants a Baby
The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
Did I Let You Know
Goodbye Hooray
Happiness Loves Company
Even You Brutus?
Meet Me At the Corner
Dance, Dance, Dance
℗ 2011 Warner Records Inc.
More By Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Stadium Arcadium
Turn Blue
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You are here: Home » Featured » “Country Throwdown” Artists Offer Flood Relief
“Country Throwdown” Artists Offer Flood Relief
• May 13, 2010
In light of the recent devastation in Nashville, artists on the the Country Throwdown Tour are coming forward to help. Main stage headliners Montgomery Gentry, Jack Ingram, Eric Church, Eli Young Band and Bluebird Café Tent singer-songwriters Sarah Buxton, Heather Morgan, Jedd Hughes, Ashley Ray, Troy Olsen, Brad Tursi, Cory Branan and Dave Pahanish will be donating the net proceeds from the sale of their merchandise at select shows throughout the U.S.
“We’re excited to be a part of the Country Throwdown Tour, and through the course of the tour the artists get to participate in generating a lot of revenue for Nashville,” says Montgomery Gentry’s Troy Gentry. “Donating in one lump sum at the end of the tour gives us the opportunity to help any folks who may have fallen through the cracks, either through not having insurance or not being eligible for FEMA coverage. We’ll be able to place the money directly with the people who need it the most to rebuild.”
The Country Throwdown Tour will donate $.50 of every ticket to charity, a portion of which will go directly to Hands On Nashville to rebuild community infrastructure in Nashville. At the end of the tour, merchandise donations from the performers will also benefit Hands On Nashville.
“After moving part of our company down to Nashville well over a year ago, we’ve all grown deeply connected to this town,” says tour founder Kevin Lyman. “In the wake of this flood, all of us with the Country Throwdown Tour are inspired to help rebuild the Nashville community for many months to come.”
Country Throwdown headliners include Montgomery Gentry, Jamey Johnson, Little Big Town and Jack Ingram. Additional main stage artists include Eric Church, The Lost Trailers, The Eli Young Band, Heidi Newfield, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Jonathan Singleton & the Grove and Emily West. For tickets and information visit www.countrythrowdown.com.
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Tag / Szacki
February 2, 2017 February 2, 2017 by Ernest Barteldes
Prosecutor Szacki’s Last Stand?
2017, book review, Ernest, Ernest Barteldes, Poland, Polish, Uncategorized
book review, Ernest Barteldes, Mystery, Olsztyn, Poland, Polish writers, Prosecutor, Szacki, Warsaw, Zygmunt Miloszewski
Book Review: Rage by Zygmunt Miłozewski
(Amazon Crossing)
translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
review by Ernest Barteldes
On the final part of his Prosecutor Szacki trilogy that began with Entanglement (Bitter Lemon) , Zygmunt Miłozewski takes us to Olsztyn, where he transferred following the events from Grain of Truth (Bitter Lemon).
Szacki’s life has changed considerably – his teenage daughter is now living with him while his ex-wife is traveling around Asia with her new husband, and he is also in a lasting relationship with a local woman – which prompted him to leave Warsaw for good for this former German city, where he lives in an apartment just across the boulevard from the prosecution service.
But Szacki has not lost his usual bitterness. When he is called at a construction site below a hospital when a skeleton of what is believed to be a “German” (old remains are always – according to the novel – considered to be of Germans who previously lived there), he mutters to himself about hoping to have a “real” case that he can really investigate, not the usual drunken college student brawls that he routinely deals with. Further studies of the remains shows that the bones are actually much newer than previously thought, and that the deceased – a travel agent – had a gruesome death, dissolved while still alive using hydrocloric acid – the kind sold in any supermarket for unclogging household drains.
Rage has plenty of colorful characters – among them a doctor that assists with the investigation – a Dr. Frankenstein, who is also a professor who has alcohol-fueled parties with his students in a his campus lab. He is clearly an eccentric, but he seems to get along well with the prosecutor thanks to his dry personality and detail-focused demeanor. As the story progresses, we find that anger is central to all the main characters, going from the prosecutor himself to the surprising perpetrator.
Miłozewski does no favors to the town of Olsztyn (where he – as of this writing – resides), and describes it as a dark, uninteresting place to be with lousy weather and ugly streets: “Some sort of Warmian crap was coming out of the sky, neither rain, nor snow, nor hail. The stuff froze as soon as it hit the windshield, and even on the fastest setting the wipers couldn’t scrape off this mysterious substance. The windshield washer fluid did nothing but smear it around.”
The story line is extremely engaging all the way to its anti-climatic twist ending. Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation (she works closely with the author) flows nicely, without leaving the reader with any feeling of being lost in translation at any moment.
In the backdrop of the narrative are the news stories of the day: the political crisis in Ukraine and the the civil war in Syria and minor news headlines from around Poland. There are many other pop culture references, which might make the novel seem dated in a few years – I mean, will anyone remember reruns of the American sitcom Friends in, say, two or three decades?
According to some news reports, this is where we say goodbye to Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, and the ending makes us pretty certain of that – but given that the series has been so successful since its inception (the first two books were adapted into movies), will this really be goodbye? As a fan of the series myself, I sincerely hope not.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Philip Miller
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on May 10, 2017
The Undercover Soundtrack is a series where I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is returning for an encore. He featured his first novel in October 2015 and now he’s here with his follow-up. He is award-winning journalist, arts correspondent, Arts Writer of the Year (twice), poet and novelist Philip Miller @PhilipJEMiller
Soundtrack by Nils Frahm, King Crimson, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Kathryn Joseph, Kate Bush, Chrome Sparks, Thom Yorke
When I write, I listen to music. Music creates shapes and colours and contours in my mind. It suggests images and settings, even actions and characters.
When I sit down to write, at this glass-topped desk in my house in Leith, Edinburgh, the music has to start before I begin any typing.
All The Galaxies is my second novel, and its complex narrative is a tapestry made from three main threads: a voyage into deep space by a dead soul, a journalist in a dystopian future Scotland, and the memories of a pained familial past.
I knew the plot whole, and I wrote the book relatively quickly, but the music I listened to was as much a part of the process of writing as my notes, my poetry, and the list of names and actions in my various writing pads and diaries.
Of all the genres of music I never thought I would listen to intensely, ‘Prog Rock’ is probably in the top five. I remember when I was studying at university, a friend made a ‘prog tape’ and it was one of the worst 90 minutes of rock sound I had heard.
But for some reason, in 2015 (when I wrote the novel, between September and November), I found myself listening to King Crimson. I think I listened to them after reading more about guitarist Robert Fripp’s work with David Bowie, or perhaps after listening intently to his incredible solos on Brian Eno’s Another Green World.
I was quite entranced by In the Court of the Crimson King, their signature song from the first album, with its suspended sense of plangent, vaguely sinister, pagan splendour. Indeed, in a passing nodding reference, in a chapter set in Hong Kong, I refer to a statue of a crimson emperor.
But it was their mesmeric (and, I discovered, seminal) 1974 album Red that really got me. Ferocious, raw, intricate, punishing, myopic, expansive, it seemed to me a record out of time.
The opening title track sound-tracked much of the dystopian sections of my book: punishing, savage, cyclical, atonal, voiceless.
But it is the final song, a masterpiece called Starless, that I listened to repetitively. Its length, more than 10 minutes, helps for writing purposes – when you can forget the time, the day, the year, in a blessed fugue of typing – but its hard melancholy, and its beautiful opening section (with Fripp playing so delicately and lyrically) suited the ruminative tone of my book perfectly.
And then, its tense, tight, astringent central section, where tension builds to a shattering and violent climax, spurred on my writing with its insistence, its gathering brutality.
And the final section – and perhaps most wonderful of all, its final two minutes – offer a resolution, and, if one is in the right mind (or perhaps wrong…) a kind of transcendence. There is something about this song – in a sense, I feel I still haven’t worked it out yet. I come back to it, as if approaching a modernist painting I don’t understand but one that moves me nevertheless.
I listened to it often as All The Galaxies unfurled. It was, probably, its prime soundtrack. I am still shaken by this song, especially at a point, around 11m 38s, when something magical happens. And I still cannot quite believe I have fallen in love with an album by a ‘prog’ band.
(The Unthanks did a lovely cover of it, too).
If there is one track that recalls the chapters of interstellar flight in my book, it must by the majestic Says by Nils Frahm. Both an escalation in shimmering arpeggi and a deepening journey into an oscillating cloud of melody and weight, it sounds like a journey into another, far-off, lonely and beautiful place. The rest of his album, Spaces, is lovely, but this track stands out with its unfurling grandeur. And who knows how many words I typed – of lonely Tarka and his spirit guide Kim, crossing the gulf of the cosmos – with this rolling like an endless sea in the background. It gathers momentum, and many chapters were finished to its breaking, concluding, crescendo.
Star Step
I don’t know much about Chrome Sparks, and I am not sure about the rest of his output, but this pulsatingly addictive slice of electronica hooked me. It is anthemic, magnificent, and delicate, and in some melodic way, never quite resolves itself. It leaves you hanging. It wants you to play it again. I heard it first whilst making notes for my book, drinking coffee in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow. It captivated me. I listened to it again, repeatedly, driving around the Isle of Jura. And then, while writing. It feels futuristic, and also of the past, with its hints of strings amid the electronic beauty. If the character Roland – a 19-year-old, with a broken past and an uncertain future – has a theme tune, it is this.
The Hounds of Love
I knew this book would feature a family at its core – a father, a son, a mother: an equilateral triangle, one of the hardiest architectural templates.
For some reason The Hounds of Love was key to this triangle of love, regret, and loss.
In particular, I remember a moment of revelation – a knot in the plot untangled itself – as I listened to Mother Stands For Comfort on a bus journey home from the centre of Edinburgh. Such an exquisite song, and so cold, and warm, too. It is also sinister.
It came to me often when I wrote my ‘mother’ chapters. There is something in its tone which is both redolent of an electric future, and of a lost, healthier past. And Bush sings it so perfectly. The dry drumbeats stuttering like a tentative heart, and a tearing sense of longing is drenched through it.
Similarly Cloudbusting seemed to fit the ‘father’ chapters, and the beauty of the rest of the album (particularly And Dream of Sheep) for the chapters set in the north of England, sometime in a greener, lovelier memory.
The Bush-iness of the novel was so intense, it meant that, in my seclusion on the Isle of Eigg in June 2016, editing the book, I found I had to find the record again on my iPod to ‘get into’ the world again.
I have a mixed relationship with Vaughan Williams – I am completely susceptible to his big, swelling tunes, whilst feeling there are broad expanses in his work of a kind of emotional blandness. But this, his London Symphony’s Lento movement, caught me unawares one day, and blew me sideways. It is just an ocean of intense melodic emotion. The climax of All The Galaxies is both tragic, cosmic, and, in some sense, final and annihilating. This Largo suggests at least part of its feeling.
I must also mention Steve Reich here, for another section of string-led emotion, the startling, slow and wrenching second section of his Triple Quartet. It is one of the most painful and moving stretches in all his work, and was played often, especially as I wrote the scene in Glasgow’s George Square.
Kathryn Joseph
Much of the book is set in Glasgow, and I listened, as usual, to a lot of Mogwai, a lot of Boards of Canada, as I wrote.
But The Blood, by Ms Joseph, was a single song I came back to (as well as, perhaps oddly, Thom Yorke’s gorgeous solo song Analyse). It is a beautiful creation – her whole album is brilliant, and has been justifiably praised.
It trembles, it sounds like it was recorded in a cold Partick tenement, on an old piano laden with photographs. It speaks of fear, and love, and sorrow, and it is fractured, splintered, and beautiful. It sounds like Glasgow to me, the bruised and beautiful, tender side of Glasgow, that I was trying to conjure in some way.
The whole album, The Bones You Have Thrown Me, The Blood I have Spilled, was played incessantly as I wrote, especially in the early hours, when it seems to ring especially true.
Philip Miller is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is arts correspondent for the Herald, and has twice been named Arts Writer of the Year. His poetry has been published in print and online. His first novel, The Blue Horse, was published in 2015 and both his novels are published by Freight Books. He lives in Edinburgh. Find him on Facebook and tweet him as @PhilipJEMiller
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A To Z Black-ish Forever Gotham How To Get Away With Murder Manhattan Love Story Pilot Reviews Red Band Society Scorpion Selfie Stalker The Affair The Flash Wrap-Up
Pilot Reviews 2014
By Nadim Safieddine September 28, 2014 October 20, 2017
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I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to watch the pilot of Showtime’s new thriller, The Affair. Instead of a cliche and tired debut, I found myself watching a captivating character drama with a unique premise: the first half of every episode showcases the details of the aforementioned affair from the man’s perspective, while the second half recounts the woman’s version of events. This fascinating storytelling device reveals the distinct memory biases of our two lead characters as they tell the story in shockingly contrasting details. Both the pilot and the second episode promise a truly absorbing ride with some meticulously-crafted scripts. I absolutely can not wait to see more.
Being an enormous Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal fan, I was sure I would love Shonda Rhimes’ newest TV creation. I might be in the minority here but I didn’t find the pilot for How To Get Away With Murder to be so exceptional. Viola Davis is indeed a powerhouse, but I wasn’t emotionally invested in any of the characters. Nevertheless, the legal thriller is well-produced, and it zips along at a brisk and compelling pace with a couple of standout scenes. I’ll stick around for a while (thank you cliffhanger) and see if it morphs into fantastic television (God knows Shonda has earned that loyalty from me). But so far, I’m sad to report that I’m underwhelmed.
I mostly gave Scorpion a shot because of Katharine McPhee. She’s the only reason I ever watched Smash (at least in the beginning), and she’s excellent in this intriguing action-adventure about a group of nerdy misfits who are hired by the FBI to solve complex tech-related problems. While it’s probably going to end up being a procedural, the pilot is solidly directed, with an effective cast and a whole lot of heart. Plus, the hour ends with a mindblowing action sequence featuring a plane and a Ferrari that can’t really be described in words. It’s insane and unbelievable, but it’s also oh so entertaining.
Seeing as how the creative team behind The Flash is also responsible for Arrow, I was sure this pilot would be outstanding right out the gate. Sadly, I was disappointed. Everything about this hour felt manufactured: the star-crossed-lovers, the scooby gang, the mustache-twirling villains etc.. Still, I won’t give up on the show just yet. I’m a huge fan of comic book adventures and Grant Gustin is perfect in the role. This guy feels like a megastar in the making, and there’s hope The Flash will only get better.
The story of an immortal medical examiner in New York City, Forever works purely because of Ioan Gruffudd’s charm and likeability. The pilot itself doesn’t offer too many fresh twists, but it’s an easy, enjoyable watch. Alana De La Garza plays a detective who soon finds herself forming a partnership with Dr. Morgan, and her chemistry with Ioan definitely has potential. If the show doesn’t become a complete procedural (the serialized elements have promise), I might keep watching. Also, the NYC backdrop definitely helps.
Detailed review here.
I’ve been hearing a lot of hype about Red Band Society lately so I decided to give this hospital dramedy a shot. I’m beyond glad that I did because this is a creative and unique little show with a number of touching and poignant moments. I’m not such a big fan of the show being narrated by a little boy in a coma (it feels too gimmicky), but the cast is pretty spot-on and the subplots all entertaining. This just might be this season’s undiscovered gem. Oh and Octavia Spencer is a freakin’ national treasure, so if nothing else, watch this for her.
I really wanted to like Black-ish. It feels like it should have been a wicked little comedy in the vein of Suburgatory and The Mindy Project. Unfortunately, apart from Laurence Fishburne’s terrific performance, I found this pilot to be both boring and grating. I get that it has a strong message about race that it wants to get across, but I was unamused and uninterested. Maybe it will improve down the line? There’s always hope, but I’m not really interested at the moment and I can’t see that changing anytime soon.
The creator of one of ABC’s most high-profile comedy offerings this season is Emily Kapnek, a masterful writer responsible for one of my favorite comedies of the past few years (Suburgatory). Unfortunately, Selfie is kind of a dud. My main issue with the show is the fact that the show’s lead, Eliza Dooley, is extremely unlikeable. Obviously she’s supposed to be a social media obsessed narcissist, but the character crosses every line there is. I might give the show another episode before totally writing it off since the premise feels relevant in our world today, but I’m not expecting miracles. Who knows, it might turn into yet another cheap comedy that I’ll enjoy hate-watching (see 2 Broke Girls).
Unlike Selfie, A to Z is a charming little creation headlined by two highly charismatic leads: Cristin Milioti, who was brilliant as the Mother in How I Met Your Mother, and Ben Feldman of Mad Men fame. The comedy’s gimmick is simple: the show will chronicle the two’s entire relationship – highs, lows and everything in between. I was immediately sold on their dynamic, and I have a feeling this could be a breakout success next year. Also, it’s narrated by the awesome Katey Sagal of Married With Children fame.
I really wanted to love Manhattan Love Story. This romantic comedy has a cool concept: it chronicles the journey of a new couple in NYC as you hear their innermost thoughts. However, the script is weak and struggles to produce anything fresh with the creative premise. Moreover, Analeigh Tipton and Jake McDorman are far from impressive in the lead roles. Had the producers cast two performers with charisma who could rise above the material, ABC’s little comedy could have been saved. Unfortunately, it’s a dud, and there’s no point in getting invested now that the show has debuted with atrocious ratings.
Stalkerhas gotten a lot of hype in the last few weeks and it’s for all the wrong reasons. Critics are calling it “misogynistic” and “exploitative”, when in truth it’s a compelling and riveting procedural with a concept we don’t see very often. Honestly I watched the pilot out of pure love for Maggie Q who was astounding on Nikita, and she’s just as formidable as an elite agent who handles stalking cases. Dylan McDermott is less effective as her co-star (I never really liked the dude), but the pilot has a great twist at the end that will ensure my loyalty for at least a few weeks. If you’re not a scaredy cat, give this is a shot. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Chris Chedrawi says:
So excited about A to Z!
Tagouga says:
I totally agree about “How to Get Away with Murder”. I believe Viola Davis will be the reason for me to give this show a chance since none of the other characters really stood out.
While I agree with you on most points, I wish “Scorpion” was a bit rooted in reality! Technically, saying that the entire premise and subsequent development of the pilot is beyond flawed is an understatement. It's a disgrace! and giving it higher rating than “How to Get Away with Murder” and “The Flash” cast a lot of doubt of your scale 🙂
Hehe I agree that Scorpion was TOO unrealistic. However, it wasn't lame (which is how I felt of The Flash which seemed too corny and forced). And it had a greater sense of fun for me than Murder.
Still, in the long-term, I'll probably get sucked in by those two more than Scorpion, as I'm just not a fan of procedurals.
I didn't want to watch Stalker simply because McDermott is in it (I don't know why I don't like the dude either), but I'm surprised to say it amused me a whole lot! I don't get why everyone's making a big deal out of this show. It's entertaining so far.
As for Manhattan Love Story, boy that was a train-wreck lol. Extremely unlikeable characters and the listening-to-their-thoughts thing gets boring REALLY quickly.
PlatinumRosebud says:
How To GAWM
It’s watchable. But it will never have the character dynamics of the OPA Gladiators.
The premiere unleashed all the shockers of the creator’s heart’s content to garner audience who would like to find out the who dunnits and the how did theys of those flashes all over the pilot ep like peek-a-boo.
The next three eps will let me know if I will stick with this or if this will be beside TVD for me. Sorry.
I was looking forward in watching this; only to find out that it is a live action cartoon!
My interest lies on the young boy, though. A filler for me.
Not very impressed with the premiere.
I was more interested when it was just a segment in an Arrow ep.
I find the supporting characters bland.
I’m also surprised to find some of the effects laughable.
Hope it improves in the next three eps.
I like this ‘cause I like Ioan. He’s cool.
I love vampire themed stories. Ioan’s character may not be a vampire but he’s supposedly immortal; so same thing. (Gimme a break.)
It’s a relaxing show to watch. I need my feel good weekly refill and this is it. Hehehe.
This, I love. Very promising. Pls. see my sents in your pilot review.
A Steven Spielberg bankrolled show with a bunch of kids with attitude who happens to have long illnesses.
Will not lose sleep if I miss watching. A filler for me.
Black.ish
Not interested in anything trying to copy the Huxtables.
Just the premiere and that’s it. Big people playing nine year olds.
Hmmm… warming up.
Truly not interested. Sorry.
Of course, I watched this, Nadim.
Hey, I still have Nikita hang-over and love Maggie Q.
Not that impressive a premiere but I like Beth Davis already. (Yes! I’m playing favorites.)
I am not partial to Dylan M though; won’t protest if they change the actor or kill the character.
I want more kick-a** segments. You hear me writers?
Well, that’s it for me, Nadim. Have a good one.
Nice to read all your thoughts Platinum! I missed you 🙂 So true about all these shows being forgettable! Here's hoping Gotham doesn't disappoint us (since I didn't like the second episode)!
And more Stalker asskickings please!!
I only watched the pilot of The Affair, and yes that was one incredible pilot! Loved the storytelling and the characters' perspectives, and I'm even more intrigued about who dies in the future, and what they're doing at the police..?
I should try to catch up on this show. I hope it stays as amazing as the pilot!
Selfie – I saw the entire season but I wasn´t very impressed because the show wants us to root for Eliza when she is nothing but an airhead and so stupid and over the top.
A to Z – The show was charming but the friends were way over the top.
The Flash – The pilot was bad, the season was so so and I´m done with it, period. Too light and even a bit childish for my taste.
Stalker – I liked this one and well, Maggie Q is amazing.
Gotham – Didn´t impress me on the pilot, didn´t come back for more.
Still haven´t seen “The Affair”, “How to get away with Murder”.
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Report: Tristan Thompson shoved/face-mushed Draymond Green without warning at party
By Dan FeldmanAug 1, 2018, 4:04 PM EDT
Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson reportedly punched Warriors star Draymond Green during a party at a Los Angeles restaurant last month.
Now comes corroboration and reframing.
Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic:
Thompson, according to sources, out of nowhere attacked Green.
No argument. No squaring up. No taking it outside.
“It was a sucker punch,” said one source who attended the party. “But, to be honest, it wasn’t really a punch. It was more like a shove.”
It was a face mush, another source described it.
Thompson’s reporting makes clear something happened. This isn’t just gossip.
What exactly happened? Like any fight, the precise details are hard to pin down. People have their own interpretations and spin of the suddenly unfolding event.
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Flotation Tanks Come To Syracuse
By Annalisa Pardo, BDJ 667.02
Published on February 27, 2017 at 9:48pm
A new salt therapy spa is now open in Syracuse. But what exactly is salt therapy? NCC's Annalisa Pardo takes us inside the flotation tank.
By Annalisa Pardo SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS) – Syracuse is joining in on the salt therapy trend, with a new flotation spa open on Erie Boulevard.
Clients can come to the flotation spa, where they float in about 850 pounds of Epsom salt.
Fans of the therapy say floating helps them ease their stress, anxiety, muscle pain, and can help with skin problems.
“It can help clear psoriasis, it can help clear some dry skin, it can help clear… things like insect bites, poison ivy, sometimes dry skin…so there are some uses for it,” said Dr. Joyce Farah, a local dermatologist.
But Susan Ventress, a regular floater at Bodymind Float Center in Rochester, told us she floats for other reasons.
“…total quiet…”, she told us.
Ventress said floating at a spa is different from simply using an Epsom salt bath balm at home because in addition to the floating aspect of the tank, floating at a spa offers a quiet, relaxed environment.
Alex Cerio is the manager at Bodymind Float Center in Rochester.
He said floating in a quiet tank allows muscles to loosen up, which eases muscle pain.
And while flotation therapy dates back to the fifties, it’s said benefits are gaining attention.
According to Flotation Locations, an online flotation directory, the amount of flotation tanks has nearly tripled nationwide in the past six years.
The U.S. currently has 355 flotation spas and the therapy is beginning to gain traction in the sports arena.
But, the benefits of floating may just be too good to be true.
“Just because it’s natural, doesn’t mean it’s safe,” said Dr. Farah.
One of her biggest concerns is dehydration.
“You are sitting in this concentrated ‘sea’ basically, and so you are going to have fluids from your body leaking into the baths. So you have to make sure you don’t dehydrate,” said Dr. Farah.
She said doctors’ opinions on flotation therapy vary but she personally doesn’t believe it should be used as a stand alone remedy.
“Can they be used in conjunction with traditional medicine? I think they can, I think that’s the safe way to use them,” said Dr. Farah.
Whether you’re ready to float today or want to take this therapy with a grain of salt, Dr. Farah said it’s always important to check with your physician before floating.
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Rivers PDP, Senator Abe trade words over alleged plot to rig re-run election
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said it has “observed with dismay the jumping in and out of the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja” by Senator Magnus Abe, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the forthcoming rescheduled re-run National Assembly election in the state.
A statement from the office of the state chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, demanded to know whether he (Abe) has relocated his campaign office to the INEC office, noting that his frequent visits to the electoral house is not only disturbing but also very suspicious.
According to Bro. Obuah, it’s surprising and shameful that Mr. Abe can hardly comport himself and allow the electoral officers to do their job expeditiously, adding that if he (Abe) is not accusing the electoral officers of taking sides, he is alleging one fraud or another just to play the spoiler, knowing full well that he cannot win any election in the entire Rivers South East.
On the part of PDP, the state Chairman said all that matters to the party is for the electoral body to do the right thing and ensure a smooth conduct of the re-run elections in which he believes the PDP will emerge victorious as usual.
“Notwithstanding, we are keeping tap on every move by desperadoes and will never allow nor accept any act not in consonance with the principle of one man, one vote, to determine the final and overall outcome of the re-run elections across the State,” Bro. Obuah warned. However, in a swift reaction, the Senator Abe Media Campaign Organization said today that it has reliably uncovered a plot by the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesome Wike, and PDP in the state to massively rig the elections with financial inducement.
In a press statement issued in Port Harcourt, chairman of the organisation, Mr. Parry Saroh Benson, stated that the governor had procured a loan of N9 billion on behalf of the state to bribe INEC officials, buy off PVCs from the voters and compromise security operatives.
The statement further said that at a meeting held by the caucus of the governor in Government House, it identified Senator Abe as the prime target of their scheme and approved that the sum of N10, 000 be set aside to buy each voters' card in Rivers South East Senatorial District. It stated that in Khana and Gokana Local Government Areas, the plot had commenced as some voters now scramble to sell their voters' card at the mouth watering offer.
The statement urged the people of Rivers South East to demonstrate their strong will by rejecting the money offered to them by Wike as their future is more important than the pittance. It assured that Abe is committed to championing the implementation of the cleanup of Ogoni land and the attendant benefits.
The statement also said that the media campaign team was not surprised as Mr. Wike from those who knew him closely, had never been a democrat. It stated that his approach to politics had always been to rig elections and keep a band of thugs to intimidate opponents.
The statement wondered why the governor would put the people of the State to high indebtedness up to the tune of N9 billion to rig election in his bid to stop Senator Abe in a state where civil servants and teachers had not been paid backlog of their salaries.
"The profligacy of the governor had been legendary. That was why those who knew him well had reservation in his being the governor of the state as he had no consideration to public interest,” it stated.
The media team dismissed the governor's denial of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Rivers State, Mr. Aniedi Ikiowak, of being a contractor in the Federal Ministry of Education when the governor was the minister, as being economical with the truth, pointing out that the facts will speak for themselves.
On the comment of the governor that if the election was conducted again that he (Abe) would lose, the statement maintained that Abe had a strong electoral base in Rivers South East and his insisting on free and fair election is not borne out of fear but to secure his votes, adding that should the election be free and fair, there was no way he would not emerge victorious.
The statement further said that even PDP as a party recognised Abe's popularity among the people and was putting every effort to contain his acceptance, pointing out that it was why it resorted to campaign of calumny and rigging schemes to pull him down.
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‘Ramaphosa is not a leader of the blacks but a dealmaker with the whites’- Malema
EFF leader, Julius Malema has labelled President Cyril Ramaphosa a dealmaker and not a leaderwho became president to meet white leaders and clinch deals with them.
Speaking at the party’s Africa Day celebration event in Sunnyside in Tshwane on Friday, Malema said Ramaphosa became president to go around the world and make deals with white leaders not to help the people of South Africa.
“Cyril doesn’t need a salary. He took that position because of deal making,” Malema said. “He wants to go around the world making deals.
That’s why he wants to be president… He doesn’t want to be president for the poor. He doesn’t want to be president for the HIV patients.”
“He wants to be president so that he can have access to white leaders and then they clinch deals. He is not a leader, he is a dealmaker.
That’s who is he is.” Malema added that white people said Ramaphosa was the best president and that everyone else believed it.
“White people want us to believe that we have got our saviour, we’ve got an engine; Cyril Ramaphosa is coming to save us.” Malema added that Ramaphosa should be rejected for what he did to people in Marikana and for buying a buffalo for R18m.
He said the president should also be rejected for giving half of his presidential salary to a new Madiba fund, saying it was a “misdirected type of intervention.”
“The money must go to the squatter camps. The money must go to the landless people. The money must go to the unemployed people. The money must go to the children of the domestic workers. That’s where we need this money.”
Malema also criticised those who applauded Ramaphosa for the move. “You all clap hands as if he is the masterpiece, but this man is worth billions.
Why can’t he take half of what he is worth and give it to the poor? Why can’t he take half a billion and give it to the poor?”
Speaking about Africa Day, Malema said it’s a day in which Africans can celebrate themselves and tell the world that they are Africans and proud of their heritage. “We are not ashamed of being African. We are not ashamed of being black.”
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EFF leader, Julius Malema has labelled President Cyril Ramaphosa a dealmaker and not a leaderwho became president to meet white leaders and clinch deals with them. Speaking at the party's Africa Day celebration event in Sunnyside in Tshwane on Friday, Malema said Ramaphosa became president to go around the world...
Rather than remain defensive, White people should acknowledge privilege and contribute to restorative justice, says Thuli Madonsela
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Bruins Show Off New Defensive Pairings Before Departing For Pittsburgh
Filed Under:Boston Bruins, Bruins Playoffs, Claude Julien, Dennis Seidenberg, Evgeni Malkin, NHL Playoffs, Sidney Crosby, Sports News, Zdeno Chara
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BOSTON (CBS) – The Boston Bruins practiced for one final time on Friday before finally heading off for Pittsburgh, and head coach Claude Julien showed off some new defensive pairings ahead of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Penguins.
While Julien’s forward lines remained the same, he broke up the famous — and feared — defensive duo of Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg, instead putting Johnny Boychuk with Chara and rookie Matt Bartkowski with Seidenberg.
Rookie Torey Krug lined up next to Adam McQuaid on Boston’s third defensive line, with veteran Wade Redden with Dougie Hamilton and Andrew Ference with Aaron Johnson on the two extra lines.
Julien said Thursday that Ference was not medically cleared to return, so his status for Game 1 is still in doubt.
Read: Bruins-Penguins Predictions
Whether Friday’s defensive pairings take the ice on Saturday when the series finally gets underway is yet to be determined, but with things kicking off on the road (and the Bruins won’t have the luxury of the game’s final line change) it makes some sense for Boston to break up the “Chardenberg” defensive line. With the two on the ice at separate times, Julien can work matchups against Pittsburgh stars like Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
The Bruins did a good job last series shutting down Rick Nash of the New York Rangers — who was held to just a goal and an assist over five games — but Julien knows Pittsburgh’s depth and fire/star power is a much different animal.
“The one thing I would say about Pittsburgh is the skill level, it’s so deep. We know that the Rangers didn’t score that easily. We shutdown a few players and it took a lot of their scoring away. With Pittsburgh, you’ve got to shutdown more than a few players – I’m going to say even more than three and four,” Julien said on Thursday. “They come in bunches. I think that’s the respect that you have to have for that team, knowing that every time you’re on the ice, don’t think it’s going to be an easy shift.”
View: Bruins-Penguins Schedule
The Penguins lead the NHL in scoring this postseason at 4.27 goals per game, more than a goal more than Boston’s 3.17 average, which ranks second.
Tune in to every game of the Eastern Conference Finals on 98.5 The Sports Hub — the flagship station of the Boston Bruins. Pregame coverage begins 30 minutes prior to every game!
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Bucks Guard Malcolm Brogdon Launches Program To Help Bring Clean Water To East Africa
Filed Under:Local TV, Talkers
Milwaukee, WI (CBS Local)- Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon announced the launch of a new program, Hoops2o, with the goal of bringing clean water to countries in East Africa.
Brogdon and four other NBA players are asking fans help to reach the fundraising goal of $225,000, which would allow the program to fund five wells, one for each team member of the “Starting 5”.
The NBA players joining Brogdon in the effort are: Justin Anderson (Atlanta Hawks), Joe Harris (Brooklyn Nets), Garrett Temple (Memphis Grizzlies), and Anthony Tolliver (Minnesota Timberwolves). The players are asking fans to pledge a dollar amount per stat line for one of the five players as part of the “Ballin’ for Buckets” campaign beginning on the first of November.
The Hoops2o program is a spin-off of the successful Waterboys campaign started by Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Chris Long in 2015. Brogdon made the decision to start his version of the program with help from NBA players because he made trips to Ghana and Malawi as a child and saw firsthand the impact that water can have on communities there.
Guys, @waterboysORG just hit the @NBA! Our new #Hoops2o program, founded by @Bucks Malcolm Brogdon, is recruiting players from around the league and driving to score clean, accessible drinking water for those in need. Show our new teammates some love! https://t.co/3QdojHXEYF
— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) October 29, 2018
“I saw from a very young age the value of clean water in communities in Africa,” said Brogdon in a press release. “I made a promise to myself that once I reached a time and place in my career where I could do more, I would. When I learned about Chris’ Waterboys initiative and saw their accomplishments by working as a team of players to inspire action, I knew I wanted to expand his vision into the NBA and address our ultimate shared goal to save more lives faster and transform communities.”
Long praised Brogdon and the Starting 5 in a statement for helping to expand the Waterboys initiative and purpose across leagues.
“I’m honored that our work is expanding into the NBA and I couldn’t be more excited about what this will mean for our neighbors who lack access to a fundamental resource'” said Long. “I’m confident that working together as a united front, the NFL’s Waterboys and the NBA’s Starting 5 will bring us one step closer to providing water to one million people.”
For more information on the program, visit www.hoops2o.org.
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Dutch cities set aside €240 million to support pro football clubs
By Janene Pieters on March 3, 2016 - 09:51
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The 32 Dutch municipalities that have professional football clubs spent at least 240 million euros over the past decade to support these clubs, according to a study done by Nieuwsuur. This involves loans, standing guarantee for loans, subsidies and stadium purchases, among other things.
The municipalities currently have more than 34 million euros outstanding in loans to various football clubs. The municipality of Almelo, for example, borrowed Heracles 8.3 million euros. And the Hague lent Ado Den Haag 6.5 million euros. Utrecht lost 20.5 million euros in a loan to the owner of Galgenwaard stadium when he went bankrupt.
Many municipalities also stand guarantee for a loan their football organization took out. Over the past decade, this involved 56 million euros. So long as the football club is in a good financial position, standing guarantee for a loan will not cost a municipality anything. But if the club gets into trouble, the municipality could lose millions of euros.
Municipalities also support football clubs in other ways. The municipality spent 690 thousand euros to buy part of the stand and associated ground in the Telstar stadium. For 350 thousand euros, Eindhoven is now the proud owner of four light columns in the Eindhoven stadium. Leeuwarden gave SC Cambuur 680 thousand euros to use the word Leeuwarden in the club's official name. Twelve of the 32 municipalities own their clubs' stadium, or at least a significant share.
Gerd Leers, who made the first call to end financial support to professional football clubs as mayor of Maastricht in 2003, is shocked by the figures. "Madness, what could we have done with all that public money", he commented to broadcaster NOS.
Maarten Allers, professor of Economics of local governments, thinks that the municipalities should talk to each other. "Actually they should agree not to do this anymore. Then you have a more fair competition and save a lot of public money." He is also concerned about the municipalities who own their clubs' stadiums. That leads to the club having the municipality in a stranglehold. "Such a club knows that a stadium without a club is virtually worthless, so you can do crazy things. The municipality keeps supporting you anyway." he said to the broadcaster.
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10 Restaurant Chains That Flopped
by Patrick J. Kiger
Steak and Ale
Steak and Ale was yet another creation of Norman Brinker, the legendary restaurant visionary who turned Jack in the Box and Chili's into runaway successes. Brinker started Steak and Ale in Dallas in 1966 to compete against the conventional full-service restaurants that he derided as "starchy" and overpriced. Brinker deduced that middle-class customers would flock to a joint that charged just $1.95 for an eight-ounce filet, which was something of a no-brainer. But he also wowed America with another innovation, the self-service salad bar. When Brinker sold the chain to Pillsbury in 1976, he had 109 restaurants in 24 states [source: Grimes]. Steak and Ale's success may have been its undoing, because the "casual dining" genre that it created became crowded with imitators. It ultimately became part of billionaire John Kluge's Metromedia Restaurant Group, which shut down its last 50 of the restaurants in 2009 [source: McCracken].
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Money ain’t funny – The Financial Times
Once upon a time, back in the days when nobody had a home computer, laptop, mobile phone or iPad, my daily newspapers at work – paid for by my employer, Goodyear - were The Financial Times and The Glasgow Herald (it didn’t become The Herald until 1992). At home, I took The Guardian, which I had read since my teens, when it was called The Manchester Guardian.
Goodyear, notoriously parsimonious in peripheral expenses, nonetheless required its managers, especially those in finance and and employee relations, to stay up to date with both local and national issues and current affairs. I maintained a clippings file from both papers of items I considered relevant. (I remember specifically in June 1972 cutting out a small, obscure item at the bottom of an FT page reporting a burglary in a Washington Hotel called the Watergate, which housed the Democratic Party campaign HQ.)
I was highly politically aware back then, primarily because of the dynamically changing industrial relations scene and legislative context, polarised politically between the Tories and Labour. What struck me forcibly about the Financial Times was its total objectivity about politics. It had to be objective, because those engaged in the hard-edged business of money didn’t want the facts to be spun – they could get political bias from The Telegraph/Guardian polarity, but as my American bosses used to say – money ain’t funny, Pete – got to be able to tell shit from Shinola.
(One prime reason for the global financial mess that we’re now in is that international bankers and financiers, especially the formerly hard-eyed Americans, lost the capacity to tell shit from Shinola. Either that, or they ceased to care …)
I rarely buy the FT these days, because it’s not cheap, but yesterday, fed-up with the Christmas trivia in my usual papers, I bit the bullet and forked out £2.80 for the familiar pink pages. I had quite forgotten the superb quality of the typography and illustrations, both artistic and graphical, and the content didn’t disappoint either.
Among the items that caught my eye were these -
“Hedge fund partners earn $3bn amid crisis –Amid the eurozone debt crisis and a stuttering UK economy, three of London’s biggest hedge funds are on course to pay their tiny clique of top managers more that $3bn dollars this year”
Needless to say of the three only one remains domiciled in Britain. Don’t let anyone tell me these people are worth it or that they add to the sum total of human happiness.
“Unions pushed to agree pensions deal …. Frantic last-minute negotiations raised the possibility that the alliance of more than 29 unions that brought more than 1m workers out on strike on November 30th could fragment.
“… The government has threatened it may withdraw its latest offer, including protection for those within 10 years of retirement and a more generous rate for accruing pensions benefits, unless a preliminary agreement is reached by year-end.”
“We need religion in politics to provide morality that society lacks, says Cameron –God needs to be put back into politics, David Cameron has argued, treading into an area usually studiously avoided by politics.”
“Big Society is ‘damaged’ brand – The Big Society has been irreparably damaged as a brand through government spending cuts and a failure by politicians tosell the idea to the public, according to one of the most prominent figures in the charity world.” (Sir Stephen Bubb)
“Churchill is a poor lodestar for Cameron’s isolationism.”
This article by Peter Clarke, former professor of modern British history at Cambridge, closes with these words -
“ … Nothing he [Churchill] said or did in 1940 justifies appropriating his name for a policy of isolation from Europe. His own speeches about the importance of the European idea reveal his own sentiments. And his hardheaded political realism, as Britain’s wartime leader, meant that he never chose to stand alone.”
I stood in Duke Street, Glasgow, at the wall of the cattle market just opposite Dunchattan Street during the Second World War, to boo Churchill as he sped past in his open-topped car, wearing a siren suit and giving the V for Victory sign. We Dunchattan Street boys, street urchins, gave him the sign of the archers at Agincourt right back. Churchill's visits to Glasgow WWII
Maybe we were too harsh to Winnie. And maybe God – or the Archbishop of Canterbury - could have a word with the hedge fund managers about their $3bn bonanza. But I won’t live in hope. After all, somebody once said “the poor we always have with us …”
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La règle du jeu – Michael Moore and the independence negotiations
It’s easy to cast Michael Moore as a villain, the arch-enemy of the YES Campaign, the current Scottish Secretary whose predecessors had a remarkably consistent record in acting against the interests of Scots, with the honourable exception of Tom Johnson, probably the only Scottish Secretary who conceived of the role as Scotland’s man in the UK instead of the other way round.
I have done my share of teasing and criticising Michael Moore, but have radically revised my view of him after analysing in close detail his responses to Iain Davidson’s Select Committee and his performance in the negotiations with Nicola Sturgeon over the referendum deal. I have no doubt whatsoever that this Northern Ireland-born son of a British Army chaplain is a committed unionist in his heart, and intellectually as a Liberal Democrat, and that he is totally opposed to Scotland’s independence and will campaign vigorously against it.
But he is also what the independence debate desperately needs right now – a pragmatic realist with a sound grasp of the principles of negotiation, and a budding diplomat of the highest order. (His destiny in the UK or rUK should be the Foreign Office, where he would do a better job than the pompously inadequate William Hague.)
Having managed to upset Davidson’s Commons Committee by refusing to play their dirty little game, he has now repeated the trick with the Lords’ committee, which also has thinly concealed anti-independence motives. So far, I only have press reports to go on, but the signs are encouraging - Michael Moore savaged by Unionist peers over EU row
What enraged the unelected Lords was Moore’s argument that that there was no need to engage in a dialogue with the European Commission because a considerable body of information was already in the public domain- including EC President Barroso’s letter to the Committee - suggesting Scotland, as a new member state, might have to reapply and negotiate its membership.
In reply to an increasingly frustrated Michael Forsyth – who one of these days is going to birl uncontrollably and fly up his kilt into his own orifice, such is his exasperation at the prospect of Scotland’s independence – Michael Moore offered the following gnomic reply, which baffled the parcel of Lords, but brought a knowing smile to the faces of experienced negotiators -
Michael Moore: "There will be elements of this which are, to put it mildly, inelegant in terms of how well-informed people can be at the time of that vote. But short of doing that pre-negotiation, which as the UK Government I don't think it's our place to do, I believe we cannot resolve some of those issues."
Moore, in this and other revealing remarks, displays an real understanding of the dynamics and tactics of the pre-negotiation phase of negotiation, especially one that is going to be conducted in under a media searchlight and in a atmosphere of fevered and often highly ill-informed speculation and comment. He seems to have acquired a sophisticated understanding of such matters, matters that most politicians and media commentators are involved with throughout their entire careers without ever grasping their essence. Either he has an innate grasp of the fundamentals, or has had formative experiences in politics and government that shaped him, or – perhaps and/or – he is being advised by someone who can tell shit from Shinola.
These are qualities and skills that will be vital in the run-up to 2014 and in the negotiations that follow a YES vote. But relaxing in the knowledge that the Scottish Government negotiators will have a worthy opponent who understands La règle du jeu – with a nod to a great filmmaker, Jean Renoir – nationalists must also brace themselves to face a formidable opponent, one they must treat with wary respect.
Michael Moore will be, I hope, the last incumbent of the post of Scottish Secretary, but I entertain the hope that he will acquit himself honourably, in the spirit of the great Tom Johnson, lose with honour and with the respect of nationalists, and go on to a long and successful career wherever he choses to pursue it. For my part, I would like to seem him join in building the new Scotland after independence.
Sadly, if the Forsyths of this world have their way, he will be eclipsed or supplanted by some bumbling but highly vocal primitive Tory placeman, and the negotiations will be a bitter experience with a negative fallout.
Labels: Barroso, La regle du jeu, Lords Committee, Michael Forsyth, Michael Moore, Moridura, negotiation, Peter Curran, Scotland and the EU, Scotland's independence, Scottish Secretary
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Sectarianism, religion and politics
I had hoped to stay out of this debate, since almost anything anybody say makes things worse. But it won’t go away, and in the hope that most of Scottish population are rational and fair-minded, whatever their background and beliefs, and still display the healthy scepticism and willingness to question the hidden agendas of those who seek to persuade them that characterised Scots for most of my life, here is how I see it.
You can skip the next section (800 words) if you like, and jump straight to my views on the sectarian debate, but reading it may help you understand my position. To any religious bigots about to consider my views I would suggest that it will save you a lot of trouble later. Some of you won’t get beyond the first paragraph, perhaps even the first sentence. To others, it will induce a misplaced confidence that I am about to endorse your prejudices. I’m not ..
WHAT I AM AND WHERE I STAND
My background is that of a Glasgow East End Scot from a devoutly Catholic family with their roots in the Republic of Ireland. My mother was born in Glasgow, but my father and all my grandparents were Irish. I was educated in a cradle of Irish Catholicism in Glasgow, St.Mary’s Primary School in the Calton, fondly know by its historical name of St. Mary’s Ragged , with the church just round the corner in Abercrombie Street, the old South Witch Lone, renamed in 1802. St.Mary’s Church was built 40 years later in 1842. I attended its centenary celebrations in 1942 as a seven year old, the year of my first Communion. St. Mary’s was the cradle of Celtic Football club, founded by a Marist Brother, Andrew Kerins, known as Brother Walfrid. All of the males in my family were keen Celtic supporters.
I followed the natural progression for many St.Mary’s boys and went to St. Mungo’s Academy in early 1948, where I remained until 1950 when I left.
From the age of seven I had serious doubts and questions about religion, and at the point I left school, I was simply going through the motions of church observance for the sake of my mother and family. When I started my National Service in 1953, I was an atheist, and more than that, formed the belief that has stayed with me ever since, that organised religion, together with inequality, racism and greed was the root of much of Glasgow and Scotland’s problems and most of the world’s problems. I also believe that secret societies, organisations and clubs that include or exclude based on religious belief, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual orientation are inimical to democracy and a free society. I believe that totalitarian states and dictatorships are almost always structured on principles similar to those of organised religion, even when they are nominally secular, and are equally destructive to human values.
I was a Labour supporter and internationalist in my political beliefs for most of my life, but the progressive failure of the party in the post-war period to address Glasgow’s problems and the needs of the poor, the deprived and the under-privileged, eventually led me late in life to the Scottish National Party. I am totally opposed to nuclear weapons, but I am not a pacifist. I believe in defence and the concept of a just war, even though such a thing is an extreme rarity historically. I saw the Second World War as a just war, and one that had to be fought, but was appalled at the use of nuclear weapons to end the war with Japan.
My friends and social contacts cross religious, ethnic, sexual orientation, political and social boundaries, and such distinctions have never mattered to me in choosing friends nor in selecting employees when I was engaged in recruitment in industry, either as their boss or on behalf of another. In my recruitment and managerial roles over the years, in common with all who hire people, I have been accused of every kind of discrimination imaginable, the range of alleged discriminations effectively cancelling each other out.
I have never been interested in spectator sports, and support no football club, although like all Scots of my generation, I played street football, played school football and rugby, albeit under duress. For a brief period in the late 1950s I was involved in judo and the old Osaka Club in Glasgow.
All of the above – especially the lack of interest in football - should be enough to make me an object of suspicion and instinctive distrust by both sides of the sectarian divide in Scotland, and to cause them to dismiss anything I have to say out of hand.
But all my old Glasgow street experience - and experience of more subtle sectarian bigotry in industry - tells me that it is better to get it all up front than leave it to the kind of sordid speculation and nose-tapping that otherwise ensues. The old Belfast question can, of course, still be asked - “You say you’re an atheist, but are you a Protestant or a Catholic atheist?”
FACTS AND BELIEFS – SHARED AND PERSONAL
Let’s start with a few facts, ones that are accepted as fact – I hope – across the range of opinions on the subject.
1. Sectarianism is a significant problem in Scottish life.
2. No government, national or devolved, passed any legislation to combat it until the Scottish Government’s 2011 legislation.
3. The Scottish police believe there is a need for such legislation, and have welcomed the new powers it gives them to deal with sectarian behaviour.
4. The most egregious examples of sectarian behaviour have been at football matches, especially Old Firm matches, or have been directly related to football, e.g. the bombs sent to Neil Lennon and others. That is not to say that they are the only manifestations of sectarian behaviour, nor to say that other, less visible instances of such behaviour may be damaging Scottish life in even more fundamental ways, e.g sectarian behaviour in employment, in the Police and in the Law.
If you don’t accept all of the above as facts, then little that I have to say will impress you, and vice versa. To misquote Sydney Smith – “We will never agree, we are arguing from separate premises (sic)”
Here are a six additional things that I believe - in addition to beliefs set out in my preamble - and I don’t expect general agreement on these, because there is abundant evidence that many religious believers and their spokesperson don’t accept them, or pay only lip service to them, and indeed the UK Government and the Scottish Government do not accept all of them.
The state and the apparatus of government should be secular and not religious-based, and should not favour any religious group over another, or over people of no faith.
The government of a country should permit all faiths to worship and believe as they choose, and should protect that right by law, except where the behaviour of any group seeks to impose a belief, or belief system, or practice by law on those who do not share it, or restrict their freedom within the law.
Individual and groups who are not elected by the democratic will of the people may be consulted about their views, providing they do not seek to bypass the democratic will of the people as expressed by the government they have elected.
There should be no such thing as an established church in a country or state, e.g. The Church of England.
A state or country should not be described as, or present itself as, or see itself as one specially linked to a specific religion, or indeed to religious belief, e.g. “The UK is a Christian country” etc..
There should be no such thing as faith schools or schools segregated on a religious basis or on the absence of belief, e.g “Only atheists children will be admitted to this school, and we will inculcate atheist values.”
But I start from the assumption that the Scottish Government accepts at least the first three as principles of government, tries to govern by such principles, and has consistently adhered to them throughout the debate on sectarianism, and will continue to do so.
HOW WE GOT HERE – RELIGION AND HISTORY
Certainly since Henry VIII, the history and politics of Britain and its monarchy have been inextricably bound up with, and distorted by religion, and the history of Scotland has been even more influenced by it. Central to all of this was the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy, which claimed supremacy over all secular authorities and all nations. After the Reformation, the Papal worldwide influence progressively declined, but it still bulked large in relations between Scotland and England, and between England and Ireland. Monarchs and politicians ruthlessly exploited religion for their own ends, and organised religion reciprocated with enthusiasm, and exploited monarchs and politicians, in an unholy – in the truest sense of the word – set of alliances.
The effect of the Reformation and the ideas of Martin Luther were adopted with energy in Scotland, especially by those attempting to shift power to the people from prelates and priests, and there is no doubt that we owe much of our democracy to this great religious and intellectual movement, but with dreary inevitability it produced another kind of undemocratic autocracy of the mind, with the Kirk becoming the thought police, and proving themselves just as capable of the torture, hangings and burnings as the previous Catholic hegemony. On the credit side, the Kirk undoubtedly was also a binding force in Scottish society, vital in education and poor relief, and in defending the rights of ordinary people, up to a point. Such are the contradictions inherent in religion when it supplants democratic politics. But democratic politics as we know them are a comparatively recent thing, with for example, the full vote for women coming as late as 1928 in Britain.
But the fatal flaw of deference infected the Kirk too, and some of the writings of Scottish Presbyterian ministers on the fate of their flocks during the Clearances make depressing reading, with expressions of sanctimonious concern mixed with nauseating obsequiousness to landlords and clan chiefs and fatalism in the face of a gross injustice masquerading as faith in the Lord. During the Enlightenment, this fog of almost medieval superstition began to lift, but even a great thinker – and atheist – such as David Hume had to be circumspect: the Kirk still had people hanged for questioning religion, including a teenage boy.
In the late 17th century the Irish dimension began to exert the baleful influence it has had on Scottish politics and Scottish life ever since, and it is a sad fact of life that generations of Scottish children have grown to adulthood able to name only a couple of dates in British history – the Battle of the Boyne, or the Easter Rising, and have a greater identification with, and knowledge of Irish politics than the 21st century politics of their native country. Football clubs founded in the 19th century – Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers - with predominantly working class roots, admirable intentions and the wish to play a great game are now international money-making machines – or were up until recently – with players and managers who are often entirely unrepresentative of their native city, Scotland or indeed the UK. They are now the focal point for religious tribal loyalties based on ancient history that is largely irrelevant to modern Scottish life.
Since I do not aspire to be the poor man’s Tom Devine, I must move on …
THE SECTARIAN SITUATION – SCOTLAND IN 2011
sect: a body of people subscribing to religious doctrine different from others within the same religion, a group deviating from orthodox tradition, heretical, body separated from an orthodox church, nonconformist. Concise Oxford dictionary.
The definition also covers philosophy and politics, but we can confine ourselves to the religious dimensions, although there is an irony in the fact the sectarianism is now being used in a thoroughly contemptible way by unionist politicians in Holyrood as a tool of opposition, just as they used minimum pricing for alcohol in the last Parliament.
sectarian: bigoted or narrow-minded in following the doctrine’s of one’s sect. COD
(In these definitions one might argue that Roman Catholicism and Protestantism are sects of the Christian religion, and Protestantism undoubtedly has sects within its total body.)
Here is an unpalatable fact for the Scottish churches – there would be no religious sectarianism without religion. Sectarianism is a product of the religious mind, just as pogroms, persecution, burning of heretics, torture, the auto da fé, the suppression of scientific discovery, the suppression of free expression and free speech, homophobia and almost all of the key conflicts in our tortured world are a product of the religious mind.
In that, religion has its mirror image in totalitarian creeds such a Nazism and the Stalinist regimes of Soviet Russia, and their up-to-date versions around the world, which displayed and display all the characteristics of religious dogma – the Great Leader whose word must not be challenged, the acolytes who are uniquely gifted with the power of interpreting it, the sacred texts, the censorship, the intolerance of any alternative political view or religious challenge, and the whole apparatus of punishing the deviant.
The Scottish National Government is committed to governing a country, Scotland, that has many religions, historically Christian religions, but in the 21st century, other faiths as well, and also has many who claim no specific faith, but profess to believe in a God, and some who do not believe in a God. (If regular churchgoing and active participation in a church are the measures, Scotland is not a Christian society. If highly visible interventions into the ordered life of Scotland by religious groups and their spokespersons, either by violent or disruptive and sometime criminal behaviour, or statements by senior clerics to the media and to government are the measure, it is a Christian society.)
The SNP government tries, as any Scottish government of whatever political colour must, to balance these groups within Scottish society, firstly to protect their rights to believe and act -and worship where appropriate - in accordance with their beliefs, to ensure that they are not discriminated against for these beliefs, whether of faith or no faith, and to protect their rights to free assembly and free speech. They must also recognise de facto, the power of these groups, but also the limitations of that power, because in the case of organised religions, they are not representative of a majority of the population or anything like it, and they are, in their own organisation and structure, only partially democratic or completely undemocratic in the selection and appointment of the leaders. Where a form of election does takes place, it is by a small and unrepresentative group.
Let’s look at the dynamics of the situation that led to this legislation. Prominent Catholics had been calling attention to what they perceived as discrimination and actual violence directed against them as a minority group in Scottish society for some time. The behaviour of a minority of football supporters, notoriously those supporting the two Old Firm clubs, Celtic and Rangers, before, during and after games, on the streets, in the pubs and on the terracing had become increasingly inimical to public order, criminal and eventually lethal to a young man wearing a Celtic strip, who was stabbed to death for no other reason than his dress, an act that led to the establishment of Nil by Mouth, an organisation campaigning against sectarian violence, and its two close companions, alcohol abuse and domestic abuse.
The attacks on Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, and the explosive devices sent to his home and that of others associated with Celtic, including an MSP and a prominent lawyer, led to a major police investigation and prosecutions.
On acts of violence that came with the definition of breach of the peace legislation, the police were and are adamant that the existing breach of the piece legislation is inadequate to combat such behaviour, especially the singing of partisan songs with with unacceptable religious and violent associations, offensive banners and chanting and deliberately provocative gesture calculated to inflame violence. (In this regard, there is a conflict with the Human Rights Act, and it has now become central to the dispute.) The flying of flags also presented certain difficulties, with no easy answers. Leaving aside the question of the violence itself, the cost of policing these games, cradles of violence, threatened the game itself, and the reputation of Scotland internationally.
Other political parties had talked about doing something – the SNP Government decided something must be done, but on the basis of cross-party consensus. After initially supporting the legislation, the other parties had second thoughts, and claimed that the legislation was being rushed through Parliament without proper debate: it was certainly being expedited with some urgency, in the hope of avoiding even worse scenes in the new football season than those that had disgraced the previous one.
THE REASONS FOR THE OPPOSITION TO THE LEGISLATION
There are two ways of viewing the opposition to the legislation. One is to say that it is soundly rooted in fears about the adequacy and the clarity of the legislation, and genuine concerns over its legality under the Human Rights Act and freedom of speech and expression.
The second perspective is mine, and I offer it as a personal viewpoint. Others may share aspects of it, but I doubt that any consensus supports my view. It does not represent an SNP view, since I can only judge the party and the Government’s view from their public statements.
I believe that the opposition to the legislation - leaving aside legitimate points on the drafting and implementation in practice, points that will be addressed in the review stages – is rooted in the same destructive opposition politics that lost the unionist parties the last election, namely, oppose blindly any legislation or initiative by the SNP Government that might actually succeed in addressing long-term problems in Scottish society, e.g. alcohol abuse and violence, on the basis that the SNP cannot be seen to succeed where unionist parties have failed for generations.
I believe it is also rooted in wish of small, innately undemocratic and violent minorities on both side of the religious divide, under the guise of football support, to retain their right to behave appallingly and illegally, to foment hatred and violence and perpetuate ancient and irrelevant feuds that feed their perverted sense of identity and tribal loyalty.
I believe that these groups are being exploited by both political and religious forces in Scotland, and perhaps beyond Scotland, in a manner that is at best short-sighted and misguided, and at worse, calculated and extremely dangerous.
I believe that a wider range of bodies have been sucked unwittingly and naively into this agenda, and with the best of motives, e.g. freedom of speech and human rights, are being manipulated.
I believe that the Catholic church hierarchy, having called repeatedly and forcefully for action against sectarian behaviour, discrimination and violence directed against them as a minority religious group in Scotland, are now behaving extremely unwisely in attacking the legislation and the Government, and run a grave risk in so doing of exacerbating religious tension and violence.
I find it extraordinary, to the point of being deeply sceptical, that two groups of supporters should suddenly, in what was virtually a synchronised protest, display elaborately crafted banners with closely similar core messages attacking the SNP Government’s anti-sectarian legislation.
I believe that the religious divide in the West of Scotland has been exploited for well over a century by political parties, especially the Labour Party, and that sectarian divisions have been used in complex and arcane ways to maintain the power of certain groups, especially in local government. (This is an open secret in Glasgow, and has been for all of my lifetime – in American cities run on similar lines, it isn’t even a secret, it is open and blatant, and an accepted fact of political life.) These political groups know which buttons to press, and are determined not to surrender the sordid apparatus of football loyalties mixed with tribal and religious loyalties and its associated provocative and polarised behaviour that underpins their power.
THE RELIGIOUS BIGOTS CREDO
I am loyal to my traditions and my faith – the other side is bigoted, discriminatory, and is determined to destroy all that I believe in. I want Government, the Law and the police to control and act against the behaviour of the other side. Since I never behave badly, such actions should never impinge upon my rights to proclaim my beliefs.
Democratic government is all very well, but I am answerable to a Higher Power. That higher power speaks uniquely to me, and through me, and other faiths and creeds claiming to interpret the Higher Power are mistaken if their interpretation conflicts with mine. I claim the right to demand that the secular, democratically elected government ignore the mandate of the people where I deem it necessary, and respond to my undemocratic and unelected religious principles and precepts. When the chips are down, I will use my undemocratic power to influence the democratic process.
PRACTICAL REALITIES
The beliefs outlined above were taken to their profoundly destructive and violent conclusions in Northern Ireland for generations, distorting the democratic political process that tried to address the real inequalities and grievances. But the bitter experience of what such tribal religious divides, exploited by unscrupulous politicians, actually resulted in has led the Northern Irish people, painfully and agonisingly, into true democratic politics – the bullet and the bomb have begun to lose their lethal potency and rational debate, negotiation and compromise – and above all the ballot box – have gradually brought the Province back to sanity.
But the Scottish sectarian groups who have identified with one side or another in that long conflict, and who got their kicks vicariously from the agony of another people without actually having to experience the pain, are frozen in time, and politically and emotionally immature, unlike the Northern Irish people, who have achieve political maturity by actual hard experience. Of course, at the extremes, there are those on both sides of the religious divide who have been and still are actively involved in the old destructive ways, and they represent an ever-present danger not only to Scotland but to the stability of Northern Ireland’s new democracy.
The phrase moral equivalence is much bandied about at the moment in the sectarian debate. The spokesperson for the Catholic Church and the Catholic community feel that there is a conspiracy by government and the forces of law and order to conceal the fact that the statistics on acts of sectarian violence do not show a balance of illegality – acts of violence against Catholics are far more prevalent than sectarian actions against Protestants.
Michael Kelly, in an article in The Scotsman, SNP will pay a heavy price ... claims that over an 18-month period, 64% of acts of violence were against Catholics and 36% against others, and draws two conclusions from this – one, that since Catholics only form 16% of the population, the ratio is much higher than 2:1, and that “any anti-sectarian campaign must focus on stopping attacks on Catholics …”
Whatever the validity of these statistics, the reality is that the new legislation can only focus on sectarian attacks and unacceptable and inflammatory behaviour wherever it occurs and on those who break the law. Any other approach would be the religious equivalent of racial profiling, i.e. targeting police action on Protestants.
I believe that Michael Kelly’s article is profoundly damaging to the debate and to the cause that he espouses, namely the Roman Catholic cause, because he conflated it with Labour Party and Unionist politics and an attack on the SNP. At all times when listening to a West of Scotland Labour apologist commenting on sectarian behaviour, we must remember that such behaviour has always been concentrated in the West of Scotland under a Labour fiefdom that goes back for over half a century, and Labour-dominated local government, of which Michael Kelly is a former leading light.
RELIGIOUS MATTERS
I also question the moral priorities of senior religious figures in Scotland. At a time when the world is a more unstable place than it has been for a long time, when our economy is in a state of near collapse, the poor, the sick, the underprivileged face an attack on the very fabric of their lives, while weapons of mass destruction are based in our country, draining our limited finances and posing a threat to millions and to the environment, the Scottish churches are obsessed with gay marriage, alleged discrimination and the right to bawl out sectarian songs and fly the flag of the UK and the Irish Republic at football matches in the name of freedom of speech. This is a strange sense of values, and if moral equivalence must be trotted out, there is a distorted sense of morality at work.
I have a last word for the Catholic hierarchy. I found this news report disquieting – if anybody else did, I have not yet come across their comments. Cardinal O'Brien present papal knighthood at Red Mass
The Papal Knighthood is an award by the Vatican – a legally constituted foreign state – to prominent Catholics who have distinguished themselves in their field of endeavour. (I am not aware that it is ever conferred on non-Catholics, but am happy to be corrected on this point.)
This award was made at a special mass to Lord Gill, the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland by Cardinal O’Brien representing Pope Benedict XVI. Present at the mass were the Lord Advocate, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, and the vice president of the Law Society of Scotland. (I do not know the religious affiliations of those attending.)
The report from The Catholic Observer quotes Cardinal O’Brien as follows -
“In his homily at Sunday’s Mass, Cardinal O’Brien urged Catholic lawyers in Scotland to remain strong and true to their religious beliefs.
“There is no doubt that one of the biggest challenges facing Catholic lawyers in Scotland today is a challenge which has faced many people and different groups in society down the ages: how do you live and act out your professional lives while at the same time remaining true to the teachings and doctrine of the Church?” Cardinal O’Brien said. “Specifically for lawyers the challenge must be how can you represent your clients’ interests to the best of your abilities while applying the law of the land, when at times these two pressures may be in conflict with your own Catholic Faith.”
I can only say that I am deeply uncomfortable with such an award and such statements at a time when religious divides in Scottish society are problematical and legislation to combat excesses produced by them is being attacked by prominent religious leaders, including Cardinal O’Brien. I can only speculate about how such an event and such statements are interpreted by extremists in Scottish society.
I do not believe they serve the interest of the Catholic community in Scotland well, nor do they accord with my ideas of how the relationship between religious groups and a secular democracy should work. At worst, they can exacerbate religious tension.
I have to say that the award, and the status and roles of those attending does not suggest a Catholic professional population being discriminated against, at least in the legal profession. I can only express the wish that lawyers in Scotland, of whatever religious persuasion, remain true to the principle of the rule of law and the secular state of which they are a part.
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The Booze – and VOX POP, Sunday Herald version
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THE BOOZE – and “a nice glass of rosé after work”
The Herald and The Scotsman are both panicking about the SNP Government’s measures to combat the twin – and related – Scottish curses of alcohol abuse and sectarianism. Show me a violent bigot and I’ll show you a drunk. They are caught between a rock and a hard place – they must pretend to condemn alcohol abuse and sectarianism, but are terrified that the SNP’s measures might actually succeed in addressing these these ancient evils, because both abuses operate against the Scottish people developing a real national consciousness and democratic will for freedom and independence.
The enthusiasm with which both papers last week seized upon a ‘spontaneous’ demonstration’ - complete with large and elaborately crafted anti-SNP banners - by a small group of old firm ‘fans’ who wanted to protect their right to bellow out sectarian chants - in the name of freedom of expression and sport, God help us – was contemptible.
And today, we have The New Sunday Herald, with an ambivalent front page – Canning the drinks ban – which develops into a thinly-disguised attack on the SNP’s legislative measures to combat cheap booze promotions by supermarkets. Jackie Baillie, Labour, that stout defender of the rights of of Scottish people to have WMDs on their doorsteps and to be protected from any measures that might really help them to stop destroying themselves with cheap hooch, appears rapidly on the scene, accompanied by her sister-in-arms in these matters, Mary Scanlon, Tory, both anxious to shift the attack on alcohol abuse from minimum pricing – which will work - back to the booze barons preferred measures, empty exhortations to behave better (called ‘changing behaviour’) – which manifestly has never worked, and never will work.
Both these women are their party’s Spokeswoman for Health, rather as Tony Blair is Peace Envoy for the Middle East.
The Sunday Herald also wandered into the streets with a camera and picked entirely at random six young Scots who are against the legislation, who all ‘like a nice glass of rosé after work’, or its equivalent, and feel they are being unfairly penalised by the legislation. They even managed to find a nurse who seemed to be against the legislation, although her views are rather confusing – if reported accurately – since her opening remark calls for ‘an overall ban on low booze prices’, but she feels that ‘it’s ridiculous and might extenuate (sic) other problems in the NHS …” and concludes with The Scotsman’s, The Herald’s, the Tory and Labour spokeswomen for Health’s and the booze business and supermarkets’ favourite solution – ‘dealing with the root cause, by educating people from school level.’ The only thing missing from the nightmare scenario was crazed latte drinkers, driven mad by caffeine.
The Sunday Herald, with no sense of irony, called this ‘sample’ of public opinion VOX POP. Well, I suppose a ‘nice glass of rosé ‘ is as close to pop as you’ll get from a supermarket’s alcohol shelves.
This randomly selected group must be congratulated for standing alone against the consensus of the BMA, the nursing profession, the police, health workers, alcohol and harm reduction workers, etc. who supported minimum pricing and control of price as a desirable and significant move to combat alcohol abuse.
I will find it hard to sleep tonight, thinking of the sad plight of of those unable to afford a nice glass of rosé after work because of this legislation, not to mention those other oppressed Old Firm consumers of rosé at Ibrox or Celtic Park, no longer able to brandish a wee bottle of Mateus on the terracing or bellow out sectarian songs as they wave the flags of nations other than Scotland. And I will spare a tear for the directors and senior managers of Tesco, crouching round an oil lamp, down to their last few million pounds, as they weep inconsolably over the 0.3% impact on their profits, and desperately try to think up new ways to circumvent the law and democratic government.
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Why we need more vertical gardens
There is hope for clean and cool air for concrete jungles
TEXT YVETTE TAN
Vertical horticulture has once again gained mainstream traction, with vertical gardens cropping up in different parts of the city as a way to counter the negative effects of pollution while beautifying them. The idea isn’t new however, as Vincent T. Lim, the principal landscape architect of BCL Asia & Partners Co., says. “It’s only in the recent decade that we started seeing this in the Philippines. It took a while before more people started using it here, primarily because of the upfront costs.”
Green Manila
Manila has its share of green walls in public places, such as the award-winning Coke billboard featuring real plants, the green wall on the San Miguel Building and the pockets of greenery that adorn some of the tunnel walls along EDSA. “Plants have a big role in cleaning the air and absorbing pollutants. Vertical gardens help in reducing heat island effect and even noise pollution. In building applications, they help cool the structure,” Lim says.
Also along EDSA is the Public Safety Savings and Loan Association (PSSLAI) building, which features a green wall running the entire length of the 12-storey, eco-friendly edifice. “The decorative function of the green wall actually goes hand-in-hand with the functional aspect,” says Arch. Liza Morales-Crespo, design principal of Liza Crespo Ecotecture, the firm behind the project. “We situated the green wall on the south side of the building to shield it from the hot afternoon sun.”
A matter of maintenance
Building a green wall isn’t just a matter of slapping some plants on an existing structure. There are factors to consider, such as wind and sun direction, climate suitability and hardiness toward pollution. “Also in the realm of public spaces, when not installed properly, they may break down,” Lim adds.
There is also the issue of maintenance. Crespo, with the help of consultants, made the PSSLAI Building as sustainable as possible. “As a green building, we wanted to make sure that we used rainwater as a means of irrigation for the plants. We also needed to specify plants which were fairly easy to maintain.”
Lim says that a vertical garden’s cost can depend on the gardener’s creativity. “It depends on the source and type of technology. There are efficient and cost-friendly ways to irrigate and maintain vertical gardens. If the green walls are small, say about the height of an ordinary fence, they can be watered manually. It’s just like watering shrubs or trees planted on the ground.”
More than just a trend
Perhaps the biggest draw of a green wall is that it doesn’t require a lot of space. Its orientation makes it suitable for the urban environment—and it doesn’t have to be purely decorative.
Suffice to say, vertical gardens and green walls are here to stay. As urban design embraces a more holistic worldview, more and more people are looking to urban gardening as a means of incorporating greenery into the concrete jungle.
This story was originally published in Northern Living, May 2014.
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Catching Up With Armin Omanovic (Lasell Men’s Basketball)
Posted on December 14, 2016 by Noontime Sports Leave a comment
Armin Omanovic has the Lasell men’s basketball team headed in the right direction. (PHOTO CREDIT: Lasell College Athletics)
By NoontimeSports.com (@NoontimeSports.com)
Lasell College senior Armin Omanovic has enjoyed an impressive start to his senior season, earning a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) honors – his most recent weekly accolade came last Monday, December 5th – while leading the team in points (244), trifectas (28) and free-throws converted (64).
Most recently, Omanovic guided the Lasers to a pair of wins last week, including an impressive victory over Keene State – the program’s first since the 2013-14 season.
Lasell heads into the holiday break 6-3 overall, but 3-0 in league play. The Lasers return to the court next month when they host Rivier in a GNAC clash on Thursday, January 5, 2017.
Before Omanovic departed campus to celebrate the holidays with friends and family, Noontime Sports caught up with the Wilkesboro, North Carolina native to discuss his team’s first half of the season.
Your team wrapped up the first half of play this past weekend against Amherst. Tell me about that particular contest and the fight your team displayed from the opening tip?
We knew that they were ranked number one in the country, but did not focus on that. Instead, we tried to come out and play our game because we knew if we played our game, we can beat any team in the country. Amherst jumped on us early with a big lead, but we chipped away at it and made it a game until the end. I was very proud of my teammates’ efforts.
It’s been an exciting start to the season – from your perspective, how has the team improved each day/week?
We come in every day with a focus to get better than we were the day before.
Your team claimed some impressive wins recently, including victories against Johnson & Wales and Keene State. How will those games help the team moving into GNAC play next month?
Its gives us a lot of confidence knowing that if we play the way we should, we can achieve our goals for the season.
What’s something unique or special that many fans don’t know about this particular Lasell squad?
We have a cast of characters on this team and I love it. Many people don’t know how truly close everyone is with each other and that’s what makes playing with them so fun. Win or lose, we still are a family.
It might sound cliché, but who taught you how to shoot a basketball?
I taught myself how to shoot a basketball. I use to wake up every morning before school when I was younger just to work on my jump shot.
What do you enjoy more: driving for a layup or shooting a three-pointer?
I like driving for a layup. Nothing is more satisfying than being a smaller guard and finishing against a tall defender.
Who has been a teammate – either past or current – that has helped you improve, both offensively and defensively?
Brent Cowles has helped me elevate my game over the past few years. We have been teammates before and he taught me all the facets of the game. Without him, I couldn’t be the player that I am today and I am truly grateful for it.
Through nine games this season, Armin Omanovic leads the Lasers in free-throws converted. (PHOTO CREDIT: Lasell College Athletics)
Did you have any family members or siblings that played basketball in college (or high school)?
No, I am the only one in my family that plays basketball, but they all love to watch.
Tell me about your major – how did you choose it and what do you hope to do with it?
I am an applied mathematics major with a minor in communication. My high school math teachers made such an impact on me that I decided I wanted to purse a similar career and help students the same way they helped me. My main goal is to open an orphanage for kids in Chicago and be able to show them that you can succeed no matter what obstacles you face.
Outside of basketball, what clubs/activities are you involved with on campus?
I have been involved with a special fundraiser back home with my best friend Christian Hurt, which is called Heal the Hurt. At the end of every year, we raise money for a young boy or girl or a group of children in need by hosting a charity basketball game. Attendees pay $5 at the door and the event features a lot of my former and current college teammates. We have raised over $10,000 over the last five years and continue to help children all over the world.
Favorite basketball player of all-time is …?
Kobe Bryant.
Favorite movie of all-time?
What was the last book you read for pleasure? And would you recommend it?
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. And I would recommend it to everyone because it portrays essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunities and most importantly, follow your dreams.
Steak and cheese sub.
Three songs you listen to on a game day?
“Déjà vu” by J. Cole
“I can” by Nas
“Love hate thing” by Wale
Finally, what do you love most about playing basketball at Lasell?
My teammates and coaching staff – they make playing basketball (at Lasell) so enjoyable. The love and support they have for each other is indescribable. I wouldn’t be half the basketball player without every single one of my teammates and coaches. The bonds I have with my teammates and coaches will never be broken and I am excited to see how the rest of the season plays out.
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Clinton Foundation Donations 'Almost Zero' Ahead of House Investigation
The charity is currently under investigation by the DOJ, FBI, and IRS
By: Scott Morefield |@NeonNettle
on 22nd November 2018 @ 6.00pm
Following the announcement that House Republicans are now in motion to investigate the Clinton Foundation with the aid of whistleblowers, the foundation's contributions are almost at zero, seeing a 90% drop - according to financial statements.
The charity is currently under investigation by the DOJ, FBI, and IRS for a mixture of allegations - including accusations of "pay for play" favors while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State
The Clintons authorized $151 billion in Pentagon-brokered dealings to 16 countries that gave money to the foundation - massive 45% increase in sales to those nations during the Bush administration, the IBTimes reports.
The Clinton Foundation also took donations from American defense contractors while Hillary was secretary of state, even making personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking appointments.
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The said firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals - all approved by the Clinton State Department.
There was also that $1 million check Qatar reportedly gave Bill Clinton for his birthday in 2012, which the foundation confirmed they accepted.
According to ZH: Coincidentally, we're sure, Qatar was one of the countries which obtained State Department clearance to buy US weapons while Clinton was Secretary of State, "even as the department signaled them out of a range of alleged ills," according to IBTimes.
Then there was the surely unrelated $145 million donated to the Foundation from parties linked to the Uranium One deal before its approval through a rubber-stamp committee.
“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level,” Richard Perle said.
Perle, who has worked for the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke.” –CBS
Meanwhile, according to a November 2016 report by the Dallas Observer, the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation by the IRS since July 2016, while the Arkansas FBI field office has been investigating allegations of pay-for-play and tax code violations, according to The Hill.
The officials, who spoke only on the requirement of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes.
The probe may also examine whether any tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use and whether the Foundation complied with applicable tax laws, the officials said. -The Hill
As we published earlier Wednesday, House Republicans will hear testimony on December 5 from the prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
"Mr. [John] Huber with the Department of Justice and the FBI has been having an investigation – at least part of his task was to look at the Clinton Foundation and what may or may not have happened as it relates to improper activity with that charitable foundation, so we’ve set a hearing date for December the 5th.," Meadows told Hill.TV on Wednesday.
Meadows also told The Hill that the committee is "just now starting to work with a couple of whistleblowers that would indicate that there is a great probability, of significant improper activity that's happening in and around the Clinton Foundation."
One has to wonder why, if there was no pay-for-play, donations to this "highly rated" charity dried up 90% over a period in which the wealth gap continued to increase?
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Bill Clinton: Kavanaugh Assault Accusations Payback for Investigating Clintons
Former president accuses Justice Kavanaugh of Vince Foster charade in 1990s
on 6th May 2019 @ 8.00pm
Clinton suggested Kavanaugh's sexual assault accusations was payback for investigating the Clintons in the 1990s.
Former president Bill Clinton slammed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh claiming he got was he deserved when he was accused of sexual assault in his confirmation hearing.
"He didn't have any problem making us put up with three years of Vince Foster nonsense that was a total charade," Clinton at the Park Theater in Las Vegas during their final appearance their disastrous speaking tour.
Foster, a childhood friend of Bill Clinton, was found with a single gunshot wound to the mouth in Fort Marcy Park in Northern Virginia.
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Foster, a childhood friend of Bill Clinton, became deputy White House counsel in Clinton's White House in 1993 after being a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark.
But in July 1993, his body was found with a single gunshot wound to the mouth in Fort Marcy Park in Northern Virginia.
Following a three year investigation by independent counsel Robert Fiske, it was concluded Foster had committed suicide.
Kavanaugh was accused of dabbling in the conspiracy theories that swirled after Foster's death.
In 1995, Kavanaugh offered independent counsel Kenneth Starr to the opportunity to broaden his Whitewater investigation to include the Foster death.
Kavanaugh argued there was a possibility Foster was murdered, giving Starr the right to delve more deeply.
“We are currently investigating Vincent Foster’s death to determine, among other things, whether he was murdered in violation of federal criminal law,” Kavanaugh wrote to Starr in a March 24, 1995 memo.
“[I]t necessarily follows that we must have the authority to investigate Foster’s death fully.”
Bill Clinton argued in Las Vegas that Kavanaugh had no moral authority to complain about being hit with unsupported sexual assault accusations
According to The Washington Examiner: The new Foster inquiry, led by Kavanaugh, gave assistance to conspiracy theorists, boosted Kavanaugh's reputation as a hard-charging Republican lawyer, and allowed Starr to continue investigating Bill Clinton, eventually leading him to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
After a three-year investigation, Kavanaugh concluded in 1997 that Foster had indeed killed himself.
Bill Clinton argued in Las Vegas that all this meant Kavanaugh had no moral authority to complain about being hit with unsupported sexual assault accusations from his high school days.
Kavanaugh vehemently denied claims by Christine Blasey Ford stretching back to the early 1980s, when they both attended private high schools in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
After days of angry Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that delved into Kavanaugh's personal life, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court by the narrowest margin since the 1880s.
Clinton said Kavanaugh's behavior harkened back to the notorious "red-baiting" lead lawyer and political adviser to Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis., in the 1950s, Roy Cohn — who went on the represent Donald Trump in the 1970s and was known as a master of innuendo.
Clinton said Trump and his family have "been doing that for decades in business and other contexts."
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Holocaust survivors honour Norwich missionary
Two Holocaust survivors have paid tribute to the heroism of Norwich missionary Elsie Tilney, over 70 years after she bravely helped to save them and others from the Nazis.
Surrey Chapel in Norwich hosted a series of special services and events on Holocaust Memorial Day, Sunday January 27, to honour the bravery of Elsie Tilney, a missionary from their own congregation. The day's events included accounts from those who knew Elsie and experienced her courage.
In June 1939, Hitler’s persecution of the Jews and other minorities was under way. As war clouds gathered, a Surrey Chapel missionary, Elsie Tilney (pictured in Algeria, 1920), travelled from Paris to Vienna in Nazi-annexed Austria, and accompanied a one-year-old Jewish girl, Ruth Buchholz, to safety in Paris.
Elsie remained in Paris and was there when it was occupied by the Nazis in June 1940. Later that year she was interned in a prison camp at Vittel, where she remained for four years, engaging in further brave acts to save the lives of others.
Elsie’s young companion, Ruth, survived and eventually moved to England after she married an Englishman. Her son, Professor Philippe Sands QC, has researched Elsie's remarkable and previously unheard story, involving events over three continents.
He, along with Ruth and Shula Troman, who was interned with Miss Tilney in Vittel, also joined in the service. Shula survived the camp with Miss Tilney’s help, and in her nineties now lives in Brittany, France.
Read more of the amazing story on EDP24
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8 Oct 2014 - By TW Staff
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New York Comic Con is here. Beginning tomorrow, the biggest names in comics, graphic novels, movies, and television will take over New York City's Javits Center for four days of panels, screenings, parties and more.
In lieu of a complete run-down, a never-ending scroll of events, check out our New York Comic Con Top 5 below and then browse a full listing of events and exhibitors.
No. 1 – Game of Thrones Fan Forum: Oct. 9, 1:30 p.m., Empire Stage 1-E
Kristian Nairn (“Hodor”) and Daniel Portman (“Podrick”) join fans to discuss HBO's smash hit Game of Thrones.
No. 2 – Adult Swim Tyrannic Maiden Voyage: Oct. 11, 8 p.m.
A three-hour cruise along the Hudson with your Adult Swim friends & family, this event features stunning NYC views and a live performance from a secret musical guest. Hopefully you got your tickets early because this event is sold out!
No. 3 – Batman 75th Anniversary Panel: Oct. 11, 2 p.m., Empire Stage 1-E
This must-see panel gathers renowned Batman talent – like artist Jim Lee, DCE Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, writer Scott Snyder and others – for an in-depth discussion.
No. 4 – Women of DC Entertainment Panel: Oct. 11, 6:15 p.m., 1A06
Join JOKER’S DAUGHTER writer Marguerite Bennett, new series GOTHAM ACADEMY writer Becky Cloonan, HARLEY QUINN writer/artist Amanda Conner, WONDER WOMAN writer Meredith Finch, COFFIN HILL writer Caitlin Kittredge, SECRET SIX writer Gail Simone, and new BATGIRL artist Babs Tarr for an inside look at some of the amazing work from DCE’s female creatives.
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An Unauthorized Biography
Morton, Andrew
"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, sexual preferences, drug use, cutting, and tattoos--and why she kissed her brother on the lips in public. And yet mysteries remain: What was really going on in her brief, impulsive marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, and what is going on in her partnership with Brad Pitt? What's behind the oft-reported feud with her father, the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight? What drove her to become a mother of six children in six years? And--perhaps most puzzling of all--what about the other side of Angelina: How did this talented but troubled young actress, barely 35 years old, become a respected Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations as well as the "most powerful celebrity in the world" (unseating Oprah Winfrey) on Forbes' 2009 Celebrity 100 list?
The answers that Andrew Morton has uncovered are astonishing, taking us deep inside Angelina's world to show us what shaped her as a child, as an actress, and as a woman struggling to overcome personal demons that have never before been revealed. In this spellbinding biography, Andrew Morton draws upon far-reaching original interviews and research, accompanied by exclusive private photographs, to show us the true story behind both the wild excesses of Angelina's youth and her remarkable workwith children and victims of poverty and disaster today.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010
Characteristics: 328 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
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mance19 Aug 06, 2011
this book is an inspiration...
Astrolily Oct 16, 2010
Not well written, at times boring. Enforced what I already thought, despite her charity work she is self centered and shallow. Not a good book.
quitenak Sep 12, 2010
Wow, did Jon Voight commission this book to make himself look good and everyone else like an ass? Andrew Morton, shame. I just finished it to see how awful it truly was............
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InAir return with new single and EP
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Brit Alt Rock trio InAir return to the fold in spectacular fashion, having just revealed their explosive new single and video, Chemicals –https://youtu.be/IeOd42GyAEs , out now via all streaming sites. The track is taken from the Uk tunesmith’s forthcoming sophomore EP, Dreamful, out Friday 13th September.
InAir come at you from the south of England and combine a wide range of influences lifted from across the rock and metal spectrum. The alt-rockers pitch atmospheric synths and glistening clean guitar scapes against stout riffage and hugely anthemic refrains, resulting in a sound that is not only powerful and expansive, but massively engulfing.
The band made their mark when they delivered their debut EP, A Different Light, in November 2017 to glowing acclaim. The threesome received widespread backing from many notable publications including: Kerrang! Magazine, Ghost Cult, Stencil Magazine, Noizze and Down The Front. The engaging alt rockers have supported everyone from Arcane Roots, Defences, Chasing Cadence, Junior, Veridian and From Inside to Death Remains. InAir have also wooed audiences at a number of hometown shows including headlining a BBC Introducing night at Purple Turtle, as well as headlining the second stage at Readipop Festival.
Further successful live shows ensued, followed by work on the band’s new EP, Dreamful. The band remark about the release: “’Dreamful’ is once again recorded and produced by Simon Jackman. The EP is a journey of our experiences with depression, addressing various aspects of our experiences both negative and positive. It’s a celebration of being able to overcome one’s inner demons.”
With a stunning new EP in hand and a run of shows confirmed for August, InAir are destined to soar to even greater heights.
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Infestation 11.1
I stared down at the metal walkway as I caught my breath. I had one gash at the side of my head, and another trickle ran from beneath the armor of my shoulder, down my arm and to my fingertip, where it dripped almost in sync with the head wound. It should have hurt, but it didn’t. Maybe it would when the shock wore off. If so, I didn’t look forward to it.
Trickster, Ballistic and Circus lay in front of me. Another cape had fallen over the railing and lay on the concrete floor below, unmoving. They were all either unconscious or hurting badly enough that I didn’t need to worry about them.
I swallowed hard. My heart had climbed up so far into my throat that I almost couldn’t breathe, and my heartbeat felt oddly distant and faint for how terrified I was.
Coil’s base was deserted. I knew his men were out on patrols, that the only people in here were a handful of the capes that were working for him. He’d left it almost undefended.
If I was going to act, I’d have to do it now.
My costume’s feet lacked hard soles, so I should have been nearly silent, but the interior of Coil’s base was deathly silent and my feet were slamming down on the metal walkway as I ran. The noise of singing metal filled the dark space, echoing, seemingly louder with each step I took.
The thrum of the metal rang through the air even after I came to a stop. I’d reached my target; a reinforced door, identical to so many others in the complex. With the labyrinthine mess of metal walkways and the dozens of doors, I might have missed it. The only thing telling me I was in the right place was the smudge of ash left behind from when the soldier had put out his cigarette on the wall.
I opened the door, and it was far too loud, creaking, then banging into the wall with a crash despite my last-second attempts to stop its momentum.
The room looked like a prison cell. It had concrete walls and floor, a cot and a metal sink and toilet. Coil and Dinah were both there. I couldn’t say whose presence left me more devastated.
I could say Coil’s presence was the worst thing, because it meant my info was bad. His power meant I was probably fucked on a lot of levels, that the odds were suddenly astronomically against me. I was caught. My gut told me that I wouldn’t make it out of the compound in one piece, now. He was washing his hands in the sink, he turned to look at me, apparently unconcerned by my presence.
But no. As I stared at Dinah and registered what I was seeing, I realized the image would be burned into my mind’s eye forever. She lay on the cot on her side, her eyes open, staring at me, through me. A bloody froth was drying at one side of her mouth and at the edges of one nostril. I didn’t consider myself a religious person, but I prayed for her to blink, to breathe, to give me some relief from that cold horror that was gripping me.
I was too late.
My vision practically turned red as I charged Coil, drawing my knife as I ran. I felt him use his power, and suddenly there were two of him, two of me, two cells with two dead girls named Dinah Alcott.
In one of those rooms, I stabbed Coil in the chest. There was no satisfaction in doing it, no relief. I’d lost, I’d failed in every way that counted. The fact that I’d put him down barely mattered.
In the other room, he stepped back out of reach of my first lunge, raised one hand and blew a handful of pale dust into my face. While I was blindly slashing in his direction, he grabbed the wrist of my knife hand and held it firm in his bony hand.
That room where I’d succeeded in stabbing him faded away. The only me that existed, now, was coughing violently. My knees buckled as I coughed hard enough to bring up my lungs, unable to get the powder out of my nose and mouth. I pulled at my hand, trying to free it from his grip. Futile.
“Stop,” he ordered me, and my struggles stilled, though I was still finishing my coughing fit.
“Diluted scopolamine,” he spoke, his voice calm, sonorous. He let go of my wrist, and pushed at the knife in my hand. I let it drop. “Also known as Devil’s Breath. The vodou sorcerers, the Bokor, were said to use this along with the venoms of the puffer fish and other poisons. With these substances, they could create the ‘zombies’ they were so famous for. These zombies of theirs were not raised from the dead, but were men and women who were forced to till fields and perform crude labor for the Bokor. The uneducated thought it magic, but it was simple chemistry.”
I waited patiently for him to continue. The notion of fighting or responding didn’t even occur to me.
“It strips imbibers of volition and renders them eminently suggestible. As you can see, I attempted to use it on my pet, and the results were… tragic. The price of hubris, I suppose.”
He sighed.
“Take off your mask,” he instructed me.
I did. My hair fell across my face as I let my mask fall to the ground. My cheeks were wet with tears. Was that from before, from when I’d first seen Dinah? Or was I able to cry about my present circumstance, even if I was helpless to do anything about it?
He touched my cheek, brushed a tear away with his thumb. He stroked my hair, and the gesture felt strangely familiar. The way his hand settled on the back of my neck and gripped me there didn’t. It felt… possessive.
“Pet,” he intoned, and fresh terror shook me to my core.
“You couldn’t have succeeded. This was terribly unwise.”
“Okay,” I murmured.
No, no, no, NO.
I didn’t deserve this.
My eyes fell on Dinah. She still stared at me, eyes wide and unblinking, and I couldn’t help but see the look as accusing.
I did deserve this. It was thanks to me that she’d been kidnapped. Thanks to me that she’d been made into Coil’s slave. Karma, perhaps, that I’d take her place.
The strength went out of me. My head hung, and I stared at my feet.
Tears streamed down my face. I didn’t wipe them away. I wasn’t sure I could.
“Look at me, pet,” Coil instructed, and I did. I was glad to, like a compliant, eager to please child. A part of me wanted more orders. In that drug induced haze, I wanted to lose myself in obeying, wanted to serve. That way, at the very least, I wasn’t to blame for my own actions or the tragic consequences that followed from them.
Coil removed his mask, and I stared.
I recognized him. He was someone I knew all too well.
They were both tall, thin. How hadn’t I seen it? Coil’s costume could must have been designed to highlight his skeletal structure, make him look thinner and more bony. All it had taken, beyond that, would be an affected change to his voice and different mannerisms. I’d been unable to see it.
So dumb, so stupid.
I could understand it, too. He’d been struggling to fix things, watching people failing to find work, knowing it was the city government that was to blame. I could remember him telling me how he’d make the city work again, how he had all the answers. I knew how hungry he was to do it.
He’d gotten powers. He’d started to put plans into motion so he could do just that.
“Welcome home, pet,” he spoke, and he didn’t speak in Coil’s voice. The voice I heard was my father’s.
I woke up, and for a long moment I stared up at the ceiling of my room and reassured myself that it was all a fabrication of my own scumbag mind. It had been a nightmare or a terror dream; I wasn’t positive on the differences between the two. It was my brain drawing together all my guilt about what we’d done to Shadow Stalker, the role I’d played in Dinah being kidnapped and leaving my dad; knitting it all into some convincing, disturbing scenario. Not the worst I’d had, but there was at least some repetition and familiarity with the usual ones.
It had felt way too real, and it had sucked. My shirt stuck to me with the damp of my sweat, the room was warm, but I still shivered.
My alarm clock sat on the ground by my inflatable mattress. I picked it up and turned it around so the I could see the green numbers of the digital display. Five forty in the morning.
Time to wake up, I supposed. There was no way I was going to be able to fall asleep again in the next few hours. It wasn’t just the idea of having another nightmare. The dream had left me with a feeling of an impending deadline.
How long could Dinah be expected to hold on? I doubted Coil was taking bad care of her, so she wouldn’t die of malnutrition or overdose on whatever drugs Coil was giving her. Still, there was a limit to what the human mind could handle. How long until Coil pushed her abilities too far? If she was getting headaches from the use of her power, there was a chance she could suffer more severe issues if pushed to use it more often. Pain generally signified something was wrong.
I was also worried I wouldn’t earn Coil’s trust and respect. Until this was resolved, I wouldn’t be able to rest, take it easy, or have a day to myself. Not in good conscience. Depending on what happened, it might be a long, long time before I could relax again.
What worried me more than anything was the idea that I might save Dinah, only to find that Coil had broken her spirit or her will to the point that she couldn’t go back to her old life. I worried that, like in my nightmare, I would be too late.
With this in mind, I sat up and tossed the sheet aside. I reached for my glasses, by the alarm clock, then stopped.
Instead of putting on my glasses, I stood and made my way to the bathroom adjacent to my room. Alongside fresh supplies of toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, tweezers, shampoo, conditioner and all that, I had a small box with packages of disposable contact lenses, daily use.
I hated contacts so, so much. I’d tried them in middle school, at Emma’s recommendation, and they had never felt comfortable. That, and I had never figured out how to put them in properly. It seemed like ninety-nine out of a hundred times, they flipped inside out to cling to my fingertip instead of sticking to my eye.
True to form, it took me four minutes to get the contacts in, and I found myself blinking every two seconds after I did have them in.
At least I could see.
I walked through my new base of operations wearing an oversized t-shirt and a pair of underwear. Not exactly fitting attire for a supervillain.
My new abode was three stories tall, which made it taller than Grue or Bitch’s places, which were the only ones I’d seen thus far, but it was narrow. A cafe had stood here, before, but it had been flattened by one of the first waves to hit the city. Coil owned at least one of the companies that was managing the restoration and reconstruction efforts, and over the past two and a half weeks, as his crews had started clearing and rebuilding on the Boardwalk, he’d had them set up some buildings, all squashed together. When the Boardwalk was fixed up, these same buildings would be at the westmost edge of the same block that had the stores, restaurants and coffee shops. If the Boardwalk ever got going again, they would be prime real estate.
Ostensibly to protect these new buildings until people started buying up the properties, each had been set up with heavy metal shutters to seal the windows and wall off the front. It made the building dark, with only faint streams of light filtering in through the slats at the top of each shutter.
The topmost floor was mine and mine alone. Taylor’s. It was living space, with a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. The bedroom was spacious enough to serve as a living room as well as a sleeping area. The first things I’d done after Coil’s men had unloaded the furniture and supplies was to hook up an internet connection and computer and get my television mounted on a wall and connected to a satellite.
The second floor, as I liked to think of it, was Skitter’s. It was for my costumed self. It still needed more than a few things to complete it. I flipped a switch in the stairwell, and tinted flourescent lights lit up on the undersides of the shelves that ran along two adjacent walls, floor to ceiling. Each shelf was lined with terrariums and backed by strategically positioned mirrors so that the light filtered through the front of the terrariums and into the room. Only a few were occupied, but they each had the same general contents – a layer of dirt and pieces of irregularly shaped wood.
I hit the second switch, and chambers in the lid of each occupied case opened to release their inhabitants. As they crawled through the case, the spiders were lit up by the lighting so that their shadows and the strange shapes of the wood were cast against the panes of hard plastic, distorted and larger than life. I’d seen a picture on the web of the same thing, done on a far smaller scale. I had hopes that the effect would be suitably impressive and intimidating once all of the terrariums were full.
It would be doubly impressive once Coil’s special effects technician stopped by and outfitted a case with a series of switches that a large bug could move – a beetle or something. If I could direct the beetle to release the bugs, turn the lights on or off or even open the lids of the terrariums, all while appearing to sit motionless in my chair, it would be that much more effective for any audience I happened to have in the room.
Terrariums aside, the room was sparse. Six empty pedestals sat just beneath the shuttered window, each standing just a little beneath knee height.
After touring the place yesterday morning and spending some time browsing the web to see what was available, I’d gotten in contact with Coil and named every possible thing I could think of that I could use for the space. The current contents of the rooms on this floor and upstairs had been delivered last night. The stuff I was waiting on was harder to come by, and it would be unreasonable to expect it to be available and in place within this short span of time.
I did have a chair, here, way too large for me. It was positioned in one corner, so that it was framed by the two walls of terrariums. It was black leather, and broad enough that I could comfortably sit cross-legged on it. I’d loved the idea since I’d seen one like it in Brian’s apartment. It was the one concession I was making in regards to atmosphere and appearances. A series of smaller seats were positioned so they faced the larger chair and the terrariums.
A large abstract painting hung above the stairs on the right side of the room. I’d seen a similar one online and had liked it, so I had found the artist’s gallery and stumbled onto this. It was the first thing I had asked Coil for, and he’d delivered a large framed print far faster than I might have expected. I liked how it tied into the room and echoed the shapes cast against the front panes of the terrariums. The black lines were painted on the background of reds and yellows in a way that seemed spidery.
I stared at the painting for a minute, seriously worried that I would see the abstract image from a different angle and realize I’d had Coil get me a eight-foot by five-foot painting of a hairy wang or a headless chicken or something.
Making my way down the stairs, I found the ground floor surprisingly cool. The weather was warming up, and with the shutters closed, I’d found my room warm, sticky in the humid air. I’d foregone pajama bottoms, had slept with just a single sheet, and had slept with my feet uncovered. Goosebumps prickled my bare legs as I stepped on the cool hardwood floor.
The ground floor here wasn’t much different from the one at Grue’s place. There was an area with bunk beds, albeit fewer than Grue’d had, a bathroom, a small kitchen and an open area that didn’t yet serve a purpose, stacked with boxes.
All this was mine. My lair. It felt so empty.
I knew that would change as it filled with furniture and necessities. The place was already something of a luxury. More than half of Brockton Bay was currently lacking plumbing or electricity, with more than a few unfortunate individuals having neither. In the process of setting up these buildings, Coil had ensured I was provided with both. Trucks would be coming and going through this area as clearing and construction continued, and Coil had informed me that these trucks would be discreetly resupplying me with water, ensuring my water heater had propane, emptying the aboveground septic tank and refueling the generator.
As the city was rebuilt and standard utilities were put back in order, these special measures would be set aside, I’d get hooked up to those, and my lair would be lost in the surge of urban growth. Ideal world.
It was nice to be able to enjoy those luxuries, but the Dinah situation took all of the joy out of it. I had hot showers and the ability to wash my dishes because Coil had provided them.
I grabbed a cell phone from the kitchen counter and dialed Coil. I didn’t give a fuck about the fact that it was 5:45 in the morning.
It bothered me, calling him, relying on him. It made me feel complicit. Inconveniencing him, even a little, felt good.
“Yes?” His question was curt.
“It’s Skitter.”
“What is it, Skitter?”
“I need a loan of some guys.”
I looked around the living room, “Eight? A truck would be a good idea, if you can get one here.”
“I can. These men you require, are you needing gunmen or-”
“Just regular guys, anyone up for some exercise.”
“I assume there’s no rush?” He was being more curt than usual. Maybe I’d woken him up. I didn’t really care. He could deal, if I was working on something that helped him.
“No rush.”
“Then I’ll have them there in an hour.”
“An hour, then.”
He hung up.
It was a lot of time to kill. Free time sucked when you didn’t want to be alone with your thoughts.
I wanted to run, but it was awkward. The fenced off areas, construction zones and flooded streets of the Boardwalk didn’t really make a sprint around the neighborhood that doable. Besides, it was dangerous enough I might stand out.
In the end, I went against my better judgement and decided to go for a run. I dressed in a pair of shorts and a tank top, donned my running shoes and ensured I had both my pepper spray and my knife. I unstrapped the knife’s sheath from the back of my costume, then threaded a belt through it so I could strap it around my waist. I put the sheath itself under my waistband and the handle of the knife under my top.
I stood in front of the full length mirror in my bedroom to check how visible the weapon was.
It wasn’t exactly hidden, but it wasn’t conspicuous either. I adjusted it slightly, then called a small collection of bugs to me. It was a little creepy, having them crawl on my skin, beneath my clothes into my hair, but that stopped when they reached their destinations – above my socks, in my hair and between my bra and my top. I was cool with it so long as they weren’t directly on my skin.
Did I look different? My skin had a light tan, now. I’d spent more time outdoors in the past few weeks. In the week and a half I’d spent in the shelter, I hadn’t exactly had books or TV, so I’d walked during the day, making my way across the city to check on the loft and to see the state of my dad’s house. I’d walked at night, too, when I’d been unable to sleep, but people hardly tanned doing that.
I couldn’t pin down exactly how or why, but the definition in my face and body had changed. It was possible I’d had a growth spurt. Some of it was perhaps the tan giving more accent to the features of my body or face. Maybe it was that I’d been eating a pretty lean diet when I was staying at the shelter, coupled with the fact that I’d been so active over the past two months. I hadn’t spent six hours every day sitting around in school, I’d been in fights, I’d been running, and I’d ridden the dogs. I had some muscle definition in my arms, now, and I thought maybe I was standing straighter. Or maybe it was all those minor things helped by the simple fact that I was dressing differently, that my hair hadn’t been cut in a while, and that I wasn’t wearing my glasses.
To say I barely recognized myself was.. how could I put it? It was true, but I could also remember myself months ago, when I’d look at my reflection and I would be so focused on the flaws and the things I didn’t like about myself that I never felt familiar with the person I was seeing in the mirror. It was as though it was always a stranger I was looking at, and I would be left vaguely surprised at the combination of features across from me.
This was not recognizing myself in a very different way. There were still things I didn’t like, like my wide mouth, my small chest and the lack of curves or any real femininity. My scars stood out with my slight tan, a teardrop shaped mark on my forearm where Bitch’s dog had bitten me, a wavy mark on my cheek where Sophia had dug her fingernails in,and a line by my earlobe where she’d tried to tear my ear off. But my physical flaws no longer consumed my attention when I looked at myself. I felt comfortable with my body, like I’d somehow earned it, the way it was, and it was mine now. I wasn’t sure if that made any sense, even to myself.
If there was anything about myself that I didn’t like, it was primarily psychological. Guilt was a big one. The idea that my dad might dislike me if he got to know me, now? That was another. That my mom, were she alive and showing up at the door, might be disappointed in me? Sobering.
As he’d done with his own underground base, Coil had set my lair up with a discreet entrance and exit. Leaving through the front door would be conspicuous, if I started working with anyone beyond my teammates. Skinny teenage girl with black curly hair entering and leaving the same building that the skinny teenage villain with black curly hair was operating out of? No.
I made my way to the building’s cellar, opened a hatch and entered the adjacent storm drain. The same builders that had put the building together had blocked off the drain so the water flow wouldn’t make it impassable, and I was left with a clear route down to the section of beach where the storm drains emptied.
I wasn’t sure if Coil had plans to keep the city’s workers from trying to unblock the drain, but I supposed that was the sort of thing we could rely on him to handle. In the meantime, a third of the storm drains were too clogged with rubble and detritus to drain, and another third didn’t connect to anything anymore. Add the fact that most of the storm drains were a little out of the way of regular foot traffic, and it wasn’t too conspicuous.
I started running the moment I reached the beach, glad for the chance to resume my routine.
It was a strange environment, eerie. The wooden pathway, the literal boardwalk that had run in front of the stores, was now a skeletal ruin that loomed above the piles of trash that the bulldozers had all pushed to one side, twice as tall as I was. The beach had been cleared, which was a feat unto itself. The work of the bulldozers and the crews with rakes had revealed the packed, dirt-like layer from beneath the loose sand. Opposite the trash piles, by the water, there were mounds of irregularly shaped pieces of concrete, set to break up the waves and prevent the highest tides from dragging the trash, debris and machinery into the ocean. Two mounds looming on either side, with a space cleared in the middle for the trucks and any foot traffic.
A scene up ahead caught my attention. Two pieces of machinery lay in a heap just below the lip of the boardwalk above. A bulldozer and an eighteen wheeler with a crane-mounted claw attached had both been driven or pushed over the edge of the boardwalk and onto the beach. The cab of the truck with the claw had been partially crushed by the bulldozer. Though it was barely past six in the morning, a group of laborers were already there, some on the ledge above, others down on the beach, all gathered around the trucks.
Spray paint had been used to draw the same crude symbol on both the side of the eighteen wheeler and the concrete wall separating the beach from the Boardwalk above. A capital ‘M’, with two taller lines drawn vertically through it much the same as you’d do with a dollar sign. The Merchants.
It fit their modus operandi. They had been bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on others, before Leviathan came. In the wake of what Leviathan had done to the city, leaving everything in shambles, with social services gone or in chaos and even basic utilities in short supply, everyone else had been brought down to their level. The Merchants were even, I suspected, thriving. With strength in numbers and virtually nothing holding them back, they had become like pack animals. They roamed the city in bands of three to twenty, robbing, raping, pillaging and stealing. They were settling in some of the better areas, the neighborhoods that still had power or water, and forcing the existing residents out.
Or, worse, I could imagine that some were moving in and keeping the residents around for their own amusement. It was not a pleasant thought. The kind of people who had gravitated towards the Merchants tended to have a lot of resentment. Specifically, they had resentment towards people who had what they didn’t. If they happened upon a family with Kate the soccer mom, Tommy, the kid with more video games than teeth, and Joe the blue-collar worker with a steady job? If they weren’t letting them go? I was guessing that hypothetical family would be in for a hell of a rough time.
It might have sounded silly, that line of speculation, but I’d spent time in the shelters. I’d heard about how vicious and depraved the Merchants were getting.
Anyways, this? This whole situation? They liked it. They wanted to keep things this way, and that meant they were going to stop anyone else from fixing it. They would intercept supplies, attack rescue workers and they would push construction vehicles into a heap on the beach.
I’d have to deal with these guys. It wasn’t just intercepting any groups that made their way into my territory. That was easy, all things considered. No, I also had to deal with the small army that would come marching through here wanting retaliation over my having kicked the asses of any groups that had made their way into my territory.
I could call on the others, if such a situation arose, and I expected them to call on me if the same thing happened. But people would take time to get here, and the Merchants, the Chosen or whoever else was making trouble could keep making trouble until the reinforcements arrived. It was tricky, and I didn’t know for sure how I’d handle things if-
My reaction wasn’t much different than if someone had stabbed me in the stomach with an icicle. I’d thought of that mental image in particular because of the cold, horrible feeling in my midsection; fear, guilt. My thoughts immediately went back to my nightmare from earlier. I turned to look.
“It’s you,” my dad spoke, “Wow.”
He stood on the ledge above me. He was more tanned than I was. He wore a short-sleeved button-up shirt and khakis and held a clipboard. It set him apart from the other laborers, and the man who stood just behind him, wearing a gray t-shirt and jeans. I knew in an instant, my dad was in charge around here.
Looking at him, I couldn’t imagine how I might have thought he was Coil. Even in a dream.
“Just out for my regular run.”
Surprise etched his face, “You’re running during this…?!”
He made a visible effort to close his mouth. It made me feel uneasy. What thought process or concern was keeping my dad from opening his mouth about my running? He’d been worried about it when the streets were relatively safe. Was he that spooked at the idea of scaring me off again?
He looked at the man who was standing near him, murmured something. The man walked over to join the others in observing the damage around the damaged vehicles.
We were left more or less alone.
“You got my messages?” I asked.
“I’ve listened to that answering machine so many times-” he stopped. He was a good distance away, but I could see the lines in his forehead, “I miss you.”
“I miss you too.”
“I… I don’t know how to ask. I’m afraid to ask you to come home, because I’m not sure I can stand to hear you tell me you won’t.”
He paused, for a long moment. Waiting for me to jump at the opportunity. I stayed silent and hated myself for it.
“Well,” he said, so quiet I could barely hear him, “You can always come home. Any time, any reason.”
“Okay,” I told him.
“What are you doing with yourself these days?”
I struggled to find an answer, and was saved by the bell. One of the men by the wreck shouted, “Danny!” and my dad turned.
My dad ran his fingers through his hair, “I need to go handle this. Can I… How do I contact you?”
“I’ll leave you a message on your answering machine,” I said, “With my cell phone number, and my email in case I’m in an area where cell service is down.”
“Email?” he asked. “Where are you that you have access to a computer?”
A few blocks from here.
“Just outside the city limits,” I lied, “Not far from the Market.”
“So you’re out of the way of any trouble,” My dad noted, with a touch of relief. There was a noise as someone began prying one of the truck doors open, and my dad turned his head, frowning. “But what are you doing here this morning?”
“I was going to stop by the house, see if it was in okay shape,” I lied again. Was this the extent of my interactions with my dad? Always lies? “Keeping up with my running.”
“I see. Look, I have to go, but I do want to talk again, soon. Lunch, maybe?”
“Maybe,” I offered. He offered me a sad smile, then turned to go.
I moved my hand to adjust my glasses, and wound up waving at my face. I was wearing my lenses.
“Dad!” I called out. He stopped. “Um. I’d heard the Slaughterhouse Nine were around. Be careful, warn others.” I pointed at my face.
His eyes widened. I could see the thought process, the realization. He took off his glasses and hung them from his shirt’s front pocket. I wasn’t positive that was much better.
“Thank you,” he said, squinting slightly at me. He raised a hand in an awkward half-wave, and I returned it with one of my own. As if by mutual agreement, we turned to leave at the same time, both of us going in separate directions. He hurried to where he was needed, and I turned to run back to my place. My lair. I hadn’t run nearly as far as I’d wanted, but I wasn’t up to continuing.
I checked the kitchen clock as I entered from the cellar. I had thirty minutes. I took the time to shower and don my costume – my sleeve was still crusty and stained yellow-white where it had come in contact with the foam, but at least it wasn’t sticky anymore.
My mask wasn’t wearable with the contacts. I’d taken lenses out of an old pair of glasses and set them into the construction of my mask. I debated it for a few moments, then I decided to use the remaining time to fix it. With my knife’s point, I set about undoing that particular piece of work, prying the lenses out.
I finished with enough time left over to grab and eat a breakfast bar. Coil’s people were punctual, rapping on the metal shutter at six forty-five.
Alright. This was it. I pulled on my mask.
Time to claim my territory.
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79 thoughts on “Infestation 11.1”
‘The idea that my dad might dislike me if they got to know me, now?’
The idea that my dad might dislike me if he got to know me, now?
I thought maybe the beginning was a dream because of the way it started but then I thought..who knows… and that bit with coil morphing into dad!! I was shouting ‘NO WAY’. And of course it was a dream. The disturbing nightmare sequence is a thing that has been done in many a movie and book and sometimes gets a bit boring…but you did yours very well..like I said we might think it is a dream at first but you wrote it in a way that made us doubt ourselves. Very well done on that.
I know the dream sequence is sort of a tired bit, but it struck me that I’ve mentioned a few times that Taylor has nightmares, earlier in the story, and there’s the stress over Dinah, her dad and Sophia, and I wanted to sort of touch on that without getting into pure exposition. Showing rather than telling. So I went with the dream.
All in all? I’m ok with how that part turned out, personally. Though I welcome any complaints/criticisms/praise to let me know if I hit the mark & should leave that option open for another story/book in another year.
AS Khan on May 19, 2012 at 00:52 said:
maybe i should have said it WOULD have been boring…but it was done so well… like i said I get very into your stories so my housemates are often asking me why I am shouting ‘NO WAY’ or ‘HOORAY’ in the middle of the night! So I wouldn’t change a thing either.
On the other hand it would be fun to somehow make the reader believe it is a dream sequence and then in the end it is actually reality… a spin on the dream sequence, a mockery of the cliche and a good way to get back at the readers who think they have the whole plot figured out.
I got your meaning, no worries.
And that reversal of the dream sequence sounds fun. I should do that someday.
Gee Squee Meinhoff on July 1, 2015 at 17:35 said:
Heya, should : “They had been bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on others, before Leviathan came.”
Be: “They had been bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on by others, before Leviathan came.”
Well, I’ll tell you this: My heart was in my throat right up until Coil removed his mask. You really made that work, mate. Top job.
Even on a second read-through, knowing it’s a dream the whole time, it’s still pretty engrossing.
Sandy on July 13, 2018 at 12:22 said:
I wonder, can Tattletale read Dragon’s mind or thoughts?
CartonCrunch on January 8, 2018 at 12:47 said:
I really thought it was going to be one of Coil’s alternate realities, at first, and that it’d disappear once she had killed him or something.
CraftySyndicate on March 16, 2018 at 12:44 said:
my response was a general “holy shit!”
Bobby on May 19, 2012 at 00:55 said:
“…to use the remaining time minutes to fix it.”
the remaining time to fix it.
“…enough time left over to grab and a breakfast bar.”
to grab a breakfast bar
It’s nice to confirm she took the time to tell her dad that she’s, yanno, alive. It’s something I’d wondered about more than once.
So I guess we know what Shattercrow does.
frozen chicken on May 19, 2012 at 02:24 said:
Break all the glass? I guess that would make sense, but the way Taylor said ‘I wasn’t sure if that was much better’ when her dad hung the glasses on his shirt makes me wonder if it’s more than that.
Silica-kinesis?
I’d suspect that it would be more than that, though not full silica-kinesis. I think that it was mentioned that she is often the one who “announces” the 9’s arrival in a city. Perhaps she can shatter glass on a massive scale and send the shards flying at a dangerously high speed in random directions? Then, having glasses in your breast pocket can send the shards hurtling into one’s chest.
Logical Oxymoron on March 1, 2014 at 19:13 said:
Ohhh… I had assumed the Slaughterhouse Nine were prejudiced against people with glasses, or something… That makes much more sense.
Though I kinda like my idea…
estocasticom on May 19, 2012 at 05:34 said:
ohhhh, so thats why she is wearing contac lenses and removing the glasses from her googles. I haven’t get it till now.
…Oh hey, I just noticed the tiny smiley face at the bottom of this page. Is that normal?
I’ve seen it there for awhile.
Watching us.
Smiling at us.
No indication it’s there.
(_______)
Curse you, comment box space correcty thingy! Curse you!
That’s a thing WordPress uses to track site stats. To see how many times a page is loaded, they put a tiny image on each page and see how often it gets downloaded, when and where.
G.S. Williams on May 19, 2012 at 08:51 said:
The nightmare thing fits with the overall story, Taylor has a lot of stress and has mentioned it before. However, there was more logical detail in this dream than I would expect from dreams, like the voodoo dust exposition and the cigarette burn on the wall — it seemed like this was something that was actually happening. I half wondered if we were being given some vision of the future, and then Skitter woke up.
It would seem weird when she controls bugs, but it’s not weird when you think of that power as a type of latent telepathy and psychic power…
Well, I debated some of those points – I’m not sure on the exposition, but the cigarette burn at least – and decided that Taylor’s a very detail focused person, so it would make sense for that to translate to a dream.
The cigarette burn also serves a double purpose in that it’s sort of a clue as to what’s going on, before she actually wakes up. In the actual story, 7.8 or 7.9, whichever (where she meets Dinah for the first time), Coil rubs the smudge from the wall while talking. The fact that it’s still there is an intentional inconsistency, that the place is described as ‘labyrinthine’ and that she doesn’t use/have her power are others.
On your last point, the ties between powers, memories & one’s dreaming have come up before (Interlude 7) and are liable to come up again, so you’re not wrong.
Another clue was that she was aware of Coil’s multiple threads. Were she to try to do this for real she would only perceive the reality in which Coil had avoided her knife.
Hexa on May 31, 2016 at 10:45 said:
That had me wondering where she’d got extra powers from, how much time had passed since the last chapter, and just how awful Coil’s other thread had got that he kept this one.
Once she woke up I briefly considered whether it might be her somehow seeing the other thread with some latent secondary power, but then Coil wouldn’t have been able to split again, regardless of whether Skitter could follow both.
Interesting. I am curious what type of threat makes switching from glasses to contacts a valid defence mechanism.
I am sure Taylor will have no problems intimidating the help and her neighbours and building up a reputation. People’s inherent fears of creepy crawlies will do half her work for her if she goes about it right.
I am looking forward to finding out what exotic beasties Coil will get her for her menagerie. I think the problem won’t be finding creatures that can easily be weaponized, but finding ones that can be turned into non-lethal weapons. To many insect and arachnid horrors out there would be useful in a fight, with the catch that there was a too great possibility that they would leave an opponent dead.
I guess this is one of the problems with having a powerset much better suited to someone who would have no qualms having his enemies stung to death or devoured alive.
On the topic of Taylor’s powers, I have to wonder just what exactly her limits are and how set in stone those limits are. We have heard of the manton effect and the possibility of a second breakthrough under the right sort of conditions and already saw the range of her powers increase during stressful situations. There appears to be room for growth in that direction. On the other hand spiders and insects are a strange combination as they seen to have little in common biological speaking outside a person’s mind who just lumps them into the same category.
She should do some tests to find out what exactly she can and can’t control as just spiders and insects seems a bit arbitrary. Wasn’t there some mention of centipedes a while back? It would make sense if the powers included all arthropods: insects, spiders, millipedes and centipedes, but also scorpions and crustacea ranging from shrimp and crabs to lobsters. The last one might be useful if she ever had to fight in a seafood restaurant, or maybe Coil can get her a Japanese spider crab.
Taylor has already proven that she can sense parasites with Rachel’s dogs. Considering the likely prevailing sanitary conditions in her hometown at the moment she should be able to use her senses to keep track of a large part of the population by their parasites with some training. Just attune her senses to lice for example and she has an instant 3-D map of the unwashed masses around her in her head.
Some mention was given to the topic (and crustaceans in particular) early in Arc 3. (3.1, if I remember right?)
Yes, there was mention of crabs early on and during the fight against Leviathan there was mention of crustaceans, so I guess as the reader we should already know that much, if we had paid enough attention. It might be nice to have some sort of training montage / exposition scenes where our heroine probes the limits of her powers, a justification could be to avoid the embarrassment of having to give her range as “a few blocks” or maybe seeing her own profile in the data stolen from the wards and giving some thought to the speculations in it.
The whole arthropodovoyance and arthropodokinesis given by the PRT would seem to be inaccurate at least. The heartworms she sensed are not arthropods, but nematods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirofilaria_immitis). Her powers probably include all ecdysozoa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysozoa) or even all protostome if her powers work on things like snails and slugs.
In any case insects and spiders are probably the only ones she can actually use in combat as most of the other stuff is aquatic and/or too small to be useful. Although I guess it would be fun if she figured out how to weaponize krill or something.
Loki-L you just blow my mind. I have been like an hour loking biological taxonomies in the wikipedia and my head is spinning.
So the “simpliest” theory i have come with is these one: Taylor’s powers increase with time and use, not only in distance and number but also in deep. In these early stage she affect arthropods, that have a neuroloy simple enought for her to control but complex enough to be more or less similar to ours. In the future, when her powers grow, she will affect all the Protostome ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome) that include Arthropods, nematodes (roundworms.Like the ones in Bitch’s dogs.Parasites.),platyhelminthes(like the Taenia saginata or tapeworm.Parasites), rotifers(too small(0.1-0.5 mm) and simple for be important i think), molluscs and annelids(proper worms).
That my theory. All depend in what the Word of God say about. Maybe he already have plans about all these.
s on April 5, 2018 at 14:52 said:
I wonder if it’s just whatever *she* considers “bugs”
After Leviathan attack a PRT officer describe her powers as arthropodovoyance and arthropodokinesis. An arthropod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod) is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages. These include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others.
So, yeah, her powers affect all arthropods, or at least that what the PRT believe.
Well, Loki, perhaps you’ve never heard of the likes of Mirror Master, one of the members of the infamous Flash’s Rogues. His technology is all related to mirrors, which let him use it on anything that could hold a reflection.
Teleporting through them was a big one. The thing had to be big enough for what you wanted to send through it. Glasses aren’t that big unless you want to just put your fingers through and go for an eye or stick a knife in. If they’re contacts, they may not realize they’re there to try it.
In the process, whoever it is might be able to stick their eyes up to the glass or other reflective surface from the “other side” and use it to spy.
Take a look around. I’m sure there’s plenty large enough mirrors, picture frames, maybe even monitors and tv screens. Mirror Master could do this to other people too, so he could drop an entire team of supervillains in on people unsuspecting. I wouldn’t want to be a hero running over a big puddle of water at them either.
That’s my speculation at least.
Fun thing about worm is, any power you can think of isprobably possible.
Andrew Lynn on October 22, 2016 at 00:03 said:
Taratula hawk wasps carrying bullet ants would be an excellent non-lethal weapon, because they both cause excruciating pain and don’t kill
Taylor´s power affects everything that have a nervous system, as long as this nervous system is simple enough.
This should include most fish also. Depending on how complex is the nervous system that she can control it can get up to sharks and depending on how simple it can get down to lice, acarus and a lot of small parasites.
Yeah, if she wanted she could rule a small town (do anything against me and the parasite in your brain will start to eat).
The interesting part is that bacteria and virus do not have a nervous system. If they had Taylor would be simply unbeatable by anyone with a close to normal human body.
Only machines or something like weld would stand a chance against her.
Oh, considering the number of horrible flesh-burrowing things that exist out there, she could totally work out a variation of Bakuda’s implanted bomb thingy.
I remember this article about this species of flies that would exclusively lay the eggs of their flesh-eating larvae in humans… Oh, here it is. The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
Come to thing of it, the rest of the article is also nice reading material for Taylor.
Aww… Our little child soldier is becoming a captain.
Good chapter, as always. Let’s see how she’ll go about taking control of the neighborhood…
A few things stood out. One is that, though I talked about wanting to see the kind of lair she builds in one of the previous episodes’ threads, I now wonder what she’d actually do with that lair. She may be an insect-themed supervillain, but she doesn’t actually have any particular affection for insects: she can barely tolerate them crawling on her. So, she has a lot of interestingly lit bugs on the second floor, but whom is the light show for? Anyone trustworthy enough to know where she sleeps doesn’t need to be impressed, and anyone she would need to intimidate with her lair can’t be allowed to know where she sleeps. Is it only for the benefit of keeping the minions in line?
Does Coil intend to rule fairly openly, with everybody’s headquarters being public information, so she’s supposed to receive supplicants on the day of her daughter’s wedding? I am not sure how well that could work. In mafia organizations, though the boss’s identity and place of residence may be public, he is insulated from prosecution by his chain of command — no one can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is involved in any particular crime. That wouldn’t work for these supervillains, who are expected to be their own enforcers.
The other thing is, surely Coil would delegate ordinary personnel and equipment requests to an underling, and insist that his personal number to only be used for emergencies? Mind you, maybe he did, but Taylor didn’t respect his insistence. Isn’t she trying to get on his good side, though?
Editorish comments:
“a series of switches” — Perhaps “a bank of switches”?
“an open area that didn’t yet serve a purpose, stacked with boxes.” — A little awkward, since it isn’t the open area that’s stacked, it’s the boxes. Perhaps “an open area that didn’t yet serve a purpose, which presently held stacks of boxes.”
Missing serial commas:
“Trickster, Ballistic and Circus”
“toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, tweezers, shampoo, conditioner and all that”
“bedroom, bathroom and kitchen”
“a bathroom, a small kitchen and an open area”
“trash, debris and machinery”
“bums, drunks and addicts”
“robbing, raping, pillaging and stealing”
“They would intercept supplies, attack rescue workers and they would push construction vehicles into a heap on the beach.”
Also, given that the place is full of boxes, it does serve a purpose- storage…
People don’t need to know WHERE the lair is to be brought there, have a hood pulled off their head, and see bugs everywhere.
And I’m imagining that much of the space will be used for bug breeding, clothmaking, and other industrial work. Maybe she should get some real costume designers.
Time for Uncle Gecko’s rampant criminal organization ass-pull!
She’s going to need a front. Something has to be there in that first floor. Right now it doesn’t matter, since the city’s still out of whack. No clue what she’ll go for, but it shouldn’t be anything bug-related. To easy to guess it’s where Skitter is located.
I wonder if the breakup of the Undersiders is Coil’s method of insulating himself. Right now, while he’s underestimated or not paid attention to, he can afford to use his accounts to buy things and set them up. Once he’s in public, that’ll change. Just being a supervillain ruling the city won’t exactly work. Any kind of rule means he’ll have to have a public presence of some sort. In this case, he might take power in his civilian identity. You know, as some sort of legitimate businessman. Still, the suspicions will be there. Everyone will be looking to find out where his money is, what it’s used for, and where it’s from, and how they can pin him to this crime or that crime.
Instead, there’ll just be the Undersiders who have carved out territory and are taking in money from various sources: drugs, protection, gambling, prostitution, illegal chinchilla ranching. All the dirty money goes to them. The tough part is getting it laundered to Coil. In his public persona, it won’t, can’t go to him, most likely. As Coil, they could hand it over in cash, but that’s difficult when it comes to paying for equipment and such. Everything needs a card tied to a bank account, after all. At the moment, since I’m pulling criminal organization out of my ass, I would go with some sort of fake charity or even a Super PAC. Something where people can donate anonymously and the funds can be fudged.
Maybe Coil’s public persona heads up the thing or is otherwise somehow involved so that the money can appear to go to what it was meant to go for, while he diverts it to whatever he intends to do.
Even better is if a private military contractor is a business his public persona runs. Makes the acquisition of weapons, ammo, and equipment fit in better.
1st floor exterminator service?
Super-soldier drugs instead of poison? Or maybe just offer to “remove the bodies” (ie: recruit them).
Well, they already have a supervillain banker, the Number Man, who Coil uses.
Good memory.
Heck, now THAT would make a good interlude some day- the Number Man, and perhaps how he(she? they?) deal with that stuff.
Supervillains and money… Such an interesting part of the puzzle.
Martin Andreas Petersen on November 26, 2013 at 18:48 said:
And very dangerous to write as well! Write it sloppily and get pounded by the plebs, do it too well and you’ll get frisked by the feds. I advice Wildbow not to write a number about the Number Man.
By the way: I am unto you Wildbow. We all know that the Number Man is Nasir Jones in a world where Rap stayed looking at the front door and never got paid in full. You see right before Rap’s Genesis, everyone was following the leaders of the New School: the infamous Parahumans. Both the prodigies and those who caused havoc proceeded to steal all the shyne, leaving Nas(ir) to having a traumatic experience with his math home work during half-time (of course the home work was harder than breaking atoms – it was after all given by the large professor).
Hydrargentium on May 22, 2012 at 17:42 said:
@Pahan, maybe you speak a different variant of English than I. Both of the phrases you cited look fine to me: “a series of switches” is a perfectly valid way to describe a bunch of switches all lined up or connected in some way, and “an area stacked with boxes” is quite alright for describing a space with a bunch of boxes stacked in it — replace “stacked” with “piled high”, which are essentially synonymous, and you’ll probably recognize the grammar pattern.
Also, just to put a fine point on it, I much prefer omitting the serial comma. When I was young (early teens), it used to bug me not to have it, because it seemed somehow inconsistent. Having given it some thought as I started writing for myself (as opposed to for school), I feel that the serial comma is both superfluous and cluttering.
Hydrargentium, indeed, those comments are inherently subjective, but there is a difference between “valid way to describe something” and the optimal way to do so — not that I claim that my suggestions are the unique, optimal way. In this case a “series” is a very generic collective noun — the sort one might use when one doesn’t have a better word — and, further, connotes the switches being positioned in a straight line or perhaps having some sequential aspect to their arrangement. A “bank [of switches]” is a more specific term with the right connotation of some sort of an assembly made to hold a number of electrical switches to control things. So, I thought it fit better. As for “an area stacked with boxes”, as it was, “area” was the object of “stacked”, even though the objects being stacked were the boxes.
Regarding the serial comma, I believe Wildbow has said before that he or she preferred serial commas, so I’ve been pointing out the places where they were missing.
Quick typo note: sh’ed
Rogue comma: “in,and”.
pravin vatsa on March 2, 2013 at 03:06 said:
“I stared at the painting for a minute, seriously worried that I would see the abstract image from a different angle and realize I’d had Coil get me a eight-foot by five-foot painting of a hairy wang or a headless chicken or something.” Hahaha, I love the unexpected bits of comic relief that pop up sometimes.
Fake Name on March 21, 2013 at 01:40 said:
>“Dad!” I called out. He stopped. “Um. I’d heard the Slaughterhouse Nine were around. Be careful, warn others.” I pointed at my face.
I remember being VERY confused by this the first time around. I just now went back to re-read it and see if it made any more sense- and of course it does. I would suggest giving more information about Shatterbird in the previous chapters.
Like, I remember re-reading that part several times wondering what the fuck was going on. I thought maybe Danny realized Taylor might be a cape if she has access to information about the Nine way ahead of most civilians.
Clint Olson on October 11, 2013 at 17:36 said:
I’ll concur here. I’m reading through this for the first time, and this statement makes absolutely no sense at this point in the narrative.
julesltdr on January 18, 2014 at 01:10 said:
draconian139 on February 24, 2014 at 14:09 said:
Close to the same thing here. Difference is that I actually thought Taylor was telling her father that she was a cape to try to give him some peace of mind about her watching out for herself. Particularly when he took off his glasses as that’s something that I do on rare occasions when I’m completely thrown for a loop and need to process.
I have no problem with it. It’s a hanging mystery, you’re not *meant* to make sense at this point. It’s meant to intrigue you and make you go “Hmm, that was a bit odd” so later you’ll remember it and go “Aha! *That’s what that was about!”.
And it does that job nicely IMO.
I got that some member of the S9 is (even more?) dangerous to people wearing glasses. I have NO CLUE why or why contact lenses and bug mask lenses are exempt from this, but finding out will be interesting.
Packbat on August 24, 2013 at 21:56 said:
Belated typo note: “To say I barely recognized myself was.. how could I put it?” has only two periods in its ellipsis.
EF on September 24, 2013 at 12:06 said:
“I flipped a switch in the stairwell, and tinted flourescent lights lit up on the undersides of the shelves that ran along two adjacent walls, floor to ceiling”
Should that be fluorescent? Nice work.
> I picked it up and turned it around so the I could see the green numbers of the digital display.
“So the I” doesn’t parse. I’m guessing it should be just “so I”.
> The first things I’d done after Coil’s men had unloaded the furniture and supplies was to hook up an internet connection and computer and get my television mounted on a wall and connected to a satellite.
“The first things… was” has mismatched plurality. It should be “the first things… were”.
greatwyrmgold on October 16, 2013 at 08:42 said:
Typo: “Coil’s costume could must have been…”
Presumably, either a comma has been omitted or an extra word or two was added.
Oh, Taylor. If only you could open up too your dad a little more. She doesn’t have to tell him she’s a supervillain, but she could give him some more reassurance than that. But it is of course very easy to slip back into old habits and flawed relationships, especially with family members. So it’s very realistic, true-to-life… just kinda tragic.
The dream sequence was fairly obvious, but still effective for it. It did contain one distracting typo: “Coil’s costume could must have been”.
anKLJ on January 31, 2014 at 18:58 said:
Wildbow — the whole dream sequence was beautifully done. I was freaked until I began to suspect it was somehow “not real” (the ash thing was a good mis-direct), and you played it well enough that I was still hemming-hawing to the point she woke up.
I concur with the commenters who were unclear about the Shattercrow vs. eyeglasses part — more exposition, maybe? As someone seriously myopic/presbyopic who finally gave up the squint/ dust/ tears struggle with contacts and has resigned to bug-eyed glasses for life, I was actually confused (and disappointed — geeks with glasses rule!) back when she put them in and wrecked her goggles.
David Burns: “1st floor exterminator service?” (12/27/13 comment)
While PG often amuses me, THAT comment made me spew my coffee! Good idea! 🙂
” … bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on others, before Leviathan … ” {by} others.
“They had been bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on others, before Leviathan came.” – I suspect that should be “looked down on BY others”…
bundle on May 23, 2014 at 12:22 said:
“It was my brain drawing together all my guilt about what we’d done to Shadow Stalker, the role I’d played in Dinah being kidnapped and leaving my dad”
i can see other threads there: anger and betrayal towards her father, as well as his last action with her being a possessive one – locking her in the house and trying to force an increase in intimacy. perhaps worry over becoming coil’s slave as part of her attempt to save dinah. very well done, wildbow. you have a knack for the complex.
Schrodinger's Hat on May 24, 2014 at 03:21 said:
Contrary to what others out here seemed to think, I thought the dream sequence was brilliantly done. It was quite obvious that the whole thing was a dream, right from the start, but it didnt take away the shock that Coil would’ve been Taylor’s father from the start. Not one bit.
One (sort of) story problem though. Just because Taylor has access to email, doesnt allow Danny Hebert to actually make any sort of valid deduction about her location. The story does seem to make prominent mentions about smart phones, so as long as she’s getting cell phone reception, I dont see how email would be any different.
Ok,I am confused….where did anyone say he didn’t like the dream sequence?I had read nothing but praise in the comments,and I find myself agreeing with it.
Max on September 20, 2014 at 22:32 said:
I love the fact that Taylor has a lair now. That is too cool. The thing with the beetle switch box is epic by the way. It’s a fantastic way to continue to show her incredible ability to come up with incredibly creepy ways to use her comparatively “minor” power. The intimidation factor alone with that is awesome.
It was nice getting to see that she still has some contact with her dad. I was worried for a bit there that she had never even let him know she survived the Leviathan attack. I’d recommend just a short line about leaving him a message or something a few chapters back just so we know beforehand that she hasn’t totally abandoned him. That being said this was a sweet if heartbreaking moment here. I am curious about the glass thing. I thought at first it would be someone in the group was out for people with glasses but if she’s prying her lenses out of the mask where noone can see them that gets me thinking that maybe one of them can simply break glass. Seriously sucks for people with glasses. Speaking from one who used to wear them and also hated contact lenses with a passion, did Taylor have to get new contacts or did she keep up with her prescription for them just in case despite hating them? Prescriptions can change quite quickly at that age and if she didn’t keep getting new contacts even a set from six months ago can be pretty far off from her current set of glasses. I know it’s a small thing but…eh, like I said, I was a slave to my glasses for over 10 years so I’m curious.
>They had been bums, drunks and addicts, looked down on others, before Leviathan came.
Bums, drunks, and addicts look down on others?
Dislike Taylor’s staunch moralism. Coil’s doing the city a service. Dislike dream sequence; done to death, and dreams don’t really make that much sense.
aahh,you are the guy Schrodinger’s hat refered too,he is clearly a clairvoyant.Well,dreams sometimes do make some sense (though if you paid attention,this one did not make much sense,it just had real characters and fears),Superheroes are also done to death,done to death=/=can’t be good.And,what staunch moralism?she works for him,she tries to resolve it diplomatically,its just that it leaves a bad taste to her mouth,and,honestly,even if you were an well intentioned extremist but a good guy who was forced to do that,it would leave a bad taste to your mouth and guilt too,no matter how well you’d rationalise it or how many people that would save.Yes,you might not hold back or even have second thoughts,but honestly,if you feel no pity for her as you use her,you are the villain here.
probably meant to be “looked down on by others”
–Dave, conjunction junction
axle on March 3, 2015 at 12:45 said:
Love how you’ve shown how much Taylor has grown, also really liked the dream introduction. This is a great way to start the arc. On a side note: If this were a series of books, this would be the start for book 3 (in my opinion)
Squirrelloid on April 5, 2015 at 23:39 said:
FWIW, glasses are made out of plastic these days, not glass. I’m not sure you would have even been able to buy real-glass glasses in the last decade that weren’t ‘used’.
Bruja on May 13, 2016 at 18:38 said:
You actually managed to combine the tired “it was all a dream” and “the bad guy is your DAD guy” cliches and made them work. I was going “no way, I mean it makes sense, but no way!” followed immediately by “YOOOO NO WAY YOU JUST DID THAT!”
«“Email?” he asked. “Where are you that you have access to a computer?”» Doesn’t he know about phones, like the (old!) phone Sophia had that Regent forwarded email using? And wouldn’t her reply be “I can read email once I’m back in an area with cell coverage, duh! Get a phone that’s less than ten years old, old man.”
ArkhCthuul on August 8, 2017 at 19:43 said:
The first part of this.chqpter completely.shocked and awed.me.the first.time around…and the I cursed wildbow 😉
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This past week, Balthazar had not one, but two shows in Control Club. It was the Belgian quintet’s first time in Romania and the closest I ever got to resembling a groupie, as I’ve attended both live performances and their soundcheck on Wednesday. But I snapped out of it pretty quickly and met almost half of them for an interview, just before their gig on Wednesday night.
Now, most of Balthazar’s interviews star the two front men Maarten Devoldere and Jinte Deprez. But this is not your regular Balthazar interview. I’ve instead had the pleasure of interviewing bassist Simon Casier (the one responsible for the magic bass lines in title track ‘Fever’) and multi-instrumentalist Tijs Delbeke (the newest addition to Balthazar, whose talents include smoothly going from one instrument to another as if he was born playing them all).
So, I’m leaving you with a written version of the interview, even though I have my doubts that some of the conversation is actually translatable from audio to text. Casier has a good poker face and almost never answers a question seriously. I found myself doubting most of what he said, even when he seemed to be serious. Tijs, on the other hand, was generously trying to figure out how to give the most earnest answers, even when I asked the stupidest questions. (And if you haven’t listened to ‘Fever’ yet, Balthazar’s fourth studio album, please make time for that now. I promise it will be worth it. It is the band’s warmest album to date.)
Jinte Deprez, vocal of Balthazar, and his newest bandmate, Tijs Delbeke
Alexandra: You’ve been touring for a while already with this album. How has this tour been treating you so far?
Tijs: The food was great everyday (laughter). Besides the food, the shows were alright.
Simon: We started four weeks ago, so this is the end of the first part of the tour. It’s been great actually.
Tijs: The show has been evolving in a good way. It’s my very first Balthazar tour.
Alexandra: Your touring schedule for February looked insane to me. You had shows almost everyday, travelling to three or four countries a week. How do you keep sane through all of this?
Simon: Sleep, sleep, you have to sleep a lot!
Tijs: Getting sick now and then.
Simon: I just slept for 12 hours last night. So that’s how you do it. Sometimes you sleep four hours and next day you sleep 12.
Tijs: Yeah, it’s true.
Simon: Sleep and alcohol!
Tijs: But if you get excited to do the new show – in the beginning you are still trying to make a good show out of it, I think we kind of found it right now – you get the joy by just playing.
Simon: Even if you’re very tired, once you’re on stage, there’s so much adrenaline…
Tijs: I’ve been sick for at least a week. And the only one and a half hour that I felt OK was on stage.
Simon: He has the fever. Get it?
Alexandra: When did you guys realize that ‘Fever’ was going to be the title track of the album?
Simon: During recordings it became obvious that the song ‘Fever’ should be the opening track for the album, and then we thought we should also name the album Fever.
Tijs: But wasn’t it like one of the most representative songs as well?
Simon: That’s right.
Simon Casier, responsible for the infectious bassline of Fever
Alexandra: I got the feeling that you made that song and then somehow the entire album was built around it.
Simon: Yeah, kind of.
Alexandra: When did you realize that this was where you wanted to take the album?
Simon: It was on the 12th of May 2018!
(everyone laughs)
Simon: Sorry.
Tijs: It was probably when everybody started dancing to the song and it maybe opened up a new direction for this new album, a new Balthazar era. It was something that was different enough to devote the other new tracks to it.
Alexandra: Tijs, tell me about your experience joining the band.
Tijs: I got sick so it’s completely horrible! No, it is great. I knew most of the other band members already, ‘cause I played with Warhaus, Maarten’s solo game. And now it’s wonderful. I haven’t toured like this yet, the team is great.. And I’m on the tour bus now. I ‘m liking it. Absolutely!
Alexandra: Did you guys have any trouble translating what you did for the studio versions of the songs into the live show?
Simon: No. I don’t really remember it. It was last month!
Tijs: It was difficult in the beginning, not necessarily the translating of the album, but just, you know, figuring who does what.
Simon: Now we’ve got three guitar players in the band, we used to have two. So they fought all the time: `No, I want to play that song.’
Alexandra: Is that true or are you joking AGAIN?
Simon: I never joke. (he says with a straight face)
Tijs: He’s never joking.
Simon: But this was really a thing: we had so many different options, many instruments on stage that we could use, and we tried out different possibilities.
Alexandra: Yeah, Tijs, you play a bunch of instruments: the guitar, the keys, the violin, the trombone…
Simon: And that’s only half of what he can do, actually.
Tijs: It’s fun, I like to mess around with a couple of different instruments. But actually everybody plays multiple instruments. But I’m ‘the chosen one’. I can choose whatever I want while the rest has to stick to their main instrument. They can really play and I can pretend that I play everything a little bit.
Simon: Actually our drummer Michiel is one of the best saxophone players in Belgium. But it’s cool to not play it on stage.
Alexandra: „Don’t let your morality affect your imagination” – I love these lyrics on the new album. Can you each give me an example of a time you didn’t leave your morality affect your imagination?
Tijs: Oh, that’s really easy!
Simon: What song is that? It’s a hard question. Because this is not the time or place…for it, my dear. (this is actually how the lyrics continue in ‘Wrong Vibration’)
Tijs: Wait. What was the question?
Alexandra: If you can give me an example of a time when you did not let your morality affect your imagination.
Simon: Well, I always let… We didn’t write those lyrics, Maarten did. But I disagree. I always let my morality affect my imagination…
Tijs: Morality first!
Alexandra: Aha, so you are the good guys.
Tijs: Absolutely.
Simon: But that’s just for imagination. We don’t let morality affect real life.
(a few quiet moments)
Alexandra: Wait… you don’t let your morality affect your real life? How exactly?
Simon: Shit! I knew that was coming.
Alexandra: Yeah, you walked right into that.
Tijs: You’re making it too hard for us. But it’s an interesting thing to think about. Sometimes we’re trying too hard. And then you are not enjoying life as much as you should, I think that’s what he means. And there’s some sense about it. In Maarten’s case, probably that division is somewhere else. Let’s put it that way.
”And I’m on the tour bus now!”. Tijs Delbeke can play just about any musical instrument you can imagine
Alexandra: What do you think about right before you go up on stage?
Simon: Not much. Our tour manager always does this little dance and it’s like ‘Alright, now we can start!`.
Alexandra: I saw him dance at the soundcheck earlier. Do you guys join in or just watch him?
Tijs: We just try to ignore him. But it helps that he does that.
Alexandra: Tijs, you told me before that you liked the audience last night. `It was a good crowd`. What does actually mean? Artists always say that: ‘You guys are great’…
Simon: Yeah, that’s just being polite.
Alexandra: What makes an audience great, though?
Tijs: When they’re responsive to the songs. You kind of feel it from the first second. You can feel if an audience is like in the mood or just waiting and I think yesterday that was the case, they were really in the mood of watching the concert and they were quiet enough during the soft songs, and they were dancing and cheering on the more upbeat songs. Even when things go wrong, you can still have a good concert when the audience is great. It’s not always like that, but yesterday it was good.
Alexandra: What do you do if you feel like the crowd is not responsive?
Simon: We try harder. We try to make the show better for ourselves and be more interactive with the audience. Just try harder.
Tijs: It can be anything, like dancing harder. But usually not playing better. That isn’t really the case anymore. Just entertain more.
Alexandra: We live in a share-obsessed culture, with people posting live from concerts, and taking a bunch of photos and seeing the concert through the screen of their smartphone. Does this ever impact what you do on stage and you connection with the audience?
Simon: Oh, no. Personally, it does not bother me.
Tijs: It’s not like everybody is filming all the time. It’s kind of nice. And nowadays a band depends on it as well: when it gets shared and other people see it, they get maybe tempted to come next time. So I don’t think it’s that bad of a thing. It doesn’t bother me either.
Alexandra: `Fever’ has to be the most playful album you did so far. How did you manage to find that ease and that playfulness?
Simon: How? Hmm, I don’t know. Just trying to have fun making it.
Tijs: It was a little more groove-based than the previous records and maybe that makes it again more danceable and more playful. So the starting point was a little bit different. But it’s a process..
Simon: We didn’t let our morality affect our imagination. (laughter all around)
Tijs: He got an example.
Simon: Just trying to go full circle.
Alexandra: Simon, was the break that Balthazar took useful, the time you allowed yourselves to work on your solo projects?
Simon: I think it was good for us. We had been touring for 6 years nonstop, since 2010 til 2016. We were all tired. Not of each other. Well, maybe that too. We could have made a fourth album then, but I think it would have killed us. Not literally. So it was a good thing to take a break and we were already working on more personal songs, that we all knew we should do something by ourselves and we will see afterwards. It’s not like three years ago we planned that we would be back on 2019. It could have been an year later or a year earlier. But in the end, doing that was a really good thing. ‘Cause we’re all back now, one big happy family. We all missed each other, in some way. Of course, we all saw each other in the last years as well.
Alexandra: Did you ever fear that you might not come back as Balthazar?
Simon: No, not really. Because everything overlapped a bit. We played the last show with Balthazar in 2016. And in 2017 we all did our thing. We already started working on ‘Fever’ in the first part of 2018. So actually for us it was only a one year break and not three years. On paper it looks like three years, but it wasn’t that long.
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Alexandra: Tijs, you have also played with Warhaus. What’s the main difference between the two, from your perspective?
Tijs: There’s two people that I have to listen to now. (generous laughter on his side) Two people that tell me what to do. Well, actually there’s more. I’m the new guy so everyone’s telling me what to do. Apart from that, the venues are a little bit bigger, it’s a stronger concept already, it’s a band that’s been touring for a bunch of years. The music is different and my role is different.
Simon: You played marimba with Warhaus. Not anymore.
Tijs: Yeah. There’s no budget for marimba anymore.
Simon: It’s too big.
Alexandra: How do you guys act when you are in the crowd, and not on stage? So, when you see other bands perform.
Simon: Well, we’re from Belgium so…
Tijs: Yeah, we’re like this (they both demonstrate standing still, with their hands crossed on the chest)
Simon: That’s true actually.
Tijs: And we get angry if our crowd is like that.
Simon: Yeah, but in Belgium.. we can’t help it.
Tijs: But if we do move, it’s usually really good. I’m joking. I’m not a big dancer. I just stand there, nodding my head.
Alexandra: Just feeling the music on the inside.
Tijs: Of course. I try to figure out all the chords and what gear they are using. And laughing when the bands are making a mistake.
Alexandra: I will ask you one last question that has nothing to do with music.
Simon: Dinosaurs!
Alexandra: If you were to choose a superpower, would you go for being able to fly or be invisible?
Tijs: How fast can you fly?
Simon: And how high?
Alexandra: Like an airplane.
Tijs (excited): Oh yeah, I would definitely fly.
Simon (pondering): What about being invisible? What can you do with that?
Alexandra: You can sneak into every place you want.
Simon: But if the door is closed, you won’t be able to get in without opening the door… and people would be like: is this an invisible guy or..? so maybe flying is a better option. I don’t see any negative parts there.
Tijs: And flying would reduce our ecological footprint as well. I’m an ecological guy so I would choose the flying.
Simon: But would we have wings?
Alexandra: Do you want wings?
Simon: If there were wings involved, then maybe I would choose being invisible.
Tijs: But if you can take off the wings, I would still go for flying.
Simon: So many options! I’m still gonna go for dinosaurs.
Alexandra: I didn’t expect to get such a complex answer to this question.
Simon: But now you know, for the next band you are interviewing, you have to ask: do you want to fly, without wings, or if you have wings, you can take them off, speed, height, or if you are invisible, then you are also able to walk through doors, and then you will definitely get a shorter answer.
Alexandra: This is definitely how I will ask the question the second time around.
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Families of Police Victims Demand End to Slow Release of Coroner’s Reports
The Anti Police-Terror Project, in partnership with families who have lost loved ones to police violence, has launched a campaign calling for the Alameda County Sheriff’s department to release coroner’s reports in police-involved deaths within 30 days.
This demand comes after it took several months and legal involvement of the families of Yuvette Henderson and Richard Perkins to receive the reports of their loved ones’ deaths.
In the case of Henderson, a Black grandmother who was killed by Emeryville police after allegedly shoplifting and suffering from an assault inside Home Depot, it took eight months for the coroner’s report to be given to her family.
Richard Perkins was killed by Oakland police in November of last year while watching a side show and holding a replica toy pellet gun. His family waited four months to receive the coroner’s report.
“We think that 30 days is a reasonable time to get a coroner’s report and to run an investigation to determine what happened,” said Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP).
“When we got (Perkins’) report, we looked at it and saw that it only took two days after his death for it to be filed,” said Brooks. “There is absolutely no reason why they couldn’t get that family his report sooner.”
According to members of APTP, the delay in releasing reports in police-involved cases points to collusion between the Sheriff’s department and local police departments.
“You only have so long to file a civil lawsuit,” Brooks said. “If you miss that time frame, you can’t do anything, and it makes it harder for families to get a lawsuit together and dispute (police) claims.”
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Lt. Riddick Bowers of the Sheriff’s department defended the length of time it takes to get out a coroner’s report, saying “The public is done a disservice by rushing an investigation, by adhering to some kind of arbitrary deadline.”
Yet according to Brooks, the justification for the time length doesn’t hold up since in both Henderson and Perkins’ cases the coroner’s report was released the day before APTP had planned demonstrations at the coroner’s office for the reports to be released.
Further demands by APTP include investigating possible collusion between the Alameda County Sheriff’s department and the Oakland Police Department, the release of the entire video series relating to Perkins’ death and to bring in an outside investigator to investigate his death.
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HARLEM, Manhattan — A 29-year-old Bronx man was gunned down inside a Harlem deli on Monday night, police said.
Leroy Phinazee was shot in the neck and shoulder inside Funfair Deli on Lenox Avenue near West 137th Street, officials said.
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A Team Grows in Brooklyn
Posted on October 3, 2013 by RoseTintedVisor
Q&A with Chris Botta, SportsBusiness Journal
I interviewed former Isles PR Man, current NYT and Sports Business Journal contributor, Chris Botta. Chris served as Isles PR point man for 2 decades, and became a household name in Long Island’s hockey-sphere for his founding of the always informative IslandersPointBlank.com and a soon thereafter very public falling out with GM Garth Snow.
VP: A lot of Isles fans have some serious reservations about the move to Brooklyn. Do you think there’s any tangible downside?
CB: Once you get over the massive disappointment for a lot of people that the Islanders are leaving – or, more accurately, had to leave – Nassau, the rest is mostly positive. For starters, Brooklyn sure beats the team being in Seattle, Quebec or wherever else it could have landed. Charles Wang made it clear to me a few months ago that there were substantial offers from outside New York, and he listened to a few because they were coming from people of wealth and influence who were sincere in their approach.
I’ve known Wang since 2000, and he always insisted on not using other municipalities as leverage. He never did. When you consider what Seattle has been offering for the Sacramento Kings, it gives you a bit of an idea of what Wang turned down to stay in New York.
My only reservations are about the Brooklyn barn. Despite the comments from the Barclays people that the arena will hold close to 16,000 for hockey, my skepticism was justified, based on what happened at the preseason game. As of now, I’m told by NHL people that somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 seats do not have complete views of the ice. I hope they do something about it. They have two years, so I’m optimistic that they’ll get it right.
VP: How essential is mass transit to the survivability of a team and its venue in 2013?
CB: There are plenty of pro teams in the U. S. that do not rely heavily on mass transit. But it’s pretty essential if you’re going to be a major league team in New York. Could the Islanders have played another century in Nassau without public transportation and been successful? Most definitely, but that ship has sailed. Barclays Center definitely benefits from being adjacent to public rail. When I went there the first time, I almost gasped when I took that long escalator ride up and saw that giant sign for the arena.
VP: Can you please definitively put to bed the notion that the Islanders are going to break this lease in Brooklyn and go back to Nassau?
CB: It has been a non-story since the day they announced the lease and Wang said it was “iron-clad.” Bruce Ratner and Brett Yormark (and no doubt Mikhail Prokhorov) want the Islanders at Barclays. Wang agreed to the deal and won’t break it. Charles wanted to stay in Nassau and tried for more than a decade to make it work. He’s at peace and seems happy with Brooklyn.
VP: In terms of sponsorship, attendance, brand visibility and the Brooklyn ‘effect’: do you think this impacts the Isles significantly? Are you optimistic enough to think they can be in the top half of the league in terms of revenue and merchandise sold after the move?
CB: I’ll answer the second question first. There’s no doubt in my mind that the Islanders will finish in the top half of the league in revenue from merchandising in their first season in Brooklyn. Maybe top third.
Sponsorship sales will increase significantly because Barclays will still be a spiffy new arena, there will be excitement around a good hockey team establishing itself in Brooklyn, and – just as importantly – Brett Yormark is a relentless salesman. Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean the Islanders could not have excelled in business with a good team and new arena in Nassau. We’re just never going to know.
VP: Do you see that new-found potential capital being invested in the team?
CB: I don’t see it as taking new money and putting it into the team. The payroll is going to go up no matter what. The salary cap floor will be over $60 million soon enough. A good team like the Islanders will eventually require a top-15 payroll to retain their core players and add a few free agents to remain a consistent contender.
VP: Could the New York Islanders become a preferred free agent destination?
CB: That can be a bit over-rated, Vinny. How many would you call preferred right now…five or six? Also, Mark Streit had no problem signing up for Uniondale when the Islanders made the highest offer and most aggressive pitch.
I don’t think “preferred” is the right word. The good news is that the Islanders won’t be one of a very small group of teams that free agents try to avoid, unless they need a career resuscitation. Players want to be teammates with John Tavares. Players want to be on a winner. Players want to sign with the Islanders. I believe that has already started, years before Brooklyn.
VP: Did you manage to get to one of the playoff games this year and take in that atmosphere again?
CB: I did and really loved being in the old barn at Hempstead. I hadn’t been to an Islanders game since a game I went to with my family a few months after the blog issue. Work and running around with my sons to their sports had kept me away.
What a great night it was. A friend gave me great seats for Game 4 – the game they won.
I took a friend from Canada who’d never seen the Coliseum like that. It was awesome to see it through his eyes. It was also nice to catch up with so many fans of the team and staff that I hadn’t seen in a while. We went to the bar at the Marriott and just soaked it in some more. Such an incredible night.
After the jump, Chris’ thoughts on You Can Play, outdoor games, growing league revenue and whether or not the NHL needs ESPN.
VP: YouCanPlay and other groups have done a lot to promote LGBT awareness in the lockerroom. Do you think the younger guys coming in to the league are getting it and the message’s importance?
CB: There’s no question in my mind. What Patrick Burke and his staff have done with YouCanPlay has been remarkable. I don’t think a lot of people realize how much they’ve done in short time. Affiliations with Major League Soccer and the NHL, already? All the support videos from so many college and pro teams? Players going out of their way to speak out? Inspiring stuff.
Most of the young players coming into the league are compassionate about the issues without the messaging, you should know that. But YouCanPlay and others have made a monumental difference.
VP: Do you feel the league endorses these efforts strongly enough?
CB: I do. The key will be for YouCanPlay to make sure both its own staff and the NHL are keeping their foot on the pedal.
VP: From a PR standpoint, would a gay player work in any market?
VP: It’s not about PR or particular markets, it’s about what’s right. There’s no doubt in my mind that the first current NHL player to acknowledge that he is gay will be accepted completely by the rest of the players in the league. You are always going to have bigoted people hiding out, mostly behind their computers, but they will not have the courage to put their names to their comments. So really, who cares about them?
VP: Do you think the league is ready for it?
CB: It has been for years. And now with groups like YouCanPlay, the legacy of Brendan Burke and the acceptance of so many NHL players, it’s as ready as any major sports league in North America.
VP: Would that present a PR boon or a distraction?
CB: Managed well, it would be a distraction for one day. If you’re an NHL team and one of your players has said he is gay, take one day and make everyone – including the gay player – available to address every question from every outlet. Then make it clear that the subject will never be addressed again. He’s a hockey player. Ask hockey questions. Anything written or said after that would be noise. I believe the moment is less than ten years away.
VP: What’s your favorite memory of the Barn as we wind down our time there?
CB: As a youngster, I grew up in that place. The Islanders won the Stanley Cup when I was in ninth through 12th grade. My older brother, a Rangers fan, drove me to the parades. It doesn’t get better than that. As an employee, I’d rate getting the chance to work closely with Al Arbour as my favorite among countless great memories.
VP: In your previous life, was there a more surreal moment than the Kirk Muller trade?
CB: Vinny, we had a guy buy the team without money and ESPN will broadcast a documentary all about it soon. We had my friend Mad Mike for a decade. We had Ricky and Yash and Teddy Nolan, the fisherman jersey and the Gang of Four. Neil Smith was fired after forty freaking crazy days and nights and Garth went straight from goalie one season to GM the next. Garth has turned out to be a good GM as I expected he would, but that summer was a wild one.
That’s just some of the stuff you know about, without going into the private stuff. It would be impossible to rank all the moments in order of how surreal they were. What I can say is, it was a privilege to have the opportunity to be a small part of all of it. Of course, as a fan and an employee, I wish a lot of it was better, but I was very fortunate to have 20 years with the team.
VP: As a PR veteran, do you feel the league falls short in promoting its individual stars and their personalities? I feel every other league makes its stars brands onto themselves and at the same time promotes them much better than the NHL does its stars, even though hockey players are infinitely more approachable.
CB: I disagree. I think it’s one of the more poorly-reported issues of the last few generations that the NBA and the NFL promote their stars brilliantly. Those sports are more popular in the U. S., and it’s not the leagues, but the sneaker and apparel companies that have played a bigger role in increasing someone’s star. David Stern was a great commissioner, but he gets a lot of credit for work done by Nike.
VP: How much easier would a homegrown superstar like Captain John Tavares have made your job?
CB: It would be unfair for me to say he would have made my job easier because 99 percent of the players we had when I was with the Islanders were a joy to deal with and made that part of my job hassle-free. John’s a dream because he’s a great player and person and is the biggest reason the Islanders are competitive again. Winning makes coming to work in pro sports even more fun – whether you’re the PR person, ticket sales executive or no matter what you do. One of the many reasons why I hope John leads the team to a Stanley Cup is because I want to see my friends still involved with the Islanders get a ring.
VP: Which of the innovative things that you and your guys pioneered in your time on the old job is what you’re proudest of during your tenure with the Isles?
CB: Near the top of the list would be our involvement with PWAC, the People with Aids Coalition on Long Island, at a time about 15 years ago when the Islanders and San Francisco Giants were the only major league sports franchises involved in the cause. Any of the work stuff pales in comparison to anything we did in the community.
VP: What do you think of the league’s ambitious plan to grow revenue that you recently reported on?
CB: Their goal is to make another billion within three years. I bet they do it in less.
VP: Tickets are moving for the outdoor games, and a Champions League is something that has fans giddy. Do you think the NHL could get that lightning in a bottle moment they’ve craved forever?
CB: Maybe not lightning in a bottle, but the NHL is poised for great growth for the next 8-10 years until this CBA runs out.
VP: I love what the NBC family has done for the NHL and vice-versa, but the question persists: Does the NHL NEED ESPN?
CB: I would have liked for the NHL to leave room in its NBC deal for something like one game a week for ESPN, but it’s a moot point. NBC wanted, and paid for, the whole thing. Having ESPN more invested in the league would help, but no, it is not essential.
VP: Are your kids still Isles fans?
CB: Of course. I’ve been gone from the team five years now, and Luke and Cole are only 12 and Aidan is 15, but there’s a unique bond there. They are going to want to go to games in Brooklyn.
VP: Do you find yourself rooting for the team still, given the ties you have throughout the organization?
CB: Absolutely. It’s not just the ties that remain, or even from working there a long time. It’s a connection that goes back to when the team was formed in 1972, when I was seven. That doesn’t go away.
VP: Despite your rift with the front office, do you still talk with the boys on the team or the guys and girls working for the Orange and Blue?
CB: To clarify, the rift was only with Garth and that’s in the distant past. As for the question, yes. Friends are friends.
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7 Responses to A Team Grows in Brooklyn
Thanks Vin and Chris. Lets Go Islanders!!!!!!!!!!
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Jamie Fabos says:
A true professional, a wonderful friend and an all around great person. Miss you, Botts. So proud to call you my mentor, and my friend!
Barclays SUCKS for hockey. Any hockey fan will be disappointed watching a game there. I know i was severely upset watching the pre-season game there (and not because of the final score). A little more money/seats should be added to the plans for the “new” nassau coliseum and it should be KEPT as the islanders home.
Like Chris Botta just explained in the article you just seemingly read, TOO LATE. You need to get over it.
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Featured Community Member Richard Pijnenburg
Published on 23 December 2014 by
Meg Hartley
We’d like to introduce Richard Pijnenburg as the latest Featured Community Member! Richard lives in South Wales and works at Elasticsearch as a Software Developer. Some of you may know him as electrical or ispavailability. He’s been instrumental in the evolution of acceptance testing at Puppet, specifically with Docker and in building the Logstash and Elasticsearch modules. We are so fortunate to have him in our community!
His Elasticsearch module was one of the first to be added to the Puppet Approved Module Program. We were excited to have it be apart of the launch of the Puppet Approved program at PuppetConf this year. It's great to see a module, like this one that Richard started working on before he ever joined Elasticsearch, become one of our recommended modules. This is thanks to Richard's dedication to developing the module, which has become extremely popular with other Puppet users in the past two years, since it was created. As of now, 33 people have contributed to the module, and it has been downloaded over 44,000 times.
Ryan Coleman, Puppet Forge and Modules Product Owner, says, "Elasticsearch is a critical part of Forge operations and gives me a lot of information about module consumption all across the system. Reviewing his Elasticsearch module was a no brainer and our back-and-forth during review was a pleasure. It's great to be able to recognize his work in this way."
His work with Beaker has also been essential. Alice Nodelman, Puppet Labs QA Toolsmith, adds, “electrical was an early adopter of Beaker – willing to work with new code, identify bugs and contribute patches. His Docker enabled automated acceptance testing system is an impressive example of Beaker in the wild. In addition to his technical expertise, he’s awesome to work with! I recommend him to new Beaker users as an excellent community resource.”
Our engineers can’t say enough awesome things about Richard! “Richard is an enormously active member of the Puppet community who has helped many of our users on IRC in the past, and has helped push forward the state of the art in acceptance testing with his efforts to ensure Docker works fantastically in Beaker. He maintains several modules relating to Logstash that are popular on the Forge. He's always a pleasure to work with and we appreciate all his contributions."
In his small amount of spare time, Richard likes to try out new software, watch movies, look after his animals and listen to music 24/7. He says, “ I love working with all the people at Puppet Labs. They are very helpful and open for ideas, and, of course, make great software!”
Thank you Richard, we love working with you too! You can follow Richard as @richardp82 on Twitter, or keep up with his code on GitHub and ispavailability on the Forge.
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Join the Puppet Community
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This is certainly giving
This is certainly giving credit where credit is due :) Thanks, Richard!
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Category: Feminism
Posted on October 2, 2018 September 30, 2018
Grooming: two case studies
Daniel Mallory Ortberg had Anita Sarkeesian as a guest on his Dear Prudence podcast recently and they answered the following question for Slate Plus members:
Subject: Boss too much
I am employed at my until recently all-time favourite job. I like everything about it. But the number one reason was the relationship I had with my boss. I’m an executive assistant and we have the same toe-the-line sense of humour.
Last week though in the parking lot after a charity event he groped me and asked me for sex. He was very drunk which was why I stayed late in the first place, to be his designated driver. I got out of his car and left immediately after this happened. He followed up with a phone call on the way home, not to apologise but to reiterate his attraction to me.
Now I don’t know what to do. He has promised me and delivered to my predecessor a great promotion to a department of our choice after a few years of service. He’s also at the top of the organisation, only the foreign board is above him. He’s gone back to joking with me having never apologised. I also haven’t confronted him. He was so drunk that I’m not even sure he remembers it.
I have one year until I could be promoted out, as he plans to retire, but my new job is not guaranteed. He wasn’t forceful but he was and always has been highly suggestive. I don’t know what I want to do. What are my best options?
Dear Prudence: “Weapons-grade Pettiness” Edition (offset 47:10 for Slate Plus members)
Ortberg and Sarkeesian went on to discuss various options, including whether or not to involve HR (although without fully diving into the distinct possibility that this guy is the boss of the head of HR) or the board. But they didn’t dive into this detail: “we have the same toe-the-line sense of humour”.
There’s no more details, but I’m assuming this means that the letter writer and their boss do a lot of joking about sex. It sounds like the letter writer assumed, and continues to hope, that this means they and their boss have both a close, fun, sexy, relationship, and a shared understanding of remaining boundaries.
However, that’s not what’s going on. Now that we know he assaulted his assistant, we also know that the sexy jokes were him grooming them in advance of his assault.
Grooming is a technique used to prepare a future abuse victim to be accepting of abuse: gradual pushing of the future victim’s boundaries, encouraging the future victim to push boundaries themselves, plus plenty of positive reinforcement that this is good fun, we’re close friends, and so on.
Because of the positive reinforcement, which is a key part of healthy relationships too, grooming is tricky to identify in the moment: you may only be able to make it out in the rear-view mirror. In this specific case we have a big warning sign: the massive power differential between a (I assume) CEO and his executive assistant. That’s not a line you want to toe: one of the two people has a lot more say in where that line is, and he went on to prove it! But that’s not always so, grooming can occur between people without such an obvious power difference, and it’s often sexy or fun or silly to make sexual jokes! It’s the part where the abuse shows up that turns it into grooming.
This is a big part of the puzzle around “but whyyyy can’t we all have fun sexy joke times at work?” Aside from sexy joke times not being everyone’s idea of fun, there’s a history of exploitation around them. They’ve been used for grooming too many times, to turn the tables on someone who thought of their boss as their sexy-joke-buddy and found out they were actually a sexy-joke-predator. Now everyone who has had that happen, or who knows the dynamic, has to toe two lines: pleasing the sexy-jokes boss types, and constantly watching out for the groomer’s heel turn.
By extension, grooming is also something an abuser can do to other people in a position to report or stop their abuse of others. They set up a narrative of themselves as a good or harmless person. They can, for example, be the office prankster, or collective little sibling, or kind mentor, or hapless single person who is just so lonely. With these narratives in place the abuser has their defences put for them: prankster lonely person just needs to learn some social skills; mentor was just trying to help, little sibling is so cute and harmless!
In another advice column, we even find a description of someone who has managed to play almost all of those cards at once.
I recently got promoted into a HR manager at an office and have been working there for the past 3 years. Couple of months in my friend/mentor of a different department was accused of sexual harassment by an intern. She said that he kept hugging her, holding her hand when saying hello, asking about her dating life, joked about sex, and would invite her to private lunches or talks on the roof. Even to dinner or drinks after work[…]
He has been working here for the past 8 years and has helped countless of women feel comfortable in the office and is close friends with many other managers. I consider him a close friend and he knows about my personal problems. I don’t want to lose him or make him reveal my personal life out of anger [ed: emphasis] […]
I feel like the intern is overreacting since all the other girls are fine with it, and if she just told me, I would have told her to let it go. He is a good, friendly guy who was looking out for her[…]
Ask Dr. NerdLove: Do I Need To Fire My Friend? via Han and Matt Know It All #79 (offset 4:12)
What can you do about grooming? Knowledge is a great start: you can be aware that grooming is a possibility, that in hearing accusations of abuse or experiencing abuse the odd behaviours, relationships, and other puzzle pieces that you read as “not an abuser” may have been constructed for you deliberately.
When you are abused or an accusation of abuse is made, you might look back over someone’s history with their victim or with people in the same environment and watch for one or more of these patterns:
apparently consensual boundary pushing, such as sex jokes or heavy drinking together
an unusually bumbling approach to social interactions/romantic interactions/office politics/an entire class of people (often women)
a history of selecting clear favourites and helping them get ahead after a certain period of service
And it’s very tempting to read these as, in order, “a confusing situation with fault on both sides”, “someone who needs taking care of and would never hurt a fly”, and “a great mentor/boss who pays it forward”. Or even “a confusing situation with fault on both sides involving a great mentor/boss who is really deep down someone who needs taking care of!”
Instead when these stories come to mind consider the possibility that what you have is a practised abuser who has groomed both their victims and bystanders to underestimate them or to think well of their motives. The counterexamples or the odd puzzle pieces are in fact part of an arc of abuse, not a defence against it.
Likewise, someone who is very insistent on a shared narrative of themselves as a good or harmless person is a warning sign. Almost everyone thinks of themselves as a good person, it’s less common and more dangerous when someone says it out loud in so many words (“I’m one of the good guys!”, “I’m mostly harmless!”) or insists on this being the story other people tell about them.
Abusers push boundaries, and the groomer is a type of abuser who likes to push the earlier boundaries with some consent or participation from their future victim. Super-fun happy-times boundary pushing is still boundary-pushing, and you should approach sceptically and watching very carefully for what happens when the other person wants to stop.
Be selfish: if it needs to be done someone else can do it
In 2009, in “Girl stuff” in Free Software, I recounted a conversation with Brianna Laugher:
[Brianna] said — paraphrased — that she didn’t feel that she should have a problem or be criticised for doing what she is good at, or what’s so desperately needed in her communities, and have to be just another coder in order to be fully respected. And I said that while this was certainly true, women also need to have the opportunity, to give themselves the opportunity, to be selfish: if we want to code, or do something else we are currently either bad at or not notably good at, or for that matter which we are good at but in which we’d have competitors, we should consider doing that, rather than automatically looking for and filling the space that is most obviously empty
(See also Brianna’s response.)
Since then, I’ve seen this pattern recur, most recently in some of the discussion around Valerie Aurora’s Advice for women in tech who are tired of talking about women in tech: women who are doing things because, well, the thing needs to be done and no one is doing it, even if what drew them to the job or the project was something else entirely than the chores they’ve ended up with. This is particularly true when the chore has some benefit to others: writing documentation, welcoming newcomers, setting up the translation team, establishing the not for profit and such.
This not only can make women miserable as they find themselves doing a lot of things out of a vague sense of duty, it quite frequently leads to no rewards whatsoever. For others, it’s really nice when the documentation gets written or the notes get taken or the funds get raised without having to figure out how to give someone a promotion or a keynote slot for it, or how to build up a healthy chain of people moving through the task and onto other things! How fortunate for your boss or your project, and how unfortunate for you.
Quite often a good dollop of selfishness is what this situation deserves, and what you deserve too. There is of course a tight limit to which women can or should personally solve the problem of being handed or expected to quietly assume chores and hover around in the background making sure all the wheels are greased, but let’s explore how far you can get, when it’s time to be selfish.
Note throughout this entry that “chores” are very relative. You may not be a natural fit for translating conversations or documents just because you’re fluent in multiple languages! You might want to write some code or do the accounting or answer the phones instead! But this doesn’t mean that documentation or translation are worthless activities that no one should do, just that they’re something that, at this time, and for this project, you want to stop doing.
Figure out what you’re getting out of the chore, and keep doing it.
I’m very often the notetaker in meetings that I’m in. While this is quite gendered (and I’ve occasionally had senior male colleagues notice and call it out, which is appreciated), I do get something out of it. I have trouble paying attention to and understanding conversations I’m present in that I don’t also write up; and, while we’re talking about being selfish, one of the more effective ways to control the agenda is to write it, and one of the ways to control the findings is to write them too.
So, I keep taking notes quite often, but I’m clear on what I’m getting out of it. I don’t take the notes for their own sake, and if I find myself in a situation where I’m losing the ability to participate in or lead a meeting due to being its notetaker, I’m more likely to reconsider whether there need to be notes and if so, whether I need to take them.
But let’s say you’ve thought about it, and you’re not getting something out of the thing, and you want to be done. But the thing is important, it is in some way making the world a better place. If so…
Accept that the project could fail without the chore.
Something to work through is knowing that the chore might be important to the success of the project, and that you’re deciding not to do it anyway.
Maybe the conference will be better with a more diverse lineup and so will the careers of the speakers. If no one sees the notes of the meeting then some important decisions will be missing context. A major security flaw might be hiding in those untriaged bugs.
But if the project’s success seems to depend on you, a single person, quietly stepping in and doing what must be done while everyone else does fun things, the project is either so fragile that it’s at high risk of failure regardless of your exceptional bug triaging and speaker finding skills, or it’s somewhat quietly robust, and will actually carry on just fine.
A related failure mode — “I’m so valuable that my boss won’t let me take vacation” — is something of an Ask a Manager perennial. As she tends to advise: what if you quit? If you quit and your chores are super important, your boss will either find a way to get them done after you leave, or the project will fail, and if it fails in your absence, it probably wasn’t that likely to succeed in your presence either.
So. If you’re the only thing standing between success and failure, you’re not on a great project. It might have great aims or ambitions, but it’s not a great project. So now it’s time to…
Stop doing the thing.
Just don’t do it. Let the bugs go untriaged, the newcomers go unwelcomed, the documentation go untranslated, the meeting go unrecorded, the conference not schedule any unicorn talks, the conference not have any women speakers at all.
While you worked through thoughts about the project failing above, many times, you’ll find that the thing wasn’t that important in the first place. No one much read the notes of that meeting, so maybe there didn’t need to be notes, and in fact, on reflection holding the meeting wasn’t that important either. The conference copped a lot of justified heat on Twitter for their all-male all-white lineup and… probably they deserved it since they were using you to shield them from it before. Speakers of your other fluent language migrated to other software that had a translation team dedicated to their needs, and were better off for it. And so on.
How to just stop:
Unsubscribe from the project email list.
Block your browser from letting you look at the bug tracker.
Delete the request for help finding women for the panel.
Read back over your personal notes from the meeting, update your own todo list, but don’t type them up to send to the team.
Go on a long holiday.
Give some warning you’re going to stop doing the thing.
If you’re not truly silently labouring away alone, you might want to let people know you’re stopping. That’s fine; but be firm about it, give a date at which you’ll stop, and resist conditioning leaving on another volunteer stepping up. “I’d love someone to take over the server and I’m happy to train you” may work, but it also may not. In embracing selfishness per this post, you need to step down even if no one else is stepping up.
Some scripts:
“I’m not available as a volunteer sysadmin after the 1st. I’d love to hand off cleanly to a new sysadmin if possible. However if there’s no volunteers by the 1st, I will shut down the server and provide the data backups to [other person].”
“This is the last newsletter from me! If someone else wants to pick it up, here’s a one pager to get you started.”
“After some reflection, I’ve decided not to contest the next board election. I’m looking forward to seeing where a new president takes us.”
Ask if you can hand off the thing.
The above two strategies work less well in hierarchical situations like workplaces. If you’ve silently taken on chores or you’re volunteering for things outside your core position you can still use those strategies, but if your boss or another authority figure has told you to do the chore (especially if they told you to recently), probably you shouldn’t just stop and see what happens, let alone send an email unilaterally announcing you’ve decided to stop doing your job from the 1st.
But that doesn’t mean you need to silently do what you’re told at the expense of important work, or do unrewarded tasks while your peers get shiny things. There’s some alternatives you can explore with your workplace:
Ask if you can stop: make a case for the chore not being important at all, or not being as important as the other things you need to do
Rotate chores: set up a formal rotation of the chore between teams or members of the team
Pay someone: pay a bookkeeper for your organisation rather than relying on a series of burned out volunteer treasurers
Pay a specialist: hire a project manager or an office admin or a backend dev or a fundraising lead
Transition to a more junior staff member: maybe there’s someone who’d learn from writing those docs or triaging those bugs
Transition to a team: maybe there’s so many chores that there needs to be a project team addressing the chores and the source of them, and maaaaybe you could lead that team?
That said, in workplaces and other hierarchical organisations, ethical leadership should be avoiding disproportionately handing unrewarding tasks to women, younger people, and members underrepresented minorities, and should be actively considering these solutions themselves. If you’re in a situation where your leadership is happily reaping the rewards of you patiently picking up scutwork unrewarded…
Quit your entire position.
If your current position (paid or volunteer) is full of chores you aren’t rewarded for but that no one can be bothered sharing around or finding someone who’d be a better fit, and you’re fortunate enough to be able to find another position or you don’t need to, quitting is something to seriously consider. Head out the door and selfishly go find somewhere where what they need someone to do is the same thing that you want to be doing.
Book review: The Wife Drought
My quest to be a paid book reviewer remains stalled for two reasons: first, I’ve never once asked anyone for money to do a book review, and second, this book review comes to you express, hot out of the oven, fresh from the year two thousand and fourteen.
Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought: Why women need wives, and men need lives is titled and marketed on the old “women need wives” joke, ie, an adult in their home to make meals and soothe fevers and type manuscripts for free.
Crabb is also a well-known Australian political journalist — the ABC’s chief online political writer — who is best-known for hosting a cooking with politicians TV show, and probably next best known for her comic writing style, eg:
Right then. The parliamentary consideration of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has concluded. The nation has experienced the special thrill of watching its elected representatives fight like ferrets in a bag over a legislative clause even John Howard couldn’t get excited about, and can now dully register the fact that all this fuss has produced exactly zero changes to the clause in question.
Annabel Crabb, There is nothing free about Mark Latham’s speech, April 1 2017.
One or the other of the title’s reliance on the hackneyed complaint about women needing wives, or Crabb’s journalist persona, caused a lot of people I know to write off this book unread. The marketing runs with this too:
Written in Annabel Crabb’s inimitable style, it’s full of candid and funny stories from the author’s work in and around politics and the media, historical nuggets about the role of ‘The Wife’ in Australia, and intriguing research about the attitudes that pulse beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia.
Penguin Books Australia
I suggest you don’t write it off, at least not for those reasons. It’s quite a serious book, and Penguin has buried the lede: intriguing research about the attitudes that pulse beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia. The research is central to the book: Crabb did a lot of one-on-one work with demographers to extract answers to questions that no one had answers to about gender, work, money, and career progressions in Australia. Some of the findings the book contains are in fact new findings prompted by Crabb’s questioning of demographic collaborators (who are acknowledged by name, although not as co-authors).
I found two discussions especially interesting: the way in which Australia makes part-time work fairly readily available to women with young children and the many limits of that as a solution to pay and career progression disparities between men and women; and the evidence suggesting that, contrary to the widespread perception that men are hailed as heroes by men and women alike for participating in the care of their young children, they are actually discriminated against by their workplaces when they do so.
After that Crabb’s writing style is just an added bonus to keep you going through the book. If you’re going to read a demographic exploration of gender and labour in Australia in the 2010s, it’s certainly a nice bonus that it happens to be written by Annabel Crabb of all people. Instead, the major caution I would give is that it’s very middle-class in both point of view and content, without much discussion of that limitation; and is largely focussed on women partnered with men. Assuming that the work lives of middle-class women partnered with men in Australia is of interest to you, recommended.
No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities
This was co-written with Leigh Honeywell and Valerie Aurora, and was originally published on hypatia.ca. It’s also available on blog.valerieaurora.org and en français sur repeindre.info.
Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence.
In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their own names to tell their harrowing stories of sexual misconduct, harassment, and abuse committed by Jacob Appelbaum. They acted in solidarity with the first anonymous reporters of Jacob’s abuse. Several organizations have taken steps to protect their members from Appelbaum, including the Tor Project, Debian, and the Noisebridge hackerspace, with other responses in progress.
But Appelbaum isn’t the last – or the only – abuser in any of these communities. Many people are calling for long-term solutions to stop and prevent similar abuse. The authors of this post have recommendations, based on our combined 40+ years of community management experience in the fields of computer security, hackerspaces, free and open source software, and non-profits. In four words, our recommendation is:
No more rock stars.
What do we mean when we say “rock stars?” We like this tweet by Molly Sauter:
Seriously, "rock stars" are arrogant narcissists. Plumbers keep us all from getting cholera. Build functional infrastructure. Be a plumber.
— Molly Sauter (@OddLetters) June 17, 2016
Seriously, “rock stars” are arrogant narcissists. Plumbers keep us all from getting cholera. Build functional infrastructure. Be a plumber.
You can take concrete actions to stop rock stars from abusing and destroying your community. But first, here are a few signs that help you identify when you have a rock star instead of a plumber:
A rock star likes to be the center of attention. A rock star spends more time speaking at conferences than on their nominal work. A rock star appears in dozens of magazine profiles – and never, ever tells the journalist to talk to the people actually doing the practical everyday work. A rock star provokes a powerful organization over minor issues until they crack down on the rock star, giving them underdog status. A rock star never says, “I don’t deserve the credit for that, it was all the work of…” A rock star humble-brags about the starry-eyed groupies who want to fuck them. A rock star actually fucks their groupies, and brags about that too. A rock star throws temper tantrums until they get what they want. A rock star demands perfect loyalty from everyone around them, but will throw any “friend” under the bus for the slightest personal advantage. A rock star knows when to turn on the charm and vulnerability and share their deeply personal stories of trauma… and when it’s safe to threaten and intimidate. A rock star wrecks hotel rooms, social movements, and lives.
Why are rock stars so common and successful? There’s something deep inside the human psyche that loves rock stars and narcissists. We easily fall under their spell unless we carefully train ourselves to detect them. Narcissists are skilled at making good first impressions, at masking abusive behavior as merely eccentric or entertaining, at taking credit for others’ work, at fitting our (often inaccurate) stereotypes of leaders as self-centered, self-aggrandizing, and overly confident. We tend to confuse confidence with competence, and narcissists are skilled at acting confident.
Sometimes rock stars get confused with leaders, who are necessary and good. What’s the difference between a rock star and a leader? We like the term “servant-leader” as a reminder that the ultimate purpose of a good leader is to serve the mission of their organization (though this feminist critique of the language around servant-leadership is worth reading). Having personal name recognition and the trust and support of many people is part of being an effective leader. This is different from the kind of uncritical worship that a rock star seeks out and encourages. Leaders push back when the adoration gets too strong and disconnected from achieving the mission (here is a great example from Anil Dash, pushing back after being held up as an example of positive ally for women in tech). Rock stars aren’t happy unless they are surrounded by unthinking adoration.
How do we as a community prevent rock stars?
If rock stars are the problem, and humans are susceptible to rock stars, how do we prevent rock stars from taking over and hijacking our organizations and movements? It turns out that some fairly simple and basic community hygiene is poisonous to rock stars – and makes a more enjoyable, inclusive, and welcoming environment for plumbers.
Our recommendations can be summarized as: decentralizing points of failure, increasing transparency, improving accountability, supporting private and anonymous communication, reducing power differentials, and avoiding situations that make violating boundaries more likely. This is a long blog post, so here is a table of contents for the rest of this post:
Have explicit rules for conduct and enforce them for everyone
Start with the assumption that harassment reports are true and investigate them thoroughly
Make it easy for victims to find and coordinate with each other
Watch for smaller signs of boundary pushing and react strongly
Call people out for monopolizing attention and credit
Insist on building a “deep bench” of talent at every level of your organization
Flatten the organizational hierarchy as much as possible
Build in checks for “failing up”
Enforce strict policies around sexual or romantic relationships within power structures
Avoid organizations becoming too central to people’s lives
Distribute the “keys to the kingdom”
Don’t create environments that make boundary violations more likely
Putting this to work in your community
Create a strong, specific, enforceable code of conduct for your organization – and enforce it, swiftly and without regard for the status of the accused violator. Rock stars get a kick out of breaking the rules, but leaders know they are also role models, and scrupulously adhere to rules except when there’s no alternative way to achieve the right thing. Rock stars also know that when they publicly break the little rules and no one calls them out on it, they are sending a message that they can also break the big rules and get away with it.
One of the authors of this post believed every first-person allegation of abuse and assault by Jacob Appelbaum – including the anonymous ones – immediately. Why? Among many other signs, she saw him break different, smaller rules in a way that showed his complete and total disregard for other people’s time, work, and feelings – and everyone supported him doing so. For example, she once attended a series of five minute lightning talks at the Noisebridge hackerspace, where speakers sign up in advance. Jacob arrived unannounced and jumped in after the first couple of talks with a forty-five minute long boring rambling slideshow about a recent trip he took. The person running the talks – someone with considerable power and influence in the same community – rolled his eyes but let Jacob talk for nine times the length of other speakers. The message was clear: rules don’t apply to Jacob, and even powerful people were afraid to cross him.
This kind of blatant disregard for the rules and the value of people’s time was so common that people had a name for it: “story time with Jake,” as described in Phoenix’s pseudonymous allegation of sexual harassment. Besides the direct harm, dysfunction, and disrespect this kind of rule-breaking and rudeness causes, when you allow people to get away with it, you’re sending a message that they can get away with outright harassment and assault too.
To solve this, create and adopt a specific, enforceable code of conduct for your community. Select a small expert group of people to enforce it, with provisions for what to do if one of this group is accused of harassment. Set deadlines for responding to complaints. Conduct the majority of discussion about the report in private to avoid re-traumatizing victims. Don’t make exceptions for people who are “too valuable.” If people make the argument that some people are too valuable to censure for violating the code of conduct, remove them from decision-making positions. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you are asking yourself if someone’s benefits outweigh their liabilities, recognize that they’ve already cost the community more than they can ever give to it and get to work on ejecting them quickly.
Over more than a decade of studying reports of harassment and assault in tech communities, we’ve noticed a trend: if things have gotten to the point where you’ve heard about an incident, it’s almost always just the tip of the iceberg. People argue a lot about whether to take one person’s word (the alleged victim) over another’s (the alleged harasser), but surprisingly often, this was not the first time the harasser did something harmful and it’s more likely a “one person said, a dozen other people said” situation. Think about it: what are the chances that someone had a perfect record of behavior, right up till the instant they stuck their hand in someone else’s underwear without consent – and that person actually complained about it – AND you heard about it? It’s far more likely that this person has been gradually ramping up their bad behavior for years and you just haven’t heard about it till now.
The vast majority of cases we know about fit one of these two patterns:
A clueless person makes a few innocent, low-level mistakes and actually gets called on one of them fairly quickly. Signs that this is the likely case: the actual incident is extremely easy to explain as a mistake, the accused quickly understands what they did wrong, they appear genuinely, intensely embarrassed, they apologize profusely, and they offer a bunch of ways to make up for their mistake: asking the video of their talk to be taken down, writing a public apology explaining why what they did was harmful, or proposing that they stop attending the event for some period of time.
A person who enjoys trampling on the boundaries of others has been behaving badly for a long time in a variety of ways, but everyone has been too afraid to say anything about it or do anything about other reports. Signs that this is the likely case: the reporter is afraid of retaliation and may try to stay anonymous, other people are afraid to talk about the incident for the same reason, the reported incident may be fairly extreme (e.g., physical assault with no question that consent was violated), many people are not surprised when they hear about it, you quickly gather other reports of harassment or assault of varying levels, the accused has plagiarized or stolen credit or falsified expense reports or done other ethically questionable things, the accused has consolidated a lot of power and attacks anyone who seems to be a challenge to their power, the accused tries to change the subject to their own grievances or suffering, the accused admits they did it but minimizes the incident, or the accused personally attacks the reporter using respectability politics or tone-policing.
In either case, your job is to investigate the long-term behavior of the accused, looking for signs of narcissism and cruelty, big and small. Rock stars leave behind a long trail of nasty emails, stolen credit, rude behavior, and unethical acts big and small. Go look for them.
Rock stars will often make it difficult for people to talk or communicate without being surveilled or tracked by the rock star or their assistants, because private or anonymous communication allows people to compare their experiences and build effective resistance movements. To fight this, encourage and support private affinity groups for marginalized groups (especially people who identify as women in a way that is significant to them), create formal systems that allow for anonymous or pseudonymous reporting such as an ombudsperson or third-party ethics hotline, support and promote people who are trusted contact points and/or advocates for marginalized groups, and reward people for raising difficult but necessary problems.
Sometimes rock stars don’t outright break the rules, they just push on boundaries repeatedly, trying to figure out exactly how far they can go and get away with it, or make it so exhausting to have boundaries that people stop defending them. For example, they might take a little too much credit for shared work or other people’s work, constantly bring up the most disturbing but socially acceptable topic of conversation, resist de-escalation of verbal conflict, subtly criticize people, make passive-aggressive comments on the mailing list, leave comments that are almost but not quite against the rules, stand just a little too close to people on purpose, lightly touch people and ignore non-verbal cues to stop (but obey explicit verbal requests… usually), make comments which subtly establish themselves as superior or judges of others, interrupt in meetings, make small verbal put-downs, or physically turn away from people while they are speaking. Rock stars feel entitled to other people’s time, work, and bodies – signs of entitlement to one of these are often signs of entitlement to the others.
Is there someone in your organization who jumps on every chance to talk to a reporter? Do they attend every conference they can and speak at many of them? Do they brag about their frequent flyer miles or other forms of status? Do they jump on every project that seems likely to be high visibility? Do they “cookie-lick” – claim ownership of projects but fail to do them and prevent others from doing them either? If you see this happening, speak up: say, “Hey, we need to spread out the public recognition for this work among more people. Let’s send Leslie to that conference instead.” Insist that this person credit other folks (by name or anonymously, as possible) prominently and up front in every blog post or magazine article or talk. Establish a rotation for speaking to reporters as a named source. Take away projects from people if they aren’t doing them, no matter how sad or upset it makes them. Insist on distributing high status projects more evenly.
A negative organizational pattern that superficially resembles this kind of call-out can sometimes happen, where people who are jealous of others’ accomplishments and successes may attack effective, non-rock star leaders. Signs of this situation: people who do good, concrete, specific work are being called out for accepting appropriate levels of public recognition and credit by people who themselves don’t follow through on promises, fail at tasks through haplessness or inattention, or communicate ineffectively. Complaints about effective leaders may take the form of “I deserve this award for reasons even though I’ve done relatively little work” instead of “For the good of the organization, we should encourage spreading out the credit among the people who are doing the work – let’s talk about who they are.” People complaining may occasionally make minor verbal slips that reveal their own sense of entitlement to rewards and praise based on potential rather than accomplishments – e.g., referring to “my project” instead of “our project.”
Your organization should never have a single irreplaceable person – it should have a deep bench. Sometimes this happens through a misplaced sense of excessive responsibility on the part of a non-abusive leader, but often it happens through deliberate effort from a “rock star.” To prevent this, constantly develop and build up a significant number of leaders at every level of your organization, especially near the top. You can do this by looking for new, less established speakers (keynote speakers in particular) at your events, paying for leadership training, creating official deputies for key positions, encouraging leaders to take ample vacation and not check email (or chat) while they are gone, having at least two people talk to each journalist, conducting yearly succession planning meetings, choosing board members who have strong opinions about this topic and a track record of acting on them, having some level of change or turnover every few years in key leadership positions, documenting and automating key tasks as much as possible, sharing knowledge as much as possible, and creating support structures that allow people from marginalized groups to take on public roles knowing they will have support if they are harassed. And if you need one more reason to encourage vacation, it is often an effective way to uncover financial fraud (one reason why abusive leaders often resist taking vacation – they can’t keep an eye on potential exposure of their misdeeds).
Total absence of hierarchy is neither possible nor desirable, since “abolishing” a hierarchy simply drives the hierarchy underground and makes it impossible to critique (but see also the anarchist critique of this concept). Keeping the hierarchy explicit and making it as flat and transparent as possible while still reflecting true power relationships is both achievable and desirable. Ways to implement this: have as small a difference as possible in “perks” between levels (e.g., base decisions on flying business class vs. economy on amount of travel and employee needs, rather than position in the organization), give people ways to blow the whistle on people who have power over them (including channels to do this anonymously if necessary), and have transparent criteria for responsibilities and compensation (if applicable) that go with particular positions.
Sometimes, someone gets into a position of power not because they are actually good at their job, but because they turned in a mediocre performance in a field where people tend to choose people with proven mediocre talent over people who haven’t had a chance to demonstrate their talent (or lack thereof). This is called “failing up” and can turn otherwise reasonable people into rock stars as they desperately try to conceal their lack of expertise by attacking any competition and hogging attention. Or sometimes no one wants to take the hit for firing someone who isn’t capable of doing a good job, and they end up getting promoted through sheer tenacity and persistence. The solution is to have concrete criteria for performance, and a process for fairly evaluating a person’s performance and getting them to leave that position if they aren’t doing a good job.
Rock stars love “dating” people they have power over because it makes it easier to abuse or assault them and get away with it. Whenever we hear about an organization that has lots of people dating people in their reporting chain, it raises an automatic red flag for increased likelihood of abuse in that organization. Overall, the approach that has the fewest downsides is to establish a policy that no one can date within their reporting chain or across major differences in power, that romantic relationships need to be disclosed, and that if anyone forms a relationship with someone in the same reporting chain, the participants need to move around the organization until they no longer share a reporting chain. Yes, this means that if the CEO or Executive Director of an organization starts a relationship with anyone else in the organization, at least one of them needs to leave the organization, or take on some form of detached duty for the duration of the CEO/ED’s tenure. When it comes to informal power relationships, such as students dating prominent professors in their fields, they also need to be forbidden or strongly discouraged. These kinds of policies are extremely unattractive to a rock star, because part of the attraction of power for them is wielding it over romantic or sexual prospects.
Having a reasonable work-life balance isn’t just an ethical imperative for any organization that values social justice, it’s also a safety mechanism so that if someone is forced to leave, needs to leave, or needs to take a step back, they can do so without destroying their entire support system. Rock stars will often insist on subordinates giving 100% of their available energy and time to the “cause” because it isolates them from other support networks and makes them more dependent on the rock star.
Don’t set up your community so that if someone has a breach with your community (e.g., is targeted for sustained harassment that drives them out), they are likely to also lose more than one of: their job, their career, their romantic relationships, their circle of friends, or their political allies. Encouraging and enabling people to have social interaction and support outside your organization or cause will also make it easier to, when necessary, exclude people behaving abusively or not contributing because you won’t need to worry that you’re cutting them off from all meaningful work or human contact.
You should discourage things like: semi-compulsory after hours socialising with colleagues, long work hours, lots of travel, people spending almost all their “intimacy points” or emotional labour on fellow community members, lots of in-group romantic relationships, everyone employs each other, or everyone is on everyone else’s boards. Duplication of effort (e.g., multiple activist orgs in the same area, multiple mailing lists, or whatever) is often seen as a waste, but it can be a powerfully positive force for allowing people some choice of colleagues.
Signs of a rock star (or occasionally a covert narcissist) may include insisting on being the single point of failure for one or more of: your technical infrastructure (e.g., domain name registration or website), your communication channels, your relationship with your meeting host or landlord, your primary source of funding, your relationship with the cops, etc. This increases the rock star’s power and control over the organization.
To prevent this, identify core resources, make sure two or more people can access/administer all of them, and make sure you have a plan for friendly but sudden, unexplained, or hostile departures of those people. Where possible, spend money (or another resource that your group can collectively offer) rather than relying on a single person’s largesse, specialized skills, or complex network of favours owed. Do things legally where reasonably possible. Try to be independent of any one critical external source of funding or resources. If there’s a particularly strong relationship between one group member and an external funder, advisor, or key organization, institutionalize it: document it, and introduce others into the relationship.
One exception is that it’s normal for contact with the press to be filtered or approved by a single point of contact within the organization (who should have a deputy). However, it should be possible to talk to the press as an individual (i.e., not representing your organization) and anonymously in cases of internal organizational abuse. At the same time, your organization should have a strong whistleblower protection policy – and board members with a strong public commitment and/or a track record of supporting whistleblowers in their own organizations.
Some situations are attractive to rock stars looking to abuse people: sexualized situations, normalization of drinking or taking drugs to the point of being unable to consent or enforce boundaries, or other methods of breaking down or violating physical or emotional boundaries. This can look like: acceptance of sexual jokes at work, frequent sexual liaisons between organization members, mocking people for not being “cool” for objecting to talking about sex at work, framing objection to sexualized situations as being homophobic/anti-polyamorous/anti-kink, open bars with hard alcohol or no limit on drinks, making it acceptable to pressure people to drink more alcohol than they want or violate other personal boundaries (food restrictions, etc.), normalizing taking drugs in ways that make it difficult to stay conscious or defend boundaries, requiring attendance at physically isolated or remote events, having events where it is difficult to communicate with the outside world (no phone service or Internet access), having events where people wear significantly less or no clothing (e.g. pool parties, saunas, hot tubs), or activities that require physical touching (massage, trust falls, ropes courses). It’s a bad sign if anyone objecting to these kinds of activities is criticized for being too uptight, puritanical, from a particular cultural background, etc.
Your organization should completely steer away from group activities which pressure people, implicitly or explicitly, to drink alcohol, take drugs, take off more clothing than is usual for professional settings in the relevant cultures, or touch or be touched. Drunkenness to the point of marked clumsiness, slurred speech, or blacking out should be absolutely unacceptable at the level of organizational culture. Anyone who seems to be unable to care for themselves as the result of alcohol or drug use should be immediately cared for by pre-selected people whose are explicitly charged with preventing this person from being assaulted (especially since they may have been deliberately drugged by someone planning to assault them). For tips on serving alcohol in a way that greatly reduces the chance of assault or abuse, see Kara Sowles’ excellent article on inclusive events. You can also check out the article on inclusive offsites on the Geek Feminism Wiki.
actually feeling physically sick now, just thinking about what Jake did to people. we waited too long to do something about it.
yan (@bcrypt) June 15, 2016
We waited too long to do something about it.
Odds are, your community already has a “missing stair” or three – even if you’ve just kicked one out. They are harming and damaging your community right now. If you have power or influence or privilege, it’s your ethical responsibility to take personal action to limit the harm that they are causing. This may mean firing or demoting them; it may mean sanctioning or “managing them out.” But if you care about making the world a better place, you must act.
If you don’t have power or influence or privilege, think carefully before taking any action that could harm you more and seriously consider asking other folks with more protection to take action instead. Their response is a powerful litmus test of their values. If no one is willing to take this on for you, your only option may be leaving and finding a different organization or community to join. We have been in this position – of being powerless against rock stars – and it is heartbreaking and devastating to give up on a cause, community, or organization that you care about. We have all mourned the spaces that we have left when they have become unlivable because of abuse. But leaving is still often the right choice when those with power choose not to use it to keep others safe from abuse.
While we are not asking people to “cosign” this post, we want this to be part of a larger conversation on building abuse-resistant organizations and communities. We invite others to reflect on what we have written here, and to write their own reflections. If you would like us to list your reflection in this post, please leave a comment or email us a link, your name or pseudonym, and any affiliation you wish for us to include, and we will consider listing it. We particularly invite survivors of intimate partner violence in activist communities, survivors of workplace harassment and violence, and people facing intersectional oppressions to participate in the conversation.
2016-06-21: The “new girl” effect by Lex Gill, technology law researcher & activist
2016-06-21: Patching exploitable communities by Tom Lowenthal, security technologist and privacy activist
2016-06-22: Tyranny of Structurelessness? by Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist who has studied hacker communities
We would prefer that people not contact us to disclose their own stories of mistreatment. But know this: we believe you. If you need emotional support, please reach out to people close to you, a counselor in your area, or to the trained folks at RAINN or Crisis Text Line.
This post was written by Valerie Aurora (@vaurorapub), Mary Gardiner (@me_gardiner), and Leigh Honeywell (@hypatiadotca), with grateful thanks for comments and suggestions from many anonymous reviewers.
Posted on January 15, 2016 August 23, 2016
The 92nd Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome! This post is the 92nd monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2015 writing of feminist interest by writers living in Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to all the writers and submitters for making this carnival enraging, sorrowful, celebratory, and joyous in different ways and at different times.
Highlighted new(er) Down Under voices
I’ve highlighted posts that come from people who began been writing at their current home in 2015, such posts are marked with (new in 2015) after the link.
This carnival observes the rule that each writer may feature at most twice.
Race, ethnicity and racism
Celeste Liddle was angry that Andrew Bolt of all people will be centered by the ABC in the constitutional recognition of indigeonous people debate.
The inquest into the August 2014 death of Ms Dhu in custody in continued in early December (now to resume in March). December writing about Ms Dhu’s death and the inquest included:
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, Campaign update
Ruth Barson, Ms Dhu inquest: Western Australia must come to terms with some hard truths
Sam Connor, Wirla
Paddy Gibson, Inquest exposes brutal police contempt that killed Ms Dhu
Kelly Somers, Nobody cares
Stephanie explored peak white person in travel writing about drug tourism to Colombia.
Australian feminist bike zine 3rd Gear launched, with Issue #1 available and Issue #2 calling for submissions (new in 2015).
Catherine Womack swam at McIver’s Baths in Sydney; a women-and-children space.
Ashleigh Witt asked why private health insurers in Australia won’t pay for contraception?
Jo Tamar detected classist overtones in the reporting of bulk-billed IVF treatment in Australia.
Kath asked for marketing of plus-sized clothes that is unashamed and aspirational, using models in the size range of the clothes.
Rebecca shared educational information about breast cancer after another treatment.
Stephanie made fun of the silly IBM #hackahairdryer campaign.
Deborah observed that there are more men named David running NZX-listed firms than there are women.
Harassment and abuse
Brydie Lee-Kennedy discussed her experience in the Australian comedy community as a domestic abuse survivor.
On December 1, Clementine Ford shared abusive messages she’s received online. In the followup Kerri Sackville kicked off a Twitter campaign sharing the names of men who send abusive messages on the #EndViolenceAgainstWomen hashtag. Other writeups include:
Libby-Jane Charleston, End Violence Against Women: Name And Shame Abusive Men on Twitter
Leena, Why Courageous Jack Kilbride Is Not The Answer
Pip Lincolne, End Violence Against Women
megpie71, In Response to the Furore re: Clementine Ford
No Place For Sheep, Naming and shaming
Kellie Scott, #EndViolenceAgainstWomen: Secret Facebook group names men it says troll women online
Rebecca Shaw, Why the world needs a secret underground female mafia
Clementine Ford, Van Badham, Lou Heinrich and Hoyden‘s own Viv Smythe spoke to Tanya Ashworth about optimism in the face of online abuse and Viv followed up about her feminist burnout.
Lauredhel invited people to resolve to oppose rape culture in 2016.
Deborah Russell condemned NZ PM John Key’s participation in a prison rape joke.
Emily wrote about the myth of “spoiling” children by being kind and compassionate (new in 2015).
Celeste Liddle celebrated seven years of singledom.
Jo Qualmann reflected on her experiences being aromantic and asexual in a relationship.
Sky Croeser collected intersectional and anti-capitalist resources on solidarity and healing.
Doctor Who Season 9 wrapped up and Liz Barr mostly but not entirely liked the final three episodes.
Daily Life announced their Women of the Year finalists, with the eventual awardee being Australian Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs.
Scarlett Harris looked at women’s friendships in two media phenomenons: Taylor Swift’s performed-friendships and in Grey’s Anatomy.
Ju wrapped up her 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge reading and reviewing.
Anna Kamaralli drew out less-recognised abusive parenting themes in King Lear.
2015 retrospectives included: Emily (new in 2015), A.C. Buchanan, Avril E Jean, and Rebecca.
Blogs and sites started in 2015 featured in this carnival were:
3rd Gear, edited by Danni
Mama Said, by Emily
Next carnival
The 93rd carnival will follow at Zero at the Bone. Submissions to chally.zeroatthebone [at] gmail [dot] com by 2nd February 2016.
Volunteers are needed to host carnivals from April onwards. Volunteer via the contact form.
Quick link: decriminalise abortion in NSW
In 2013 and 2014 there was a push to introduce legislation which incorporated fetal personhood into law in NSW: Crimes Amendment (Zoe’s Law) Bill (No. 2) 2013. See for example Julie Hamblin’s commentary at the time on how such legislation could be used to further restrict access to abortion in NSW, even when the stated purpose is to allow for abusive violence to fetuses to be punished. The bill passed the Lower House of NSW Parliament but was never put to the Upper House, and thus lapsed in November 2014 when the 55th Parliament ended. It never became law.
Leslie Cannold, speaking to a Greens forum in September 2013 (video here, not subtitled) called on NSW to not only fight a rear-guard action in defending pregnant people seeking abortions from further rights being granted to fetuses, but to follow Victoria (and later Tasmania) in decriminalising abortion entirely. And now Greens MLC Dr Mehreen Faruqi, is campaigning for the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW. Here are some of the facts about abortion access in NSW her flyer gives:
The laws surrounding access to abortion in NSW are very confusing. Abortion is currently in the Crimes Act (Sections 82-84), although court decisions have established that abortion will not be unlawful if a doctor reasonably believes it is necessary to save the woman from serious danger to her life, or mental or physical health[…]
In NSW, an abortion is unlawful unless a doctor deems that a woman’s physical, psychological and/or mental health is in serious danger. The criterion of ‘mental health’ can include economic and/or social factors[…]
Any amendments to the Crimes Act, such as those proposed by supporters of foetal personhood laws risks changing that interpretation. By removing abortion from the Crimes Act, it will no longer be a criminal offence and women and their doctors will no longer have to rely on the interpretation of the law by a court in each case in order to avoid criminal liability.
Learn more about the campaign at the Decriminalise Abortion page on Faruqi’s website. You can help by signing the online petition in support of decriminalisation or collecting signatures offline.
Featured image credit:
Pro_Choice_March-Texas_State_Capitol-2013_07_01-9378.jpg by ann harkness on Flickr.
Blogging for Geek Feminism, a short history
With yesterday’s release of Spam All the Links, I’ve finished my long awaited project of departing the Geek Feminism blog.
I was involved in the blog on, if not from the first day of its existence, at least from the first week of it. My involvement in the blog was huge, and comprises among other things:
over 200 posts to the blog
founding and for a long time running the Ask a Geek Feminist, Wednesday Geek Woman and Cookie of the Week series
doing a linkspam post by myself multiple times a week for about a year
recruiting the initial team of Linkspammers and setting up their manual, mailing list and of course, the script that supports them
recruiting several other bloggers, including Tim, Restructure! and Courtney S
a bunch of sysadmin of the self-hosted WordPress install (it’s now hosted on WordPress.com)
My leaving the blog is delayed news. I initially told the co-bloggers I was leaving close to a year ago now (mid-August, if I’d waited much longer on writing this I could have posted on the one year anniversary), because my output had dried up. I feel in large part that what happened was that I spent about ten years in geekdom (1999–2009) accumulating about three years of material for the blog, and then I ran out of things to write about there. I also have two more children and one more business than I had when I was first writing for it, and, very crucially, one less unfinished PhD to avoid. But I had a handover todo list to plod my way through, and Spam All the Links was the last item on it!
I remain involved in Geek Feminism as an administrator on the Geek Feminism wiki, on which I had about 25% of total edits last I looked, although the same sense of being a dry well is there too.
The blog was obviously hugely important for me, both as an outlet for that ten years of pent up opinionating and, to my surprise, because I ended up moving into the space professionally. I’m glad I did it.
Today, I would say these are my five favourite posts I made to the blog:
“Girl stuff” in Free Software, August 2009 (original link):
Terri mention[ed] that she had resisted at times working on things perceived as ‘girl stuff’. In Free Software this includes but is not limited to documentation, usability research, community management and (somewhat unusually for wider society) sometimes management in general. The audience immediately hit on it, and it swirled around me all week.
Why we document, August 2009 (original link):
I do not in fact find writing the wiki documentation of incidents in geekdom very satisfying. The comment linked at the beginning of the post compared the descriptions to a rope tying geekdom to the past. Sometimes being known as a wiki editor and pursued around IRC with endless links to yet another anonymous commenter or well-known developer advising women to shut up and take it and write some damned code anyway is like a rope tying me to the bottom of the ocean.
But what makes it worth it for me is that when people are scratching their heads over why women would avoid such a revolutionarily free environment like Free Software development, did maybe something bad actually happen, that women have answers.
(I’d be very interested in other people’s takes on this in 2015, which is a very different landscape in terms of the visibility of geek sexism than 2009 was.)
Why don’t you just hit him?, December 2010 (original link):
This is the kind of advice given by people who don’t actually want to help. Or perhaps don’t know how they can. It’s like if you’re a parent of a bullying victim, and you find yourself repeating “ignore it”, “fight back with fists” or whatever fairly useless advice you yourself were once on the receiving end of. It’s expressing at best helplessness, and at worst victim-blaming. It’s personalising a cultural problem.
You are not helpless in the face of harassment. Call for policies, implement policies, call out harassment when you overhear it, or report it. Stand with people who discuss their experiences publicly.
Anti-pseudonym bingo, July 2011 (original link):
Let’s recap really quickly: wanting to and being able to use your legal name everywhere is associated with privilege. Non-exhaustive list of reasons you might not want to use it on social networks: everyone knows you by a nickname; you want everyone to know you by a nickname; you’re experimenting with changing some aspect of your identity online before you do it elsewhere; online circles are the only place it’s safe to express some aspect of your identity, ever; your legal name marks you as a member of a group disproportionately targeted for harassment; you want to say things or make connections that you don’t want to share with colleagues, family or bosses; you hate your legal name because it is shared with an abusive family member; your legal name doesn’t match your gender identity; you want to participate in a social network as a fictional character; the mere thought of your stalker seeing even your locked down profile makes you sick; you want to create a special-purpose account; you’re an activist wanting to share information but will be in danger if identified; your legal name is imposed by a legal system that doesn’t match your culture… you know, stuff that only affects a really teeny minority numerically, and only a little bit, you know?
But I’m mostly listing it here because I always have fun with the design of my bingo cards. (This was my first time, Sexist joke bingo is better looking.)
I take it we aren’t cute enough for you?, August 2012 (original link):
… why girls? Why do we not have 170 comments on our blog reaching out to women who are frustrated with geekdom? I want to get this out in the open: people love to support geek girls, they are considerably more ambivalent about supporting geek women.
The one I’m still astonished I had time for was transcribing the entire Doubleclicks “Nothing to Prove” video. 2013? I don’t remember having that kind of time in 2013!
Thanks to my many co-bloggers over the five years I was a varyingly active blogger at Geek Feminism. I may be done, at least for a time and perhaps in that format, but here’s to a new generation of geek feminist writers joining the existing one!
from an image by Susanne Nilsson, CC BY-SA
Image credit: Cheers! by Susanne Nilsson, Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike. The version used in this post was cropped and colour adjusted by Mary.
Posted on December 11, 2014 August 23, 2016
The 79th Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome! This post is the 79th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together November 2014 writing of feminist interest by writers living in Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to all the writers and submitters for making this carnival outstanding, amazing, sad, outraging and uplifting.
I’ve highlighted posts that come from people who began been writing at their current home in 2014, such posts are marked with (new site) after the link. Hopefully this will be a quick guide to sites you may not be following yet.
Also, this carnival (broadly…) observes the rule that each writer may feature at most twice.
Feminist identities and practices
Kelly Briggs explained how her intersectional feminism supports Aboriginal women:
Critique of pop culture does nothing for me and my sisters. It does nothing to aid in our struggle to be seen as equal, which is why I stick to critiquing the policies of governments that use black women as whipping posts… At my last reading of the statistics surrounding this heinous human rights violation [the intervention] incarceration rates have more than doubled, self harm rates have more than doubled, suicide rates are at unprecedented epidemic proportions and forced rehab is nothing short of criminal. WHERE ARE THE FUCKING FEMINISTS?
Catherine Deveny republished her Destroy the Joint piece Feminism in Twelve Easy Lessons.
Tulia Thompson explored the limits of conceiving of bargains with hetero-patriarchal culture as an individual choice.
Kelly Briggs wrote about racism and resulting self-harm and she and Christine Donayre wrote about Aboriginal deaths in custody and how they seem invisible to Australians (new site) compared to police killings of black people in the US. Kelly was also interviewed by Saffron Howden about racist barriers to accommodation and employment for Aboriginal people.
Celeste Liddle listed terrible failures of top-down approaches to Indigenous safety and wellbeing.
Ruby Hamad asked why Australian media continually assembles panels full of white people to discuss race issues and non-white people and communities? She also recounted how she and other people of colour are commonly dismissed as having a lower bar for their work.
Jessica Hammond took us on a pictorial tour of the truth of her body. (new site)
Kath at Fat Heffalump described the double-bind of fat women’s sexuality.
Jes Baker asked why the hourglass figure is the only version of plus size that we see?
Tracey Spicer showed us how she uses makeup, how she looks without makeup, and how various pressures changed her makeup use during her career.
Some of what were to be Stella Young’s last pieces appeared in November:
Dying with dignity: let’s focus more on the latter
Abuse in the disability sector has been exposed
Danielle Binks discussed differing portrayals of Deafness in Young Adult fiction.
El Gibbs explored other people’s attitudes to disability, and how it’s those that make disability hard.
Carly Findlay wrote about unsolicited comments and advice in the workplace about both disability and appearance. She also debunked claims that autoimmune illnesses are caused by “self-hatred” and cured by “self-love”.
Kathy writes through the five stages of chronic illness (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance).
In the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook coming out, Rebecca Shaw argues that coming out is still important and heroic.
Jem Yoshioka explored the alignment between activist organisations in the technical community with misogynists and abusers such as Julian Assange and weev. (new site)
Jo Qualmann asked why rape is tolerated as a subject of “masterpieces” of Western fine art?
Roger Sutton, chief of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, resigned after allegations of sexual harassment. Writings included:
Anjum Rahman on media commentary that portrayed him as the victim and how to respond when a friend is accused of abuses
Andrea Vance on how the State Services Commission failed his victim
Luddite Journo with some helpful tips for Sutton about workplace behaviour
Scuba Nurse with a debunking of defenses of “he’s just touchy-feely”
Jenna Price reported on the Australian government denying responsibility for violence against women in a report to the UN.
Deborah Russell highlighted the many chilling aspects of the Roastbusters ongoing rape scandal in Auckland, including police failures.
Ada Conroy talked about her work as a men’s behavioural change practitioner.
Jane Gilmore debunked claims that women are as likely to commit violence as men and observes that offender demographics are far harder to access than victim demographics. Jennifer Wilson followed up urging men to stop feeling unfairly attacked.
Lisa Pryor wrote a column about surviving medical school and mothering with the help of caffeine and antidepressants. Former federal Australian Labor Party leader Mark Latham responded in the Australian Financial Review with commentary (which I’m not going to link) called “Why left feminists don’t like kids”. Criticism of Latham’s piece included:
Georgina Dent: Mark Latham needs to take mental illness seriously and Mark Latham gets front page billing and Lisa Pryor gets no apology
Janice Reid: Where Mark Latham got it wrong on mothers
Amy Gray: Mark Latham read my mind. Of course I hate my daughter – I’m a feminist
Susie O’Brien: Mark Latham’s bizarre attack shows hatred of women
Liz Conor: Mark’s categorical stupidity explains why left feminists don’t like Latham
Penni Russon talked with her daughter Una about time travel, women heroes, and community.
Andie Fox told her story of hiding her caring responsibilities while proving herself at a new job as part of the broader picture of women’s caring responsibilities and workplace roles.
Camilla Nelson followed up some October pieces in counting how many of the various states’ English curricula texts are by men.
Clementine Ford wondered what would an anti-sexism school curriculum look like?
Sharon Smith attended PAX Australia and found that the Australian gaming community proved that it was not GamerGate.
Danielle Binks remembered Heartbreak High, including its exploration of gender and racial politics, and the role of public broadcasters in creating diverse programming.
Scarlett Harris explored feminist themes in the musical Wicked and anti-feminist themes in Gone Girl.
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As a few people already wrote in the Welcome back thread, Australian writer, comedian and disability activist Stella Young died suddenly on Saturday, December 6.
I didn’t know Stella in person; I knew her work mostly for her writings on ABC’s Ramp Up, but the many other places she appeared as a performer, speaker and writer included TEDx Sydney, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Global Atheist Convention. You’re welcome to link your favourite appearances and pieces in comments.
I loved Stella’s writing, and I’m really sad. I wish 80-year-old Stella had got to read the letter. Goodbye Stella.
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Call for Submissions: Seventy-Ninth Edition @ Hoyden About Town
I’m the next host of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! Here’s the call for submissions:
The next edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is planned for 5 December, 2014 and will be hosted by Mary at Hoyden About Town or perhaps puzzling.org, as circumstances permit. Submissions to mary-carnival [at] puzzling [dot] org.
Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in November. Submissions are due on 2 December at the latest, but it’ll be easier on Mary if you submit sooner rather than later. So submit early and often, please, and spread the word!
Submit away, please!
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Foul ball hits little boy at Indianapolis Indians game, raises concerns about ballpark safety
Posted 1:28 PM, June 3, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
INDIANAPOLIS — It was chaos at a ballpark after a foul ball went into the stands, striking a little boy in the face.
The Lipscomb family told WXIN there were many foul balls at Saturday night’s game, but they never expected what would happen at the top of the third inning.
"All of a sudden his head back, and then I seen his mom kind of go too. And then you see the crowd kind of erupt down in that area. And I [saw] the dad come in and pick him up, but I didn't see him talking or crying. They carried him up into the pavilion. Then a couple of minutes later I could hear him screaming," said Tonya Lipscomb, who was sitting just feet away when the ball came into the stands.
“In that moment it was pure silence. And as a parent, it was instantly you were just like feeling what those parents were feeling. It was horrifying, it was traumatizing and scary,” she said.
Many spectators were eager to learn if the little boy was OK. The batter, Gwinnett Striper Ryan LaMarre, was also distraught, taking a knee in the batter's box. The screams from the young boy left many concerned down the first baseline.
“To be honest with you, I didn’t want to look. As we were going around, there was staff that was kind of blocking him off. But I did see his little arm, and it had blood on it, so I did see that. But I just couldn’t get myself to look. I just didn’t want to see,” Lipscomb said.
Spectators were unsure if LaMarre could finish the game. Last week in Houston, a similar incident happened with Chicago Cubs batter Albert Almora Jr. when a little girl was hit in the face.
These incidents are sparking a broader conversation about safety at the parks. A few years ago, the Indians extended their netting to both dugouts. But Lipscomb wonders if that’s enough.
“I don’t feel personally like it is the spectator’s job to worry about safety at these events. Of course, we take extra precautions, but I can’t educate a 3-year-old on how to watch out for a fastball. I mean even if a fastball were coming at me as an adult, how am I supposed to protect myself from that?”
The Indians released a statement saying, “Tonight a young fan was struck by a foul ball along the first base line. Onsite EMT personnel provided treatment at the stadium, and the fan was transported to the hospital. We are not able to disclose further details at this time. Our thoughts are with the entire family.”
Lipscomb said she and her family left immediately after, out of fear for her two boys, ages 3 and 13. But the little boy’s cry for help continues to repeat itself.
“We’ve been praying, and I hope that he’s OK,” she said.
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Jeffrey A. Grossman
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Leon de Kock
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Monika Fludernik
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