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About the Woodrow Wilson Foundation - fellowships for international students
Building a Legacy of Excellence
For six decades, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has prepared the nation’s best minds to meet its most important challenfellowships for international students
The Woodrow Wilson Fellowships responded to a shortage of college faculty at the conclusion of World War II by offering talented students the opportunity to attend doctoral programs and begin college teaching careers.
As college enrollments swelled in the latter half of the 20th century, the Woodrow Wilson program trained generations of faculty, creating a well-known fellowship and becoming a hallmark of academic excellence.
Over time, the Foundation’s teaching fellowships and higher education fellowships have evolved to address emerging needs, serve specific populations underrepresented in the academy, strengthen designated fields, and support key stages in professorial careers. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has awarded fellowships to more than 20,000 scholars, who now include 13 Nobel Laureates, two Fields Medalists in mathematics, 14 Pulitzer Prize winners, 35 “genius grant" MacArthur Fellows, two U.S. Poets Laureate, and 21 recipients of Presidential and national medals.
Today, Woodrow Wilson seeks to build upon this legacy of excellence, maintaining its historic commitments and attacking one of the nation’s most urgent contemporary challenges: the pervasive achievement gap between Americans, by race and income.
Using the prestige of our historic fellowships as well as harnessing new resources, the Foundation has created what we hope will be an influential fellowship to recruit exceptionally able men and women to careers in high school teaching. These Fellows, training in exemplary teacher education programs, will be prepared to teach in low-income communities and high-need schools.
Through this work, the Foundation seeks to dignify the teaching profession, encourage the most outstanding students to choose teaching as a career, and improve the quality of teacher education programs. At the same time, the Foundation will engage in initiatives designed to improve teacher education practice and policy.
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Here is a gathering of different physicists research in an effort to explain what the heck is going on with our solar system, and what it means for us.
Chater 8 of "The Divine Cosmos" by David Wilcock: "THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM" - https://goo.gl/WLMvGI
Dr. Paul LaVoilette's Starburst Foundation - https://goo.gl/ObO94G
Simple Essence of Dewey B Larson's Reciprocal System of Physics PDF - https://goo.gl/L0vQM8
Stillness in the Storm: "The Energetic Evolution of The Solar System | At the Earth's Core: The Geophysics of Planetary Evolution" - https://goo.gl/55EPt7
Black Project Insider Daniel's Papers (See: Time and Timelines describing the Ascension process) - https://goo.gl/FhE0Ag
Solar Revolution on Gaia.com (Documentary I am gifting for 48 hours from the time I upload this vid! Watch and share fast!!) - https://give.gaia.com/cj1wux80p000201...
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Best things to do for New Years & New Years Eve in Pasadena
There is nowhere better to celebrate the New Year in Pasadena, CA. After all, Pasadena is home to the Rose Parade and The Rose, the newest and only concert dinner theatre.
1. Norton Simon Museum (Open New Years Eve/ Closed New Years Day).
Norton Simon Museum is one of Pasadena’s most respected and most visited gems with the greatest private collection of rare art on display. Some known artists pieces on display are by Rembrandt, Goya, Degas, Monet, van Gogh, and Picasso. It may seem like a small museum until you are inside. Before you leave, visit the sculpture garden and pond created in the likeness of Monet private garden. For more info, go to https://www.nortonsimon.org
2. Huntington Library (Open daily. Closed on Tuesday)
The Huntington Library is known for its rare Art Collections and their Botanical Gardens and is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington. For more info, go to http://huntington.org/
3. 129th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade (Monday Jan 1, 2018 8am to 4pm)
People from all over the world come to Pasadena on New Years Day to catch the Rose Parade. Instead of watching it on television, come see it in person. There is nothing like it in the Country. People come a day early camp on Colorado Blvd the night before to save a prime seat to the parade. For more info, go to https://www.tournamentofroses.com/events/rose-parade
4. The Rose Bowl: Georgia Bulldogs VS. Oklahoma Sooners (1/1/2018 at 2pm)
The ranked No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs take on ranked No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. For more info, go to https://www.rosebowlstadium.com/
5. Caliburger – One of Pasadena’s newest and most popular burger joints is located across from the Pasadena Convention Center and next to The Rose is Caliburger. This isn’t just any burger. Each burger is hand crafted and made from the freshest ingredients. Be sure to add grilled onions and order their famous “Cali-fries” or some home cut natural fries and a delicious real ice cream shake to wash it down. For more info, go to https://caliburger.com/
6. The Rose:
Voted Best Concert Venue in the 2017 Readers Choice Awards and voted Best Music Venue by residents of Pasadena as seen in Pasadena Weekly, The Rose is Pasadena’s first and only Dinner Theatre style concert venue. This style of venue caters to those that love live music, but want to bring a date or host a party with friends at a sit-down dinner with a show. The Rose has a full American style menu to fulfill anyone’s desire and a full line of cocktails and an array of beers.
The Rose hosts the top local and national headlining bands from across the world. This New Years Eve (Sunday, December 31), Motown favorites, The Dramatics featuring Willie Ford will bring in the New Year in Pasadena. For more information, go to http://wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/rose-pasadena/events/
Labels: Best things to do in Pasadena, caliburger, concert venue, dinner theatre, Huntington library, norton simon museum, Pasadena, rose bowl, rose parade, the dramatics, The Rose
"Cultural Ambassador to The Sunset Strip, WILLIE BASSE RECEIVES PROCLAMATION FROM THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES ON JULY 28, 2017"
WILLIE BASSE, best known for his role as bassist/frontman for legendary metalheads Black Sheep, who were mainstays on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip during the 1980's metal explosion.
The band, best known for their songs, technical prowess and precision, has boasted members that include Slash, Paul Gilbert, James Kottak, Randy Castillo, Mitch Perry and Kurt James.
3pm Friday July 28, 2017 The City of Los Angeles will recognize Willie Basse for his Philanthropy and Community Service by proclamation at:
W. Hollywood, CA. 90069
With his charity, http://RockForRecovery.com
The mission is a campaign of awareness and financial support through Music and Entertainment Media.
Through http://FeedAmerica-Now.org Basse is feeding the masses. His touring covers select cities throughout The USA and Canada to help raise awareness, food and funds for the plight of America's hungry.
These are often hard-working, educated adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends meet and are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days. Predominately children, working poor families, and the recently unemployed.
1in 5 children go to bed hungry every night. "Through music and entertainment, we can make a huge difference in a short amount of time” comments Willie Basse regarding hunger. “I had to step up with solutions to an epidemic that is out of control in our own back-yard."
For more information visit http://rockforrecovery.com a 501C3 Non-Profit Corp and http://www.feedamerica-now.org donations, sponsorship and support is tax deductible.
WILLIE BASSE 213-947-3786
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Basse 🎶
Music: http://artistecard.com/williebasse#!/musics/50726
Facebook: http://facebook.com/pages/williebasse/111912668872815
Twitter: @wbasse
Web Site: http://williebasse.com
Podcast: http://thesunsetstriponline.com
Charity: http://feedamerica-now.org
Skype: loudluv / Willie Basse
National "End Hunger" Hotline: (866) 3-HUNGRY
For all things WILLIE BASSE, download my Smartphone App
iPhone App: https://t.co/KcJv2jB08u
Android App: https://t.co/c1ZS868QXn
Labels: Black sheep, Community Service, entertainment, Media, music, Non-profit-organization, Rock for Recovery, The Rainbow Bar and Grill, willie basse
Tripp Denom Releases New EP “The Funktional Addict”
Get the rolling papers, lighter, and get ready for an experience! On April 21, 2017, rising artist, Tripp O.K.C. feat K-Buck & Captain Atlanta" or “Coupe Life (Smoke & Ride Mix)”. It is very apparent that Tripp Denom has added so much substance into this 7-track collection that "The Funktional Addict” is much more than an EP… It’s a trippy experience. "Stoner Indie" is the self-proclaimed genre in which he operates. His music is a natural blend of Hip-Hop and R&B and Funk with nodes of style from multiple genres. His tracks have a sense of longevity, the type of music that you can keep coming back to and it will mean something different every time.
Denom, will finally release his new smoked-out EP titled "The Funktional Addict”. The EP acts as a platform for Tripp to set himself aside from the pack with his own sound, which he calls Stoner Indie. It is an addictive new genre that draws its influences from hip-hop, funk, and soul music! Within just the 1st few tracks you will learn so much about Tripp as he lures listeners in with his unique sound. Get lost in the soulfulness and supreme dopeness of tracks like, "Bright Lights Fast Living". Or get lost in soothing psychedelic smoker’s anthems like, "
"Stoner Indie" is best described as smooth yet sometimes upbeat music that incorporates stoner culture and life. Not only is Tripp Denom a name, but also a Mantra. It represents that which brings a person joy in life.”
Please follow Tripp Denom growing movement and share!!!
Fans can join Tripp Denom on that hike to success by connecting with him on his social networking, all of which can be found below!
Tripp Denom official site: http://www.trippdenom.com
Tripp Denom on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trippdenom/sets/the-funktional-addict-ep/s-DSBup
Tripp Denom on Twitter: http://twitter.com/trippdenom
Tripp Denom on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trippdenom
Labels: SMHCrew, Stonerindie, Thefunktionaladdictep, trippdenom, USADJs
Pasadena Beatz: Going LOCAL on Thursday Nights
KGUP FM Emerge Radio had a spectacular Red Carpet and Entertainment Networking event on January 26 at The Rose. Immediately following our event, we continued to party with the people at the Golden State Tattoo Expo pre-party. You just never know what will take place during one of our events!
KGUP FM is hosting a new regular event to bring you a night of networking and music together called, Pasadena Beatz. Come join us on March 2nd for the inaugural event featuring the sounds of DJ sensation, Brandi Garcia of KDAY 93.5FM, plus a different local band each and every Thursday night.
And of course, we always roll out the RED CARPET, so dress up...or not, but at least show up!
Oh, yeah! Don't forget to bring plenty of business cards.
Whether you're seeking to promote a new project, promote a new release, hire new talent, seeking employment in the industry, wanting to expand your network, meet new people, or simply need a place to hang out with your friends to hear great new music from up and coming local bands, then this is an event not to miss!
Happy Hour 4-7pm ($3.75 wells + lots of great discounted food)
Red Carpet arrivals 5-8pm
Live Music begins at 7pm (main stage)
FREE to KGUP FM SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.
Note: To qualify for FREE entrance, you MUST RSVP HERE, otherwise the cost is $10.00 in Advance / $20.00 Day Of Show + applicable fees.
ATTENTION LOCAL ARTISTS: WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!
Perform on our 60' x 40' stage with professional sound and lighting at our 1,500 capacity venue. We are looking for local bands to open and headline at future Pasadena Beatz events. To apply, please contact our booking agent at liveunsigned@canyonclub.net. Be sure to email your EPK with links to your social media and live videos.
Note: Selected Artists may be interviewed and featured on the KGUP FM blog and featured on Where Music Meets the Soul. Artists will be promoted on our social media leading up to each show, so the sooner you apply and are approved, the sooner we can promote you!
245 E Green St, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM PST
KGUP FM
info@kgup1065.com
Box Office: 888-645-5006
Labels: brandi garcia, indie artists, KGUP FM, live music, Live Unsigned, networking event, Pasadena Beatz, red carpet event, The Rose
You Own the World: Interview with Gitaron
In 2006, guitarist Giovanni "Gio" Smet formed Gitaron. The concept was clear and simple: creating heavy metal in the purest way, with an innovative vision. No nonsense, just pure headbanging heavy metal.
The band worked on several songs and recorded the first album in the summer of 2007 at 'Midas Studios'. The album called 'The First Battle' and had the following songs on it: 'Enter My Church', 'Excalibur', 'We're Knights', 'Blood On The Wall' and 'Flame Of Hate'. The line-up at that time was: Gio (vocals/guitars), Tom Willems (drums), Aaron Onghena (guitars), Wilfried Vandenberghe (bass) and Femke Waterschoot (backing vocals).
Gitaron had some changes in the line-up, as Aaron Onghena, Tom Willems and Femke Waterschoot left the band. Replacements were found in David Van Gompel (guitars) and Steven Van Dijck (drums). Gio also decided to concentrate on the guitar parts only and Nico De Clerq became the new vocalist.
In 2009, Gitaron recorded another album called 'Mental Visions', again at 'Midas Studios'. The album got great reviews and the band played a promo tour for the new album. Gitaron played shows together with bands such as Mystic Prophecy, Blaze Bayley, Killer, Mother Of Sin, Fireforce,... Shortly after the promo tour, vocalist Nico De Clerq left the band and was replaced by Kevin Andries.
In 2012, three members decided to leave the band. Both drummer Steven Van Dijck and vocalist Kevin Andries moved to Denmark. With both them leaving, guitar player David Van Gompel also made the decision of leaving the band.
After a sabbath year, the band was born again. Guitarist Aaron Onghena re-joined and another
guitarist was found in Philip Pedraza, as Gio became vocalist only. On drums was Jef Boons shortly, as he was replaced by Michael Bauwens. Wilfried Vandenberghe was again the bassplayer for the band. With this formation, Gitaron started to play new shows. At the end of 2014, Gio had the idea of recording a new album along with several national and international guest musicians. Lots of musicians agreed to be a part on it and a special project was born. Sadly, some band members didn't want te be a part of it and only Gio and drummer Michael Bauwens worked on the project. The duo build a home studio and lots of guest musicians came and did there part for the new album, that was given the title 'You Own The World'. The release for the new album is scheduled for late 2016.
How did you start with this project?
Gio: There was always the idea of starting a project with guest musicians. The time was also right to start preparations for a new album, since the 10th anniversary of Gitaron came very close. When there was some disagreement with other band members, the idea of creating the new album with guest musicians was suddenly the right way to go. I made a personal wish list of musicians that inspired my when I was still a teenager and other musicians that I’ve got to know along the way.
Tell us more about the musicians taking part in it.
Gio: The responses I’ve got from everyone were really very positive. Everyone took part of this project with the very best intentions. Musicians like Paul “Shorty” Van Camp” (Killer), Filip “Flype” Lemmens (Fireforce), Mark Van Luijk (Civilian),… are musicians that inspired me since along way back. Other musicians, like Srdjan Brankovic (Alogia, Expedition Delta) and Sten Veiths (Breakfast At Midnight), are very talented guys that I’ve met along the way. I am overjoyed with every single guest appearance on the album.
What’s your working method? How was the songwriting and then the recording process?
Gio: Every song, except “Camelot Rising” and “Feudal Obligation” which are co-written songs, is composed by myself. Most of the guest musicians recorded their bit in our studio. Others recorded their part at home, because the travelling distance was too far. Everything was done with the best communications and planning. The mixing and mastering was also done at the Gitaron Studio.
Every artist has his music influences; which are yours?
Gio: Ever since I was a kid, my father inspired me to listen to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Queen, Helloween,… I really rolled into it to be honest. Later, when I went to my very first concert (Manowar, at the age of 12), I knew right away…that’s what I want. I fell in love with the sound of the guitar, the beating of the drums, the powerful vocals,… I really “felt” the music. Since then, there was no stopping, I bought my first Strat guitar and started to play along with my favorite tunes.
What makes you different from all the other guitar-oriented projects?
Gio: We really have the freedom since Mike (drummer) and I plan everything by ourselves. There’s no pressure of other band members or record labels. We do what we like, when we want it. When we feel the need to enter the studio and write some new material, we have the freedom to do so, without obligations.
Is there any particular message you would like to spread with your music?
Gio: Not really. Most of the lyrics are straight forward, medieval war songs and other songs have a personal kind of touch. There’s no real message, just stuff we like or want to share. What’s next in Gitaron’s world? Can we expect a Gitaron II?
Gio: I really think so. Like I’ve said, I really enjoy the working method alongside Mike. And the work we’ve done with every guest musician was really exciting and reward full. I don’t see myself playing in a full band anymore. We’ve done that and just didn’t “feel” it anymore. I’ve already made up a new wish list of guest musicians, since we started working on new songs straight away.
Any other plans on the future we should be aware of?
Gio: Writing new songs, enjoying them and taking our time to make them into real Gitaron songs. Maybe there will be some exclusive live shows together with some guest musicians. There are some talks, but it’s really too early to speak of. We also made our own parody project “Genietdarom” (which simply means “Enjoy It”). We changed the Gitaron lyrics and recorded them in our mother language. Just for the fun of it of course, nothing to serious, but still hilarious as hell!
Where can we find more about your music?
Gio: The new triple album “You Own The World” can only be ordered online by mailing merchandise@gitaron.eu or at our website www.gitaron.eu. The instructions are very easy and you will receive immediate response. Some lyric videos like “Camelot Rising” and “You Own The World” can also be found on the website and on YouTube!
Any latest words to all our readers out there?
Gio: Feel free to get to know Gitaron and enjoy our music! Thanks for your time and always follow your metalheart!
Labels: Camelot Rising, Giovanni, Guitarist, interview, You Own the World
Expedition Delta & Chianti Rock: new endorsement deal & new video released
Breaking Newz!
Thank You For The Good Times
Expedition Delta &Chianti Rock: new endorsement deal & new video released
Srdjan Brankovic’s Expedition Delta just released a new music video for the track "Thank You For The Good Times” taken from the album “Expedition Delta II” out now via Perris Records.
Alongside Srdjan Brankovic (founder, songwriter, guitarist and producer of the band) also many other, celebrated musicians have been involved in the project: Bobby Koelble (Death/DTA) Nikola Mijic, (AlogiA, Eden’s Curse) Nicola Di Già (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso), Santiago Dobles (Aghora), Dario Esposito (Il Balletto di Bronzo).
Also: exciting news concerning an exclusive deal may be now announced: Chianti Rock is the new extraordinary endorser of the international supergroup!
The renowned brand of Made in Italy is going to produce a superb quality of unique red wine dedicated exclusively to Expedition Delta and their new hit “Thank You For The Good Time”
“The idea –says Domenico Tancredi CEO at Chianti Rock- is to connect one of the world famous brand of Made in Italy to amazing music, which is synonym of freedom and energy. This is the basic idea of Chianti Rock. This wants to be a product where music and Rock & Roll lovers gather and share events, passions and pure emotions. This wine comes from pure passion and love for the earth. I combined in it my long time passions: Chianti and Rock & Roll.
Strong and intense, this wine is extracted from Sangiovese grapes only, grown and produced according to the production regulations of Chianti Consortium. And Chianti Rock would uniquely customize your events. It is born to gather the numerous and multiple customers who love to listen to great live music.
It can also be an original and exclusive gift for friends, customers or colleagues” To connect the excellence both in music and wine, the deal has been enshrined To celebrate the joy in life, the thankfulness towards Life’s gifts, an original package, a new Case of Rock is born from the combination of amazing music, a delicious wine, a unique brand worldwide renowned, an authentic love and strong passion.
You can view the new video here
https://youtu.be/N1eTkDsSogI
Or to have a preview of the whole album here:
https://youtu.be/_fzzib_VRT8
You can buy your Chianti Case of Rock here:
http://www.chiantirock.com/chianti/en/case-of-rock-2/
You can buy the album here:
http://www.perrisrecords.com/new_releases/srdjan_brankovic___expedition_delta_2/
http://www.srdjanbrankovic.com/expeditiondelta/
Labels: Chianti, Chianti Rock, Expedition Delta II, music, music video, Perris Records
NYC Pop Princess Kendra Black Releases New Club Banger 'Air Pack Jet'
Kendra Black, Italian pop artist based in New York City, released new club banging pop single "Air Pack Jet" on August 17, 2016. She teamed up with major songwriters and producers to put together this single and others to be released on her forthcoming album "The Edge."
The song was produced by Hollywood production house Trend Def Studios (Snoop Dogg, Flo Rida) and cowritten by Bravo Reality TV actor Nick Nittoli and former EMI songwriter and performing artist Lachi. With a launch party on August 16 celebrating the single's release at Webster Hall and hosted by NYC's Hot 97 Morning Show host Laura Stylez, Kendra is bringing out this club banger with a bang! The Tuesday rainy night, drew a fiery, excited crowd as buzzing NYC acts Demi Grace, Chris Casino and Lachi opened up the night for Kendra. There was also a special performance by R&B vocalist Dudley Alexander a finalist of the New York Star of the Day tri-state reality series.
At the end of her set, Kendra thanked her dancers, band and fans and gave a special thanks to Lachi who appears to play a large role in the production of Kendra's music.
Kendra's got the look, the moves and the music to step on to the pop scene as a viable contender for the hearts of millions! Check out her new single Air Pack Jet on all online music stores!
Find more of Kendra Black:
Official website www.kendrablack.com
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/air-pack-jet-single/id1143737999
Facebook Facebook.com/kendrablackmusic
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Labels: 'Air Pack Jet, Club, Kendra Black, music, nyc, pop, singer
Marko Stout Retrospective Opens in Times Square this Fall
The popular New York Artist Marko Stout will be bringing his latest collection entitled “Erotic Dreams” to Times Square this fall. The prestigious Art Nation Gallery of Miami will be sponsoring this long awaited exhibition and retrospective at it New York Gallery at 4 West 43rd Street, New York City. The show is set to open with a VIP and collectors preview party on October 23, 2016 and will open to the public on the following day.
The last few years has seen a rapid growth by collectors and galleries in the works of Marko Stout. There is also a very large social media conversation about his work with much anticipated excitement about the upcoming New York solo exhibition. Many have begun to compare Stout to other popular New York artists such as Warhol, Koons, Basquiat and Haring. Luxury Magazine reviewed his work saying, “echoes of Warhol and Koons” and BuzzFeed calls his works, “deeply penetrating with a gritty edge, in the spirt of Jean-Micheal Basquiat.”
This upcoming “Erotic Dreams” Times Square exhibition is much anticipated with long line expected, so early ticketing is highly recommended. Details and tickets can be obtained by contacting the Art Nation Gallery directly. We have also learned that a special preview of the exhibition will be held in The Rivington SoHo Street Gallery, 2 Rivington Street, New York City 08/31/16 thru 09/04/16. This limited preview is open to the public.
For more news and information about Marko Stout, go to www.markostout.com
Labels: Marko Stout, New York Gallery, solo exhibition, The Rivington Street Gallery, Times Square
Review: Srdjan Brankovic’s Expedition Delta II
A supergroup has re-formed and released a new record: ‘Expedition Delta 2.’ This project, the brain-child of Srdjan Brankovic is: Expedition Delta who has been an entity since 2008 when the predecessor of ‘Expedition 2’ was released.
Expedition Delta was lauded in the Serbian scene and landed some notable gigs. Since 2008, the outfit has released music here and there, but hasn’t actually committed to a full length return - until now. Thus, ‘Expedition 2’ is essentially a record eight years in the queue.
It calls upon the talent of a huge variety of artists to craft its sonic landscapes on ‘Expedition 2.’ For the sake of this review, we’ll shine our gaze particularly onto Brankovic, who performs lead guitar and songwriting duties, and Nikola Mijic, the lead vocalist, an high-octaves singer, similar to a mix between Geddy Lee and Axl Rose. The dynamic between the two (Brankovic-Mijic) is lovely, and they’re the primary catalysts for making ‘Expedition 2’ the infectiously fun experience that it is.
‘Expedition 2’ opens with‘ Spectacular’ a track that sets an interesting tone for the album. It’s explosive, anthemic, and surprisingly versatile as Brankovic dances about a synth-soaked soundscape with a powerhouse lead guitar performance. There’s a ‘vintage’ feel to Expedition Delta’s music - something that’s noticeable right out of the gate. ‘Spectacular’ is a track that sounds like it’s mixed the best of arena rock from the80s together. (Think Rush or the like.) Also people who enjoy the likes of Rush, Poison, Van Halen, and acts akin to them, are probably going to love Expedition
At this point, it’s worth mentioning that the veteran indie label Perris Records is the house that Expedition Delta has signed with for this release.
This is important, because it’s a great example of a label and band being perfect for one another. Perris specializes in rock and roll with an 80s twist. Having a label the power of that niche will likely aid Expedition Delta very well with this project. ‘Fly With Me’ offers some female duets with Mijic, which adds some diversity to the vocal space of the album. It’s a feel-good rock and roller. Instrumentally, I’d argue that Brankovic’s compositions do a spectacular job. I mean: just because it’s thunderous80s-esque rock and roll doesn’t mean that the instrumentation is simplistic.
Nay, the performances are intensely complicated!
One of my favorite tracks on the endeavor is ‘Canis Major,’ a classical piano interlude near the halfway point on the record. It’s only a minute long, but goodness, it’s breathtaking!
After it, there is a lead vocal switch to the aforementioned female vocalist who is Andjela Isic. Isic is a beautiful vocalist, and I’d argue ‘Without You’ the first track with her at the forefront, is served stunningly by her. ‘The One Who Lives a Dream’ is a bizarre, charismatic track. I’d go as far to argue that there is a deep-seated ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ influence somewhere in the track.
‘House of God’ takes the vocal experimentation even further, and succeeds in doing so. I love that the album takes liberties in that department.
‘I Don’t Believe’ is probably another one of my fav on the album, offering a glimpse into Brankovic’s talent as a tactful songwriter. The track is followed by ‘Remember You,’ that is: another highlight of the album. The subject matter and 80s infused sound makes the track reminiscent of the 1985 track,’ I’ll Remember You,’ by Bob Dylan.
‘Connected’ is the final piece of ‘Expedition 2,’ and it’s essentially a pure statement of instrumental rock and roll. Brankovic flies through the track with unbelievable power, making it a lovely closer to an awesome album.
That’s exactly what ‘Expedition 2’ is, too.
It’s a fun album. It’s a good time. It’s amazing talent. There may not be enough of that nowadays. (D.S.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may find more of Srdjan Brankovic on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Expedition-Delta-158563394188705/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlij666uA0
Website: http://www.srdjanbrankovic.com/
Labels: EXPEDITION DELTA, music, new release, review, rock, Srdjan Brankovic
Interview with composer and music producer Yang Zhang
Hollywood-based film composer and music producer Yang Zhang has a multi-faced career. Her music career can track down when she was a teenager; she builds her early stage music career as a classically trained composer then immediately jumped into the electronic music world. After spending years of music production in the fields of film, TV, major and indie albums productions, she electrifies and re-defines film music genres by infusing her unique sound architecture designed for a variety of combined textures with electronic music elements and modern orchestral productions. Being part of the creative team of Flint Dille's, (known as the director for video game blockbuster "Transformers"), she has been working closely with tons of Hollywood-based top music publishing companies, including but not limited to Megatrix Music, Ole Music Box, Fine Tune music, etc.She serves as a member of Emmy music peer group.
Interview with Yang Zhang
What inspired you to become a film composer?
Yang: "I was fascinated by the idea of how limitless powers of the imaginations are connecting the images and sounds. Sometimes, images can visualize the whole concept of music; sometimes, music can carry out another layer of meaning beyond image's."
What got you into producing music?
Yang: "I have been making music since middle school when I grew up in the Conservatory of Music, but to really dig my inner desire to produce music especially to create your own voice was after I heard those EDM's heavy hitters during late '90s. It sparked me to discover another landscape of all possibilities in Electronic music field; I was like Alice in Wonderland......."
What music productions have you worked that you're most proud of?
Yang: "I would say, my first electronic music album featured Asain futuristic sound. It was a challenging yet fun production processing. I wanted to find a new way to remix and concrete the element of Asain folk instruments and the texture in Electronic music, it affected the way how you programme, arrange, write a melody, record and mixing. Another project if I can describe the second one, was the transmedia project working with Flint Dille. The whole process with his creative team was really interactive, and it gave me a lot of space to develop artistic creativity. I was asked to provide the theme cue only by giving a short description of the storyline and a couple of images, but I love it! The story itself already marked a vivid image in my head, and I was glad that I also got room to develop by my own. After I had delivered my cues, then the writer team followed up to story line, and I added up another cue as the consequences......this is how we build up our creative circle."
Tell us your current projects.
Yang: "I am in the process of preparing my next album and other scoring production sessions. Will update more details through my websites."
What drives you to create your own music publishing firm?
Yang: "The idea of creating my own digital music firm came up with that scene where still 90% of composers or musicians in film scoring business today still fantasize their music and their living in a very traditional way. I want to build a digital community where members can truly be empowered by the full force of the digital revolution, share and benefit every aspect of the music biz in the digital era.”
Find more of Yang Zhang at http://zhangyang.site
Labels: composer, Flint Dille, interview, music producer, Yang Zhang
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Ozzy Osbourne's New TV Series Announced
(hennemusic) Ozzy Osbourne and his son Jack will star in a new show produced by the History channel called "Ozzy & Jack's World Detour," which will premiere July 27 at 10 p.m. on the History channel.
The 10-episode hour-long series will see the pair tour the world to visit a number of historically significant locations including Mt. Rushmore, Stonehenge, The Alamo, Roswell, The Jamestown Settlement and Sun Studios.
"Jack and I are doing a thing for the History Channel, like a father and son spoof on history," Ozzy told Billboard last fall. "We went to Stonehenge and met a guy who thinks he's the reincarnation of King Arthur. And we went to Bletchley Park to see the machine Alan Turing used to break the German kind.
We're going to Mount Rushmore, to the abandoned silos where America used to have their Minutemen missiles and all that. It's educational for me, actually - history with an Osbourne slant." Read more here.
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Celebrities Who Make Their Own Clothes
Celebrities Who Make Their Own Clothes.
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While many celebrities try their hand at fashion by either endorsing a collection or even designing part of it, others can actually execute their vision on their own, from the design stage to the finishing touches.
Discover a few of the biggest celebrities who make their own clothes, and find out how they got into sewing and why they enjoy it.
With her own clothing line L.A.M.B. still going strong, Gwen Stefani certainly has a flair for design, but she can also execute her sketches on her own. “I can sew - it run in the family. My grandma made my mom’s prom dress - mom didn’t have a choice! And mom would take us to the fabric store and we’d pick out Vogue and McCall’s patterns."
"When I got older, I was very anti-fashion. I was into thrift stores and making my own stuff. I had my own sewing machine, glue guns and projects everywhere. My room was a danger zone,” Stefani explained, quoted by Contact Music.
Dame Helen Mirren never actually wore one of her creations on the red carpet, but she’s still one of the celebrities who make their own clothes. The actress created dressing gowns for herself, and she even made clothes for her loved ones. “I do dressmaking. I've got my mother's old sewing machine, which I love. I make horrible things that are awful - although I did make my sister a good skirt, she liked her skirt,” she told Notebook.
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Sewing and creating Halloween costumes for her nieces and nephews comes naturally for Eva Longoria. “I’m a 1950s housewife. I love baking. I love sewing. My mother was like that. Always took care of her husband. I always admired and wanted to do that,” she told Latina Magazine before divorcing Tony Parker. But even if the husband is out of the picture, her love of sewing probably isn’t.
Not many celebrities who make their own clothes wear them in public, but British singer was photographed more than once on the red carpet wearing tops and skirts designed by herself. She even set up a label with her ex boyfriend, LOA Clothing, but she didn’t end up pursuing a secondary career in the fashion world.
Even though many of his fans consider him a rock star, Coldplay’s Chris Martin spends his time with the rest of the band sewing their own stage outfits. “Making clothes together in our studio makes us feel complete. We probably sound like a group of grannies in a knitting circle but it's the truth and it gives us some control over our visual identity,” he told Mirror.
Claiming that sewing keeps her mind agile, Julia Roberts also might be one of the celebrities who make their own clothes. She certainly sews for her home and even made pants for her husband. “There’s one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. It’s a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don’t get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know it’s there,” she explained, quoted by BANG Showbiz.
Hillary Duff
A big fan of sewing, Hillary Duff has even collaborated with McCall’s Patterns on a line of fashionable sewing patterns.
Clooney definitely has the skills to be one of the celebrities who make their own clothes. The actor used to work on menswear, particularly suits, and he even stepped up to help his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, when a zipper on her dress broke right before the 2010 Academy Awards.
After receiving a sewing machine from Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes worked on different projects with her daughter, and even created the Holmes & Yang label with stylist Jeanne Yang. “My mom grew up making curtains and pillows and everything, and it made our home very warm, so I like to do things like that with my daughter,” she told People magazine.
Some celebrities who make their own clothes started out as children. After learning to sew at a very early age, Marie Osmond created many looks for herself and even published a book on it, Marie Osmond's Heartfelt Giving: Sew and Quilt for Family and Friends.
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Celebrating 21 years of the BSRLM journal RME
28th April 2019 by Pete Wright
BSRLM is delighted to announce that the first issue of volume 21 of the BSRLM journal Research in Mathematics Education has been published.
This marks 21 years of the journal, a notable milestone for BSRLM.
The early editions of the journal were published as single volumes (in effect, double issues). This changed with volume 10 when a pattern of two issues per year commenced. Two years later, in 2010, the journal grew to three issues per year. This established a pattern whereby Issues 1 and 3 of each volume are ‘regular’ issues and Issue 2 is a ‘Special Issue’ with guest editors.
A feature introduced in RME Volume 18 is the occasional invited ‘position paper’ paper written by key researchers in mathematics education, accompanied by an invited ‘response paper’ by a suitable respondent. Subsequently, a ‘position paper’ and response appears in RME Volume 20. More are planned.
As well as original research papers, RME has established a strong heritage of informed and critical book reviews.
RME has also marked the sad passing of colleagues who made significant and lasting contributions to BSRLM and the wider community in mathematics education.
Since 2008, following a generous gift made to BSRLM by the family of the late Janet Duffin, a longstanding and active member of the Society, BSRLM has been able to make the Janet Duffin Award to recognise, each year, a significant paper published in RME.
This new issue of RME continues the fine RME tradition of highly-original research papers and insightful book reviews.
BSRLM celebrates 21 years of RME and looks forward to the next significant anniversary of the journal!
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This noticeboard features a host of current coaching opportunities at Berks & Bucks FA affiliated clubs. To advertise a position, please email Marketing via the contact details listed on this page.
The opportunities listed are those that have been sent to us for inclusion on the noticeboard. If you don't see an opportunity that's suitable for you, please get in touch and one of our Development team who would be happy to discuss next steps or other opportunities with you.
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Youth Coaches Wanted
AFC Reading is grassroots club based in and around Woodley, it was established in 2016 and since then has quadrupled in the number of teams we now have. With this rapid growth comes the challenge of finding volunteers to coach and run these teams.
We're looking for individuals to coach and manage either our U9 Girls or U12 Girls next season. We're also looking for an individual to run and develop our Mini Kicker (4-6 year olds) section.
If any of the above would be something you'd be interested in getting involved with please contact Ethan Greene at ethan@afcreading.com.
Date posted: 01.07.19
Coach Needed!
Kennington Athletic U14 Girls are urgently recruiting a new manager for the upcoming season where our well established U14s Girls team move to 11aside. We are recruiting additional players and we need a manager to lead them.
Kennington Athletic is a Charter Standard club and Girls football is extremely important to us and we want to retain our team. They had a great season last year reaching the league cup final.
If you want to get in touch please call Dominic Howson on 07793 099522 or contact the club at kennington.athletic@gmail.com
Coaching positions available at Wycombe Wanderers Sports & Education Trust
Wycombe Wanderers Sports & Education Trust have four coaching positions available with them. These positions include two full time roles and two apprenticeship positions.
Please click the links below for information:
WWSET Senior Delivery Officer Job Advert Person Specification (Sports Participation)
WWSET Delivery Officer Job Advert Person Specification (Sports Participation)
Level 3 Community Sport Health Apprenticeship
Level 2 Community Activity Coach Apprenticeship
Rivets FC - Managers Required for 2019/2020 Season
Rivets FC are looking to appoint both First & Reserve team managers for the coming season 2019/2020
Playing in the Premier and Division 1 of the Aylesbury and District League, we are looking for experienced managers with great football knowledge, a passion for winning and a strong personality. Good communication and organizational skills are also essential. The position will require regular attendance at mid-week evening training sessions and Saturday afternoon games. Both these positions are on a voluntary basis.
Rivets FC has a dedicated committee, excellent facilities and welcoming hospitality to all. Working with the committee, the successful candidates will have control of all team activities and training, with scope to expand the existing teams through their local football contacts. Both roles have great potential for the right persons to come in and make a real difference and take Rivets FC to the next level.
If you, or someone you know, would like to express an interest in these roles, please contact Chairman: Gary Harley at gharley@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk or 07970450152
St Edmunds FC (Inclusive Teams) – Coaches Wanted
We are based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and currently on the lookout for two new coaches to join our Inclusive Section which offers football opportunities for children with disabilities.
The Inclusive Section started in 2016 with a U8 and U12 team but due to the success of these teams we will be adding a U16 team for the 2019/20 season. The teams compete in the BOBi League which is the largest Disability Football League in England. We play 6 Central Venue Festivals per season so the commitment on weekends is much less than mainstream football. We train every Thursday evening (two timeslots; 5pm to 6pm, 6pm to 7pm) during school term time in central Abingdon. We do not train during school holidays or in inclement weather.
If you are looking to get involved in a football team but might not have the availability on a weekend this might the perfect opportunity for you. It would also make a massive difference to our players lives.
If you are interested in this opportunity please email Jonathan Coles at jonathan.coles@berks-bucksfa.com.
Taplow United Womens Coach Wanted
Taplow United are looking for a coach for their ladies team.
In the last three years the ladies team have won the League and the County Cup. They have a group of players who are eager to play, learn and develop but they just need someone to guide them.
The successful candidate needs to be at least a Level 1 FA Coach. They train on Tuesday evenings from 1900 hours and games are on Sundays with a KO time of 1400 hours.
If you are interested then please email Sam Barwood at sambarwood99@gmail.com for further information.
Manager Needed
Barton Rovers Ladies FC are on the look out for an enthusiastic manager. We started in 2010. Our first competitive season was 2010-11. Joined TVCWFL in Div 4.
We were formally from Reading Ladies FC reserves. Barton Ladies have a successful first team who are currently in the Premier division of the Southern Region League. We also have a reserve team that are in division 2 of the Thames Valley Ladies League. The ladies train once a week and have games on a Sunday kicking off at 2pm.
All the ladies involved in playing for Barton are a lovely bunch who all enjoy their football, we have never had any problems with one another and all get on really well across both teams.
If you are a keen competitive qualified (minimum level 1) football coach please do not hesitate to contact me via chloe.proctor@hotmail.co.uk and come and meet us at one of our training sessions.
Coach needed for U14 Girls’ Team
Shenley FC Panthers U13 are looking for a new coach for our, then to be, U14 team next season (2019/20).
Previous coaching experience is not necessary and we would be happy to put you through your FA Level 1 course, but would require this to be done for the start of the season. The team currently plays in Division 1 of the Beds Girls League and train on Thursdays at Shenley Brook End Academy.
If you are interest in joining to help Coach the team please contact Gary Barrett, Shenley FC Chairman on barrettgary70@gmail.com or via 07951269748
Looking for a Club to Coach
I am currently looking for a coaching job whether it be volunteer based or not. I am currently staying in High Wycombe.
I have 12 years experience coaching football from under 6 age group through to senior level. I have booked my FA Level 1 for 13 April 2019 at Amersham & Wycombe College.
For more information please contact Travis via 07563415023 or email theblackbeards02@gmail.com
Coaches Wanted
Marlow FC Girls are actively seeking additional coaches to support our growing club.
Prior coaching experience is preferred but not essential as the club will fund all necessary courses and provide mentoring from our experienced team that includes level one and two coaches, as well as qualified referees.
If you would like to get involved in coaching girls football, please get in touch via info@marlowfcgirls.co.uk or 07913 101434.
Coach looking For a Club
I am a 22 year old, Level 1 qualified coach, with around 5 years coaching experience. I have previously coached under 7’s up to under 11’s.
I have all relevant FA Safeguarding & First Aid qualifications as well as a separate First Aid qualification through my work. I work in education with SEN children so am used to lots of different challenges. I am looking for a football team, any age group, ideally in or close to the High Wycombe area to either voluntarily manage or support by assisting with coaching. I am looking for a new team to work with as I can no longer make the training day of the team I used to coach with.
Please contact me on 07534975494 or arran_white@hotmail.com with any opportunities or questions.
Hale Leys United F.C - Coaches Wanted
Based in Aylesbury, Hale Leys United F.C have a full youth set up for boys and girls from aged 6 all the way up to under 16’s and, with over 100 registered players, we are looking to grow our coaching team for the upcoming 2019/20 season.
You will be required to be available for training on Saturday mornings and matches Sundays. We are very proud of our achievements as a club and the hard work of the many volunteers that are connected with the club. WE ARE HALE LEYS!
If you are interested then please email Ben Arnold at benarnold@haleleysunitedfc.co.uk for further information.
Whiteknights FC
Whiteknights FC are looking for an FA Level 1 coach who is looking to gain experience by managing and coaching an U9's team. We now have enough players to have two balanced teams. Each week training is at 6pm, at Goals in Woodley and there is also a game on a Saturday morning at Woodford Park.
If you are interested, please contact Ollie via ollie.johnston@outlook.com for more information.
Mursley United FC
We are looking for new enthusiastic, positive volunteer coaches at the following levels of football for season 2019/20. We would be willing to support your coaching development by enrolling you on your level one and contribute to the level two if you are already level one qualified.
This will be a new team for season 2019/20, many of the players have been coached at the Mursley Sports Association Sunday morning Mini Kickers by qualified coaches so they already have a head start. They will be registered for the MK based youth league playing Saturday mornings. If this is of interest you are welcome to help out at the Mini Kicker sessions this season to help prepare the players for their next stage of development.
Under 17’s and 18’s
The current U16’s team play in the M&S Chiltern League on Sunday afternoons. To continue their development, we are looking for a new management and coaching team for next season. During the season there will also be training sessions run by both the U25 development team coaches and the 1st team coaches to help develop the players towards playing in adult teams in the future.
Interested applicants are welcome to work with the current team manager for the remainder of this season to enable a structured hand over. These opportunities are pivotal to the enforcement of the “Mursley Way”. We pride ourselves on providing a full pathway for players from age 4 right through to senior level, as well as supporting coaches’ development.
All managers and coaches will be required to complete a FA CRC DBS Enhanced Disclosure as part of our responsible recruitment practice. If any of these roles are of interest please contact Mursley United FC Club Secretary, Roy Cooper via email at roy_a_cooper@yahoo.co.uk
Mursley Sports Association in association with Mursley United FC
We are currently looking for enthusiastic, positive volunteer coaches for our Mini Kickers sessions.
Our Mini Kickers is an hour of fun for both boys and girls aged 4-7 years of age at Mursley MUGA, Station Road Mursley MK17 0SA and takes place every Sunday 9.30 - 10.30.
The emphasis is on fun and enjoyments and introducing the children to the wonderful game of football. Children benefit from increased confidence, friendships and fitness.
We are looking for new enthusiastic, positive coaches to join our team and we would be willing to support your coaching development by enrolling you on your level one and contribute to the level two if already level one qualified.
All managers and coaches will be required to complete a FA CRC DBS Enhanced Disclosure as part of our responsible recruitment practice.
If this is of interest please contact Mursley United FC Club Secretary, Roy Cooper via email at roy_a_cooper@yahoo.co.uk
Taplow United Ladies
Due to unforeseen circumstances Taplow United Ladies are looking for a coach for both their first and second team.
In the last two years the first team have won the League and the County Cup. The second team was formed last year as they wanted to give more ladies the opportunity to play football. They have a group of players who are eager to play, learn and develop.
They just need someone to guide them. The successful candidate needs to be at least a Level 1 FA Coach. Both teams train on Tuesday evenings from 1900 hours and games are on Sundays with a KO time of 1400 hours.
Wargrave Wolves Under 8s
Wargrave Wolves currently have one team entered into the EBFA league, but have many more boys wanting to play, and who current train with us. However without a second coach we cannot enter a second team!
If you are interested in coaching a team we’d love to hear from you. Joint training will be held on Monday night (6-7pm) but the coach would need to commit to Saturday morning games.
Please get in touch with Tim Burden on 07789961181 or timburden03@hotmail.com
MK Wanderers FC
We are based in Central Milton Keynes and have grown from 12 teams to 25 + in the past year alone. We are looking to further grow to give more children the chance to play and have some fun along the way.
We are therefore looking for new enthusiastic, positive coaches to join our team and we would be willing to support your coaching development by enrolling you on your level one and contribute to the level two if already level one qualified.
If you would like to get involved with the MK Wanderers coaching team, please contact Tim Reid via email chair@mkwanderers.co.uk
Experienced coach looking for a new challenge
I have recently moved to central Newbury and I am looking for a new ladies team to join as a coach. I am looking for a project which is challenging and fun.
My qualifications are: UEFA B License, Degree in Sports Science, Masters degree in Psychology
My experience is: Managed and coached various mens teams in the Wessex and Hampshire leagues. Coached Portsmouth Ladies and Oxfordshire Ladies Rep county team. Worked in various professional academies at youth level.
Please contact Jason if you have any positions/vacancies – jasonmussellwhite@hotmail.co.uk; 07769157047 (text is better).
Opportunity available for qualified coach
Robertswood Rangers - Chalfont St Peter has a vacancy for a coach for Saturday mornings during term-time coaching only Saturday 9-11:30. This will be paid work.
Robertswood Rangers' ethos is to encourage all to play and enjoy football, have fun and get fit, it is more about having fun playing football than winning. We are a FA Charter Standard club.
We need another coach to help with the smooth running of our club. If you are interested in applying then please e-mail sleight_keith@yahoo.co.uk
Coaching Experience Wanted
I am a 19 Level 1 Qualified Coach looking to pursue a coaching career in football. I also currently hold a FA emergency aid badge and FA safeguarding certificate. I am looking for a local football team in Reading who are looking for any volunteer coaches to coach a team and or to help out to coach a team.
I have a vast amount of experience in the football field as a player playing for numerous teams, however I only really have a short experience in coaching by helping out an u5 team a year ago.
Please contact Simon Wears on 01235 544897 if you are looking to give a new coach some experience.
Chalfont St Peter
We're currently looking for football coaches to work Saturday mornings at Chalfont St Peter Football Club.
This is paid work and the age of the groups would range from under 7s to under 12s. There would also be the possibility of midweek coaching.
If you would like to gain coaching experience, then please get in touch with Denis via email denisharriet@aol.com
Taplow United Ladies are looking for a coach for their second team. It was formed last year as Taplow Ladies expanded following a successful 2016-2017 season. They wanted to give more ladies the opportunity to play football and have a group of players who are eager to play, learn and develop.
We just need someone to guide them. The successful candidate needs to be at least a Level 1 FA Coach. We train on Tuesday evenings from 1900 hours and games are on Sundays with a KO time of 1400 hours.
Newport Pagnell Town Football Club - Physio required
Newport Pagnell Town Football Club are the second biggest Club in the Milton Keynes area, behind the MK Dons.
We play in the UCL Premier division and are an ambitious, progressive Club, striving for promotion to the Southern League, having narrowly missed out last season by just 3 points.The Club is now looking to add to its Matchday team and is recruiting for a Matchday Physio.
If this position would be of interest or you know of contacts/lines of enquiry that we should follow, please contact our Head of Football, Ian Ford, on 07714 041833 or email at Ia@nptfc.co.uk
Reading University Women's Football Team
Reading University Women's Football team are currently looking for coaches to run our first and second teams.
The first team are in need of a coach to come to games and the second team are looking for a coach who would be available for both games and training.
The responsibilities of this paid role include; setting up and running drills at training (6-8pm on a Tuesday), be able to attend home and away games on a Wednesday afternoon, help with selection for both teams in the upcoming season and drive a minibus to away games (if possible). We do not require any minimum qualifications but Level 1 or 2 coaching would be useful.
If you are interested in this role, please contact; Gemma Chilcott at chilcottgp@gmail.com
Woodley Saints
Our u16 team for next season would be keen to get some extra coaching. We typically train on Thursdays at 4pm, at BCS.
If you have any interested coaches that would like to do a few training sessions to help with their qualifications, please let us know.
We would be happy to start pre season, maybe during the day , during the school holidays
For more information please contact Jeremy Wright on 07714260750 or via jeremy@tud1.co.uk
Faringdon Town F.C.
We are currently looking for volunteer coaches at the following levels of football:
This is a new team for season 2018-2019 and have been entered in the Oxford mail youth league.
Many of the players have been coached at our Saturday morning club for the last year club by qualified coaches so they already have a head start.
This squad of players have had one season in the Oxford mail youth league. The squad has been growing so much so that we need to create another team to give everyone enough game time.
Last years coach has moved away, and we are looking for someone to continue his good work in coaching this team.
Coaching qualification would be preferable. If you don’t have any coaching qualification but would like to get involved, we are open to help fund a level one course.
Please contact, Club Chairman, Simon Harrington via email at simon160659@gmail.com
Shenley FC
New U12 manager wanted at Shenley FC, if your are interested please contact Gary Barrett Shenley FC Chairman via mobile or email:
barrettgary70@gmail.com
Our current manager is stepping down due to work commitments but will still be able to assist in a coaching capacity depending on shifts.
Abingdon United Women's FC - Goalkeeper Coach
Position no longer available.
Date posted: 29.06.18 (Updated 15.08.18)
Buckingham Athletic U18
We are looking for a Goalkeeping Coach to work with our young goalkeepers. Voluntary role.
Playing in the Allied Counties Youth League, training/matches on Monday and Thursday evenings with the odd Wednesday match.
Any interested parties should contact Dan Turney on 07794 032798 or email dan.turney@hotmail.co.uk
Haddenham United FC - Manager Required for 2018/2019 Season
We are recruiting for a First Team Manager for the coming season (and beyond).
Playing in the Premier League of the Aylesbury and District League, we are looking for an experienced manager with great football knowledge, a passion for winning and a strong personality. Good communication and organisational skills are also essential. The position will require regular attendance at mid-week evening training sessions and Saturday afternoon games.
HUFC has a dedicated committee, excellent facilities and welcoming hospitality to all. Working with the committee, the successful candidate will have control of all team activities and training, with scope to expand the existing team through their local football contacts. This role has great potential for the right person to come in and make a real difference and the HUFC Committee believes that the early appointment will enable HUFC to hit the ground running for the 2018/2019 season.
If you, or someone you know, would like to express an interest the role, please contact Club Secretary, Rachael Bamford at secretary@haddenhamunited.co.uk
Risborough Rangers F.C. Mens 1st Team
We are looking for a coach to join the 1st team management setup for this coming season. We currently play in the Spartan Division One League.
Ideally, FA level 2 qualified or on course to be but not a necessity and we are also willing to listen to candidates with experience. This person would be required to take training session and help out on match days.
If you're interested in joining us, please contact Jamie Rayner (1st team manager) on 07904 934179
Maidenhead United U16’s Youth Team
We are looking for a new manager for the forthcoming season.The team play in the Wycombe League on a Sunday morning and train on a Monday evening when the season begins at Furze Platt Secondary School.
If you are interested in this role, please email your coaching CV to mufc1870@gmail.com
Great Linford F.C Mens 1st Team
We are looking for an experienced, voluntary manager/coach. Based in Milton Keynes we play on Saturday afternoons in the North Bucks & District League Premier Division, the role will include attending weekly training on a Wednesday evening, and matchday roles on a Saturday.
Ideally the candidate will have a strong personality and a willingness to develop a team capable of competing at the top of the league. There is a good core of players and a committee who want to achieve success. Pre-season to start first week in July 2018.
Please contact Rob on 07793314412 or email Robert.g.dickinson@hotmail.co.uk if you are interested.
Barton Rovers Eagles
We are a mixed disability club looking for a volunteer coach asap to head up/help out with our Friday evening training sessions between 7 and 8 pm. We train in the Mortimer or Tilehurst areas of Reading in Berkshire. We are a small and friendly club with approx 18 - 20 players meeting every week and also have access to playing in the Bobi League several times a year.
If you are interested in joining us then please contact Janet Read on 07981522833 or email at janet.read33@googlemail.com
D’Autore Lions
We are a family friendly club and our Lions are recruiting 2 new coaches for our community ahead of next season!
“A good coach will make his make players see what they can be, rather than what they currently are.” Ara Parasheghian
Should you have a passion for football, do not hesitate to contact us on 0737 689 6707 or by email on Dautorelionsfc@gmail.com
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Advertising for a new coach, or looking for a new team to coach via our coaching noticeboard is easy.
Simply email Marketing@Berks-BucksFA.com with details of your opportunity, team, age group, qualifications required, timings etc and we'll post it on the site.
How long will my advert stay live on the website?
We'll keep you're advert live on the website for a minimum of three months, at which time it may be removed depending on the volume of opportunities available.
If you wish to re-post the advert, simply get in touch and we will rotate as necessary. Likewise, if you no longer require the advert due to filling the vacant positions, please let us know so that we can remove it.
Can anyone advertise on the noticeboards?
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Exams and Vaccinations
Bringing Your Pet Home >
Created in Living With Your Pet, Bringing Your Pet Home
Experts agree that widespread use of vaccines within the last century has prevented death and disease in millions of animals.
Pets, like people, can be protected from some diseases by vaccination. Although this resource provides basic information about vaccinations for your dog or cat, your veterinarian is your best source for advice regarding your pet's vaccination needs.
What are vaccines?
Vaccines are health products that trigger protective immune responses in pets and prepare them to fight future infections from disease-causing agents. Vaccines can lessen the severity of future diseases and certain vaccines can prevent infection altogether. Today, a variety of vaccines are available for use by veterinarians.
Is it important to vaccinate?
Yes! Pets should be vaccinated to protect them from many highly contagious and deadly diseases. Experts agree that widespread use of vaccines within the last century has prevented death and disease in millions of animals. Even though some formerly common diseases have now become uncommon, vaccination is still highly recommended because these serious disease agents continue to be present in the environment.
Does vaccination ensure protection?
For most pets, vaccination is effective and will prevent future disease. Occasionally, a vaccinated pet may not develop adequate immunity and, although rare, it is possible for these pets to become ill. It is important to remember that although breakdowns in protection do occur, most successfully vaccinated pets never show signs of disease, making vaccination an important part of your pet's preventive health care.
Are there risks?
Although most pets respond well to vaccines, like any medical procedure vaccination carries some risk. The most common adverse responses are mild and short-term, including fever, sluggishness, and reduced appetite. Pets may also experience temporary pain or subtle swelling at the site of vaccination. Although most adverse responses will resolve within a day or two, excessive pain, swelling, or listlessness should be discussed with your veterinarian.
Rarely, serious adverse responses occur. Contact your veterinarian immediately if your pet has repeated vomiting or diarrhea, whole body itching, difficulty breathing, collapse, or swelling of the face or legs. These signs may indicate an allergic reaction. In very rare instances death can occur. Visit with your veterinarian about the latest information on vaccine safety, including rare adverse responses that may develop weeks or months after vaccination. Remember that while vaccination is not without risk, failure to vaccinate leaves your pet vulnerable to fatal illnesses that are preventable.
Why do puppies and kittens require a series of vaccinations?
Very young puppies and kittens are highly susceptible to infectious diseases. This is especially true as the natural immunity provided in their mothers' milk gradually wears off. To keep gaps in protection as narrow as possible and to provide optimal protection against disease for the first few months of life, a series of vaccinations are scheduled, usually 3-4 weeks apart. For most puppies and kittens, the final vaccination in the series is administered when they are 12 to 16 weeks old.
Which vaccines should my pet receive?
Discuss with your veterinarian your pet's lifestyle, access to other animals, and travel to other geographic locations, since these factors affect your pet's risk of exposure to disease. Not all pets should be vaccinated with all vaccines just because these vaccines are available. "Core" vaccines are recommended for most pets in a particular area. "Non-core" vaccines are reserved for pets with unique needs. Your veterinarian will consider your pet's particulars, the diseases at hand, and the application of available vaccines to customize a vaccine recommendation for your pet.
How often should my pet be vaccinated?
Your veterinarian will tailor a vaccination schedule to suit your pet's needs. For many years, a set of annual vaccinations was considered normal and necessary for dogs and cats. Veterinarians have since learned more about diseases and pets' immune systems, and there is increasing evidence that immunity triggered by some vaccines provides protection beyond one year. The immunity triggered by other vaccines may fail to protect for a full year. More than one successful vaccination schedule is possible. Talk with your veterinarian about what is best for your pet.
A Final Thought
Many factors are taken into consideration when establishing a pet's vaccination plan. Your veterinarian will tailor a program of vaccinations to help your pet maintain a lifetime of infectious disease protection.
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What Day Will The Washington Post Announce Its Opposition?
The Washington Post resumes its double-barrelled shotgun approach to the nomination of John Roberts on page A02 of the paper today, running two reports critical of the Supreme Court nominee. The first, by Jim VandeHei, notes that the gay community has shrugged off the pro bono work done by Roberts to announce their opposition to his confirmation. The announcement comes with the hysteria thus far associated with almost all of the opposition to Roberts (emphases mine):
"For his entire adult life, John Roberts has been a disciple of and promoted a political and legal ideology that is antithetical to an America that embraces all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people," Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said in a statement. "I have no doubt he's an accomplished lawyer and an affable dinner companion, but that doesn't make him any less a mortal danger to equal rights for gay people, reproductive freedom and affirmative action."
Wow. I didn't realize that one could be an affable dinner companion while spending every moment of one's adult life as a mortal danger. No sooner than Foreman passed judgment on the entirety of Roberts' adult life than he backpedaled, giving Roberts credit for a few hours of adult life spent volunteering for the community for which he presents a mortal danger:
"We are mindful that Judge Roberts provided a few hours of pro bono help to the attorneys in Romer v. Evans -- a landmark case for our community," the organizations said. "Some have said that this work -- which consisted mostly of playing the role of a conservative justice -- demonstrates that Roberts is not personally anti-gay. This theory is not relevant to the important issue for our community: how Roberts would vote as a Supreme Court justice."
I agree with Foreman that this assistance to Romer did not add substantially to their effort and does not presage how he will vote on issues involving the gay agenda. However, his voluntary work to assist their preparation certainly demonstrates a lack of ill will towards their community and hardly paints a picture of the "mortal danger" over which Foreman hyperventilates. Frankly, I'm still not convinced that Roberts won't turn out to be so reliant on stare decisis that all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth will wind up being for nothing.
Despite the absolutely unsurprising development of gay-rights groups opposing Roberts, the Post puts this story on the second page. No one doubts that the announcement deserves a mention, but the prominence of its placement seems rather strange. At least VandeHei lets the story speak for itself without injecting his own analysis into its reporting. The same cannot be said for the companion report selected by the Post's editors to run on page A02 along with VandeHei's, this one from Jo Becker that slyly attempts to paint John Roberts as a Confederate-loving redneck based on a single literary reference:
A fastidious editor of other people's copy as well as his own, Roberts began with the words "Until about the time of the Civil War." Then, the Indiana native scratched out the words "Civil War" and replaced them with "War Between the States."
The handwritten document is one of tens of thousands of pages of Roberts files released over the past several weeks from his 1982-1986 tenure as an associate counsel to the president.
While it is true that the Civil War is also known as the War Between the States, the Encyclopedia Americana notes that the term is used mainly by southerners. Sam McSeveney, a history professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University who specialized in the Civil War, said that Roberts's choice of words was significant.
"Many people who are sympathetic to the Confederate position are more comfortable with the idea of a 'War Between the States,' " McSeveney explained. "People opposed to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s would undoubtedly be more comfortable with the words he chose."
As a "fastidious editor", I often look for different phrasing and formulations to express myself and to avoid repetition in my writing. I use nicknames and synonyms to keep the prose interesting and also to familiarize myself and my audience to alternative terms. The phrase "The War Between The States" has never held any negative connotation in my experience. The phrase most often associated with Southern sympathies, again in my experience, has been "The War of Northern Aggression".
This piece reeks of bias. Becker and the Post want to paint Roberts as a racist without having the guts or the evidence to do so, and instead takes a single flourish of rhetoric -- out of 18,000 pages of documents! -- and instantly transforms him into a Confederate sympathizer. Becker's hit piece has absolutely no news value whatsoever, not only unqualified for page A02 of the Post but page ZZ100 of any local free weekly. If this demonstrates the editorial and reporting quality of the Washington Post, then the paper has hit harder times in the past month than anyone could have predicted.
White House spokesman Steve Schmidt responded to the Foreman announcement that liberal groups had long ago decided to oppose anyone that Bush nominated to the Supreme Court, and the only open question was the timing of the announcements. We wonder when the Post will start acting honestly and deliver their open announcement of opposition instead of issuing weak and despicable pieces like today's "news" from Jo Becker.
Posted by Ed Morrissey at August 26, 2005 6:18 AM
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Maine Monday: Con i bambini
Pesto maccheroni at Paciarino
Didn't make it to Italy last week for spring break? Non fa niente (it doesn't matter), we've got plenty of places around Portland to make you feel like you've crossed the ocean, without the eight hour flight.
On a weekly basis Little C&G asks us when we're going back to Italy. Unfortunately not anytime soon, but when he starts to get teary-eyed, we know it's time for a night out at Paciarino. The food at this lovely cozy restaurant is authentically rustic Italian. The owners moved to Portland a few years ago from Milan and make all their own pastas and sauces fresh daily, just like they did in Italy.
The menu is small, but everything is absolutely delicious, and they will happily do half portions of pasta for the kiddos. It's a super kid friendly place, but still nice enough for a grown ups night out. We always start out with a salame e pecorino plate, which keeps the little C&Gs occupied while we sit back with a glass of vino and pretend we're back on the shores of Lago di Como.
Venice, Italy but it could be Vignola, Maine
Vignola/Cinque Terre is another favorite, with it's own farm a little up the coast providing the freshest seasonal ingredients. It's a collared shirt affair when we bring the little C&Gs, and it's always their top pick in Portland for a "fancy" night out. Chef Lee Skawinski regularly travels to Italy and his menu is truly Italian with a local Maine twist.
Lots of fresh seafood shows up on the menu, but the little C&Gs are not fish lovers. Instead they'll stick with the delicious thin crust pizzas or ask for one of the pastas with some olive oil and cheese. The menu changes with the seasons, and Big C&G is always happy when he finds pasta bolognese listed. He gives it two thumbs up and says it reminds him of his favorite meal in Venice.
Chef Harding Lee Smith has many restaurants in Portland but The Corner Room offers his Italian-inspired menu. If you're lucky enough to snag the bar seats overlooking the kitchen, your kiddos will be completely entertained by the prepping of the cheese and charcuterie plates, along with the pizzas going in and out of the oven.
It's a bustling noisy place, so the youngsters can go unnoticed by the diners in their finery on their way to a show at Merrill Auditorium. The Corner Room isn't fancy, and I prefer Little C&G not be wearing a collared shirt while he's dribbling olive oil from the focaccia down his front.
Micucci's Grocery store on India Street is where you'll find an extensive selection of imported pastas, cheeses, wines, olive oils, and anything else you miss from your Italian vacation. The little C&Gs love to go here and pick out a box or two of interesting pasta shapes to cook at home. After you've picked up some Italian necessities, don't forget to end your adventure with a scoop or two of gelato from Gelato Fiasco or Gorgeous Gelato. Or maybe one from each?
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Census • Person • Peter VII
aka: Abba Boutros El-Gawly
unknown 1809-1852 1852, Apr 15
the 109th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (1810–1852). He was born in the village of El-Gawly in Upper Egypt, and known as Mankarius while a monk at the Monastery of Saint Anthony on the Red Sea. During his papacy, sensing intimations of pressure from Roman Catholicism, the Coptic Church intensified her teaching, her preaching, and her pastoral work, and the Coptic Pope himself intensified his writing on matters of faith and doctrine. During the period, many private and public patriarchal libraries were founded.
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Metropolitan of Hungaro-Walachia (1793–1810)* Romanian Orthodox Church
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Catholicose of Aluank' (1794–1810)* Armenian Apostolic Church
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an English clergyman. Edwards was the son of Thomas Edwards. He graduated LL.B. in 1782 from Clar...
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a member of the Georgian royal family and churchman. A son of Heraclius II, the penultimate King ...
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Metropolitan (1807–1811)* Malabar Independent Syrian Church
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Metropolitan of Belgrade (1809–1811)* Serbian Orthodox Church
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an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first (Lubavitcher) Rebbe of Chabad (1780–1812), a branc...
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Ecumenical Patriarch (1809–1813)* Church of Constantinople
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the 9th Dalai Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat Buddhism) in Tibet. He was the only Dalai Lama to di...
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Metropolitan of Turnovo (1806–1817)* Bulgarian Orthodox Church
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the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople between the years 1813 and 1818. He was...
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Patriarch of Antioch and All the East (1817–1819)* Syrian Orthodox Church
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Metropolitan of Athens (1799-1820)* Orthodox Church of Greece
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Metropolitan of Durrës and Gora (1805–1820)* Orthodox Church of Albania
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the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 an...
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Leader (Acarya) (1803–1821)* Svetambara Jainism
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the Archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church in the early 19th century at the time that the Gree...
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Islam; Dai al-Mutlaq Leader (1817–1821)* Dawoodi Bohra
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Exarch (appointed by the Russian Church) of Georgia (26 May 1817 - 31 Jul 1821) for the Orthodox ...
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an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809. He edite...
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Metropolitan of Kiev (1803–1822)* Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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Patriarch (1813–1823)* Patriarchate of Antioch
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the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1822-1824. He served as deacon of t...
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Archbishop of Nea Justiniana and All Cypru (1821–1824)* Orthodox Church of Cyprus
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the second Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement from 1812 until his...
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Charles Manners-Sutton 1755, Feb 17 1791
a bishop in the Church of England who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828. Manne...
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Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church. He was from Patmos , a nephew of ...
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Metropolitan of Ethiopia (1816–1829)* Ethiopian Church
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an Anglican priest and theologian. Boys was a prolific writer. In 1825 he published a key to the ...
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a Greek or Albanian scholar and cleric who became Metropolitan of Athens in 1827–1828. Gregory ...
Pope Leo XII 1760, Aug 22 1823
the Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 28 September 1823 to his death in 1829. Leo XII's rei...
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the ruler of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro as the Metropolitan (vladika) of Cetinje, and Exa...
Pope Pius VIII 1761, Nov 20 1785
the Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 31 March 1829 to his death in 1830. His pontificate w...
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Catholicose of All Armenian (1810–1830)* Armenian Apostolic Church
Agathangelus I 1769 1820
the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1826-1830. He was one of the most e...
King George IV 1762, Aug 12 1820
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover following the death of his...
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Jakob Tengstrom 1755, Dec 4 1802
a Finnish Lutheran archbishop. He succeeded Jakob Gadolin upon his death in 1802 where he became ...
Iona 1763 1821
Exarch (appointed by the Russian Church) of Georgia (13 Oct 1821 - 17 Mar 1832) for the Orthodox ...
Gennadios unknown 1831
Lemuel Haynes 1753, Jul 18 1785
an influential African-American religious leader who argued against slavery. At the age of five m...
Yeprem II unknown 1822
Catholicose of Cilicia (1822–1833)* Armenian Apostolic Church
Anthimos VII unknown 1828
Melentije Pavlovic 1776 1831
Metropolitan of Serbia (1815–1816, 1831–1833)* Serbian Orthodox Church.
Constantius I 1770 1805
the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople during the period 1830-1834. He was bor...
Moisey 1783 1832
Exarch (appointed by the Russian Church) of Georgia (24 Mar 1832 - 25 Jul 1834) for the Orthodox ...
Hayim Yakup Benyakar unknown 1800
Chaim Jacob Benyakar (also Jacob Haïm Benyakar) was a Jewish scholar of the 18th / 19th Century ...
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the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople during the period 1834-1835. Before his ...
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Carl von Rosenstein 1766, May 13 1819
1836 1836, Dec 2
the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1819 to 1836. Before that he served as Bishop of ...
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Tsultrim Gyatso 1816, Mar 29 1822
the 10th Dalai Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat Buddhism) of Tibet. Born to a modest family in Chamd...
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0 (1836–1837)* Serbian Orthodox Church
Thomas John Hussey 1792, Apr 4 1835
an English clergyman and astronomer. In his clerical capacity he published several sermons, but h...
Johnny Appleseed 1774, Sep 26 1794
an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario...
Mahmud II 1789, Jul 20 1808
the 30th Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate from 1808 until his deat...
Charles Follen 1796, Sep 6 1818
a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of...
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Chief Rabbi (1835–1839)* Jewish
Johan Olof Wallin 1779, Oct 15 1837
a Swedish minister, orator, poet and later Lutheran Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, Swede...
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an orthodox bishop from the Eparchy of Buda and Metropolitan of Karlovci for the Serbian Orthodox...
Solomon Hirschell 1762, Feb 12 1802
the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, 1802-42. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to ...
Anthimus V unknown 1815
Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople for thirteen months from 1841 to 1842. He ...
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Georgije Hranislav unknown 1841
Dolma Phodrang Padma Dudul unknown 1806
1806-1843, Sakya sect, Throne holder; Buddhism
Alexander Griswold 1766, Apr 22 1836
the 5th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1836 till 1843. He was also the Episcopal B...
Athanasios V unknown 1827
Joseph Smith 1805, Dec 23 1827
an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he ...
Gavriil III unknown 1832
Evgeniy 1784 1834
Exarch (appointed by the Russian Church) of Georgia (13 Sep 1834 - 24 Nov 1844) for the Orthodox ...
Thomas S. Hinde 1785, Apr 19 1801
an American newspaper editor, opponent of slavery, author, historian, real estate investor, Metho...
Meletius III 1772 1828
the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople in 1845. He was protosynkellos during t...
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Pope Gregory XVI 1765, Sep 18 1831
Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigned from 2 February 1831 to his death in 1846. Strongly co...
Erik Gabriel Melartin 1780, Jan 11 1833
the Archbishop of Turku between 1833 and 1847, and (after his death) the spiritual head of the Ev...
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Artemios unknown 1845
He was a respected and very experienced man. He was elected Patriarch of Alexandria by the Ecumen...
William Howley 1766 1828
a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848. Ho...
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William Miller 1782, Feb 15 1809
an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American r...
Ierotheos I unknown 1820
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek orthodox Church (1825-1845). He renovated the Ho...
Neophytos II unknown 1840
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Metropolitan (vladika) (1830–1851)* Montenegrin Orthodox Church
Petar II Petrovic-Njegos 1813, Nov 1 1830
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Carl Fredrik af Wingard 1781, Sep 26 1839
a Swedish politician and Lutheran clergyman, and Archbishop of Uppsala for the Lutheran Swedish C...
Anthimus IV unknown 1825
twice Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople, between 1840 and 1841, and between 1...
Philander Chase 1775, Dec 14 1843
an Episcopal Church bishop, educator, and pioneer of the United States western frontier, especial...
Palden Tenpai Nyima unknown 1782
the seventh Panchen Lama of Gelug (Buddhist Yellow Hat sect), from 1782-1853. In 1810 (or 1811) P...
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served two terms as Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople, from 1842 to 1845 and ...
William Broughton 1788, May 22 1847
the first (and only) Bishop of Australia of the Church of England. (aka the Anglican Church of Au...
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Eduard Morike 1804, Sep 8 1831
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Khendrup Gyatso 1838, Nov 1 1842
the 11th Dalai Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat Buddhism) of Tibet. He was recognised as the Elevent...
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an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early ninete...
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Archbishop of Utrecht (1825–1858)*Old Catholicism: Church of Utrecht
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Innocent unknown 1840
Bishop (1840–1858)* Orthodox Church in America
Isidor 1799 1844
Exarch (appointed by the Russian Church) of Georgia (24 Nov 1844 - 13 Mar 1858) for the Orthodox ...
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Archbishop of Sinai (1804–1859)* Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai
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Metropolitan of Serbia (1833–1859)* Serbian Orthodox Church
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Metropolitan of Athens and All Greece (1833–1862)* Orthodox Church of Greece
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founder of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church...
William Benton Clulow 1802 1835
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Kallinikos I unknown 1850
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Anthimus VI unknown 1845
the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople for three periods from 1845 to 1848, fr...
John Stevens Cabot Abbott 1805, Sep 19 1834
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Pope Pius IX 1792, May 13 1819
the Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 to his death in 1878. He was the longest...
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther 1811, Oct 25 1837
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William Swan Plumer 1802, Jul 26 1834
an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the ...
Aga Khan I 1804 1818
the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in I...
Acarya Jitmal unknown 1851
Frederic Barker 1808, Mar 17 1831
the second Anglican bishop of Sydney. for the Anglican Church of Australia from 1854 to1853). Amo...
Edvard Bergenheim 1798, Sep 18 1850
the Archbishop of Turku and the spiritual head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland betw...
Thomas William Webb 1807, Dec 14 1829
a British astronomer. Through his career T. W. Webb served as a clergyman at various places inclu...
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Oluf Andreas Aabel 1825, Oct 9 1847
a Norwegian priest and writer. He translated Georg Benedikt Winer's Grammatik des neutestamentlic...
Queen Victoria 1819, May 24 1837
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (and Supreme Governor of the Church of E...
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The Long Walk Home, is a favorite of films regarding the 1950s American South. The storyline brings two women together to both play a part in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the women is Miriam Thompson, who is a white, upper middle class housewife with two daughters; the youngest, Mary Catherine, is seven years old. Her sister, Sarah, is in college.
The scenes begin with a Montgomery Alabama bus (1955) pulling up for three black women (all are domestic workers) to board. They walk with backs straight, put their money into the bus meter, then walk out and along the side of the bus to enter at the back. One of the maids, Odessa Carter, works for Mrs. Norman Thompson. Mary Catherine's voice-over describes Odessa, "I called her Dessy. As best as anyone knows, she was the first woman to rock me to sleep. There wasn't anything extraordinary about her. But, I guess there's always something extraordinary about someone who changes and then changes those around her."
Odessa arrives to the Thompson's family enclave, seasoned with its 1950s space age furniture, to meet her usual morning scene. Sarah is looking for her tennis racket so she can meet her boyfriend at the club, Norman asks Miriam to have his golf clubs repaired, as he is heading out to work, and Miriam asks Odessa to take Mary Catherine to the park, as there is to be a cocktail party thrown later that night.
Miriam drives Mary Catherine, Odessa and two of Mary Catherine's friends to Oak Park. Odessa sits in one of the back seats. Miriam drops off Odessa and the girls, telling Odessa to meet her at the same spot at 3p.m., as she should be back from the beauty parlor by then.
The girls run and play, while Odessa puts lunch together. Then, a Montgomery Alabama police officer comes along. He is very tall and big, and as the children look on, he loudly informs Odessa the park is for whites only. Odessa and the children have to leave.
Miriam is incensed at the story of the children and maid's experience in Oak Park and she calls the police office to complain of the incident. It appears her husband (or father) carries a reasonable amount of weight in town as the officer comes to apologize, that very afternoon, to both the maid and the children.
Later that evening, at the cocktail party, Norman's brother, Tucker, hears about how his sister-in-law had the officer come out and apologize for what he did to Odessa and the girls in the park. Tucker tells Miriam, that for a white officer to have to express regret or demureness, to a black maid is, "juus plein ol' wrrong." Miriam becomes irate Tucker should judge her on any given moral synopsis, and responds to his stated perspective by telling him, she knows what is right and knows what is wrong, and she is not to be second guessed by a "wet behind the ears patrolman," nor by Tucker. She then walks off and Tucker can think of no better reply in turn other than to tell his brother he always thought Miriam was a, "hellcat."
Some time went by before an event occurred that really brought Odessa and Miriam together as people: the arrest of Rosa Parks and the boycott of the Montgomery Alabama buses by the African American populace. Parks was the second African American woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white person.
And so, the boycott begins. Some black people had cars, but most did not. And this meant two things:
1. A lot more walking
2. Carpools
The morning after the boycott is announced, the buses roll by Odessa's family home, "That bus is as empty as my grave," Odessa remarks of one going by. Odessa has three children of her own, one girl and two boys. The youngest of the boys asks, "Mom, if we can't ride the bus, do we have to go to school?" Odessa responds with, "Boy, you ain't never took the bus in your life..."
With the boycott comes friction at work for Odessa sometimes arrives late and moves slow as she is tired from the lessened hours of sleep and all the walking. She even has bloodstains on her socks from poor walking shoes. Odessa cannot take the bus, even if she would like to, as a black person taking the bus by themselves is liable to attract a dangerous amount of attention in a small city where white police cannot be relied upon to protect the black community.
The boycott causes increased debates among both the black and white populaces. After walking miles and cleaning house all day, Odessa attends weekday night Church meetings, where the voice of Martin Luther King is heard over the loud speaker saying, "the only weapon we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all..."
Odessa, despite her innately strong work ethic begins to drag around Christmas time. Miriam feels bad and both out of empathy and as a business measure, she agrees to give Odessa a ride from Curb Market, twice a week in the mornings. Mary Catherine is a witness to the carpool agreement between the two women. Miriam informs her daughter, the matter is a secret between them, so there is no need to tell Daddy.
Christmas comes and Odessa, has in her pocket a little gift for Mary Catherine, the same size as the gifts Odessa gave her own children. Though, when Mary Catherine runs up to Odessa to show off her fancy new doll, Odessa puts the little gift back in her pocket. Mary Catherine will never know Odessa bought her a gift for that Christmas day.
Odessa walks home after serving the Thompson's their Christmas, and she walks because it means giving her children a better place in the world. Miriam decides to aid the boycott and carpools even further, perhaps to give her own children a sweeter future, and for herself. Miriam has a good, loving husband, but as time goes by their distance grows over their perspectives of Odessa's place in their family. Miriam becomes part of the underground carpool movement: white women giving rides to African American, mostly domestic workers, in an organized pick up and drop off venue.
The carpool is crashed by white southern male fundamentalists, one of whom is Miriam's husband, and Miriam is caught in the act of aiding the Civil Rights Movement. Her car is vandalized while Mary Catherine looks on in tears and Miriam's own husband stands by, hopeless to make it stop. Tucker, who is at the scene, tells Miriam that she has lost this one. Miriam turns right around and in true spitfire fashion, tells Tucker,"Go to hell, you ignorant sonofa-," and she gets slapped across the face for it. But she stays.
Her husband finally comes to Miriam's physical protection but it is obvious, she and Norman are on two different sides of one line. The women of the carpool, mainly African Americans, begin to sing in response to the white men's chants of "walk n-r walk, walk n-r walk." The women stand their ground and they sing a hymn.
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Keratoconus is a disease that affects the clear transparent front portion of the eye known as the cornea, leading to corneal weakening and irregular forward protrusion and thinning (Picture). The resultant abnormal corneal shape leads to irregular astigmatism and visual degradation, which typically does not improve fully upon correction with eyeglasses. Affected individuals usually complain of blurred vision and distorted contours and shadows around objects, even while wearing their eyeglasses.
What leads to Keratoconus?
What leads to Keratoconus is not fully understood yet. Multiple factors seem to be involved, in part or in total, for the development of the disease. Genetic predisposition is important, as a good proportion of affected individuals have relatives suffering from the same condition. Other factors include allergy and eye rubbing, the latter being regarded as an important factor in the development and progression of the disease.
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Natural Course
Keratoconus typically starts during teenage-hood, but it can sometimes manifest even earlier, as early as 5 years of age. The disease tends to worsen between late teens and mid twenties, then it slows down and stabilizes in the mid to late 30s. Keratoconus does not usually worsen after the age of 40. Affected individuals first experience a progressive and sometimes rapid worsening in their refractive (visual) error, mainly leading to an increase in astigmatism, but also in myopia. Often, one eye tends to be affected more than the other. A careful eye examination and a corneal topography measurement can help diagnose the condition.
A point might be reached when the spectacles would not correct vision fully, with distorted contours and blurred vision persisting even with eyeglasses. At this stage, vision could improve significantly if hard or hybrid contact lenses are worn daily. Lubrication with artificial tears and punctual plugs inserted in the eyelids can improve patients tolerance for hard and hybrid lenses.
Corneal ring segments
Many patients might be intolerant to hard or hybrid contact lenses due allergy, eye dryness, and mechanical rubbing between the steep corneal shape and the lens. At this stage, plastic ring segments known as intrastromal corneal ring segments might be inserted in the cornea using laser technology in order to flatten and regularize corneal shape, and subsequently, improve vision. Intrastromal corneal ring segments are small arc-like pieces made of plastic material that can be found in intraocular lenses placed during cataract surgery. Channels are created in the cornea using a specialized femtosecond laser system. The corneal ring segments are inserted through the laser-created channels. Once in, the cornea tends to flatten and regularize within a few days and up to 6 months. Vision subsequently improves, as does the refractive error. The improvement from the intrastromal corneal ring segments, however, is not necessarily total, and is not always guaranteed. Studies have shown that around 80% of patients do improve significantly. Improvement is defined by better vision and visual quality with or without eyeglasses, a lower refractive error in terms of myopia and astigmatism, or less or no dependency on hard or hybrid contact lenses. Some patients, previously intolerant to hard/hybrid lenses, get to tolerate them again due to corneal flattening and improvement in corneal shape.
Additionally, corneal ring segments insertion procedure is safe and reversible. It is a short and easy procedure performed in the laser suite, under local topical anesthesia. Patients can resume normal activity one or two days later, and their vision usually improves over the next several days and up to 6 months. Corneal rings are hardly noticeable on casual looks, but might be apparent for the astute observer on close-up examination. Ring segments do not usually stop disease progression; they mainly enhance corneal shape, decrease visual errors, and improve vision.
To stop disease progression, one procedure has been proven effective: ultraviolet corneal cross-linking. In Corneal cross-linking, riboflavin (vitamin B2) eye drops are instilled in the eye followed by exposure to a focused ultraviolet light. The combination of the UV light and riboflavin drops produces a reaction inside the cornea, which helps cross-linking corneal macromolecules, and hence, strengthens the cornea and makes it stiffer. A stiff cornea resists further protrusion and thinning and puts a stop to disease progression. Cross-linking works most of the time. Even though the aim of cross-linking is to stabilize the disease process and maintain vision, some patients experience an improvement in vision and a decrease in refractive error. Full visual recovery after corneal cross-linking might take a few weeks and sometimes a few months. Only a very small percentage of patients might experience a final slight worsening in vision after the procedure. Corneal cross-linking is usually offered to patients with documented disease progression and in all affected individuals who are younger than 19 years, as the majority of them have been shown to experience worsening and disease progression. Cross-linking is performed under anesthetic drops and is a comfortable procedure.
Additional surgical interventions
LASIK and laser surface ablation are generally contra-indicated in keratoconus patients. However, in certain situations, customized minimal laser surface ablation or PRK, combined with or performed after UV cross-linking, can improve vision. Additionally, patients with stable disease and enjoying an acceptable visual acuity with their eyeglasses can be sometimes candidates for implantable corrective lens procedure (ICL), which could minimize and often eliminate the dependency on spectacles. Patients suffering from poor vision, intolerant to hard or hybrid contact lenses, and not candidate for ring segment insertion (or having failed to improve after the procedure) might benefit from corneal transplantation. Successful outcome is expected in 90 to 95 % of young keratoconus patients. Full visual recovery, however, might take up to a year to be attained. Risks include corneal graft rejection and graft failure. A small percentage of patients might still need to be fitted with hard or hybrid lenses even after corneal transplantation.
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What to do when an individual is diagnosed with keratoconus? Two targets should be in mind: vision enhancement and vision stabilization. First, vision enhancement: If eyeglasses fail to improve vision, then hard or hybrid contact lenses should be tried. In case of intolerance, then corneal ring segments are indicated to optimize vision. Customized laser surface treatment combined with cross-linking can help in improving vision in some patients, even after ring segment placement. Second: vision stabilization. If age is below 40, a corneal topography and an eye exam need to be performed every 6 months to one year to ensure disease stability. If disease progression is documented, whether on initial or on subsequent examinations, then corneal cross-linking is mandatory. If the affected individual is younger than 19 years, a corneal cross-linking is indicated regardless of documented disease progression.
As a summary of interventional measures to improve vision, if eyeglasses correct vision satisfactorily, no further modality is sought. If vision remains blurry even with spectacle wear, a trial of hard or hybrid lenses is initiated. If the latter could not be tolerated, then corneal ring segment insertion procedure is indicated. Meanwhile, regular follow-ups should be scheduled and corneal cross-linking can be performed at any stage if disease progression is documented. If all fails, corneal transplantation is performed to restore sight. Your eye doctor should guide you on which treatment modality is right for you and when to schedule your next follow up appointment to monitor disease progression.
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From Aesop to Incubus - The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Whiskey Era.
A couple of years ago my friend Mark Hughes from South Africa came across a dusty bottle of American whiskey called "Imperial" and posted a picture on Facebook. (He writes a very good whisky blog, BTW:
http://fr1day.co.za/) I looked it up. There were a ton of ads which helped to date it because of bottle shape changes. As a cheap blended American whiskey it was an inexpensive and high profit margin product for Hiram Walker, its producer, because its was mostly grain neutral spirits which are cheap to produce and are not aged. Whisky companies tend to put a lot of image advertising into these types of products because the whisky doesn't sell itself and the profits justify the advertising costs. The ads changed a lot over the years - in a way that reflected the values of the times in a way I found fascinating. But as I dug deeper into the story it got even more interesting... (The story that is, not the actual whiskey itself. There will be tasting notes at the end of a dusty 1980s bottle of this stuff; This isn't a gourmet whiskey. It's for mixing, not drinking neat.) Imperial, as it turns out, has a contested and somewhat mysterious past.
When I looked up the ads, the earliest ones I found were from 1943, they follow thickly until 1975 when they abruptly disappear (other than supermarket price listing ads). Given the 1943 beginnings I wasn't too surprised to find the Bourbon Enthusiast forum timetable gives the following bit of information:
1941 - "Imperial" whiskey is introduced by Hiram Walker
(Brown, 200 Years of Tradition, p. 108).
http://www.bourbonenthusiast.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1818
But as it turns out, that's not true. Hiram Walker sued Penn-Maryland corporation in 1935 for trademark infringement over use of the brand name "Imperial" claiming to have sold whiskey under that brand name since 1887:
79 F.2d 836 (1935)
HIRAM WALKER & SONS, Inc., v.PENN-MARYLAND CORPORATION.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
December 2, 1935.
"This is an appeal from an order granting a temporary injunction restraining the appellant's use of the word "Imperial" as a trade-mark for whisky. The order was based upon the infringement of a registered trade-mark for the word "Imperial" for appellee's product. The court below granted the injunction after issue was joined and upon affidavits. The appellant in selling its whisky has a brand name, "Penn-Maryland Imperial.
It is alleged that appellee and its predecessors have sold distilled whisky under the name "Imperial" since 1887, principally in Canada up to 1891, and since the latter year it has sold quantities in the United States. It is also alleged there were sales in large quantities and extensive advertising in the United States and that the purchasing public in the United States have come to identify the whisky to which this name is applied as that of the appellee.
Appellee complained to the appellant about the use of the word "Imperial," and the appellant asserted that under the circumstances it was proper for it to use the word. Indeed, Henry H. Schufeldt & Co., like appellant, a subsidiary of the National Distillers Products Corporation, used "Imperial" as a trade-mark for gin continuously from 1868 to the date of Prohibition, antedating the appellee's first use even in Canada. Appellant's affiliate also used "Imperial Crown" for cherries and olives used in making cocktails. The record only shows sales by appellee of its brand in the United States, prior to Prohibition, to be 964 cases and 37 barrels for the year ending August 31, 1891; 1 case in March, 1896; 2 cases in August, 1902; 1 case in December, 1909; and 1 case in September, 1917. No sales could be made during the Prohibition period, but 5,210 cases of appellee's brand were sold here between the date of Repeal and October, 1934, when appellant put its brand on the market, and of these 4,964 cases were sold in the state of Michigan. The appellee sets forth the total, which was very large, of the sales of its brand in Canada and elsewhere, prior to Prohibition, but submits no figures, other than those above, as to sales in the United States.
The word "Imperial" is descriptive and indicative of quality. Webster's New International Dictionary defines it as "of superior or unusual size or excellence;
http://www.leagle.com/decision/193591579F2d836_1629.xml/HIRAM%20WALKER%20&%20SONS,%20INC.%20v.%20PENN-MARYLAND%20CORPORATION
The Pre-Pro web site corroborates this in a list of brand names used before Prohibtion:
Hiram Walker Established 1858
The company used the brand names:
"Biltmore", "Canadian Club", "Canadian Club", "Gold Capsule", "Hiram Walker", "Imperial", "The Epicure", "W", and "Walker's Father Time."
http://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/view_vendor.php?vid=DTW11355
Sanitarium Hotel October 4, 1893 Banff Maine Wine List
From NYPL - http://menus.nypl.org/menu_pages/41892
And the New York Public Library's restaurant menu project shows the Banff, Maine, Sanitarium Hotel's October 4, 1893 Wine List proudly selling Walker's Imperial just two years after the lawsuit claims Hiram Walker began importing Imperial into the USA in 1891. (Note - the prices are for whole bottles only. Wine and beer were sold by the pint and quart, but whiskey and brandy was apparently only sold by the whole bottle. If anyone knows what G. & D. is, or can illuminate what the "White Wheat" was I'd love to hear it. I suspect a local agricultural whiskey).
But I've never seen a bottle or an image of a bottle from before the 1940s. Was it a blended whiskey? A Bourbon? A rye? What was the mash bill? If anyone has any further information about the Pre-Prohibition incarnation of Hiram Walker's Imperial I'd love to hear about it.
Update: John Lipman - of http://www.ellenjaye.com/ fame - just came up with a link which has the answer: a pre-pro shot glass on Pre-Pro.com which shows that pre-Prohibition incarnation of Imperial was a rye - at least for a portion, if not all, of the period. Although he points out that it might have been a "rye" in the Canadian sense (where actual rye whiskey might have just been a flavoring). In the era before the Food and Drug Act of 1906 you never knew what was in there.
http://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/view_glass.php?sid=RRP864
http://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/images/shots/RRP864.jpg
But from 1941 to the present, Hiram Walker's Imperial is a blended American whiskey, sold at a low price and from 1943 to 1975 I find a ton of ads that charts a progression of priorities that says something about America. It starts with WWII and wartime rationing. The first ads for Imperial are a set of allegorical stories justifying the "one bottle per customer" rationing rules for whiskey. The illustrations are animal themes which are explicitly allegorical and reference classical sources such as Aesop's fables.
This ad (1943 Life Magazine) reads: "This is no time for gobblers"
"No one can have a lot in these times of little - or someone else will most certainly get less than he needs.
And that's why rationing of essential and vital things is a national "must" -for if all are to have what they need, a few can't have all they want.
But no such solid rules apply to less essential things - and they're the things we have to be careful not to "gobble up." A few gobbles and these, too, might be gone. No one knows this better than your liquor dealer. That is why "only one bottle to a customer" may be most conspicuous thing in his store. No one knows better than he that this is no time for gobblers.
With every distillery in America making war alcohol instead of whiskey, present stocks of whiskey must last for a longer time than anyone had foreseen. And a little for all now is the best insurance against none for anyone later." Imperial ... it's "velveted"
Blended whiskey, 86 proof, 70% grain neutral spirits. Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, Ill.
The Aesops fables theme was a whole series of ads
Tortoise & Hare from
The story is about rationing and it explicitly references the fact that distilleries aren't putting up whiskey because all production has been shifted to industrial alcohol for war production. But there's marketing too. An explicit reference to the blended nature of the whiskey is the phrase "...it's velveted" which seems to argue that the soft (weak) flavors of the blend are actually a good thing. I also get the impression that the weakness of the flavor of the blend is also being somehow justified as part of the "noble sacrifice" of wartime good citizenship. The use of animal visual anecdotes puts the issue in a classical, almost elemental frame of reference.
After the war ended, Imperial rolled out a new advertising theme: American laborers rolling barrels of whiskey in industrial environments. The tagline is: "88 years at fine whiskey-making makes this whiskey good". The small block of text at right reads: "86 proof. The straight whiskies in this product are 4 years or more old. 30% straight whiskey. 70% grain neutral spirits. Hiram Walker & Sons, Peoria, Ill."
Illustration by Fred Ludekens 1946
The title of the painting in the ad above is "Whiskey Going to the Rackhouse to Age". The irony is that product is less than 1/3rd whiskey. The content is the claim that Hiram Walker knows how to make good whiskey because they've been doing it for a long time, but the fact is that they hadn't been doing it in Peoria for the entire duration of WWII. This is an exercise in branding referencing a form of wishful thinking about whiskey. But it's also something more. The image of the heroic laborer evokes a mythic representation of labor itself, within a specific context of the labor movement, the rise of communism and socialism, and the previous decades New Deal and WPA. For example, here is an image of laborers pushing barrels from a 1936-37 WPA project public works mural:
Gordon Grant WPA mural, Ventura CA post office
http://www.experiencingla.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
By using themes of labor in their whisky advertising they seek to associate Imperial with an ascendant American working class - and by association with the aesthetics of an American industry which had just literally conquered the world in WWII.
The "Labor" theme was a whole series of ads too.
(and this collage is not remotely complete)
The worker rolling the barrel became the brand's logo, used in advertisements for a number of years in the late 40s. Look at the lower left hand corner of this 1948 Life magazine ad:
By the early 1950s the message of the age of the brand had become the focus, with a series of ads showing partying late 1890s or early 1900s partying people singing the radio jingle:
By the mid-1950s Imperial changed the message again to one of macho heroism with a famous series of ads that showed specific men associated with really macho activities such as boat racing, big game hunting, deep sea diving, sport fishing, and bronco busting:
1955 print ad. This guy killed jaguars with a spear.
The motto here is "FOR MEN AMONG MEN THERE IS A WHISKEY AMONG WHISKIES - IMPERIAL" and the tag line "Man, this is whiskey!" I can't help but think they are over compensating for the fact that Imperial is a weak flavored blend. But this is image advertising after all. The point here is that the heroism of labor isn't sexy any more. Big macho maleness is what was sexy in mid-century America.
Update: in contrast to the example I made large above, it occurs to me that most of the men depicted are rather un-macho. They are all actually a bit goofy or boyish or even a a bit feminine (like the polar hunter in the lavender fur lined coat). I wonder if there's a subliminal anti-macho message here that ties into the soft blended whiskey.
Man, this is whiskey! was a whole series of ads in from 1954-1956.
By the early 1960s the theme shifted to class. From 1962 to 1967 Imperial ran a series of ads that showed a chauffeur carrying a case of Imperial to a 1930s classic Rolls Royce Phantom. Other ads showed people bringing cases of Imperial to fancy yachts, airplanes, boats, vacation home garden parties etc...
Just as in the 1940s, the theme is a laborer moving the whiskey, but now, instead of noble empowered labor rolling the barrel as the logo, it's a servant of the rich (a chauffeur) carrying a case. (look at the lower left hand corner of the ski plane ad in the lower right hand corner of the collage above - and you can see the carrying chauffeur used as a logo of the brand). The theme of class had become totally inverted. Does this represent the growing affluence of mid-century USA or is it simply a reflection of the shifting aesthetics of an ascendant American culture focusing less on how it had become affluent than simply on the fact that it was?
By 1973 the tag line shifted to the sexual revolution. Imperial was now the "Good-Natured Whiskey" with the tag line "It mixes well." - with a clear context showing that the mixing was between the sexes. In 1975 this took its final, darker, turn with the advent of "The Imp" ad campaign.
This series of ads re-brands Imperial as "The Imp" - a kind of "ruffie" date rape drug for use in seducing women. The ad copy of "The Imp Next Door" ad reads: "Meet the Imp: Imperial. It mixes so smoothly you might never guess what it's up to. But for breaking the ice, it's up to your highest expectations. Try the Imp tonight with someone you know. Or borrow a cupful from someone you'd like to know better." The Imp campaign also introduced a new logo. It's a representation of an imp - a goblin like creature from Germanic folk-lore associated with demons. The specific image they chose - which is depicted as a medallion worn somewhere on the beauties in the ads is a satyr - a classical allegorical image of lust. But the satyr is a fun allegory.
"The Imp" logo - a satyr.
The implication that you might use the stealthy softness of Imperial to trick a woman into getting more inebriated than she planned with the aim of seducing her is more akin to the classical demon, the incubus which is described in the Wiki as follows:
"An incubus (nominal form constructed from the Latin verb, incubo, incubare, or "to lie upon") is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have sexual intercourse with them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus
I discussed this campaign within the larger context of how women were depicted in American whiskey advertising a couple of months ago:
In that post I wrote: "Overt and inappropriate sexuality was the centerpiece of the Imperial blended whiskey "Imp" ad campaign too. The tag line was the text "it brings out the imp in all of us" at the bottom of each ad in the series' block of text. But the photo, with the woman wearing a choker with a devilish imp medallion, shows that the imp is the sexually available woman herself. The clear implication is that plying the modern sexually liberated woman with whiskey will produce some kind of love slave that "he can call his own". It's an inversion of feminism's appropriation of sexual liberation into a kind of sexual slavery or ownership on the part of the male reader who, presumably was feeling a little defensive about this feminism stuff. It's worth noting that this was the last national ad campaign for Imperial - a venerable Hiram Walker brand - before it disappeared into the world of ultra-bottom shelf well whiskey where it has languished ever since."
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2014/05/women-in-american-whiskey-advertising.html
Hiram Walker's plant in Peoria, Illinois closed in 1982 and the brand was sold off to Oscar Getz's Barton, and production moved to Bardstown, KY the following year. Then, as John Lipman writes in his excellent history of Barton Brands:
"In 1993, Barton Brands which had been acquiring other brands left and right, was purchased by the Canandaigua wine company, primarily for two reasons. One was their distribution rights for Corona beer; the other was because Canandaigua had recently purchased the Paul Masson and Taylor wine companies -- both of whom were producers of distilled brandy -- and intended for them to be aged and bottled (if not originally distilled) in Bardstown. As we visit today, we can see cases of Paul Masson brandy being bottled and cased. Also Walker's Imperial."
http://www.ellenjaye.com/barton.htm
Barton finally ended up with Sazerac Company - the parent company of Buffalo Trace, A. Smith Bowman in Virginia, Glenmore, as well as Barton Brands. Imperial now exists solely as a bottom shelf well whiskey. The Whiskey-Reviewer in his epic pan writes:
"One sniff, and you might feel like Tom Joad in the Great Dust Bowl, searching for a jar of Smuckers Strawberry Jam in a duststorm, only to find there’s just one jar of the stuff, that’s been left open for a few weeks and is now about 51% dust.
A sickly, artificial sweetness (that expired Smuckers again) dominates what little taste Imperial has, with a hint of metal lurking about the edge. The finish? Imagine scarfing an ashtray spilling-over with week-old cigarette butts soaked in splash of last nights beer and, well, that’s close. Yes, there’s some vanilla, and yes, it is a surprisingly – you might say frighteningly – smooth finish, but the taint of stale, beer-doused cigarettes is what lingers, and it lingers for quite some time."
and concludes:
"The Price $7.99 for a fifth. Enough said"
http://whiskeyreviewer.com/2013/05/imperial-american-whiskey-review/
I found a dusty bottle on a store shelf in the ghetto of Roseville, Newark, NJ. It has a faux tax strip (after 1985), no health warning (before 1989), is a metric 375ml (post 1980), and sports a UCP code (post 1980). This constellation of attributes puts the bottle in the late 1980s - probably 1986-89.
Imperial Blended American Whiskey 40% abv. Bardstown late 1980s dusty. 70% grain neutral spirits.
Color: light amber
Nose: grassy light floral lavender and grape. Underneath some earthy Bourbon citrus and leather. A pale and washed out nose, but the aromas that are present are fine.
Palate: Sweet and light on the opening with grape bug juice and magic marker. The midpalate brings in some leather and tobacco and earthy Bourbon flavors, but light and a bit far away. The finish is relatively short. Sometimes I get a little whiff of vodka in the finish. Put head to head with a contemporary bottling of Wilson (another venerable old blended American whiskey - a rye until Prohibition and a blended American whiskey from Repeal on. Now currently made at Barton as well.) shows great similarity and fairly similar flavors. The Wilson has more spirit heat and burn, but a tad more vividness of flavor. This Imperial is weak and a bit flabby. This might be almost 30 years of bottle maturation. Or not. Certainly not anything to write home about, or even drink neat. This is for putting into soda or a cocktail where whiskey plays a minor role.
Conclusions: Imperial begins with Hiram Walker's Canadian strategy to avoid Detroit's distillation restrictions and arrives in America as an import. After Repeal it is a Peoria Illinois product that fit mid-century tastes for light whiskey used in highballs and cocktails and was sold with references to America's industrial might and ascendant working classes - possibly referring to its low price. It represented, like a mirror, American notions of the macho maleness of whiskey drinking (ironic as the product is smooth and weak) and some ironic attempts at class (ironic because the product is dirt cheap) before ending up failing as a pre-sex social lubricant and disappearing to the bottom shelf. American blended whiskey failed because it's not as flavorful as real whiskey (which is GNS free) and isn't as smooth and easy mixing as the white spirits which slayed whiskey from the 70s to the 90s. Whiskey's revival is about the full flavors of real whiskey. Blended American whiskey is cut with un-aged grain neutral spirits so it has no role to play in whiskey's revival. Its sole play is a low price point.
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Joshua Feldman August 3, 2014 at 8:05 PM
Chap Godbey just put this into a comment on The Coopered Tot's Facebook page: "Oh, man! This is less silliy a pursuit than one might think. This was Pittsburgh steel's drink; the whiskey part of a boilermaker, the Imp'n'Arn. It's so famous in Pittsburgh history that mentions of it in the bars made me go hunting for Imperial...and I screwed that up, thinking it was the Scotch single malt, but that's another story. Anyhow. If you're gonna get hammered then an Imp'n'Arn was your 1950s/1960s choice."
ImNotDrunk August 3, 2014 at 8:43 PM
Good post, Josh.
EllenJ August 7, 2014 at 7:39 PM
"The point here is that the heroism of labor isn't sexy any more. Big macho maleness is what was sexy in mid-century America.
Update: in contrast to the example I made large above, it occurs to me that most of the men depicted are rather un-macho."
I think the main point is that the men are all dressed for interesting professions; not like whatever the target consumer is actually drawing an hourly wage for doing. Nothing ever changes. The grandsons of those idiots are now buying tasteless, wimpy Mexican light lager because the "most interesting man in the world" does. Never mind that what he ends each commercial with is the advice that, if Dos Equis is the best your bar has to offer you, "stay thirsty, my friend".
Joshua Feldman August 12, 2014 at 10:50 PM
John - I think you're right with the analogy to "The World's Most Interesting Man". Those guys have sexy jobs. The guys themselves look oddly wimpy or goofy (with the exception of the jaguar killing guy who looks actually deadly). The polar hunter is effeminate and is actually wearing a lavender jacket. The African big game hunter has the weakest chin I've ever seen on a man. Actually they all are rather skinny and dweeby - so much so that I suspected that this was a hidden part of the message. Kind of like those ads for alcohol free beer that depict a man being henpecked. I wondered if by choosing macho job guys who weren't very macho they were sending some kind of subliminal message. My first thought there was "homosexual message". I wondered if all these guys weren't somehow famous in the gay community (which would be unknown to the straight community). Then I wondered if having the guys appear physically weak was a subliminal reference to the weakness of the whiskey's flavor. In the end I didn't mention any of that because it's all just wild speculation. But your point about the exotic and interesting nature of their work is compelling. As Chap Godbey pointed out, the typical drinker of this was a shift worker in a Pittsburg steel mill ordering an "Imp 'n Arn" after work. Boat racing and sport fishing look pretty good after 9 hours at the mill.
Mick Hunt August 7, 2015 at 3:01 AM
Great post. Thanks. Was reading a book about modern Honduran folk tales and the writer (Ardy Clarke) alluded to Imperial, no idea what that was.
The Coopered Tot July 6, 2016 at 1:49 PM
There was also an Imperial distillery in Scotland - but I don't think the Honduran folk tales were about that.
i found a shelf full. old liquor stamps and all.
Very cool. If you need any help identifying, valuaing, or historifying, e-mail me: josh[at]cooperedtot.com
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Experience As Evidence
by Daniel Simpson
Image: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
An essay on academic exploration of contemplative states
Are You Experienced? How Can I Tell?
Like many in the past half-century in the West, I first encountered meditation in a book. Its title seemed to sum up the process: Experience Beyond Thinking.1 As such, it said more about modern preoccupations. So intense is the yearning for "Headspace" that a self-help app of that name has more than a million stressed subscribers.2 Contemporary interest in altering consciousness has its pitfalls, potentially skewing our views of texts, as well as the contexts they arise in. Practitioners and scholars can see the world through different lenses, which are challenging to reconcile.
Experience can sometimes be verified, for example when it relates to occupation. If someone claims to have taught at SOAS, we can check.3 But the meanings concerning us here pertain to private inner states. We cannot observe what another perceives, just what they say about it, or the neural activity it entails. This is complicated further by the kinds of experience under the spotlight, which access insight by transcending cogitation. They amount to: "I do not think, therefore it is." And yet precisely what it is, we cannot say.
Nonetheless, many people have tried, undeterred by what Robert Sharf calls the "logical impossibility" of a first-person account of deep absorption, in which mental processes seem to shut down.4 Discussing this sort of transcendence makes it end. Hence someone reporting a mystical incident speaks from memory, one step removed from a non-dual state that defies definition, because of its non-conceptual nature.5 This yields reflections like Aldous Huxley's on taking mescaline, which reduced him to "being my Not-Self in the Not-Self which was the chair."6
To Huxley and fellow Perennial philosophers, such forms of immersion are encounters with divinity, and thus the core of all religion: awakening to the bliss of pure awareness. However, as Sharf and others argue, scholars "do not have access to mystical experiences per se, but only to texts that purport to describe them, and the perennialists systematically misconstrue these texts" to fit their universalised assumptions.7 Stripped of context, they might sound alike, but Sharf finds "little internal evidence to indicate that these very disparate accounts are actually referring to one and the same experience."8
For over a century, blurring boundaries has been popular. Richard King sees this as part of "the modern privatization of religion", an experiential defence against secular refutation.9 A lifetime before Jimi Hendrix asked: "Are You Experienced?" William James framed "true religion" in similar terms, which have "almost become received wisdom", as King identifies: "the private, religious and mystical experiences of individuals."10 James had allies in Asian contemporaries, from Hindus such as Vivekananda and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to the Japanese Buddhist D.T. Suzuki, who all posited forms of experience accessible to anyone regardless of creed.11
Their syncretic approach foreshadowed photo quotes on Facebook, decontextualising insights from the scriptures that interpret them. In Vivekananda's view, studying texts was merely "intellectual opium-eating", notes Anantanand Rambachan.12 Their contents were "useful only to the extent that they confirm what one has known directly." At best, they might function as maps, which "can create only curiosity for first-hand knowledge of the place and can communicate only a vague conception of its reality."13 They "become meaningful only when one has lifted oneself to the same heights of perception."
Vivekananda's remix of Vedanta was couched in Western-friendly terms.14 But he channelled the Upanishadic notion that the ultimate reality cannot be conceptually defined: words can only say what it is not. Therefore analysis of ancient texts might seem superfluous. Sharf begs to differ. "While meditation may have been esteemed in theory, it did not occupy the dominant role in monastic and ascetic life that is sometimes supposed," he concludes from a survey of Buddhist treatises, whose authors were at pains to avoid giving personal testimony.15 Though the texts speak of meditative states, important terms remain unclear. Some are even contradictory, which suggests they were scholastic attempts to align early teachings with subsequent commentary.16 The writers may have tried to induce what they thought the Buddha had experienced, as opposed to explaining how they copied him.
"This is not to deny that veteran Buddhist meditators have 'experiences'," Sharf concedes, "just that the relationship between what they 'experience' and what they say about it is far more tenuous than is sometimes believed."17 Sharf's bugbear is the "unremitting indeterminacy" of "experience", which acts as a placeholder word "for the endless deferral of meaning."18 On one hand, what people read can shape what happens to them, while on the other, their own perception seems invalid unless it conforms to expectations. And since no one defines what means what, and no one can, "Buddhist meditation might best be seen as the ritualization of experience," with spiritual accomplishments subject to external validation, according to someone else's arbitrary criteria.19
Related problems apply to adherents of all traditions. Significance is socially constructed in multiple ways, not least in language in our heads. With an echo of Immanuel Kant, Richard Cohen contends we can only perceive phenomena, whereas the "noumena" of things "as they are", untouched by thought, remain elusive.20 "Sense experience never operates in an unmediated fashion," Cohen says.21 "What seems to be direct perception of worldly objects is, in fact, always already an amalgam of sense impressions and intellection."
ALL IN THE MIND?
Such assertions were debated intensely in the 1980s.22 Most scholars agreed that a "context-free" experience was unfeasible, although some critics of constructivist theory saw a flaw. "If one's experiences are socially constructed," King observes, "how can one ever come up with anything new?"23 Even so, a consensus emerged around the tenets of constructivism, deeming "views from nowhere" as unrealistic as "views from everywhere": cultural conditioning was bound to determine how we interpreted experience, and no experience was fully detached from interpretative processes.24
Robert Forman led the voices of dissent, advancing a compromise he alludes to in his memoir.25 "Some experiences I shape a lot, some less, and a few are genuinely unexpected," Forman writes. "When we encounter something off our chart, our prior expectations just can't be creating it. We cannot cook up what we cannot imagine." In other words, sensory space is preserved for the "pure consciousness events" he experienced as a meditator.26 "In these brief moments, one is aware of no particular content for awareness, yet still remains awake," he reports. "We might describe the 'structure' of experience at those moments as consciousness having no relationship between itself and its objects."
Post-structuralists would find this absurd, because of our consciousness of language, which entraps us in our minds.27 Without objects against which to define its sense of self, how could a subject still exist? According to Forman, by being enlightened. "One now knows oneself to be spacious, bottomless, open and empty," he explains.28 "And this new vastness is sensed as separate from everything one sees or thinks." Perceiving itself as the witness of all experience, consciousness shifts. And yet while Forman repeatedly calls this a "permanent" shift, he only accepted it 20 years after it occurred.29
Everything changed in a conversation with Ram Dass, the American author of Be Here Now, and in the Sixties a Harvard-based evangelist for psychedelic drugs.30 "I narrated the expansion of silence," Forman recalls. "He understood." Then, "looking deep into my eyes with his bottomless gaze and a kindly smile of recognition, he said simply, 'yeah, this is that'." Whereupon Forman felt confirmed in his enlightenment. "All my wonderings and confusions and disillusionments simply vanished," he reflects, before recounting how he bawled his eyes out in a toilet. "Finally I could be sure I wasn't making all this up."
The irony in this admission goes unmentioned. Instead, he explores his reasons for self-doubt. He was expecting more powerful change from "cosmic consciousness", as his guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi called the objective. Straightforward silence seemed too simple by comparison. It offered no "cure for heartaches", or the panic attacks that had plagued him since his youth. "Because it wasn't what I had hoped for," Forman muses, "I missed what it was."31
Although Ram Dass's comment ("this is that") recalled the Upanishadic mantra tat tvam asi ("you are that", or every thing is everything), consulting texts for reassurance proved no help. Forman lists mystics from many traditions with whom he compared himself.32 He wound up perplexed by terminology. Was he full like a Hindu whose vision expanded to take in the universe, or as empty as Buddhists? In the end, he concluded they all meant something similar. "Buddhist texts like the Diamond Sutra are awfully grand," he objects. "Can we have been overblowing enlightenment to this extent? Can it be that a modest yet permanent shift in the structure of consciousness is pretty much what those wizened old sages were after?"
As tempting as it may be to deduce this, proof eludes us. Sharf cites historical evidence that Buddhist monks have more often chanted meditational scriptures in search of merit than attempted to embody them.33 Besides, we rarely know who compiled a given text, or what they left out from whatever was circulating orally. This makes it hard to be clear who did what, never mind why they did it. In the case of the Rig Veda, the oldest surviving Hindu hymns, depictions of ritual in archaic Sanskrit pose a challenge for translators.
Uncertainty leaves a vacuum for conjecture. Vedic references to Soma are widely assumed to mean a drug, though no one knows what form this took, or if ancient seers were really high. David Frawley attributes their ecstasy to "the bliss of pure perception," not an external psychotropic.34 "Drinking the Soma is a state of consciousness," he claims. "We imbibe the essence of what is, we absorb the being of what we see and enter into the universal life." This formulation sounds Upanishadic, as if deciphering the distant past with more recent knowledge. Either way, it seems hard to disprove; what was experienced in bygone millennia is no less mysterious than people's inner worlds today.
As Alan Wallace laments, science has yet to make use of introspection.35 "Methods of investigating the mind are limited to the materialistic approaches of studying the brain and behaviour,"36 while "the scientific community has not yet agreed upon a definition of consciousness; has no objective, scientific means of measuring it; and does not know the necessary and sufficient causes for [its] generation."37 To do so requires different paradigms. Wallace argues that anyone can learn to still thoughts and mental images. But if "the only way experimenters can be certain that mental states exist is to experience them," what do their findings tell anyone else, apart from urging them to meditate?38
In the end, neither science nor texts can say much more than stand-up comics. Consider this satire by Bill Hicks,39 in which a newscaster talks about drugs the way people experience them:
Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively; there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
No words convey experience in its entirety. But academics still need to engage with first-hand evidence. Had the Buddha not spoken of his, I might never have bought a meditation book. In Wallace's opinion, contemplatives ought to join forces with philosophers and scientists, "to take the next step in our spiritual evolution."40 To pursue this, subjective research should be inter-subjective, acknowledging fluidity between observers and the observed, while collectively shaping less destructive lifestyles.
Mental Science
Buddhists have engaged with science since Christian missionaries called them backward. Inspired by Western scholars, who saw in "human Buddhism" a psychology "of incontestable value", 19th century modernisers rebranded Buddhism as a science of the mind. In the latest cross-cultural fusion, Tibetan Buddhist meditators are being studied by scientists in the lab, but scans of their brains have yet to yield major breakthroughs. Insights from practice can't be measured on a screen.
Diana St Ruth, Experience Beyond Thinking: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Totnes: Buddhist Publishing Group, 1993). ↩
"Get Some Headspace," accessed 30 October 2014. ↩
"Departments," SOAS, University of London, accessed 30 October 2014. ↩
Robert Sharf, "Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience," Numen, 42, no. 3 (1995), p.237. ↩
Robert Sharf, "The Rhetoric of Experience and the Study of Religion," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7.11-12 (2000), p.277. ↩
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (London: Chatto & Windus, 1954), p.8. ↩
Sharf, "The Rhetoric of Experience," p.270. ↩
Ibid. ↩
Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East" (London: Routledge, 1999), p.12. ↩
Ibid., pp.21-2. ↩
Ibid., pp.156-8. ↩
Anantanand Rambachan, "The Nature and Authority of Scripture: Implications for Hindu-Christian Dialogue," Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 8, Art. 4 (1995), p.23. ↩
King, Orientalism and Religion, p.156. ↩
Martin Stuart-Fox, "Jhana and Buddhist Scholasticism," The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (1989), pp.79-110. ↩
Sharf, "Buddhist Modernism," p.233. ↩
Ibid., p.268. ↩
Richard Cohen, Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity (London: Routledge, 2006). ↩
Ibid., p.11. ↩
Robert Forman, Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul (Winchester: O Books, 2011), p.84. ↩
Harold Coward, "Derrida and Nagarjuna," in Harold Coward, Derrida and Indian Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), p.138. ↩
Forman, Enlightenment Ain't, p.70. ↩
Ibid., pp.56-68. ↩
Sharf, "Buddhist Modernism," pp.240-6. ↩
David Frawley, Wisdom of the Ancient Seers: Mantras of the Rig Veda (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992), pp.189-191. ↩
Alan Wallace, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). ↩
Bill Hicks, "Revelations: Live at the Dominion Theatre, London," YouTube video (1993), accessed 31 October 2014. ↩
Wallace, Mind in the Balance, pp.197-9. ↩
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Second Edition of CARAT+ in Antwerp Welcomes Almost 4,000 Visitors
The second edition of CARAT+ recorded a total of 3,829 visitors during the three-day event, up from 2,927 last year, the organizers said.
Among the visitors were diamond professionals, buyers and members of the press from 50 countries, including India, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom.
"Despite this year-on-year growth from the inaugural edition in 2017, CARAT+ understands the need to widen its scope and will now introduce further initiatives to encourage more retailers, designers, brands and buyers to attend in 2019," according to a statement.
More than 2,400 visitors attended the inaugural day of CARAT+ 2018 and CARAT+ Night alone.
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George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine
Venue: Foyer - De Expeditie, Dok Noord 4F, 9000 Gent
Date: 18.02.2018 > 24.02.2018 - 10:00 - 17:00
For George Jackson, like many Black revolutionaries, prison was a place of both political captivity and radical education. Less well-known is the fact that Jackson also turned to the Palestinian struggle for inspiration during this time, and that the Palestinian prisoner writings that influenced him would continue to have an impact in the US Black community for decades to come. That encounter has now inspired an exhibition that highlights the historic and continuing kinship between the Palestinian and Black American prisoners’ movements. Curated by Tufts University’s English and Africana studies professor Greg Thomas, George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine features international book covers, paintings, political posters and other works tied to Jackson’s life and the US prisoners movement. Prof. Greg Thomas points to a common language shared by Black Americans and Palestinians, for whom widespread incarceration of their communities is not an issue of crime and punishment, but the result of a system designed to punish them for their very presence.
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Trailer: Garm Wars – The Last Druid
Mamoru Oshii is known to most mainstream audiences as anime director behind the popular Ghost In The Shell film series, as well as the Patlabor animated tv and film series. To the more hardcore among us, he’s also known for his experimental live action films which he’s been making for about as long as the animated work. Films like Red Spectacles, Stray Dog which later became the animated cult classic Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, and Avalon.
The esoteric subject matter makes most of his live action efforts unpalatable to some, but serious film fans shouldn’t hesitate to seek them out. This latest film, however, appears to be more of the sort of thing that general audiences might enjoy without an encyclopedia.
The film is set in a scifi future torn by war. The various factions fight their battles with clone armies and society has forgotten why they fight. The plot appears to follow one of these clones as it discovers the truth behind the world. So, basically it’s Star Wars from the point of view of a rogue Storm Trooper. Interesting.
Here’s the trailer and head over to ANN for more news.
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Hotstuff: On this spot from 1988 to 2014 ... it rocked
By Linda Seubold
Who is that right in the center of the crowd? It's Linda.
On this spot from 1988 to 2014 ... it rocked
Some prime downtown property at 815/817 Garrison Avenue may, or may not, have a new owner when you read this column.
But one thing is certain – whoever buys or leases this unique restaurant/music venue from its longtime owner, Bill Neumeier, will be on hallowed ground. It has been an important piece of downtown Fort Smith food and entertainment history from 1988-2014.
Bill's popular food and music businesses began when he opened a bright, friendly diner called Coney Island at that location with the help of a friend and former boss, Bob Hartness. Coney Island immediately became a place where downtown workers – including most of the staff of the nearby Southwest Times Record, where I worked at the time – could get tasty, inexpensive lunches in a hurry.
Most of our news room crew, including this magazine’s senior editor Donna Payne, especially enjoyed the loaded baked potatoes – giant russets baked to perfection, generously topped with melted cheese, the best chili in town and all the fresh jalapeño peppers a pepperhead like me could hope for.
In 1989 and 1990 Bill and his friend Bert Wright, a downtown supporter and banker, organized free street dances.
“That's when I learned free events are not so good, or easy to do,” Bill says. “But I still have people tell me how much they enjoyed those free dances on the Avenue.”
In 1990 Coney Island added a mobile Downtown Pizza Wagon service for which Bill made the pizzas early each morning. In his “spare time” he started making improvements to the little garden area next to the restaurant. In 1994 the restaurant and its patio became Coney Island's Beer Garden. That same year Bill and his friend Mark Perry also combined their barbecue skills to win first place in pork ribs at the Arkansas State BBQ Championship.
In 1991, having no prior experience at such a task, Bill organized and produced the city's first Riverfront Blues Festival featuring Texas bluesman Anson Funderburg, the Famous Unknowns, Glen R. Townsend Band and Hoodoo Rhythm, featuring Barry Ratliff. This year will mark the festival’s 24th continuous year as one of the city's favorite annual events, presented ever since by the non-profit Riverfront Blues Society.
In 1995 the Beer Garden hosted its first national touring act – Poppa Chubby. In 1996, Bill put up the Garden's first “real”stage. He moved pizza sales to 508 Garrison, establishing Papa's Pub & Pizzaria.
In 1998, Coney Island officially became Neumeier's Rib Room & Beer Garden, where Bill shared his award-winning wet and dry-rubbed barbecued rib, along with music.
People flocked there for both the food and to see, up close and personal, some of the best musicians in America.
The roster of artists who have played on Bill’s stages is astonishing. As he and I talked, we each pulled out old photos and clippings. Please see Hotstuff online at our website, efortsmith.com, or his, ribroom.com, for more pics and lists.
In 2008, he closed for major renovations and reopened in 2009 as the two-story Neumeier's Rib Room & Beer Garden, with more new and famous national acts. Bill also fondly remembers a Travelocity report about America's top 250 restaurants during that time. It rated his Rib Room the No. 1 restaurant in Arkansas.
But Arkansas' hottest summer on record in 2010 slowed the Rib Room's outdoor dining and that hurt business, Bill said. Each following year he scaled back hours until he only served food when the Garden was open for live music.
When asked what motivated him to put his landmark Rib Room up for sale in January, Bill said, “I've been doing live music for 20-plus years , but it's seasonal, and I'm due for a break – I'm ready to go see some live music!” And, although he has no immediate plans for it, he said he'd like to get back in the barbecue business someday.
Bill says his love of music and bringing top performers to Fort Smith will also continue. As a condition to the sale or lease of the Rib Room property he has made a three-year no compete agreement for club promotion – but he can participate in planning and promoting events such as festivals. And he's already doing that.
He's been working with a local group planning a three-day music and arts festival to be held at Riverfront Park July 31-Aug. 2.
Bill said helping plan the new festival is exciting.
“It takes me back to helping start the first Fort Smith Blues Festival. Helping Fort Smith is always my goal.”
See more of Bill's photos of memorable artists at ribroom.com
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The horse’s hoof is a miracle of engineering. It contains a whole host of structures which, when healthy, operate in equilibrium with each other to form a hoof capsule which is able to withstand huge forces, utilising energy to assist with forward movement while providing protection to the sensitive structures beneath.
This is not a definitive guide, but it will allow the horse owner to understand more about this incredible structure.
EXTERNAL STRUCTURES
This newly trimmed section of hoof gives you a good idea of what the different structures of the hoof wall and sole look like. On a white foot, the differences are much less easy to spot.
The sole is the area inside the white line, but not including the bars and frog. It’s primary function is to protect the sensitive structures beneath the sole. However, the outer perimeter of sole around the toe also provides support, sharing some of the weight of the horse with the hoof wall.
Commonly referred to as the white line, although this is very misleading, not only because it is actually yellowish but also because it is next to the white inner wall of the hoof. This often causes people to misinterpret the white line as inner wall, so it is sometimes called the Golden Line – more accurate description that was commonly used in the 1800s. The purpose of the Golden Line is to join the sole to the inner wall of the hoof and to seal off the border of the pedal bone to protect it from bacterial infiltration. It creates a shallow crease at the bottom of the hoof which fills with dirt, aiding with traction.
Inner Wall
The inner hoof wall is usually white (unlike the outer wall, it does not contain pigment). It is more pliable than the outer wall due to it having a higher moisture content which enables the inner wall to stretch more as the outer wall moves, ensuring the inner workings of the hoof are protected from too much shock as well as allowing the pedal bone and the outer wall to move in different ways without losing strength of attachment.
Outer Wall
The outer hoof wall is pigmented and is much stronger than the inner wall. Its purpose is to bear the weight of the horse, protect the internal structures from harm and to act like a spring, storing and releasing energy during the different phases of the stride to help propel the horse along. A healthy outer wall will be slightly thicker at the toe and have no growth rings or cracks. It will be almost impermeable, meaning water or any other things which come in contact with it will not be able to penetrate the wall. If, however, an outer wall is damaged – either through injury or nutritional imbalance, substances which come into contact with it will seep through.
The bar is an extension of the hoof wall which runs along the side of the frog, terminating approximately half way along the frog. Its primary purpose is to control the movement of the back of the hoof, adding strength to the heel area and protecting it from excess distortion. It should have a high ratio of pliable inner wall to ensure it can move correctly as the heel moves. More recent research has found that the bar also produces some of the material that makes up the sole.
Angle of the Bar
Commonly known as the heel, although this description can be misleading. This area is designed to receive the initial impact of the horse’s stride and a healthy angle of the bar comprises mainly of pliable inner wall, enabling it to dissipate excess shock with ease. This area plays a major role in supporting the weight of the horse and it is important that it remains correctly balanced.
Collateral Groove
This is the groove that runs along either side of the frog. The outer wall of the groove is made up of the wall of the bar and sole and the wall on the other side comprises the wall of the frog.
One of the most important, but often neglected structures of the horse’s hoof. It should be wide and substantial and made up of thick, leathery material. An unhealthy frog is vulnerable to infection which, if left untreated, can lead to significant loss of structure in the back of the hoof causing severe lameness.
The frog works in concert with the coronet band, the bars and the sole to provide resistance to distortion of the hoof capsule during the stride. Pressure placed upon the frog directly influences the health of the digital cushion above it. The frog stay (triangular piece cut out of the sole that the frog sits in) allows independent movement at the heels as the horse lands on uneven ground. The frog also plays a part in protecting the sensitive structures beneath, providing traction, assisting circulation and absorbing shock. It also contains many nerves which enable the horse to feel what it is standing on and be aware of where its feet are in relation to the rest of its body (proprioception).
In the centre of the frog, towards the back of the foot is the central sulcus. A healthy sulcus is wide and shallow, but if the frog is weak and narrow it can become a deep crease which is a haven for bacteria and fungus.
Coronet Band
In the UK the coronet band is thought to be so called because coronet means “crown”. In other parts of the world the phrase “Coronary band” is often used – coronary meaning “pertaining to the heart”. This is a very tough, vascular structure which sits at the top of the hoof wall. It has two very important functions. Firstly it produces the tubules of the outer hoof wall. Secondly, it is incredibly strong and acts as a band of support to add strength to the internal structures as the hoof distorts during the stride.
Periople
This is a protective covering for the area of newly formed hoof wall just below the coronet band. In the early stages, this horn material is quite soft – deliberately so because it helps to prevent the coronet band becoming bruised as shock is transferred upwards through the hoof wall during the weight bearing phase of the stride. The periople covers this horn to provide protection.
INTERNAL STRUCTURES
There are two and a bit bones inside the hoof. The Pedal bone, the Navicular bone and the bottom part of the Short Pastern bone.
Pedal Bone
The large bone inside the hoof capsule is known as the Pedal bone or Coffin bone. Its shape provides a framework for the shape of the hoof capsule itself.
The Pedal bone provides strength and stability to the hoof and acts as a framework to hold other structures in place. It does not have a medulla (bone marrow) and has an unusually high density of tiny blood vessels running through it. Surrounding the wall of the bone is the laminae which hold the wall to the bone and produce some of the intertubular horn of the hoof wall. Underneath, the bone is covered in solar corium which produces the sole. At the back, the bone attaches to cartilage which forms a large portion of the back of the hoof . Tendons and ligaments are attached to this bone and a dense network of blood vessels run around and through it.
Navicular Bone
This is another bone which is hard to visualise when viewed in cross section. It is thought to have derived its name because it is shaped like a boat.It is also known as the Distal Sesamoid bone (distal meaning furthermost from the body, sesamoid meaning embedded within a tendon). The navicular bone is not actually embedded in a tendon, but it does sit just inside the back of the pedal bone and the deep digital flexor tendon passes over it. It prevents over-articulation of the joint of the pedal bone, maintains a constant angle of insertion of the Deep Flexor Tendon into the back of the Pedal bone and allows for additional tilt within the coffin joint when navigating uneven surfaces.
Short Pastern Bone
Also known as the Middle Phalanx, the short pastern bone sits on top of the articulating joint of the pedal bone and underneath the long pastern bone. Only the bottom portion of this bone extends as far as the hoof capsule.
Digital Cushion
The digital cushion sits just behind the pedal bone and above the sensitive frog. It plays a vital role in the absorption of shock. In an improperly functioning foot, the digital cushion atrophies and becomes “fatty” as opposed to springy, cartilaginous material, inhibiting its ability to absorb shock. The shape and health of the digital cushion will influence the angle of the Pedal Bone. “Flat footed” horses (ie, those whose pedal bones lie flat instead of being tilted slightly on their nose) often have severely atrophied digital cushions.
Coriums
A corium is a vascular structure which manufactures hoof horn. For instance, the solar corium will produce the sole and the frog corium produces the frog. The coronet band contains a corium which produces the tubules and intertubular horn of the hoof wall, whereas more intertubular horn is manufactured in the corium surrounding the pedal bone (also known as the dermal layer or laminae). The perioplic corium sits under the coronet band and produces the periople.
Lateral/Ungual Cartilage
The lateral cartilages are located both above and below the coronet band, extending around the front, the sides and back of the hoof. Below the coronet band they extend out over the digital cushion and attach to the back of the pedal bone. The horn producing corium of the inner hoof wall attaches to the lateral cartilages at the back of the hoof where the pedal bone does not reach. These cartilages provide resistance as the pedal bone descends during weight bearing, regulating the amount of pressure applied to the coriums. They also help to suspend the pedal bone in the correct position as well as acting as a spring, storing and releasing energy during locomotion.
The hoof is heavily supplied with blood through the two arteries which run down the back of the leg and into the foot. The pedal bone itself has an unusually high density of blood vessels within it. The photograph shows the laminae which keep the hoof wall tightly bonded to the internal structures. The blood pumping around the foot has many vital uses. It supplies nutrients to allow growth of new horn tissue, assists with damping impact shock and helps to regulate hoof temperature.
This is just a taster of what an amazing and complex structure the equine hoof is. If you would like to learn more about the anatomy of the equine hoof, and the way it functions I suggest you read the following:
“Practical Guide to Lameness in Horses”, Ted S Stashak, ISBN 0-683-07985-9
“The Equine Distal Limb”, Jean-Marie Denoix, ISBN 978-1840760019
“Equine Podiatry”. Andrea E Floyd, Richard A Mannesmann, ISBN: 978-0-7216-0383-4
“Anatomy of the Horse”, Klaus-Dieter Budras, W.O. Sack, Sabine Röck, ISBN 978-3-89993-044-3
This article has been written and kindly donated by Jayne Hunt (www.healthyhooves.co.uk). Jayne is a professional Equine Podiatrist and trainer who specialises in Equine Anatomy and Physiology, which she teaches to students studying the two year Diploma in Equine Podiatry course with Equine Podiatry Training Ltd www.eptrain.co.uk.
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Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK3) in Psychiatric Diseases and Therapeutic Interventions
Author(s): Richard S. Jope, Myoung-Sun Roh. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, 1720 Seventh Ave South, Sparks Center 1057, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0017.
Journal Name: Current Drug Targets
Volume 7 , Issue 11 , 2006
DOI : 10.2174/1389450110607011421
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) has recently been linked to mood disorders and schizophrenia, and the neurotransmitter systems and therapeutic treatments associated with these diseases. GSK3 is a widely influential enzyme that is capable of phosphorylating, and thereby regulating, over forty known substrates. Four mechanisms regulating GSK3 (phosphorylation, protein complexes, localization, and substrate phosphorylation) combine to provide substrate-specific regulation of the actions of GSK3. Several intracellular signaling cascades converge on GSK3 to modulate its activity, and several neurotransmitter systems also regulate GSK3, including serotonergic, dopaminergic, cholinergic, and glutamatergic systems. Because of changes in these neurotransmitter systems and the actions of therapeutic drugs, GSK3 has been linked to the mood disorders, bipolar disorder and depression, and to schizophrenia. Inhibition of GSK3 may be an important therapeutic target of mood stabilizers, and regulation of GSK3 may be involved in the therapeutic effects of other drugs used in psychiatry. Dysregulated GSK3 in bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia could have multiple effects that could impair neural plasticity, such as modulation of neuronal architecture, neurogenesis, gene expression, and the ability of neurons to respond to stressful, potentially lethal, conditions. In part because of these key actions of GSK3 and its associations with mood disorders and schizophrenia, much research is currently being devoted to identifying new selective inhibitors of GSK3.
Keywords: GSK3, bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, Akt, serotonin, dopamine
Title: Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK3) in Psychiatric Diseases and Therapeutic Interventions
VOLUME: 7 ISSUE: 11
Author(s):Richard S. Jope and Myoung-Sun Roh
Affiliation:Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, 1720 Seventh Ave South, Sparks Center 1057, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0017.
Keywords:GSK3, bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, Akt, serotonin, dopamine
Abstract: Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) has recently been linked to mood disorders and schizophrenia, and the neurotransmitter systems and therapeutic treatments associated with these diseases. GSK3 is a widely influential enzyme that is capable of phosphorylating, and thereby regulating, over forty known substrates. Four mechanisms regulating GSK3 (phosphorylation, protein complexes, localization, and substrate phosphorylation) combine to provide substrate-specific regulation of the actions of GSK3. Several intracellular signaling cascades converge on GSK3 to modulate its activity, and several neurotransmitter systems also regulate GSK3, including serotonergic, dopaminergic, cholinergic, and glutamatergic systems. Because of changes in these neurotransmitter systems and the actions of therapeutic drugs, GSK3 has been linked to the mood disorders, bipolar disorder and depression, and to schizophrenia. Inhibition of GSK3 may be an important therapeutic target of mood stabilizers, and regulation of GSK3 may be involved in the therapeutic effects of other drugs used in psychiatry. Dysregulated GSK3 in bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia could have multiple effects that could impair neural plasticity, such as modulation of neuronal architecture, neurogenesis, gene expression, and the ability of neurons to respond to stressful, potentially lethal, conditions. In part because of these key actions of GSK3 and its associations with mood disorders and schizophrenia, much research is currently being devoted to identifying new selective inhibitors of GSK3.
Richard S. Jope and Myoung-Sun Roh, “ Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK3) in Psychiatric Diseases and Therapeutic Interventions”, Current Drug Targets (2006) 7: 1421. https://doi.org/10.2174/1389450110607011421
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When the fog refuses to lift from their sleepy Irish fishing village, siblings Cara and Finn must take matters into their own hands. The children take to the sea, only to find themselves washed ashore on the mysterious and dangerous Fog Island. A spooky adventure story adapted from Tomi Ungerer’s award winning picture book, FOG ISLAND asks what is means to grow up and face your fears.
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FOG ISLAND will be enjoyed most by ages six and up.
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MOLLY BUNDER* (Cara)
As a resident artist at Filament, Molly has appeared in The Snow Queen, Lifeboat, Monster in the Hall, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park, and “Crossing Six Corners.” In Chicago, she has worked with TUTA and Stone Soup Shakespeare. In the UK, she appeared in the one-woman drama, The Occupation of Heather Rose (Arches Theatre), The Little Prince (Edinburgh Fringe), Homeward Bound, and in the world premiere of Edwin Morgan’s Dreams—And Other Nightmares (Tron Theatre). Molly teaches piano, voice, and acting classes at the David Adler Music and Arts Center. She holds an MA in Acting from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a BA in Theatre from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
MARA DALE* (Fiona)
Mara Dale is a resident artist with Filament Theatre. She is also a Barrel of Monkeys and Imagination Theatre ensemble member. Locally, she has performed with Waltzing Mechanics, Emerald City Theatre, First Folio, Muse of Fire, Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, Towle Theatre, and Lifeline Theatre (upcoming). Regionally, she’s worked with New York Stage And Film, as well as Syracuse Stage. After attending Syracuse University (BFA Acting) and studying at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, she’s glad to be back home teaching and acting in Chicago.
LINDSEY DORCUS* (Maggie)
Fog Island is Lindsey’s 9th show with Filament Theatre, including The Monster in the Hall, James and the Giant Peach, Orpheus,and The Snow Queen. Lindsey has also worked locally with The House Theatre (The Magnificents), Strawdog (Good Soul of Szechuan and The Duchess of Malfi), The Building Stage, Lifeline Theatre, Stage 773, Links Hall, and many others. Up next, she will be going on a brief tour with puppet company Manual Cinema. Lindsey is also a Company Member with Barrel of Monkeys, and you can often catch her in their Monday night revue, That’s Weird, Grandma!
NATHAN DRACKETT* (Finn)
Nathan Drackett is an actor, teacher, and musician in Chicago. He is also a Filament Resident Artist. He directed Crossing Six Corners: Bricks and Mortar, choreographed The Snow Queen, and was in Sleepy Hollow: The Folk Musical. He has been teaching Circus Arts for the past 8 years, and has taught at The Actors Gymnasium, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. He has performed with The Lyric Opera, Piven, Redmoon, 500 Clown, The Actors Gymnasium, and Signal Theatre. He also performs and teaches as a freelance musician, clown, and acrobat in and around Chicago.
CHRISTIAN LIBONATI* (Old Man)
Christian is a co-founder and the Managing Director of Filament Theatre. As an actor, Christian has been seen in the following Filament productions: Six Impossible Things, Crossing Six Corners, Monster in the Hall, Snow Queen, James and the Giant Peach, and numerous special projects. In Filament’s 2016 season, Christian will be directing Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park aka “The Bike Show.” Other Chicago performance credits include productions with The Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater, American Theatre Company, The Mercury Theater, The House Theatre, and Theatre UnSpeakable. Christian helped to establish the theatre for young audiences programs at the Summer Theatre of New Canaan where he has been a frequent director & performer. Many thanks to the members of Filament’s staff, the Fog Island production team, and our local community who have made this production possible. Christian is a graduate of Northwestern University.
ANDREW MARCHETTI* (Brandon / The Fog Man)
Andrew is delighted to be a part of Fog Island. After receiving his BFA from the University of Northern Colorado, Andrew moved straight to Chicago and has since been lucky enough to work with such notable companies as Ka-Tet (Smudge; Fuddy Meers), The Plagiarists (Caesura; Wreck of the Medusa), Nothing Special Productions (The Alchemist) as well as Right Brain Project, BoHo Theater, and Chicago Fringe to name a few. As a resident artist with Filament, he would like to extend many thanks to this amazing staple of Portage Park for this wonderful opportunity.
MELANIE VITATERNA (Cara/Fiona Alt.)
Melanie Vitaterna is so thrilled to be working with Filament Theatre for the first time! In Chicago, she has performed with Dead Writers Theatre Collective and Citadel Theatre. A recent graduate of Northwestern University, Melanie appeared in several productions (some favorites including The Pirates of Penzance, Wiley and the Hairy Man, and This Is Not a Pipe Dream) and was a proud member of Lovers & Madmen, a theatre company dedicated to classical and classically-inspired work. This coming winter, Melanie will be understudying half the cast of Junie B. Jones, the Musical! at Northbrook Theatre for Young Audiences.
The Production Team
TOMI UNGERER (Author)
Tomi is an award winning illustrator and a trilingual author. He has published over 140 books ranging from his much loved children’s books to his controversial adult work. He is famous for his sharp social satire and his witty aphorisms and he ranges from the fantastic to the autobiographical. His career has also encompassed Architectural design, Invention, Advertising and Sculpture. This information and more can be found at www.tomiungerer.com.
EMILY DENDINGER (Adaptor)
Emily Dendinger’s plays include Hideous Progeny, which has been produced by LiveWire Chicago Theater, Holland Productions and North Park College. She is a two-time winner of Theater Masters National Play Competition, a 2013 City Theatre National Award finalist, a 2012 Heideman finalist and a 2015 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award finalist. Her plays have been developed at The Lark, Sideshow Theatre, LiveWire Theatre, The Trip, Mudlark Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, and TimeLine Theatre. Currently she is working on a commission for Filament Theatre. She is a member of TimeLine’s Writer’s Collective and the Dramatist Guild and a recent graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwright’s Workshop.
KRISTA D’AGOSTINO (Director)
Krista D’Agostino is a director, actor, and educator from Boston. She is a teaching artist and frequent collaborator with Mudlark Theater where she directed original adaptations of Aesop’s Fables by John Taflan and Little Women by Christina Lepri. Additional Chicago directing credits include The Mistakes Madeline Made by Elizabeth Meriwether with LiveWire Chicago Theatre. A company member with WildClaw Theatre, she recently appeared in Scott T. Barsotti’s The Revenants. In Boston, Krista was the Artistic Director of Holland Productions where she directed Emily Dendinger’s Hideous Progeny and Swimming After Dark, Naomi Iizuka’s Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls, Jordan Harrison’s KID SIMPLE: A Radio Play in the Flesh, and Paula Vogel’s A Baltimore Waltz. For Italina.
TIM MCNULTY (Composer / Music Director)
KAREN JONES (Stage Manager)
WILL DEAN (Production Manager)
NOËL HUNTZINGER* (Costume Designer)
EMMA DEANE (Lighting Designer)
ANTONIO H GRACIAS (Sound Designer)
ELEANOR KAHN (Set Designer / Props Master)
LINDSAY BARTLETT (Dialect Coach)
SCOTT DARE (Assistant Director)
MAGDALENA WISTUBA (Graphic Design)
FOG ISLAND is adapted from the book FOG ISLAND by Tomi Ungerer with permission Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich.
*Denotes Filament Resident Artists
Free Previews!
We are offering free Early Viewer tickets to all who attend one of our preview performances. This people will be the very first audience members to see this world premiere! Previews are Fri, Sept 25 @ 7:30pm; Sat, Sept 26 @ 7:30pm; and, Sun Sept 27 @ 3pm. Seating is limited!
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“If you haven’t heard of the impressive young company Filament Theatre, based in a home on the northwest side’s Six Corners neighborhood, this new show is a great introduction. Adapted from a picture book by the brilliant Tomi Ungerer,Fog Island features original Irish folk music by Tim McNulty, lively elegies of loss and longing. A bit scary but mostly charming, the story follows a brother-sister pair who travel to the island of the title in hopes of saving their fishing village from starvation, brave despite the villagers having long warned them of the “banshees” and “ballybogs” there…a timeless tribute to the magic of childhood. —Suzanne Scanlon, Chicago Reader ( Recommended)
“Among Filament Theatre’s many strengths is its superb use of its space, bringing spare, elegant sets to life with excellent movement direction and cast members who are almost eerily attuned to one another…
The adults of the village, including the kids’ parents, turn themselves into the storm-tossed boat and the red-eyed beasts of Fog Island. With nothing more complex than a few crates and lengths of rope, they become the imposing door to the Fog Man’s lair and the machinery at the center of the earth. Scott Dare’s movement direction, combined with sound design by Antonio Gracias and lighting by Emma Deane, is eerie, exquisite and masterfully carried out by the cast.
In terms of performances, Filament’s actors deliver as usual. Molly Bunder and Nathan Drackett are an appealing pair as Cara and Finn. Mara Dale’s and Christian Libonati are fine foils for one another, she as the hearty, upbeat pub owner and he as the melodramatic old man, constantly going on about banshees and the like.
Lindsey Dorcus and Andrew Marchetti lend a heartbreaking weight to what could have been an overly simple tale as Cara and Finn’s parents, as eager to give their children every opportunity they can as they are reluctant to see them have to grow up too fast….
…children are likely to eat up the silliness and still want more.” – Christine Malcom, Edge Media Network
“★★★★! Tim McNulty’s Musical direction and score, played and sung by the cast, encompassed both the heightened levels of joy and sorrow found in Irish folk. This, along with the actor’s excellent dialects (coached by Lindsay Bartlett), Hutzinger’s period costumes, Dendinger’s script, and other minimalist but effective technical features conveyed the experience and paradox of a not-so-distant Irish life and culture: a blend of superstition and mysticism, beauty and hardship, love and austerity, and fear and enchantment so that we get a real sense of time and place that will be intense and authentic for adults and children alike.” Lawrence Riordan, Around the Town Chicago
From the Audience:
“We loved the show! Bring your whole family.”
“Saw it last night with my little girl! 2 thumbs up!”
“This is an outstanding show for the whole family!”
“We just borrowed the book from the library in anticipation of seeing the play! Can’t wait!”
“My son and I thought it was fantastic”
“It was a great show. Whole family loved it!”
“Children of all ages will enjoy the adventure,
and the music is charming.”
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Ball diamond to find new home in Glebe Park
By Jenn Watt
The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Aug. 24 meeting of Dysart et al council.
After much discussion council is hoping to move the popular ball diamond to a new location in Glebe Park.
Located next to the Dysart municipal building, the current diamond has issues with drainage and is no longer ideal.
Councillors were at one time considering relocating the diamond to an area out of town, however public sentiment has been against that idea.
Fearrey believes more dialogue is needed with the Glebe Park committee about the proposal, as the park makes the most sense due to its proximity to the village, level surface and well lit area. If moved, the diamond would be a similar size to the current facility.
“We need a diamond in town,” said the reeve. “We don’t have other alternatives in town.”
Fearrey said that Glebe Park was originally sold to the municipality to be used for education and recreation purposes and he believes baseball fits into that.
Council still mulling over natural gas
Following a delegation made earlier this year by Northeast Midstream, councillors are still mulling over entering into a proposal that might bring natural gas as an alternative energy resource to the area.
Representing the company, John Wolnik proposed that the municipality enter into a franchise precedent agreement, which would keep the wheels moving on the project and help assess whether it was feasible or not.
Wolnick said four other northern communities have signed an agreement, including Marathon and Wawa, and that support was needed from Dysart to enter into the next phase of development.
“Northeast must conduct various studies to assess the overall feasibility of providing gas service to your town: engineering, marketing, financial and economic studies,” said Wolnik in his report to council. “These studies require significant time and expense to complete.”
Wolnik said ideally the company would have liked the agreement signed in July, however could wait until September.
As the industry is heavily regulated, it would likely be 2017 at the earliest that Dysart would be serviced by natural gas if all the approvals were met, said Wolnik.
Council deferred the decision to their next meeting.
Power boat races to return
Following on the heels of the inaugural outboard powerboat races, held this past weekend, councillors agreed to have the event return to Head Lake next year.
The races were held over a two-day period and brought in 120 racers, more than the 80 anticipated. As a result the event went later that expected on the Saturday evening.
Organizer Barb Hammond sent a request to council, asking if the races could return next summer.
“Absolutely,” said Councillor Derek Knowles.
Roberts said she did receive one complaint about the event, however she also heard positive feedback from a downtown business.
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Linda dankert
I’m Going to Miss Chunky Monkey
Under the guise of standing up for “reproductive healthcare,” and demanding “equality in the workplace,” the head officers of more than 300 companies came out with an ad in The New York Times recently claiming that restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, is actually putting the economy at risk. The whole economy!
“How?” you ask, incredulously.
Why, don’t you know that preventing women from aborting their unborn babies threatens these companies’ very ability to do business? You see, it prevents them from being able to hire “top talent” and to diversify their workforce. And heaven knows, if they can’t recruit people who want to kill babies to work there, the companies will fold, and the economy will no doubt collapse without them. You can read more about their claims and the entire list of signers at www.dontbanequality.com. The list of companies that signed this ad is long and diverse, and many of them obscure, but there are a few recognizable names, including Ben & Jerry’s.
Ben & Jerry’s has always been known for its liberal views, but this in-your-face stand for abortion has this blog writer unable to stomach the thought of stomaching any more of its frozen concoctions. Presumably, these companies came out with this ad to win over people who stand for abortion to their ranks. Let’s hope it conversely loses them all the business of those who stand for life. Please take a look at the list and make an effort to withhold your consumer dollars that you might have spent with these companies, and spend them with companies that support your pro-life ideals, like Hobby Lobby, My Pillow and Gold’s Gym, to name a few. They are out there, we promise, they’re just not as vocal as the abortion-supporting organizations.
It was a Beautiful Celebration of Life
The Heights UB Church welcomed Heartbeat once again for the 2019 Vision Banquet on April 4. God blessed us with a record number of people attending this year, and we were so happy to have them all with us as we celebrated life and the wonderful works that God is doing through Heartbeat to make more families complete.
The evening’s masters of ceremony, Rachel Baker and Pastor Christopher Wade, opened the evening, and after an invocation and blessing from Pastor Mark Blakeley, guests enjoyed a delicious meal from L&B Catering and fellowship with their table-mates.
After dinner, Brennen Kelly played a worship song before Dr. Kevin Dumpe took the stage. Dr. Dumpe, a board-certified OB/GYN practicing in Beaver Falls, shared with the audience the biblical foundation for his pro-life posture. He also shared a moving story about a patient (with her permission) facing a difficult situation in her life and how it presented him with an opportunity to share the gospel with her.
Linda Dankert, executive director of Heartbeat of Columbiana County, presented the state of the ministry and shared a touching video that explained just how the staff of Heartbeat ministers to young women and families in need. It included testimonials from actual pregnancy center and parenting center clients, giving the guests a feel for just how valuable the services Heartbeat provides actually are. How wonderful that God puts people where He needs them to be!
When given the opportunity to make a financial contribution to support Heartbeat, our faithful guests responded to the call with overwhelming generosity as they pledged in excess of $60,000. Since the ministry receives no government funding, these gifts will provide a significant portion of Heartbeat's annual operating budget.
At the conclusion of the evening, Brennen Kelly again took the state to play the Doxology, and Pastor Jason Cole lead the closing prayer, giving God the glory for His goodness.
Heartbeat would like to extend special appreciation to:
The Vision Hosts who warmly welcomed our guests
Our Underwriters (Calcutta Health Care Center, Dennis & Sue Giambroni, Horst Sub & Deli, L&B Catering, T&M Rentals, Campbell’s Signs, Keystone Printing, P. Michael Moore, DDS and Rogers Community Auction, Inc.)
The Many Gracious Volunteers who gave of their time and talents
The Heights UB Church for their hospitality
The Generous Donors
The many prayerful supporters of Heartbeat
Dr. Kevin Dumpe to Speak at 2019 Vision Banquet
Heartbeat is pleased to announce that Kevin Dumpe, MD, will be its keynote speaker at the upcoming Vision Banquet on April 4.
Dr. Dumpe is an esteemed and board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist at Primary Health Network in Beaver Falls. A graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. Dumpe completed both his internship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. He completed the Combat Casualty Care Course at Camp Bullis in San Antonio, and holds Flight Surgeon certification from the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio. Dr. Dumpe has been in practice for over 30 years.
Dr. Dumpe is proud to be a member of The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an alternate association to the familiar American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is decidedly pro-abortion in its stance. He is also a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association and serves as a resource for the medical abortion reversal network.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Dr. Dumpe has taught adult bible studies for 35 years.
The address Dr. Dumpe has prepared for the Heartbeat Vision Banquet is titled, "I'm Pro-Life - Just Don't Ask Me Why!” He will be speaking about the biblical basis for being pro-life and sharing a story to illustrate it.
Dr. Dumpe has been married to his wife, Pam (a doctor of internal medicine), for 39 years. The couple has four children and two grandchildren.
To join us for the evening and hear Dr. Dumpe’s talk, please RSVP to (330) 386-3999, or complete the RSVP form on our home page. Seating is limited.
Kevin Dumpe, MD
Are you ready to CELEBRATE LIFE?
Our Vision Banquet is right around the corner, and we are in need of people who share our enthusiasm for the work of Heartbeat to serve as Vision Hosts to guests at our banquet. The responsibilities of a Vision Host are simple, but critical. Each Vision Host invites at least 6 other guests to the banquet and turns in their RSVPs to the event coordinator. The evening of the banquet, the host welcomes his/her guests to the banquet and is there to answer questions about Heartbeat and the pregnancy center during the course of the evening. The hosts also hand out donation forms to the guests at the appropriate time in the program, as directed by Linda in her presentation. After guests have had a chance to complete their pledge forms, the Vision Hosts assemble the forms in an envelope and turn them into the volunteers collecting them from the tables. That’s it — easy, but important! If you have a passion for Heartbeat and its success, then you would make a great Vision Host! Please contact the banquet coordinator, Lisa DeNiro, at lisad@heartbeatcc.com to volunteer.
If hosting a table isn’t where you feel led to serve, we need volunteers in other areas as well, such as setting up and decorating, cleaning up after the banquet, directing cars, and manning certain stations during the banquet. Please contact Lisa to let her know if you’re interested in helping in one of these ways.
Thank you for your commitment and assistance!
The Battle is Raging
It is so disheartening to see how the sanctity of life is being attacked ever more violently by those who are out to rob precious children of their right to be born – and even to live after they are born! The recent legislation in New York and Virginia is outrageous, but we mustn’t give up. It doesn’t matter what the laws say is “okay” about murdering babies, we know that God says it’s NOT okay, and never will be. And He is the one in charge. We must continue to fight for what is right, because those who are those fighting – and sadly winning right now in some states – to make it “okay” to murder at such late stages, including AT BIRTH – will never give up. They are strong and they are numerous and they are vocal, but God is stronger, and He has given us each certain gifts that we need to use for His purposes.
Please continue to pray for the women who are being told it is okay to end the lives of their babies. Because no matter what any laws say, it comes down to the women making the individual decisions about the lives they are carrying. That is why the work Heartbeat is doing (and other organizations like it) is so important. We need to continue to reach these women, educate them, and provide the resources that will make it easier for them to choose LIFE!
Happy Holidays from Heartbeat!
Can you believe 2018 is drawing to a close?
Thank you to all who have been faithful supporters of Heartbeat this year. We would not be able to positively impact the families we do without the generous gifts of finances, time, and prayers for our organization.
If anyone is looking for a place to make some end-of-year contributions for tax purposes, they can do so right here on our website by clicking the “Donate” button on the home page. To find other ways to donate, please click on the “Give” tab.
We hope that you all enjoy a warm Christmas season with your loved ones, and we look forward to the great things God has in store for Heartbeat in 2019!
2018 Walk For Life - What a great day!
A huge thank you to all those who participated in the 2018 Walk for Life, whether by walking and raising funds, pledging money, donating your time/talents/resources, or coming out to cheer us on. A crowd of more than 200 people — including 170 walkers — came out to celebrate Life Worth Defending on Saturday, Oct. 13. The weather may have been cool, but the hearts were warm of the people that raised more than $25,800 for Heartbeat. It is wonderful to see what God is doing through everyone involved.
It was a great time for catching up with old friends and making new ones. In addition to the walk and time of fellowship, walkers were treated to a continental breakfast and a delicious hot barbecue lunch. The kids enjoyed crafts and a coloring contest.
A few special acknowledgements….
We’d like to thank these donors who contributed to the event, for breakfast, lunch, or prizes:
Adrian’s
B&S Carryout
Beresford’s Meats
Brickers
Cheney’s
Clearly the Best
Frank’s Pastry
Giant Eagle - Calcutta
Giant Eagle - East Liverpool
Hoge’s
L&B Donuts
MJB BBQ
Peace Valley Orchards
Rayl’s Market
Sweet Deli
Thank you to Billy Collins and Sheryl Garner for sharing their musical talents.
Special Walker Awards
Walker with the Most Pledges - Marsha Von Ludmann ($1,540)
Youth Walker with the Most Pledges at the walk - Lauren Bezdek ($340)
The Chris DeLauder memorial fund also raised $2,193
Oldest Walker - Phyllis Conley
Group with the Most Walkers - House of Prayer (31 walkers!)
The top 10 Churches in pledges raised:
Heights UBC - $3,881
First Christian, Chester - $2,602
Northside - $2,542
House of Prayer - $1,744
Lake Mount - $1,723
Faith Community Church - $1,290
First Free Methodist - $987
First Church of Christ - $840
Hope Christian - $785
Boyce United - $763
Thank you again to all who played a part in this event. Heartbeat would not be able to touch the lives it does in the community without you! Watch this space for information on our upcoming events, including the Vision Banquet, scheduled for April 4, 2019, and the 2019 Walk for Life! God bless!
2018 Walk for Life
Bring the family, and please join us on Saturday, October 13th at Thompson Park in East Liverpool for the 2018 Walk for Life! There will be prizes, awards, food, lots of fun, and a celebration of life worth defending! Earn a special gift based on the pledges you receive. The funds you raise go directly to support pre-born babies and their moms.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and all the forms you need are available on our Events page, or by clicking here. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Steady March Towards Action on Reducing HFCs Under Montreal Protocol
Led by African and small island states, nations near consensus on bringing HFCs into Ozone Treaty
Bangkok, 25 October 2013—The Parties to the Montreal Protocol continued their steady march towards phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under that treaty this week in Bangkok by reconvening the Discussion Group on HFC Management and broadening its mandate to consider the recent international agreements calling for the treaty to phase down HFCs, including the agreement by the G-20 nations and six observer states last month in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“The writing is clearly on the wall,” said Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. “A few countries are still trying to delay the final agreement, but it’s now clear this is a losing strategy and that the Montreal Protocol will be used to phase down HFCs.”
Although India and Saudi Arabia blocked attempts to open formal discussions on two proposals to address HFCs—one by Micronesia, Morocco and the Maldives, the other by Canada, Mexico and the United States—the groundswell of support for using the Montreal Protocol to undertake the global phase down of HFCs called for in the Rio + 20 outcome last year and reiterated in recent high-level agreements continues to build.
Other countries that formerly opposed agreement on HFCs in the Montreal Protocol are softening their stance and offering constructive advice on the mechanics of the potential deal to ensure that their national interests are accounted for in the negotiations.
Significantly, the Africa Group, including South Africa, announced its support for “formal negotiations to enable the amendment process.”
Noting the “persistence” of proposal proponents and their concern about a rise in greenhouse gases, the delegate from Jordan called the proposals “logical and well understood” and supported continuation of discussions “in order to develop the dialogue between Parties.”
In support of the ongoing deliberations, the Parties tasked the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to provide a detailed report on HFC alternatives. They also agreed to convene a workshop at their next meeting to sort out the technical, financial and legal details that will help pave the way to final agreement on an amendment.
“The world should welcome this emerging win for the climate system,” Zaelke added. “It will not only prevent billions of tons of unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions, it will also demonstrate the practical value of disaggregating the massive climate challenge into discrete and manageable pieces.”
The 25th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol that took place in Bangkok this week comes one month after G-20 leaders announced support for initiatives that are complementary to efforts under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, including using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs, while retaining HFCs within the scope of the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol for controlling emissions.
HFCs are the fastest growing greenhouse gases in the US, China, India, and many other countries.
The G-20 Leaders’ Declaration is here.
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Julia Child: Queen of Cuisine
This show features:
Working women, Culinary history, Television History, Marriage Partnership
Anyone who enjoys ethnic cooking or fine dining can thank the ebullient Julia Child for opening up America's kitchens and minds. Her popularization of French cooking through books and television began a food revolution whose effects are felt to this day.
Julia set the standard and format by which all cooking shows would be subsequently judged and taught us to look outside our country for culinary inspiration. But she was far more than an outstanding cook. She was a tremendous scholar, teacher, and innovator whose joie de vivre captured the hearts of all who met and saw her.
The show "Julia Child - Queen of Cuisine" pays tribute to the incredible energy, passion, and sense of playfulness with which she approached her greatest loves: her husband and her cooking.
The program highlights Julia's early search to find her life's calling. It provides fascinating insight into her struggles at Le Cordon Bleu, to develop and publish "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", and finally to create the groundbreaking "French Chef" television show. Using audience members to portray Julia's beloved husband Paul and her co-authors Simca and Louisette, it's a lively recipe for fun.
Comments from audience members:
"GREAT job last night. That show was terrific fun to watch, really pleased the audience, and gave a very good sense of Julia’s life and more importantly, the meaning of her life."
~Michael Field, playwright, speechwriter for the President of Johns Hopkins University
"Bravo! We rate this performance #1 in all the Performing Arts Series productions to date!"
~Westmoreland Theater attendee, Westmoreland VA
[More comments on the Applause page]
Shows Available:
Queen Elizabeth I (Renaissance) - Sally Ride (Astronaut) - Rosalie of Riversdale (War of 1812) - Margaret Brent (Colonial) - Rosie the Riveter (WWII) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Suffragist) - Julia Child - Amelia Earhart (Aviator) - Pirate Queen (Sailing) - Clara Barton (Civil War)
History Alive!
Mary Ann Jung: 410-647-8699 or Email her
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Individualized homoeopathy versus placebo in essential hypertension: A double-blind randomized controlled trial
Subhranil Saha1, Munmun Koley1, Seikh Intaj Hossain2, Malay Mundle3, Shubhamoy Ghosh4, Goutam Nag5, Achintya Kumar Datta6, Prasanta Rath7
1 Senior Research Fellow (Homoeopathy), Clinical Research Unit (Homoeopathy), Siliguri, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Government of India, India
2 Former House Staff, Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, Howrah, West Bengal, India
3 Department of Community Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
4 Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, Howrah, West Bengal, India
5 Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology; Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, Howrah, West Bengal, India
6 Former Visiting Physician, Howrah District Hospital, West Bengal, India
7 Department of Community Medicine, National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Date of Acceptance 04-Jun-2013
Subhranil Saha
Clinical Research Unit (Homoeopathy), Siliguri, Gokhel Road, Arabindopally, Siliguri - 734 006, West Bengal
Background: Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disorder posing a major public health challenge to the population. Homoeopathy, although widely used in hypertension, is assumed to have nothing but placebo effects and its specific clinical effects are frequently ascribed as implausible.
Aims: To evaluate whether individualized homoeopathy can produce any significant effect different from placebo in essential hypertension by comparing the lowering of blood pressure between groups.
Settings and Design: A prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm clinical trial was conducted at the Outpatient Clinic of the Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal.
Material and Methods: Out of 233 hypertensives assessed for eligibility, 150 were enrolled and randomized (verum/homoeopathy 70, control/placebo 80). A total of 18 dropped out and 132 were regular (verum 64, control 68). The outcome measures were assessed after three months and six months.
Statistical Analysis: The intention-to-treat population was subjected to statistical analysis. Group differences were tested using the χ2 test and independent t test. Repeated measure (ANOVA) was performed to compare the data of two groups obtained longitudinally at baseline, three months and six months.
Results: The baseline data were not significantly different between the groups. After six months, mean Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) reduction was 26.6 mm Hg (95% CI 21.5, 31.7) in the homoeopathy group and SBP increased by 3.6 mm Hg (95% CI -8.7, 1.5) in the placebo group. Similarly, the mean Diastolic Blood Pressure (SBP) in the homoeopathy group reduced by 11.8 mm Hg (95% CI 9.2, 14.4) and increased by 1.6 mm Hg (95% CI -3.6, 0.4) in the placebo group. Repeated measures ANOVA also showed significant difference (P=0.0001) between the groups. Natrum muriaticum, Calcarea carbonica, Sulphur, Thuja occidentalis, Nitric acid and Medorrhinum were frequently prescribed.
Conclusion: Individualized homoeopathy produced a significantly different hypotensive effect than placebo.
Keywords: Essential hypertension, Homoeopathy, Placebo, Randomized controlled trial, Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
Saha S, Koley M, Hossain SI, Mundle M, Ghosh S, Nag G, Datta AK, Rath P. Individualized homoeopathy versus placebo in essential hypertension: A double-blind randomized controlled trial. Indian J Res Homoeopathy 2013;7:62-71
Saha S, Koley M, Hossain SI, Mundle M, Ghosh S, Nag G, Datta AK, Rath P. Individualized homoeopathy versus placebo in essential hypertension: A double-blind randomized controlled trial. Indian J Res Homoeopathy [serial online] 2013 [cited 2019 Jul 15];7:62-71. Available from: http://www.ijrh.org/text.asp?2013/7/2/62/116629
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) accounted for 1.5 million deaths [1] (29% of the deaths) [2] and 11% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years in India (all ages, 2005), [3] and it is estimated that by 2020, CVDs will be the largest cause of mortality and morbidity in India. [4] Hypertension is a major risk factor for CVDs and its burden is increasing disproportionately in developing countries as they undergo demographic transition. [5],[6],[7] The World Health Organization (WHO) rates hypertension as one of the most important causes of premature death worldwide. [8] It is directly responsible for 57% of all stroke deaths and 24% of all coronary heart disease deaths in India. [9] Recent studies from India have shown the prevalence of hypertension to be 25% in urban and 10% in rural subjects in India. [10] The prevalence rate of hypertension in urban India is 29-45% in men and 25-38% in women, [11],[12],[13],[14] and these are projected to go up to 22.9 and 23.6% for Indian males and females, respectively, by 2025. [15] However, only about 25.6% of the treated patients had their blood pressure under control. [16] Systolic and diastolic blood pressures (BP) have a strong, continuous, graded, and positive association with CVD outcomes or life-time risk of CVD, with no indication of a critical value. [17]
According to the statistics of the WHO, homoeopathy is the second most useful health care system in the world. [18] However, a meta-analysis in 2005 by Shang et al., [19] concluded that the clinical effects of homoeopathy are nothing but placebo effects; although a conflicting conclusion was arrived at earlier by another meta-analysis by Linde et al. [20] In the two double-blind, randomized controlled trials on hypertension, homoeopathy could not generate statistically significant results. However, none of the trials tried individualized homoeopathy instead of the used 'specific remedy' or 'combination formulae'. [21],[22] A few observational studies, although methodologically inadequate, revealed some efficacy of individualized homoeopathy in the management of essential hypertension and overall cardiovascular mortality. [23],[24],[25]
The aim of this trial was to evaluate whether individualized homoeopathy could produce any significant hypotensive effect different from placebo in patients with essential hypertension by comparing the lowering of blood pressure between groups. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this was the first randomized controlled trial conducted to compare individualized homoeopathy with placebo in essential hypertension.
Study Setting and Design
The study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm trial, conducted at the Outpatient Clinic for hypertensive patients at the Mahesh Bhattacharya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, Howrah, West Bengal, India, between April 2011 and February 2012, as per the Reporting Data on Homoeopathy Treatments (ReDHoT) guidelines. [26] Screening and enrollment was continued for the first six months followed by intervention and follow-up for the next six months [Figure 1]. The study protocol was completely in accordance with the Helsinki declaration on human experimentation [27] and Good Clinical Practice, [28] in India. Clearance was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the institution. Consequently, each participant was verbally explained about the study, with the help of the Patient Information Sheet, and thereafter, a written consent was obtained from them. However, they were free to withdraw from the study at any point in time.
Figure 1: CONSORT Study flow diagram
This trial is registered with the Clinical Trial Registry - India vide 'CTRI/2012/02/002464' with Universal
Trial Number (UTN) 'U1111-1128-2447' and Protocol Identification No. '1343/MBHMCH/CH/H/01/11'.
The study inclusion criteria consisted of patients (1) suffering from essential hypertension (pre-hypertensives: SBP 120-139 mm Hg, DBP 80-89 mm Hg, stage I hypertensives: SBP 140-159 mm Hg, DBP 90-99 mm Hg; and stage II hypertensives: SBP ≥60 mm Hg, DBP ≥100 mm Hg); [29] (2) aged 18-65 years; (3) of both sexes; (4) with at least a six-month history of suffering; (5) whose history, examination, and routine investigations revealed no evidence of obvious secondary causes; and (6) giving written informed consent.
Cases were considered excluded where (1) diagnosis or findings from the history were uncertain; (2) physical examination or routine investigations produced suspicion of a secondary cause for hypertension; (3) the cases were diagnosed (provisional/confirmatory) cases of secondary hypertension; (4) there was any kind of continued anti-hypertensive therapy for at least six months; (5) the cases were of malignant hypertension (SBP >200 mm Hg and DBP >140 mm Hg) with clinical features of hypertensive encephalopathy (severe headache, vomiting, visual disturbances, transient paralysis, convulsion, stupor and coma), cardiac decompensation (heart failure), and rapidly declining renal function (oliguria); (6) patients were suffering from isolated systolic hypertension (SBP ≥140 mm Hg and/or DBP < 90 mm Hg), as was mostly found in elderly patients; [29] (7) patients were with labile (sometimes, but not always, arterial pressure in the hypertensive range, i.e. not sustained) hypertension; [29] (8) patients were not strictly conforming to the criteria given by the Joint National Committee - 7 (although variation of ± 10 mm Hg in SBP and/or DBP was considered); [29] (9) there was a presence of severe concomitant disease (s); (10) there was a failure of vital organs/systems, for example, heart, lungs, liver, kidney, and the like, as detected clinically; (11) there was a presence of any systemic (endocrinal/cardiovascular/locomotor/neurological/hematological/psychiatric, etc.) or infectious disease(s) the patients were already diagnosed or detected clinically or by routine laboratory investigations; (12) there were immunocompromised patients; (13) diagnosed cases of developmental defects or congenital abnormalities; (14) pregnant patients, patients who were breast feeding and/or with likelihood of pregnancy; and (15) patients with a history of drug and/or alcohol abuse.
Intervention (Medicine)/Comparator (Placebo)
A range of homoeopathic potencies were used as per the requirement, decided by the treating physicians. All the medicines used were manufactured by a Good Manufacturing Practice certified homoeopathy pharmaceutical company and were prepared strictly in adherence with the regulations/instructions of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India. Medicines in all forms and placebo were dispensed in Good Clinical Practice environment. Each dose, administered orally, either medicine (in centesimal potencies) or placebo, identical in appearance, consisted of a single drop of medicine or comparator placebo in 83.1% ethanol in 10 ml distilled water and was served in identical amber-coloured glass vials. These were directed to be taken once daily, that is, every 24 hours. For 50 millesimal potencies, a single medicated/non-medicated globule No. 10 was dissolved in 60 ml of distilled water, with addition of two drops of 83.1% ethanol, divided into 10 equal doses. Each dose was directed to be taken after 10 equal downward strokes into half a cup (45 ml) of normal water, from which a single teaspoon (5 ml) was to be taken and the rest discarded. Successive doses were continued in a similar fashion until a mild homoeopathic aggravation, as per homoeopathic principles, took place. During intercurrent acute illness, the medicines were prescribed in either centesimal or 50 millesimal potencies, as appropriate for the case.
The outcome measures were changes in the systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure at a timeline of three months and six months. The effect size was considered as the lowering of systolic and diastolic BP by a minimum of 15 mm and 6 mm Hg, respectively. Thus, cases where this lowering in systolic and diastolic BP was observed were ascribed as 'improved' and the rest as 'not improved'. The study end-point was lowering of BP following intervention. The primary safety end-point was any adverse event during the study in any of the groups. The stopping guidelines were, a marked deterioration of health condition and/or constant increase in BP among subjects in either group, constant progress of disease with appearance of complications, and adverse events (if any).
The effect size calculated from the study on hypertension conducted by CCRH [23] was 0.6 [SBP: 157.65 ± 13.05 versus 143.41 ± 12.41, Cohen's d = 1.13, effect size = 0.5; DBP: 100.77 ± 4.04 versus 89.13 ± 7.75, Cohen's d = 1.88, effect size = 0.7; overall effect size = 0.6; calculated at UCCS Effect Size Calculators; http://www.uccs.edu/~lbecker/; © 1998, 1999 Dr. Lee A Becker, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs]. Taking into account the effect size (Standardized difference) of 0.6, power 90%, and significance level (α) of 5%, the required sample size determined was 118 by the Altman's nomogram. Keeping a provision for dropouts of about 27%, the targeted sample size became 150.
The hypertensive status of the study population was initially confirmed by taking the average of the measured blood pressure twice on two separate occasions in two contralateral arms in a supine position during rest, using a mercury sphygmomanometer of standard cuff size, throughout the study. Every case was subjected to detailed screening by a specified eligibility criteria followed by recruitment in the trial. After recruitment, all were subjected to baseline assessments. The pre-entry and post-intervention laboratory investigations performed were as follows: Blood for routine investigation (haemoglobin%, White Blood Cells (WBC)/WBC total count (TC) and differential count (DC), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) first hour, fasting and postprandial sugar, urea, creatinine, total cholesterol, High Density Lipoprotein cholesterol/HDLc, Low Density Lipoprotein cholesterol/LDLc, Very Low Density Lipoprotein cholesterol/VLDLc and triglyceride), urine analysis (albumin, blood, WBC or pus cells), chest x-ray PA (posteroanterior) view, and electrocardiogram (ECG) were performed before and after an intervention of six months.
Data were extracted from the reports directly and independently. Pre-designed proforma were used by the investigators. All these were compiled at the end; data were extracted and analyzed.
Out of 233 hypertensive patients assessed for the eligibility criteria, 150 were enrolled. Then individual treatment was prescribed to all the enrolled participants by the treating physicians. The treating physicians were free to decide the homoeopathy medicines, dosage, and repetitions to be applied.
Following prescription, a random allocation sequence was generated by a coin-toss method and dividing the sample into two groups. Randomization codes ('h' = heads, 't' = tail) were mentioned on the prescription of each participant by the treating physicians and were sent to the pharmacist. The pharmacist was instructed to serve either medicine or placebo to the groups as per the mentioned codes on the prescription. The treating physicians were kept blinded from the code of allocation, in strict confidentiality, throughout the study. The codes were broken after the end of the trial when the dataset was frozen. Thus, 70 participants were found to be randomized to verum (homoeopathy) and 80 to control (placebo). A total of 18 were dropouts and 132 were regular (subjects 64, control 68). Double blinding was checked early and also during the trial (by MM) by asking the patients in which group they believed they were during the trial. If necessary, the prescription was changed in the course of time, and of course, the patients who started on placebo stayed on placebo, except during intercurrent acute illness.
Treating physicians were house-staffs in the Department of Medicine of the hospital. Of them, two had masters in dietetics and all of them had a practicing experience of one year in the hospital. Necessary inputs regarding the selection of medicine were taken from experts, who had enough expertise and 10 years of experience in hospital practice. All the participants were given additional instructions regarding the diet (DASH diet; i.e., Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) and regimen, keeping in mind their socioeconomic status and level of education. The usual measures included avoiding tobacco and alcohol, restricting salt and saturated fat in the daily diet, increasing fruit and fibre content in the diet, and encouragement to undertake more physical activity. These additional measures were advised to all the participants to minimize bias.
A detailed case recording of each patient was done by the investigators as per the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in Organon of Medicine [30] and Kent's philosophy. [31] Repertorization was done on the basis of the totality of symptoms by Kent, Boenninghausen, and Synthesis repertories using the RADARÓ software. After repertorization, the medicine was selected on the basis of the Homoeopathy Materia Medica. [32],[33] In either group, patients were followed up in person on every fourteenth day and finally after six months, by measurement of blood pressure. In either group, all follow-ups were done as per the guidelines laid down for the second prescription in the protocol, that is, increasing the potency and change of medicine depending on the outcome of the first prescription. A maximum of two changes in the prescription were permitted. Any acute complaint arising during the follow-up was prescribed the indicated remedy as the prevailing symptomatology suggested. During the six-month trial, all data were measured and analyzed at entry, after three months, and after six months of the study by the outcome assessor (blinded, AD).
Intention to treat (ITT) population was subjected to statistical analysis. Comparable baseline characteristics and potential variables were matched to evaluate whether the samples originated from the same distribution and whether they differed statistically significantly or not. Missing values were calculated by the maximum likelihood method of estimation of the lambda parameter of normal distribution. Various statistics computational websites, for example, Vassar University statistical software ( http://vasarstats.net ), GraphPad software ( http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/ ), Jumk.de statistics calculator ( http://jumk.de/statistic-calculator ), WessaNet statistics software ( http://www.wessa.net/rwasp_ ), and Jeromy Stangroom's social science statistics ( http://www.socsscistatistics.com/tests ) were used for statistical calculations. Repeated measures ANOVA was done using SPSS version 20. The data were checked for normal/non-normal distribution using descriptive statistics of skewness and kurtosis and appropriate tests (parametric/non-parametric) were performed accordingly. The analysis was planned to be performed on demographic data and treatment outcomes, to test the group differences, using the Chi-square (χ2 ) test and independent t test. If significant difference was obtained, repeated measure (ANOVA) was planned to perform to compare the data of two groups obtained at different points of time, that is, at baseline, after three months, and after six months.
Out of 233 hypertensive subjects assessed for the eligibility criteria, 83 were excluded and 150 were randomized into two groups - verum (homoeopathy) and placebo. Sixty-four participants in the homoeopathy group out of 70 were allocated, and 68 out of 80 participants in the placebo group were included in the final analysis. There was a total dropout of 18 cases in the trial (verum 6, placebo 12). In the verum group, two subjects withdrew themselves from the study, three failed to continue regular follow-up for the minimum required duration/investigations for the conduct of analysis, and one developed hepatitis during the course of study and attended other treatment. In the placebo group, eight subjects withdrew themselves from the study; three were irregular, and one needed active therapeutic intervention for sudden deterioration of condition [Figure 1].
The available data was subjected to assessment of skewness and kurtosis as descriptive analysis to determine normal/non-normal distribution. Skewness ranged from −0.27 to −0.47 and kurtosis around three in both verum and control indicating an approximate normal distribution.
Baseline demographic characteristics, clinical indices, and pathological-biochemical parameters were tested using the independent t-test and Chi-square test. They were found to be similar and no statistically significant difference existed between the groups [Table 1].
Table 1: Baseline data (n=150)
After six months of intervention, change in blood pressure showed a statistically significant trend in favour of homoeopathy. Blood pressure was lowered significantly in fifty-four (84.4%) and nine patients (13.2%) in the verum and control groups, respectively, (χ1 2 = 64.06; P = 0.000, two-tailed). BP remained unimproved (static or deteriorated) in 10 (15.63%) patients in the verum group and 59 (86.76%) patients in the control group.
After three months, mean SBP and DBP reduction was 16.6 (95% CI 9.9, 23.3) and 7.3 (95% CI 4.1, 10.5) mm Hg respectively in the homoeopathy group. Contrarily, mean SBP and DBP raised by 2.2 (95% CI -7.2, 2.8) and 1.6 (-3.6, 0.4) mm Hg respectively in the placebo group. Again after six months, mean SBP and DBP reduction was 26.6 (95% CI 21.5, 31.7) and 11.8 (95% CI 9.2, 14.4) mm Hg respectively in the homoeopathy therapy group. The mean SBP and DBP increased by 3.6 (95% CI -8.7, 1.5) and 1.6 (-3.6, 0.4) mm Hg respectively in the placebo group.
Repeated measures ANOVA was performed comparing data obtained at baseline, at 3 months and 6 months, which also revealed significant difference between the two groups, both in SBP[F=77.2]; P=0.0001 and DBP[F=63.2]; P=0.0001.
Post hoc independent t test was carried out comparing three months and six months values which showed a statistically significant difference between groups, both in SBP (mean difference = -17.8, t = -6.2 and mean difference= -29.2, t = -10.38, P = 0.001) after 3 months and 6 months respectively and DBP (mean difference = -7.4, t = -6.1 and mean difference = -11.8, t = -11.47; P = 0.001) after 3 and 6 months respectively. ([Table 2], [Figure 2])
Figure 2: Mean changes of blood pressure over time
Table 2: Blood pressure changes in the two groups over different points in time
An unpaired/independent t test was carried out comparing three months and six months values showed a statistically significant difference between groups, both in SBP (t = -6.261 and -10.386 after three and six months respectively; P = 0.001 two-tailed) and DBP (t = -5.966 and -11.452; P = 0.001 two-tailed). [Table 2]; [Figure 2]
The most frequently prescribed homoeopathic medicines in both groups were Natrum muriaticum (n = 19, 15), Calcarea carbonica (n = 9, 9), Sulphur (n = 9, 7), Thuja occidentalis (n = 6, 6), and Nitric acid (n = 3, 5) in varied potencies [Table 3]. Among incurrent antimiasmatics, Medorrhinum, Nitric acid and Thuja occidentalis were frequently used; Bacillinum, Sulphur, and Syphilinum each were used in single cases.
Table 3: Most often prescribed homoeopathic medicines
No serious adverse events were reported during the study period, except a single case of hepatitis in the verum group and one case of deterioration of condition in control group; however, those cannot be attributed to causality. Mild-to-moderate homoeopathic aggravation, as per homoeopathic principles, was observed.
Individualized homoeopathy definitely produced some hypotensive effects different from placebo. Homoeopathic prescriptions in our study were based on homoeopathic principles. Mild-to-moderate hypertension in many cases is asymptomatic, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach.
The trial was made double-blind by the blinding participants, the outcome assessor, and treating physicians. Double-blind studies on individualized homoeopathy where physicians are given a free hand for prescriptions are rare, probably due to the inherent problems in the methodology of treatment, that is, the individualization procedure, treatment by multiple remedial agents in various potencies prepared under various scales for a single clinical diagnosis, and so on. We followed the instructions of Kleijnen et al., [34] for making the study double blind, that is, an 'individual treatment is prescribed, and then the patients are randomly allocated to homoeopathy or placebo treatment'. Double blinding was checked early in the trial, before the treatment was expected to take effect by asking the patients in which group they believed they were in during the trial. Otherwise, any positive effect would break the code, especially when chances of diffusion of treatment (contact between verum and control subjects) could not be removed completely. However, the 'quasi-randomization' by the coin-toss method may be improved by adopting computer-generated random number lists, in future researches. As the randomization was a bit different from the usual procedures, traditional allocation concealment mechanisms (e.g., consecutively numbered drug containers, sequentially numbered, opaque, sealed envelopes etc.) were not followed.
Bias was tried to be minimized by blinding of participants, treating physicians, and the outcome assessor (AD, expert of conventional system of medicine, who was neutral about homoeopathy and did not participate in the treatment); randomization of participants into subject and control groups; and matching for comparable baseline characteristics and potential variables.
Also, although explained extensively to the participants, chances of 'threats to external validity' could not be completely avoided, due to chances of interaction with other forms of therapy and interaction of testing and treatment (evidence that testing might be related to the treatment so that subjects complete the tests differently after treatment). The best possible effort was made to minimize chances of any compensatory work to equalization (evidence that groups are knowledgeable about design and might equal things out), compensatory rivalry (evidence that groups are knowledgeable about design and might compete with other group members), and resentful demoralization (evidence that one group feels disadvantaged through a group assignment process); however, these cannot be warranted. [35] Attempts were made to minimize 'threats to construct validity' by minimizing chances of inadequate explication, mono-method bias, hypothesis guessing, evaluation apprehension, and experimenter bias. [35]
Besides, due to limited infrastructure and absence of an Intensive Care Unit, malignant hypertension cases were excluded from this study. Also, retinoscopic examination was not possible on account of want of faculty.
A larger sample size was considered in this trial in comparison to two other published randomized trials. [21],[22] Also, individualized homoeopathy was tested in this study revealing a positive outcome and a significantly different effect from the placebo. Furthermore, the objective of this study was not to suggest any single homoeopathy remedy for essential hypertension. Larger trials in future, in multicentric design, may suggest a subgroup of remedies that are more frequently indicated in this clinical condition.
The final differentiation of the remedies was made after referencing drug pictures of different Materia Medica, and a remedy matching the totality was chosen, taking care that it also corresponded to the predominant miasmatic influence in the case. Natrum muriaticum, Calcarea carbonica, and Sulphur were indicated in most of the cases; however, these remedies were chosen strictly on the principles of homoeopathy and should never be used specifically or blindly to control hypertension. In some cases, especially where characteristic symptomatology and precise prescribing totality were lacking, remedy selection was influenced by constitutional attributes, generalities, and the fundamental cause, that is, the chronic miasm in the background. Treatment was often difficult due to this fundamental miasm; sometimes improvement ceased even after administration of a well-selected remedy; sometimes, remedies failed to make any impression in spite of certain indications; occasionally they completely obscured the symptomatology. These cases required intercurrent anti-miasmatic remedies to remove the block. Prescription in such instances became presumptive rather than a certainty, and success or failure of the selected remedy was indicated only on a serial repetition of BP measurement, in the absence of a demonstrable aberration in health. During the follow-up visits, the remedy was repeated only when necessary, in the same potency or with a change in potency, as indicated. Likewise, a change in remedy also was considered only when essential, after careful evaluation of the follow up. In cases where both were not necessary, only placebo was prescribed. Some individuals in the placebo group experienced improvement, probably due to individual variation by adaptation of and meticulous adherence to the additional lifestyle modification measures concerning diet and regimen that were advised to all, to eliminate the bias.
Homoeopathic principles were not followed in the two randomized controlled trials on hypertension performed to date; and quite obviously, the findings were negative. No statistically significant differences were found between the effects of placebo and active drug (Baryta carbonica 15cH) on the blood pressure. [21] The earlier study concluded that a blood pressure lowering effect under pharmacotherapy was clearly superior to that under homoeopathy, where it was negligible and statistically not significant. [22] However, the observational studies, although methodologically inadequate, yielded positive outcomes favouring homoeopathy. [23],[24],[25] Our study findings generated conflicting evidence in the outcomes of the previous two RCTs and confirmed that homoeopathic medicines, when applied as per principle, can definitely produce significant effects different from placebo. Finally, in order to build credibility within the medical research field, multiple replications and/or extensions using the same or similar approaches to treat the different diseases are necessary. Multi-site research with larger sample sizes is essential to improve the confidence level and generalizability of the study findings.
Finally our data suggest that individualized homoeopathy treatment may have significantly beneficial effects different from placebo in patients suffering from essential hypertension. It may be adopted as an alternative public health approach in curbing the increasing prevalence of hypertension throughout the globe. However, further research in multicentric design is required on larger sample size before making firm recommendations.
The authors would like to thank Prof. Amitava Biswas, Principal, Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathy Medical College and Hospital, Government of West Bengal, for giving permission to conduct the trial in his institution; and also Mr. Suman Khatua for his outstanding technical support and assistance.
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Rep Jeanne Ives (R) Formally Announces Her Campaign to Run Against Gov Rauner
It’s not breaking news that Jeanne Ives is running for governor to challenge Bruce Rauner for the Republican nomination, but this week Rep Ives officially announced her candidacy to defeat Bruce Rauner as he seeks the GOP nomination.
Gov Rauner famously ran and was elected on the promise to turn Illinois around from its economic malaise.
Rep Jeanne Ives (R) formally announces her run for Governor
But in her speech announcing her candidacy, Rep Ives said, “Gov Rauner didn’t turn us around, he sold us out.”
The breaking point for Rep Ives and many other Republicans, was Gov Rauner signing into law, HB-40, which allows for the use of Illinois tax dollars to pay for abortions.
In front of a gathering of her supporters, Ives said, “If the Republican Party was to renominate Bruce Rauner, we would be handing the race to the Chicago Democrats.”
Ives was introduced by her Lt Gov running mate, former state representative, Richard Morthland, who is both a farmer and an educator, who is a member of the Illinois Federation of Teachers.
Rep Jeanne Ives and her running mate, former Rep Richard Morthland.
Ives is seen as a long shot for the nomination, due in part to the Governor’s overwhelming name recognition, and his overwhelming advantage in campaign funds.
But Ives supporters say that Gov Rauner has burned too many bridges with members of the Illinois Republican Party. Many former supporters have now turned their back on Gov Rauner’s campaign for reelection.
They, like Ives feel betrayed by the Governor’s signing of the bill that allows for taxpayer funding of abortions. Conservative radio host, Dan Proft, who himself ran for governor in 2010, has broken with the governor, as have John Tillman, who leads the conservative nonprofit, Illinois Policy Institute. In the wake of the signing of HB-40, Tillman called the governor, “Benedict Rauner.”
So the political argument by those supporting Jeanne Ives, is that Gov Rauner’s millions of campaign funds will do little to help him, as Republicans now know who this man is, and they don’t like him.
The governor’s supporters say he is the only Republican capable of winning statewide, particularly against a candidate like JB Prtizker, who is reportedly worth over $4 Billion.
Rep Ives, is from the Wheaton area, where she served previously on the town council. During the recent legislature, she served on these committees; Appropriations – Elementary & Secondary Education; Cities & Villages; Community College Access & Affordability; Labor & Commerce; Personnel & Pensions; Intermodal Infrastructure; Youth & Young Adults; Juvenile Justice & System-Involved; Substance Abuse Special; Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee; Workforce Reconciliation Subcommittee; and Business Growth & Incentives.
She and her husband are both 1987 graduates of West Point, and the parents of five children.
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'SPIRIT AND NUMBERS IN CND'
Independent – 19 November 1986
Sandra Barwick's perceptive account of the CND Conference (17 November) is slightly marred by just one misprint and a few misleading statistics.
It is not the "alleged rates" which have been causing confusion at the Molesworth "peace" camp, but the alleged rapes there of "peace" women by "peace" men in defiance of the spirit of non-violent direct action advocated by the movement.
Secondly, if CND's individual membership now stands at 84,000 as reported, this shows a return to the level announced at the 1983 CND Conference. Membership peaked at 110,000 by the 1984 CND Conference and was claimed to have remained stable at that level at the 1985 CND Conference. There has therefore been an overall fall of almost one quarter in the net CND membership figure in the past twelve months.
The unilateralist lobby made great play with these figures when they were rising, so it is only fair to challenge bogus claims that the "membership remains stable" now it is clearly in decline.
It is unlikely to be boosted, moreover, in view of the results of the latest Gallup poll on nuclear defence policy commissioned by my organisation: these show that 66 percent of the public think that Britain should continue to possess nuclear weapons as long as the Soviet Union has them, whilst only 27 percent disagree; that 48 percent disagree with removing cruise missiles from the UK irrespective of whether or not the Soviet SS-20s are dismantled, whilst only 39 percent favour unconditional removal; and that 49 percent support completion of the Trident submarine programme to replace Polaris, whilst only 36 percent disapprove.
The Labour Party may have chosen to swallow the CND prescription, but the public remain as resistant to it as ever.
Dr JULIAN LEWIS
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A Year Ago Today
When I woke, I knew. There was no mind fog, no dream dawdling into day. Reality hit me before consciousness did. That today was deployment day. That by the time the sun melted into the sea, Kyal would be on a ship, chasing it across the Indian Ocean.
The bed squeaked as we stirred and shuffled closer to each other. I lifted my back. He extended his left arm. Our morning embraces were like clockwork, and while our brains knew our routine would be disrupted, our bodies denied reality.
Eventually we rose out of bed and stumbled through his tiny room on HMAS Stirling. It wasn’t much. We’d crammed in a queen bed, squeezed the television on the desk and snuck the mini-fridge under the “pantry” shelves. But seeing as no one would inhabit this room for six months, we didn’t need a lot.
We hardly uttered a word as we got dressed. It seemed pointless to start a conversation that would inevitably end by midday. Besides, what’s left to say except Please don’t go?
Squished in between the bed and the wardrobe, I dabbed foundation and swept powder across my face. My limbs were moving out of habit, but internally, my mind was numb.
Like most important occasions, there’s always last minute running around. Kyal had to move his car, pop by the uniform shop and carry his letter filled care package to his mess. In that hour of running around, all I wanted to do was steal his attention, to have one last adventure before we’d be on a forced hiatus.
The rest of the morning was incomprehensible. No matter how many times I’ve replayed it in my head, I’m still baffled by the bizarre energies that circulated the dock. Sailors took close friends and families on a tour through the ship. Questions were thrown left, right and centre, partially out of curiousity, partially to distract and keep the emotions at bay.
When we were called for the final farewell speeches, the atmosphere made a sudden shift. We were inhaling sorrow, exhaling dismissal. The sadness that consumed me wasn’t the type I’d been anticipating. After months of erratic emotional bursts, I was expecting to be a blubbering mess. Full on chest shudder, sniffles that turn into snorts and sobbing so rapid, you begin to hyperventilate. Instead, the tears simply rolled down my cheek, my head accepting the present while my heart resisted. This can’t be it. These can’t be our final moments. I’m not ready yet.
As we made our way closer to HMAS Perth, Kyal pulled me in for our last embrace. I’d tried to envision that moment for months, trying to prepare myself. While I was savouring our final minute, Kyal buried his face deeper into my hair. It wasn’t until we broke apart that I noticed his red eyes, tears collecting.
Watching him on the bow while I was stuck on the dock was the hardest part of the morning. I wanted to look at him and admire his every move as he helped pull in the rope. But I was crumbling. A glance too long would transform me into the blubbering mess I was expecting to be. To feel so close, but to be so far away, was torment. From here on out, I would have absolutely no clue what he’d be thinking, feeling or experiencing. Not that I could read minds, but weaving your day with someone else’s makes a hell of a difference. The most I could do now was send an email, mail a care package and be there whenever the phone rang.
I was beyond lucky that the phone rang as often as it did. Before long, we had set up a routine. I’d finish work at 9pm, come home, scoff down dinner and wait for his call at 10pm. If half an hour had passed in silence, I’d begrudgingly accept that tonight was not our night and would look forward to tomorrow. Despite our regime, there were a few times I’d leave my phone unattended, only to find a missed call when I returned. Another time my phone was drastically low on battery. Naturally, just as I was in reach of a recharger, it died mid-call. On these occasions, I’d convulse and wail and beg my phone to “Call me back.”
Not every phone call was a glorious reunion. Both exhausted, sometimes silence suited us better than words. In retrospect, I know I wasted a lot of our calls. Despite waiting impatiently all day, I’d allow the littlest thing to bother me and send me into emotional paralysis.
What made my deployment experience more complicated were the two main pillars in my life: studying and work. They consumed every spare second of my day, sapping all my confidence, my motivation and energy. Balancing full-time study and (borderline) full-time work was no easy feat. It took an immeasurable toll on our relationship, as well as my personal happiness. But that’s another story in itself.
Even after a year has passed, it’s difficult to express the layers of emotions. The best way I can illustrate it, is that it’s knitted with threads of excitement, worry, desolation, confusion, optimism, relief, hope and anxiety. But even that doesn’t seem to do it justice. I’m not the only one who struggles with defining the experience. Even Kyal describes it as “indescribable”. But knowing how far we’ve come, and knowing the odds and obstacles we’ve defeated, it’s comforting to know I wasn’t the only one feeling unsettled.
So much has happened between then and now, but one thing that hasn’t changed: the tears I shed. They flow just as easily. I cry for myself, and I cry for Kyal – to think that we had to endure the long-distance in the first place. I cry for everyone else who’s had to endure it. I cry for those who are experiencing it now, and for those who’ll encounter it soon.
But despite the ups and downs — the moments I want to hold on forever and the ones I’d rather forget — I always tried to keep this Julie Andrews quote in mind: No matter what the situation, we are very lucky. We might’ve been yearning for each other on other sides of the world but we were (we still are) incredibly lucky to have found one another in the first place.
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Wednesday Kicks: Chivas USA Offseason Manoeuvering Begins & More
Posted on December 13, 2012 by Nick Green
Modestly, one should note, with Portland and Chivas USA swapping spots in the player allocation rankings, with the Timbers receiving Chivas USA’s second overall spot and the Goats taking the third overall position. Chivas USA will also receive either a 2013 international roster spot or a second-round pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft should the Timbers acquire one. Translation: Chivas USA want to load up on international spots ahead of a likely influx of Mexicans, while Portland has a specific player they want to acquire from overseas.
U.S. international forward Clint Dempsey, was chosen by 183 US journalists as the “212 Player of the Year Award presented by Fútbol de Primera. It’s the third time Dempsey has won the award, which either he or the Galaxy’s Landon Donovan have won ten times in the last eleven years. Dempsey scored six goals in nine U.S. games this year.
The 54 college seniors invited to the increasingly unimportant MLS Combine next month in Florida include defenders Joe Franco (Cal State Northridge); and midfielders Carlos Alvarez (University of Connecticut) of Los Angeles, Kory Kindle of (California State Bakersfield of Ventura; and Ryan Hollingshead and Fernando Monge (UCLA).
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Wednesday Kicks: Boxx, Donovan, Press, Leroux lead U.S. Soccer player award nominees & more
Posted on November 24, 2010 by Nick Green
First, the & more: follow the MLS expansion draft here. The Whitecaps just took former Galaxy striker Alan Gordon, now late of Chivas USA. They like big, bruising English style center forwards up north.
Vancouver also took the Palos Verdes Peninsula’s John Thorrington off the hands of the Chicago Fire with their tenth and final pick.
Award season is heating up with U.S. Soccer announcing their nominees today for male, female and young male and female athletes of the year.
Local nominees include Stanford’s Christen Press of Palos Verdes Estates and UCLA’s Sydney Leroux for the Young Female Athlete of the Year, Torrance’s Shannon Boxx for the, um, senior female award and the usual suspects for the male version.
U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year Finalists
Shannon Boxx, Midfielder
Rachel Buehler, Defender
Amy LePeilbet, Defender
Amy Rodriguez, Forward
Abby Wambach, Forward
U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year Finalists
Carlos Bocanegra, Defender
Michael Bradley, Midfielder
Steve Cherundolo, Defender
Clint Dempsey, Midfielder
Landon Donovan, Midfielder
U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year Finalists
Morgan Brian, Midfielder
Crystal Dunn, Defender
Bianca Henninger, Goalkeeper
Sydney Leroux, Forward
Christen Press, Forward
U.S. Soccer Young Male Athlete of the Year Finalists
Gale Agbossoumonde, Defender
Zac MacMath, Goalkeeper
Alessandro Mion, Defender
Dillon Powers, Midfielder
Andrew Souders, Defender
Cast your vote here. You can vote daily through Dec. 10.
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MLS Tuesday Kicks: Rosters expanded, reserve league returns, Galaxy place four on MLS Best XI
Nothing we didn’t really know. But at least I didn’t have to listen to MLS Commish Don Garber thanks to Associated Press Writer Nancy Armour:
Major League Soccer’s reserve league will return in 2011, another step in improving player
The reserve league will have a 10-game regular season and playoffs, giving young players match experience on a consistent basis. Most top European soccer leagues have similar systems.
“Our technical committee … it’s their strong view that we need to have a reserve division as an essential part of our player development ladder in the United States,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Tuesday in his annual state of the league address.
The reserve league was disbanded in 2008 after four seasons because of costs and logistics problems, but its return had been expected since Adidas extended its sponsorship deal this summer. The new eight-year deal, which begins next year and is worth more than $200 million, included a significant investment in youth development.
MLS and its teams are already devoting significant resources and attention to their
development academies, which groom high school-age players and have already produced first-team starters such as MLS Rookie of the Year Andy Najar. But it’s hard for most players to make the leap from high school or even college straight to an MLS game-day roster, and there is a fear future American stars are stagnating while they fight for playing time.
When the U.S. was eliminated in the group stage of the Under-20 World Cup last year, coach Thomas Rongen blamed part of his team’s erratic play on the lack of an MLS reserve league.
“We go from full-time residency to a black hole,” Rongen said then. “That’s the reason we are erratic from game to game. There’s no game sharpness, there’s no game fitness and no game rhythm. Because of the MLS dropping the reserve league the black hole will become deeper and darker.”
MLS rosters will expand from 26 to 30 players to accommodate the reserve division, with six spots designated for players 24 years old and younger. Development academy players will eligible to play on reserve league teams, as will players on tryouts with MLS franchises.
*Garber said he expects changes to the current playoff format, including the
possibility that the MLS Cup could be held at the home of the highest-seeded team. The
championship game is currently held at a neutral site chosen months in advance, just like the Super Bowl.
This year’s MLS Cup, featuring FC Dallas and Colorado, will be played Sunday in Toronto.
*With expansion to Vancouver and Portland bringing the number of teams in the league
to 18 next season, Garber said MLS will consider doing away with conferences and going to the single-table format the top European leagues use. That will not, however, mean an end to playoffs, Garber said.
“We will never do away with playoffs,” Garber said. “There is absolutely no reason to do
*Garber continues to talk with New York City officials, the Wilpon family, the group
that owns the name of the Cosmos and other potential investors about adding a second franchise in New York, and hopes to have something done by 2013. (Montreal begins play in 2012.)
*This season’s Best XI are: goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts (Galaxy); defenders Jamison Olave and Nat Borchers (Real Salt Lake), Omar Gonzalez (Galaxy); midfielders David Ferreira (FC Dallas), Dwayne De Rosario (Toronto FC), Sebastien Le Toux (Philadelphia Union), Javier Morales (Real Salt Lake), Landon Donovan (Galaxy); and forwards Edson Buddle (Galaxy) and Chris Wondolowski (San Jose
Earthquakes).
Here’s why Donovan is listed as a midfielder, straight from The Commish in today’s State of the League speech:
You probably noted that Landon (Donovan) is listed as a midfielder as opposed to the forward that he was listed on the ballot. Here’s the reason why. For obvious reasons, Landon has been an absolutely standout player this year, including leading the league in assists. He is a guy that clearly has earned the right to be considered one of the best players in our league not because of who he is or what he’s done for the national team, but for what he’s done in Major League Soccer (this season). He had 16 assists, and he finished in the top handful in MVP voting. Due to the large number of votes that he received and the fact that it was in the Galaxy lineup as a midfielder nearly twice as many times as he was a forward, he was included on the Best XI as a midfielder rather than as a third forward.
So our view is we need to do the right thing. It is certainly right to have Landon as a Best XI.
So what will it say about the above XI if Colorado wins MLS Cup Sunday?
Incidentally, the six additional roster spots are reserved for players 24 and under and they will not count against a team’s salary budget, which for 2011 will be $2.67 million per team.
Tuesday Kicks: December Club America exhibition in Carson scheduled & more
Posted on November 9, 2010 by Nick Green
*Well, they had to find some way to generate a little cash over the holidays now that InterLiga has gone the way of the dodo, I guess.
It’s being called “a new tradition of playing a holiday friendly at Home Depot Center prior to the start of the Mexican club soccer season” for Club America. Which is a way better title (but a bit less honest) than calling it a “new winter tradition of extracting as much cash from the local soccer public for a meaningless game as we can.”
Tickets starting at $20 go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Nov. 18 for the game against the Guatemalan national team set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29. Former Galaxy striker Carlos Ruiz is expected to play for the Central American nation.
It’s the 11th time Club America has played in Carson in just seven years. It’s Guatemala’s sixth match at the HDC. Wow, that’s more games than Chivas USA showed up for this year at the same stadium.
*And here’s something else to look forward to: the inaugural MLS Re-Entry Draft.
*The Galaxy’s Juninho and Donovan Ricketts are up for MLS Goal of the Year and Save of the Year, respectively.
*Meanwhile, eat this up: Food Network show “Private Chefs of Beverly Hills” will prepare an “international themed menu” (and hopefully they’ll get to eat it, too) for Galaxy Assistant Coach Cobi Jones and players Donovan Ricketts, Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzlez, Dema Kovalenko, Tristan Bowen, Edson Buddle and Mike Magee on tonight’s episode, which airs at 9 o’clock.
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Hartman, Ricketts, Buddle, Gonzalez named MLS awards finalists
Posted on October 27, 2010 by Nick Green
Galaxy striker Edson Buddle, up for MLS MVP, tries to peer into the future at a recent game and guess the winners (AP Photo).
But no Bruce Arena for Coach of the Year.
And why is Thierry Henry up for an award (I’m guessing former CSUDH, UCLA and Galaxy goalkeeper Kevin Hartman is not casting his vote for the Frenchman).
Here’s the finalists for each award as announced by MLS this afternoon and the schedule the winners will be announced:
Goalkeeper of the Year Finalists
Kevin Hartman (FC Dallas)
Donovan Ricketts (Galaxy)
Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
Fair Play Finalists – Individual
C.J. Brown (Chicago Fire)
Sebastien Le Toux (Philadelphia Union)
Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)
Comeback Player of the Year Finalists
Chris Albright (New York Red Bulls)
Bobby Convey (San Jose Earthquakes)
Brek Shea (FC Dallas)
Visa Defender of the Year Finalists
Nat Borchers (Real Salt Lake)
Omar Gonzalez (Galaxy)
Jamison Olave (Real Salt Lake)
MLS W.O.R.K.S. Humanitarian of the Year Finalists
Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo)
Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards)
Seth Stammler (New York Red Bulls)
adidas Referee of the Year Finalists
Mark Geiger
Kevin Stott
Baldomero Toledo
Rookie of the Year Finalists
Danny Mwanga (Philadelphia Union)
Andy Najar (D.C. United)
Tim Ream (New York Red Bulls)
Coach of the Year Finalists
Hans Backe (New York Red Bulls)
Schellas Hyndman (FC Dallas)
Jason Kreis (Real Salt Lake)
Newcomer of the Year Finalists
Thierry Henry (New York Red Bulls)
Joel Lindpere (New York Red Bulls)
Alvaro Saborio (Real Salt Lake)
Volkswagen Most Valuable Player Finalists
Edson Buddle (LA Galaxy)
David Ferreira (FC Dallas)
Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthqakes)
Awards Announcements Schedule:
Tuesday: Rookie of the Year, Fair Play Individual & Team of the Year, and Goalkeeper of the Year
Nov. 5: Visa Defender and adidas Referee/Assistant Referee of the Year
Nov. 8: MLS W.O.R.K.S. Humanitarian of the Year
Nov.10: Newcomer and Comeback Player of the Year
Nov. 11: MLS Coach of the Year
Nov. 15: 2010 MLS Best XI
Nov. 17: AT&T Goal of the Year and NAPA Auto Parts Save of the Year
Nov. 19: Volkswagen MVP & Commissioner’s Award
Sanna smiles as Sigi Schmid’s Seattle Sounders snag second successive U.S. Open Cup crown & more
Posted on October 5, 2010 by Nick Green
An unusually svelte-looking Sounders part-owner Drew Carey and customarily bald goalkeeper Kasey Keller celebrate in Seattle after the Sounders’ U.S. Open Cup win (AP Photo).
The South Bay boy done good.
Sigi Schmid, who grew up in Torrance, guided Seattle to a second successive berth in the CONCACAF Champions League courtesy of this 2-1 come from behind U.S. Open Cup victory against the Columbus Crew Tuesday at Qwest Field. Sanna Nyassi scored both Seattle goals.
Things could have been different had Rolling Hills Estates’ Robbie Rogers – a protege of Schmid’s – hit the goal instead of the woodwork with five minutes left.
But Rogers missed and the typically loud 30,000-plus Seattle crowd basked in their richly deserved victory just a few minutes later.
And fun to watch.
Quotable:
“I’m extremely proud of our team,” said Schmid. “We talked about being able to win tonight and doing something special. We’re the first MLS team to repeat and the first to repeat in a long time. The guys really took it to heart and even though we went down 1-0, they showed a lot of character.”
Notable: The crowd of 31,311 smashed the U.S. Open Cup record of 21,583 – set way back in 1929.
In other soccer news:
*Central defender Yohance Marshall will miss Thursday’s Galaxy game in Philadelphia against the Union after being called up into the Trinidad & Tobago squad for friendlies Wednesday against Bermuda and Sunday against Jamaica. Marshall didn’t start against Chivas USA, giving way to the former Maryland pairing of Omar Gonzalez and AJ DeLaGarza, after starting the previous two games.
*Voting has opened for the LA Riot Squad Player of the Year award, pretty much the most prestigious Galaxy-related award out there.
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Galaxy’s Arena Named MLS Coach of the Year
Galaxy Head Coach and General Manager Bruce Arena, ably assisted by Assistant Head Coach Dave Sarachan, revitalized the fortunes of the once-moribund Galaxy this season and has the team in the Western Conference Final against the Houston Dynamo at 8 p.m. Friday at Home Depot Center.
And deservedly so after leading the Galaxy from worst to first in MLS and adding a second MLS Coach of the Year honor a dozen years after first claiming the award with D.C. United.
From the Galaxy press release:
In his first full season with the Galaxy, Arena helped lead the Galaxy to a 12-6-12 record and a first place finish in the Western Conference, giving the club their first postseason berth since the 2005 season. Arena claimed the award after garnering the most votes in polling of MLS players, general managers, coaches and members of the media.
Arena, 58, was named the Galaxy’s head coach on August 18, 2008, replacing the recently departed Ruud Gullit. He helped guide the club to a 2-5-3 record in his 10 games in charge at the end of the 2008 season. Following his initial season in Los Angeles, Arena overhauled the Galaxy roster, with 16 of the 26 players on the club’s current roster having joined the club since the end of the 2008 season.
With his new look roster in place, Arena guided the Galaxy to a club record 12 shutouts in the regular season and just 31 goals allowed, exactly half of the league-worst 62 goals that they conceded in 2008. Arena’s improvements paid dividends in the attack as well, with the club receiving nine goals and 15 assists from players that he brought in following the 2008 season.
Seattle Sounders FC Coach Sigi Schmid and Columbus Crew Coach Robert Warzycha were the other finalists this year.
BTW, Arena paid tribute to the role the players have played this season after last weekend’s game:
“These are special games and on Friday it will be a special game. I’m real pleased to be part of this group. This has been one of my more enjoyable jobs in the last 30-35 years. You come in every day (and) these guys are a pleasure to work with. I think their vested interest in this team has made a difference. They buy into everything.”
Also, here’s Arena’s not-so-secret strategy for Friday night: “Show up.”
A more detailed preview is here.
Arena’s introduction.
Previous Coach of the year winners:
2008: Sigi Schmid – Columbus Crew
2007: Preki – Chivas USA
2006: Bob Bradley – Chivas USA
2005: Dominic Kinnear – San Jose Earthquakes
2004: Greg Andrulis – Columbus Crew
2003: Dave Sarachan – Chicago Fire
2002: Steve Nicol – New England Revolution
2001: Frank Yallop – San Jose Earthquakes
2000: Bob Gansler – Kansas City Wizards
1999: Sigi Schmid – Los Angeles Galaxy
1998: Bob Bradley – Chicago Fire
1997: Bruce Arena – D.C. United
1996: Thomas Rongen – Tampa Bay Mutiny
Tuesday’s Column: Struggles Continue for Mexico; Donovan Training with Bayern, Schmid is MLS Coach of the Year & More
Mexico’s Burden
With the head of the Mexican Football Federation in L.A. Monday, it seemed like a good time to look at the continuing struggles of that nation ahead of its final first round World Cup qualifying game for today’s column.
As always, it’s hard to fit everything into a column.
Here’s a few bonus quotes from Lalas (and while he declined to speak in detail about his Galaxy experience until January – presumably he’s still under some form of contractual obligation – you can read between the lines with some of his quotes).
On the new environment Eriksson finds himself in, despite his track record:
*”I have some experience with making a big splash in terms of who you sign, but ultimately it’s in the results. Just because somebody has experience doesn’t mean that translates into success. Just because somebody has made a name for themselves some place else doesn’t mean it translates into coming into some place else.
He’s a great coach and he thinks about things in a certain way, but he has his work cut out for him here in CONCACAF and I think he’s recognizing some of the challenges.”
*On where Mexico lags the U.S. and other nations:
“I don’t think they have enough players who are playing around the world and I don’t think they encourage enough players to come into the Mexican league to augment what they have because it is a great league and it is at times wonderfully entertaining.
“Certainly if you look at the Mexican futbol league compared to MLS they have a much greater history and much more to build on, but it’s not translating into results.”
*On what the U.S.has done right in comparison to Mexico:
“We’ve been open-minded in terms of the different types of coaches and different types of philosophies. We’ve encouraged players to play overseas and use that experience in terms of bringing them back.
“We’ve also recognized that maybe the physical advantage that Americans enjoyed for a while and used to their advantage wasn’t enough – the tactical part of it had to be sound also. We also got more wily and less naive in our approach on and off the field in that we understand how to manage games, we understand the difference in playing a home and away game.
“We’ve thrown a lot of money and a lot of resources into developing our younger players and our national team. It’s paid off.”
Donovan in Germany
In the least surprising news of the day, the Galaxy’s Landon Donovan will train with Juergen Klinsmann’s Bayern Munich for 10 days to “stay fit.” Yeah, sure.
Of course, Donovan is looking to play overseas, Klinsmann has had close ties with the Galaxy in the past and has said he’s in search of a new striker when the January transfer window opens. Goodbye and good luck, Landon.
MLS Awards
Former Galaxy Coach and long-time Sigi Schmid was not surprisingly named MLS Coach of the Year today after leading his Columbus Crew to first in MLS during the regular season.
Here’s a look at Schmid’s career by the numbers, courtesy of the Crew:
*17 – His number of playoff wins is the best in MLS.
*57 – The Crew’s point total this season was the best in club history.
*17 – The Crew’s win total this season was the best in club history.
Lalas, who will continue as MLS analyst for Thursday’s Crew-Fire playoff game and for MLS Cup, said Columbus is his pick to win the title:
“I am nothing if not a believer in karma and that you are rewarded for your efforts over a period of time. It doesn’t always work like that in MLS and in fact we almost discourage that, but a team like Columbus that has played consistently well, that has given their fans an entertaining and ultimately successful product from the beginning of the season – that that will bear out.”
Huck’s Trucks
Finally, San Jose’s Darren Huckerby was named MLS Newcomer of the Year today after scoring six goals and assisting on four others in just 14 games after joining the Earthquakes in mid-season.
I’ll be back later in the day with the Honda Player of the Year winner and more.
Midweek Kicks: Pasadena’s Yura Movsisyan & More
Great story in The Salt Lake City Tribune today about the life and death struggles Real Salt Lake striker Yura Movsisyan endured as a child growing up in war-torn Azerbaijan before his family emigrated to Pasadena. His proud parents will be watching their son from the Home Depot Center stands at Saturday’s playoff decider against Chivas USA.
Read the story here.
U.S. Soccer began accepting nominations today for its seventh annual end of year awards for best blog, soccer bar, store and video. Details here.
Finally, one of the best executives in MLS got his just reward today: the Galaxy’s Tom Payne was named president of business operations by Anschutz Entertainment Group.
From the (edited) press release:
Payne will oversee all of the Galaxy’s business operations, including corporate partnerships, ticket sales, marketing, programming, communications, broadcasting, operations and community development. Payne, who has been with the organization for six seasons, will report directly to AEG President Tim Leiweke.
“From the start, there was no doubt that Tom was the ideal person to take on this new position within the Galaxy,” said Leiweke. “With his vast knowledge of soccer and MLS, Tom has the respect of the staff, the players and the fans and will now play an even bigger role in helping this club to grow and become more successful. Despite our struggles on the field, Tom has done an outstanding job on the business side and together with (Coach) Bruce (Arena), we are confident that with their leadership, next year will be a positive one for us.”
Payne, 44, carries with him an extensive background in the sports and entertainment industry. He has worked for the Galaxy since 2003 and previously served as the club’s Assistant General Manager (2006-08) and Vice President of Programming and Business Development (2003-05). He was instrumental in opening a number of additional revenue streams for the club, including negotiating international exhibitions against teams such as Yokohama F. Marinos, the Korean National Team, Real Madrid and Chelsea F.C. Payne has also been instrumental in helping the Galaxy lead MLS in attendance in all six of his years with the club, including an MLS-best average of 26,009 fans per game in 2008, which is the second highest single season average attendance in MLS history.
Arena, you’ll recall, is GM on the soccer side of things for the Galaxy. And in case you were wondering, yes, Payne is the brother of D.C. United GM Kevin Payne.
Tuesday’s Column: Fans Vote With their Feet When It Comes to the MLS Playoffs & More
I cast my vote against the current MLS playoff system.
And I’m not the only one to address this issue at the ballot box.
Pasadena City College product Yura Movsisyan was voted MLS Player of the Week after scoring the game-winning goal in the final minute of regulation in Real Salt Lake’s Western Conference semifinal against Chivas USA.
Chicago’s Jon Busch was voted MLS Goalkeeper of the Year.
And how will David Beckham vote on staying with the Galaxy and MLS in 2009?.
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Media Logistics
I started my working career in media logistics.
Every morning I would go down to the Rank Labs shipping office in Soho at the crack of dawn and pick up the developed film from the day before, carry them back to the special eff cuts movie company I worked for, splice and reel them and have them ready in the screenig room for when the staff arrive in at around nineish.
During the day there would be more media logistics, taking exposed film to the local lab, finished productions to ad agencies and production companies and preparing and versioning various versions of productions, sorting out the content and trying to build a library for s company that had grown rapidly and moved from one production to the nxt with scant regard to yesterday's production (sounds familiar ?).
Thirty years on I'm doing the same job. Only this time I have a cloud based platform that can do everything at the click of a button. Or even without clicking a button. I can do it on a massive scale on a global basis.
(As I walked through the streets of London's Soho today I reflected that one of the things that hasn't changed is the industry's proximity to the smuttier side of life. back when I was twenty it was the prostitutes hanging out in Soho looking for a trick. now it's an inadvisable click in your browser that takes you there.)
In these thirty years the media industry has seen sweeping changes. Expensive physical media such as film became cheaper digital media such as tapes and disks. These gave way to files that could be distributed via iTunes or similar platforms (or pirated on BitTorrent). Now files are giving way to streamed delivery, where the file never needs to be copied.
The world of media logistics moves on.
Technology is awfully good at two things, bringing economies and making people redundant.
Uber, AirBnB and plenty of other multi billion dollar business are successful because they have reinvented inefficient industries where the price point is too high due to inefficiencies in the marketplace.
But they're not good for employment. True, today Uber provides work for tens of thousands of drivers all over the world, but tomorrow they will operate driverless cars.
The lesson of this for the media industry is very important. The industry is renowned for poor pay, especially at the bottom of the ladder (and this has resulted in the past in a great deal of bias in the media towards those with monied backgrounds), so people are plentiful.
Have you ever been on a film set and ask 'what do all these people do?'. Well, everyone has a closely defined specialism and the process of producing content is, actually, pretty efficient, even if a four person news crew thirty years ago is now a single person.
But it's when you get back to base that you have to start wondering how efficient the industry is.
The company I worked for hit the rocks very early on in my career. By then I was a Special Effects Editor, but we were a film company and suddenly video appeared with all its computer processing. I bailed to become a cameraman and the company went bust.
Media logistics changed. And this evolution is still going on in the media industry.
So, today TV Everywhere produces clod based systems that handle media logistics, from the storage and delivery of programming and other media to the management of rights.
And I can sit in the same cafe in Soho where I sipped coffee thirty years ago ( a luxury given my meagre earnings then) and reflect on what happened to those runners, those ladies of the night, all those film cans and rushes and ideas and dreams. I know what happened to mine.
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This month we rock with Charlie Gracie and Bobby Rydell, and catch up with fashionista Angel Milou in the studio
August 16, 2016 • Local News
By Barbara Ann Zippi
Ciao Bella Living Italian Style
Anthony Brazunas
South Philadelphia rock and roll legends get a Ciao Bella shoutout. Charlie Gracie celebrates his 80th birthday surrounded by Philly’s music community at the Clef Club with an array of musical tributes including Dee Dee Sharp and Gracie himself. Graham Nash and Sir Paul McCartney send greetings from “across the pond,” giving credit admiring Gracie’s music and guitar skills since their youth.
Backed by Pete Spina’s City Rhythm Orchestra, almost 1,000 Bobby Rydell fans turned out at Neumann University’s Mirenda Center for Rockin’ with the Troops. Produced by Linda Mattia Holdin, executive director of Delaware County Historical Society, it was a USO-style show to honor all veterans and their service. Special honors went to Springfield Police Chief Joe Daly, Rosemont College Vice President Dennis Murphy and Neumann University’s John Walker. It’s always special when you get shoutouts from Sid Mark on his radio program, “Sunday with Sinatra,” and hearing him mention Pete Spina’s performance at the concert was special. Meeting Anthony Brazunas, a graduate of St. James in Chester, backstage after the concert, saying he’s a fan of Ciao Bella Living Italian Style, added to the excitement, admitting he’s Italian by marriage, and that counts! Rydell, drafted during Vietnam at the height of his career, served his time entertaining the troops in Vietnam in active combat zones.
Charlie Rutan, master musician and bagpipe expert on Scottish, French, Irish and especially Italian bagpipes called Zampogna, shared exciting news and talents in an upcoming episode with Michela Musolino. Musolino, a folk singer who specializes in the folk and roots music of Sicily, is active with NYC-based theater companies, performing on Broadway and in groups featuring her southern-Italian folk music and dance. She joins Rutan in the new group, I Vicini della Ruga, playing the music of Calabria and Sicily with heavy emphasis on Zampogna and frame drums. Growing up in America but with family roots in Sicily, once Michela started her journey as a performer, she was surprised and delighted to learn that her paternal grandmother played the frame drum and her great-grandmother was known for her drumming and dancing! As an artist-in-residence for three years at the Middlebury Italian Language School in Middlebury, she penned a perfor- mance piece in which she narrated and sang Sicilian and southern Italian folk music to tell the history of the Briganti of southern Italy. Her destiny includes musical collaborations in Sicily, America and around the world.
Last month PA State Special Olympics, this month, Delaware County Senior Games continues to feature bocce in the lineup. If you’re interested in the competition at Rose Tree Park on June 13 at 10 a.m., visit DelcoSeniorGames.org or call (610) 891 4663.
Main Line Today Magazine, a sister publication, recently published an article on Today’s Risky Businesses and entrepreneur Chris Dima, founder and CEO of Walnut Street Labs in West Chester. Criteria: looking at the world differently seeing opportunities where obstacles exist. Hosting an innovation lab providing co-working space and events, his new model, assisting innovators getting new ideas to market is Dima’s next combination of media and technology.
Jonathan Peri
From the art of fashion and design to the art of cooking, Italian women of all ages joined us this spring taping season on “Ciao Bella.” When pop artist Perry Milou told us his mom was a fan, we invited her into the studio and in walked Angel Milou, a Liz Taylor celebrity lookalike entertainer and designer. Capturing the essence of Liz Taylor has kept her busy combining her love of design and fashion.
After “linkin’ in” with Rosalba Romano, I was fascinated by her fashion career with Jones New York by way of Caccamo, Sicily. The former director of the Wayne Arts Center came from Sicily in 1966 as a young pre-teen girl envisioning life from viewing the cartoon “The Jetsons.”
From a charming and picturesque town built on a mountain top, with beautiful views of the valley and famous for its majestic medieval castle, beautiful churches and unique artisan shops to Manhattan, Hong Kong and Milan in her life, her new fashion business is a family affair. She developed a fascination with silk fabric at an early age when on her eighth birthday she received her first silk scarf in shades of amber, gold and celestial blue. It’s among one of her most cherished possessions.
Angel Milou
Eliza, married for 55 years to Francesco Constantini, came to the United States as a young married couple from Italy. A true testament to “Italian Moms Spreading Their Art to Every Table,” the name of her new cookbook, she features foods from their roots in Abruzzo. Her son Frank and daughter Nadia have transformed her grief into a new life mission and we get the benefit of authentic recipes from the Abruzzo Region of Italy complete with recipes, pictures and her life’s love story with Francesco from Italy to L’America.
And, from my beginning days in the PR Industry, knowing Sylvia Kauders has been special. An actress and PR guru, Kauders, who played so many little old Italian ladies in movies, joined us in the studio and a week later passed away at 94. Her episode, her last interview, is now available on Radnor Studio’s YouTube Channel and with her career on the big screen, she will be forever in our hearts.
Congratulations to Italian American Jonathan Peri of West Chester on his Inauguration by the Board of Trustees as the ninth president of Manor College in Jenkintown. And, shoutouts to new Italian-American Herald subscribers Gladys Hash Felice, WW II WAVE, Monsignor John Marine of St. Bede’s and my amazing aunt, Grace Acciavatti, who continues to teach me Living Italian Style every day. Join these Italian Americans and subscribe to receive your copy at home or work.
Enjoy the Italian Festival season ahead with your families. Until next month, Ciao Bella!
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Bruno Sammartino, Legendary Wrestler, Passes Away
Italian Heritage Association Thrives in Sussex County
Here’s to sharing wine
A flurry of ethnic excitement comes to quiet little Pennsville
Difficult cold-calling and boldly audacious name-dropping
Monsignor Ralph Chieffo: Blessed with ‘a servant’s heart’
Rome celebrates the Catholic tradition of Ash Wednesday
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New Super Computer made in Pittsburgh
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CNet reported today that a new super computer made in Pittsburgh was setting a new bar for the super computing industry. The new super computer by The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center his called Blacklight and has begun its operations today. It costs $2.8 million and was built by SGI.
The super computer was a collaborative effort by the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon University. The super computer has two sides each of which hosting 16 terabytes of shared memory. This shared memory lets each processor have full access to the memory.
SGI’s very own Altix UV 1000 is used to make this new super computer work. It is fully integrated with up to 256 sockets to support the 16TB shared memory over four racks. This enables it to deliver up to 18.5 teraflops of compute power for a single system image. The system has 512 of the eight-core processors which amounts to a humongous 4,096 processor cores. The whole system is built as blade servers in a rack cabinet stacked up to six feete high.
The system will be used for research into deep boffinology – genetics, fluid dynamics, software security, language processing, molecular biology and the physics of the early universe.
You can read more here.
Intel Working on Thousand Core CPU!
A 1000-Core Processor that Handles 5 GB Of Data Per Second!
Samsung Launches Dual-Core Arm Cortex Processor
Super Tiny Desktop Coming Soon
New 12-Core Mac Pros Now Shipping
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Lake Forest students are…
86% of students conduct off-campus research or internships in Chicago or across the globe
40% go on at least one off-campus study program at places like Spain, France, Greece, New Zealand, and more
Each year, students are inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society
Our students are recipients of prestigious national honors such as the Kemper Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, and others
96% of the 2016 graduates have found post-graduation placement in jobs, graduate school, and more
More than 50% participate in varsity, intramural, or club athletics
Most are involved in one or more of 50-plus campus clubs and organizations
Nearly all are involved in community service projects
Students raise more money for Relay for Life than most other similarly sized colleges in the United States
About 80% of students stay on campus during the weekends
From nearly every state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and 73 countries
39% are either ethnic minority or international students
More than 40 languages are spoken on campus
Greater student diversity than most other liberal arts colleges in the country
Ironman triathlete
Advocate for people with Crohn’s disease and was named one of Glamour’s Top Ten College Women for 2011
Manager of the U.S. Paralympic Hockey Team during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Executive Director of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York
Published author of a trilingual Spanish-English-Quechua children’s book about indigenous children in Bolivia
Activist on issues of food safety in China
Acclaimed writer of sci-fi book series titled Kushiel’s Legacy, which was named one of the top 100 Sci-Fi series of all time by National Public Radio listeners.
Learn what others say about Lake Forest College.
Foresters You Should Know
Sierra Smith ’17
Sierra studied neuroscience at Lake Forest.
Danae Cannedy ’18
Danae encourages students to find support in professors and friends.
Meena Jose ’16
Meena found a home on campus, only an hour away from Chicago
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Recently rapper 21 Savage was detained by ICE officials. Allegedly, he overstayed his VISA and is currently set for deportation back to his home country, the United Kingdom. This came as a shock to his fans, being that basically everyone believed he was from Atlanta, GA as he has stated multiple times.
Apparently 21, named She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph at birth, came to America as a child with his father. Many outlets have reported that the famed rapper filed for a new VISA years ago, and that his arrest is the latest attack on black people in America.
While that idea is debatable, I am more concerned with discussing the responses to his arrest. Social media replied with memes and humor, but the black music elite took a much more serious stance. Pierre “Pee” Thomas, CEO of Quality Control music label, petitioned everyone, “that got sum money and influence,” to help secure the best immigration attorneys for the rapper.
In response, the Migos, another popular hip hop group, co-signed his effort followed by more hip-hop industry heavyweights pledging their support. Rapper and business mogul, Jay-Z, took it upon himself to bypass the petition altogether and hired an elite team of legal support to represent Abraham-Joseph. Today, it was announced that 21 Savage was released on bond pending a hearing about his case.
My take is this…
It’s amazing to see black millionaires lending a hand to help a friend. But what about all of the other wrongfully detained immigrants who don’t have friends with these benefits? What about the millions of imprisoned African-Americans who can not afford representation that are incarcerated in prison, some being held there just because they can’t make bail, not because they have been convicted of a crime?
This case has reinforced a sense of hierarchy in our community, basically sending the message that having your brother’s back only applies to those who have your similar tax bracket. It seems like the black elite help other privileged people more than the less fortunate. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that Jay-Z has never done any philanthropy prior to this situation. However, I am saying that I.C.E. has been tearing families apart way before they arrested 21 Savage.
After doing research, I learned 21 Savage has a net worth of over 10 million dollars. Some estimates placed it as high as 22 million. None of his assets or bank accounts are subject to seizure. Why did Jay-Z have to pay for his legal team? I think it is most likely NOT out of financial need, but more so a show of support. I just wish black moguls would show that same support to those who truly need it.
Our community is full of so many black people who are being crucified by the justice system, all because they don’t have the money for proper representation. I can only imagine the world of difference that could be made if the black elite didn’t pick and choose which cases they wanted to support. Thank God for the ones who use their influence to empower change, but we have millions Cytonia Browns out there who still need help.
Alexandria says:
I think your point about other folks who need help not getting it is valid. However, the good thing is that so often immigration is seen as a Mexico border issue and by proxy a Mexican issue. But it impacts Black and Asian communities as well. So perhaps this will bring that more to light and the work of organizations that do this work EVERYDAY are strengthened.
Jahine Grady says:
I agree on the point of the elitism that takes place during these times of crisis for black people of higher status. There are children who don’t have enough funding to go to school. Who are struggling to eat everyday. There are black institutions that are struggling to keep their doors open. We as a people rally and organize for the wrong things.
I agree on the point of the elitism that takes place during these times of crisis. There are children who don’t have enough funding to go to school. Who are struggling to eat everyday. There are black institutions that are struggling to keep their doors open. We as a people rally and organize for the wrong things.
I understand where you are coming from when talking about how us blacks do not help those in prison who are in need but instead help others that have enough funds to sustain more than just their family. This is commonly seen in most high wealth African Americans who are incarcerated such as Kodak Black and 2 Chainz. I think this is common for famous people in general who are “winning” especially people of color as the public looks to find any sort of conflict to bring up more issues in their lives. Also I feel that most successful rappers help out their family who are in need of funds more than other random African Americans who are in the poverty
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Liberally Lean Apologizes For The Lack Of Entertaining Posts Today
New this morning: The unemployment rate drops to 8.1%. I wonder if it will get to 7.9% with 60 days to go before the presidential election.
I proclaimed a highway between Grapevine and Frisco the "greatest" in North Texas on Monday. Yesterday, its service road claimed a motorcycle death.
Florida St. has opened as a 70.5 favorite over Savannah State -- the largest spread in NCAA history. There has to be widespread corruption in games like this -- there is no question that Florida State could cover if they wanted to. So what if a coach tells a buddy, "I'd go to Vegas on this one."
A personal injury lawyer in Dallas was indicted yesterday for, among other things, allegedly stealing from clients. His online bio proves he's full of himself (especially near the end.) His "family lives life to its fullest from their 280 acre ranch in Palmer, Texas." Sheesh.
We put an old clothes dryer out on the curb in front of our house last weekend and someone came by and loaded it in a truck within 15 minutes.
The A's Brandon McCarthy (pitcher) almost got killed by a batted ball two days OK. After the initial "he's doing fine" reports, it was announced he underwent surgery on his skull. I think he used to pitch for the Rangers.
I missed the President's speech last night because I was at a high school football game. And, mind you, I believe that Thursday night high school football is downright un-American.
It sounds like his speech was much like Romney's: Good but not great.
I always see a defendant charged with a misdemeanor decide to represent himself even though he doesn't speak English. He'll go into a prosecutor's office with an interpreter who works for the county to try and resolve the case.
A "cool front" is coming through tonight which will drop the temperatures 20 degrees. Being at a high school football game tonight at the moment it comes through would be fantastic.
This morning it will be announced that the Big 12 has reached a deal with ESPN/ABC/Fox for $2.6 billion over thirteen years. Could TCU have joined at a better time? And I was absolutely convinced twice over the last three years that there would no longer be a Big 12.
It's a football travel weekend for me: An LSU night game and a New Orleans Saints day game (which just happens to be RG3's first game.) I can't tell you how everything lined up perfectly for this trip (including family schedule.)
I also want to see a cemetery near the French Quarter -- the same one seen near the end of Easy Rider -- but so many reviews say "go with a tour -- it's in a bad neighborhood."
I'll try to update on the Twitter -- which I've neglected for pretty much over a year.
Breaking: Airplane Crash/Hard Landing In Wise County
Enlarged:
At Greenwood Road and Cemetery Road. No injuries reported thus far.
Thanks, emailer.
Gal Falls Asleep On Scooter
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I normally have a 15 second max rule for commercials but this one leads with a 30 second one. Trust me, it's worth the wait.
Hope the scooter is ok.
Will Decatur Support A Yogurt Shop On The Square?
I'm confused. I was talking to a guy at the courthouse whose band played at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill in Dallas last week. He said the crowd was awful on a weekday night. Today, the Morning News says the bar will open tonight.
I really don't care if the Cowboys win other than it makes the sports scene around here more interesting.
I would have thought that Jason Witten would have been smart enough not to play.
I kind of like Queen Latifah's slightly tricked up National Anthem. As long as the song is played in an up tempo, you can get away with some things.
The pre-game show also had the incredibly good looking Gwen Stefani. (Pic.)
I missed DeMarco Murray's big run because I got sucked into watching Bill Clinton for a second.
Great Clinton line: "We simply cannot afford to turn the reins of government over to someone who will double down on trickle-down."
Sandra Fluke kind of jazzed me last night.
The Democrats removal, and then the reversal of the decision, of references to God and Jerusalem in their platform was a self-inflicted wound that didn't need to occur. (But the video of the "reversal vote" is high entertainment.)
Cowboy's defensive coordinator Rob Ryan doesn't have a lick of class.
I forgot to mention the other day that 34 point underdog Texas State's victory over the University of Houston will be the biggest upset of the year. And someone in Vegas bet $2,000 for Texas State to win outright at 60 to 1 odds.
Today's Random Thought Girl is actually from a collection of pics from the Party Cove at Lake Lewisville. Lots more here. You're welcome.
Get Me This Personal Glasses Cleaner!!!
And Another - New Jersey
Not bad for a Northeastern girl. And she's a former "Teacher of the Year."
"Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose should have told you outside."
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That is one crazy moose.
Man, That Girl In The Yellow Bikini Got Crushed
That blast of water to the face at the end probably didn't feel very good.
Joe Duty can use this one
Edit: The Courthouse has been ordered closed for the afternoon.
Apparently the "fire" was started when someone was smokin' in the boys room and threw a lit cigarette into a plastic trashcan. The plastic lining then began to melt which then caused the plastic trashcan to melt. And those things are seemingly composed of chemicals which aren't exactly green friendly.
Breaking: Courthouse Evacuated Due To Smoke That Smells Like Chlorine
If I don't win a Pulitzer for this, there is no justice.
It got a lot worse where you could barely see the hallway. The courtroom (door on the right) was full so a bunch of people had to walk through it to get out.
And when the "Evacuate" order came down, I'm pretty sure I pulled a George Costanza and knocked a couple of kids and old lady down.
Southlake is getting a new hotel along 114 which has a race track inside of it. Yep, a race track.
Paul Ryan recently said that he had run a "a two hour and fifty-something" marathon. The more I think about that, the more it bugs me. Records show he has competed in one marathon back in 1990 and finished with a time of four hours and one minute. How could he be so wrong. For anyone who has completed a marathon, their time is etched into their brain.
Michelle Obama was fantastic last night.
I've always talked about how changing demographics play right into the Democrats hands. And looking at the audience at the convention last night, it looked like a cross-section of America. Not a cross-section of Wise County mind you, but America.
Mark Davis this morning: "What does it matter what the color is of the faces looking up at Michelle Obama?" Oh, it matters. It matters a lot.
Man, I wish someone had a video of this: Glenn Beck through a hissy fit on an American Airlines plane at DFW.
I'm not sure this is a good sign (from the Update): "Of the 100 new students [at Weatherford College's new Wise County campus], 44 are enrolled in new programs – 20 in nursing and 24 in cosmetology."
As much as I don't care about the NFL, I'm kind of excited about the Cowboys in New York tonight. (Although one reporter, who thinks way too much of himself, just tweeted that it is "pouring" up there this morning.)
I bag on TCU from time to time, but the renovations to their stadium look fantastic. Here's a panoramic view of it. And with a certain win against Grambling this weekend, curmudgeon Gary Patterson becomes the all-time winningest TCU coach ever.
There's a national sports columnist who tweets the most annoying thing all the time: "Someone throw me a mobile friendly link to my latest column."
I've seen the headline of a man getting 80 years in prison last week out of Tarrant County for his ninth DWI about a million times. But for some reason a man getting Life in prison for DWI out of Ellis County has been generally ignored. Even though it is his second Life sentence for DWI.
Nothing has faded from view like the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon. Lewis is no longer associated with it and it's no longer a televised telethon.
Walked outside yesterday to find a bird bath and a bench in our front yard. Mrs. LL was hit with Lawn Motivation.
Want to see a fat lady lying on the floor of WFAA studios before the 10:00 o'clock newscast last night? How could you not?
Conservative Fox News Loving Guy Wanted To Kill Liberal Girlfriend
PBP - A Lake Park man “obsessed with Fox News and the Republican party” is in jail today after he allegedly said that he felt he was going to have to kill his girlfriend because she was a “liberal.” David A. Kappheim, 60, is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail without bail. He was arrested Tuesday and the arresting Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy placed Kappheim under a Baker Act. Kappheim is facing charges of domestic battery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief. Kappheim’s 59-year-old girlfriend, whose name was withheld in the report, told the deputy a number of incidents happened with him before Tuesday. On Saturday, Kappheim showed up at her friend’s house uninvited and “stark naked,” she said, according to the arrest report. She said he tried strangling her the next day.
I know you guys think I'm going to bust on this man, but I'm not. Look, if I'm a beaten-down-and-dating sixty year old guy who found out that my 59 year old girlfriend (who better be hot or I'm getting younger at that position) is the political polar opposite of me, I'd go ballistic, too. I had dreams of snuggling on the couch watching MSNBC together and suddenly I realize I'm dating some chick who is going to make me watch Bill O'Reilly and Hannity every night? I'd flip out. Big time. And going over to her friend's house stark naked would have been #1 on my list of things to do.
No condemnation for you, Mr. Kappheim. It's a tough dating world out there.
One Last Clint Eastwood Post
Thanks, Keith.
Aggie Billboard Goes Up In Florida
Former WFAA anchor Debbie Denmon has now been hired as "Director of Communications" for Dallas County District Attorney's Office. I guess they have learned from the Tarrant County DA's office.
Clint Eastwood was only supposed to speak for three minutes at the Republican National Convention.
At 7:57 a.m. on Sunday, I was watching the first pitch of a softball game. While we were driving to the game, the sun broke the horizon prompting Mrs. LL to say, "What is that thing?" Funny.
Somehow I've become the official scorer at any softball game -- everyone comes by to ask or verify what the score is. An opposing coach even came up to me on the other side of the fence and said, "Substitution. 26 for 2."
D Magazine is doing its annual "Most Beautiful Woman In Dallas" contest. Mrs. LL suggested that I do one for Wise County but stressed that I would have to publicize that she would be in charge of it so people would actually take part. I'm not sure what that meant.
I really don't watch ESPN's Sport Center that often but when I do I always wonder why they give so much "analysis" instead of simply showing highlights. Man, they talk a lot.
H.E.B. grocery stores has bought 24 acres in northern Tarrant County. Those stores make me think of Waco.
I took the tollway from north of DFW Airport to Frisco this weekend. I now proclaim that to be the greatest freeway in North Texas.
I hung some hooks on the garage wall this weekend but made a horrible measuring mistake. Mrs. LL told me it "looked good." After reading this, she's now headed to the garage for a giggle.
College football quick hits: (1) SMU's quarterback Garrett Gilbert is awful, and I find it odd that he has graduated from UT, (2) Alabama's freshman running back TJ Sheldon is going to be a star, (3) the catch of the year was by an Ohio State receiver, (4) back in February I railed against Oklahoma State playing Savannah State -- they won 84-0 on Saturday, (5) Savannah State plays Florida State this weekend, and (6) One UT player killed another UT player allowing Montana State to score on what would otherwise be a short pass play (and I can't find the video.)
I think Anthony Bourdain is cool.
Mrs. LL this weekend: "When I saw the place, I knew it wasn't a good sign." Me: "I don't know, I thought the font on it outside was kind of neat." Her: [Just looking at me.] Me: "That's a little typography humor for you." Her: "It's come to that, has it?"
Someone Explain This Story To Me
This led Fox 4's 5:30 newscast. Mrs. LL said, "Wait, what happened?" I hit replay. We watched it twice. We still have no idea what went on.
Who is "him" and who is "witness"?
Green Mile Actor Had Died
When I first saw the headlines, I thought Courtney Stodden had gone crazy. But, no, it is not her husband.
Clemson Player Baptized After Practice
And speaking of how all have fallen, Mississippi State had a little trouble with their entrance through the fog on Saturday:
From The Email Bag
"House burned to the ground off 51. It was a really large and nice looking house. You could see the flames shooting in the air from the club house at Fossil Pointe Shooting Grounds."
Edit: You've got to see the photo. (Facebook.)
Edit: And another. Apparently it was not occupied?
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Ethno-tribal, multicultural future being engineered by leftists, liberals, Zionists and greedy White Republicans doesn't bode well for average Whites
White Dispossession and the Racialization of American Politics Accelerate
(The Occidental Observer) -- by Kevin MacDonald --
Ron Brownstein’s aptly named “The Next America” is a tale of increasingly rapid White dispossession. Key quotes:
From every angle, the results showed that the nation’s transformation into a “majority-minority” nation is proceeding even faster than expected. Nationally, the overall share of the non-Hispanic white population dropped from 69.1 percent in 2000 to 63.7 in 2010, a greater decline than most analysts anticipated. In a mirror image, the minority population grew from 30.9 percent in 2000 to 36.3 percent in 2010.
Given that the White percentage includes Jews and Middle Eastern people who do not identify as White (or vote like most Whites), the White population of European descent is likely below 60%.
The change over the past decade was especially dramatic among young people. In the new census, 46.5 percent of people under 18 were minority, a dramatic jump from 39.1 percent in 2000. As recently as last summer, demographers projected that minorities would make up a majority of the under-18 population sometime after 2020. At the current rate of growth, however, nonwhites will comprise a majority of children in the United States by 2015. And because of the explosive minority growth in the youth population—the people who will form families and become parents in the coming years—the nonwhite share of the overall population is likely to grow even faster over the next decade, says Brookings Institution demographer William Frey.
If the minority share of the vote increases in 2012 by the same rate it has grown in presidential elections since 1992, it will rise to about 28 percent nationally. By itself, that could substantially alter the political playing field from 2010, when the minority vote share sagged to just 22 percent. It means that if Obama can maintain, or even come close to, the four-fifths share of minority votes that he won in 2008, he could win a majority of the national popular vote with even less than the 43 percent of whites he attracted last time.
This would mean that Republicans would have to come to the realization that only a super-landslide of White votes can win them the presidency. And they have to realize that their future as a competitive party in national elections is dim indeed–unless they do something to stop these trends while they have a bit of power. But they won’t. Texas is typical:
“Anglos still dominate the [Texas] electorate and will for a while longer, but every election for the rest of your lifetime will have a higher percentage of Latinos and a lower percentage of Anglos than the previous one,” says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Rice University.
The only solution for the Republicans offered in the article (stop me if you’ve heard this before) is to court Latino support.
Republicans cannot win if they allow Obama to keep two-thirds of the Latino vote he attracted in 2008. The first step toward turning some of that support, he contends, is aggressively pursuing those voters with Spanish-language advertising.
But what do Latino voters want? More Latinos (aka “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”) and lots of government benefits. (Brownstein calls the Republican opposition to illegal immigration “a sharp right turn” [!!]) The result would a dystopia where the two major parties compete to cater to an increasingly large, poorly educated, low-IQ population of non-Whites. One would think that at some point Whites would wake up to the realization that this just isn’t working for them.
And to illustrate the gap between the priorities of the traditional White majority and what this new non-White soon-to-be majority wants, consider Texas, the topic of another Brownstein article (“Texas Hold ‘Em“). Brownstein makes it very clear where his political sympathies lie, and it’s not with White folks:
The census starkly frames the challenge of equipping minority children with the education and skills they’ll need to ascend into the middle class. Once, that might have been viewed as a question of social justice; it is clearly now an issue of economic necessity. The census found that nonwhites comprise nearly 47 percent of Americans under 18, with Hispanics and African-Americans representing almost four-fifths of that total. Those two groups lag whites in virtually all measures of educational attainment (such as high school graduation) and well-being (such as access to health care). Unless the nation closes those gaps, it will struggle to produce a labor force capable of attracting decent-paying jobs, competing internationally, and generating enough tax revenue to tame the federal debt.
As usual, the only thing needed to get Blacks and Latinos up to White levels of educational attainment is more money. IQ never enters the picture. But the evil Republican governor, Rick Perry, who got 84% of his votes from Whites, refuses to raise taxes to accomplish this. Whites probably also account a vastly disproportionate share of the total tax revenue for the state, and not surprisingly, they don’t want to provide yet more public services for people unlike themselves. This, of course, is a basic principle of evolutionary psychology, as scientists like Frank Salter have found: People are unwilling to contribute to public goods to people unlike themselves. This is a huge cost of diversity never mentioned by those who paint a picture of the harmonious multicultural future of America.
So we are headed to an Atlas Shrugged situation: An increasingly low-IQ population in need of massive levels of government services supported by increasingly reluctant racially different tax payers. Not a good recipe for a peaceful future...LINK
Chris Moore comments:
Had Whites maintained the assimilationist, melting-pot ethic of traditional Christianity, this wouldn't have been a problem, because the ethno-tribal voting blocks being assembled by the Left, politically patterned on diaspora Jewish Zionism (ever since the early days of Marxism/Jewish Bolshevism), would never have been allowed to form in the first place.
Unfortunately, factions of money-worshipping and power mad Whites on both the Right and Left (looking to enrich themselves through their own Zionist-style swindles and money and power grabs) broke ranks, adopted the tribal Judaic ethic, and stabbed Whites, Christianity, Western Civilization, and the entire process of Christen enlightenment in the back out of greed, opportunism, careerism and sheer ornery low character.
These were compounded by factions of ethnic tribalists minorities who wanted to dwell in the relative peace and prosperity of Western Civilization without assimilating into the Western ethic, and worse, exploiting and abusing the good will of the Christian ethic at every opportunity.
So White greed, as manifested in Judeo-Christian Zionism, open borders globalism and corporatism, shysterism, liberal statism, and the quest for international monetary Keyenesianism, are as responsible for the perilous condition of Whites as anyone or anything.
Consequently, these corrupt White "elites" must be dealt with as readily as the others, otherwise the pattern simply repeats in perpetuity until the final genocide (patterned on Communist genocide).
Identifying Zionists or those with a record of supporting Zionism politically or a record of Zionist sympathies is key to flushing out the snakes.
The most evil people on the planet seem to be coalescing around Zionism; fortunately, this has now been going on long enough that the records have been established and the battle lines are increasingly clear.
Dissident said...
Expert analysis Chris.
I always enjoy your commentary Chris, you have a knack for putting things succinctly. Your writing style is excellent and to the point. I owe you a debt of gratitude for all your work.
Hey Chris. I've got to say that these kinds of articles really drive home the point that our precious Western/Christian style of government has been totally obliterated.
My fear is that America will soon resemble South Africa. I can see strife and racial conflict coming to these shores soon. I fear for my children. God help us!
Chris Moore said...
@ Dissident,
Unless radical changes are undertaken, I agree that either a S. Africa style outcome or a totalitarian government is exactly where we’re headed thanks largely to these Judaizers (both Jewish and White) and the various pseudo “secular” ideological dead-end tracks they have put us on.
Just like the perpetual pinches current Israel and common era Jewry get themselves into often to the point of near extinction, time is definitely running short for Judaized Whites who have insisted on following Jewry down the warmongering, hyper materialistic rat hole.
Time to get back to the ethic of traditional Christian Western civilization, which has been subordinated and smeared by the partnership of Jewry, leftists and greedy opportunists as “backward” and “intolerant” for its marginalization of low character swindlers and shysters, who once on top, have exploited its framework to the maximum even as they have take a sledgehammer to its foundation.
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ARCAD Software and Meridian Group International Form a Global Partnership to Launch Release Management as a Service
Chavanod and Chicago (October 15, 2017) – ARCAD Software, a leading international vendor in DevOps and Modernization solutions, and Meridian Group International, a leading equipment lessor and provider of global IT solutions, services and support, today announced a partnership to launch Release Management as a Service offering worldwide based on ARCAD’s flagship DevOps solution, DROPS.
This announcement follows the recent inclusion of the DROPS solution in the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation report1.
ARCAD already has a significant footprint in the financial services industry, having rolled out its DevOps solutions in some of the world’s largest banking institutions.
Meridian offers flexible hybrid cloud environments worldwide and a range of managed services over a highly scalable IBM Power and Wintel infrastructure platform, with ISO 27001 accredited data centres across the UK, US, Europe and APAC.
The new Release Management as a Service (RMaaS) offering using ARCAD’s DROPS enables Meridian customers to outsource the maintenance, build, test and deploy their multi-platform applications and optionally host them in the cloud.
With DROPS as its DevOps backbone, Meridian guarantees high availability of applications and rapid, secure delivery of updates. DROPS is used to automate, synchronize and pilot the deployment of any number of applications, whatever the underlying language, operating system or database.
Philippe Magne, ARCAD CEO, said: "Meridian Group possesses a high performance infrastructure and the expert skills needed to deliver Release Management services at scale. DROPS is ideally suited for such evOps services in the cloud as it is entirely multi-platform and technology agnostic".
Magne explains, "Many companies today are looking to delegate the technical management of their applications. Maintaining these systems in-house is a distraction away from the core expertise of most resident IT teams and outside the focus of the business. DROPS give Meridian an unprecedented level of automation in application build and deploy, with the security of rollback on error".
Options for IBM i (aka iSeries, AS/400): Modernization
The demand for Release Management as a Service is particularly acute on the IBM i platform, where it is becoming harder to find and recruit staff with IBM i-specific skills. "Companies need a guarantee that their systems and applications are available 24/7 and optimized for the expected workload", said Magne. "We serve our customers by taking the risk out of software delivery".
Meridian's clients include a large base running IBM Power / IBM i for some of their core applications. Meridian has been investing in capabilities to help these clients update and mobilize their critical business applications.
Ian Pye, Chairman of Meridian Group explains: "Our investments include onboarding new team members possessing critical industry leading skills, and partnering with innovative organizations like ARCAD".
Specifically for the IBM i market, ARCAD and Meridian offer Modernization projects as a Service, based on ARCAD’s Transformer tools for converting IBM i source code and database to modern industry standards, Free Form RPG and SQL. ARCAD’s DROPS and Test Automation tools are also used to manage versions and ensure the non-regression of the modernized application.
Pye concludes, "Increasingly, our clients are challenged with modernizing their critical business applications. Our Global partner alliance with ARCAD Software, and Meridian’s skills and resources, will provide clients with enterprise-class software modernization and delivery services to meet their business goals".
1Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation,” by Colin Fletcher, Laurie F. Wurster, 27 September 2017
About Meridian Group
Meridian Group International headquartered in Deerfield, IL, is a privately held independent equipment lessor for all asset types and a top provider of global IT solutions, services and support. Committed to strong customer relationships, Meridian has extensive knowledge and opportunities for helping businesses innovate and grow while managing costs. Operating since 1979, with over 700 employees and locations across Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, discover more at www.onlinemeridian.com.
About ARCAD Software
ARCAD Software group is leading international vendor of DevOps and Modernization solutions, supporting multiple platforms including IBM i, UNIX, Linux, Windows and z/OS. Since 1992, ARCAD has built on its specialist IBM i expertise to develop an integrated and multi-platform solution range for Application Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Modernization, Release Management, DevOps, Test Automation and Data Masking. The company operates through headquarters in Europe and subsidiaries in US and Asia, and ARCAD technology is distributed by IBM worldwide. ARCAD solutions integrate with Rational Developer for i (RDi), Rational Team Concert (RTC), GitHub, JIRA, and also open source tools Git, SVN, and Jenkins.
ARCAD’s Application Release Automation product, DROPS, is a standalone solution, but can also be used in conjunction with external tooling such as IBM UrbanCode Deploy, Docker, Ansible, Chef and Puppet. Learn more at www.arcadsoftware.com
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New Zealand Company of Master Mariners
Home site for NZ Company of Master Mariners
For all enquiries regarding individual Branches or membership please liaise with the General Secretary in the first instance.
The General Secretary NZCMM
P.O. Box 35-401
email: L@rryrobbins.com
13 Responses to Contact
Claire Falvey says:
11 November, 2016 at 22:02
I am writing because a ggg uncle was a master mariner in Taranaki in the early 1900’s.
His name was Thomas Matheson Jackson (1868-1937) and he resided in Patea, Taranaki.
A cousin in England is writing a story about the Jackson family and is curious as to how a labourer becomes a master mariner. We presume he was a ship labourer and somehow rose the ranks to become a master mariner. There is not much information about him and the descendants we have found know nothing.
I would love to hear what information you could give or lead me in the right direction as to where I could find information.
Mark Harnden says:
I have just come across your site and would like to enquire as to how I become a member;
I hold a Master Unlimited CoC from MCA in the UK, but live in Springfield, Canterbury.
Keen to meet and socialize and learn from other members in my area.
Steve Hogley says:
I was at Leith Nautical College as a cadet and later sat my Masters ticket with Gordon Smith from Shetland. I understand he now lives in New Zealand and I noted from an issue of ON DECK that he is a member of the Auckland branch.
I am in Auckland until 28 February, apart from a few trips, and if he is agreeable would like to meet him again.
My local mobile number is 0221235791
Steve Hogley
He was the master of a small ship in New Zealand – Hawea trading to Patea and maybe others that I haven’t checked. If you look on http://www.nzshipmarine.com and search for T.M.Jackson you will find some information
Nick Woods says:
I am researching the Downton Family peerage in England and have a son called Myles Murray Downton 1883-1956 was working with The New Zealand Shipping Company. He appears to have been a 2nd. mate around 1903, 1st. mate around 1913 on SS Rakaia and captain, master or commander around 1920 on ss kaikoura 11. The dates and voyages are a bit muddled. I wonder if you can shed any light on the matter?
Carol Macpherson says:
3 October, 2017 at 19:29
Could you possibly inform me of the email address of Capt. Richard Henshaw, Treasurer of the Christchurch Branch of Master Mariners? He is an old friend from 60 years ago when he was 2nd Mate of the “Port Nelson” (I assume one and the same?)
Of course I do not know his situation and it may not be acceptable to telephone him. If my email was unwelcome he can always hit ‘Delete’! My email: carolmacpherson3@gmail.com
I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience to you. With thanks anyway,
Carol Macpherson.
PS Please do not publish this enquiry!
Cornelis van Kesteren says:
Carol,
Will forward your message to Capt. Henshaw for him to deal as he sees suitable.
Cornelis van Kesteren
NZCMM General Secretary
Andrew Daley says:
9 January, 2018 at 19:17
I am trying find more information on an Edward Daley who is recorded in the Auckland Electoral Roll as being a seaman on the SS Kiwitea. Can anyone please advise on where I might pursue my investigations. Many thanks
Andrew Daley (aedaley@bigpond.net.au)
Edward Fitzgerald says:
hi I have recently moved to Auckland from Ireland I hold a class 1 master mariners,
I would be very interested in joining my local branch so that I can meet some more people who are in the industry
Will contact the secretary of the Auckland branch for him to email some relevant information to you.
Not sure what other investigations you wish to do. As you stated your grandfather was a seaman on “Kiwitea” and there are more entries in the electoral rolls for Edward Daley, but are they your person of interest? Was your grandfather born in NZ or overseas?? When/where did he die??
Our organization does not hold records of ship’s crews. Perhaps the site of NZ Ships & Marine Society on http://www.shipmarine.com could help you.
Phil Lascelles says:
cropped-poppy.jpgDespite their acknowledged sacrifice, those New Zealanders who were employed in the Mercantile Marine, on ships owned by companies such as Union Steamship Company and New Zealand Shipping Company, continue to be omitted from this nation’s memory of WWI.
Those who paid the ultimate sacrifice rarely feature on the WWI memorials of their local towns and cities in New Zealand. Their names did not appear on the 2018 Armistice Centenary Field of Remembrance on New Zealand’s Auckland Domain, despite receiving the same British War Medal as those of the armed forces.
The New Zealand Mercantile Marine casualties are remembered at http://forgottenheroes.kiwi , some of them were no more than children. All of them are heroes.
Jeremy Ruane says:
This Friday, 30 November, marks two years since the official closure of the Port of Onehunga to freight operations.
My tribute website, https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Onehunga/, is an attempt to preserve as much of the history of the Port as possible and to keep alive the spirit of Auckland’s other port.
Needless to say, I’m always on the lookout for more material, so if any members of the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners have recollections / memorabilia (photos, etc.) / tall tales to regale of their visits to Onehunga or experiences negotiating the Manukau Bar and Harbour, they will be greatly welcomed – please contact me via the Contributions option on the front page.
I look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible. 🙂
Jeremy Ruane
Auckland Branch
Christchurch Branch
recent departures
Tauranga Branch
Wellington Branch
Larry Robbins on Links
Larry Robbins on New book by member Captain Barry Thompson
Marie Johnson on New book by member Captain Barry Thompson
Bruce Urquhart on Links
Patricia Meiring on History
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Maps Overview
This is a new facility for easier browsing of the distribution maps, especially on smart phones and the like. Most micro moths have no common English name, so they are listed in alphabetical order using scientific names. The lists may take a while to load but once loaded it is usually quite quick to scroll through. Click for a large map from which you can go back or forward or even start slide show.
We’ve tried to make these compatible for as many platforms as our technical knowledge allows. If it’s not working for you, let us know and we’ll see if we can fix it, but bear in mind that a fix for one may be breaking it for others.
ABH and B & F refer to checklists. A major revision of the checklist which included a new numbering system, reordering and updated taxonomic names was published in 2013. “A checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles” by Agassiz, D.J.L., Beavan, S.D. & Heckford R.J. 2013, often referred to as ABH number. ABH numbers have replaced the Bradley & Fletcher (B & F) numbering system from “A Recorder’s Log Book or Label List of British Butterflies and Moths” – J.D.Bradley and D.S. Fletcher (1979).
Macro Moth lists
Macro-moth maps updated 19th Nov 2015
ABH (new numbering)
B & F (old numbering)
Micro Moth lists
Species density, records density, recorded 10k squares etc.
Maps produced by MapMate using Digital Map Data (c) Bartholomew 2003
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News> Exhibit your artwork
Exhibit your artwork
An exciting opportunity exists for local artists, makers, curators and groups interested in using the foyer of the Phee Broadway Theatre in Castlemaine to exhibit work.
The program offers artists the opportunity to exhibit works over a two-month block at the theatre foyer, which shares an entranceway to the Castlemaine Library.
Exhibitions will be promoted as part of the 2018 Regional Centre for Culture (RCC).
“The RCC is shining a light on our talented community this year and Mount Alexander Shire Council wants to give locals every chance to get involved,” said Vicki Anderson, Cultural Development Officer, Mount Alexander Shire Council.
“The RCC has enabled Council to offer a local residency program at the Phee Broadway Theatre and the opportunity to use the foyer space aligns with our focus on encouraging community access and use of this key venue,” said Ms Anderson.
“We want to hear from locals who are keen to display their own work or who represent other artists or makers,” she said.
Expression of Interest forms must be submitted by 5.00pm on Thursday 15 March.
“The Phee Broadway Theatre foyer has had some wonderful artwork on show over the years, and we’re looking forward to seeing an even wider representation from our creative community in 2018,” said Ms Anderson.
Expressions of Interest and information sheets are available from the Supporting our arts page on Council’s website. Printed copies may be collected from the Civic Centre, Castlemaine Library or Visitor Information Centres.
For further details on the program please email arts@mountalexander.vic.gov.au or phone Vicki Anderson on 5471 1877.
The Regional Centre for Culture is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria in partnership with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, Central Goldfields Shire, City of Greater Bendigo, Hepburn Shire and Mount Alexander Shire.
Image: See Wes Campbell's artwork on display at the Phee Broadway theatre foyer until the end of March.
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Prove It Works: Using the Unit Test Framework for Software Testing and Validation
This article is part of a series on software engineering practices and tools for large application development in LabVIEW.
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Detecting and fixing bugs when developing software can be difficult, expensive and time-consuming; not surprisingly, validation can easily be many times more demanding and labor-intensive. As the complexity and sophistication of software in end-use applications increases, there is a need for more regimented and automated procedures to ensure thorough testing and help with code validation. Additionally, software used in test-fixtures for production of a critical or complex product faces increased scrutiny and therefore many of the same software engineering practices for testing and validation apply.
Software Testing Tools for LabVIEW
Introduction to Unit Testing
Advanced Test Configuration Options
Defining Test Requirements
Requirements Coverage
Running Tests
Code Coverage: Ensuring All Code Has Been Tested
Report Generation
Requirements-based testing and validation is a well-recognized part of the software engineering process and standard practice for anyone who has to ‘prove it works.’ Proving software works is more complex than merely showing that the application runs; it requires validating that it works correctly. This task requires documentation and test results that demonstrate that the application behaves exactly in the way it was designed – evidence that may be required by the customer, a quality assurance group, or even regulatory authorities, such as the FDA or FAA.
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For LabVIEW developers, there are many tools in the LabVIEW environment, as well as numerous other software engineering tools for advanced testing and code analysis. This paper discusses the Unit Test Framework, a tool for LabVIEW that can be used to automate unit testing, requirements-based validation and regression testing of VIs.
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The idea behind unit testing is elegant and simple, but can be expanded to enable sophisticated series of tests for code validation and regression testing. A unit test is strictly something that ‘exercises’ or runs the code under test. Many developers manually perform unit testing on a regular basis in the course of working on a segment of code. In other words, it can be as simple as ‘I know the code should perform this task when I supply this input; I’ll try it and see what happens.’ If it doesn’t behave as expected, the developer would likely modify the code and repeat this iterative process until it works.
The problem with doing this manually is that it can easily overlook large ranges of values or different combinations of inputs and it offers no insight into how much of the code was actually executed during testing. Additionally, it does not help us with the important task of proving to someone else that it worked and that it worked correctly. The cost and time required is compounded by the reality that one round of testing is rarely enough; besides fixing bugs, any changes that are made to code later in the development process may require additional investment of time and resources to ensure it’s working properly.
Large projects typically augment manual procedures with tools such as the Unit Test Framework to automate and improve this process. Automation mitigates risk of undetected errors, saves costs by detecting problems early, and saves time by keeping developers focused on the task of writing the software, instead of performing the tests themselves.
Creating a Test for a LabVIEW VI
To create a test in LabVIEW using the Unit Test Framework, right click on the VI under test in the Project Explorer and move your cursor over the ‘Unit Tests’ menu item. Select ‘New Test’ to create a new file on disk with an .lvtest extension (see figure 1).
Figure 1: Automatically generate a test for a VI from the menu in the Project Explorer
By default, this file will be saved in the same location as the VI under test; however, .lvtest files can automatically be stored in a pre-determined location, as specified in the Unit Test Framework properties (available from the properties dialog that is available by right-clicking on the .lvproj file in the Project Explorer).
Defining Test Vectors
The next step in creating a test is the definition of a test vector or a test case. VIs, like a function call in text-based programming languages, have inputs and outputs. When a unit test is performed in LabVIEW, a known set of inputs is supplied to the VI. These inputs are paired with a pre-determined set of expected outputs to define a ‘test vector’. The output of the VI after execution is then compared with what was expected (see figure 2) to generate the results. The Unit Test Framework allows the creation of these tests without any modification to code.
Figure 2: Test Vectors (or Test Cases) refer to the pairing of inputs for a unit of code with the expected output. Unit testing compares the expected results with the actual results to generate reports.
Test cases can be specified in a number of different ways using the Unit Test Framework. The most common mechanism is the dialog that appears in LabVIEW if you double click on an .lvtest file in the Project Explorer. In the dialog that appears, select ‘Test Cases’ from the list of categories to specify the inputs and expected outputs. By default, you can specify input values for all controls attached to the connector pane and specify expected output values for any indicators tied to the connector pane (see figure 3).
Figure 3: Setup test cases in the Unit Test Framework dialog by double-clicking a test in the Project Explorer
The comparison that is performed on the output is specific to the data-type.
If you have additional inputs that are not attached to the connector pane, or if you wish to evaluate inputs as outputs, you may configure this from the advanced category under the configuration options (see figure 4). Outputs may also be excluded from comparison by deselecting the checkmark next to the line in the Test Case.
Figure 4: The default behavior only uses controls and indicators on the connector pane for the test case. This can be extended to all controls and indicators by changing the advanced configuration.
As with any programming language, inputs that are unbounded have an infinite number of values. For this reason, inputs are typically selected that represent multiple values from a certain range, but completely exhaustive testing may not be possible.
One .lvtest file can contain multiple test cases. For example, you might create a test that evaluated the VI’s performance when it received incorrect input; however, there are likely numerous combinations of inputs that fall under this category and therefore would be a part of the same test, but each of which would require the definition of a new test case. To add additional test cases, click ‘New’ from the ‘Test Cases’ Category (see figure 5).
Figure 5: One test can contain multiple test cases
In addition to using the ‘Test Cases’ category of this dialog, test vectors can also be specified in an external editor, such as Microsoft Excel, to facilitate programmatic test creation. This feature also enables groups that may not have access to the development environment to define tests.
VIs that have state or require programmatic configuration may require the use of ‘setup’ and ‘teardown’ VIs in order to perform testing. The output of the setup VI can be passed to the VI under test. This is valuable if you need to programmatically generate a complex input, such as a large waveform, or perhaps prepare a file or database for testing (see figure 6). It could also be used to pass in a reference to a file or object that you wanted the VI under test to use.
Figure 6: Use setup and teardown VIs to programmatically generate inputs or setup test conditions for more advanced test cases
Additionally, filters can be defined in order to only run tests that meet a certain priority or that have not been ran since a certain date.
Generating tests without first understanding what the code should do and how it should behave is typically ineffective, as it results in tests that cater to the developer’s criteria instead of the requirements for the application.
In order to avoid a scenario in which a developer is creating their own tests that are easily passed, due diligence must be given to requirements definition. For software engineers, the task of gathering requirements and defining specifications for code behavior is the first in a series of steps for software development. It is typically through this process that effective tests are defined and the expected behavior of code is determined.
Figure 7: This is an example of the complex relationships that are present between requirements documents, implementations, unit tests and reports
Requirements for tests are often the product of iterative rounds of prototyping and proof of concepts that are shown to a customer in order to refine what the finished product will do. It is important to distinguish between these efforts to define the application’s behavior in requirements, and the process of developing a professional, high-quality, reliable piece of software.
High-risk or mission-critical projects will typically begin with requirements that go as far as to define how individual units of code will be implemented and what their specific output will be under normal conditions as well as erroneous conditions. It is from these definitions that the criteria for evaluating unit tests can be derived.
A large part of software validation is the ability to demonstrate where and how requirements have been covered through implementation in software. For many, this requires the creation of a traceability matrix, which pairs the requirement with the location in the code where the requirement was covered. Depending upon the level of scrutiny, it may also be necessary to demonstrate where tests for software have been implemented. For this reason, the Unit Test Framework enables developers to enter one or more Requirements IDs in the ‘Configuration’ category (see figure 8).
Figure 8: The Unit Test Framework integrates with Requirements Gateway to automate traceability to specifications for tests.
This requirement ID can be parsed by National Instrument’s requirements management tool, NI Requirements Gateway, to automate test requirements management and track coverage.
Learn how to couple NI Requirements Gateway with the Unit Test Framework Toolkit.
The requirements that define how code will be implemented and how tests will be performed are typically completed and considered ‘locked’ before development begins – especially when abiding by a test-driven development process model. However, the reality is that modifications to requirements are almost inevitable as a result of unforeseen changes or feature creep. For this reason, a combination of requirements management and configuration management tools are necessary towards providing insight into what code is impacted and therefore may need to be re-validated or tested.
Learn more about software configuration management for LabVIEW and source code control here.
Tests created using the LabVIEW Unit Test Framework can be run in a number of different ways:
Individual Tests – right click on the test in the Project Explorer and select ‘run’
By VI Under Test – rick click on the VI you wish you test, and navigate to ‘Unit Tests > Run’
Tests In a Folder – right click on the folder and select ‘Unit Tests > Run’
All Tests in the Project Explorer – Click on ‘Run Unit Tests’ in the toolbar of the Project Explorer
Programmatically - Use the VIs on the Unit Test Framework Palette (see figure 9)
Figure 9: The Unit Test Framework installs a palette of VIs for automating test execution and report generation.
After tests have been run, whether or not they passed or failed is displayed on the icon using green and red dots to represent pass and fail (respectively). A dialog will appear with the results, and a report will be generated if report generation is turned on.
Code coverage is a metric that is used to refer to the amount of code that was ‘covered’ or executed in the course of testing. Depending upon the level of complexity and criticality, some authorities mandate that all code be exercised in order to mitigate risk of un-tested code and application states that could result in unexpected behavior.
The LabVIEW Unit Test Framework tracks code coverage for every individual test vector. It aggregates these percentages across all tests to identify what code has been left uncovered. The Unit Test Framework Results Dialog lists all percentages and documents the uncovered code. Clicking on this list in the dialog displays and highlights the exact location of this code (see figure 10).
Figure 10: Track and identify code that has not be run during testing.
The ability to prove it works requires the creation of documentation or evidence that the software fulfills its intended purpose and meets all other criteria (see figure 11). The LabVIEW Unit Test Framework enables automated generation of documentation in XML (ATML), HTML or ASCII formats. Information included in this report can be configured, but typically includes the time of test, duration of each test, test vector inputs, the results, and aggregated code coverage metrics.
Figure 11: Reports are automatically generated by the Unit Test Framework to enumerate all the details and results of testing.
Testing and debugging software has always been an inseparable part of the development process, but automated tools such as the LabVIEW Unit Test Framework are available to address the challenge of testing complex software. Automating this process reduces the amount of time developers spend performing tests and enables more exhaustive testing. This not only helps to ensure the highest-quality software possible is produced, but it also saves money by catching problems earlier and reducing the amount of time developers spend performing these tests.
Unit Test Framework Toolkit Product Information
Software Engineering Best Practices for LabVIEW
Software Engineering Tools for LabVIEW
Large LabVIEW Application Development Resources
Large LabVIEW Application Community
Coupling NI Requirements Gateway with the LabVIEW Unit Test Framework
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Home Engineers PCL opens Sudbury Office
PCL opens Sudbury Office
The PCL family of companies says it has opened a new office in Sudbury to serve northern Ontario.
“I’m genuinely excited to be leading PCL’s local efforts here in Sudbury and throughout northern Ontario,” said Paul Franklin, PCL’s newly appointed area manager. “Those of us living here know this region’s economic development opportunities can coalesce into a bright future for area businesses and residents alike. I look forward to helping Sudburians build Sudbury and to replicating this approach throughout the region for the benefit of surrounding communities.”
PCL says in a statement that its decision to enter the northern Ontario market with a brick-and-mortar presence comes after a careful yet encouraging review of the long-term prospects for construction projects principally in the commercial, civil, and light industrial sectors.
While PCL has served as the general contractor for multiple area projects in the past (including the Sudbury Regional Hospital, the White River hydroelectric project, the CUPE office renovation in Kenora, and the North Bay Regional Health Centre), the decision to expand acknowledges PCL’s belief in its ability to differentiate itself in a way that will best support clients and contribute to their success.
The office will initially be staffed with a modest contingent of seasoned PCL personnel and industry veterans new to the company, all of whom will be based in Sudbury, the PCL statement says. “These locally accessible skill sets mean clients can count on PCL’s expertise across all aspects of the construction process, from preconstruction and value engineering efforts through to construction and project closeout. Franklin knows he has work to do to convince potential clients they can work with PCL no matter how large or small their project, but it’s work he feels is critical to the region’s growth.”
“We’re here to help everyone who sees value in working with PCL,” said Franklin. “From a local shop owner’s renovations of $10,000 on up to public- and private-sector projects totaling much more, I want to demonstrate why working with PCL makes sense, regardless of your project’s size and scope. This company really is a community builder who also happens to be supported by extensive international resources and expertise we can access when needed. We want to make working with PCL an easy decision for our clients to make.”
PCL’s Sudbury office is located at 598 Falconbridge Road, Unit 15.
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Pioneer Valley Theatre News December 27, 2018
December 27 - January 16, 2018
Hello from probably very rainy Seattle! I'm here for the week, but you still get a newsletter. If you missed the deadline for this week (which was last Friday) but submitted something, your event will be listed starting next Thursday, January 3. Happy New Year!
The next issue will include events through January 23. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
A Call for Exciting Trans Theatre
by Nitsan Scharf
I’ve noticed a troubling trend in the world of transgender theatre. When I hear about a show with a trans character, even starring a trans actor, I rush to see it, wondering, What new frontiers of gender and identity will we be exploring tonight? And, almost very time, the answer is: None.
WELCOME TO FIRST NIGHT NORTHAMPTON 2019
Happy New Year! You’re invited to attend First Night—Northampton’s most beloved signature event.
On Monday, December 31st, the Northampton Arts Council and PeoplesBank welcome you to the 34th edition of our city-wide New Year’s Eve party. Since 1985, First Night Northampton has filled the Paradise City with a 12-hour, family-friendly festival of the arts culminating in a traditional ball-raising from the roof of the Hotel Northampton. Gather with friends, neighbors and visitors at over 20 terrific downtown venues for an astounding array of entertainment presented by hundreds of talented performers. Our efforts are supported by generous local sponsors and dedicated volunteers. One hundred percent of proceeds benefit community arts.
Drama Studio Open House!
January 2 at 6:00 PM
41 Oakland St. Springfield Ma
Join The Drama Studio on January 2nd from 6-8PM for an exciting behind-the-scenes experience and learn all about our conservatory-style theatre training program. Meet our staff, chat with current students, get a behind-the-scenes look at our classrooms and black box theatre, and get a jumpstart on your education with a FREE CLASS for ages 9-12.
*Registration not required to attend
About Us:
Founded in 1987, Drama Studio provides a conservatory-style acting training program for young people in the Pioneer Valley region. Currently serving over 300 students ages 6-18, the Studio operates year-round in its space at 41 Oakland Street, Springfield.
Visit our website.
Happier Valley Comedy presents The Understudies: An Improvised Musical
It's the opening night of a brand new Broadway musical! Unfortunately, the entire cast is unavailable. This is the moment we've been training for. Be part of the fun as four determined Understudies create an entire musical from scratch, with a little help from the audience. Saturday, January 5th at 7pm at the new Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). And stick around after for the 9pm showcase and open improv jam! Tickets: $10 online and at the door. For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Ghost Light Theater January's Wednesday Workshop
Gateway City Arts
This month we are featuring two plays by Charles Schoenfeld, The Dueling Master and Truth In Fiction.
The Dueling Master: In post-revolutionary Virginia, dueling over matters of honor is a common custom—until the gunsmith Edward Boone introduces a new way of dueling that allows honor to be served without loss of life. But even in this changed culture, Boone discovers there is still a price to be paid when strong-willed people come into conflict.
Truth in Fiction: A father and daughter are reading bedtime stories together. Their night takes an unusual turn when the character they’re reading about, trying to escape a misunderstanding with the police, climbs in through their apartment window. The book continues to tell the story, even after the readers have become part of it.
Wednesday Workshop is a monthly reading series hosted by Ghost Light Theater and Gateway City Arts, presenting staged readings of local and new works to showcase the broad range of creative theatrical talents in the Valley. As well as a performance, the intention is to make Wednesday Workshop an opportunity for artists from our many communities to come together to meet and socialize.
In the interest of making the event financially accessible, the series runs on a pay-what-you-will model with a suggested donation of $5. The donations will be split between Ghost Light and each month's featured author(s). Please also consider coming early to order dinner from The Bistro, to support our generous venue; food and drink from The Bistro can also be brought into the performance. After the show, The Bistro will be open for food, drinks, and socializing.
Amherst Leisure Services Community Theater presents Peter Pan
Thursday, January 10 at 7:30 pm (general admission); Friday, January 11 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, January 12 at 1:00 pm (matinee); Sunday, January 13 at 1:00 pm (matinee); Thursday, January 17 at 7:30 pm; Friday, January 18 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, January 19 at 1:00 pm (matinee); Saturday, January 19 at 7:30 pm; Sunday, January 20 at 1:00 pm (matinee)
Bowker Auditorium, Stockbridge Hall, UMass
This January, come with us where dreams are born and time is never planned! PETER PAN arrives on the Bowker Auditorium stage set in a newly imagined Neverland, with the illustrious Peter and his pack of lost boys, the ingenious Tiger and her runaways, surly pirates of all ages, the Darling family, a truly amazing Crocodile, and of course the nefarious Captain Hook– all with an extra special helping of fairy dust! PETER PAN comes to Bowker Auditorium at UMass, Amherst, MA • January 10-13 and 17-20, 2019. This full-scale, live production brings lavish sets and costumes, a full live orchestra, and a remarkable cast together in a gorgeous singing, dancing extravaganza! See www.alsct.org for tickets and more info, or call 413-259-3065.
http://alsct.org/buy_tickets/index.html
Happier Valley Comedy presents The Ha-Ha's & Friends: From Justin To Kelly
January 12 at 7:00 PM
Longtime local favorites The Ha-Ha's perform a completely improvised comedy show on the second Saturday of every month! Each show has a new special guest - this month we welcome prolific touring and teaching duo From Justin To Kelly from NYC! Saturday, January 12th at 7pm at the new Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). And stick around after for the 9pm showcase and open improv jam! Tickets: $13 online and at the door. For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Ghost Light Theater's Auditions for Significant Other by Joshua Harmon
January 2 and 3 at 6:30 PM
Chi Omega House - 47 Olympia Drive in Amherst
Ghost Light Theater announces auditions for their May 2019 production of Significant Other, by Joshua Harmon. Directed by Megan Healey.
Auditions will take place January 2nd & 3rd 2019 at 6:30 PM at Chi Omega House, 47 Olympia Drive, Amherst. Callbacks, if necessary, will be by invitation only.
Please familiarize yourself with the script before auditions.
Please prepare a 1 to 3 minute contemporary monologue. You may be asked to read sides from the play.
Link to fill out audition form in advance. (we will also have some on hand at auditions).
Jordan Berman would love to be in love, but that’s easier said than done. So until he meets Mr. Right, he wards off lonely nights with his trio of close girlfriends. But as singles’ nights turn into bachelorette parties, Jordan discovers that the only thing harder than finding love is supporting the loved ones around you when they do. From the critically acclaimed writer who brought you Bad Jews.
Performances are May 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke.
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Jordan: Male, 25-30
neurotic, but extremely lovable and incredibly loyal; he's a talker; prone to loneliness, he likes to be around other people; left to his own devices, he can be a mess; Jewish. A great comedic actor.
ETHNICITY: All Ethnicities
Laura: Female, 25-30
the epitome of the best friend; warm and caring; vibrant in her own right, but thinks of herself as more suited to friendship than romantic love.
Vanessa: Female, 25-30
very salty; tends to see the glass half-empty until she unexpectedly finds love; with love comes all the things she swore she never wanted in life, like marriage. A great comedic actress.
Kiki: Female, 25-30
a no-filter girl; relishes her role as the audacious one of the group; Jewish. A stellar comedic role that requires the right balance of intelligence and warmth.
Will/Conrad/Tony: Male, 25-30
plays either the love interest or obsession of several characters in the play. All the characters are very handsome and smart. A versatile actor who is great with comedy.
Gideon/Evan/Roger: Male, 25-30
a great character actor who is adept at playing multiple roles. Plays both the chatty, gay coworker and the straight love interests.
Significant Other is presented with permission from Samuel French, Inc.
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Sex and Power Looking for Lighting Designer and Stage Manager!
Performances will be in early spring at the Northampton Arts Trust. Small stipend available.
Actor, dancer, interfaith minister Joanna Rush girlsplains the complexities of Sex and Power in our culture. Enduring date rape and gang rape in real life she went on to a career in movies and on stage playing various species of seductress, which, by the way, exposed her to misogyny as practiced internationally throughout history. Covering ground that ranges from evolutionary biology to Greek mythology, the invention of masculinity, our socio-economic systems, and anecdotes from her own acting career, she provides insights that can help us heal today’s sorry state of sexual affairs. Rush’s creative, nontraditional outlook offers hope and a road map for how we can progress and ride the #MeToo movement into a healthier sexual landscape for all.
More information here. Contact Joanna with questions.
Looking for directors! Hampshire Shakespeare Company is still looking for directors to help shape our summer 2019 season of Shakespeare Under the Stars! We are specifically seeking proposals for the eight plays below and will select our season based on the proposals we receive.
The plays in consideration are:
Love’s Labor’s Lost
The Director is the creator and enactor of the artistic vision of the production they direct and will be a collaborative center point for the success of the play. We want a director who is passionate about their work, so choose plays that really excite you! Interested in multiple plays? Feel free to submit proposals for up to three plays. Have a dream to direct something not on this list? Submit your proposal for it anyway! We will consider every proposal we receive.
What’s in a proposal? A proposal by any other name would smell as sweet. What we want is to hear your vision for the show and why this play speaks to you. Just a few paragraphs will do. Have some drawings? We’ll look at those, too!
While the priority deadline has passed, we are still accepting proposals on a rolling basis until 12/31. Send your proposal to hampshire.shakespeare.company@gmail.com. While we are a community theatre, we do offer a small stipend to most staff.
10 week acting class for children ages 9-12
Starting January 9th
Performance at the end!
$150 due at first class
At the Northampton Center for the Arts
Taught by Carissa Dagenais
Help your child build confidence, embrace spontaneity, practice teamwork, rehearse emotional regulation, make new
friendships, and laugh! This ten week theater class will cover the basics of improvisation, storytelling, and ensemble work.
Carissa Dagenais has been working with children as a teacher, director, drama therapist, and actor for almost ten years. She has been teaching theater to elementary school kiddos with Hampshire Shakespeare's Educational Workshops for the last five summers at the Williston Northampton school. Carissa holds her BA in theater from Smith and MA in drama therapy from New York University.
Testimonies!
"Carissa has an easy going and yet completely engaged manner that made my daughter feel comfortable being herself and taking risks. Carissa is also creative, empathetic and knowledgeable; she attunes well to the kids, their abilities and their needs. My daughter says every year that doing drama with Carissa is her favorite camp!"
contact carissadagenais@gmail.com for more info
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New Century Theatre presents Acting Classes
Classes are held at the Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street in Northampton, MA.
To register, send an email to Sam Rush (srush@newcenturytheatre.org) or call/text 413-626-3238 to hold your spot.
Acting for Non-Actors - Instructor, Sam Rush
Ages 18 and up (or by instructor permission)
Mondays, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Northampton, MA
January 14 - March 4
This is the perfect course if you have never taken an acting class before. This is also the perfect class if you studied years ago but told yourself you'd get back to it someday. With NCT Producing Director Sam Rush, you'll have a chance to explore your inner ham in a fun, relaxed and supportive environment. Using improvisation, text and original source material, you'll learn a solid base of fundamental acting techniques that may serve you the rest of your life - on stage or off.
Exploring the Craft - Instructor - Sam Rush
Wednesdays, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
If you are an actor with any amount of performance experience you know that staying present and relaxed on stage is necessary for honest and truthful work. Finding that right balance of "being in the moment" and actor awareness is something actors continue to seek out. In this class, designed for actors with previous experience, we'll use in-depth scene work, text analysis and exercises to shed an actors bag-of-tricks and instead deepen your true craft as an actor.
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Pioneer Valley Theatre News March 14, 2019
March 14 - April 3, 2019
I am in Maine this week! Hope you are seeing some theatre!
The next issue will include events through April 10. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
The Revolution in Here and Now: The Revolution is Roma, Queer, and Feminist
by Arman Heljic
We’re at a critical point in the history of Roma movements in Europe. Day after day, we receive news of pogroms, killings, shootings, beatings, family separations, school segregations, rapes, and homophobic violence against our people all across the continent. The response from some Roma artists and writers is anger.
Northampton High School Theater and Music Departments Present Grease
Tickets Now Available for Rollicking 1950s Musical, to be Staged in NHS Auditorium, March 14-16
Northampton, MA, February 14, 2019 -- The Northampton High School (NHS) musical players are rarin’ to knock our socks off in their production of Grease in the NHS Auditorium on March 14, 15, and 16. The beloved coming-of-age Broadway musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, features an ensemble cast and crew of NHS who will bring the sock-hop, the Burger Palace, and other raucous elements of ‘50s youth culture to life, inviting the audience to hop onto the roller-coaster of teen-age romance, angst, and hilarity.
With its colorful characters, intricate production numbers, and memorable songs, Grease evokes the most delightfully entertaining aspects of high school life in the 1950s. Comments Lucia Dostal, a member of the cast, “Yes, practices can sometimes be long, but every dance number we do makes us more excited. We get the feeling that this show is going to be amazing. It’s high-energy and high-focus.”
Director Marie Brown, a local performer, designer, and educator, is coordinating creativity from every corner of Northampton High. Musical direction is provided by Beau Flahive, creator/arranger/teacher of NHS’s famed a capella group, the Northamptones. The 80-person cast, crew, and band include several of Beau’s ‘Tones, singers from the NHS chamber choir and chorus, members of the Funktionlust improv troupe, NHS Band members, and students representing a range of activities and interests. A production of the NHS Theater and Music Departments, Grease also features choreography by Eddie Zitka, president and artistic director of K and E Theater Group. When the curtain comes down, you’ll want to hand-jive your way directly to Herrell’s Ice Cream for a rootbeer float to complete your night of wistful time travel.
Tickets for Grease are available at brownpapertickets.com (yes, a sellout is expected). Call words are “Grease!” and“Northampton High School Auditorium.”
Grease will be staged at the following dates and times:
•Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7pm.
•Friday, March 15, 2019, 7pm.
•Saturday, March 16, 2019, 2pm; and
•Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7pm.
Ticket prices are as follows:
•Northampton High School Students and Staff: $6.17 ($5 + service fee)
•Non-NHS Students, and Members of the Senior Community: $11.34 ($10 + service fee) •General Public: $16.52 ($15 + service fee)
Grease is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Follow the activity on Instagram at @nhsgrease2019 and on Facebook at “NHS Grease The Musical.”
BOEING-BOEING LANDS AT MAJESTIC THEATER MARCH 14 – MARCH 31
“Boeing-Boeing,” a classic French farce by Marc Camoletti, will be presented at West Springfield's Majestic Theater February 21 – March 31. The comedy, translated and adapted by Beverley Cross, premiered in London in the 1960s where it ran for seven years. A 2008 Broadway revival garnered Tony Awards for Best Actor (Mark Rylance) and Best Revival of a Play.
The story is set in Paris, home to an American architect and lothario named Bernard who is “engaged” to three different air hostesses who don't know each other exists. All along Bernard has been carefully arranging their arrivals and departures based on the their flight schedules into Paris's Orly Airport. This arrangement works for him until one day he is visited unexpectedly by Robert, an old school chum from America. As Robert arrives, various flight schedules are changed, and the three women begin showing up at once. Critics describe “Boeing-Boeing” as a “madcap, politically incorrect, door-slamming romp of a comedy.”
Majestic Theater veteran Rand Foerster will direct the play with Danny Eaton serving as producing director. Greg Trochlil is set designer, Dawn McKay is costume designer, Dan Rist is lighting designer and production manager is Stephen Petit. Actors include Jack Grigoli (Bernard), Scott Renzoni (Robert), Christine Anthony (Bertha), Kyle Boatwright (Gloria), Katie Mack (Gabriella) and Larissa Marten (Gretchen).
Tickets for these shows range from $24-$34 and are now available by calling or visiting the box office during its hours of operation, which are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 1pm.
For additional information, visit www.majestictheater.com.
The Drama Studio Inc. presents The Wolves
3/15 @7:30PM, 3/16 @ 7:30PM, 3/17 @ 3PM & 6:30PM
41 Oakland St. Springfield, MA 01118
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
*This show contains strong language and mature content.
*Currently our facility is not handicap accessible
TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE AND NON-EXCHANGEABLE. Online ticket sales close 5 hours prior to the start of the performance.If the event is listed as sold out please contact us as 413-739-1983 for wait listing and potential availability.
wolves.brownpapertickets.com
Happier Valley Comedy Presents The Happier Family Comedy Show
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA
Monthly family-friendly improv comedy show, great for 5-12 year olds and their adults. It's funny for the whole family! Saturday, March 16th at 3pm at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 W Bay Rd., Amherst). Tickets at the door: $10/Adults, $5/Kids, Free/4 yrs and under (Reduced admission for museum members). For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Happier Valley Comedy Presents: Not In Charge
Join the talented group Not In Charge for a polished, fast-paced improv show inspired by the improvisers' real life stories! Saturday, March 16th at 7pm at the new Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). And stick around after for the 9pm showcase and open improv jam! Tickets: $10 online and at the door. For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Happier Valley Comedy & The Majestic Theater presents Theater On The Spot!
The Majestic Theater, 131 Elm St, West Springfield, MA
Calling all improv and theater lovers! Join us as talented improvisers from Happier Valley Comedy create an entire play on the spot based on your suggestions. While the cast and crew of the Majestic Theater's current farce Boeing Boeing take a much-deserved night off, we'll use their set, props, and lighting to present a theatrical experience like nothing you've ever seen.
Don't miss this one-night-only special performance full of comedy, drama, and the joy of the unexpected!
Monday, March 18th at 7pm
The Majestic Theater
131 Elm Street, West Springfield, MA
Tickets are $10, only at the door!
https://www.happiervalley.com/tots.html
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
Performed by No Theater
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 21- 23 & 28 - 30, 8:00 PM,
A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA.
Seating is limited. Tickets: $20.00. https://connemara.bpt.me
House opens at 7:30 PM. Performances start promptly at 8:00 PM.
No late seating. More information: (413) 586-5553 orlisathompson@apearts.org
No Theater, the resident theater of A.P.E., performs Martin McDonagh's A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a dark comedy by the writer/director of the Academy Award winning film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, for 6 performances only, March 21-30, at 8:00 pm at A.P.E.
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court Theatre co-production in Galway, Ireland and then in London in the summer of 1997. "Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation.... In A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a gravedigger, whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to a pulp, is hotly suspected of killing his wife." THE GUARDIAN
Performed by No Theater veterans Roy Faudree, Charles Holt, Jane Karakula and Tom Mahnken, the play takes place in McDonagh’s fictional rural West Ireland small town where people “smile at you ‘til you’re a mile away before they start talking behind your back."
Based in Northampton, No Theater has been presenting their new original experimental works in Western Massachusetts and around the world since 1972, alongside innovative productions of plays by such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Čapek, Kroetz, Gogol, Williams, Albee, Berkman, Maceda, Mullin, McDonald, and Maxwell.
Ms. Karakula and Mr. Faudree appeared in No Theater's 1974 original production of THE ELEPHANT MAN before touring the work to New York in 1978 and reviving the production in The Academy of Music in 1986. Mr. Mahnken, founder and bass player for local band Trailer Park, appeared last year with Ms. Karakula and Mr. Holt in No Theater's "google gogol" and in several episodes of No Theater's ROAD TO HELL locally and in Rotterdam, as well as the European and Asian tours of No Theater's END OF THE ROAD, a collaboration with the Young at Heart Chorus. Mr. Holt performed No Theater's CHUCK in the Rotterdam Festival and regularly works with The Cardboard Sea, a theater based in Asheville, NC, which last summer toured its original production THE AMENDMENTS to Northampton.
Faudree started No Theater with Sheena See in 1972 and both tour internationally with the New York based theater company The Wooster Group. Throughout the 1980s Karakula, See and Faudree toured such original No Theater productions as DFS (de fiance suction), LAST RESORT and DUPE to New York, San Francisco and festivals and theaters throughout Europe.
Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh
UMass Play Lab
by Shazeb Meraj and Jared Sarnie
Director: Erin Nicole Eggers
Dramaturg: Tatiana Godfrey
March 21, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m.
March 23 at 2 p.m.
Come My Beloved
by Emma Weinstein
Director: Josh Glenn-Kayden
Dramaturg: Shaila Schmidt
The Rand Theater
$7.50 general admission per play, $5 per play for students and seniors. Call 1-800-999-UMAS or visit the Fine Arts Center Box Office online.
Come see how things play out — Play Lab presents two brand-new plays in development
Come My Beloved explores the downfall and resurgence of an American city
Swimming Lessons follows two young doctors as they navigate life and politics
Play Lab is for finding undiscovered gems. The exciting new works we present each year are fresh from the printer, and our Play Lab audiences are the first to see them live on stage!
From March 21-30, the 2019 edition of the UMass Amherst Department of Theater New Play Lab will present staged readings of two new plays that have been workshopped with the playwrights, MFA Directors and Dramaturgs and a company of actors. Come My Beloved, by emerging professional playwright Emma Weinstein, is a new play about race, intimacy, and Detroit, MI, and Swimming Lessons, by a pair of UMass students, Jared Sarnie and Shazeb Meraj, follows two young hospital interns as they navigate life, politics, and cultural differences.
Weinstein's Come My Beloved will be directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden with Shaila Schmidt as dramaturg. We experience the continuing impact of race and gentrification on personal relationships through a look at three black and Jewish couples from three different decades in Detroit. Heartfelt and insightful, Come My Beloved explores the downfall and resurgence of one of America’s most important cities and the vastly different trajectories of two communities within it.
Swimming Lessons, by UMass students Shazeb Meraj and Jared Sarnie, will be directed by Erin Nicole Eggers with Tatiana Godfrey as dramaturg. With funny, quick, and snappy dialogue, we follow the lives of two interns named Yusuf and Josephine as they navigate the inner workings of a reputable Boston hospital. This play explores timely conversations around representation, immigration, xenophobia, and racism—all fairly heavy topics—through a charmingly witty perspective and, as the authors happily note, “a lot of bad rap.”
These three writers will follow in the footsteps of previous years’ playwrights, including some whose plays have gone to be produced on the UMass mainstage and at professional theatres across the country. They will sit in on rehearsals and performances to hear their plays aloud, honing their work night by night. Those who come for our opening night may be seeing a completely different play than those who come to our closing performance!
This makes Play Lab a safe haven for established and emerging playwrights; it's also an opportunity for audiences to see new ideas in action and see the beginnings of what could be a masterpiece. Get your tickets now to be in the room to be part of this creation!
Post-show Discussions
We want to hear what you think! Please join the Swimming Lessons cast and crew on March 23 at 2 p.m. and March 29 at 7:30 p.m. for a Post-show Discussion. Please check our website for information about Come My Beloved discussions.
SILVERTHORNE THEATER ANNOUNCES
NEW PLAY READING SERIES
An integral part of Silverthorne Theater Company’s mission is to promote the development of new work, especially by Western Massachusetts and New England playwrights. In 2018, we staged the world premieres of three new works, two of which were from such writers.
In 2019 we offer a series of free rehearsed readings of new or new to us plays, , called Theater Thursdays, followed by audience discussions. These will be held in different locations in the region. Complete information for each reading may be found at https://silverthornetheater.org.
The purpose of the readings is to give a platform for new work to be heard, and when possible, to be able to give playwrights direct audience feedback. It also gives Silverthorne a look at plays that we might consider fully producing in future seasons.
Thursday, March 21 MOTHER, MAY I, by Dylan Brody
Directed by David Rowland
7 pm 12 Federal Street, Greenfield
A witty tale of longstanding intergenerational misunderstanding. A well-off older Boston couple Ellen & Paul Grunman spend most of their son Daniel's rare visit home failing to discover the truth about his life in Los Angeles. They are equally obtuse about their grown daughter's dreams & sexual preference. – will the blinders come off before it's too late?
Thursday, April 18 SANDWICH, by Steve Henderson.
Directed by Brianna Sloane
7 pm 170 Main St, Greenfield
Three women, three generations, three sets of problems, one house – a recipe for flying sparks!
Thursday, May 16 RESTORATION ROOM, by Harley Erdman
Directed by Chris Rohmann
7 pm UMass Theater Department, Room 204
Two academics, each married to someone else, struggle to resist the power of their mutual intellectual & physical attraction.
Thursday, June 13 DEAR GALILEO, by Claire Willett
Directed by Rebecca Daniels
7 pm 170 Main Street, Greenfield
Three women in three different times wrestle with their identity, the conflict between science and religion, and what it means to be their fathers' daughters…. As the three stories move toward their point of convergence, the destinies of each become inextricably bound with the others, linked through time by love, family, grief, the search for identity and the wonder of the stars.
Thursday, September 12 CAMPUS UNREST, by Talya Kingston
Directed by Trenda Loftin
7 pm Location TBA
Complex choices face an inter-racial British academic couple newly arrived on the campus of a troubled American college.
Sunday, October 13 VERITAS, by Betty Shamieh
Director TBA
3 pm Deerfield Community Center
In the 1660s Harvard College’s governors insisted that Native American youths be trained at the College as Christian ministers to be able to convert their tribes to Christianity. This play explores the lives of the first four of these early converts and the attitudes at the time toward them. Post-show discussion led by historians & members of local Native American communities.
Further details at www.silverthornetheater.org or call 413-768-7514.
The Academy of Music is proud to present (In)Dependent: The Heroin Project, a new play by Kent State University students Emelia Sherin and Zach Manthey, directed by Linda McInerney (Eggtooth Productions) on March 22 and 23, 2019 at 7:30pm.
The drama is based on interviews with heroin users, counselors, and family members. It exposes the reality of the heroin crisis, and captures the physical, mental, and emotional issues that people who have experienced opioid misuse disorder, friends, families, nurses, policemen, and children undergo from primary and secondary interaction with heroin.
The Academy of Music Theatre has partnered with Hampshire HOPE (a multi-sector opioid coalition in Northampton) and the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office on this project to raise awareness about Opioid misuse disorder, reduce stigma, and elevate the voices of those who are oppressed; to provide a deeper, more meaningful community engagement process which allows us to better understand the experiences of those impacted by Opioid misuse disorder. Performance evenings will begin with readings of the work that came out of the creative writing sessions led by HOPE, where those affected by opioids, including friends and family of users, people in recovery and people actively using, wrote on the toll opioid misuse has taken on their lives. The writing from these workshops will also be compiled into a FREE chapbook, along with the drawings of Marvel Comic, Marcus McLaurin, who has designed original artwork for this production. They will be handed out at the performances and around the community. The Academy has also given out over 200 free tickets to recovery centers in the area.
Tickets are available now. Tickets can be purchased by calling or visiting the Academy of Music Box
Office. We are open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM and can be reached at 413-584-9032 ext.105.
Tickets can also be purchased online by visiting www.aomtheatre.com.
Show Dates/ Times:
Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:30pm
Doors at 7:00 pm
$10-20 (plus applicable fees)
Where/ How Tickets Can be Purchased:
Academy of Music Box Office Open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM
Call: 413-584-9032 ext.105 (Service fees will apply with purchase)
Visit www.aomtheatre.com for online ticket purchases.
THE FEVER by Wallace Shawn
Winner of the Obie Award for Best Play, 1991.
Friday and Saturday, March 22, 23 at 7 P.M.
Performed by Peter B. Schmitz, Directed by John Hellweg
$10-15 tickets at the door.
Box office at 33 Hawley will open at 6:15 p.m. Seating limited to 30.
“Mr. Shawn exposes the contradictions and compromises of the urban liberal mind with a mercilessness that is sly and at times hilarious” (N.Y. Times)
Ghost Light Theater Presents: Constellations by Nick Payne
3/22, 23, 28, 29 & 30 at 8 PM & 3/24 at 2 PM
Gateway City Arts - 92 Race Street, Holyoke
Directed by Sue Dziura
How many chances do we get to make a first impression? For Roland and Marianne, the answer is infinite. In the play, running March 22-30 in the Mark Landy Party Hall at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, Payne proposes that life exists in a multiverse, in which countless parallel existences play out simultaneously, allowing for an infinity of possible futures. In Constellations, some of these parallel universes play out over the course of Roland and Marianne’s relationship. Do they hit it off right away or part ways, never to meet again? Does he break her heart? Does she break his? Will their relationship take root and grow into something beautiful, or will their romance be cut short by the decisions they’ve made? Marianne is played by Jen Campbell, and Roland by Kevin Tracy.
Performance for Constellations are March 22, 23, 28, 29 & 30 at 8:00 PM, and March 24 at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $12 for evening performances & $8 for matinees and can be purchased at the door or online.
Constellations is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Alt(ernative) Shakespeare Company presents Shakespeare: After Dark
The Deuce (WW2 Club), Northampton, MA
Shakespeare: After Dark is a sex-positive celebration of the canon, an exploration of sexuality and kink, and the hottest Shakespeare performance since 1613 (Google it).
March 22nd at the Northampton WWII Club
Doors open at 7, show starts at 7:30
Tickets $13 ($10 with a student ID) at the door, or $10 in advance.
An 18+ show
March 23: Piti Theatre's 10th annual SYRUP: One Sweet Performing Arts Festival, Shelburne Falls Come experience a unique Hilltown tradition where the joy of the performing arts meets the sweetness of sap!
Day 2 of SYRUP on Saturday, March 23: Tell them you saw it when! Piti Theatre's Jonathan Mirin, clown-dancer Narieka Masla, pianist Laura Josephs and vocalist Christian Schwedbler share their works-in-progress @ The Barn at 31 Water Street in Shelburne Falls. 2:30 pm: Masla's "Learning to Tango" followed by Mirin's comedic, autobiographical "Canary in the Goldmine" at 3 pm about his wife's developing a mysterious illness which turns out to be electro-sensitivity. Josephs and Schwedbler send us into the night with piano/vocal works by Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ravel and Ives. And yes, there will be syrup tasting between each and every artist! March 23rd is a free event recommended for ages 15+ Reservations strongly suggested because The Barn at 31 Water Street is an intimate venue. Reserve by emailing: info@ptco.org. Complete festival info: ptco.org/syrup
Happier Valley Comedy Presents The Happier Valley World Open Cup Grand Prix Series Derby Bowl Championship!
In this competitive comedy show, two teams of improvisers face off through scenes and games to see who can win the ultimate prize: an old trophy we found in someone's attic. Saturday, March 23rd at 7pm at the new Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). And stick around after for the 9pm showcase and open improv jam! Tickets: $13 online and at the door. For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Gypsy Layne Cabaret to perform burlesque theater at Hawks & Reed
WHO: Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.
WHAT: Burlesque theater
WHEN: Saturday, March 23, 8 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 p.m.)
WHERE: Hawks & Reed, 289 Main St., Greenfield, MA
TICKETS: $15 advance, $20 day of show
Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co. returns to Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center! The Berkshires’ first homegrown burlesque troupe enters its ninth season with a bang — and then some — offering a dazzling evening of unabashedly body-positive entertainment in Greenfield on Saturday, March 23. There’s sexiness galore and laughs a plenty, punctuated by sizzling strips, alluring belly dance, live music, astounding swordplay, outrageous comedy, dynamic dance routines and more!
Gypsy Layne’s mission is to highlight burlesque as a vehicle for self-expression and self-empowerment. This tantalizing crew of saucy ladies and jaunty gents is ready to tease its way into your heart with its vivacious artistry, which has resonated with audiences all over New England and beyond for nearly a decade.
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Wilbraham United Players presents SOMETHING'S AFOOT
3/29, 3/30, 4/5, 4/6 @ 7:30PM; 3/31, 4/7 @ 2:30PM
Fellowship Hall Stage at Wilbraham United Church, 500 Main Street, Wilbraham
Wilbraham United Players production of SOMETHING'S AFOOT opens March 29th and continues with performances through April 7th. Billed as a Murder Mystery Musical the story includes an old English mansion. A raging thunderstorm. Ten strangers. Murder, mystery, music and comedy abound when the guests disappear one by one - knocked off by cleverly fiendish devices. Join the fun as Miss Tweed the amateur sleuth sets out to solve the crimes…but did the butler do it? With songs like "I Owe It All To Agatha Christie," it's a zany whodunit for all to enjoy. The musical will delight audiences from 8-80.
Directed by Deborah Trimble with musical direction from Benjamin Maniscalchi and choreography by Dina Del Buono, the cast includes: Carolyn Averill and Tiera Everitt from Wilbraham as Hope and Letty. John Farrell and Meaghan Callahan of Chicopee as Flint and Lady Manley-Prowe, David Leslie of Longmeadow as Nigel and Joe Lessard of Enfield as Dr. Grayburn, Paul Nesbit and Jay Muse from Springfield as Colonel Gilweather and Clive the butler and Jay Lee as Geoffrey and Kate Hebert as Miss Tweed - both of Holyoke. The play is produced by Stacy Gilmour and Patricia Colkos.
SOMETHING'S AFOOT will be performed on the Fellowship Hall Stage at the Wilbraham United Church - 500 Main Street in Wilbraham. Performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 with Sunday afternoon performances at 2:30.
Tickets are $25 for Reserved Premium Seating and $21 for General Admission Seating. A $5 discount is available for Students and Seniors on the General Admission Seating. Tickets can be purchased online at www.wilbrahamunitedplayers.org or by calling (413)204-8125. A convenience charge is applied to all tickets.
Happier Valley Comedy Presents The Happiness Festival
A full day of shows, activities, raffles, and a silent auction to benefit Happier Valley Comedy, a registered nonprofit dedicated to bringing more joy to Western Massachusetts. Saturday, March 30th from 1pm to 10pm at the new Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Future of the Performing Arts in Easthampton
Sunday, March 31, 2-4PM
Flywheel Arts, Easthampton Old Town Hall
43 Main Street, Easthampton
Performing arts organizations, organizational leaders, performers, musicians, artists, and interested community members are invited to attend a convening on the Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton II.
Join CitySpace and performing arts stakeholders for a tour of the Old Town Hall and presentation and discussion about the next steps for the Old Town Hall’s 2nd floor performing arts and community space. We are looking for your feedback on the vision and facility plan, and how CitySpace’s next steps fits into the performing arts eco-system of Easthampton and the Pioneer Valley.
While you are in Easthampton, come check out two city-wide events — come early for Easthampton WinterFest: City-Wide Festival and stick around for Art Walk Easthampton!
This convening is presented in partnership with CitySpace, Pioneer Valley Theatre News, Flywheel Arts Collective, and others. The Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton II is a follow-up and outcome from the 2013 charette that mobilized CitySpace to restore and manage the 2nd floor space into a flexible performing arts and community space. Since then CitySpace has been actively creating the strategies for the next steps including finalizing architectural construction design, and cost estimates with Kuhn Riddle Architects.
The Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton II is free and open to the public.
AUDITIONS MARCH 16 FOR CHILDREN'S THEATER AT MAJESTIC THEATER
Auditions are currently being booked from 10am – 6pm on March 9 and 16 for parts in this summer's lineup of Majestic Children's Theater at West Springfield's Majestic Theater.
Performers aged 14-19 are encouraged to call the theater at (413) 747-7797 during business hours (Monday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday 10am-1pm) to schedule an appointment. They will be asked to read scenes during their audition. Performing a monologue (not to exceed one minute in length) and singing are encouraged, but not required. If singing at the audition, performers may bring an instrumental CD to accompany themselves. If the instrumental song is stored on their phone, the theater will provide a bluetooth speaker.
Shows being performed on a rotating schedule this July and August are “Disney's Mulan Jr.,” “Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat” and “Charlotte's Web.”
The Theater Project is a non-profit company that Producing Director Danny Eaton founded in 1991. Since March 1997 it has been in residence in West Springfield's historic Majestic Theater, a century-old venue that was recently named "Best Place to See Theater" and “Best Live Theatre Company” in newspaper polls. In addition, Eaton's work at the Majestic was honored with a Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre by the New England Theatre Conference. For additional information, visit www.majestictheater.com.
K and E Theater Group is casting our November 2019 Production ASSASSINS
Auditions can be scheduled on March 18th or 19th between 6:00-9:00 PM.
Monday, March 18th in Springfield at the
Greene Room Performance Collaborative in the Eastfield Mall
Tuesday, March 19th in Northampton at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, 46 Center Street (Street Parking ONLY).
Callbacks on Saturday, March 23rd at the Greene Room Performance Collaborative from 12-5 PM.
Check out www.KETG.org/auditions for character breakdown and more information about how to sign up for your audition slot!
Our show runs from November 14-17, 2019, at Northampton Center for the Arts in Northampton.
OPENING: MANAGING DIRECTOR
The Northampton Center for the Arts is seeking a Managing Director for ongoing and increasing programming and development in our new home in the Arts Trust building at 33 Hawley Street. For over 30 years, the Center has provided affordable space for artists, performers, and educators while developing programming dedicated to arts education, multidisciplinary collaborations, and community connections.
The successful candidate for the position of Managing Director will possess practical knowledge and experience of scheduling and supporting a variety of visual and performing arts events. She/he/they will be comfortable being a public face of the Center, possess excellent communication skills and will be adept at networking and outreach. She/he/they will serve as the general manager for the Center, overseeing staff in a collaborative working environment, and supervising the building facilities. She/he/they will act as chief administrator for the Center, and a liaison to Northampton’s civic, non-profit, and commercial institutions, the greater Northampton arts community, and the partner organizations programming the spaces at 33 Hawley. The Managing Director will understand how to implement mission and vision in practice, and will guide the Center during its current period of exceptional growth and transition.
This is a full time position, including some evenings and weekends, with a salary that is competitive and commensurate with experience.
If you are an experienced arts administrator with a background in presentation and performance, and excellent communication skills, we want to meet you!
For a complete job description, please click here.
Experience in performance/event space management
Experience with event planning/production and/or project management
Resourcefulness and adaptability in multifaceted operations and range of partners
Experience with financial record keeping systems such as Excel or QuickBooks
Experience with social media platforms
Experience with Mailchimp and Squarespace or similar platforms
Please submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@nohoarts.org. Please clearly label all files with first and last names.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but priority will be given to applications received by March 18, 2019.
Smith College Department of Theatre seeks Technical Director
Supervise and instruct students in technical responsibilities for the theatre complex and assist the instructor of set design courses. Responsible for scene shop operations and the safe use of theatre spaces in the Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts.
Supervise the Assistant Technical Director, student interns, assistants, and crews in the use and maintenance of all shop and stage equipment and stage properties, the setup and safety of flexible seating, dismantling and recycling of all scenery; organization of the technical and stage crew, and general shop and stage safety.
Create all construction drawings and direct the engineering, construction and rigging of all scenery including the scheduling of scenic construction, scene painting, installation of technical elements. Maintain, organize, and inventory all shop equipment, scenery, properties, platform storage, traps, flying equipment, floor treatments, rehearsal and stage spaces. Prepare annual stage and shop budget request and supervise all expenditures. Assist with the instruction of design and technical areas as requested by design faculty. Consult with the Assistant Technical Director, who serves part-time as the Technical Director for the Department of Dance, regarding dance production needs in theatre spaces. Assess the production needs of non-Departmental groups, provide a list of pre-approved technical staff, and/or approve the qualifications of visiting technical personnel.
Supervise the safe use of theatre spaces, including the scene shop and technical equipment, with the exception of lighting and sound equipment. Oversee the maintenance of all performance spaces.
Education/Experience: Master of Fine Arts degree in appropriate field or professional equivalent experience.
Skills: Must have requisite technical skills in all aspects of construction, carpentry, metal work, and stage rigging, as well as a complete knowledge of shop and stage equipment. Knowledge of Vector Works and/or Auto CAD design software required. Knowledge of theatrical automation a plus.
Additional Information: Smith College is an EO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer
APPLY ONLINE before March 30.
Hampshire Shakespeare Company presents
Auditions for 2019 Season of Shakespeare Under the Stars
4/12/19 @ 5-9 p.m.; 4/13/19 @ 12-4 p.m.
MAIN STAGE AUDITIONS
For HENRY V and THE *ANNOTATED* TAMING: OR, OUT OF THE SADDLE, INTO THE DIRT
Friday, April 12 @ 5 – 9 p.m.at Room L-3, Cleveland Hall, Mt. Holyoke College
Saturday, April 13 @ 12 – 4 p.m. at the Blanchard Great Room, Community Center, Mt. Holyoke College
Callbacks will be on Sunday, April 14 @ 5 - 9 p.m.
Please prepare a 1 – 2 minute Shakespeare monologue.
People interested in auditioning for female roles in Taming should also prepare at least 30 seconds of a rock song.
Please sign up for an audition slot here.
Questions? Contact us via email or message us on Facebook.
Upcoming Training Programs at Double Edge Theatre
Double Edge Theatre was founded by Stacy Klein to research the role of actors’ training in the development of performance creation. Training is the heart and vitality of Double Edge’s creative process. Since 1982, when it was first developed by Klein based on her work with Rena Mirecka, Grotowski’s founding actor, it has grown to include work with large objects, developed by Klein and David Flaxman from 1985, and then outdoor work and spectacle developed with Carlos Uriona since 1996. Since 2011 Matthew Glassman has been leading the development of training at Double Edge. The unique, holistic methodology engages the actor’s full potential – physical, vocal, emotional, and imaginative – to drive individual exploration, ensemble collaboration, and performance creation.
Open Trainings
Summer Intensive: May 31 - June 14, 2019
Spectacle Immersion: May 31 - Aug 24, 2019
Fall Immersion: Fall 2019
Spring Intensive: March 15 - 17, 2019
Creation Lab: March 15 - April 14, 2019
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble presents Moving Water- Exploratory Workshops
April 6th, noon to 3PM; April 27th, 11AM to 2PM
Serious Play Studio #233, Eastworks, 116 Pleasant St, Easthampton, MA
Join Serious Play Artistic Director, Sheryl Stoodley, and Visual Artist Rosalyn Driscoll in a collaborative exploration of water in word, movement, sound, and text.
Three Saturday workshops, open to the community
To register, contact Serious Play (seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com)
Be sure to include chosen date, your name, phone number, and e-mail address
Dress for movement
Make, find, or bring a vessel to hold water
Participants 20+, limited enrollment
Fee $20, pay at the door
Real Live Theatre presents Choreographing Intimacy
Real Live Theatre, Sunderland, MA
Real Live Theatre presents an expanded version of our popular workshop led by Toby Vera Bercovici and Ellen Morbyrne. “Intimacy Choreography” is a relatively new concept, having emerged out of a need to protect actors from unsafe working conditions and blurred boundaries. It is an important practice not only for the mental, physical, and emotional health of actors, but also for the experience of the audience: the more safe and grounded the performers, the more electric the scene. Utilizing techniques from multiple disciplines, including yoga, dance, and theater, Ellen and Toby will guide participants through a safe and specific process to develop choreography that feels motivated and appropriate for characters and situation, as well as authentic and dynamic in terms of external behaviors.
This workshop is useful and relevant to all theater practitioners and administrators:
•As a performer, the take away will include language with which to speak to your director and co-actors and tools to create safe working conditions when there aren’t any.
•As a director, teacher, or choreographer, you will learn how to build a safe environment, lead exercises to create trust within that environment, and utilize specific skills for analyzing and staging intimate moments.
•As an arts administrator, you will learn best practices for ensuring safe working conditions for your employees.
Real Live Theatre presents Exploring the Expressive Voice & Its Extremes
7-10pm on 5/10 and 10am-5pm on May 11
Tune in to find your voice
Discover the universe of sound that is inside you
Experience your boundless voice
Explore song and text
Create space and time with sound
We’ll begin with discovering and exploring the voice “as it is,” then work toward less familiar vocal areas. Through this process participants will increase awareness of centers of resonance in the body, developing a personal vocabulary unifying sound, sensation, image, and emotion. We will explore the voice in relation to simple song and spoken text. We will deepen the relationship to unknown vocal territories regarding pitch, timbre, resonance and dynamics. We will discover the world of vocal soundscapes and our connection to sound as an expression of space and time.
Liz Stanton is a New York City-based, multifaceted theatre artist, who has studied with a variety of teachers from the Roy Hart Theatre: primarily Richard Armstrong, Ethie Friend and Jonathan Hart Makwaia. She has incorporated the Roy Hart voice work into her teaching for nearly 20 years. She creates award-winning devised theatre pieces, composes music for theatrical sound scores, and she’s written an opera - The Bacchae: In Song and Vocal Extremes. She is the theatrical development producer of Convergences Theatre Collective in New York City. Liz is an adjunct instructor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Experimental Theatre Wing and New York Film Academy.
https://reallivetheatre.net/classesworkshops
Cold Spring Community Theatre
No Theater
Posted by Nikki at 10:23 AM
Pioneer Valley Theatre News March 7, 2019
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Abbeville General – Mission, Vision, Philosophy & Values
Abbeville General is located in rural Vermilion Parish approximately twenty minutes south of Lafayette, La and has become a growing network of healthcare facilities and services, both in and out of it’s Hospital. AGH has recently made the decision to remove the word “Hospital” from its logo because it has become so much more than a hospital. Abbeville General houses multiple outpatient services such as Cancer Center of Acadiana at Abbeville General and Sleep Center at Abbeville General, including multiple health clinics in Abbeville, Maurice, and the opening of their most recent rural health clinic in Erath.
Abbeville General has just completed its new Emergency Room expansion and renovation, and is working to give the remainder of the hospital a fresh new “face-lift”. “We are growing and expanding to meet the expectations of patients and provide access to quality care close to home,” says Brittany Thibodeaux, RN, BSN.
As a community-based hospital, our priority for 47 years has remained the same. With growth, revamping and expert help from one of the largest large format digital companies, Pixus Digital Printing has helped this hospital with a logo face-lift. “This is where our relationship with Pixus all started! They helped create a new version of our existing logo giving it a new updated look. Pixus then created new wall displays of our newly renovated logo to hang at the entrances of the facility and blend seamlessly with recent renovations taking place throughout Abbeville General,” says Thibodeaux.
With the hospital walls freshly painted and bare, we were ready to warm up the facility with something new and inspirational. Thoughts of paintings, art, and random photos were first discussed, but hospital administration wanted something more meaningful, warm, inviting and of value to its patients, customers, family members, physicians and employees. Finally the thoughts of being blessed to live in such a beautiful community rich in culture and history was the key. Why not fill our walls with images from our own back yard? Why not feature beautiful landscape our people lived on, worked on, farmed on, hunted on and ate from?
The decision was then made to create a wall mural that featured cultural and historical images from Abbeville and the surrounding areas that the hospital proudly serves. A local photographer (Kailey C Thomas) was hired to produce beautiful photos of land and historical sites that reflected the backyards of its community. Pixus Digital worked its magic from the photos and created a wall mural for the hospital that is proudly displayed as “A tribute to the communities we serve.”
“We can NEVER say thank you enough to Pixus Digital and its staff for the exceptional work they have done for Abbeville General! You exceeded all of our expectations!” The logo displays and wall mural have been a huge hit among employees, hospital physicians, administration, and patients. “We have had exceptional service and quick responses throughout this whole experience and were never left with any doubts or uncertainties. We are so blessed to have access to a local company like Pixus that has so much talent and does such GREAT work! Abbeville General is grateful to have been able to work with Pixus and looks forward to the next project and making our hospital SHINE!”
Our values are to maintain an organizational behavior that is honest, forthright, and responsible. Principles that guide our daily practice will display the consideration of moral and ethical values of the individual as well as the organization. We will strive to maintain these principles through excellent relations with our customers, suppliers, other healthcare providers, educational institutions, payers and the community.
Abbeville General Hospital is located at 118 North Hospital Drive Abbeville, La
Information Source – Website: Abbeville General
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Carol Gold
“My sculptures are initially created in wax and then cast into bronze. I have chosen to work with human and animal forms in order to best express my feelings about nature and the human... Read More
Carol Gold Original Art For Sale
11.5 x 18.5 x 6(inches) / 27.94 x 45.72 x 15.24(centimeters)
Sculpture (Canadian Dollar): $4,500.00
Meditation II
13.5 x 25 x 5(inches) / 33.02 x 63.50 x 12.70(centimeters)
9.5 x 12 x 5.5(inches) / 22.86 x 30.48 x 12.70(centimeters)
Family II
13.75 x 10 x 4.5(inches) / 33.02 x 25.40 x 10.16(centimeters)
12 x 15 x 12.25(inches) / 30.48 x 38.10 x 30.48(centimeters)
About Carol Gold
“My sculptures are initially created in wax and then cast into bronze. I have chosen to work with human and animal forms in order to best express my feelings about nature and the human condition. With these figures, I strive to convey a mood as well as to create a sense of motion in space. Through the years my sculpture has moved in the direction of increasing simplicity and growing integration of organic and geometric forms."
Casting my own work in bronze has enabled me to be aware of the variations that can occur at each step of the casting process that I then can incorporate into my work. The evolution of my sculptural forms has been affected by the different structural and textural possibilities inherent in the clay and the wax. Ultimately it is the unique quality of the bronze that has most profoundly influenced the direction of my work.”
Carol Gold was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts. Between 1956 and 1960 she studied art at Cornell University, Boston University and the Museum School in Boston, but it wasnʹt until 14 years later, when her children were old enough for her to return to sculpting full time, that her work began to develop and change. Bronze casting techniques learned at the College of Marin in 1977 and 1978 enabled Carol to build her own foundry, outside of San Francisco, CA which she operated for 12 years. This intimacy with the entire casting process profoundly affected the evolution of her sculpture. She began to think in terms of the potential of the metal and started to use wax as her creative medium rather than the clay of her initial sculptures. Simplicity is an important concern in her continuous search for forms with to best express motion and mood using the human figure and an occasional animal as subject matter.
For the past twenty years, Carolʹs work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Canada. Her sculpture has received numerous awards at national exhibitions including the National Sculpture Society and the North American Sculpture Exhibition, as well as receiving public art commissions including the Bakersfield City Center Project in Bakersfield, California, the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas and most recently, the Whitwood Branch of Whittier, California’s public library system as well as two public sculpture parks in Colorado and California.
Original Art Sold
11 x 23 x 5(inches) / 27.94 x 58.42 x 12.70(centimeters)
14 x 8 x 5(inches) / 35.56 x 20.32 x 12.70(centimeters)
Awakening II
7 x 9 x 4.5(inches) / 17.78 x 22.86 x 10.16(centimeters)
10 x 6.5 x 3(inches) / 25.40 x 15.24 x 7.62(centimeters)
Infinite Dancer
12.5"H x 8.5"W x 4"D(inches) / 30.48 x 20.32 x 10.16(centimeters)
10.5"H x 7.5"W x 5.5"D(inches) / 25.40 x 17.78 x 12.70(centimeters)
3.5"H x 5" W x 3" D(inches) / 7.62 x 12.70 x 7.62(centimeters)
Solace II
10"H x 5.75"W x 3"D(inches) / 25.40 x 12.70 x 7.62(centimeters)
7" H x 6"W x 4"D(inches) / 17.78 x 15.24 x 10.16(centimeters)
13.5" H x 25"W x 5" D(inches) / 33.02 x 63.50 x 12.70(centimeters)
14.5"H x 9.5" W x 5"D(inches) / 35.56 x 22.86 x 12.70(centimeters)
11"H x 23" W x 5"D(inches) / 27.94 x 58.42 x 12.70(centimeters)
7" H x 9" W x 4.5" D(inches) / 17.78 x 22.86 x 10.16(centimeters)
16.5" (H) x 11" (W) x 7"(D)(inches) / 40.64 x 27.94 x 17.78(centimeters)
15.5" (H) x 17"(L) x 3"(W)(inches) / 38.10 x 43.18 x 7.62(centimeters)
8 x 18.5 x 3(inches) / 20.32 x 45.72 x 7.62(centimeters)
10.5 x 6 x 6(inches) / 25.40 x 15.24 x 15.24(centimeters)
7 x 6 x 4(inches) / 17.78 x 15.24 x 10.16(centimeters)
8.5 x 10.5 x 3(inches) / 20.32 x 25.40 x 7.62(centimeters)
11.75 x 10.5 x 3(inches) / 27.94 x 25.40 x 7.62(centimeters)
Horse Play
Mountain Music
5.5 x 4.25 x 4.5(inches) / 12.70 x 10.16 x 10.16(centimeters)
8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5(inches) / 20.32 x 10.16 x 5.08(centimeters)
16 x 8 x 5.5(inches) / 40.64 x 20.32 x 12.70(centimeters)
Bronze, Artists proof
16 x9 x 3(inches) / 40.64 x 22.86 x 7.62(centimeters)
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Suzette Martinez Standring: Statue of Liberty: In 100 years, will it still mean the same?
Suzette Martinez Standring More Content Now
I am in France, the country that gave the Statue of Liberty to America as a gift. Dedicated in 1886, it is our country’s power symbol of welcome and refuge, an enduring testament to the grace and mercy that is the United States.
To the newly arrived, the Statue of Liberty is reassurance: Breathe free, work in safety and live in justice. Lately, immigrants are painted as villains, scapegoated as criminals. Asylum seekers escaping torture and persecution are turned away. Mothers are torn from children, as if their undocumented status makes their anguish less.Yet, the Statue of Liberty is a potent reminder of our highest selves.
The French really know how to build monuments.
While in Bordeaux, I discovered a secret language abounds in their statues, public artwork and building facades. A guide helped me to decode the majestic Girondins Monument located in Place des Quinconces.
This masterpiece honors Girondins revolutionaries who resisted the French government’s reign of terror, which ended in 1793. The monument was erected in 1893, 100 years later, as a reminder that the will of the common people triumphed over an evil government. Later in 1942, the Nazis ordered the bronze horses to be melted down for German armaments, but French resistance hid the statues underground. After the war, the monument was re-erected in its entirety.
Like our Statue of Liberty, the Girondins Monument speaks a resonant language.
High atop a column, a winged woman holds broken chains. She is Liberty, breaking free of oppression. At the base are three seated bronze figures. Higher in the center, a woman in armor holds aloft a staff with a hand at its tip. She is Justice. On the left, a muscular man reaches out and represents Work. On the right, a helmeted woman appears serene, steadfast and watching. She symbolizes safety.
For a society to flourish, three elements must be in place for all: Justice, work and safety.
In front of those figures, bronze horses with dragon tails churn the waters with fury, charging toward three men fallen below a lower rock wall, scrambling to escape. These figures symbolize the French government during the time of the revolution.
One holds a mask, and he represents lies and deception. The man in the middle has pig ears, and symbolizes excess, selfish interests, and vice. The man on the right cowers hiding his eyes. His name is Ignorance.
For a long time, I studied the monument, musing on symbolism newly revealed by our guide. What this monument says about the triumph of their ideals.
Deception, greed, and ignorance are poisonous agents of division. These are struggles that plague our country today.
I hope our own Statue of Liberty will stand, 100 years later, to symbolize what America should always be — a light for all to live and work in safety within a just society no matter where you come from.
— Email Suzette Martinez Standring at suzmar@comcast.net.
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In which year did the Parliament adopt Indian Constitution ?
1) 1947
Exam: Constitutional development QUESTIONS
Indian conistition was adopted on 26 nov 1949
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Which of the following exercised the most profound influence in framing the Indian Constitution ?
The first attempt to introduce a representative and popular element in the governance of India was made through:
Which of the following acts introduced communal electorate in India ?
By virtue of which Act, dyarchy was introduced in India ?
The instrument of instructions contained in the Government of India Act 1935 has been incorporated in the Constitution of India in the year 1950 as-
The Government of India Act 1935 was based on:
The monopoly of Indian trade of the East India Company was abolished by the :
With reference to the colonial period of India the trade monopoly of the East India Company was ended by-
The first definite step to provide parliamentary control over East India Company was taken by:
The Montague-Chelmsford Report formed the basis of:
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Home » INDYCAR
Viso Gets A Grip, Puts Down Fast Lap On Fast Friday
John Sturbin | Senior Writer, RacinToday.com Saturday, May 18 2013
E.J. Viso almost pulled off some Indy magic on Friday. (Jim Haines photo courtesy of the IZOD IndyCar Series)
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
E.J. Viso flirted with the magic 230 mph barrier during “Fast Friday” practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, further stamping any-and-all of Andretti Autosport’s Chevrolet-powered roster as the drivers to beat during Saturday’s Pole Day qualifications for the 97th Indianapolis 500.
Viso recorded a lap of 39.2093-seconds at 229.537 mph in the No. 5 Team Venezuela PDVSA CITGO Dallara/Chevrolet at 1:07 p.m., just before rain brought an early end to activity on Day 7 of practice. At noon, the ambient temperature was 81 degrees with a relative humidity of 49 percent and variable winds at three mph. Skies were mostly cloudy. Track temperature was 108 degrees, according to Firestone Racing engineers. INDYCAR officials officially ended the session due to heavy rain at 3:42 p.m.
Viso’s lap was the fastest recorded around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval since 2003.
Viso’s Andretti Autosport teammates _ Marco Andretti (39.3435-seconds/228.754 mph) and rookie Carlos Munoz (39.3839-seconds/228.520 mph), were next in line on the speed chart.
An Andretti Autosport driver has been the fastest in five of seven practice days this month, with Munoz the only driver to top the chart twice. The breakdown:
_ Saturday, May 11: No. 20 Ed Carpenter, 220.970 mph (Ed Carpenter Racing)
_ Sunday, May 12: No. 26 Carlos Munoz, 223.023 mph (Andretti Autosport)
_Monday, May 13: No. 25 Marco Andretti, 225.100 mph (Andretti Autosport)
_ Tuesday, May 14: No. 25 James Hinchcliffe, 224.210 mph, in Marco Andretti’s car (Andretti Autosport)
_ Wednesday, May 15: No. 10 Dario Franchitti, 224.236 mph (Target Chip Ganassi Racing)
_ Thursday, May 16: No. 26 Munoz, 225.163 mph (Andretti Autosport)
_ Friday, May 17: No. 5 E.J. Viso, 229.537 mph (Andretti Autosport)
Viso said he and his team took baby steps all week before mashing the pedal during what traditionally is the fastest practice session of the Month of May.
“Until that point, I believe our realistic time was in the high 227s or low 228s,” Viso said. “There are so many factors in play when we were running that we really won’t know until all of the factors are the same for everyone. I think that we have evolved as a team and heading into the right direction. Every day we’ve been on the track and testing a number of pieces on the car. And, as of today, we have a stronger car than what we started the week with.
“It’s all about finding as much mechanical grip as possible, and when it comes time to trim it, you should be in a good position if you did your homework.”
Despite the rainout, two hours of track time remain available (8-10 a.m.) preceding the 11 a.m. (ET) start of the first segment of qualifications. Twenty-four positions will be filled until 4 p.m., when the top nine entries that posted the best four-lap average speed return at 4:30 for a 90-minute shootout to determine the Verizon P1 Award and set the first three rows for the race on May 26.
Andretti lamented Friday’s shortened practice for his No. 25 RC Cola Dallara/Chevrolet, but wasn’t sweating Saturday morning’s session. “I’ll be in my bed,” Andretti said. “You don’t learn a lot. In fact, you can fool yourself. So I think we’re close enough from our last couple of runs that we can just run it and qualify.
“I reckon we would have been over 230 (mph) if we would have had a full day. But, obviously, those were tow laps. I think as a team we’re quite comfortable with our speeds. Tomorrow it’s just going to come down to having a good balance.”
Asked if Andretti Autosport should be considered pole favorites, Viso cautioned about taking a team featuring a three-time Indy 500 champion for granted.
“The Penske guys have showed they are strong,” Viso said. “I think Helio (Castroneves) didn’t put everything he had in his run before it rained. Will (Power) was fast. AJ (Allmendinger) was the first car to go out on the track, and he was not totally trimmed and he was competitive. Those guys are also doing their homework, and that’s what we’re here for. It’s fun. It‘s a great month and the more competitive it is makes it better for the series, better for the team. It’s better for everyone, and it’s really what we like.”
Chevrolet-powered Dallaras rounded out the top five. Power ran fourth at 39.4043-seconds/228.401 mph in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Chevy while JR Hildebrand (39.5519-seconds/227.529 mph) was fifth in the No. 4 National Guard Panther Racing Dallara/Chevy.
Munoz, driver of the No. 26 Unistraw Dallara/Chevy, clearly is among the pole contenders despite his first-year status. The last rookie to qualify on-pole for the 500 was Teo Fabi in 1983.
“I’m really excited going into my first qualifying run for the Indy 500; it’s a dream come true,” said Munoz, the Firestone Indy Lights point-leader. “Ever since I was small, I wanted to be in this race. I remember watching (Juan Pablo) Montoya win the Indianapolis 500 in 2000. This is a special race for me; I’m going to give everything I have tomorrow.”
INDYCAR officials reiterated that boost levels for the 2.2-liter turbocharged V6 engines powering the IZOD IndyCar Series will remain unchanged for the Indy 500.
As with the 2012 race, the boost level will be increased from 130 kPa to 140 kPa for Saturday’s Pole Day qualifications and Bump Day qualifications on Sunday.
The change in pressure adds about a 40-horsepower boost to the engines produced by Chevrolet (twin-turbocharged Chevy IndyCar V6) and Honda (single turbocharged Honda HI13R). The boost level will return to 130 kPa for final practice on Coors Light Carb Day on Friday, May 24, and the 500-mile race Sunday, May 26.
Thirty-two drivers logged 707 laps during the session without incident. But the afternoon rain prevented rookie Conor Daly from turning any practice laps. Daly’s No. 41 ABC Supply Co. Dallara/Honda fielded by A.J. Foyt Racing made contact with the SAFER Barrier exiting Turn 1 on Thursday.
Veteran team race strategist Larry Curry detailed the repair process earlier Friday. “We got the car in here after the accident and got it taken apart and assessed the damage,” Curry said. “We worked last night until midnight then sent everybody home. Then we all came back in here at 6 o’clock this morning. We just fired it up at 12:30 (Friday). We were shooting for getting it out on the track between 3 and 4 p.m. to at least get a shakedown run on it.
“A.J. just had us fix the car straight-up. We did not go out and take apart the backup car that’s out in the truck to put parts on this one. Header-wise, the header manufacturer didn’t have what we needed, and so we were able to get a set from Ganassi (Racing). Other than that, I think everything else we have been able to get from the vendors.”
The BorgWarner Louis Schwitzer Award was presented to engineers Dale Harrigle and Brett Schilling from Bridgestone Americas Motorsports for the Firestone Firehawk™ Indy 500 Race Tire during a ceremony Friday morning in the IMS Media Center.
Presented by engineers to engineers, the 47th annual award recognizes individuals for innovation and engineering excellence in race car design associated with the annual Indianapolis 500. Winners are honored at an awards banquet, and their names added to the Schwitzer trophy on permanent display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. The $10,000 award is sponsored by BorgWarner and presented to the winning engineer(s) by the Indiana Section of SAE International.
Initiated in 1967, the award memorializes automotive pioneer, engineer and professional race car driver Louis Schwitzer. In 1909, Schwitzer won the first auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He also designed the “Marmon Yellow Jacket” engine that powered the Marmon Wasp to victory at the first Indy 500 in 1911.
After working in the automotive industry for many years, Schwitzer founded the Schwitzer Corporation, which produced innovative cooling fans, water pumps and turbochargers. In 1999, the Schwitzer Corporation joined BorgWarner. Schwitzer enjoyed numerous technological accomplishments, supported higher education, led the IMS tech committee and maintained a strong association with SAE.
A total of 42 cars are at the Speedway, all passing technical inspection. Thirty-three drivers have been on the track to-date, turning 725 laps Friday and 10,352 laps this month. Josef Newgarden, driver of the No. 21 Sarah Fisher Hartman/Century 21 Dallara/Honda, turned 47 laps Friday, most of any driver. There were three cautions for a total of 53 minutes.
97th INDIANAPOLIS 500 POLE DAY QUALIFYING DRAW
QP (Car No.) Driver
1 (40) TBA
2 (9 )Scott Dixon (W)
3 (14) Takuma Sato
4 (15) Graham Rahal
5 (14T) Takuma Sato
6 (2) AJ Allmendinger (R)
7 (6T) Sebastian Saavedra
8 (91) Buddy Lazier (W)
9 (8T) Ryan Briscoe
10 (78) Simona de Silvestro
11 (83T) Charlie Kimball
12 (40T) TBA
12A (60T) Townsend Bell
14 (27) James Hinchcliffe
15 (27T) James Hinchcliffe
16 (9T) Scott Dixon (W)
17 (41) Conor Daly (R)
18 (3T) Helio Castroneves (W)
19 (16T) James Jakes
20 (12T) Will Power
21 (7) Sebastien Bourdais
22 (19) Justin Wilson
23 (3) Helio Castroneves (W)
24 (11T) Tony Kanaan
25 (1T) Ryan Hunter-Reay
26 (78T) Simona de Silvestro
27 (16) James Jakes
29 (5T) E.J. Viso
30 (22T) Oriol Servia
31 (18T) Ana Beatriz
32 (6) Sebastian Saavedra
33 (63) Pippa Mann
34 (60) Townsend Bell
35 (20T) Ed Carpenter
36 (5) E.J. Viso
37 (98) Alex Tagliani
38 (12) Will Power
39 (77T) Simon Pagenaud
40 (25T) Marco Andretti
41 (8) Ryan Briscoe
42 (11) Tony Kanaan
43 (21) Josef Newgarden
44 (55) Tristan Vautier (R)
45 (10) Dario Franchitti (W)
46 (18) Ana Beatriz
47 (4T) JR Hildebrand
48 (19T) Justin Wilson
49 (10T) Dario Franchitti (W)
50 (55T) Tristan Vautier (R)
51 (83) Charlie Kimball
52 (20) Ed Carpenter
53 (1) Ryan Hunter-Reay
54 (17) Michel Jourdain Jr.
55 (26T) Carlos Munoz (R)
56 (26) Carlos Munoz (R)
57 (2T) AJ Allmendinger (R)
58 (4) JR Hildebrand
59 (25) Marco Andretti
60 (21T) Josef Newgarden
61 (98T) Alex Tagliani
62 (99) TBA
63 (7T) Sebastien Bourdais
64 (41T) Conor Daly (R)
65 (77) Simon Pagenaud
66 (15T) Graham Rahal
67 (63T) Pippa Mann
68 (22) Oriol Servia
Note: (W) _ Winner. (R) _ Rookie.
SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE (all times local):
Garages open
Indianapolis 500 practice (Group 1, 8-8:30 a.m.; Group 2, 8:30-9 a.m.; All cars, 9-10 a.m.)
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
First Segment Pole Day Qualifying
11:15 a.m.-4 p.m.
First Segment Qualifying media availability (each qualified driver), Economaki Press Conference Room
Fast Nine Qualifying
Fast Nine Qualifying media availability, Economaki Press Conference Room
Verizon P1 Pole Award Winner media availability, Economaki Press Conference Room
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Prof & Pupil: Retina Surgery 101 and Innovation in the OR [Part 1]
We're starting Prof & Pupil, a miniseries of posts, where Dr. Sridhar and I talk about different aspects of ophthalmology, retina surgery, and more! These are presented in conversation format (much like classic Greek philosophical texts), and we hope they'll be both enjoyable and quick to read!
Jay: Louie, you got the opportunity to observe some retinal surgery with me this past week. What was your first impression of what we do compared to other surgeries in medical school you have observed this past year?
Louie: Retina surgery is completely different from the surgeries I saw in trauma, colorectal, and OB GYN. I felt like from beginning to end, you knew exactly what you were dealing with based off the scans and photos. I felt that in other surgeries there is a lot of uncertainty about what you might encounter and what techniques you might have to employ. There's a lot of chaos- random bleeding, adhesions you weren't expecting, etc.. For retina surgery, at least from my perspective, it seemed like you had complete control from start to finish. The procedures were clean, systematic, and very precise. Maybe that's not how you actually felt while you were operating... haha. Also I notice you were using one sterile glove instead of two?
Jay: Yes, we rarely double glove although perhaps we should. Thankfully our needle exposure is not the same as other fields! That's flattering that you say that. Definitely the imaging technology has made our lives a lot easier. Still, what I love about retina surgery is no matter how much we try to control every detail, things can be unpredictable and you have to rely on good habits to approach unusual situations. What maneuvers appeared most challenging from the student perspective?
Louie: I think for me, the hardest part is definitely seeing how deep you are in the vitreous when you're doing a vitrectomy. You have to have very good stereopsis to perceive the depth correctly. I don't know if you've seen the movie Prometheus, but there's this scene where a drone goes into a cave and scans it with lasers. I always wonder how helpful it might be if your instruments could emit a grid of light around it, and you could judge exactly how far you are away from the borders.
This is an image of what I'm talking about..
Jay: that's a great point Louie. One of my mentors Dr. Allen Ho used to talk about a vision for the future of visualization during surgery. We already have products on the market such as the ngenuity from Alcon that allow for heads-up 3D display for surgery using a large TV monitor and 3D glasses. We also have OCT Technology built into our microscopes that allows us to see the retina in higher detail and with a greater perspective of depth and the retinal layers than ever before. People have discussed in the future having motion tracking or indicators to guide a surgeon much the way modern cars do with collision warnings.
Did you observe anything done in other fields that you think we should adopt in our surgical practice?
Louie: I think all those ideas are awesome. One of my favorite aspects about ophthalmology is that everybody in the field seems to embrace and actively seek ways to improve the status quo. The heads up display will literally turn the operating room into a video game! How quickly do you see people adopting new technology, from proof of concept to actual use? For example how long did it take for the vitrector to be put in every operating room?
I think the other surgeries have a lot more to learn from retina surgery actually! Haha but if there was one thing, I noticed that because of the scopes and positioning of the bed, it's easy to feel kind of cramped when you're sitting there (especially if you're tall). This isn't really a problem with other surgeries since you can stand and stretch and move around. I'm not sure how you could change that.
Jay: that's a great question about technology adoption. I think given globalization of information, sharing technologies and techniques are adapted faster and faster. The heads up display is already used as the sole visualization tool in a couple of practices and institutions nationally. Much like a viral video I believe it will spread more as more and more prominent surgeons go to meetings or webinairs and show cases using heads up viewing.
Definitely ergonomics is a challenge in our field. As a student I remember loving that the cases were mainly performed sitting down. However sitting puts your body in a fixed position which can result in stress on the head and neck. Developing good habits early in training at the slit lamp will help, but every person is a little different in terms of how their body fits with the foot pedals, the microscope, and the patients head position. There has been some debate whether robotic surgery similar to the Da Vinci used in other fields such as urology could eventually replace our current method of operating, but the jury is still out given a lack of evidence thus far.
Louie: That's really interesting and I look forward to trying those new tools! How many retina surgeries did you do throughout residency and fellowship, and how soon were you comfortable to handle cases on your own? In other words, how many cases do you have to do before you feel comfortable handling most complications?
Jay: I think the number of surgeries varies from fellowship to fellowship. Few residencies include much hands-on retina exposure although if you are able to obtain it, it’s an added bonus. The most important thing besides seeing lots of patients and scrubbing in lots of surgeries is learning strong principles from solid mentors. Every case is different; a retinal detachment and macular pucker, for example, are entirely different beasts in the way you approach them mentally in your pre-operative gameplan. So the number of cases to get comfortable really will depend on the pathology at hand.
Jayanth Sridhar July 4, 2017 Comment
Prof & Pupil: Do you listen to music in the operating room?
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Six Characteristics of the Best Ophthalmology Residents.
Jayanth Sridhar June 22, 2017
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a children's picture book publishing company
The Gentleman Bat
author: Abraham Schroeder
illustrator: Piotr Parda
Hardcover picture book
10 x 8.5 inches
Other titles by this author: Too Many Tables
Buy at indie bookstores
Buy on Powell's
Buy on BN
Share a nighttime stroll down cobblestone streets with the charismatic Gentleman Bat.
For more information about bats, and for a guide to some of the hidden details in the book, please visit: www.TheGentlemanBat.com
About the Author/Illustrator
Abraham Schroeder is an artist, designer, and writer currently living in Petaluma, California, with his wife and son, after residing in a dozen other places, including Massachusetts, Alaska, and Japan. He likes bats and Japanese art. To read Abraham's in-depth profile, click here.
Piotr Parda grew up in Nowy Targ, a town in Poland, and now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He has always enjoyed strange creatures and cartoon characters, and has illustrated over thirty books in Poland and the US. His artwork includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and moving images. He also likes bats and sometimes sleeps upside down. To read Piotr's in-depth profile, click here.
Piotr and Abraham met in 2002 when they were attending the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Some years later, Abraham was working at the Museum of Fine Arts, cataloging the museum’s spectacular collection of Japanese prints, and found among them an 1880s-era woodblock print of bats by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, which became the seed of inspiration that grew into The Gentleman Bat. Keep an eye out, and you might find the image hiding inside the story.
From The Midwest Book Review, October, 2014:
"The Gentleman Bat" is a fantastically illustrated foray into a nighttime stroll with an impeccable gentleman bat. Gently cadenced couplets of narrative verse describe the Victorian autumn evening setting of a London-like gentleman bat on a stroll to meet a lady bat who is a good friend. Touches of sly humor abound in both verse and picture, all in shades of gray with little glimmers of light. For example, a bespectacled vendor bat offers ear plugs for sale where the band will begin to play. The bat band play their instruments hanging upside down, while the gentleman bat and his lady friend dance in spats, suit, and hoopskirts, complete with batwings. When the evening drizzle progresses to a sinister, thundering downpour, the gentleman bat flourishes a clever, exotic, carved, teak cane that converts to an umbrella, protecting her fancy feathered hat and his silk top hat. Kissing the lady bat's cheek goodnight after their evening stroll in the rain, he returns to his cozy gentleman's home, closes the drapes to keep out the dawn, and goes to sleep upside down in bat pajamas. Children will be entranced with the lavish detail and vision of "The Gentleman Bat," a period fantasy children's book with a few funny twists cleverly integrated in both picture and verse. "The Gentleman Bat" is a treat to read for children ages 3-7.
From Gianna Marino, author/illustrator of Following Papa's Song, August 28, 2014:
The Gentleman Bat by Abraham Schroeder/ illus. by Piotr Parda
Stroll down the cobblestone streets with the Gentleman Bat as he courts a young lady (bat lady, of course!). The rhyming text moves the reader along as the two bat friends wander the cobblestone streets under night skies with lovely light emanating from shop windows and oil lit lamps. The wordless spread in the middle of their walk depicts all the bats dancing around the bandstand in all their fine Victorian garb. All is well until... "Without any warning came cause for concern: The sky took a sinister, foreboding turn." The Gentleman Bat, true to his name, protects his lady friends' feathered bonnet with his clever cane-turned-umbrella. By nights end, after the storm, they share a kiss and head their separate ways. Parda's illustrations are lovely and moody, expertly filling the dark sky with fog, mist, heavy rain and glowing light. The mat cover and moody blue end papers wrap up the package nicely.
From Kirkus Reviews, August 27, 2014:
A dapper bat, resplendent in top hat, monocle and cane, strolls down 19th-century cobblestone streets to see where the night takes him.
Inspired by a real-life Japanese woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi showcasing bats and an umbrella (find the image tucked away in the illustrations), Parda and Schroeder create a debonair bat who hits the town of Batford. Upon meeting a lady bat friend in the town’s square, he asks her to dance (“A gentleman’s way to kindle romance”). They continue their walk, but rain threatens to ruin their evening. Luckily, he has an umbrella hidden in his cane. It’s an odd plot to be sure, but it’s absolutely charming in detail. Parda’s moonlit watercolors bring the Victorian era to life. Compact, wrinkled bat faces and webbed wings are folded into beautiful bonnets and full hoop skirts. Hidden jokes add to the fun. Sign posts advertise delectable drinks of coffee, nectar and plasma, while a corner merchant sells ear plugs (sure to make a bat’s evening more enjoyable). True to his eponym, the gentleman bat escorts the lady bat home, giving her a small kiss on the cheek at the gate.
A jaunty rhyme that just may teach manners to boot. (Picture book. 3-6)
From Publishers Weekly, August 18, 2014:
Schroeder and Parda make their children’s book debut with a fittingly genteel story that follows the nocturnal stroll of the gentleman bat of the title; the book is also the first from publisher Ripple Grove. Writing in rhymed couplets with a solid meter, Schroeder describes a world that comes alive by night, as bats dressed to the hilt in Victorian finery meander through cobblestone streets under gaslight: “With the nod of his head and a wink of his eye,/ The gentleman bat would greet passersby.” Parda’s watercolor-and-ink illustrations are painted in quiet grays, warmed by the glow of lanterns and storefronts. He lavishes attention on the bats’ suits, gowns, and accessories, and tucks visual jokes into some of the scenes (a quintet performing in a bandstand plays their music upside down, naturally). The plot itself is quite subdued—the gentleman bat meets a lady friend on the street, they share a dance, fend off a sudden storm, and kiss. It isn’t a story to set hearts racing (other than those of the two bat lovers), but it’s an enchanting world to spend time in. Ages 3–7. (Oct.)
From Frog on a Blog, August 2, 2014:
The Gentleman Bat is a spectacular debut for picture book publisher Ripple Grove Press. From the amazing front cover all the way to the satisfying conclusion, I was completely mesmerized and drawn into a bygone era filled not with people, but with gentleman and lady bats. The text is fluid, fun, and fantastic to read, and is complemented by beautiful watercolor and ink illustrations.
Join the gentleman bat as he takes a stroll along cobblestone streets dressed in his finest attire and ready for a night on the town.
The gentleman bat, with his gentleman’s cane,
went out for a walk one night in the rain.
He meets his lady friend and the two head to the town square where a band is playing. She accepts his offer to dance.
He spun her around and dipped her down low;
she giggled and laughed and kicked up her toe.
Could there be a romance brewing?
Their hearts fluttered wistfully as he departed,
and made his way back to his house where he started.
The Gentleman Bat is a lovely story that will entrance both children and adults. And if you are not a fan of bats, this picture book just may change the way you feel about the oft-misunderstood creature of the night. The Gentleman Bat is available for pre-order now and is due out October 1. Congratulations Ripple Grove Press!
Copyright 2018 Ripple Grove Press LLC
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Contract awarded for $193 million Townsville upgrade
Posted on April 26, 2019 by Holly Keys
The $193 million Port of Townsville Channel Upgrade Project is progressing with a multi-million-dollar rock supply contract awarded to Holcim Australia.
Holcim will supply a significant portion of the rock required to construct a wall that will protect the 62-ha Reclamation Area – which will eventually accommodate expanded port infrastructure.
Member for Townsville Scott Stewart said the Channel Upgrade Project would support more than 125 jobs during its construction.
“Government-owned ports facilitate trade that creates jobs and investment in the Queensland economy,” Mr. Stewart said.
“Townsville Port is a major trade gateway for Northern Australia and for the nation – it is the country’s largest sugar, zinc, lead, copper and fertiliser port and Northern Australia’s largest container and automotive port. The state government is keeping its commitment to Queenslanders to keep state assets in public hands.”
Mr. Stewart said the channel upgrade project is essential for securing freight supply chains, creating jobs and investment in North Queensland and will allow bigger ships direct into Townsville – reducing the cost of imports for the Queensland economy.
Member for Thuringowa Aaron Harper said the project was one of the centrepieces of the state government’s $840 million infrastructure commitment for the Townsville Region in 2018/19.
“A strong economy that creates jobs relies on strategic investment in infrastructure, and that’s exactly what the Channel Upgrade Project is,” Mr. Harper said.
“The Port of Townsville has a proud history stretching back more than 150-years and this project marks an exciting development that will underpin its importance as one our state’s key trading ports.”
Port of Townsville Limited Chief Executive Officer Ranee Crosby said more than 600,000 tonnes of core and armour rock will be required over the next 12 months for the construction of the rock wall.
“Holcim will play a significant role in that total delivery, with other suppliers to be announced in the near future,” Ms. Ranee said.
“Local benefit is an important consideration in the awarding of contracts for the Channel Upgrade, and Holcim’s involvement will deliver that.”
Holcim General Manager Queensland Aggregates Peter Ambrose said the company has the experience needed for a major project of this scale.
“Holcim is pleased to be awarded one of the rock supply contracts for the Port of Townsville’s Channel Upgrade project and continue our proud history of supplying high quality rock for vital marine infrastructure projects,” Mr. Ambrose said.
“To meet the demands of this project, our local Roseneath quarry will grow by up to eight new team members and additional local suppliers and service companies will be engaged.’’
Holcim’s trucking program will follow a Department of Transport and Main Roads approved route along the Flinders Highway and the Port Access Road.
Ms. Crosby said there will a phased start to rock haulage that will occur between 6am and 6pm Monday to Saturday.
“We’re restricting movements to daylight hours to minimise any impact on residents,’’ Ms. Crosby said.
“The Channel Upgrade is a vital project for the economic future of not only Townsville, but North Queensland as a whole.”
Facilitating the transport infrastructure boom
Landowners to supply construction materials for Inland Rail
Dredging and construction contract won on $127M Port of Cairns upgrade
Posted in Contracts and tenders, Latest News Tagged aggregates, channel, Flinders Highway, haulage, Holcim, Peter Ambrose, port, port access road, Queensland, Ranee Crosby, rock, Scott Stewart, supply, upgrade
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Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.
Michael Carpenter to Harry Dresden
from Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
submitted by Tavi
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation ironclad Send a noteboard - 03/08/2015 10:38:48 PM
Another fantastic entry in the rare case of an action franchise that just keeps getting better and better. That's thanks to great direction of excellent action in awesome set pieces and action, but also thanks to the leading man.
People can say about Cruise's private life or religious choices all they want. The man keeps delivering great genre entertainment year after year, while doing as many stunts as he can all by himself. The insane opening sequence is testament to that.
Still, one of the best parts of this is how it is an ensemble piece with everyone doing their part. Female newbie Rebecca Ferguson is fantastic, blowing all Bond girls from the last 45 years out of the water. Pegg is likable and funny as always.
The pacing is great and especially the two major sequences in the middle of the film in the Vienna opera and all over Casablanca are absolutely breathtaking. The showdown can't even begin to top that and doesn't try, taking a different approach to a solution instead.
Overall a pretty long film for an action thriller but an incredibly entertaining one. With quality as high as this, they can keep making these until kingdom come.
8 out of 10 men actually hanging from an ascending airplane.
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
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It's funny, most of the plot made no sense whatsoever even by action movie standards... Legolas - 16/08/2015 04:14:10 PM 797 Views
<quote id="288342"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/xix4aym.jpg" class="left" height="300" /> Another fantastic entry in the rare case of an action franchise that just keeps getting better and better. That's thanks to great direction of excellent action in awesome set pieces and action, but also thanks to the leading man. People can say about Cruise's private life or religious choices all they want. The man keeps delivering great genre entertainment year after year, while doing as many stunts as he can all by himself. The insane opening sequence is testament to that. Still, one of the best parts of this is how it is an ensemble piece with everyone doing their part. Female newbie Rebecca Ferguson is fantastic, blowing all Bond girls from the last 45 years out of the water. Pegg is likable and funny as always. The pacing is great and especially the two major sequences in the middle of the film in the Vienna opera and all over Casablanca are absolutely breathtaking. The showdown can't even begin to top that and doesn't try, taking a different approach to a solution instead. Overall a pretty long film for an action thriller but an incredibly entertaining one. With quality as high as this, they can keep making these until kingdom come. 8 out of 10 men actually hanging from an ascending airplane. </quote>
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'Art of Discovery' Festival Booth Combines Science and Art
UNIVERSITY PARK — While more than 300 artists display their creations at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts this week, a different kind of booth — staffed by Penn State researchers and artists alike — will also be joining the festivities.
Penn State’s Art of Discovery booth will explore topics at the intersection of art and science through a series of free, hands-on demonstrations hosted by Penn State researchers and students.
Festivalgoers of all ages are encouraged to stop by to learn mindfulness techniques, discover (and taste) the benefits of herbs and spices, build seltzer-powered rockets, and more.
The Art of Discovery booth will be located next to the Willard Building on the University Park campus and will be open from Thursday through Saturday. Check out the full list of presenters and times below.
AstroFest and the Art of Astronomy, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m
Build your own virtual planet with the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics! Play a video game designed to teach thousands of Penn State students about astronomy, see meteorite samples up close and personal, and more.
Real-Life Throwback Thursday, 1–3 p.m.
Dive into Penn State’s past with the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Learn exciting new facts about Penn State’s storied history from librarians Julie Porterfield, Katelyn Dion Town and Angel Diaz.
3D-Printed Habitats on Earth and Mars, 1–3 p.m.
After you explore Penn State’s past, head to the other side of the booth and take a trip out of this world. Members of the Penn State [email protected] team will demonstrate their work to 3D print habitats on Earth and Mars. The team recently took home second place in phase three of NASA’s 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge.
Learn about Lanternflies, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
Join Heather Leach, an extension associate in the Department of Entomology, to learn about the spotted lanternfly — an invasive, destructive insect threatening Pennsylvania’s economy and environment. Discover what you can do to help stop this bad bug.
Making Rainbows from Water, 6–8 p.m
Create brilliant colors from ordinary water droplets without any dyes. Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry, will walk you through the process in this colorful hands-on activity.
Prehistoric Paints, 10 a.m.–noon
Mix your own paint out of ochre — one of the pigments used by early humans that still adorns cave walls around the world. Discover the science and history behind these prehistoric paints and try them out for yourself.
The Art of Mindfulness, 12:30–2:30 p.m.
Learn mindfulness techniques you can practice in your daily life and discover the science behind flourishing. Join researchers from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center on this exploration.
Benefits of Herbs and Spices, 3–5 p.m.
How do herbs and spices, avocados and nuts affect our health? Taste test samples while finding out how these delicious foods can lower risks of heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from the departments of Nutritional Sciences and Biobehavioral Health will also provide recipe cards for you to take home.
Light Lovers: Animals That Capture Light, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
See coral specimens up close and discover how these living creatures contribute to the ocean’s very own laser light show. Penn State biology researchers will explain why coral loves light and its importance to our ecosystems.
See Science with Your Ears, 10 a.m.–noon
Hear the music of science with Mark Ballora, professor of music technology in the College of Arts and Architecture. Using a technique called “sonification,” Ballora turns large datasets into sound and music. A few of his past projects include creating music from body temperatures of arctic squirrels and underwater acoustics.
Immersive Technologies, 12:30–2:30 p.m.
Experience cutting-edge virtual-reality technology with a Penn State twist. The ChoroPhronesis research group in the Department of Geography will present a collection of hands-on immersive experiences, including a virtual tour of Pennsylvania using the famous Penn State Obelisk.
Make Your Own Seltzer-Powered Rocket, 3–5 p.m.
Build and decorate your own rocket using film canisters, card stock and markers. Ready to see it fly? Members of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association will help visitors launch rockets using antacid tablets and water.
The Science of Light, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Test your aim and win prizes in a series of optics-inspired experiments. Engineers from the Applied Research Lab will help you build your own flashlight and bend laser beams toward a target in a maze.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/art-of-discovery-festival-booth-combines-science-and-art,1480541/
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86 Years of Entertainment – A History of the Arcada Theatre
It’s September 6th, 1926, and hundreds of people from Northern Illinois flock to the Arcada Theatre in St Charles for its long awaited debut. Inside the Theatre, visitors are immersed in an atmosphere of the luxurious and the exotic while they await an evening of film and vaudeville performances. 86 year later, the Arcada Theatre still has that 1920s charm, and remains a stunning piece of St Charles history.
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Roman Day
Last Thursday KS2 had a full day of Roman inspired activities as part of our Roman topic. The children dressed up in Roman costume and designed and made Roman shields. Made Roman coil pots out of clay. Decorated a mirror with a mosaic pattern and made a Roman delicacy of stuffed doormouse out of marshmallows and sweets.
The children learnt a lot about Romans and had loads of fun doing so !!
Our topic for the Autumn term is The Romans.
In particular we will be trying to answer the question, What have the Romans done for us?
We started the topic by learning about the Celts who lived in Britain before the Romans to help us understand how the Romans changed life in Britain.
We had a visit from a Roman Centurion called Maximus. He taught us about life as a Roman soldier. We got a chance to dress up as a Roman soldier. We learned how to march and some commands in Latin.
Visit from Maximus
A soldier and a Centurion
Getting ready for Battle.
Drill Practise.
Maximus the Centurion
Wolf skin Hat.
The Tortoise.
We learned lots of facts about being a Roman Soldier.
- Roman soldiers marched for 25 miles a day.
- Soldiers had to carry all their supplies like food, clothing, tents and armour when they marched.
- A Centurion was in charge of about 80 men.
- There was about 5,000 soldiers in a legion.
- You had to serve in the Roman army for 25 years.
- Soldiers carried a gold statue of Jupiters eagle into battle. Jupiter was the most important Roman god.
- It was the ultimate disgrace if the eagle was captured.
- A soldiers sword was called a Gladius.
- Soldiers also carried a spear clawed a Pilum.
Visit to Segedunum
As part of our topic we visited Segedunum Roman fort. Segedunum was the fort at Wallsend which is at the end of Hadrian's Wall.
We took part in 2 workshops and had a chance to look around the Roman museum.
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BIG price drop for all the Crowded House two-CD deluxe edition reissues
October 23, 2016 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Crowded House
The forthcoming Crowded House reissues have dropped in price dramatically on Amazon UK this weekend.
All of the deluxe two-CD album reissues, including Crowded House, Woodface and Together Alone are now just £14.99 each – a drop of £10 per album. The exception is Time On Earth which having been the cheapest at £18.95 remains a that price and is now the most expensive.
If you’ve already pre-ordered (from Am UK) then no action needed, you will get the lower price anyway. But if not, these are now priced well and links are below. You can read much more detail about each set via this post.
These will all be released on 4 November 2016. An interview with Crowded House reissue producer Jeremy Ansell is coming to SDE very soon.
Crowded House 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Temple of Low Men / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Woodface / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Together Alone / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Afterglow / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Time On Earth / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
Intriguer / 2CD Deluxe – UK Pre-order
26 responses to BIG price drop for all the Crowded House two-CD deluxe edition reissues
gwynogue says:
According to the FRENZ e-mail this morning, those buying the vinyl will be able to get a digital download of the bonus/rarities disc as well.
That contradicts what Universal told me when I asked specifically about this issue.
synth80s says:
Any word on these releases coming in a hi-def format, either physical or someplace like HDTracks.com?
Scott T. says:
I bought both the vinyl and Compact Discs together from Universal Music Australia on September 20th. The CD boxset collection ran me 145.45 AUD, the vinyl collection (with the exception of Time on Earth since it’s being re-remastered, for 154.54 AUD. And shipping? Yup, very expensive and well worth it at 101.65 AUD.
Total AUD was 401.64 for everything. Which is 306.28 USD for everything. Which converts to = 250.34 GBP. To purchase the 7 CD’s at 14.99 GPB would run $18.34 USD each for a total of $128.38 and to purchase six of the LP’s from AmazonUK would run (excluding Time on Earth) 20.99 GBP a piece, or 125.94 GBP for the six. I paid $154 USD for those six LP’s. And if I waited for AmazonUK to start a presales event, I would have locked on to what I consider the best bang from my buck. Had I waiting for AmazonUK it would just have been ugly. Plus my orders shipped to me last Tuesday, October 18th. And on AmazonUS, the prices are ridiculous, though I wouldn’t have to to pay for shipping. Small price, considering.
SimonP says:
The only one of these that half interests me is Intriguer because I never bought it after the borefest that was Time On Earth. Even then I’d be more likely to search for a copy of the original deluxe edition that included a DVD, rather than this new one with awkward-shaped packaging…
Tony Gubba says:
Agree. The experimentation in Together Alone was as far as it got before retreating to safe waters. Looking forward to the releases and thanks to SDE for their work and energy in updating us all
Tonk says:
That’s roughly 2 squid less than the dealer price with VAT on . . why sell things at a loss???
I live in Australia and I’m after all seven titles, so I didn’t bother – even with the discount and removal of VAT, it’s cheaper (for Australians) to buy the ‘bundle’ directly from the Crowdies’ store.
Well, actually, it would be cheaper to buy it all from Universal Music Australia, given your circumstances!
The price is coming down because they aren’t getting the pre-orders they estimated. And they reasons they aren’t getting the pre-orders is all the material they didn’t include. These could have been done so well!
Todd R. says:
YAY!!!!!
Wayne Klein says:
So….for some titles so they don’t get in a price war with some of the other online retailers they price high and offer a discounted price later. It’s Amazon’s latest strategy but you also end up losing buyers.
In a way it’s good these aren’t remastered because Don Bartley worked on the second discs. Bartley does lousy work –or is told to–and I’ve never heard a remaster of his I’ve liked.
Chucky says:
So what’s up with the US release of these? Amazon USA has the imports for pre-order at $31.99. Is there plans to release them in the US?
I’d always prefer to pay a little more to support the band, but it’s not gonna happen when the cheapest shipping to the U.S. is $42 from the CH website. Even with the exchange rate, that makes a direct order pricey compared to other options.
xrey says:
I agree with Richie…I’d rather support the band even if it’s a dollar more on their web site. In the fyture it could pay off in spades when they have exclusives offered to their fans.
After subtraction of VAT, total cost including shipping to buy all 7 shipped to the U.S. is less ordering from Amazon UK than from Canada. $127 from UK, $139 from Canada. It’s also much cheaper to buy all individually than to buy the bundle from the uDiscover store. Unless you really want that tote for an extra $23 (not including whatever shipping they charge), you aren’t getting a deal on the bundle anymore.
If you order form a foreign Amazon site, I assume currency fluctuations can mean the price you pay isn’t actually locked in at the pre-order price and will change based on currency rates.
Mark Phillips says:
Fifteen pounds still seems a lot for a double album nowadays. Blame Brexit?
John Bommarito says:
I found that with the currency conversion, buying them from Amazon in Canada and shipping to the US ended up being $16.52 USD per set (before shipping) as opposed to $18.33USD per set from Amazon UK
Billy Dojcak says:
Wait a few weeks and the sellers on Amazon will have it for less. I’m in no hurry. I’ll be listening to the Dead or Alive box.
Henrik says:
Excellent tip, Paul. Thank you very much. I’ve ordered them all.
But I wonder why there’s a difference in the price for Time On Earth (£18.95 ) compared to the 6 other deluxe issues (£14.99). I believe they are on different labels in the US, but all European issues are on Universal, or …….?
Any possible explanation?
Amazon and their silly pricing that’s probably the best explanation you will get it. After hearing these won’t be remastered i won’t be buying these.
If they all drop to £14.99 they will be £1 cheaper (£105) than the band`s site (£106) where I have ordered the CDs (and LPs) from. That way (I hope) the band get the profit.
They were £14.99 at HMV too as of yesterday, which may be helpful to anyone who only wants one (and so would be hit by Amazon’s postage charge for purchases under £20).
Dave H says:
No Surprise there, Udiscover has been advertising pre-release at £14.99 since it’s been online. In fact they have a discount if you buy all seven releases in one bundle.
Slight error with the statement above, it’s the bundle that makes the whole set work out to be £15 per CD plus a tote bag thrown in.
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You are here: Home › Novo by Microsoft Venue Gets LED Luminaires from Philips Entertainment Lighting
Novo by Microsoft Venue Gets LED Luminaires from Philips Entertainment Lighting
on January 23, 2018 in LED Lighting Applications, LED Lighting Luminaires and Fixtures
Article Type: News, Feature
Philips reported that its new VLZ range of LED-based stage luminaires was chosen to bring high performance, energy efficient lighting to the Novo by Microsoft, a live entertainment venue in the L.A. LIVE sports and entertainment district of Los Angeles. The 2,356-capacity Novo by Microsoft serves as a flexible venue that hosts live music of many genres, a varied events program, as well as comedy shows.
In their hunt for new lighting, theater manager Jennie Perkins and lighting designer Keith Mitchell wanted fixtures that were bright, silent and responsive. They primarily wanted state-of-the-art LED technology to provide the benefits of energy efficiency and high reliability.
Philips Entertainment Lighting supplies lighting for Novo by Microsoft venue
“We do over 200 events a year and energy consumption is very important to us,” said Perkins. “Equally, the busy program means we simply don’t have time to have fixtures out for repair.”
Their lighting selection included a combination of fixtures from Philips Entertainment Lighting’s new VLZ range of moving heads, such as the VLZ Spot, VLZ Wash and VLZ Profile luminaires.
Perkins said, “The fixtures’ luminosity is impressive in an LED unit, and they are extremely quiet, which is great for speaking panels and filming. They bring updated features from the VL3000s and VL3500s which we had previously. The light output quality is great: crisp, clear beams on stage, with true colors, and they’re fast, smooth and great for TV.”
Mitchell and Perkins Also Select Philips SL Beam 300fx fixtures
In addition to the Philips VLZs, Mitchell and Perkins selected Philips SL Beam 300fx fixtures, which can operate as a beam or wash light, for use above the stage and in the dance floor area.
“We wanted a replacement for our Par cans, and the variable zoom on these fixtures does the job extremely well,” said Mitchell.
Perkins commented, “It’s great to have state-of-the-art fixtures that visiting LDs are excited about when they come in for events. The LED technology not only creates the most flattering and truest lighting programs for both our in-venue audiences and viewers at home, but it’s great for saving money on energy and it creates less heat, which is another advantage. Every visiting lighting designer who has come through since the installation has been impressed by the new fixtures. In particular, the brightness from the LEDs has been resoundingly well received.”
Grant Bales-Smith, general manager EMEA, Philips Entertainment Lighting said, “The new VLZ range combines the many benefits of our latest LED technology with the advanced features and color reproduction that users know and expect from Philips Vari-Lite. The range delivers genuine advantages to busy venues like the Novo.”
Grant Bales-Smith concluded, “We are delighted to see the VLZ range finding favor in such a variety of stage and studio environments.”
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News > Nation/World
Terrorist Warning Issued In Philippines
Sat., April 29, 1995
By Compiled From Wire Services
The State Department warned on Friday of possible terrorist violence directed at Americans in the Philippines in retaliation for the extradition of a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing.
“The recent extradition of a Muslim extremist suspected of complicity in the New York World Trade Center bombing could possibly trigger retaliatory responses from extremist supporters in metropolitan Manila,” the department said in a statement.
The statement, issued here and by the U.S. Embassy in Manila, urged caution at churches, restaurants and shopping areas known to be frequented by Americans.
There has been growing concern over Islamic fundamentalist violence in the Philippines since a defendant in the February 1993 bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was discovered in January to be living in Manila and allegedly working with local Muslim extremists.
Yousef eluded arrest in Manila but was apprehended a month later in Pakistan and deported to the United States. He is awaiting trial in New York in the bombing, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
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Federer King, Li Queen of Cincinnati
by Staff | August 20th, 2012, 12:31 am
World No. 1 Roger Federer and former French Open champ Li Na captured the championships Sunday at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Swiss Federer took advantage of an off No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic 6-0, 7-6(7), while Li needed to work harder, outlasting Top 10er Angelique Kerber of Germany in a see-saw 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 battle.
ADHEREL
Djokovic appeared listless in the first set, but quickly got his game on line in the second, pushing the Swiss who eventually collected his first Cincy title as a dad, and fifth career.
“This was the first win here I had also after I had twins, right? So it’s great coming back here,” Federer said. “I’ve been able to win five. It’s obviously incredible because I remember the first few here I struggled. Now looking back it’s just unbelievable. Plus this was probably the best week ever here in Cincinnati for me never dropping my serve and all that stuff and beating Novak in the final. This was very sweet. No doubt about it.”
Federer improved to 6-2 in finals this year. Djokovic was appearing in his fourth final in five years at Cincy, and is 0-4 in finals during that period.
“Made a lot of double faults and didn’t find my rhythm,” Djokovic said. “Set was over in 20 minutes. I played better in the second. I thought it was very even, and then when I had the chances I didn’t use them. I didn’t step into the court, and he deserved to win.”
Li won her first title since the French Open last year, rebounding from a spectacular won-my-first-Slam-and-tanked-from-the-pressure binge.
“I was trying to play flat and fast, but she had no mistakes and every ball came back to my side,” said Li, now with coach Carlos Rodriguez, formerly of Justine Henin. “I tried to change something at the beginning of the second set but it didn’t work, but I just kept trying and finally it worked. I’m very happy to win this title and now I’ll take two days off — I’ve played a lot of tennis these two weeks.”
Li was 0-3 in finals this year entering Cincinnati.
“I was really hungry for the title today,” Li said. “Also, I was having lunch today and saw Roger after he won, having his photo taken — I really wanted to do the same.”
Kerber snapped Serena Williams’ 19-match winning streak in the semifinals.
“One year ago I was everywhere — I was just in the hundreds, I don’t know, like No. 90 or No. 100,” Kerber said. “Now I’m in the finals of Cincinnati, a really big tournament, so there are so many things that have changed in the last year.”
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37 Comments for Federer King, Li Queen of Cincinnati
bstevens Says:
There always seems to be at least one Masters that the top guys just can’t win:
Djokovic – Cincinnati
Nadal – Miami
Federer – Monte Carlo and Rome
Murray – Anything on Clay
August 20th, 2012 at 12:58 am
laslo Says:
Murray-Anything on clay or IW
August 20th, 2012 at 1:09 am
skeezer Says:
i am sure we can all cherry pick events,etc. but the reality is its a long season and these guys choose there priorities where there game and health suits them. No harm no foul.
Just want to add here you’ll notice that for the most part so far Fed fans are not harping/gloating on the H2H with Nole, just sayin……and the record books don’t care. But it seems to be the only thing that matters with others Loves. Sshaamooon!
pritesh Says:
add cincy, § paris to rafa’s resume
bstevens,
Roger has already won Rome beating Nadal in five sets. Check that out !!
What distinguishes Roger from the younger generation is his ability to play on all surfaces, indoors and outdoors. This is what seperates him from the rest of the field. Others including Nadal are not all court players. To cite an instance, Nadal is greatly uncomfortable on indoor courts, while the likes of Murray struggles on Clay courts. Novak on the other hand does not have the game to dominate in fast hard courts. But fast, slow or Clay, Roger is a class apart. His records prove what I stress here.
green900 Says:
You’re getting mixed up, it was the other way round. Nadal beat federer in five sets, though fed did have match points but still lost.
Nirmal Kumar Says:
I still remember Nadal beating Roger in 5-sets in Rome finals. For me, the best match they played. I cannot forget this match because I strongly believe Roger would have beaten Rafa in 2006 FO, had he beaten him in Rome finals.
I believe the Rivalry could have changed slightly had Roger beaten Rafa there. It left a permanent scare on Roger’s mind. IMO.
bstevens
Djokovic still has to win Monte Carlo as well. Thats Rafa’s turf.
roger has only 2 victories over rafa on clay; hamburg § madrid
Just a minor correction: this is actually Roger’s second Cincy win since becoming a dad. He won Cincy in 2009 just a few weeks after the twins were born. He mentions it in the quote just after your sentence saying it was his first as a dad.
You say the “younger generation” isn’t all-court. But by Roger’s standards, none of the “older generation” is all-court either! Agassi might be the closest but is his play on clay and grass that much better than Rafa’s on hard and grass?
Sampras couldn’t play on clay. Becker didn’t win a single clay-court tournament his entire career! McEnroe and Connors couldn’t win the French. Lendl couldn’t win Wimbledon. Borg couldn’t win a Slam on hard courts.
So I think this issue should be exclusively about praising Roger and his ridiculous brilliance not denigrating great players like Djoker and Nadal.
Just because Sampras and Becker did not win Clay, does not mean they are not all court players. Just that the surfaces played differently in their generations does not make them lesser players.
Everyone is “lesser” compared to Roger. Of course there are things that Rafa and Novak can’t do that Fed can. They don’t have his serve and his transition game, for example.
But by the same token, Pete and Boris had nowhere near the ground strokes or clay-court skills that Roger had.
The point is that everyone in tennis history – present or past – is going to pale in comparison to Fed. So we shouldn’t knock his contemporary rivals. They’re also dealing with changed conditions that make it highly difficult to approach the net. Roger’s one of the few players out there who can do it successfully and we can be sure that Pete or Boris or Stefan’s ability to play their styles in this day and age would be greatly reduced.
I think people get few things wrong about Sampras. Sampras did what is required for his generation. When he started, he did not have that good a serve and he was a baseline player. He converted himself into a S & V player with probably the best serve. It’s the same with Roger. He started as an aggressive allcourt player, but later became a baseline player knowing the conditions and his rivals.
So if you say Sampras would pale now, it’s not true. He would have developed better baseline weapon against his rivals.
I have seen both Boris and sampras play some excellent baseline tennis. Clay is a different animal. Problem for both Sampras and Becker was movement on clay, not the baseline tennis. They are used to moving forward which just does not work in tennis. You need to move on the sides not forward to be successful on clay. That’s where they failed.
They were good on AO, Wimb and USO. That’s being good on 3 surfaces. You can’t be good on many surfaces without having all court game.
Humble Roger Says:
great times.
we never see again, Nadal’s arrogant gamesmanship in US Open this time. Or, bump to player. fake time-out cheat.
true tennis is saved
@ Humble Roger. Your moniker is totally unsuitable. There is nothing humble about Roger – on the contrary – he is ARROGANT! So do yourself a favour and change your moniker.
Giles You are arrogant gamesmanship player Nadal’s fan? go to “Nadal unsportsmanlike.” ” Nadal bump to Rosol.” ” Nadal cheating.” etc.
looks down on Samnpras era. Nadal said. “It was not true tennis only in the serve..”
smug arrogant Nadal.
There is nothing humble about Roger? lol. Roger say that. ” I’m not best ever.” right? true humble comment.
nadal’s fanatic arrogant blind fan. as always
Huh Says:
i like humble roger’s last post ;)
@ Humble Roger. Do you really expect Roger to say “I am best ever”??? He knows that fanatics like you will voice that opinion!!
Interviews: Federer, Djokovic, Li Na, Kerber, doubles
http://www.asapsports.com/show_event.php?category=7&date=2012-8-19&title=WESTERN+%26+SOUTHERN+OPEN
How many pseudo names must u use?
Hoping Roger one day will finely announce to the world he is the best ever !
trufan Says:
Nirmal,
Sampras was MISERABLE on clay. How else do you explain his 24-13 record at the French Open, with just one semi appearance (at his peak in 1996)?
If his all court game was so good, why could he win only 24 matches in 13 attempts? He didn’t even get past the unseeded players in most years.
Sampras and Nadal are somewhat mirror images of each other. Nadal thrives on slow, SLOW courts, (even grass is slower now), but somehow managed to win one USO (got REALLY lucky – remember who he faced in the semi in 2010 while Djokovic was toiling away???).
Same way, Sampras thrived on fast courts. Grass was faster then (its a different grass mix since 2002), so he won 7 wimby’s and 5 USO. Just managed a couple of AO, but never even got close to the French title.
Federer is just amazing on all surfaces. He has 5+ finals in ALL 4 slams. 9 consecutive semi at the AO with 4 titles. 5 consecutive finals at the French (even Nadal doesn’t have that!) with 1 title. Had he not faced an outlier of a clay player like Nadal, he would have had multiple clay titles too. Had he faced the kind of players that were winning the French Open during Sampras’s time (Muster, Kafelnikov, Bruguera, for God’s sake) – he would have beaten them all.
People don’t remember that Federer is 13-0 on Ferrer, including 5-0 on clay. He has beaten EVERY clay courter of his era, except Nadal, black and blue.
Thanks for those links
http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=82540
A very UN arrogant interview … Hehe
trufan,
I’m not sure what your point is really. We all know Roger is good on all surfaces.
See, just because we say Sampras is an allcourt player, it does not make Roger inferior. Just because we say Rafa is a great player, it does not make Roger inferior.
I really cannot understand the ridiculous logic of some Roger fans who think tennis exists only because of Roger. they just don’t want to give any credit to past greats nor Rafa.
I’m not even sure why you are comparing Sampras with Roger now. I just don’t understand. Roger know how great Sampras was. People who have tennis knowledge know how great Sampras was. There is nothing much to debate there.
trufan
I have explained before. Problem for Sampras was not all court game, it’s about movement on clay. He built his entire tennis to be successful on grass. I can’t imagine a single player who can take a set of Sampras when he plays his best on grass. No one. He did not care about clay like Roger did. His mentality was different.
Borg won Grass which is a fast court but did not win USO. What does that mean? Borg can play fast court or he cannot play fast court.
Tennis Fan Says:
Sampras was an excellent player, his grand slams prove it. However, the level of competition was not as great in his playing years. Yes, there were good players but not a rival of the status of Nadal at that time. Roger’s record would be even better today if not for the competitiveness of Nadal and so its speaks volumes that Roger has beaten most of Sampras’s records having playing in a more competitive era. Just saying.
DC Says:
@ Tumble Rafa
If Rogers says he’s not the best, he will become humble but also a liar. Nadal doesnt have this dilemma, hence the humbleness.
well, if surfaces were as fast as they were in sampras era, no way fed woulda reached so many RG finals nor would nadal reach so may wimbledon finals(that’s not to say though that nadal wouldn’t have won a wimby or at least fed wouldn’t have won a FO; at least fed would definitely have won RG in any era he would’ve played IMHO, considering that he’s truly a great claycourter too). homogenisation of surfaces favoured fed and nadal to create their unreal legacy as much as fast surfaces helped pete.
HOWEVER, it is as it is. Sampras was not an all court player, not when he has failed to reach even a single RG final. Thus, in this regard, he’s a little behind fed, just like nadal is also behind fed in one aspect that nadal is not reaching fast court finals frequently nor is able to perform too great in indoors. but again, the thing worth noting here is that against rest of the field nadal performs sufficiently well in indoors too, which is his weakest surface; its only fed who has stopped nadal form winning WTF actually. but pete in his time was unable to perform against even the weak players on clay, let alone talk of the strong clay courters.
keeping everythingb in perspective thus, we’ve to say that overall nadal is slightly versatile in comparison to pete, at least statistically. thus he is a centimetre ahead of pete in terms of versatility. and federer, as we all know, would have done far better if the courts were like they were in pete’s time, and woulda won RG regardless of the era and would have reached more than one final of RG too. so federer is just a level apart from both pete and rafa in terms of versatility. and rafa’s apparently a bit more versatile in comparison to pete, or at least the stats suggest so.
but one thing in favour of pete is he has more slams than nadal and has won the most prestigious slam seven times, namely wimbledon. so regardless of how we judge the versatility of pete and rafa, pete is GREATER than nadal STILL.
BUT THE EASILY, HAPPILY AND COMFORTABLY THE GREATEST AND MOST VERSATILE EVER IS FEDERER…
“When (Sampras) started, he did not have that good a serve”
I’m sorry, man, you lost me right there. Did you see the 1990 USO? He just completely blew McEnroe and Agassi off the court in the semis and finals. I wonder what Andre and John would say about your post.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/18764325
I’m not greatest player – Roger Federer
“I don’t feel better than anyone, because we need past champions to pave the way for our generation and we have become very professional,” he said.
“They have led the way and inspired myself and other players to chase the big records out there.
Back in the day they weren’t doing that, they were just playing to play tennis. Things have changed dramatically with the press reminding us ‘you should do this and win that and you’ll be considered the greatest of all time’.
“And anyway I don’t think you can compare different eras in tennis.”
you really expect Roger to say “I am best ever”???
Nadal’s fanatic arrogant blind fan. shame on you.
No, I meant his younger ie before 88. Not when he became big on championships.
I’m sure many posters here have not watches Sampras play atleast during 90-96. They just look at his record at FO and come to some stupid conclusions. It’s a pity.
Actually, I had a friend on my college tennis team who played Sampras at a national tournament. I think my friend was 16 and Pete was 14 playing up in a higher age group. My friend said that Sampras was erratic but that he noticed that his serve was already really advanced for a 14 year old.
The point is that I’m pretty sure that Pete always was a really gifted server. The backhand was a big problem for him against super solid baseliners like Chang and Courier in the juniors because he switched to a 1-hander as a teenager.
As far as Pete’s clay-court ability, he wasn’t as bad as some people say but it was always an uphill struggle because he grew up playing exclusively on hard courts in California and it was just never a natural surface for him (unlike Federer, for example).
August 21st, 2012 at 12:16 pm
sat across from Li Na’s coach in cincy. Whether serving or receiving, Li Na was COACHED. Her coach was giving hand signals BLATANTLY to her for the entire match. He did it during her match against Venus, with Serena sitting right there in front of him. And, yes it was clear that Li Na was following her coaches directions. It is a shame that coaches and players feel the need to cheat like this. Especially when the WTA allows it’s players to call the coach onto the court.
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Wigneswaran-Sampanthan talks fail to end crisis in TNA
27th December 2015 Karu INDIA NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS, Uncategorized, WORLD NEWS 0
The three-hour one-to-one meeting between the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, and the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R.Sampanthan, held on Friday, had failed to resolve the crisis in the TNA.
Speaking to the media at its conclusion, Wigneswaran only said that the talks were inclusive and that it was agreed to meet again, Indian Express reported.
Top sources inside the TNA told Express that both sides stuck to their guns, not budging an inch. Sampanthan accused Wigneswaran of stabbing the TNA in the back and backing a rival outfit, and not running the Northern Administration with any sense of purpose. Wigneswaran accused the TNA leaders of developing a cozy relationship with the Colombo regime sacrificing the interests of the Tamils and running the TNA as a personal fiefdom. According to some sources, Sampanthan was the more aggressive of the two.
Asked to comment on the decision to meet again, a top leader of the TNA said: “They must be playing for time.”
For the moment, both sides are publicly saying that there is no intention to split the TNA.
The controversial Tamil Makkal Peravai (TMP), which Wigneswaran formed recently, is to have its first working session in Jaffna on Sunday. It is expected to form some “subject” committees.
It will be interesting to see who all attend the Sunday meeting. There were many notable absentees at the inaugural meeting held at the Jaffna Public Library. No Minister of the Northern Administration, except the Chief Minister, was present. No Northern Provincial Council (NPC) member other than one, attended. No TNA Member of Parliament was present.
Sources in Jaffna said that this was because the Chief Minister had alienated his ministers, NPC members and party MPs. He had disregarded the advice of some his ministers, considered to be close to him, not to get identified with the TMP. Wigneswaran not only attended the inaugural session, but presided over it.
Political circles do see a move towards a split in the TNA. But how soon the split will occur will depend on Sri Lanka’s electoral timetable. With the postponement of the Local Bodies’ elections from March-April to June or July 2016, there is no immediate need to break away.
– See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/100809/wigneswaran-sampanthan-talks-fail-to-end-crisis-in-tna#sthash.9wrCnGOB.dpuf
Sampanthan and Wigneswaran meet
A meeting between Tamil National Alliance Leader R.Sampanthan and Chief Minister of the Northern Province Justice Wigneswaran took place at the residence of senior President’s C0unsel and ITAK stalwart Attorney Kanakeswaran at Issipathana Road, Babmbalapitiya on 25 December 2015. The talks centred on the issues faced …
The three-hour one-to-one meeting between the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, and the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R.Sampanthan, had failed to resolve the crisis in the TNA. MORE…
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LGBT rights: Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex – BBC News
3rd September 2018 ~ mcequality
wo Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court.
The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu.
According to an official, this is the state’s first conviction for same-sex relations and its first public caning.
Human rights activists reacted with outrage. Homosexual activity is illegal under both secular and religious laws.
The caning was witnessed by more than 100 people, according to local news outlet The Star.
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High Court order, timely
By PUBLIC On Jan 9, 2016
The direction of the Hon’ble High Court of Meghalaya to dismantle buildings exceeding the mandated building laws and construction code of G + 3 is a pointer in the right direction. The recent ” shake-up” on the very first month of the New Year should be a real wake up call. Many places especially in Iewduh area which have been shabbily constructed to house labourers and store goods should be inspected by the Syiem of Hima Mylliem since it falls under his jurisdiction. The recent High Court order to the CBI to file a formal charge sheet in the Supreme Court against all those involved in such a shameless scandal would have a strong political fallout on the Congress Party which would be closely watched. Corruption and constructing buildings without least concern for innocent lives at stake especially in a severe earthquake zone is utterly disgraceful for a so-called Christian majority state. What happens next is something we need to watch out for in the front pages of newspapers.
Yours etc..
Dominic S. Wankhar
Shillong-3
Since the opinion of Mr.Sujit De is unlikely to converge with that of mine around the issue of surnames, I desire to rest my case after responding on two points raised by the former in his letter titled “What’s in a surname”(ST January 8, 2016).
It has become a “fashion” in the non-Muslim world to label Islam as a religion leaning towards terrorism but if anybody dares to point out the examples of Hindu, Sikh(in the Khalistan days of Punjab) or Christian terror(Ireland of not too distant past); the anti-Islam lobby instantly dubs it as “exceptional”! Thanks to such biased mindsets prevailing in the society, Mr De immediately termed the ordeal of my ‘Malkhandi’ cousins as an “exceptional” case of torture on a Brahmin through exploitation of surname! It is highly tragic to notice how Mr De is trying to suggest that all Dalits of India have to discard studies following taunts around their surnames! But the fact remains that innumerable Dalits have prospered exceptionally well in education sphere. Yes, many have been forced to quit studies, but that is due to economic factors and such cases of drop outs can be found in many impoverished families of “high caste” vintage also!
Mr De also supports ban of surnames as many of it suggest their “lowly” family occupations and the bearers of it have to face ostracism or abuses. But he is perhaps not aware of the fact that people get discriminated on the basis of their profession also. For example, a doctor or a judge, however corrupt he/she may be, will get much more respect from the society than a “mere” peon or an auto driver in spite of his/her impeccable honesty. So prohibition on usage of surname will hardly serve any purpose. Again I reiterate that immediate steps be taken to change the mindset of people through implementation of strict laws banning discrimination on the basis of race-language-caste-region and introduction of moral education in schools so that the young minds are enlightened right from the budding stages of life.
Yours etc.,
Kajal Chatterjee,
Kolkata – 114
Homage to Justice Kapadia
Justice S H Kapadia former Chief Justice of India expired on 4th January 2016 in Mumbai at the age of 68. He was born in a poor family with abject poverty. At one time he had to survive with a little food being provided by the roadside peanut seller. He started his career as a class IV employee of the High Court. It is astonishing and inspiring that he rose from the lowest category employee to the highest rank in Indian Judiciary. He was a man of impeccable character and was popular for his uncompromising stand on principles. Justice Kapadia was instrumental in some landmark judgments like quashing the appointment of CVC, which made severe embarrassment to the Government culminating with Prime Minister admitting the error in appointment and Vodafone case etc. He did not take any position in Government / semi government/ autonomous organization after retirement, implying that he did not do anything to appease the political parties in power during his tenure. My humble tribute to the eminent jurist and embodiment of human virtues! May his soul rest in eternal peace and tranquility.
It is generally seen that people who are from poor and humble backgrounds make exemplary citizens. There are innumerable examples to prove this point including Late Lal Bahadur Sastri and Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
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SATURDAY JUNE 22 - MOTHER TAREKA & RUBEN ESGUERRA + NEW TRADITION- 9pm
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These 2 MCs are bringing the power to the stage! Wind instruments and rhyming is something you can't miss!
Hip-hop infused with traditional music and danceable rhythms.
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Sax blasting, flute tooting, loop-pedal pumping MC Mother Tareka is a Syrian Palestinian artist, and an adopted Hamilton son. Tarek makes powerful Jazz Arabesque Afrobeat Funk HipHop music, and is musically known for his energetic live band arrangements, and intense political messages.
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RUEBEN ESGUERRA AND NEW TRADITION
Beny Esguerra and New Tradition incorporate a seamless array of elements: bilingual socially-conscious spoken word, beat-boxing, Afro-Cuban and Colombian secular and religious drumming, Indigenous flutes, West African balafon, funk, zouk, merengue and flourishes of 70’s Nuyorican salsa!
For musician, poet, educator, activist and JUNO Awards Nominee Ruben ‘Beny’ Esguerra, the arts are a vehicle of transformation. “The difference in the world begins with yourself,” Esguerra says. “If you can find your purpose through art, if you can empower yourself, you will soon empower others as well.”
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Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door
Tickets available at This Ain't Hollywood and The Brain.
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Historic planetary instability and catastrophe. Evidence for electrical scarring on planets and moons. Electrical events in today's solar system. Electric Earth.
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Re: Plasma Bullets Spark Northern Lights
by junglelord » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:41 pm
Proper analysis of the data does support the EU. The inescapeable fact they are unable to reproduce magnetic reconnection in the lab, in no way stops them from interpertating the data as this event. Take heart, for those that do understand the data can see a harmonic mode being exhibited as in my above post. The sun has millions of harmonic modes that have not been taken into consideration when it comes to this data....rather they force a mind experiment into a supposed fact, yet no lab has EVER shown magnetic reconnection.
We are dealing with a inaccurate model that was refuted by its orignator for which he won the Nobel Prize, that would be Hannes Alfven and magnetohydrodynamics. Magnetic Reconnection is a violation of an approximate conservation law in plasma physics.
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by MGmirkin » Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:51 pm
A few links proffered by others in various threads relating to "magnetic flux ropes" / electric currents, re: magnetic reconnection (or alternatives thereto).
(Plasma Jets on Earth)
http://focus.aps.org/story/v16/st4
(Roping in magnetic fields.)
http://www.lanl.gov/science/1663/spotlight.php
(Imaging flux ropes in laboratory plasmas)
http://www.pco.de/pco/php/library/image ... %20IMAGING
(Plasma imaging)
(Basic Plasma Science Facility - Image Gallery)
http://plasma.physics.ucla.edu/bapsf/pages/gallery.html
(Merging of Current Channels)
http://plasma.physics.ucla.edu/bapsf/im ... erge_b.jpg
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They use ELECTRICITY IN SPACE for earthquake monitoring!
by FS3 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:35 am
May I add another clue (after my contribution of the "battery in space")...
MGmirkin wrote: A few links proffered by others in various threads relating to "magnetic flux ropes" / electric currents, re: magnetic reconnection (or alternatives thereto)...
From Russian Spacewalkers on ISS install experiment for monitoring seismic effects :
...After moving back to Strela, they moved a foot restraint from its boom to the exterior of Zvezda. They returned to Pirs, got an experiment called Vsplesk and moved with it to the large-diameter section of Zvezda.
There they installed the experiment, which monitors seismic effects using high-energy particle streams in the near-Earth environment. Then they installed cabling....
Wondering, what they meant with those "high-energy particle streams". Up to what we know by now these are changes in the current-density of the ionosphere that can be measured (in electrical terms the changing currents!) - as we do know that e.g. in case of the big tsunami in 2004 the "ionosphere moved about 40kms up and down over Sumatra".
As question remains only now whether this was the cause or an effect of that quake.
by MGmirkin » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:00 pm
There were, of course, also the ionospheric changes leading up to the Sichuan quake earlier this year, as observed by a Taiwanese satellite... IE, a significant drop-off of charged particle counts in the ionosphere just preceding the quake, in the hours / day before. I think they said it dropped off by like half...? Yup!
Taipei - A Taiwan satellite recorded a sharp drop in ionospheric density above China's Sichuan Province before Monday's killer earthquake, verifying previous records that seismic activities affect ionospheric density, a newspaper said Friday. The China Times said that Taiwan's Formosa-3 satellite recorded that in the six to 15 days before the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, the ionospheric density in the atmosphere about 1,000 square kilometres around Wenchuan, epicentre of the quake, was 1.2 million electrically charged particles.
On May 11, the eve of the quake, the ionospheric density over Sichuan had dropped by half to 600,000 charged particles.
Formosa-3 was launched by the Taiwan National Space Organization in 2006.
Since then, Formosa-3 has recorded ionospheric density after 63 earthquakes measuring magnitude 5 or above on the Richter scale, revealing a sharp drop in ionosphere density in 70 per cent of these cases.
An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Sichuan County, south-east China, at 2:30 pm on May 12.
The quake has killed more than 20,000 people and destroyed 500,000 homes.
NASA Unravels Mysteries Of Northern Lights
by cbc » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:46 pm
They have got to be kidding Please read,
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209601084
"Researchers have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that create the Northern Lights.
Five NASA satellites helped researchers pinpoint how sudden brightening and rapid movements of the aurora borealis take place. NASA said this week that researchers believe stressed magnetic field lines suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that's been stretched too far, during a process called magnetic reconnection. "
With all the money we give these "scientists" shouldn't they produce this effect conclusively in a labaratory setting before they write this "stuff"
At the very end we have an interesting piece that slipped through the censors:
"Recently, the satellites observed an isolated substorm beginning in space, as the observatories recorded the lights and currents over North America. That lent support to the theory that magnetic reconnection causes substorms, NASA said. The theory is that when a substorm begins, it follows a pattern that includes reconnection, rapid auroral brightening, and rapid expansion toward the Earth's poles. That, in turn, redistributes electrical currents flowing in space and around the Earth."
That ending made me chuckle: Redistribution of electrical currents flowing in space, maybe they have been reading Thunderbolts.info,
Aurora with No Solar Wind
by junglelord » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:42 am
NASA space weather daily reports.
It's amazing how they sweep things under the rug.
Nothing special? Its a perfect example of the EU.
UNDER THE OVAL: No solar wind? No problem. The skies over Baffin Island, Canada, can turn green even without a geomagnetic storm. These auroras appeared during a period of "quiet" on Oct. 15th:
"Last night, bathed in the glow of a full moon, the northern lights danced over Pangnirtung Fjord," reports photographer Claus Vogel. "It was a stellar night for shooting the aurora with my Nikon D700."
The display was sparked by nothing special. Baffin Island lies under Earth's auroral oval, a lopsided ring of light encircling the North Pole. Around the oval, Earth's magnetic field funnels electrically-charged particles from space into the upper atmosphere where the flurry of tiny impacts causes the air to glow green--no geomagnetic storm required.
Of course, a real storm is nice, too. Browse the gallery for examples:
Re: Aurora with No Solar Wind
by MGmirkin » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:47 pm
Like wow man... Charged particles follow magnetic field lines (or spiral around them, more-or-less); who'd have guessed it?
by substance » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:26 pm
So the magnetic field is funneling charged particles from space? Well, isn`t that exactly what aurora itself is?
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by junglelord » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:15 pm
The aurora is always related to the solar wind. Since the wind was nil but the aurora still present, it means that space is full of charge.
by StefanR » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:27 am
Nice vid with sounds of aurora
Listening to Northern Lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvdZdsIZxg
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by squiz » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:34 pm
One theory I've heard is that when the solar wind is minimal, the strahl electrons can flow more freely along the suns magnetic field lines directly to the Earth without being scattered by the normally denser population of protons.
noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds (NLCs).
by Eileenla » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:28 am
What would be the Electric Universe explanation for these cloud formations? Anybody know or have any insights?
Thanks - I'm loving these ideas!!!!
Eileenla
Re: noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds (NLCs).
by ElecGeekMom » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:58 am
I like this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xF2vSKINK0
They have a link to the AIM space mission to investigate them, but I tried the link yesterday and it's a dud. I'm guessing they found out things that don't support their conventional cosmology. How much you wanna bet it's an electrical phenomenon that becomes visible because during solar minimum the layers of the atmosphere are not as high above the surface of the earth, so the cold of space is closer than otherwise?
ElecGeekMom
by keeha » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:04 pm
NewScientist, June0209: Mysterious night-shining clouds may peak this year
Sky watchers in the northern hemisphere have snapped the first images of this year's noctilucent clouds – silvery blue structures that are the highest clouds to form in Earth's atmosphere. This season's crop of clouds could be the biggest in years due to the lull in the sun's activity.
"Noctilucent", or night-shining, clouds float dozens of kilometres higher than other clouds, at an altitude of about 80 km. Because of their height, they can be seen glowing before sunrise or after sunset as the sun illuminates them from below the horizon.
The clouds were first seen above polar regions in 1885, suggesting they may have been caused by the eruption of Krakatoa two years before. But in recent years the clouds have spread to latitudes as low as 40°, while also growing in number and getting brighter. The reason for the clouds' spread is unclear...
Although the average number of noctilucent clouds has been increasing in recent decades, their abundance also seems to rise and fall with the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. The clouds thrive when the sun is quiet and spews less ultraviolet radiation, which can destroy water needed to form the clouds and can keep temperatures too high for ice particles to form.
...Although amateur astronomers last week snapped photos of the Northern hemisphere's first noctilucent clouds of the season, AIM caught the first hints of the new cloud season the previous week, on 22 May. The hints came from the subtle dimming of sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere, Bailey told New Scientist.
BBC, Dec07: Spacecraft chases highest clouds
Time lapse video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/s ... ad=1&ct=50
"These clouds are getting brighter with time, they're seen more often and also they're being seen at lower latitudes," said James Russell from Hampton University, Virginia, US.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandte ... space.html
Scientists believe that the shining clouds form at high latitudes early in the season and then move to lower latitudes as time progresses.The AIM science team is studying this new data to understand why these clouds form and vary, and if they may be related to global change.
Once the summer season ends in the Northern Hemisphere around mid- to late August, the Southern Hemisphere spring season starts about three months later in the period around mid- to late November. AIM will then be watching for shining clouds in the Southern Hemisphere from November through mid-March when that season ends.
keeha
by Lloyd » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:38 pm
* This thread should actually go on the Planetary Science board. This one is for stars, galaxies and the like, not planets, moons etc.
* There's been discussion of these clouds before, as early as January 2008, if not earlier. The forum crashed early last year, I think, so most of the previous threads were lost.
* Do a search for noctilucent to find the other discussions.
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Early Humans Thrived Through Volcanic Winter: Here’s How
Category: Humans Tags: prehistoric / study / Volcano
Naomi Cleghorn running the total station at the Pinnacle Point 5/6 site. (Credit: UTA)
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By Troy Oakes, May 17, 2018
UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter.
The scientific team found microscopic glass shards that had traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers from the eruption site and landed in the archaeological sediments of two sites on the south coast of South Africa. Cleghorn, a UTA associate professor of sociology and anthropology said:
“We have demonstrated that in two sites along the south coast of South Africa that may have housed the origin population for all modern humans, our ancestors thrived through this volcanic event.
“This may have been the combined result of the uniquely rich resource base of the region and a highly resilient adaptation — a hunting and gathering economy wielded by a modern human with an advanced cognition and high levels of cooperation.”
One was a rockshelter at Pinnacle Point where people lived — sleeping at night, cooking food and sharing stories around the campfire. The others were at an open-air site just 9 kilometers away, a location where humans collected stone and processed it for future tool manufacture, Cleghorn added:
“Finding the shards from Toba at these two sites means that we can link the sites at a temporal precision of about two weeks and say that the people at the sites were almost certainly of the same social group, and link activities at one site to the other.
“For archaeologists, that is an extraordinary result.”
Cleghorn began working with the Pinnacle Point archaeological project directed by Dr. Curtis Marean of Arizona State University in 2011 and was invited to collaborate on the Toba project in 2012. After working on Pinnacle Point for four years she began research at her current site at Knysna, about 80 kilometers east of Pinnacle Point.
“We know that shortly after Toba, modern humans left Africa and conquered the planet.
“My work at Pinnacle Point and now at Knysna aims to develop a high-resolution chronology of human evolution and social adaptation during that time.”
The Toba shards provide a very reliable and precise means to date sites and could help tie together the chronologies of many sites across Southern Africa. Once two sites were identified, the process is extending to other sites, including Knysna, Cleghorn’s current dig.
Main Map and profile. (Credit: University of Texas at Arlington)
UTA’s support was instrumental in getting Cleghorn’s project started at Knysna. Cleghorn used a Research Enhancement Program grant to run the initial test excavation, which provided the evidence needed to attract external funding for the project over several years from the Leakey Foundation, National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation, and Hyde Family Foundation.
A view of the Knysna archaeological project. Pictured are students Sara Watson (UTA alum 2016), Deanna Dytchkowskyj, Kathryn Lauria, Clancey Butts; professional archaeologists, Nkosi Mgcaleka, Struan Henderson; and visiting scientist Dr. Irene Esteban. (Credit: University of Texas at Arlington)
The College of Liberal Arts also supported research into mineral pigment use at the Knysna site. So far, some dozen UTA students have participated in the Knysna field project, and this year Cleghorn is taking five current or former UTA students into the field with significant funding support.
Elizabeth Cawthon, dean of UTA’s College of Liberal Arts, said:
“Naomi Cleghorn’s work is foundational to paleosciences and her significant funding also demonstrates the value that leading foundations give to her work.
“It is also cross-disciplinary work linking UTA’s strategic themes of global environmental impact and sustainable urban communities.”
Provided by: University of Texas at Arlington [Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.]
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Identity Management Panel
Phil Windley // Thu May 25 09:11:00 2006 // identity infocard www2006
I attended an identity management panel moderated by Arnaud Sahuguet of Google. On the panel were Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Conor Cahill, Intel, Kim Cameron, Microsoft, Mike Neuenschwander, Burton Group, and Stefan Brands, Credentica & McGill University.
Arnaud started off with the famous "no one knows your a dog" cartoon and the ACLU pizza video. He asked each panelist how many different identities they have. The answers ranged from 40 to 313 (Cahill knew exactly). Kim said he uses classes of identities (my own strategy) for different kinds of sites.
Converged networks (wireless, television, Internet) make the problem of identity more difficult. Many are not free. Subscriber and user are subtly different notions.
Rick Hull said that federated ID management should increase user ease-of-use, but unless someone makes money from it, it won't happen. Businesses will realize increased "stickiness" and decreased churn, but that's hard to quantify. Some possible sources of revenue include increased ad revenue from targeted ads, increased eCommerce sales via the Web, and direct charges for identity services. We can grow this by building on current walled-garden relationships between identity and service providers.
Conor Cahill, a strong Liberty Alliance proponent, starts off admitting that to date, there's no large eCommerce implementation of Liberty. SSO hasn't been adopted outside the enterprise. Why? There's no perceived benefit for the service provider. In fact, they see a downside: a loss of relationship with the user. Furthermore, users haven't perceived the pain.
There's a new driver, however: phishing attacks. Managing strong authentication, including tokens, is more costly than passwords and this may force banks to sign onto (no pun intended) the notion of federated identity.
Kim Cameron introduced his laws of identity and talked about InfoCard. Kim said it wasn't evil he feared so much as incompetence. The primary role Microsoft can provide in the identity space is by adopting an infrastructure and working collegially across the industry.
Mike said that he was encouraged by incompetence. The ACLU pizza video would require linking up things in a way that would be very difficult. When you get to know something their identity, in the sense of credentials, is not something you care about. We don't typically ask dates or new acquaintances for their ID card. Liberty takes a stylistic approach to identity that is based on an engineering solution rather than a social approach. InfoCards takes yet another.
Wikipedia is another example of where identity matters but not so much because of credentials, but because of social aspects. You get the feeling that people are watching and that your actions will be found out. This is identity arising out of social context. This is identity based on recognition and shared experiences. These are the bases upon which society can begin to work on identity.
Stefan talks about building transaction systems that have identity flows at their core. This protects against external and internal attacks. One main objective is to minimize the powers of the central host or provider. This is a failing of current solutions. Clients are particularly dumb because we can't ask user's to install software (actually Microsoft can).
Stefan talks about Canada's eGovernment initiative where they've tried to implement SSO. Various agencies, and particularly provincial governments, have been reluctant to turn over control of "their" users to a centralized service.
We should look to the financial industry as a metaphor. There are dozens of financial instruments including credit cards, cash, money orders, and so on. These have developed because users have different needs, there are various trust relationships, and so on. This is a good way to think of the various user-centric identity technologies that have sprung up. They have different uses and relying parties will pick the one that fits best.
Mike says that the term "user-centric identity management" is a funny term because if it were really about the user we wouldn't say "user" and we wouldn't say "management." I'm not sure people do say "management" with the term "user-centric identity."
Someone in the audience ask for the financial drivers behind user-centric identity and Mike said, I think, that their aren't any. I'd disagree. In fact, I think that user-centric identity systems reduce financial risk for relying parties and identity providers alike and this are more likely over time to be adopted.
All in all, this was a nice panel, but it was pretty tutorial in nature. That's understandable given that most attendees weren't very familiar with the identity space.
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SWEETLIFE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
fredgy noel · July 6, 2014
To say "I went hard" on this music festival is an understatement. My friend Tylea texted me on a Monday about free tickets to a concert in Maryland (my hometown). She threw out names like A$AP Rocky,The Shins, Kid Cudi, and the keyword, “free.” So even though I had to get on a bus at 7am on a Saturday, I figured it would totally be worth it. Fast-forward to Friday night. I’m with friends at another friend’s show in Bushwick. We are all broke and pretty drunk on Bud light. 12am turns to 3am and suddenly I realize there are no yellow cabs in Bushwick.
After a late night L-train ride to Union Square, I end up in a cab and in my Nolita apartment by 4am. I’m exhausted and at 6am my alarm goes off. Those first few steps out of my apartment were pretty refreshing. I was slightly lethargic on the train ride to Penn station but I knew coffee could fix it. I made it to the bus station in time and so did Tylea. We were on our way. After a grueling 6 hour bus ride, we were in Maryland. It was a little cold and a little cloudy but we were going to be okay...we made it!
The first band to perform was FUN.. They blasted “We Are Young” and in that moment, surrounded by drugged out 15 year olds, Tylea and I were young too! I drank my beer she sipped on her gin, and life was good. While Fun. was a nice opener, I found the rest of their set to sound more like elevator music. Action Bronson on the other hand was a force. We caught the last of his set. The festival cut off his sound but he refused to get off the stage. Instead he free-styled his ass off. A$AP came on shortly after. I was surprised that he was performing at 3pm, but then again he was a newcomer. He had an energy about him that made everyone jump up, but unfortunately it came and ended pretty quickly. (ha) A$AP and friends were having a great time on stage, but they forgot about the rest of the crowd. I knew with a little practice his stage show would kill….and it did…at Summer Jam (another post). We ran into him after his set and he took a picture with Tylea. He also had his assistant give Tylea his number. Tylea asked him what he was doing after the show and he replied with “I don’t know boo?! I’m not from around here!” Tylea still hasn’t reached out.
The real highlight for me was Explosions in the Sky. This band had a sound that was precise and moving. The Shins were also awesome. I felt like I was watching Garden State all over again. Unfortunately by the time the headliner, “Avicci” hit the stage, I’d been rained on, it was 30 degrees, and I was ready to go home. Tylea and I made a b-line to the bus. I passed out and woke up to hear the bus driver tell some drunk kids they were on the wrong bus. By 4am Sunday, there I was at Penn Station, hailing a cab. Did I go hard or what?
Love, Peace, and Nappyness.
fredgy
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VIDEOGASM PREMIERE: LANGUAGE – L.E.A.
Norway-born and London-based artist L.E.A. have just released her newest single, Language, on 1st April. With powerful hip-hop laden R&B Pop creation, the 23-year-old has been writing music since she was just 9 years old and have been performing for the past 15 years.
As making music was always her career goal, she focused on it and now have a Bachelors degree in Commercial Music Performance (vocals) including business, technology and production with 3 additional years of studying classical and jazz.
Last year, he released her powerful debut EP titled ‘Birthmark’ and follow up single ‘FLICK‘, which had a positive feedback from the industry and gave her the opportunity to work with different producers, DJ’s and production companies, hitting #1 on new digital artist platform Tradiio, topping their international RnB & Soul chart for 2 months in a row.
With a distinct image, attitude and vocal power, L.E.A. is an artist in every sense of the word. As a lover of fashion along with writing her songs, she also designs her own stage costumes.
Her style and music are a perfect compilation of Rihanna, Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande.
You can be sure to hear of L.E.A. a lot more in the coming months including her next show on April 10th at The Borderline, W1D 4JB London for Musique showcase night. But as of now, make sure to check out her music video for her single, Language, which we at Youthgasm are proud to premiere!
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International Rules OK for Charlotte NC
Sunday, June 18 2006 @ 01:25 am ACST
Contributed by: Wayne Kraska
In another sign of the International Rules game helping spread the word about the sports of Aussie Rules and Gaelic Football the first International Rules game was held this past weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina between a combine of the Atlanta Kookaburras and Atlanta Clan na nGael taking on the Charlotte James Connollys who had teamed up with the North Carolina Tigers. The game was played at the Overhills Soccer Complex in Concord just outside of Charlotte. With a population of 1.6 million people, Charlotte ranks as the 21st largest city by population in the USA.
Hosts of the game were the Charlotte James Connollys, who have until now been only interested in their own game from the old Eire. Along comes twice Revolution representative to Australia and Atlanta Kookaburras ruckman BJ Gambaro on a work assignment and you have the makings of a melting pot of games and experience playing team sports but somewhat foreign to the “average joe”.
Gambaro convinced the local Irish contingent that there are Aussie scalps to be had and more games to be played by making the quick transition to International Rules and inviting some players from nearby Aussie Rules clubs. Gambaro also set about getting the local Irish team incorporated and formalized rules and a constitution to establish the club as an International sports club not just a Gaelic Football team. Of course this brought many plaudits from the locals in Charlotte who welcomed Gambaro’s ideas and enthusiasm for their game, Aussie Rules and the International version as well.
The Charlotte team then took on the nearby North Carolina Tigers Aussie Rules team from Raleigh NC as allies while further south the Atlanta Kookaburras joined with local Irish team Clan na nGael to make this a quite unique event. The end result these four teams came together for the first inaugural International Rules Challenge game of the South East of USA.
In oppressive conditions of 95F and just as high humidity the locals fielded mostly Irish players new to the idea of tackling and marking where the Atlanta Internationals were made up of mainly Aussie Rules players struggling with control of the new round ball. It was the Atlanta players that were able to overcome their issues first and continue to pepper the goal area with overs and attempts on goal in the first quarter to set up a handy lead. The Charlotte team looked in some trouble at that time as they had issues with some of the contact legal in this new game for them. At half time though as all players downed the fourth of eight cases of water drank in two hours the Irish were back in the game. Their brains trust then set about nailing down why the Atlanta team were staying competitive when this game should be theirs to win. Scores Charlotte 0.5.7.22 Atlanta 2.3.2.23
“Forget the tackling and forget the marking” was the Charlotte way for the second half and it started to pay dividends immediately. Running with the ball and dropping the long kicking game the locals came back and were looking a lot more damaging. At the final siren it was the hosts Charlotte victorious 1.10.15.51 to Atlanta 4.7.3.48 . A much celebrated three point win to the home team. Later as teams downed plenty of well earned drinks from sponsoring hotel Connolly's on 5th the torch was handed to the Atlanta Kookaburras to host this event in 2007 to see if the Atlanta Internationals can wrestle back that trophy and the become the premier International Rules team of the South East of USA.
Our International Rules reporter Peter Parry adds: The combined NAGAA-USAFL teams from these two American cities is indicative of how at a national level IR could promote both Aussie Rules and Gaelic Football in the USA in a big way - e.g. with a curtain-raiser to a 3rd Test in New York - if the AFL and GAA ever put into action their previously mentioned plan of taking a Test to America. To what extent this may just promote the hybrid over the parent codes is debatable, but if the GAA-NAGAA and AFL-USAFL stay in control the pathway to play at international level would be via Aussie Rules with the USAFL or Gaelic football with the NAGAA.
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Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of ‘Pink Flag,’ ‘Chairs Missing’ and ‘154’
Seminal post-punk act Wire will reissue its first three records — 1977’s Pink Flag, 1978’s Chairs Missing and 1979’s 154 — in May with each remastered album packaged in a special book and featuring one or more bonus discs filled with studio demos and previously unreleased material.
The 2- and 3-disc expanded reissues are due out May 19 via Wire’s own label, and can be pre-ordered now on the band’s website, pinkflag.com. The group notes that these forthcoming special editions will be sold on CD in record stores, but the bonus material will not be released digitally.
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Each album will be housed in an 80-page hardback book about the size of a 7-inch single, but thicker. The book features text by Jon Savage and Graham Duff, plus recording details, lyrics and new interviews with bandmembers Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Robert Grey and Bruce Gilbert.
The albums themselves are then supplanted with copious bonus material, including singles, B-sides, demos and “many previously unreleased songs.” The music is all remastered, or, as the band says, “in some cases mastered for the first time.” Pink Flag is a 2-disc set, while Chairs Missing and 154 span three discs.
See full tracklists below.
Tracklist: Wire, Pink Flag
Disc 1: Original Album
1. “Reuters”
2. “Field Day For The Sundays”
3. “Three Girl Rhumba”
4. “Ex Lion Tamer”
5. “Lowdown”
6. “Start To Move”
7. “Brazil”
8. “It’s So Obvious”
9. “Surgeon’s Girl”
10. “Pink Flag”
11. “The Commercial”
12. “Straight Line”
13. “106 Beats That”
14. “Mr Suit”
15. “Strange”
16. “Fragile”
17. “Mannequin”
18. “Different To Me”
19. “Champs”
20. “Feeling Called Love”
21. “12XU”
Disc 2: Demos and Alternative Recordings
1. “The Commercial” (First Demo Sessions)
2. “Mr Suit” (First Demo Sessions)
3. “Pink Flag” (First Demo Sessions)
4. “Surgeon’s Girl” (Second Demo Sessions)
5. “Field Day For The Sundays” (Second Demo Sessions)
6. “106 Beats That” (Second Demo Sessions)
7. “Fragile” (Second Demo Sessions)
8. “Reuters” (Third Demo Sessions)
9. “Different To Me” (Third Demo Sessions)
10. “Ex Lion Tamer” (Third Demo Sessions)
11. “Mannequin” (Third Demo Sessions)
12. “Champs” (Third Demo Sessions)
13. “Start To Move” (Third Demo Sessions)
14. “Ex Lion Tamer” (Alt Mix)
15. “12XU” (Mono Mix)
16. “Mannequin” (Mono Mix)
17. “It’s So Obvious” (Alt Mix)
Tracklist: Wire, Chairs Missing
1. “Practice Makes Perfect”
2. “French Film Blurred”
3. “Another the Letter”
4. “Men 2nd”
5. “Marooned”
6. “Sand in My Joints”
7. “Being Sucked in Again”
8. “Heartbeat”
9. “Mercy”
10. “Outdoor Miner”
11. “I Am the Fly”
12. “I Feel Mysterious Today”
13. “From The Nursery”
14. “Used To”
15. “Too Late”
Disc 2: Singles, B-Sides and Studio Recordings
1. “I Am The Fly” (Single Version)
2. “Dot Dash”
3. “Options R”
4. “Outdoor Miner” (Single Version)
5. “Practice Makes Perfect” (Single Version)
6. “Underwater Experiences” (Advision Version)
Disc 3: Studio Demos
1. “Practice Makes Perfect” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
2. “Oh No Not So” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
3. “Culture Vultures” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
4. “It’s The Motive” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
5. “Love Ain’t Polite” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
6. “French Film Blurred” (Version 1) (Fourth Demo Sessions)
7. “Sand In My Joints” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
8. “Too Late” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
9. “I Am The Fly” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
10. “Heartbeat” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
11. “Underwater Experiences” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
12. “Stalemate” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
13. “I Feel Mysterious Today” (Fourth Demo Sessions)
14. “Dot Dash” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
15. “French Film Blurred” (Version 2) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
16. “Options R” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
17. “Finistaire (Mercy)” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
18. “Marooned” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
19. “From The Nursery” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
20. “Indirect Enquiries” (Version 1) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
21. “Outdoor Miner” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
22. “Chairs Missing (Used To)” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
23. “Being Sucked In Again” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
24. “Men 2nd” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
25. “Another The Letter” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
26. “No Romans” (Fifth Demo Sessions)
Tracklist: Wire, 154
1. “I Should Have Known Better”
2. “Two People In a Room”
3. “The 15th”
4. “The Other Window”
5. “Single K.O.”
6. “A Touching Display”
7. “On Returning”
8. “A Mutual Friend”
9. “Blessed State”
10. “Once Is Enough”
11. “Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W”
12. “Indirect Enquiries”
13. “40 Versions”
1. “A Question Of Degree” (Single)
2. “Former Airline” (Single)
3. “Go Ahead” (Single)
4. “Our Swimmer” (Single)
5. “Midnight Bahnhof Cafe” (Single)
6. “Our Swimmer” [2nd Length] (Single)
7. “Catapult 30” (Single)
8. “Song 1” (154 EP)
9. “Get Down 1 + 2” (154 EP)
10. “Let’s Panic Later” (154 EP)
11. “Small Electric Piece” (154 EP)
1. “40 Versions” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
2. “Ignorance No Plea (I Should Have Known Better)” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
3. “Blessed State” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
4. “A Touching Display” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
5. “The 15th” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
6. “A Mutual Friend” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
7. “Once Is Enough” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
8. “The Other Window” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
9. “Stepping Off Too Quick” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
10. “Indirect Enquiries v2” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
11. “Map Ref. 41°N 93°W” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
12. “Single K.O.” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
13. “On Returning” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
14. “A Question Of Degree” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
15. “Former Airline” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
16. “Two People In A Room” (Sixth Demo Sessions)
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Thief steals $1,000 from Girl Scouts selling cookies at N.J. mall
WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- A thief stole $1,000 from a group of Girl Scouts who were selling cookies at a central New Jersey mall.
Woodbridge Township police say the theft occurred between 4:20 p.m. and 4:50 p.m. Friday on the upper level of the Woodbridge Center mall.
The money -- about $500 cash and several checks -- had been placed in a bank envelope and left unattended on a table where members of Girl Scout Troop 80062 were making their sales. Authorities say mall surveillance cameras captured a man, who may have been in disguise, picking up the envelope and putting it in his pocket.
The man was with a woman using a red walker, and they left the mall shortly before the theft was discovered.
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Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
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The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
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The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
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Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
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Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the isla Nublar, so Claire Dearing, the former park manager, recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.
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Posted on January 22 by paupakiwis
I think I was in the ninth, when my entire school was making a variant of “the cow” with their fingers, while a horde of auto-rickshaw rears read “Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean”. Baba euphoria had taken over the city and I couldn’t wait to watch it on its opening day. I guess it was my first Rajni movie in theatre on the opening day. But anticlimactically it turned out to be a damp squib. But one thing that was palpable was the aura of this person in the dark of the theatre. The movie was filled with humanly impossible stretches, but nothing really seemed to deter the electricity in the air. Make no mistake, I’d watched a ton of Rajni movies before this, but nothing compares to the experience of being in a frenzied theatre, that too at the cusp of adulthood. Some years passed and Chandramukhi came, which exactly wasn’t a quintessential Rajni film. It was a plot driven remake, in which he was a catalyst and not the centerpiece. Then came Sivaji, which simply put, was a train wreck barring a few moments. It heralded a partnership with Shankar, in which they made soulless tent pole movies where the Superstar was buried under layers of VFX, towering budgets and tumbling skyscrapers. Then started another even more problematic collaboration with Ranjith that yielded a bunch of neither-here-nor-there movies. These movies touched upon the marginalization of the Tamil diaspora, making the Superstar a broken messiah minus the trademark mojo, who was neither super nor a star. If the Shankar movie diminished his aura under constant spectacle, Ranjith movies went one step ahead and neutralised it.
So you can understand the cynicism when Petta was announced with Karthik Subbaraj, another avant garde kind of filmmaker. I was prepping for another snore fest with identity crisis. But it all changed in the wee hours of the tenth of January this year.
Right from the opening fight sequence I knew I was in for something special. We are introduced to an unassuming(cough) warden’s carnage— verbally and then visually —as a gang of thugs get decimated in an enclosure, while various profiles of the decimating silhouette alone are revealed, eventually building up to Thalaivar smirking at us. Coming to think, even King Kong and Godzilla don’t get built up this way.
I’ve never seen a movie since Padayappa that has treated him with such reverence. He’s not only written as some sort of a guardian angel, but consistently framed like one, as his silhouette appears from or dissolves into a sepia beam of light.
There are so many things worked for me, that I don’t really know where to begin. Like this moment he’s asked to play cupid to a young couple. He gets overwhelmed and then implodes. It’s a meta moment. History’s repeating, both within the context of the movie and his oeuvre. For be it, Dharmathin Thalaivan. Nallavanuku Nallavan or even Padayappa, how many times has he been assigned this role.
There were these little directorial touches that we rarely come across in a Rajni film. Like the one where he’s in the mess kitchen narcissistically relishing his own cooking and talking about doing things with love, as we’re introduced to a couple making out. I even loved this stretch before an action block, which has “Malarnundhu Malaradha” playing in an archaic transistor as a subplot about long lost siblings is about to kick in.
Even the costumes fit in beautifully this time. The jackets, cardigans, turtlenecks, the characteristic round necks under unbuttoned shirts, winter boots that hitherto made no sense in the midsummer of cities, factories and villages, make sense in this foggy ecosystem, that seems to have been carefully crafted for Thalaivar to look and dress a certain way.
Petta promised to get one “Rajnified“. That is exactly what it achieves as an unapologetic homage to its star, with a doff of hat at almost every turn. Some subtle and some blatant, the film is filled with Easter eggs, be it his name from Mullum Malarum, the fake snake alarms from Annamalai, the koan studded life instruction song, the mouth organ from Padayappa and even the “Oole Po”(go inside) moment from Basha.
And I couldn’t help but notice the myriad uncanny resemblances to Basha in particular. The way his character’s look is styled in the present. his past as a dreaded gangster in which he loses his best friend, who also happens to be a Muslim. And did I mention the fact that this best friend’s son is called…. Anwar?
But my favourite moment of the lot has to be the manner in which the climax pans out with a band performing “Raman Andalum” from Mullum Malarum that gradually segues into “Marana Mass” from this film as Rajni’s character continues to dance ecstatically. It pretty much summarizes the purpose of the entire movie, a nostalgic jog down the memory lane for an entire generation of fans.
Petta Rajinikanth Rajni
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#222 The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell & Dan Best
January 28, 2011 in Alternate history, Comedy, Comic, Fiction, Graphic Novel, History, Humour, magic realism, Post-Modern, Review, Romance | Tags: acrobats, Alan Moore, Australian comic book creators, circus, Cirque de Hiver, clowns, Dan Best, Devil's Island, Eddie Campbell, From Hell, Jack the Ripper, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Paris, Superman, tattooed ladies, The Fantastic Four, The Franco-Prussian War, The Mona Lisa, The Remarkable Monsieur Leotard, The Titanic, Thomas Pynchon, Trapeze | Leave a comment
I remember when the circus used to come each year to Rathcool, the town I grew up in. The posters would appear days before the arrival, with images of laughing clowns and acrobats performing death-defying feats. Then the big day itself would come and my much-pestered parents would accompany me to the opening show. Only for a sense of disappointment to set in almost immediately.
I remember when during the knife-throwing act there was a call for volunteers. My aunt, who had herself been volunteered by my parents to join me on this occasion, had to physically restrain me from throwing up my hand. Then I noticed the man who was chosen was a stage-hand. I had seen him hanging around with the performers before the show. My poor aunt tried to pretend otherwise – I think adults always appreciate the importance of childish illusions, which is why Santa Claus has survived for so long – but I already knew the truth.
This story begins with a man dressed in an acrobat costume voiding his bowels before leaping into his own legend – illustrated by a woodcut of his prowess and two pages of sheet music describing his feats – only to land in his death-bed, drained by a fatal case of smallpox. By his bedside are colleagues and friends arguing over his estate. His nephew Etienne arrives, whose job at the circus was to clean up elephant dung. He is the beneficiary of the great Leotard’s estate, which turns out to be a gnomic riddle, an empty journal containing a fake moustache. Etienne understands his uncle’s dying wish. He is to become Leotard and continue the legend of his uncle.
Unfortunately for Etienne, the troup is still stuck in Paris while it is under siege by the Prussian army. The company’s animals have all been eaten by the starving city inhabitants. Without any animal acts Etienne’s troupe is at a loss as to how they are to continue on. Their new young leader proposes that they become a circus of the stange and wonderful. They are after all strong-men and contortionists, tattooed ladies and bear-impersonators. Etienne is a young man with big dreams, which do not match reality. During their first show a human cannonball sets the famous Paris Cirque de Hiver on fire, burning it to the ground.
Etienne and his fellow artistes have an unerring knack for landing in trouble, becoming embroiled in the infamous Jack the Ripper murder investigation; theft of the Mona Lisa; the sinking of the Titanic; even a catastrophic bloodbath involving nineteen dwarves and a beast known as a ‘Ti-lion’. Through it all success avoids Etienne, leaving him impoverished in old age, despite inventing such implements as fantastical as ‘spring heeled shoes’.
Campbell and Best have fashioned a breezy and romantic counterpoint to the nihilism of that other historical epic, From Hell. Split into a series of episodes, The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard is a winning evocation of a lost vision of popular entertainment. There are even hints that the circus is an ancestor of sorts to the comic book superhero. Campbell introduces the amusingly titled Le Quartette Fantastique and has the creators of Superman witness Etienne’s final show.
The work as a whole has a rich Pynchonian feel to it. When we discover the romantic leanings of Pallenberg, the man disguised as a bear, it is a fine comic moment that is later revealed to be a set-up to the climactic adventure on board the Titanic. History and whimsy are married together to great effect, with Campbell’s febrile art stylings lending an uncanny edge to the proceedings. Best and Campbell even intrude upon Etienne to discuss the progress of the book so far. It is just that kind of book.
Beautifully illustrated, with a rich comic tone and a lurking sense of tired tragedy, this is a wonderful effort by Campbell, an Australian master of the medium.
October 9, 2010 in Alternate history, Book, Crime, Fiction, History, Murder, Mystery, Thriller | Tags: Brad Meltzer, Cain and Abel, Christopher Hitchens, conspiracy theory, Dan Brown, Identity Crisis, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Joss Whedon, Sue Dibny, Superman, The Bible, The Book of Lies, The Da Vinci Code | 9 comments
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A E S T H E T I C I D E
July 4 2014 by Jordan von Manalastas
Confessions of a Filipino American in Palestine
One of the chief disadvantages of being from the greatest country on Earth is that the vulgar and triumphalist myth-making we call “patriotism” leaves one susceptible to suspicions of irony. The preceding sentence proves its own point. To be as well a Filipino and a comrade in the Palestinian struggle is thus a triple burden—to say the word “American” without the obligatory condescension is to incriminate oneself as an imperialist; and am I not, after all, descendent from the same “savage” Austronesians for whom “The White Man’s Burden” first applied? One finds one’s fingers gesturing an instinctual scare quote whenever one dares to speak sincerely of the “American Revolution.”
Yet it was without irony that Marx wrote, in 1864, that “the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class.” And it is without irony that an Old American Whig (or classical radical, I like to say) still feels a frisson of rebellious pride at the thought of dumping tea into the sea. It has become a bit tedious always to preface this by mentioning the sex and colors uninvited to the white man’s tea party. (This has always seemed to me the height of inexpensive jabs, as if one were not permitted to admire Plato because he was a pederast.) We know the French Revolution devolved into a Jacobin bloodbath, less concerned with liberty than with absolutist perfectibility, and that it peaked with an imperial absolutist. We know, as Trotsky conceded, that Stalinism issued from Bolshevism. I know of none who takes the Maoist struggle seriously. Might credit not be due to a revolution whose regime, however flawed, has yet endured, and whose legacy has been to extend, however tardily, its revolutionary vision?
It is surely to the credit of our founding revolution to have seen autocracy and empire as nearly the same threat. I regard our little uprising as both the consummation of a long historical process (dating from Magna Carta through the Bloodless Revolution) of enfeebling the Crown, and a portent of colonial resistance to come. To have been born a Filipino—the unwitting heir of various imperial endeavors, for each of whom my islands’ history is always but a footnote—has made me rather sensitive to this, not least because the United States is both the worst example and the best repudiation of an empire. For radicals like yours truly, America’s has the curious distinction of being the most overrated and most underrated of history’s revolutions.
If I could make just one amendment to our patriotic litany, it would be to restore to it the spirit of radicalism which nationalism obscures. See how July Fourth looks in the absence of that spirit. It turns a revolutionary moment into a sentimental circle jerk, a horrorshow of hackneyed puffery (or else a mockery of American vulgarity). It lets the lumpenprole to spoil in parochial hero-worship, mindless of what it means to have had a revolution at all. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I have always thought authority exists for the singularly useful and cathartic role of being something to oppose.
Only a true noblesse of mind would permit one to appreciate what Jefferson confided to his presidential predecessor’s wife: “I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” To be in Palestine is to feel that one is on the cusp of a revolutionary moment. Of course, one can make, with only slight equivocation, the argument that all blood-soaked tyrannies look the same. I am reminded of the cryptic words of Jorge Luis Borges— “All men, in the dizzying instant of copulation, are the same man”—and of the precious and yet sinister term the French employ for “orgasm”: la petite mort.
It must have been in Hebron, the divided and besieged Palestinian city whose barbed and beige bleakness gives “apartheid” a bad name, that the occupation’s two most stirring things exacted my attention. The first was the uncanny familiarity of it all. This is a town whose landmark mosque sits caged by Israeli soldiers; where real estate boasts the astonishing perk of having settler homes built literally on top; and from which children can be spirited away by an inscrutable foreign army. And this is to say nothing of warrantless raids and seizures of property, the dim and indefinite detentions, and the military trials one must bear—if even given the luxury of kangaroo tribunals. To be a Palestinian is to know what the Framers feared when they composed the Bill of Rights. If ever a son of liberty felt a revolutionary drought, he would find in occupied Palestine an embarrassment of riches.
The second was a little snot-nosed Palestinian boy ambling his bike about al-Shahada street. It was on this embittered thoroughfare—variously restricted to its Palestinian inhabitants, and haunted by memories of the 1994 massacre of Muslims by the demented Baruch Golstein—that I beheld the absurd sight of a settler mother and her toddlers strolling leisurely through the neighborhood, while the aforementioned Palestinian child struggled to negotiate his bicycle through a military turnstile. If I could elect one image to depict the daily degradation of a military occupation, it would be this. Perhaps not incidentally, it was on this very street that Eyal Yifrah, one of the three teenage Israeli settlers kidnapped and killed in last month’s butchering, attended yeshiva. I hope that I will not be taken for a victim-blamer when I say: Did anyone not expect this? Shame on him who thought it wise to place civilians in the shriveling land of a dispossessed and humiliated people.
One needs hardly to be told that the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” is really a misnomer; any moral or tactical equivalence between an Israeli M16 and a Palestinian stone is an insult to both. There is no such symmetry. This is an Israeli military occupation, which is a kinder way to say the “conflict” has been already won, punctuated now and then by the barbaric and repulsive (it must be granted) acts of a brutalized few. Though wishing not to absolve them, I note once more that “to brutalize” means “to make someone a brute”; both the victim and the offender, as it were, are made monsters in the process.
Is it any wonder that the only resonant force of Palestinian resistance are the nihilistic theocrats of Hamas? They are the tail-end side of the delusional and messianic head of modern Zionism; and Israel’s hand in encouraging Hamas’ growth to splinter Palestinian resistance should forever be a blight on Israel’s conscience. I share the views of the secularist Edward Said, who thought Hamas is but a boon to Israel, for whom they are a “ready-made excuse” for collective punishment, and whose agenda is both primitive and suicidal (in more than one way). And yet anyone who’s read the emasculating Oslo Accords must know that the recognized Palestinian Authority is barely more than a puppet state. It is no wonder then that following the recent military ransacking of Ramallah, the shabab turned their stones upon the Palestinian police, who had stood idly by as the Israelis spat their bullets.
I cannot help but think of the fate of José Rizal, the Filipino revolutionary and apostate whose seminal novels, Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo, were scathing screeds against the clerical tyranny of Spain. That this excommunicado and free thinker should become the national hero of the world’s third most Catholic country is a damning case of deposing the oppressor and retaining his worst part. It was the genius of the American revolutionaries to take religious fervor and to channel it toward a revolutionary purpose—and not vice-versa, as with Hamas and the goons of Islamic Jihad. Might I risk credibility when I say that the same reasons that I love America are precisely why I hope and fear for Palestine? To ignore their plight is to forfeit all claims to the revolution, and to ask to be called a hypocrite and a fool.
Ramallah, 2014.
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Sudan’s Fundamental Security Challenge: Poverty and Maldistribution
By Asif Faiz
In the recent US Congressional hearings on a review of US policy on Sudan, little was said about the crushing burden of poverty that confronts the average Sudanese– from the outskirts of Khartoum to the outer fringes of this vast and isolated country; the perennial displacement of people occasioned by conflict ,disease, and climate change; and the lack of opportunity and isolation imposed on a generation of Sudanese by both national and international actors. While Darfur represents its most wretched and heart wrenching visage, displacement and destitution visited upon a hapless people is no less apparent in the Nuba Mountains, the Red Sea hills, the rolling plains of Blue Nile State, the drowned cataracts of the Nile, the formless shantytowns of South Sudan, and the teeming suburbs of Khartoum etched on the desert sands. Such is the reality of Sudan.
In the South, a hard-won peace has engendered a culture of entitlement , dependent on the CPA-mandated transfer of oil revenues to GOSS (over $5 billion between 2005-2009), while generous but often misguided donor aid seems to miss its mark. In Darfur, a once resilient and enterprising people have become either wards of international charity (on average over $1 billion a year) or the beneficiaries of a war economy. In the transitional areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, the people — who suffered from some of the most egregious excesses and atrocities of the 22-year civil war– wait in dismay over the unfulfilled promises of reconstruction and restitution on account of the intransigence of the two CPA partners to meet their commitments in accordance with the relevant CPA protocols.
The beneficence of oil in the North (an estimated $15-20 billion in oil revenues from 2005-2009) is concentrated on Khartoum and on heavy investments in power, roads, bridges, airports, irrigation and large scale commercial agriculture along the Nile Valley and a few privileged parts of the East (the so-called Hamdi Triangle). Public investment in human development remains paltry, with UN and donors helping with the most urgent needs. Security outlays (especially for wages and benefits) account for a significant part of public expenditures in both the North and the South, while acquisition of modern and deadly armaments remains an important strategic objective . Forgotten in this mindless pursuit of weaponry is that the real deterrent to conflict and war lies in a country’s economic strength and social cohesion. On account of its oil wealth , Sudan’s GDP per capita has crossed the US$1000 per annum threshold””it is now a middle income country –but with social indicators typical of the least developed countries and with widening income disparities. The GDP and per capita income of South Sudan remain an unresolved mystery.
The retraction in oil prices from the mid-2008 highs and the global financial crisis have imposed heavy constraints on public spending in both North and the South. This downturn in the economic fortunes offers a window of opportunity for the international community to engage the governments in Khartoum and Juba in a broad agenda of economic, social and political reforms that go beyond the CPA mandate and prepare the stage for the post 2011 era, irrespective of whether South Sudan opts for unity or independence in the 2011 referendum.
The US Congressional debate touched on the use of sticks and carrots to elicit behavior change on part of the Khartoum establishment. But such debates easily get mired in issues of ideology, justice, retribution, and punishment. The crux of the problem lies elsewhere–it lies in the absence of transformative development that directly touches the lives and welfare of people and removes the soreness of relative deprivation from the Sudanese psyche. Often overlooked in these debates is the root cause of past and current conflicts in Sudan. The two civil wars between the North and the South and the conflicts in Darfur and the East were about unequal development and the sustained and deliberate neglect of the periphery in contrast to the center. A poignant testament to these disparities is the Black Book released by the Darfur rebel groups in 2000. With the influx of oil wealth, the prosperity gap between Khartoum and the periphery has widened. And unless the international community and the power brokers in Sudan begin to frontally address the issues of development, equity, and justice, the goal of a durable and lasting peace will remain illusory in Sudan. If the current neglect of development priorities continues, the South may elect to go its own way but may find itself a basket case despite its oil wealth, the Darfur conflict will simmer on fuelled by the incentives and proceeds of a war economy, no matter the size and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance and the strength of UN/AU peacekeeping. And the hydra-headed monster of conflict will emerge in many more unlikely places as a desperate response to inequality and injustice that pervades the Sudanese landscape– north, south, east, and west.
Asif Faiz is a development practitioner. He served as the World Bank’s Country Manager for Sudan, based in Khartoum, from 2005-08.
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Ibrahim Adam 2 August, 2009 at 04:31
An excellent post, Asif, and one that hits the nail bang on about securing equitable ECONOMIC human rights (right to basic public services, opportunities for personal and economic advancement). In short, a subject that has never been on the radar of an international community, seemingly fixated on the ‘sexier’ issue of trying to micromanage Sudan’s unfathomable political marketplace.
I agree and, to paraphrase a well worn sentiment,: in Sudan, it’s [all about] the economy stupid!!
Abd al-Wahab Abdalla 2 August, 2009 at 13:05
An excellent analysis. However it leaves unanswered the question of how “development” financed and/or managed by international donors will transform the structural inequities of the Sudanese political economy. The dominant force in the Sudanese economy will remain private capital, under the control of a narrow segment of society, closely associated with the state and military, and with a substantial rent-seeking component. Under these prevailing conditions, external or state “development” projects in the peripheries, which require extensive infrastructural investment, will bring more immediate benefits to the dominant class than to the rural masses. This is not to say that the rural masses will not benefit. To the contrary they stand to gain much from better services, better agriculture, better transport and access to markets, improved employment opportunities, etc. But it would be naive, I submit, to believe that these improvements will transform the structural inequities of the Sudanese political economy. Sudan will be just as unequal, only the rich will be richer and the poor will be less poor.
Andrew Thomas Barnhart 27 November, 2009 at 13:18
In response to Abd al-Wahab Abdalla’s post:
Perhaps the sudden influx of appropriated funds will cause the “rich” to become richer, in turn causing them to rise on the Maslow’s Higherarchy of Needs. This would then create an air of introspectiveness and a nationwide sense of enlightenment will consume the general population and all will be resolved…
Look, all sarcasm aside, I do not think that anyone is being “naive” to directly address the most volitile portion of the issue that is facing the nation of Sudan. These are very hard times and anyone stepping forward with real solutions, however big or small they may be, is a step in the right direction.
Ian Ainslie 25 April, 2010 at 12:00
Nice, analytical post. I was not aware that Sudan is oil rich, but the situation there in terms of public investment versus oil infrastructure investment seems to be the same as it is in most developing countries where is discovered (Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Azerbaijan…)
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The Jewish Museum
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol
Renowned contemporary artist Sharon Lockhart explores the work of the innovative dance composer Noa Eshkol (Israel, 1924–2007).
Art Exhibition previously on at The Jewish Museum in New York, United States.
From Friday 02 November 2012 to Sunday 24 March 2013
Published by anonymous on Wednesday 10 October 2012.
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Eshkol created an intricate movement notation system and formed the Chamber Dance Group in 1954. She also designed and created colorful wall carpets, which the dancers worked on collectively. After Eshkol’s death, a group remains active in preserving her legacy; Lockhart spent time with this group.
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol is conceived by Lockhart as a two-person exhibition, with Lockhart’s work in dialogue with Eshkol’s. The exhibition includes a film installation, a series of photographs, a selection of wall carpets and materials from Eshkol’s archive.
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Microsoft unveils long-rumored fitness band along with new health-focused service
by Aldrin Calimlim
Microsoft has just unveiled its long-rumored fitness band, shortly after the release of the wearable device’s companion apps.
As reported by Re/code, the Microsoft Band, as the product is called, is priced at $199 and set to become available starting tomorrow, Oct. 30, at Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar and online stores.
“The band has 10 sensors to track the usual things like heart rate as well as more novel detectors, including a UV sensor for sun exposure and a galvanic skin response measurement which can help identify stress,” the site notes.
In line with rumors, the Microsoft Band, as pictured in its desktop syncing client for Mac on the Mac App Store, looks similar to Samsung’s Gear Fit fitness wristband.
Microsoft Band Sync, as the Mac app is called, “seamlessly syncs your band to the cloud with the same account that you use from your phone companion app,” according to its Mac App Store description. The app promises faster syncing than with a compatible phone while the band is changing via USB. It also offers the ability to update and restore the software of the band.
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Microsoft is also launching a health-focused cloud-based service called Microsoft Health, with support for smartphones and fitness bands other than Microsoft’s.
The Microsoft Health app for iPhone is out now on the App Store. As its App Store description suggests, the app enables you to:
Live healthier and be more productive with the Microsoft Health app for iPhone. Achieve wellness goals by tracking your heart rate, steps, calorie burn, and sleep quality. Maximize your fitness with Guided Workouts, 24-hour heart rate monitoring and automatic activity counting. Be more productive with email previews and calendar alerts at a glance. Personalize your Microsoft Band and get new features as they roll out.
As reported early last week, the Microsoft Band could last more than two days of normal use on a single charge, putting it ahead of the need-to-be-charged-daily batteries of the Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Moto 360, and the yet to be released Apple Watch.
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The Aquarium Drunkard Guide To ECM Records
Founded by Manfred Eicher in Germany in 1969, ECM Records (Editions of Contemporary Music) has spent nearly 50 years assembling one of the strongest catalogs in musical history. Marked by an attention to sonic space and a distinct visual aesthetic, ECM has released a wide variety of jazz, fusion, modern classical, early music, and world music. “I wanted to approach the recording in a different way, to record jazz in some kind of chamber music mode, like you might a string quartet, for example,” Eicher told the Irish Examiner in 2017. “There was something missing in the recordings I was hearing: a certain air in the music, a sense of space. For me the technical side was not as important as the idea of creating an aura or atmosphere, of finding poetry in the music.”
Last year, the label’s massive output finally made its way to streaming services. Though CDs and vinyl remain “preferred mediums,” both for the label and the crew at AD, access to the sprawling discography sent more than a few of us here down the ECM rabbit hole. From the label’s earliest releases to brand new favorites like the Shinya Fukumori Trio’s For 2 Akis, the ECM catalog upholds Eicher’s standard of quality. Here, a rough guide to some of the sounds that have drawn us in, 22 recordings exhibiting that “poetry in the music,” Eicher spoke about. Or, to borrow and modify ECM’s famous tagline, 22 of “The Most Beautiful Sound(s) Next to Silence.”
Mal Waldron / Free At Last: Free At Last is the very first album in the ECM catalog, released in November, 1969. Pianist Mal Waldron made the record in Munich after bouncing around Europe fleeing racial prejudice in America, heavy drugs on the jazz scene, and, perhaps, himself. In 1963, Waldron suffered an overdose-induced mental breakdown. Recovery from the episode involved shock therapy, and he forgot entirely how to play music. He slowly reacquainted with his craft by listening to his old recordings. Prior, he had cut with Mingus and Coltrane, accompanied Billie Holiday until her death in 1959, and recorded scores of his own compositions. “Warm Canto” (ft. Eric Dolphy) hinted at what was to come, but Waldron’s re-forged style was distinct and fierce–part liberation theology, part cellular mutation. Waldron burns his brightest in Free At Last: maddening repetitions pit drones against dissonance, and immense tensions churn the singular loneliness of a man who had lost himself, only to be birthed anew.
Codona / Self-Titled: You could waste a lot of time trying to come up with an appropriate genre for Codona. Free World Jazz? Raga Bop? Fusion Beat? Whatever you decide to call it, the music that Collin Walcott (tabla, sitar, percussion, dulcimer), Don Cherry (trumpet, melodica, wood flute, organ), and Nana Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion) made together is positively sublime. The trio made three records for ECM in the late ’70s/early ’80s, and they’re all worth your time. But start at the beginning with the divine self-titled debut — the exploratory/extraordinary rapport that Walcott, Cherry, and Vasconcelos share is already firmly in place. Is this the only album to ever feature an Ornette Coleman/Stevie Wonder medley? Maybe! But the high point is the absolutely gorgeous closer, “New Light,” which locates a beautifully becalmed zone and hangs out there for 13 meditative minutes. Perfect – you’ll want to listen to it on a never-ending loop.
Paul Motian / Time And Time Again: Drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Bill Frisell, and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano played together on and off for more than a quarter century, building up an endlessly enjoyable body of work that never fails to surprise and delight. Time And Time Again was the trio’s final studio statement before Motian’s death in 2011, and it has a properly elegiac feel to it, with Frisell’s ghostly lines merging effortlessly with the drummer’s gently skittering rhythms, and Lovano tying it all together with a supreme sense of melody. There’s something positively telepathic about the way they navigate the spindly and spacious contours of Motian’s originals, as well as a handful of covers. In the latter category, the trio tackles Monk’s lovely “Light Blue,” skillfully conjuring up the incandescent spirit its composer.
Keith Jarrett / The Köln Concert: Released in 1975, Keith Jarrett’s third record for ECM finds the pianist in a solo setting – though unlike his label debut (1971’s Facing You), was indeed recorded live. Though it almost didn’t happen: Suffering from back problems, lack of sleep and dissatisfaction with the provided Bösendorfer piano on loan, Jarrett nearly canceled the concert – a concert that went on to become one of the highest selling solo albums in jazz history. Recorded at the renowned Opera House in Cologne, Germany, at 66 minutes the album is made up of piano improvisations split into two sections and four parts. In a word, exceptional.
John Abercrombie / Timeless: There are plenty of dazzling prog-fusion fireworks to be enjoyed on John Abercrombie’s 1975 debut LP Timeless — with virtuosos like drummer Jack DeJohnette and keyboardist Jan Hammer joining the guitarist, what else would you expect? This is a true power trio in the Mahavishnu Orchestra vein, but they avoid some of the overworked athletics to which McLaughlin and co. occasionally succumb. Even when they’re shredding up a storm, Abercrombie, DeJohnette, and Hammer stay focused on the interplay as opposed to the soloing (though the soloing is sick, don’t get me wrong). Timeless’ highlight, however, is far removed from chops-laced shreddery. The neon-lit, slow burn smolder of the 12-minute title track, with an ominously beautiful vibe borrowed from Miles’ In A Silent Way, is a moody masterpiece.
David Darling / Cycles: Released in 1982, the Manfred Eicher-produced ECM session that constitutes Cycles finds cellist David Darling joined by Steve Kuhn on piano, Collin Walcott (sitar, tabla, percussion), Jan Garbarek (saxophones), Arild Andersen on bass, and Oscar Castro-Neves on guitar. With a 46-minute runtime, the album’s seven tracks exist in a state of flow, one described by author Tyran Grillo as “a bubble of possibility that only expands with every listen…like portals, beginning and ending in the same draw.” It’s Darling’s record, but as a leader his touch is deft, allowing the incredibly impressive ensemble to stretch out and improvise within the compositional framework. Widescreen, ambient, transcendent.
Leo Smith / Divine Love: With 1978’s Divine Love, trumpeter Leo Smith finally recorded for the label he helped name. Bookended by two beautiful long-form suites, the title track and closer “Spirituals: The Language of Love,” it’s in the middle the record most shines. “Tastalun,” the album’s shortest song, is written for three trumpets, and it finds Smith joined by Kenny Wheeler and Lester Bowie for a majestic, playful showcase. Elsewhere, bassist Charlie Haden adds slowly swinging bass and Bobby Naughton brings in vibes, adding up to an immersive and dizzying journey (kinda like falling in love, with a sense of the divine or otherwise).
Steve Tibbetts / Big Map Idea: Opening with a stunning version of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Mountain Side” — the original drawn itself from Bert Jansch’s arrangement of the traditional Irish composition “Down By Blackwaterside” — guitarist Steve Tibbetts’ 1988 lp Big Map Idea is a study in spaciousness. Tibbetts’ fretwork shares some common ground with Takoma School players like Fahey or Basho, particularly in the latter’s flair for Eastern modalities, but there’s a good reason he’s associated with jazz fusion; his melodies arc and bend, bolstered by the complex percussion of Marc Anderson and the prominent tabla of Marcus Wise. On songs like “Black Year” and “Wish” his chords cluster together in dense bunches, but the steel drum-laden “100 Moons” and three-part closer “3 Letters” hew closer to ambient, Reich-ian minimalism, or globally conscious new age. Everything Tibbetts has recorded for ECM is worth your time — including his 2018 masterpiece Life Of — but Big Map Idea stands out as an especially sprawling guide to the guitarists’ well-trod territories.
Old and New Dreams / Playing: The pedigree of this group is ridiculous. Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell were all frequent collaborators of Ornette Coleman, with all four appearing on the free-jazz master’s Broken Shadows and Science Fiction, and, with the exception of Blackwell, who worked mainly as a sideman, each went on to have sterling careers as bandleaders in their own right. Five years after recording the sessions that would comprise those two Ornette records, the quartet formed a group of their own. Playing, which captures a 1980 concert in Austria, finds them tackling a trio of Coleman cuts, as well as Cherry’s “Mopti,” Redman’s “Rushour,” and Haden’s “Playing.” It’s an apt title. There’s an appealingly shaggy, almost throwaway quality to the music here, a kind of off-kilter looseness that highlights the ease with which these four were able to communicate. Plus Blackwell goes bananas in the closing moments of “Happy House.”
Bennie Maupin / The Jewel in the Lotus: Though reedist Bennie Maupin had made a well-known name for himself on records like Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters, his 1974 debut for ECM sidestepped both outright aggression and straightforward funkiness. Instead, this set of songs, immaculately produced by label head Manfred Eicher, found Maupin and his band — including Hancock on pianos, drummers Billy Hart and Freddie Waits, trumpeter Charles Sullivan, bassist Buster Williams, and percussionist Bill Summers — exploring a restrained middle ground between the avant-garde and spiritual jazz. Opener “Ensenada” slowly unfolded over a bubbling acoustic bass line; “Song For Tracie Dixon Summers” stretched out emotively; “Past + Present = Future” simmered with interlocking piano pulses. It’s a record built for contemplative listening, an evocative counterpoint to the work of Maupin’s peers Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, and Joe Henderson.
AM 4 / …And She Answered: A power trio of different stripes. Featuring Carla Bley associate Wolfgang Puschnig on sax and flute, Uli Scherer of Vienna Art Orchestra on piano and keys, and vocalist Linda Sharrock, AM 4 (short for “A Monastic Quartet” — perhaps a nod to Alice Coltrane’s A Monastic Trio, which featured a five-piece band) blend meditative jazz with Eastern motifs their 1989 lp …And She Answered. Those familiar with Sharrock’s aggressive vocals on her then husband Sonny’s Black Woman (1969) won’t recognize her cooly noir murmurs on “Streets and Rivers” and the trio’s cover of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman,” but the startling “Oh!” pulses her avant-garde intent, bringing to mind the out-there funk of Yoko Ono.
John Clark / Faces: It’s hard to figure out why John Clark only ever released one album on ECM. Faces, which came out in 1981, unfolds in one long, masterful curve that arcs through the charted territory of Manfred Eicher with a tourist’s graceful sense of willful cohesion, sweeping past monuments of sound for just long enough to form a snapshot. Clark’s general orientation seems to be toward classical music – there not being a ton of French horn players in jazz history to serve as potential models – but he and his quartet move readily from the kind of pastel Baroque intro Sigur Rî³s would ply a couple of decades later into a stirring, almost spicy jazz groove. And while Clark gets the top billing, the real stars here are David Friedman and David Darling, whose marimba and cello playing, respectively, give Faces both its uncharacteristically sweet playfulness and its occasionally overwhelming sense of grace.
Gallery / Gallery: Like John Clark’s Faces, this collaborative record takes its time moving from classical to jazz idioms, and it proceeds so quietly along its shaded path that you don’t realize the beat has syncopated until you’re already tapping your feet; that they eventually double back, combine the two, and then drop the jazziness for a floating, ambient coda seems like an artistic coup. Throughout, the quintet of David Samuels, Paul McCandless, David Darling, Ratzo Harris, and Michael DiPasquale flow in parallel streams, ducking expertly in time together and never seeming to cross over one another. It’s polite, sure, but it isn’t soft; they easily flit through bouts of angularity, ducking and dodging as a single unit. It’s an aesthetic approach that Eicher’s production style was built to accommodate: shifty, clean, and complex movements made by bold hands.
Meredith Monk / Dolmen Music: On 1981’s Dolmen Music, the first of many albums New York composer Meredith Monk recorded for ECM, the concept of “voice as instrument” is magnified to stunning proportions. Growling, chanting, whispering, laughing, sighing, and bellowing, Monk sings an immersive world into existence, accompanied by piano, percussion, and occasional extra voices (fellow renegade composer Julius Eastman joins in on the title song). At times soothing, at others, terrifying, Monk’s voice “sounds ancient and modern at the same time,” Geeta Dayal wrote of Dolmen Music in NPR Music’s Turning the Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women, adding, “You could imagine it as music for a medieval ritual, or music for a science fiction future.”
Keith Jarrett – G.I. Gurdjieff / Sacred Hymns: Often overlooked by even the most ardent Jarrett fans, his gorgeous solo-piano renditions of mystic/philosopher/spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff’s music offer fifteen serene and profound meditations on the notion of affirmation. With roots in folk, classical, and religious music, the hymns (written in collaboration with Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann) from Gurdjieff’s “second period” are minimal and concise (especially with Jarrett’s deft touch), but occasionally heady and obtuse–it does not take much of a leap to connect this music to the overarching methodology of Gurdjieff. Not unlike the wondrous music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guî¨brou, Sacred Hymns is a perfect remedy for those suffering from everything ranging from musical saturation to spiritual unrest.
Eberhard Weber / The Colours Of Chloî«: Staggeringly well composed and performed, the gorgeous and fully-formed debut from double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber boldly announces a first-rate talent that would go on to many an ECM highlight. Lush and ornate, The Colours Of Chloî« is also subtle and picturesque, owing as much to European classical music as it does to minimalism and ambient music–and it is all on display in the sidelong closer “No Motion Pictures.” There may be other, better Weber albums, but this is where it all begins.
David Torn / Cloud About Mercury: Featuring the avant-superstar rhythm section of Bill Bruford (drums) and Tony Levin (Chapman Stick/bass), as well as Mark Isham (trumpet/flugelhorn), David Torn’s second ECM effort is a fascinating and uncharacteristic album in the label’s discography. Anchored by seamless ensemble playing that is equal parts atmospheric and alluring, Torn’s searing and soaring electric guitar is the star here–just when a groove seems to have peaked, it comes roaring in with a crescendo. A widescreen kaleidoscope of instrumentation that is as much Jon Hassell as Robert Fripp, Cloud About Mercury pushes the boundaries of fusion into curious and rewarding new territory.
John Abercrombie Quartet / 39 Steps: John Abercrombie’s 2013 release, 39 Steps, finds the late guitarist in maximum form. While not the artist’s first entry in this list, the album is miles from the style of jazz fusion in which he originally made his bones during the mid-70s. All understated elegance, the quartet is filled out by frequent Abercrombie companion Marc Copland on piano, along with Drew Gress on double bass and Joey Baron on drums. An absolute late-career triumph.
Vijay Iyer Trio / Break Stuff: One of the defining artists of the modern ECM era, pianist Vijay Iyer plays with a quietly soulful intensity on his 2015 lp Break Stuff. Joined by drummer Marcus Gilmore and bassist Stephan Crump, Iyer demonstrates a commitment to the ethos of fusion that defines ECM, bringing art rock ambiance to the classic jazz songbook and incorporating rhythms on loan from hip-hop and electronic music (see the twitching “Hood,” an homage to the Detroit minimal techno founder Robert Hood). Whether covering Coltrane and Monk or his own compositions, Iyer brings an inventive playfulness to his work.
Jon Hassel / Power Spot: With 1986’s Power Spot, trumpeter Jon Hassell expanded on the poly-global ideals he pioneered with Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics. Rhythmically dense and hypnotic, Hassell draws on raga and Afrobeat, working with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, percussionist J.A. Deane, guitarist Michael Brook, and a host of others to create a jammer that’s both ambient and propulsive —songs like “Power Spot” and “Wing Melodies” could even work on the dance floor if you found a club out there enough to give them the chance.
Gary Burton Quintet / Dreams So Real: The Music of Carla Bley: This 1976 collection of vibraphonist Gary Burton and his Quintet playing a series of compositions by Carla Bley deftly exists in the middle ground between challenging and easy listening. Songs like “Vox Humana” and “Intermission Music” are charmingly gentle, but it’s all about the details. Listen closely, and intricate surprises pop up, particularly in the interweaving guitars of Pat Metheny and Mick Goodrick. Start with “Ictus – Syndrome – Wrong Key Donkey,” a tour de force suite of some of Bley’s best stuff, which finds the band operating at top form.
Steve Reich / Music For 18 Musicians: A landmark recording and one of the most essential of ECM’s “New Series” efforts, Music for 18 Musicians, first issued in 1978, reveals new information each listen. The record’s release launched ECM as not only a jazz label, but a classical one too, and proved a crossover hit, selling something like 100,000 copies. As voices, reeds, and strings pulse and crisscross over the course of an hour, time seems to bend and reshape. Reich would go on to record more for the label — get your hands on The ECM Recordings CD boxset if you can, which pairs Music for 18 Musicians with works like Ocet and Tehillim — but his first effort for ECM revealed the scope of Eicher’s vision, that beautiful music could speak for itself given the chance. Eicher wasn’t just in the business of releasing music; along with artists like Reich, he was teaching people how to listen.
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Posted on August 6, 2018 November 25, 2018 ECM
16 thoughts on “The Aquarium Drunkard Guide To ECM Records”
James Pobst says:
great resources Aquarium, thanks, looking forward to diving in!
michael hentz says:
great primer! well done!
swappers says:
Superb! Thank you
Wes Wolf says:
Timeless by Abercrombie starts burning at about 11 minutes!
You guys crush it! Thank you for creating this gem!!
hell yes. thank you
Adam Hill says:
Excellent.Thanks.
I don’t pretend to know the records you listed at all, but look forward to checking them out. That said, Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia’s In Cerca di cibo on ECM from 2000 is an incredible piece of music. Check it out.
This is amazing… Fly by David Darling & Steve Reich Ensemble’s “Octet”… everything, I learn so much from you. Thank you.
Blue Koyote says:
Thanks for the insightful article and a lovely sounding playlist. Much obliged.
This list is great. Thanks for putting it together. For me, Conference of the Birds is the best thing on ECM, though not very typical of the ECM sound.
I was familiar with a lot of these artists and own some of the CD’s on your list, but never put it together that these are all on the same label. I’m looking forward to exploring more of the ECM catalogue.
DiskoDevil says:
Just got into a sampling of ECM’s catalog recently, but didn’t really know how/where to start. This is definitely a timely guide and much appreciated!
Dave MH says:
Great list! My favorite ECM release is guitarist Bill Connors’ “Swimming With A Hole In My Body”. Someone nailed it with a super brief review on RateYourMusic: “Blink and you’ll miss it…”
emretye trismegist says:
great selection !! thanks a lot
George McCormack says:
Great playlist! But why nothing by Ralph Towner and/or Gary Burton?
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by Pili Tobar on August 15, 2013
Tags: DACA, Election 2012, Highlights, Immigration, Immigration 2013, Immigration Reform, Politics, Rep. Steve King
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tells CNN this morning, “Last year, almost everybody in my conference would have agreed with me on this immigration issue…This year it seems after the presidential election a spell has been cast over a good number of Republicans and they seem to think the presidential election was about immigration. I’d ask them: find me that debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama that addressed immigration. I don’t remember it, I can’t find it.”
Congressman King, here’s the link to the debate on immigration reform between President Obama and Governor Romney. It happened during the New York debate, and it goes on for almost 9 minutes. Mitt Romney admits he’s for self-deportation, Obama touts DACA, his executive action to provide relief for DREAMers and a clear distinction was made for voters.
Here’s a refresher for Steve King regarding immigration’s defining role in the 2012 cycle:
President Obama Crushed Mitt Romney among Latino Voters Nationwide and In Each of the 11 Battleground States Polled: According to an election eve poll of 5,600 Latino voters conducted by Latino Decisions, Obama won Latino voters’ support over Mitt Romney by historic margins – a whopping 75%-23% margin nationwide (exit polling, which has a poorer track record in capturing the Latino vote, had Obama defeating Romney by 77%-27%). In Colorado, Obama won Latino voters by a massive 87%-10% margin; in New Mexico, by a 77%-21% margin; in Nevada, by an 80%-17% margin; in Ohio, by an 82%-17% margin; and in Virginia, by a 66%-31% margin. Even Florida’s traditionally more conservative Latino voters supported Obama over Romney by a 58%-40% margin.
Mitt Romney’s Hardline Immigration Stances Hurt Him Among Latino Voters: Romney’s support for hardline policies, including self-deportation and a promise to end the DREAMer deferred action program, made 57% of Latino voters nationwide “less enthusiastic” about supporting Romney, while only 7% of Latinos said it made them “more enthusiastic” about Romney’s candidacy (27% said it “had no effect” on their level of support). Of note, “less enthusiastic” responses were particularly high in Colorado (68%), Ohio (62%) and Nevada (61%) – three states that voted against Romney. In fact, Romney’s run to the hardline right on immigration during the GOP primaries was unnecessary, as Republican primary and caucus-goers are actually more pragmatic than hardline on immigration. As National Journal’s Ron Brownstein assessed, “Of all Romney’s primary-season decisions, the most damaging was his choice to repel the challenges from Perry and Gingrich by attacking them from the right — and using immigration as his cudgel. That process led Romney to embrace a succession of edgy, conservative positions anathema to many Hispanics.”
On its One-Year Anniversary, Let’s Remember the Political Importance of DACA: Prior to President Obama’s June 2012 announcement of DACA – which went into effect one year ago – Latino voter enthusiasm for the President was low, in part due to record deportations and lack of progress on immigration reform as promised. But the DREAMer relief decision made 58% of Latino voters nationwide “more enthusiastic” about President Obama vs. only 6% who said “less enthusiastic.” This enthusiasm was particularly high in some of the key battleground states that tipped President Obama’s way in large part because of overwhelming support from Latinos. In fact, last August, one member of the President’s campaign brain-trust pointed to the deferred action program announcement as the turning point in the overall 2012 presidential election.
Immigration a Personal and Defining Issue for Latino Voters: Why do Latino voters who are citizens care so much Latino immigrants who are undocumented? Election eve polling found that 60% of Latino voters nationwide “know somebody who is an undocumented immigrant.” Immigration reform ranked second behind the economy/jobs on the “most important issue” question. The foreign-born subset of Latino voters – a group with direct personal experience with immigration policy – was more likely to rank immigration as the number one issue leaders should address (39%), preferred Obama over Romney by an 80%-18% margin and was more likely to know an undocumented immigrant (66%).
The GOP Can Recover If they Lead and Share Credit on Immigration Reform: The Election Eve poll also found that nearly one-in-three Latino voters would be “more likely to vote Republican” if the GOP “took a leadership role in supporting comprehensive immigration reform, with an eventual pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.” Of note, one-in-five Latinos who voted for President Obama in 2012 (19.8%) said that they would be open to voting for Republicans if the Party came to the table on immigration. Combining this subset of Obama voters with the 23% of Latinos who voted for Mitt Romney, a pro-immigration reform Republican Party would be in the mix to achieve the 40% threshold of Latino support that George W. Bush received in 2004.
Speaker Boehner & Others Immediately Grasped Immigration’s Importance After the 2012 Election: In the immediate aftermath of the 2012 election, a remarkable number of conservatives and Republicans grasped the importance of immigration and Latino voters to the outcome of the presidential race as well as the issue’s role in shaping the demographic composition and voting patterns of the electorate. Among them was Steve King’s leader: Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said to ABC News regarding immigration reform and in light of the 2012 elections, “This issue has been around far too long…A comprehensive approach is long overdue, and I’m confident that the president, myself and others can find the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all in their vocal support of immigration reform with citizenship in the immediate afterglow of the election.
According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice:
It’s been one year since the Obama Administration implemented relief for the DREAMers. This decision served as a turning point in the presidential race and in the immigration debate. Its’ not a surprise that Steve King missed its importance. But it is a surprise that Speaker Boehner and his fellow Republican House leaders have yet to act. In fact, the only major vote on immigration policy in the House of Representatives this year has been on an amendment sponsored by Steve King that would defund the Deferred Action program and subject DREAMers to deportation. And yet, right now there’s a bipartisan majority in the House that supports immigration reform with a path to citizenship. Mr. Speaker, the choice is clear. Save the GOP from the likes of Steve King, rehabilitate your party’s standing with Latino voters and do the right thing for the country.
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HOW TO MAKE A NEW HABIT STICK 🎯
Why It’s Harder than You Thought—and What to Do about It.
Author: Michael Hyatt.
We’re over seventy days into the New Year. How are you doing with your goals and resolutions? Some people I talk with are building momentum and making big gains. Others are struggling—especially when it comes to developing beneficial new habits.
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For decades now I’ve heard that it takes twenty-one days to form a new habit, thirty days at the most. If a person can just marshal their will power for three or four weeks, bingo! They’ve got it made. But anyone struggling to form a new habit knows there’s more to the story.
What They Don’t Tell You about Those 21 DaysRunning is automatic for me these days. I hardly have to think about doing it. But that wasn’t always the case. It used to require a lot of grit and determination. And I can tell you this: Moving from one state to the other took far more than twenty-one days.
It turns out the twenty-one day “rule” is a myth with practically no scientific basis. If we’re trying to do something simple and easy, it might work. But, as Jeremy Dean explains in his book Making Habits, Breaking Habits, acquiring complex or challenging habits will probably take us a lot longer.
Researchers at University College London tracked people attempting to form different types of new habits. Instead of three or four weeks, they found it took an average of sixty-six days for new habits to become automatic. And they projected that some would take more than 250 days.
6 Simple Tricks to Make Even Tough Habits StickPerhaps you read those numbers and groan. I get it. But I bet you’d rather succeed against steep odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere. Me too. The good news is that there are several tricks we can use to make even tough habits stick.
Stay connected to your why.Motivation is the key to forming any habit. If we get lost in the monotony and difficulty of forming a habit, we’re not going to make it. The messy middle swamps countless goal seekers.
As I teach in 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever, a compelling why will prevent us from burning out or losing interest and quitting. If your why is not compelling enough, it’s time to swap it for something that excites you.
Find the right trigger.Sometimes we struggle because we’re using ineffective cues for our new habits. In Making Habits, Breaking Habits, Dean suggests “implementation intentions,” simple statements that formulate our habits as responses to predetermined triggers.
For example: If I’m hungry before dinner, then I’ll have some almonds. This can be especially effective when tacking new habits on the back of already formed habits. After I finish my lunch, I’ll go for a fifteen minute walk. It takes the thinking out of it because the response is predetermined.
Pick the right reward. The why and the reward are closely linked, but the reward might be a smaller, more immediate incentive. It’s best to find an intrinsic reward—such as the way our new behavior makes you feel. External rewards can work as well, but they can be less effective in the long run, especially if we lose interest in the reward, get demotivated, and slack off before we’re even aware.
Anticipate the reward. In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg says the real win is when we start anticipating the reward. This moves the reward from mere incentive to a powerful source of energy and drive. It’s like the difference between take your medicine and have another scoop of your favorite ice cream.
I experience this with running. I feel better once I’ve run. That’s the reward, and when I first started running that was enough to get me going. But having run for so long, I now look forward to that feeling. I anticipate it, and that gets me fired up long before I lace up.
Scale it back. Sometimes we get into trouble by loading too much change on our plates. This is easy to do. I’ve always encouraged big goals, but in our enthusiasm we might slip right from audacious to delusional and only realize it after we’re hitting the wall.
As Dean says, we can try chunking or sequencing our habit formation—something I also cover in Best Year Ever. Our habits then become stepping stones instead of roadblocks.
Travel with friends. One of the best ways to get through the messy middle is companionship. Most any journey is improved with friends. It’s one of the reasons Gail and I exercise together.
It should come as no surprise that this is a key factor in creating new habits. Duhigg points to a Harvard study that found forming habits in community makes significant change more believable to us—and thus achievable. By working together we can mutually reinforce positive behaviors, share burdens, and encourage each other.
It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere. MICHAEL HYATT
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If you’re struggling to make your new habits stick, welcome to the club. Instead of being discouraged, I hope you’ll be relieved. You’re not doing anything wrong!
If you’re judging yourself against the twenty-one days rule, feel free to scrap it. Instead, you just need to stay committed to your goal, commit to your why, fine tune your triggers and rewards, and pal up for the journey ahead.
17. May 2019 by anderschristianhjort Michael Hyatt
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It Was Metal: Autographed CD
Includes a download of the album It Was Metal
6-panel digipak edition. 4-panel booklet. Autographed by the band. (Add the IT WAS METAL graphic novel for comics based on each song, full album lyrics, photos, and more.)
It Was Metal: CD
6-panel digipak edition. 4-panel booklet. Add the It Was Metal graphic novel companion for comics based on each song, full album lyrics, photos, and more.
It Was Metal: It Was Metal CD & Graphic Novel Bundle
Experience It Was Metal as the band intended, with the album's music and comic's imagery taking you to a world of heavy metal adventure! This bundle includes the It Was Metal CD (6-panel digipak edition) and the It Was Metal paperback graphic novel, including original stories based on each song, full album lyrics, photos, band commentary, and more.
Doctor Mirage: Second Lives: Limited Edition Autographed & Hand-Numbered CD
Includes a download of the album Doctor Mirage: Second Lives
Website exclusive: official Valiant DOCTOR MIRAGE EP by A Sound of Thunder. Limited autographed & hand-numbered edition. All CDs were signed & numbered before shrink-wrap, so CDs are both signed and sealed. Keep it minty fresh in shrink-wrap or crack it open! The choice is yours!
CD Starter Pack
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Complete ASoT back catalog - a 9 CD collection, including free autograph option. This includes every available release from our debut EP up through our 2016 covers album. That's 6 studio albums, 2 EPs, and 1 single. Includes 2 releases only available in the starter pack: the 2015 Kickstarter-exclusive "Pleasure Slave" EP and the 2010 West Memphis Three benefit single "Justice At Last". (DOES NOT INCLUDE "IT WAS METAL" OR "SECOND LIVES" - Get those separately to complete your collection.) - A Sound of Thunder EP (2010) - Justice at Last Single (2010) - Metal Renaissance (2011) - Out of the Darkness (2012) - Time's Arrow (2013) - The Lesser Key of Solomon (2014) - Tales from the Deadside (2015) - Pleasure Slave EP (2015) - Who Do You Think We Are? - Also includes patch & sticker!
Limited Autographed Catalonia Tour CD + Guitar Pick
Exclusive "best of" tour compilation including "Els Segadors" and 12 more songs from ASoT's catalog. Comes with one tour guitar pick. (Low stock: less than 100 remain.)
Who Do You Think We Are?: Limited Die-Cut CD w/ Bonus Tracks
Includes a download of the album Who Do You Think We Are?
Limited 2016 Kickstarter-edition CD with die-cut cover and two bonus tracks: "Space Truckin'"(Deep Purple) and "Walls"(classic ASoT re-recorded). Limited edition of 1000. Low stock.
Tales from the Deadside (Music Inspired by Shadowman): CD - Regular Edition
Includes a download of the album Tales from the Deadside (Music Inspired by Shadowman)
ASoT's 5th full-length studio album is a sweeping concept album based on Valiant Entertainment's SHADOWMAN comic book series.
Standard CD edition features original Shadowman painted artwork by Dusan Markovic on a 6-panel digipak with 20-page booklet featuring full album lyrics.
Children of the Darque
Sandria (Carry On)
Can't Go Back
Deadside
Tower of Souls
Losing Control (The Unquiet Shadow)
Punk Mambo
Alyssa (Life in Shadows)
Tremble
Lesser Key Live CD - Official Bootleg Vol. 1
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CD edition of Lesser Key Live - Official Bootleg Vol. 1 in digipak. This is a complete, unedited recording of the release show for The Lesser Key of Solomon, recorded at Empire, Springfield, Virginia, USA on September 19, 2014. The audio is mastered from a camera microphone source, hence the "official bootleg" classification. Only 100 copies were produced. 3 copies remain available as of 12/12/2018.
Track list: 1. Intro 2. Udoroth 3. Queen of Hell 4. Time's Arrow 5. Murderous Horde 6. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb 7. Power Play 8. Master of Pain 9. House of Bones 10. Walls 11. I'll Walk With You 12. Kill That Bitch 13. Out of the Darkness 14. A Sound of Thunder
The Lesser Key of Solomon: Second Edition CD
Includes a download of the album The Lesser Key of Solomon
Second CD edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon in 6-panel digipak with booklet containing full album lyrics and additional paintings by ASoT artist Dusan Markovic.
The Lesser Key of Solomon: First Edition CD
2014 limited first CD edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon in CD wallet with booklet. Print run 750. Storage find: only 11 copies available.
Time's Arrow: CD
Includes a download of the album Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow CD. 1st edition. 6-panel full-color eco-wallet packaging.
Time's Arrow: Ultra-Limited Deluxe Box Set
ONLY TWO REMAINING IN STOCK Boxes #101 and #102 of 100 are assembled from extra components and are complete except for the metallic print, which will be replaced with an 11" x 17" poster. These are the final two box sets available as there are no more boxes, and are being offered for fans who missed out on the complete boxes. These are marked down from the original price of $60.
Ultra-Limited Deluxe Box Set Edition of Time's Arrow. Signed and hand-numbered edition of 100. Includes the following, all housed in a glossy collector's box with alternate album cover: - 9" x 9" full-color album book with lyrics, exclusive photos, band member essays, and "Time's Arrow" short story by Chris Haren. - Time's Arrow logo shotglass - Guitar pick - Wristband - 4" Patch - 9" x 9" metallic print - Vinyl sticker - Free instant download of Time's Arrow album
Out of the Darkness: CD
Includes a download of the album Out of the Darkness
Jewel case edition. Booklet includes album lyrics.
Metal Renaissance: CD
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Jewel case edition.
A Sound of Thunder: CD
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CD jacket edition.
Queen of Hell: Limited Edition CD
Includes a download of the album Queen of Hell
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The 2013 Queen of Hell EP on compact disc in CD jacket. Print run 500. Sold out in 2015. 11 copies were recently found in storage. Last chance for collectors!
Els Segadors (The Reapers) 4:10
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Lifebringer 5:37
Lifebringer
Udoroth 4:31
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Gypsy (Mercyful Fate) 4:11
Gypsy (Mercyful Fate)
Tower of Souls 5:36
Queen of Hell 6:13
Queen of Hell
Murderous Horde 5:56
Murderous Horde
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Posts Tagged ‘‘Sarah Collins’’
Tunes for Toilers: The Jolly Machine, edited by Michael Raven
I found this in the sheet music section of Hobgoblin Music, a music shop specialising in folk songs, music and instruments in Bristol’s Park Street. Subtitled Songs of Industrial Protest and Social Discontent From the West Midlands, the songs in this collection describe and protest about the hardships of nineteenth century industrial urban life, covering low and unpaid wages, hard, exploitative factory masters, prison and transportation, unemployment, and the threat of mechanisation, the soul destroying drudgery of the workhouse, emigration, and Chartism and the promise of political reform from the Liberals.
The songs include:
Bilston Town,
Charlie’s Song,
Chartist Anthem,
Colliers’ Rant,
Convict’s Complaint
Dudley Boys,
Dudley Canal Tunnel
Freedom and Reform,
John Whitehouse
Jolly Machine,
Landlord Don’t You Cry,
Monster Science,
Nailmaker’s Lament
Oh! Cruel,
Pioneers’ Song
Poor of Rowley,
Potters’ Chant,
Sarah Collins,
Thirteen Pence A Day,
Tommy Note,
Waiting for Wages.
There’s also an explanatory note about the songs at the back.
‘Waiting for Wages’ and ‘The Tommy Shop’ deal with ‘tommy notes’. Until the passage of the Truck Acts, many employers didn’t pay money wages to their workers, but only tokens or notes that were only valid at the company shops, thus exploiting their workers further and massively increasing their profits. ‘Waiting for Wages’ is written from the women’s point of view, and describes them waiting for their menfolk to hand over their wages, half of which they’ve already spent in the pub.
The ‘Convicts’ Complaint’ is about the harsh conditions in Ciderville Jail, while ‘Sarah Collins’ is about a woman transported to Van Diemen’s Land – Tasmania – for some unstated crime. ‘Dudley Boys’, ‘Nailmaker’s Strike’, ‘Nailmakers’ Lament’, and ‘Colliers’ Rant’ are about strikes, some of which exploded into violent confrontation between the strikers and the army. ‘Jolly Machine’, ‘Monster Science’ and Charlie’s Song – the last about a notorious factory master and the scab workers prepared to work for him – are about the poverty and unemployment caused by mass industrial production to the traditional artisan craftsmen, such as potters. The ‘Needlemakers’ Lamentation’, ‘Dudley Canal’ and ‘Oh, Cruel!’ were all written to raise money for those suffering from or threatened with unemployment. ‘Oh, Cruel’ was written for a benefit performance by a Mr Rayner on behalf of a serviceman, Tommy Strill, who had lost a leg and eye in combat. The ‘Dudley Canal Tunnel’ song was a fundraiser, which aimed at raising £5,000 to keep the tunnel open and the boatmen, who navigated through it, in work. The ‘Potters’ Chant’, ‘Bilston Town’, and ‘Poor of Rowley’ are about poverty. The last is specifically about the mindless, soulless labour in the town’s workhouse. ‘Landlord, Don’t You Cry’, and ‘Pioneers’ Song’ are about emigrants leaving Britain for a more prosperous, optimistic future abroad, including America. ‘Thirteen Pence A Day’ is a song bitterly criticising conditions in the army, and urging men not to join up to lose life and limb fighting people they don’t know and who have never done them any harm. It’s a fascinating demonstration that anti-War songs didn’t begin with Vietnam. John Whitehouse is about a man, who hangs himself after failing to find a buyer for his wife. It was the custom in many parts of England for a man to sell a wife, with whom he could no longer live at an auction in the market. It’s a shocking example of how low women’s status was. The ‘Chartist Anthem’ and ‘Freedom and Reform’ are ballads about the demands for the franchise. The ‘Chartist Anthem’ describes the immense hardship in the struggle to get the vote. Its last two verses run
We men of bone, of shrunken shank
Our only treasure dearth,
Women who carry at the breast
Heirs to the hungry earth,
Heirs to the hungry earth.
Speak with one voice, we march we rest
And march again upon the years,
Sons of our sons are listening,
To hear the Chartist cheers,
To hear the Chartist cheers.
At a time when many working and lower middle class people feel disenfranchised and ignored by the political class, this is a song that could well be revived for today’s struggle to get politicians to wake up and take notice of the poverty and alienation now at large in Britain.
‘The Great Battle for Freedom and Reform’ also demands the extension of the franchise for the workers, and urges them to support the Liberals. The first three verses read
You working men of England,
Who live by daily toil,
Speak for your rights, bold Englishmen,
Althro’ Britan’s Isle.
The titled Tories keep you down,
Which you cannot endure,
The pass the poor man with a frown,
And the Tories keep you poor.
Cameron: A titled Tory keeping you down, if ever there was one!
With Beale & Gladstone, Mills & Bright,
We shall weather thro’ the storm,
To give the working man his rights,
And gain the bill – REFORM!
We want no Tory Government, The poor man to oppress,
They never try to do you good,
The truth you will confess.
The Liberals are the poor man’s friend,
To forward all they try,
They’ll beat their foes you may depend,
And never will say die.
The description of the Tories still remains exactly correct. Unfortunately, the present government has the song’s claim that the Liberals are the poor men’s friend to be a hollow joke, although it was certainly true at the time.
The songs are an interesting document about the hardship and social injustice working people experienced in the nineteenth century. It’s the other side of the coin to the image of ‘merrie England’ presented in some traditional songs and the Tory view of history promoted by Michael Gove. And with exploitative employers now eager to use the cheap labour supplied by unemployed ‘volunteers’, ‘interns’ and those on workfare, assisted by a Tory government of aristocrats enforcing a policy of low wages and harsh, anti-union legislation, these songs are all too relevant.
Tags:'Bilston Town', 'Charlie's Song', 'Chartist Anthem', 'Collier's Rant', 'Convict's Complaint', 'Dudley Boys', 'Dudley Canal Tunnel', 'Freedom and Reform', 'John Whitehouse', 'Jolly Machine', 'Landlord, 'Monster Science', 'Oh, 'Pioneers' Song', 'Poor of Rowley', 'Sarah Collins', 'The Jolly Machine', 'Tommy Note', 'Waiting For Wages', Armed Forces, Beale, Bilston, Bristol, Ciderville Prison, Cobden and Bright, Colliers, Concerts, Conservatives, Cruel', David Cameron, Don't You Cry', Emigration, Folk Song, Fundraising Songs, Gladstone, Hobgoblin Music, internships, Liberals, Michael Raven, Nailmakers, Needlemakers, Prison, Riots, Rowley, Sale of Wives, Strikes, Tasmania, Thirteen Pence A Day, Transportation, Truck Acts, Voluntary Work, Women, Workfare, Workhouse
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Joan Gamper Trophy 2019
Trofeu Joan Gamper - FC Barcelona v Arsenal
Event date: Sunday 4th August 2018
Kick-off time: 8pm
Team presentation: pre-game
Match stadium: Camp Nou stadium
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The invited team for the 2018 Joan Gamper Cup is Arsenal. The Gamper Cup date has been confirmed as Sunday 4th August 2019. The Gamper Trophy Cup - Trofeu Joan Gamper is a traditional FC Barcelona pre-season friendly game and the first home game of the season for FC Barcelona in the 2018/19 season. This is when the new players are presented to the fans and so it is a great chance to see the new first team at Camp Nou.
Gamper Cup tickets are on sale now for the game on Monday 15th August 2018. The Gamper cup is always a festive evening. The Joan Gamper Cup is the only game of the Barcelona football year when all 98,772 seats at Camp Nou are on sale to the general public and at low prices. The Gamper Trophy Cup, called Trofeu Joan Gamper in the Catalan language, is a festive pre-season friendly game and a great chance to see the new first team presentation under the leadership of coach Ernesto Valverde, who himself is a former FC Barcelona player.
In 2018 the Gamper trophy celebrates its 53rd edition. The Joan Gamper Trophy is also called 'La Festa del Gamper.' Joan Gamper, (Hans Kamper) was the man who started it all when he founded FC Barcelona on November 29th 1899 and was one of the first players. Gamper was originally a Swiss citizen and later became Spanish.
The club colours blue & red were inspired by the colours of the football team in Gampers home town Basel in Switzerland. FC Basel still play in the same colours as FC Barcelona. Gamper was club captain at FC Basel in Switzerland and co-founder of both FC Basel and FC Zürich football teams. Gamper was the first president of FC Barcelona and served as president for several periods later in his life.
The Barcelona football club was founded by Gamper, when he placed an advert in the sports magazine 'Los Deportes' looking for players to form a football club in Barcelona. This led to a meeting at the 'Gimnasio Solé' gym in the Raval area of Barcelona on November 29th 1899 and then football club Barcelona was a reality. The founding members were Swiss, British and Spanish soccer enthusiasts. You can read more about Gamper on wikipedia.
The Joan Gamper Trophy was established in 1966 by the FC Barcelona president Enric Llaudet to honour Gamper. From 1966 to 1996 the Gamper was a mini tournament that was played by four teams, but since 1996 the Gamper Trophy has been a single game between FC Barcelona and an invited team. The Joan Gamper Cup is also the only game of the year when all 98,772 seats at Camp Nou are on sale to the general public and at reasonable prices.
If you are in Spain you can see the Gamper game live on Catalan TV3 or live online on the Catalan TV3 website. Or listen live on R@dio Barça
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Directions to Camp Nou stadium are below. Best hotels near Camp Nou. Camp Nou or Nou Camp is the stadium of FC Barcelona football club also called Barça, FCB or La Blaugrana. Camp Nou is located in Les Corts area of Barcelona (see map below).
The official name of the stadium is 'Nou Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona.' The inauguration was 24 September 1956. The Camp Nou was renovated in 1980 & 1994. The current seating capacity is 99,354 seats making Camp Nou the biggest soccer stadium in Europe.
FC Barcelona football club was founded on 29th November 1899. The FC Barcelona club colours are Blue & Red and called Blaugrana in Catalan. The FCB Club anthem is called Cant del Barça (lyrics and English translation). Camp Nou is a smoke-free zone. Smoking is not allowed anywhere in the Camp Nou stadium grounds. Scroll down to find nearest metro stations to Camp Nou and metro times and maps.
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Buses to Camp Nou from city center. Bus line 54 is the main bus line from city center to Camp Nou ground. Usually extra buses are added on days of big games. For very big games sometimes a special public transport shuttle bus between the Camp Nou and Plaza Catalunya after the game, but please check on TMB bus website.
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Should I break up with my boyfriend?
My boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for almost a year now (that s not the problem) and we re going to soon be back in person in July. We ve had a couple of major arguments and they ve been a couple months ago and then one last night. After every time we get through said argument, he decides... show more My boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for almost a year now (that s not the problem) and we re going to soon be back in person in July. We ve had a couple of major arguments and they ve been a couple months ago and then one last night. After every time we get through said argument, he decides RIGHT AFTER to tell me some upsetting things, just right after we ve fought. A couple weeks ago, he told me right after that he had been texting his ex, but it was "nothing, he just wanted to send her a birthday message" and then last night, we got through it and he told me right after that some girl wanted to ask him out and was "surprised" he had a girlfriend. And was according to him, "disappointed" he had a girlfriend. I would be fine and completely happy if he told me this any other time. But he tells me right after emotional fighting. He continuously does this even though in the past (these two stories were just two of like, 4 or 5) I ve told him it makes me uncomfortable when he brings it up right after a problem and it only makes us argue again. I m just wondering if this is something I should ignore because it s "no big deal," or if enough is enough because I m starting to really think he likes the drama and doing upsetting things. I trust him not to do things with other girls, I m not exactly worried. But it just feels like he deliberately tries to cause a bigger problem. Pls nice answers, I love him but I need help. I want to respect myself.
Best Answer: I dated someone like that and was in a relationship with him for 6 years and 4 of those years were long distance. We argued soooo much. It was sooo hard. He hid so much stuff from me, cheated on me, talked to other girls and treated me worse year by year. I think you should walk away before you become way more emotionally attached.
Klia · 2 months ago
Well, to be honest, with how it sounds it seems like he's trying to manipulate your feelings. If he only says these things to you after you've had a fight and you're already emotionally fragile it leads me to believe that he doesn't care about your feelings and wants to keep you down which is totally not okay. No one can tell you what to do but as it stands it doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. I would get out of there while you can!
Courtnee · 2 months ago
He's playing some kind of passive-aggressive game and it's hard to say whether he'll stop once you're back in person again. Play it by ear, but if he persists on doing this stuff just to irritate you you'll have to consider whether he's worth it.
Foofa · 2 months ago
He's letting you know with hints that he is interested in other girls. He probably acts single and that's probably why they were surprised he was taken.
Pfft. · 2 months ago
Have him do cunnilingus on you one last time and then dump him
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Sally · 2 months ago
tell him that you are considering leaving him due to these problems. Tell him every argument is bothering you. he will most likely just stop, and even more likely will break up with you. After some time passes, he'll apologize and come back.
Asa · 2 months ago
He don’t love u hun
♥ Abby ♥ · 2 months ago
Yes leave him now.
Anonymous · 2 months ago
If you have to ask, then you know something is wrong.
Joseph · 2 months ago
When I was younger, I used to tell my boyfriend things like that when I felt vulnerable. Just because I felt loved when he got jealous, I’ve also had guys do this to me. If he’s doing this, tell him to grow up
bel · 2 months ago
i think you should break down with your boyfriend rather than break up
Michael S · 2 months ago
My boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for almost a year now (that s not the problem) and we re going to soon be back in person in July. We ve had a couple of major arguments and they ve been a couple months ago and then one last night. After every time we get through said argument, he decides RIGHT AFTER to tell me some upsetting things, just right after we ve fought. A couple weeks ago, he told me right after that he had been texting his ex, but it was "nothing, he just wanted to send her a birthday message" and then last night, we got through it and he told me right after that some girl wanted to ask him out and was "surprised" he had a girlfriend. And was according to him, "disappointed" he had a girlfriend. I would be fine and completely happy if he told me this any other time. But he tells me right after emotional fighting. He continuously does this even though in the past (these two stories were just two of like, 4 or 5) I ve told him it makes me uncomfortable when he brings it up right after a problem and it only makes us argue again. I m just wondering if this is something I should ignore because it s "no big deal," or if enough is enough because I m starting to really think he likes the drama and doing upsetting things. I trust him not to do things with other girls, I m not exactly worried. But it just feels like he deliberately tries to cause a bigger problem. Pls nice answers, I love him but I need help. I want to respect myself.
My ex said we'll be happy?
How do I convince my boyfriend to fully forgive me for cheating and having another man's baby?
Girls, if you were among a friend group that was just you and like 8 guys, and you used to get all the attention....?
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